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	SUKARNO WITH CINDY ADAMS. SUKARNO: An Autobiography. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1965.) First US printing. A fascinating and very personal account of the life of the man who became the President of Indonesia, one of the world's largest countries, after its independence from Holland. Sukarno was active in the independence movement while still a student, and over the years he was imprisoned - and exiled three times - by the Dutch. He also discusses his personal life in this book, his views as a devout Muslim, and even his role as a collaborator of the Japanese during World War II. Illustrated with photographs, includes an Indonesian-English glossary, index. x, 324 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket (light edgewear to dj.) USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 30770 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA. TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. In this book the author relates the harrowing journey of one soul, one consciousness, through three dark decades of a totalitarian tyranny which sowed terror throughout an entire nation and reached into every corner of her persoal life. By the daughter of Josef Stalin. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 14546 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ARLEN, MICHAEL J. EXILES New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First printing. The author's second book, the story of his parents - his father was the novelist Michael Arlen. Nominated for the National Book Award. Near fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, a little edgewear to dj.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 20272 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ASHER, DON. THE EMINENT YACHTSMAN & THE WHOREHOUSE PIANO PLAYER. New York: Coward-McCann, 1973. First printing. Described as a 'eminiscence' this is Asher's attempt to understand the father he never knew, a brilliant and troubled man who committed suicide when Asher was three, thru his father's friendship with S. N. Behrman. Near fine in very good dust jacket (some light soiling to soft paper dj.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 17165 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	[RIDING, LAURA] BAKER, DEBORAH. IN EXTREMIS: The Life of Laura Riding. New York: Grove Press, 1993. First printing. Deborah Baker considers Laura Riding in the context of her background, her times and her work. She removes layers of conjecture and bias which have distorted Riding's life. The result is a biography of revelation, reassessment and restoration. Rider's associates included Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Robert Graves. With photos, notes and index. 478 pgs. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy) ISBN: 0-8021-13648 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 19799 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	[MURDOCH, IRIS] BAYLEY, JOHN. IRIS AND HER FRIENDS: A Memoir of Memory and Desire. New York: Norton, (2000.) First printing. A moving and unusual memoir, writtten by Iris Murdoch's husband as she is succumbing to Alzheimer's disease. Photographs. 275 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-395-04856x USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 31560 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BELLONCI, MARIA. PRINCE OF MANTUA: The Life and Times of Vincenzo Gonzaga. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1956. First US printing. Biography of late Renaissance Italian duke. Translated by Stuart Hood. Index. 312 pages. Near fine in very good dust jacket (edgewear to dj.) USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 21641 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BELLOT, LELAND J. WILLIAM KNOX: The Life and Thought of an Eighteenth Century Imperialist Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. First printing. The first full-scale biography of the man who was provost marshall of Georgia from 1757 to 1762 and Undersecretary of State in the American Dept of the British government from 1770 to 1782. 264 pgs including notes, bibliography and index. VG/VG (Slight water damage to upper edge of text block, tear and associated creasing on front cover of dj.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 8638 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BLIVEN, BRUCE. A MIRROR FOR GREATNESS: Six Americans. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Family Bookshelf edition. A look at six people whose strength and force of character shaped American history - included are Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Jefferson, Sojourner Truth, Emerson and Thoreau. Very good in very good dust jacket. ISBN: 0-07-0059047 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 17053 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BOWEN, CATHERINE DRINKER FAMILY PORTRAIT Boston: Little Brown, 1970. First printing. The story of the Drinkers of Philadelphia. 301 pgs, illustrated with photographs. VG/VG. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 8047 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	O'BRIAN, PATRICK. PICASSO. London: Collins, 1976. First edition. A masterful biography by this writer best known for the Aubrey Maturin series, but who was also translated many books from the French. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 116.75 \| £UK 105.25 \| JP¥ 15445] Book number: 2874 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	[CHUDLEIGH, ELIZABETH, 1720-1788] BROWN, BEATRICE CURTIS. ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH: DUCHESS OF KINGSTON. New York: Viking, 1928. First US printing. A title in the Representative Women series - each women in the series was chosen because her life can act as a mirror of her time. Elizabeth Chudleigh was a maid of honor to the Princess of Wales, mother of George III - and her fame and notoriety reached its height when she was tried and found guilty of bigamy. Bibliography. 187 pp Very good in a poor dustjacket ( missing about half of the spine of the dj, other wear.) USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 29770 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BUNGAY, GEORGE W. PEN PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS ABSTAINERS, Vol 1 New York: The National Temperance Society, 1881. First edition. Although the title page indicates Volume 1 this book stands by itself - among the abstainers profiled are Horace Greeley, Horace Mann, Rutherford Hayes, William Cullen Bryant and more - illustrated with portraits of each subject.. Uncommon in the first edition. Some wear to edges of boards, and corners, etc, but overall very good condition in brown cloth with black decorations and gold lettering. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 14097 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CHACE, JAMES. WHAT WE HAD: A Memoir. New York: Summit Books, (1990.) First printing. More than just a memoir of the author's own life, this is the story, told in brief glimpses, of his family, frozen in time in the jazz age, while in 1931 in Fall River, Massachusetts, the mills were closing - and of the impact of Pearl Harbor, his own experiences as a student at Harvard where he agreed to be injected with mind-altering drugs as part of an experiment at a famous hospital, a brief and funny stint as a CIA agent. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. ISBN: 0-671-694782 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 31429 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CHIPPERFIELD, JIMMY. MY WILD LIFE. New York: Putnam, (1976.) First American edition. Autobiography of a great performer and showman extraordinare. He grew up in a family with a 250 year traditional of traveling shows and built his father's modest troupe into the greatest circus in Europe. Photographs. Index. 220 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket.( a few small closed tears, a little worn on edges.) ISBN: 0-399-116168 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 28082 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CHO, MARGARET. I'M THE ONE THAT I WANT. New York Ballantine, (2001.) First edition. Memoir of the comedian, icon and TV star. 212 pp Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.) ISBN: 0-345-440137 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 28148 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COHN, NIK. THE HEART OF THE WORLD. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First printing. Described by the author as the 'partial record of a walk I made up Broadway, starting at the Battery and aiming for the Bronx...it is the world within itself.' Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-394-568699 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 18040 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COHN, NIK. THE HEART OF THE WORLD. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. First UK printing. Described by the author as the 'partial record of a walk I made up Broadway, starting at the Battery and aiming for the Bronx...it is the world within itself.' Very near fine in a like dustjacket. ISBN: 0-7011-37673 USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 26926 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COLE, SONIA. LEAKEY'S LUCK, the Life of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, 1903-1972. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975. First American edition. Biography of the noted, and controversial, anthropogist. Photographs, glossary, references, index. NF/VG (some edgewear, prev owner's name on ffep.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 3778 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CONWAY, JILL KER. THE ROAD FROM COORAIN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Later printing. A beautifully written narrative of Conway's journey from a girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America. 238 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-394-574567 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 41457 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COTTRELL, ROBERT C. THE SOCIAL GOSPEL OF E. NICHOLAS COMFORT: Founder of the Oklahoma School of Religion. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1997.) First printing. Biography of 'a transitional figure between frontier days and the soon-to-be modern state', a man who remained true to his belief in the brotherhood of man even in the face of Jim Crow, anti-Communist witch hunts, and increasing militarism. Photographs. 338 pp with notes bibliography and index. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-8061-2931X USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 28164 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	[STAPLEDON, OLAF AND MILLER, AGNES] CROSSLEY, ROBERT, EDITOR. TALKING ACROSS THE WORLD: The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919. Hanover, NH: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. First printing. The love letters from Olaf Stapledon to his cousin and future wife, Agnes Miller, after the outbreak of World War I. Index. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 13192 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN LIVES OF THE BRITISH ARCHITECTS London: John Murray, 1831. Although this is volume IV of 6 volumes on British painters, sculptors and architects (and volume XIX of the Family Library published by Murray), each volume was sold separately and is complete in itself. Included are William of Wykeham, Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren and more. Illustrated by plates of each architect. Bound in the original tan cloth, somewhat bumped at the edges, and with the complete listing of all volumes available to date on the rear cover (thru No. 67.) - an early 19th century precursor of the Modern Library. Title page still bears the 1831 date, but the date on the front cover is 1839. Overall very good condition: somewhat darkened, one plate detached, but present. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 7752 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CURTIS, MARGARET. PLANTERÕS PUNCH. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. First edition. Memoir of a woman who danced at the Moulin Rouge, sang opera, and hosted a 'salon' in Tahiti. INSCRIBED by the author, and dated in the year of publication. Near fine in good dust jacket (noticeable edgewear in dj). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 23802 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DICKSON, IVA M. A WAY OF LIFE, ONLY A MEMORY New York: Vantage, 1986. First printing. A memoir about growing up on a farm near Spokane Missouri in the 30's - during the Great Depression. 58 pgs. photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-533-068584 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9085 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).

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	SUKARNO WITH CINDY ADAMS. SUKARNO: An Autobiography. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1965.) First US printing. A fascinating and very personal account of the life of the man who became the President of Indonesia, one of the world's largest countries, after its independence from Holland. Sukarno was active in the independence movement while still a student, and over the years he was imprisoned - and exiled three times - by the Dutch. He also discusses his personal life in this book, his views as a devout Muslim, and even his role as a collaborator of the Japanese during World War II. Illustrated with photographs, includes an Indonesian-English glossary, index. x, 324 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket (light edgewear to dj.) USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 30770 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ALLILUYEVA, SVETLANA. TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. First edition. In this book the author relates the harrowing journey of one soul, one consciousness, through three dark decades of a totalitarian tyranny which sowed terror throughout an entire nation and reached into every corner of her persoal life. By the daughter of Josef Stalin. Near fine in a near fine dustjacket. USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 14546 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ARLEN, MICHAEL J. EXILES New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First printing. The author's second book, the story of his parents - his father was the novelist Michael Arlen. Nominated for the National Book Award. Near fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, a little edgewear to dj.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 20272 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	ASHER, DON. THE EMINENT YACHTSMAN & THE WHOREHOUSE PIANO PLAYER. New York: Coward-McCann, 1973. First printing. Described as a 'eminiscence' this is Asher's attempt to understand the father he never knew, a brilliant and troubled man who committed suicide when Asher was three, thru his father's friendship with S. N. Behrman. Near fine in very good dust jacket (some light soiling to soft paper dj.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 17165 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	[RIDING, LAURA] BAKER, DEBORAH. IN EXTREMIS: The Life of Laura Riding. New York: Grove Press, 1993. First printing. Deborah Baker considers Laura Riding in the context of her background, her times and her work. She removes layers of conjecture and bias which have distorted Riding's life. The result is a biography of revelation, reassessment and restoration. Rider's associates included Hart Crane, Gertrude Stein, Edmund Wilson, Malcolm Cowley, Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, and Robert Graves. With photos, notes and index. 478 pgs. Fine in fine dust jacket (a new, unread copy) ISBN: 0-8021-13648 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 19799 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	[MURDOCH, IRIS] BAYLEY, JOHN. IRIS AND HER FRIENDS: A Memoir of Memory and Desire. New York: Norton, (2000.) First printing. A moving and unusual memoir, writtten by Iris Murdoch's husband as she is succumbing to Alzheimer's disease. Photographs. 275 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-395-04856x USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 31560 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BELLONCI, MARIA. PRINCE OF MANTUA: The Life and Times of Vincenzo Gonzaga. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1956. First US printing. Biography of late Renaissance Italian duke. Translated by Stuart Hood. Index. 312 pages. Near fine in very good dust jacket (edgewear to dj.) USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 21641 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BELLOT, LELAND J. WILLIAM KNOX: The Life and Thought of an Eighteenth Century Imperialist Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. First printing. The first full-scale biography of the man who was provost marshall of Georgia from 1757 to 1762 and Undersecretary of State in the American Dept of the British government from 1770 to 1782. 264 pgs including notes, bibliography and index. VG/VG (Slight water damage to upper edge of text block, tear and associated creasing on front cover of dj.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 8638 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BLIVEN, BRUCE. A MIRROR FOR GREATNESS: Six Americans. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Family Bookshelf edition. A look at six people whose strength and force of character shaped American history - included are Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Jefferson, Sojourner Truth, Emerson and Thoreau. Very good in very good dust jacket. ISBN: 0-07-0059047 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 17053 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BOWEN, CATHERINE DRINKER FAMILY PORTRAIT Boston: Little Brown, 1970. First printing. The story of the Drinkers of Philadelphia. 301 pgs, illustrated with photographs. VG/VG. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 8047 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	O'BRIAN, PATRICK. PICASSO. London: Collins, 1976. First edition. A masterful biography by this writer best known for the Aubrey Maturin series, but who was also translated many books from the French. Fine in fine dust jacket. USD 175.00 [Appr.: EURO 116.75 \| £UK 105.25 \| JP¥ 15445] Book number: 2874 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	[CHUDLEIGH, ELIZABETH, 1720-1788] BROWN, BEATRICE CURTIS. ELIZABETH CHUDLEIGH: DUCHESS OF KINGSTON. New York: Viking, 1928. First US printing. A title in the Representative Women series - each women in the series was chosen because her life can act as a mirror of her time. Elizabeth Chudleigh was a maid of honor to the Princess of Wales, mother of George III - and her fame and notoriety reached its height when she was tried and found guilty of bigamy. Bibliography. 187 pp Very good in a poor dustjacket ( missing about half of the spine of the dj, other wear.) USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 \| £UK 12.25 \| JP¥ 1765] Book number: 29770 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	BUNGAY, GEORGE W. PEN PORTRAITS OF ILLUSTRIOUS ABSTAINERS, Vol 1 New York: The National Temperance Society, 1881. First edition. Although the title page indicates Volume 1 this book stands by itself - among the abstainers profiled are Horace Greeley, Horace Mann, Rutherford Hayes, William Cullen Bryant and more - illustrated with portraits of each subject.. Uncommon in the first edition. Some wear to edges of boards, and corners, etc, but overall very good condition in brown cloth with black decorations and gold lettering. USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 \| £UK 45.25 \| JP¥ 6619] Book number: 14097 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CHACE, JAMES. WHAT WE HAD: A Memoir. New York: Summit Books, (1990.) First printing. More than just a memoir of the author's own life, this is the story, told in brief glimpses, of his family, frozen in time in the jazz age, while in 1931 in Fall River, Massachusetts, the mills were closing - and of the impact of Pearl Harbor, his own experiences as a student at Harvard where he agreed to be injected with mind-altering drugs as part of an experiment at a famous hospital, a brief and funny stint as a CIA agent. Very near fine in a like dustjacket. ISBN: 0-671-694782 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 31429 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CHIPPERFIELD, JIMMY. MY WILD LIFE. New York: Putnam, (1976.) First American edition. Autobiography of a great performer and showman extraordinare. He grew up in a family with a 250 year traditional of traveling shows and built his father's modest troupe into the greatest circus in Europe. Photographs. Index. 220 pp. Fine in very good dust jacket.( a few small closed tears, a little worn on edges.) ISBN: 0-399-116168 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 28082 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CHO, MARGARET. I'M THE ONE THAT I WANT. New York Ballantine, (2001.) First edition. Memoir of the comedian, icon and TV star. 212 pp Fine in fine dust jacket (as new.) ISBN: 0-345-440137 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 28148 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COHN, NIK. THE HEART OF THE WORLD. London: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992. First printing. Described by the author as the 'partial record of a walk I made up Broadway, starting at the Battery and aiming for the Bronx...it is the world within itself.' Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-394-568699 USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 18040 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COHN, NIK. THE HEART OF THE WORLD. London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. First UK printing. Described by the author as the 'partial record of a walk I made up Broadway, starting at the Battery and aiming for the Bronx...it is the world within itself.' Very near fine in a like dustjacket. ISBN: 0-7011-37673 USD 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.75 \| £UK 9.75 \| JP¥ 1412] Book number: 26926 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COLE, SONIA. LEAKEY'S LUCK, the Life of Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, 1903-1972. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1975. First American edition. Biography of the noted, and controversial, anthropogist. Photographs, glossary, references, index. NF/VG (some edgewear, prev owner's name on ffep.) USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 12.25 \| £UK 11 \| JP¥ 1589] Book number: 3778 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CONWAY, JILL KER. THE ROAD FROM COORAIN. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. Later printing. A beautifully written narrative of Conway's journey from a girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America. 238 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-394-574567 USD 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 8.25 \| £UK 7.25 \| JP¥ 1059] Book number: 41457 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	COTTRELL, ROBERT C. THE SOCIAL GOSPEL OF E. NICHOLAS COMFORT: Founder of the Oklahoma School of Religion. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, (1997.) First printing. Biography of 'a transitional figure between frontier days and the soon-to-be modern state', a man who remained true to his belief in the brotherhood of man even in the face of Jim Crow, anti-Communist witch hunts, and increasing militarism. Photographs. 338 pp with notes bibliography and index. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-8061-2931X USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 28164 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	[STAPLEDON, OLAF AND MILLER, AGNES] CROSSLEY, ROBERT, EDITOR. TALKING ACROSS THE WORLD: The Love Letters of Olaf Stapledon and Agnes Miller, 1913-1919. Hanover, NH: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. First printing. The love letters from Olaf Stapledon to his cousin and future wife, Agnes Miller, after the outbreak of World War I. Index. Very near fine in fine dust jacket. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 13192 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CUNNINGHAM, ALLAN LIVES OF THE BRITISH ARCHITECTS London: John Murray, 1831. Although this is volume IV of 6 volumes on British painters, sculptors and architects (and volume XIX of the Family Library published by Murray), each volume was sold separately and is complete in itself. Included are William of Wykeham, Inigo Jones, Christopher Wren and more. Illustrated by plates of each architect. Bound in the original tan cloth, somewhat bumped at the edges, and with the complete listing of all volumes available to date on the rear cover (thru No. 67.) - an early 19th century precursor of the Modern Library. Title page still bears the 1831 date, but the date on the front cover is 1839. Overall very good condition: somewhat darkened, one plate detached, but present. USD 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.5 \| £UK 21.25 \| JP¥ 3089] Book number: 7752 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	CURTIS, MARGARET. PLANTERÕS PUNCH. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. First edition. Memoir of a woman who danced at the Moulin Rouge, sang opera, and hosted a 'salon' in Tahiti. INSCRIBED by the author, and dated in the year of publication. Near fine in good dust jacket (noticeable edgewear in dj). USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 23802 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).
	DICKSON, IVA M. A WAY OF LIFE, ONLY A MEMORY New York: Vantage, 1986. First printing. A memoir about growing up on a farm near Spokane Missouri in the 30's - during the Great Depression. 58 pgs. photographs. Fine in fine dust jacket. ISBN: 0-533-068584 USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 9085 Click here to order or inquire at bookfever.com (Volk & Iiams).