BRASSAI

Henry Miller: The Paris Years

New York: Arcade Publishing, 1995. 1559703474. Reprint. 1. Soft Cover. ISBN: 1559703474. Illustrated by Brassai. Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Volume shows mild shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE.. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. (xii), 224 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 24998

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1559703474 Biography; Brassai; Henry Miller; Photography; Illustrated Books Biography & Memoir Photography

BRIGHTMAN, CAROL

Writing Dangerously: Mary Mccarthy and Her World

San Diego: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994. 0156000679. 1st Harvest Edition. 1. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0156000679. Publisher's glossy wraps. Illustrated with B&W photographs.. Volume shows only mild shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xix, 714, (1) pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 26301

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0156000679 Biographies Illustrated Books Biography & Memoir

BRINKLEY, DOUGLAS (ED.)

The Reagan Diaries

New York: Harper Collins, 2007. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's quarter black cloth over black boards, silver lettering on spine, artistic depiction of Reagan's diaries on endpapers. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 767 pp. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 22931

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher Cold War Berlin Wall Farmers the Gipper Journal Biography; Memoir;

BRODIE, FAWN MCKAY

Richard Nixon: The Shaping of His Character

NY: W . W. Norton & Compnay, Inc, 1981. 0393014673. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0393014673. Former owner's name on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square and clean. VERY GOOD +/ FAIR . Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 574 pp. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 13118

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0393014673 History Presidents Biography; History Biography & Memoir Politics

BROOKS, VAN WYCK

Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait

NY: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1956. Book Club Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full blue cloth, white lettering on spine, white publisher's medallion on cover. The volume is in excellent condition, with only slight shelf-wear at the head and heel of the spine, some pages lightly smudged. The dust jacket, now in Mylar, is significantly chipped, with some loss. VERY GOOD/GOOD. Book Club Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. vi, 166 pp. Very Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 9692

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; Inspiration Blindness Deafness Novels, Poetry & Literature Biography & Memoir

BROOKS, VAN WYCK

The World of Washington Irving

E. P. Dutton & Company, 1944. 1. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on black panels on spine, black decoration on spine, gilt medallion on front cover, fore-edge deckle. Volume shows only light shelf-wear, spine lightly sunned, else fine. NEAR FINE.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (ix), 387 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 17423

Catalogue: Biography

BROUSSON, JEAN JACQUES

Anatole France Abroad

NY: Robert M. Mcbride & Company, 1928. First English Edition. 1. Hard Cover. Quarter bound green over yellow boards, gilt lettering on spine, green lettering on cover. Hinge starting, some marks on front and rear panel, pages yellowed. Unclipped dust jacket is worn and faded, some stains, in protective mylar cover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 387 pp. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 21533

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; France History Biography & Memoir

BROWN, CLAUDE

Manchild in the Promised Land

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1965. 1st Edition. Third Printing. Hard Cover. First Edition, Third Printing (stated). Publisher's full red cloth, gilt and black lettering on spine, top edge red, fore-edge deckle. "Manchild in the Promised Land" is one of the most remarkable autobiographies of our time. This thinly fictionalized account of Claude Brown's childhood as a hardened, streetwise criminal trying to survive the toughest streets of Harlem has been heralded as the definitive account of everyday life for the first generation of African-Americans raised in the Northern ghettos of the 1940s and 1950s. When the book was first published in 1965, it was praised for its realistic portrayal of Harlem -- the children, young people, hardworking parents; the hustlers, drug dealers, prostitutes, and numbers runners; the police; the violence, sex, and humor. The book continues to resonate generations later, not only because of its fierce and dignified anger, not only because the struggles of urban youth are as deeply felt today as they were in Brown's time, but also because the book is affirmative and inspiring. Here is the story about the one who "made it," the boy who kept landing on his feet and became a man. Claude Brown was born in New York City and grew up in Harlem. At age seventeen, after serving several terms in reform school, he left Harlem for Greenwich Village. He went on to receive a bachelor's degree from Howard University and attended law school. He also wrote a book called "The Children of Ham" in 1976. "Manchild in the Promised Land" evolved from an article he published in "Dissent" magazine during his first year at college. He died in 2002 at the age of 64. Covers moderately sunned along top edges, former owner's signature and date (1965) on ffep, otherwise unmarked, tight, square, and clean. The unclipped dust jacket, Now in Mylar, is mildly chipped and reflects an old damp-staing on a corner of the rear panel only. VERY GOOD/VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 415 pp. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 25182

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Black Culture Harlem African-American Negro Negroe New York Biography Memoirs First Edition Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

BROWN, JOHN MASON

The Worlds of Robert E. Sherwood: Mirror to His Times, 1896-1939

NY: Harper & Row Publishers, 1965. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's red cloth over black boards, gilt lettering on spine, author's facsimile signature, gilt, on cover, grey endpapers, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with several B&W photographs. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in excellent, unmarked condition, with only the slightest signs of wear. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE. B&W Illustrations. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 409, (1) pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 10652

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; Roosevelt Dramatists Non-Fiction; 1st Editions World War I Ww1 Journalism History Biography & Memoir

BROWNE, LEWIS; ELSA WEIHL

That Man Heine

NY: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. First Printing (October 1927). Publisher's black cloth over silver boards, gilt (silver) lettering on spine, embossed corner boarders on covers. 8vo. 420 pp. Illustrated with glossy frontispiece portrait and full page B&W reproductions. Gift inscription on ffep, front hinge starting, boards lightly rubbed, else near fine. VERY GOOD.. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 6274

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Heinrich Heine; Biography; Judaica; Philosophy; Religion Judaica Biography & Memoir

BRUNI, FRANK

Ambling Into History the Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush

New York: Harpercollins, 2002. 0066213711. First Edition Thus. Second Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0066213711. Unclipped dustjacket, clean, unmarked and tight. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 278 pp. As New in Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 21046

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0066213711 George W. Bush American Presidency American Politics History Politics

BRUSH, DANIEL HARMON

Growing Up with Southern Illinois 1820 to 1861

Chicago: Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley, 1944. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and medallion on cover. Illustrated with sepia portrait frontispiece and map of Southern Illinois.. Corner lightly bumped, else fine; tight, square, unmarked, and clean. NEAR FINE. The Lakeside Classics Series. B&W Photo . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. (xxxii), 265 pp. Near Fine with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 20122

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; Lakeside Press; Lakeside Classics; Illinois; Memoir; Biography & Memoir

BULLOCK, ALAN

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny

NY: Harper Perennial, 1991. 0060920203. Abridged Edition. First Printing. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0060920203. Publisher's glossy wraps.. Covers very lightly worn, spine lightly creased, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 489 pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 28479

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0060920203 Biography Tyranny Germany Hitler Philosophy & Social Sciences Biography & Memoir Politics

BURLEND, REBECCA; MILO MILTON QUAIFE (ED)

A True Picture of Emigration

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1936. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full red cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and borders on cover, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with photographic portrait frontispiece. On a frosty day in November 1831, Rebecca Burlend and her husband, John, and their five children debarked at New Orleans after a long voyage from England. They took a steamboat up the Mississippi to St. Louis and from there went to the wilds of western Illinois. It was a whole new world for a family that had never been more than fifty miles from home in rural Yorkshire. Rebecca’s narrative, written with the help of her son, was first published in 1848 as a pamphlet for people of her own class in England who might be considering migration to America. It records the daily struggle and also the satisfactions of homesteading in the Old Northwest: life in a log cabin; food, clothes, and furniture of the period; early churches and schools; the unspoiled countryside and its denizens. With courage and self-reliance Rebecca Burlend accepted the privations and difficulties of this pioneering venture.. The covers are moderately worn, the front cover has some spots, some minor foxing on the fore-edge, otherwise fine; unmarked, tight, and square. GOOD. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 34. Portrait Frontispiece. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. xxxi, 167, (1) pp. Good with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 12256

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Lakeside Classics; History; Illinois; Memoirs; Pioneers; History Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

BURNS, JAMES MACGREGOR

Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970. 0151788715. 1. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0151788715. Publisher's full red cloth, red and silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W photographs. The volume is in excellent condition, unmarked, tight, square and clean, showing only very mild shelf-wear. Price-clipped dust jacket is lightly chipped and worn. NEAR FINE/VERY GOOD. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xiv, 722 pp. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 26726

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0151788715 Biographies History Politics American Presidents History Biography & Memoir Politics