‎BIOGRAFIA‎

‎Ehrmann, Charles Henri‎

‎Éloge Historique d'Ernest-Alexandre Lauth Professeur de Physiologie a la Faculté de Médecine de Strasbourg: Discours Prononcé en Séance Solennelle le 9 Novembre 1837 par Charles-Henry Ehrmann Professeur d'Anatomie l'Un des Médecins en Chef de l'Hospice Civil et Membre du Jury Médical du Départment du Bas-Rhin‎

‎Strasbourg: L'Imprimerie de F.G. Levrault imprimeur de la Faculté de Médecine 1837. Paperback. Very Good. 27 1 p.; 26 cm. Lacking original wrappers. "Ch Ravel" written next to title and a note in the same hand on the title page. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel 1822-1887. The author Charles Henri Ehrmann 1792-1878 was a professor of anatomy at the University of Strasbourg from 1826 to 1867. Ernest Alexandre Lauth 1803-1837 was a French anatomist who specialized in the lymphatic system. In Very Good Condition: foxing primarily along page edges; otherwise clean and solid. Scarce. L'Imprimerie de F.G. Levrault, imprimeur de la Faculté de Médecine paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 005888

‎Dubois d'Amiens, Frederic‎

‎Élogie de E. Pariset par M. Fr. Dubois d'Amiens Secrétaire Perpétuel‎

‎Paris: Imprimerie de L. Martinet 1847. Paperback. Very Good. 31 1 p.; 37 cm. Extrait du Tome XIII des Mémoires de l'Académie Royale de Médecine. "Ch Ravel" written next to title and a note in the same hand on the title page; several additional ink notations in the text. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel 1822-1887. The author Frederic Dubois d'Amiens 1797-1873 was a French physician and historian. He became the Royal Academy of Medicine's Secrétaire Perpétuel in 1847 on the death of Étienne Pariset and served until his own death in 1873. Étienne Pariset 1770-1847 was a French physician who founded the Société Protectrice des Animaux and was a doctor at the Salpêtrière Hospital where he was the physician for the insane. In Very Good Condition: small dampstain at tail of spine; light foxing primarily along upper edges and fore-edges of first and last pages; otherwise clean. Imprimerie de L. Martinet paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 005890

‎Myra Friedman's Intimate Biography‎

‎Janis Joplin Buried Alive‎

‎<p>Name inscribed inside Front Wrap else contents appears as unread & unblemished in wraps displaying minor surface/edge/wear as shown.</p><p><strong><strong>Synopsis: </strong></strong> Electrifying highly acclaimed and intensely personal this new and updated version of Myra Friedman"s classic biography of Janis Joplin teems with dramatic insights into Joplin"s genius and into the chaotic times that catapulted her to fame as the legendary queen of rock. It is a stunning panorama of the turbulent decade when Joplin' was the rallying voice of a generation that lost itself in her music and found itself in her words.From her small hometown of Port Arthur Texas to San Francisco"s Haight-Ashbury from the intimate coffeehouses to the supercharged concert halls from the glitter of worldwide fame to her tragic end in a Hollywood hotel here is all the fire and anguish of an immortal immensely talented and troubled performer who devoured everything the rock scene had to offer in a fatal attempt to make peace with herself and her era. Yet in an eloquent introduction recently written by the author Joplin emerges from her ugly duckling childhood as a woman truly ahead of her time an outrageous rebel a defiant outcast and artist of incomparable authenticity who almost in spite of herself became to so many a symbol of triumph over adversity.This edition also contains an afterword detailing the whereabouts of a large and colorful cast of characters who were part of Joplin's life as well as We Remember Janis a new chapter of poignant and affectionate anecdotes told by friends</p><p>Includes "The Metamorphosis from Janis to Pearl A Photo History." Original paperback edition of this 1974 nominee for the National Book Award in Biography. Author Myra Friedman worked with Joplin's manager.…</p><p><strong>Insurance & handling is included free. Extra Charges/Fees apply on Shipments Outside The U.S. and Expedited Shipments. Oversize and/or heavy books may require additional fees. Will advise Updated 6.14.2022 #2784-32219 Updated 4.22.2023 #2784-32219 <strong>Updated 11.12.25</strong> </strong></p> Bantam Books, paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : #2784-32219 ISBN : 0553084224 9780553084221

‎Ford, Donald‎

‎The Great Scottish Courses‎

‎Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Book is near new condition feels as if never fully cracked open. Original box has light wear. Numbered as 343/500. Heavy book to ship. Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 049769

‎Pankhurst, E‎

‎My Own Story‎

‎Eveleigh Nash 1914. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item900grams ISBN: Eveleigh Nash hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 8628487

‎Zuckmayer, Carl‎

‎A Part of Myself‎

‎Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd 1970. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in fair condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item850grams ISBN:0436592614 Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 2939179 ISBN : 0436592614 9780436592614

‎Menkes, Suzy‎

‎THE WINDSOR STYLE Signed copy‎

‎London: Grafton Books 1987. UK 2nd printing 1987. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to the half-title no other markings Fine in price-clipped Very Good dust jacket with a chip to the head of spine panel; DJ is in mylar sleeve. Hardcover 224pp index 122 colour and 74 B&W photos. This book looks at the luxurious post-war life style of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at home in their Paris Mansion and at play at their converted mill-house in the French countryside. Intimate friends describe their fabulous lifestyle: the Duchess's a=fabled jewels; manus co-ordinated in a symphony of colour; tablecloths embroidered to match the priceless porcelain; their pug dogs her couture gowns. 3.0 JM LVR 206/b3. Signed by Author. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" Tall. Grafton Books Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 07533 ISBN : 0246132124 9780246132123

‎Vandiver, Elizabeth; Keen, Ralph; Frazel, Thomas D translated and Annotated By‎

‎Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther‎

‎Manchester: Manchester University Press 2002. UK !st printing. No markings Fine in Fine dust jacket. Boards viii 408pp index no illus. These 2 translations will be useful additions to the collections of primary accounts of German Reformation history in the English world. 2.2 JM HOJ 303/1. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Manchester University Press Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 72988 ISBN : 0719061040 9780719061042

‎Anonymyzed For Privacy‎

‎1986–2007 Diaries of a Woman Musician in Search of Voice and Home a Two-Decade Chronicle of Ambition Body and Identity from Straight Relationships to Queer Domesticity Across Los Angeles and Dublin‎

‎Los Angeles California Dublin IRELAND. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. On offer is a remarkable archive of five diaries kept by a woman born in the Midwest who moved to California with dreams of becoming a singer. This woman is a musician and author who keeps these diaries from age 19 through 40 from 1986–2007. We follow our author’s evolution through three decades—from a frantic teen falling in love with a musician to a middle-aged woman planning the structure of her company. She writes it all: the loss of her virginity to a man in 1986 contrasts her spiritual marriage to her female life partner and established lesbian identity in 1995. She writes of her move from Los Angeles to Dublin after a negative experience with a well-known 1990s record producer and her struggle to overcome childhood trauma and an eating disorder. Through it all one thing remains constant—her passion for artistry and drive to have her music and writing resonate around the world. She sums up her drive in her first diary: “Success is important to me because of my background. Small-town girl with loads of talent who had the opportunity to go to the city to begin nurturing that talent” June 16 1991. Identifying details remain anonymized to protect the identity of the author and other living people. Anonymized BIO NOTES can be found at the end of the listing; a de-anonymized version will be provided to the buyer to establish provenance. Her first full entry dated August 26 1986 introduces an open chatty 19-year-old musician focused on building her career overcoming sexual abuse and finding a safe romantic relationship: “.My car got repaired thanks to my daddy. He was a real sweetheart and loaned me $500…Louie is a friend of my band and he is so sweet. But he was already with this gorgeous girl named Tina…My band was performing at this wedding and Louis came up 2 me .offered words of praise and encouragement. Anyway. I had a friend at the wedding.her name is Sandy…Sandy told Louis. Louis told Sandy that he liked me 2. I was overjoyed…He's a wonderful man and he started kissing me. My heart began beating faster and faster but so did my insecurities. I was sexually abused for 3 years by a male family member and I haven't really been with anyone since…”After some drama related to Louis our author true to the spirit of a teen seeking freedom moves on quickly to the man to whom she would lose her virginity and become engaged: “Today I became a woman. It hurt like hell but I did it. I closed to doors to my past and made room 4 my future. Bobby is my 1st…” Sept 24 1986. “.Everything still hurts and every1 acts sort of distant meaning Bobby…. It’s just human nature. The hanging on each other has ceased now…My family member who committed assault wasn’t a man he was a beast. And no matter how bad Mother Nature can affect us we can’t help it. Not all men aren’t still affectionate after sex even if they aren’t beasts…” Sept 25 1986. She keeps the diary until Sept 30 returns briefly on February 4 1987 to share her and Bobby’s engagement news. In March 1991 about to turn 25 she resumes regular entries. She tells her diary she and Bobby are over because she “didn’t want to marry a drug addicted musician. ” She is living with a new man named Mark together since 1989 and is focused on recording demos teaching singing lessons moving to New York and hitting her goal weight 95–100 lbs. She self-identifies as bulimic. Her partner Mark supports her dreams financially and emotionally but she spends much of the diary flip-flopping on her feelings toward him—discussing marriage one day confessing attraction to others the next. She eventually admits to cheating and the guilt that follows. She also references same-sex attraction: “.Bernadette and I worked pretty well together. I really like her. I even fantacised sic a bit. It was weird. Power. Turns me on and that along w/energy in me is a deadly lethal combination…” April 10 1991. Alongside her relationship struggles she spends 1991 trying to get a record deal by connecting in the LA music scene writing songs and trying to get her music into the right hands at one point she asks her friend Maynard to help get her demo to his agent and contemplates giving it to Lenny Kravitz. She performs at Magic Mountain and is later fired and runs into trouble with a music manager named Mike all while making new connections. She ends her first diary in December 1991 with a plan to beat her eating disorder further her career and become more spiritually enlightened. Diary Two: We meet her again in July 1995 now 28. She is in lust with a woman name protected for privacy. Mark is a memory. She seems at peace: “Happily I find myself a grown up after one of the longest childhoods of all time. I feel I have finally attained some personal wants that were long overdue. Someone who loves me the way I love them a very active productive city life…” July 22 1995. “I want to be a famous musician…This is the third and last time I have gone without music for more than a month. Once as a child when my managers and I parted ways and my uncle left…Second after I began living with Mark and my Warner deal fell through and now…” July 27 1995. “I feel kind of disappointed in some things…and grateful for others…I am disappointed in marriage and music. Marriage because it seems like we don’t get one and music because…I haven’t fully gotten my hands on it yet…same w/marriage - so close to my reach…” Aug 11 1995. Later that August she writes: “I am married now - but really have a best friend that I get to plunk whenever it's allowed.which I wouldn't mind as much if everything else was cool. my wife called me an asshole for writing that.”While gay marriage was not yet legal in the United States or Ireland she writes “.I married myself to her and committed to her for life…” Sept 12 1995. She and her wife struggle with being openly gay and committed in the 1990s: “.My beef with my wife is…she is very uptight about our relationship in public…I can’t understand why my wife would allow me to marry myself to her if we are something to be ashamed of…We don’t have sex with her daughter in the house and we’re not blatant as we used to be…All signs point to her being ashamed of ‘us’.Tonight she was worried about a mark I had left on her neck. She was worried that her gay brother name withheld …had seen it…”Sept 12 1995. She also struggles to coexist with her wife’s teen daughter: “I've had a lot of fun smoking week.It was interesting being near my wife’s daughter in an altered state…I would take the ultimate care of her if ever it was needed but I find her very very ridiculously arrogant and spoiled…because of the constant competition for my wife’s affections - I find it unbearable." Sept 18 1995. Other topics she covers at length include her musical aspirations producing a new album opening a club current events she has much to say about the O. J. Simpson verdict 1990s music songwriting earning an income at one point teaching aerobics and cleaning houses life in Dublin versus Los Angeles and her constant belief that fame and fortune will come. Her final entry is October 28 1995. Diary Three begins two days later October 30. She is seeing a woman named Monna. They visit the mountains together work on music together. This diary covers Nov–Dec 1995 in great detail with long introspective entries about her career her father her wife’s child and current events like an interview with Lady Diana. Her mood fluctuates with a bulimia relapse recorded: “.my wife and I are trying this new schedule that I read about. It’s based on Ayurvedic principle that the body cannot properly heal itself except in…between 10-2…” Nov 21; “Don’t know why I wound up in the bathroom last night. I was in such a good mood and really hopeful…I can’t even blame a lack of money…upon waking - I am wearing the white sweatshirt that…makes me feel like a Cathy Bates sic lookalike…and I have my sweatpants too. They make me feel.fat.” Nov 25. As always her belief in herself is strong: “I really really want to have books in the bookstore and am looking forward to publishing books and the coolest journals through a subsidiary of Legacy…I have been envisioning this huge success for my record label with my wife running record label and me running Legacy and both of us helping each other always…”This diary also includes lyrics she was working on: “The audience gathers/awaiting the act of the night/the curtain goes up and/the opening is denied…She sits in the bathroom/and counts all the cracks in the tile/She knows there’s a reason…The critics debate over why the main character stays/She made an incision/and felt the division inside/as she walked down the aisle…”A December entry recalls her step-grandfather and highlights our author's poetic writing style which becomes more eloquent as her writing matures over the years: “I remember my step-grandfather fondly. Teaching me that great game of poker at the age of five and sending me home with his caddy of chips and cards to my stingy grandmother’s dismay. And God how I loved to comb his hair! .I remember being in my room 3000 miles away…playing with the poker chips in my hand…letting one fall on top of the other and listening to the mundane sound of one plastic chip hitting another…my mother asking me why I was so sad…I didn’t really see him that often…but I knew him enough to love him…after all he sat still for hours when I was five letting me comb that little bit of hair over even giving me a sip of…beer while no one was looking…”Diaries Four and Five bring us into the 21st century. She begins Diary 4 a small red book marked Carpe Diem as an inspirational quote book in 2002–2003 then resumes it in March 2005 aged 38 and “in the throes of ‘mid-life crisis. ’” She keeps it until late October 2005. She writes of her health regimen—water vitamins weightlifting affirmations—and her goal to “earn my $5 million from music and film” within three years. She revisits the topic of the family member who assaulted her: “I let everybody in the family know. I did my best to protect female cousins.That Memorial Day Weekend…was it 1985 or 1986 My god - I was brave…. It was so important to let him know that I didn’t fear him otherwise the predatory beast would smell it from me…I didn’t run away from the confrontation…HE KNEW! ” March 23 2005. Her wife’s daughter is now 21; she still has conflicting emotions toward her. Yet she’s working on an album revising a business plan discovering her passion for animals and ready to leave Ireland. In the mid-2000s she writes less about sexuality more about power and ambition: “Sitting here listening to my album…my wife is about to meet one of the smaller investors in the record…so excited about turning this record into a success and going to LA and getting an American aspect of life set up…Really ready to…achieve this life-long dream of having a hit record. After that.I want to be a film musician! ” Aug 6 2005. “3 out of 4 investors have dropped out so far which is devastating - mostly because I’m ready to get out of Ireland…I’m just tired of living life…broke and stressed…. I want money to make myself famous to help people to buy a house…”Aug 11 2005. Her last entry October 24 2005 ends with a prayer that an investor deliver promised funds so she can return to the U. S. The final diary covers August 2006 to April 2007 ending just after her 40th birthday. Some excerpts show how she has matured in marriage and business: “.we're leaving Ireland for awhile. My dreams in tact. I'm in tact.unscathed by life - only enlightened.Today got a great guitar…I was thinking about getting a new Yorkee.but realistically it has to wait until after we are done working my record.I am looking forward to putting in so much work on the album” Undated mid-Aug 2006. “.We paid for the album yesterday and that deems it officially finished from where I am sitting. There is nothing more that I can do creatively…” Sept 3 2006. “…Well I have found my work footing and I actually finished our business plan. I think Jimmy is going to end up buying name of business venture for a million. That means my wife and I will have about a hundred grand at the end of the day. Not as much as we thought initially but we can do everything we need to…” Jan 17 2007. “my brother-in-law and his male partner went through a final break up. I feel bad for my brother-in-law in the short term and really good for him long term…He deserves to find that perfect relationship - Like my wife and I have - no nonsense - trust even in PMS! ! .” March 31 2007. In her final entry April 22 2007 she and her wife are leaving Ireland for the U. S. And she has big plans: “.I have been a little irritable…just moving etc…Today I looked at some car insurance estimate and it said ‘Age: 40’.and my heart skipped a beat…it was freaky! Good news There’s time…I saw the perfect El Paso house today…Nice $215000. I wish we could buy it…I began working on a new film script.It could be a cute tightly packaged little movie. Sebastien Bach or Bon Jovi could be good leads…I also started writing a new song today…Several goals…Book the birds and the dog cargo flights…finish move-out…Move into name of neighbourhood.record Joe’s song…Work religiously on the record and name of another neighbourhood house…sort out my mom’s and dad’s present…lose a little touch of weight and get a tan…I have been enjoying my new life of meditation and no sugar…Here’s to new beginnings…and striving toward my absolute best. ”An additional item is a photo album featuring her wife’s daughter showing a young adult social life in Los Angeles in 2007. Taken together these five diaries form a rare longitudinal primary source tracing one woman’s passage from a 19-year-old Los Angeles striver in 1986 to a 40-year-old transatlantic artist in 2007. Across that arc the pages document the formation of lesbian identity out of early heterosexual scripts; the aftershocks of childhood sexual abuse and bulimia; the textures of queer domestic life with a female partner and step-parenting a teen; and the daily labor of songwriting gigging and independent label-building inside and against a male-dominated music economy. Because entries move from L. A. Rehearsal rooms to Dublin flats and back toward the U. S. the set uniquely supports transatlantic studies of queer migration visibility and community formation in the 1990s and early 2000s—before marriage equality and while stigma still shaped public self-presentation. For Gender and Queer Studies the archive is immediately teachable and deeply researchable: students can follow in first person the shift from compulsory heterosexuality to a self-declared lesbian life; analyze body image and celebrity culture as gendered regimes; and read creative process alongside intimate partnership step-family dynamics and economic precarity. For methods courses it models feminist life-writing as both survival practice and cultural production; for seminars on queer modernities it anchors discussion with a dated record of language law and everyday negotiation of “outness. ” The inclusion of original lyrics business plans and a related photo album broadens the evidentiary field beyond narrative to material culture and creative artifacts. Acquired as a unit the diaries will serve as a cornerstone teaching and research collection for courses in feminist autobiography trauma and recovery queer domesticities and the sociology of art. Identifying details are responsibly anonymized for classroom use; a de-anonymized research dossier and provenance will be provided to the purchasing institution. In short this is a sustained candid and assignable life record of a queer woman artist—precisely the kind of multi-decade cross-geography testimony that advances scholarship and sparks undergraduate engagement. ANONYMIZED BIO NOTES: The author a woman born in the American Midwest in the late 1960s was raised in a working-class family that separated during her childhood and later reconciled. By her teens she had relocated to California where she pursued a career in music and performance. A gifted vocalist and songwriter she performed with several regional bands before moving into independent production. During the 1990s she became active in the Los Angeles recording scene and collaborated with well-known industry figures. After a negative professional encounter with a prominent producer who pressured her to alter her image and sound she relocated to Dublin Ireland where she re-established her career under a stage name and co-founded an independent record label with her long-term female partner and manager. Together they produced and released her debut album in the mid-1990s later returning to California to launch a new creative enterprise and a self-funded follow-up record in the 2000s. Across her diaries she identifies as a musician writer and entrepreneur documenting the realities of life as a queer woman artist navigating two continents and multiple creative industries. Her published music and writing—credited jointly with her partner—remain accessible online. ; Manuscripts; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF IRELAND ROCK AND ROLL SINGERS MUSICIANS LATE 20TH CENTURY EARLY 21ST CENTURY GENDER ISSUES SEXUALITY LESBIANISM LGBT LESBIAN GENDER IDENTITY WOMEN'S STUDIES WOMEN'S ISSUES DRUGS ADDICTION POT MARIJUANA HOMOSEXUAL SOCIAL STUDIES POST MODERN SEXUAL ABUSE PREDATOR DREAMS DREAM STUDIES PSYCHOLOGICAL MENTAL ILLNESS CHILD ABUSE SEXUAL ADDICTION SEX ADDICTS SEX ABUSE HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT AMERICANA DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORY antiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito; Signed by Author . hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 0001657

‎Unnamed‎

‎Proceedings of the Birmingham Philosophical Society. Volume VIII. Session 1891-1892. Session 1892-1893. Volume 8‎

‎Cornish Bros 1893. Volume 8. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. 8vo library cloth with gilt title to spine. Exterior moderately faded and lightly worn spine is sunned. Internally binding is secure and pages are clean. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item950grams ISBN: Cornish Bros hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 3720396

‎Cordova, Jeanne‎

‎Kicking the Habit: An Autobiographical Novel : A Lesbian Nun Story‎

‎Multiple Dimensions 1990. paperback. Good. 10x5x0. Moderate wear creasing and soiling to covers bindings sound pages lightly age-toned. Multiple Dimensions paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 251106007 ISBN : 0962508004 9780962508004

‎Dugdale, Blanche (Biography of Arthur James Balfour)‎

‎Arthur James Balfour; First Earl of Balfour K. G. O. M. F. R. S. Etc. 2 Vols.‎

‎New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1937. Hardcover 336; 343. Very good no dust jackets. 2 vols. Frontispiece in each volume illustrations notes appendices indices. The covers are lightly edgeworn a crack in the text block starting in vol. 1 on the page preceding the frontispiece and a previous owner's bookplate. Biography of Arthur James Balfour. Vol. 1 1848-1906. Vol. 2 1906-1930. Biography. G. P. Putnam's Sons Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 160175

‎E W S (Initials Only - Serious Buyers Contact Seller For Full Name)‎

‎1997–2000 Manuscript Diaries of a Lesbian Mother Confronting Sobriety Shame and the Search for Self in Late-Twentieth-Century Florida‎

‎Sarasota Arcadia Florida. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. On offer is a pair of diaries belonging to a middle-aged mother who began keeping a journal in order to write her way through her feelings surrounding her identity as a lesbian. Through her writing she also explores her struggles with multiple addictions and the impact her challenges have on her school-aged child who would sadly die only six months after her final entry. Anonymized but complete biographical information on our author is available in the BIO NOTES at the end of the listing. The author of this diary is identified by name within both volumes; however her name and all information that identifies her family are being withheld from public listing out of respect for her many immediate living family members. A de-anonymized biography will be provided privately to serious buyers for research and provenance purposes. Our author is 41-years-old when she begins writing in 1997 and going on 43 when she makes her last entry in March of 2000. She titles her first diary “Volume One” and begins it on February 21 1997. She keeps it until Friday June 6 1997 writing near-daily and only on the right side of every page. In her first entry she lays out her purpose for journaling: “This book is…about who I am in this moment…. Mostly it is about sexuality mine once lost and now found. It is about being a lesbian feeling wonderful about it and feel so relieved I can’t believe it” Feb 21 1997. Our author is educated intelligent and hopeful. She struggles with self-acceptance loneliness her sexual identity parenting a child who exhibited extremely challenging behaviours multiple addictions and mysteries from her past. While she is never explicit about her past we know she has a history of substance use and financial issues as well as challenges with her father and older brother. It is also implied that she had previously taken advantage of family members and possibly even stolen from them. Throughout the diaries one thing is clear: this author is a person who wants to live up to her potential be a good mother stay sober and be in control of her own life. She attends Alcoholics Anonymous AA meetings. She also attends the First Steps of Sarasota in their Choices program she goes to therapy and reflects that which she learns in her diary as she tries to understand her pain. Some excerpts from “Volume One” illustrate the tone of her entries: “…I went to a gay dance in Venice with Sharon tonight and I cried all the way home. Am I grieving over old loss or making change or being afraid…I think that I’m afraid of being alone…unloved…insignificant. I guess I’ve always felt that way. Why so much more now I feel so much more peaceful so why do I still feel this incredible emptiness inside…I have always sought attention through my behaviours…it’s been physical – hurting myself getting sick and now it’s through food deprivation and through spending money…maybe I’m sad because I’m afraid that even if I change all the behaviours the emptiness will never go away…” April 25 1997. “…I went to a gay AA meeting after group tonight which would have been good but I cried all the way through it. I’m not sure why I’m doing that these days…I need to be thankful more often…I could start with my son.and the family…” April 14 1997. “…I did have a huge fight with Dad. He wants $400 a month he told me he should be paid first that I was ruining his credit and that I had lied to him. I was really angry…I felt good that I did stand up for myself I went running after argument and that helped…I went to my Choices meeting…First Step. I love that meeting. I always come away feeling so good. 2 women asked me to sponsor them…I feel good about my sobriety” April 17 1997. Despite her constant writing about wanting to overcome her demons and feel comfortable in her own skin our author’s optimism of that first entry is repeatedly challenged. Some excerpts: “…I spent more time alone this weekend and I was okay with that - really enjoyed going to Barnes & Noble and looking @ the Lesbian books. Went to church alone Church of Religious Science…. Told multiple friends I'm a lesbian. The women were very accepting John didn’t say anything…” March 3 1997. “Right now I feel extremely anxious because of our living situation - I do not feel safe because our landlord has asked us to leave and we have not left. Tomorrow is my interview about a healthcare institution job - I really want this job. I feel as though things are beginning to turn…around…Thank you Lord for one more day and thank you for helping me to let go of my anger about the family” March 11 1997. “Thank you for this day God…my son and I had one of our more and more frequent fights. I did not handle myself well at all…I got very angry and.slapped him…have to learn…to step. Back and not be afraid of making and keeping rules. I felt so horrible” April 10 1997. “.I had a terrible day I got reprimanded at work for 3 medication errors… I feel as though I’m not climbing out of this hole fast enough. I was furious with my son when I got home and found that he had not come home…” April 15 1997 “…I…applied for a new job…It’s ‘lingerie modeling’ which I think now is sort of ‘clean prostitution’. I want to make a lot of money and that’s all! .I want this job so I can pay off all my bills…send my son to camp get the Volvo fixed…” April 21 1997“…today I was ‘terminated’ from healthcare institution for not correcting medication errors…. I wasn’t careful enough…I don’t feel scared just sad and pretty worthless as though everything I’ve thought about myself…is true” April 23 1997The first diary ends on a relatively hopeful note. “…I’ve been afraid to write because I’m clearly at the end of the book and…I’ve been incredibly depressed. I feel a little better – I think the Prozac is working…With the exception of the loneliness and the bulimia I’m doing better…I want to start going back to meetings…I think going to that gay dance scared me…I think it’s connected to my not going to meetings – that fear of intimacy thing…” June 6 1997. When we meet our author again in her second diary begun September 1 1999 her struggles are the same but her child is older and in trouble with the law financial strain becomes a more prominent and frequent concern she’s unable to hold down a job housing is insecure and while she discusses her sexuality less frequently in Diary #2 it remains an undercurrent. Initially she is staying sober with the help of her sponsor about whom she writes almost obsessively until October 5th when she begins drinking again. Some excerpts give the sense of her lived experience as the millennium looms: “We have just returned from the police station where my son was arrested on 3 felony counts and 3 misdemeanors and there are at least $6000 worth of charges. It was absolutely horrible. My sponsor and her husband came with us Thank God! .I’m thrilled that at least the arrest part is over…” Sept 1 1999. “…I went to healthcare facility for my orientation and now I’m ready to work. I’m grateful to God for opportunities” Sept 9. “…I cancelled two orientations today and my shame feels really big…” Sept 13“…I went to see a therapist this morning. I liked her. I was pretty honest with her except about my sexuality…I told her that I was recovering for my anorexia and bulimia – I’m not really…my son and I will go together next week…” Sept 18. “…Tomorrow we have an appointment at the Department of Juvenile Justice – it scares me to death…My son is a criminal…some of my goals: Plant a garden make my house pretty…go back to school get my master’s write a book find a lover” Sept 30. “…I went back out as they say in the program. I started at now closed down mental health hospital today. I’m quite excited about it…the benefits are by far the best I’ve ever had. I feel okay. My alcoholism has reared its ugly head” Oct 5. “I think much of my self hatred and feeling of worthlessness is tied up with my older brother…Why doesn’t it just heal After all I’m 42 now Why does it hurt so much ” Oct 16. “.The landlord is threatening to evict us if I don’t pay by tomorrow. The water has been shut off for a week now and I’m supposed to pay my son’s lawyer $1000 tomorrow. I have 3 cigarettes and not enough gas to get to work tomorrow…Thank you God! I got gas and my son gave me half a pack of cigarettes. While that itself makes me feel awful desperation is desperation! ” Nov 4. The next day her landlord has begun the eviction process and on November 19 she moves in to her parents’ house with her son and states she is “grateful to be sober”. After a long and disappointing house hunt and – judging by the nature of her writing - intermittent sobriety she and her son move to Arcadia Florida on December 31 1999 and she writes: “…The millennium did not end well with the family as Dad was drunk and very belligerent with my son. I did not say a word while Dad was yelling at my son…at some point I want to talk to my father about his drinking…I am thrilled to be sober! .”. “…I’m so disgusted with myself. A week ago today I got $1000 now it’s all gone! When will I ever change. I feel stupid worthless useless” Jan 17 2000. “.we went to Sarasota. I went to Rose Group which was about the First Step – for the second night in a row. I picked up my blue chip for 90 days. It was a great meeting…” Jan 25. “…We talked about the topic at the Rose Group being sex and Valentine’s Day and how I couldn’t change it because I didn’t want that woman’s feelings – her feelings mattered while mine didn’t…I need to matter! ” Feb 19. “…For me money is a lot like alcohol – I am obsessed with it. I think about it constantly. When I have it I am happy when I don’t I am miserable…” March 26. Her final entry is on March 30 2000. An excerpt: “Lord please help me to feel better about myself. Please help me to remember that I am loved. Please help me to pay the bills” March 30. While we do know through historical records that our author was eventually married to a woman who was a proud member of the sober living community and lived into her early 60s we also know things likely didn't get much easier. Her son would sadly die less than six months after she made her final diary entry and her financial issues remained for many years. Taken together these diaries offer an unvarnished view of midlife lesbian identity formation at the edge of the twentieth century—where spirituality motherhood and addiction recovery intersect. They are especially valuable for their articulation of lesbian self-definition outside urban or academic milieus documenting the therapeutic and communal spaces AA meetings religious-based groups women’s recovery programs through which one woman sought meaning dignity and love. Together the volumes stand as a rare primary-source record of working-class lesbian experience sobriety culture and maternal resilience in the years preceding the new millennium. BIO NOTES ANONYMIZED : The female author of these diaries was born in the mid-1950s. The daughter of a New Jersey businessman and a mother who was on her second marriage she grew up in an upper-middle-class household with two older half-siblings from her mother’s first marriage and one older brother. She was raised in New Jersey before her parents’ relocation to Florida in the mid-1970s which occurred while she was away at college. She graduated from a respected northeastern university in the late 19070s. She was clearly a highly respected and busy member of the student body being President of the Student Alumni Association and a member of a society known as AMW —the university’s highest non-academic honorary society offering invitations to female students of “exemplary character excellence in service to the University and community…honor dignity willingness to accept responsibility responsible leadership and potential for continued contributions to the University. ”She gave birth to a son in the late 1980s while still living in Maine. He died tragically at age 13 shortly after her second diary concludes in a loss that shadows her later writings. Professionally she appears to have worked in nursing and lived most of her adult life in Florida later settling in the northeastern United States. She identified herself as lesbian in early 1997 and ultimately married a woman active in the sober-living community who served as a sponsor to others in recovery. The author died in the late 2010s.; Manuscripts; 9 X 7 in.; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF EATING DISORDERS WOMEN'S STUDIES LESBIAN STUDIES COMING OUT BULIMIA AA ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS FLORIDA UNIVERSITY OF MAINE ALUMNI GENDER STUDIES LGBT AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH DIARY JOURNAL LOG KEEPSAKE WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS DIARIES JOURNALS LOGS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL PERSONAL HISTORYantiquité contrat vélin document manuscrit papier Antike Brief Pergament Dokument Manuskript Papier oggetto d'antiquariato atto velina documento manoscritto carta antigüedad hecho vitela documento manuscrito papel.; Signed by Author . hardcover‎

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‎MacEwan, Grant (Biography of Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk; Lord Selkirk)‎

‎Cornerstone Colony; Selkirk's Contribution to the Canadian West‎

‎Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books 0-919306-80-2 1977 1st printing. Hardcover 228pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Signed by the author. Bibliography and index. There is a previous owner's name on the front endpaper and a stamp on the half-title. Biography of Thomas Douglas 5th Earl of Selkirk & Lord Selkirk. Locale: Manitoba; Prairie Provinces; Selkirk Settlement--Manitoba; Western Canada. Manitoba. Western Producer Prairie Books Hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 000601 ISBN : 0919306802 9780919306806

‎Lichter, Paul‎

‎The Definitive Elvis: The boy who dared to Rock‎

‎1982. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - Rare Hardcover of Elvis Presley the man the King the performer the legend . KE2 hardcover‎

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‎Harry T Moore‎

‎THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE: VOL. 2 - -‎

‎1962. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - Contains the most important original writings by Lawerence . Text clean and unmarked . K4 hardcover‎

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‎Newman Ivey White -‎

‎Shelley : Vol. 2 -‎

‎1940. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition . A full lenght biography of the Poet . C3 hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 4508ml

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‎Millie's Book - As Dictated To Barbara Bush‎

‎1990. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/pub.1990/VG condition/ - First dog Millie Bush's memoir is a heart warming look at one dog's life as presidential best friend. KR119736 hardcover‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 19736 ISBN : 0688040330 9780688040338

‎Adams, Ansel‎

‎Yosemite and the Range of Light‎

‎1982. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - The glorious work of Adam Ansel . B57756z hardcover‎

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‎R Heizer, Editor -‎

‎The California Indians -‎

‎1971. Soft Cover. Good. PB/pub.1971/Gd. condition/618 pages- A source text.J21255z paperback‎

Riferimento per il libraio : 1255z ISBN : 0520020316 9780520020313

‎Reginald F Lewis-‎

‎Why Should White Guys Have all the Fun"-‎

‎1995. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/ pub.1995/Gd. condition/318 pages- How Reginald Lewis created a Billion-Dollar business empire. Lewis's rise from a working-class neighborhood in east Balitmore to Harvard Law School and ultimately into the elite circle of Wall Street deal m akers. As Chairman of TLC Beatrice International Holdings.E93922 hardcover‎

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‎Fong-Torres, Ben‎

‎The Complete Quincy Jones: My Journey & Passions‎

‎2008. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - A fan's must have text lots of bio and pictures . KH68457z hardcover‎

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‎To Infinity and Beyond -‎

‎2007. Hardcover. Good. Gd. condition - The story of Pixar animation studios . AR38095z hardcover‎

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‎Warren Hunting Smith -‎

‎Hobart And William Smith -‎

‎1972. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover/Gd. condition/297 pages - The history of two colleges. K984HR1 hardcover‎

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‎Smith, Joseph Wayne‎

‎Wing Chun Kung-Fu: Fighting & Grappling‎

‎1992. Soft Cover. Good. Gd. condition - A fully illustrated text on Kung-Fu combat. F58788z paperback‎

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