BRANDON, Ruth

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Oxford, Macmillan, 2002. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustwrapper . 1st edition. A tidy copy in tight binding. Photo:. ISBN: 0333766660

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Brandon, Ruth

Being Divine: A Biography Of Sarah Bernhardt

Secker & Warburg, London, 1991. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780436199950 beige end-papers; Sarah Bernhardt - la divine, la grande Sarah - achieved a pinnacle of fame unprecedented in an age before film and television. Every aspect of her extraordinary life was reported in obsessive detail: her penchant for sculpting in a white silk Worth pyjama suit; her whim to have a tiger's tail grafted to the base of her spine (she was mercifully talked out of it); her ever-changing lovers; the coffin in which she reputedly slept and the number and veracity of her death scenes. Unfashionably thin, with clouds of blonde hair and long slanting eyes, Sarah possessed a golden voice, a determination to succeed which was almost frightening in its intensity, and the ability to convince everyone that she was the most beautiful and the most fascinating woman in the world. Sarah embarked on her acting career almost by accident, but she threw herself body and soul into her work with a seemingly inexhaustible energy, which even the amputation of her leg and the encroachment of what in others would be termed old age failed to diminish. Unlike the stars of recent years, Sarah did not have nervous breakdowns (although she was notorious, during her early years, for being 'difficult'), she did not become addicted to drugs or alcohol, she did not commit suicide or succumb to consumption - and she did not retire. Like many, Sarah sought fame, but she, perhaps uniquely, thrived on the rigours which accompany it. What were her secrets? In this unusual examination of Sarah Bernhardt's life, Ruth Brandon searches behind the well-known, very public persona of this fabulous woman to discover precisely what it was in her background, upbringing and personality that made her the phenomenon that she undoubtedly was. The result is a book which is at once wittily informative, unerringly perceptive and thoroughly entertaining. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii + 466. Dust Jacket un-clipped. Gilt titles spine. brown cloth; illustrated by b/w. photo's. & drawings. Includes notes, bibliography & index. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Theatre & Plays. ISBN: 0436199955. ISBN/EAN: 9780436199950. Inventory No: 4672.

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Keywords: BZDB227 Biography/Theatre & Plays/Sarah Bernhardt Biography & Autobiography; Theatre & Plays. Unbranded ISBN: 0436199955 EAN: 9780436199950 Ruth Brandon Being Divine: A Biography Of Sarah Bernhardt Theatre & Plays

Brandon, Ruth

THE DOLLAR PRINCESSES - The American Invasion of the European Aristocracy, 1870-1914.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1980 ; Conditie: In goede staat. Hardcover met stofomslag.

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BRANDON, Ruth

The life and many deaths of Harry Houdini

Secker & Warburg , 1993. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket First Edition. 4th impression. Some yellowing to pages; dust jacket bright & not price-clipped. With B&W illustrations Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_38022_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 0436200600

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BRANDON, RUTH

Mind out

London, Collins Crime Club. 1991, First Edition. (ISBN: 0002323281). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 'What do you do when your scientist husband, having disappeared on a visit to the States, returns home with his own mind, memory, personality, even voice, but a different body? Belinda Watson soon found the change lent a certain piquancy to marriage, after all she and Charles had been getting a bit bored. As for Andrew Taggart, the journalist investigating her husband's disappearance (and incidentally consoling her), she didn't mind kissing him goodbye. Then the new 'Charles Watson' is murdered and the innocent Taggart is arrested - can he prove his innocence? Who has framed him and why? NOT EX LIB L. Fine/Near Fine.

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Keywords: Murder Mystery Whodunit 0002323281

BRANDON, RUTH

The New Women & the Old Men : Love, Sex & the Woman Question

New York, NY, U.S.A.: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated, 1990. Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, 1990, Good, Soft Cover, ISBN: 0-393-30811-1, front corners slightly bumped.

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Keywords: man woman relationships men sexual behavior women social science s studies family interpersonal relations psychology human sexuality 0393308111

BRANDON, RUTH

Surreal lives - The Surrealists 1917 1945

New York, Grove Press. 1999, First Edition - First Printing. (ISBN: -) Cloth with dust jacket, 3c4. 527 pag - illustrated. Very Good.

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Catalogue: Kunst Geschiedenis - Art References

BRANDON, Ruth

Tickling the dragon

London, Jonathan Cape, 1995. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dustjacket 1st ed. Binding tight; dust jacket not price-clipped. Photo:. ISBN: 0224041045

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BRANDON RUTH

THE UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

Vintage, 1997. 1st printing. Helen Bartram, in Los Angeles to work on a screenplay, sees her daughter Laura who died nine years ago. She knows she isn't mistaken and embarks on a 30-year search for her lost daughter. Paperback. ISBN: 0099740710. very good trade paperback.

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The People's Chef: The Culinary Revolutions of Alexis Soyer.

New York, Walker & Company, 2004. 1st Printing. Hardcover., Vg (See Description), Vg/Vg Remainder Dot. Pages Clean, Binding Tight. Pages: 319.

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Catalogue: Cooking

Brandon, Ruth and Christie Davies

Wrongful Imprisonment; Mistaken Convictions and Their Consequences

[Hamden], Archon Books, 1973. Hardcover. Ex-library, with the usual ownership markings and withdrawn stamp; lacks rear endpaper; otherwise very good condition. 296p. .

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Book number: 19827

Catalogue: Criminology