VAN DOREN, CARL

Swift

New York: The Viking Press, 1930. 1. Hard Cover. Biography of Jonathan Swift. Publisher's beige linen, green lettering on spine, gilt on cover, indented lines on spine. Volume cover faded at edges, pages lightly yellowed, else square and unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket is faded and has tears at edges. VERY GOOD/FAIR.. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 279 pp. Very Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 18120

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; History British Empire Novels, Poetry & Literature Biography & Memoir Politics

DORIGNY, JEAN

La Vie Du Pere Antoine Possevin de la Compagnie de Jesus

Paris: Chez Jean Muzier, 1712. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Antonio Possevino (Antonius Possevinus) (1533 – 1611) was a Jesuit protagonist of Counter Reformation as a papal diplomat and a Jesuit controversialist, encyclopedist and bibliographer. He was the first Jesuit to visit Muscovy, Sweden, Denmark, Livonia, Hungary, Pomerania, and Saxony in amply documented papal missions between 1578 and 1586 where he championed the enterprising policies of Pope Gregory XIII.. VERY GOOD.. 16mo 6" - 7" tall. 541, (26-Index) pp. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 28787

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Keywords: Biography Religion Society of Jesus Jesuits Antonio Possevino Religion & Mythology Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books

DORSETT, LYLE W.

A Passion for Souls: The Life of D.L. Moody

New York: Moody Publishers, 1997. 0802451810. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Soft Cover. ISBN: 0802451810. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 489 pp. Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 11310

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0802451810 Religion History Biography; Military History Evangelists History Religion & Mythology Biography & Memoir

DOUGLAS, WILLIAM O.

Go East, Young Man: The Early Years the Autobiography of William o. Douglas

New York: Random House, 1974. 0394488342. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0394488342. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt, silver, and bronze lettering on spine, facsimile of author's signature blind-stamped on cover, top edge red, brown endpapers. Illustrated with 32 pages of B&W photographs. Small, red Random House remainder stamp on bottom edge, top edges of boards lightly sunned, dust jacket shows slight shelf-wear, else fine. NEAR FINE/NEAR FINE . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (xv), 493 pp. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 8960

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Keywords: 0394488342 Biography; Autobiography Supreme Court Justice Supreme Court Law Lawyers Judges Biography & Memoir Business, Law & Government

DOUGLAS, EDWARD

Jack: The Great Seducer the Life and Many Loves of Jack Nicholson

New York: Harpercollins, 2004. 0060520477. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0060520477. Clean, unmarked and tight with unclipped dustjacket. B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 438 pp. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 21196

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0060520477 Jack Nicholson Hollywood Film Star Movie Star American Actors Theatre & Performing Arts Biography & Memoir

DOWD, MAUREEN

Bushworld Enter at Your Own Risk

New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 2004. 039915258x. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 039915258x. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. (xv), 523 pp. As New in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 19053

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 039915258x George W. Bush American Presidency American Politics New York Times Politics

DRAKE, SAMUEL ADAMS

Our World's Great Benefactors: Short Biographies of the Men and Women Most Eminent in Philanthropy, Patriotism, Art, Literature, Discovery, Science, Invention

Chicago: H. J. Smith & Company, 1888. Revised Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Professionally rebacked in red leather over original elaborately blind-stamped red cloth, reverse gilt lettering on cover, printed endpapers, a.e.g. Profusely illustrated with nearly 100 portraits"Emblematically Embellished." . Professionally rebacked in red leather, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD+.. Portraits. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 702 pp. Very Good+ with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 24180

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography; Science; Invention Art; Literature; Mathematics Illustrated Books Biography & Memoir Women

DREW, JOHN; BOOTH TARKINGTON (INTRO)

My Years on the Stage

NY: E. P. Dutton & Co, 1922. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Generously illustrated with full-page photographs. Autobiography of John Drew, jr. (1853-1927) noted Shakespearean comedy actor and star of light comedies. A matinée idol who was well thought of by fellow actors and closely associated with the producer Charles Frohman. He was the uncle of John, Ethel and Lionel Barrymore. The volume shows on slight shelf-wear, unmarked, tight, square and clean. NEAR FINE.. Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 242 pp. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 22510

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biograhy Theater Theatre Acting Actors History Theatre & Performing Arts Biography & Memoir

DUNNING, JENNIFER

Alvin Ailey: A Life in Dance

Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996. 0201626071. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0201626071. First Edition, First Printing (stated, August 1996). The Da Capo edition was not published until September 25, 1996. Publisher's laminated photographic boards, endpapers yellow. Illustrated with B&W photographs. Now for the first time, the life and work of Alvin Ailey, one of the most beloved figures in modern dance, is examined by a writer uniquely able to place him and his legacy in perspective. Jennifer Dunning, New York Times dance critic and reporter, brings her expertise,extensive research, and a compassionate intelligence to this larger-than-life personality, making Alvin Ailey not just a portrait of a man, but also of his time.Ailey’s story is the stuff of legend. His ”Revelations,” one of the great American dance classics, is said to have been seen by more people than any other work in dance history. Yet the small-town-culture that is at the heart of his finest work was absorbed by a child growing up in devastating poverty, neglected by a loving but exhausted mother who raised him alone. Aware of his homosexuality from his teens, Ailey lived and worked in the unusually accepting world of the theater but sometimes hid his sexuality as if he had never left his conservative family and Southern church. An athlete in his youth and a member of a profession that idealizes physical perfection, Ailey abused his body with alcohol and, later, drugs. Surrounded by admiring friends, he felt alone. Yet against great odds, Ailey pulled the pieces of this life together to create a passionate mosaic of art and dance, giving birth to an indispensable institution that continues to play a joyous, vibrant role throughout the world. Dunning shows us how Ailey took the essence of his experiences—whether from the driving rhythmic music that poured from the local Dew Drop Inn on hot Saturday nights, or the simple motion of men beating the water to drive back snakes during his baptism—and translated them into masterpieces.Filled with stunning photographs and hundreds of interviews with those who knew him (including such stars of dance and theater as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Judith Jamison, Lena Horne, Katherine Dunham, Sidney Poitier, and Dustin Hoffman), Alvin Ailey is the story of a man who wove his life and his culture into his dance—and into the fabric of America itself. Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, unmarked condition. AS NEW/AS NEW.. B&W Photographs. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 468 pp. As New in As New dust jacket .

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Book number: 24338

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Keywords: 0201626071 Biography; Dance Choreographers Ballet Theatre & Performing Arts Biography & Memoir

EASTMAN, CHARLES ALEXANDER

From the Deep Woods to Civilization, Including Excerpts from Indian Boyhood

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 2001. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion on cover. t.e.g. Illustrated with B&W photographs. This is the autobiography of Charles Alexander Eastman, first piblished by Little Brown in 1916. Eastman (born Hakadah and later named Ohíye S’a; 1858-1939) was a Santee Dakota physician educated at Boston University, writer, national lecturer, and reformer. In the early 20th century, he was "one of the most prolific authors and speakers on Sioux ethnohistory and American Indian affairs." Eastman was of Santee Dakota, English and French ancestry. After working as a physician on reservations in South Dakota, he became increasingly active in politics and issues on native American rights, he worked to improve the lives of youths, and founded thirty-two Native American chapters of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). He also helped found the Boy Scouts of America. He is considered the first Native American author to write American history from the Native American point of view. Eastman worked as an agency physician for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Indian Health Service on the Pine Ridge Reservation and later at the Crow Creek Reservation, both in South Dakota. He treated many of the Indians after the Wounded Knee massacre.. This volume is in perfect, pristine condition, unmarked, unread, tight, square, and clean; in its original shrink-wrap. NEW. The Lakeside Classics Series. Vol. 99. B&W Photographs. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. lxvii, 341 pp. New with No dust jacket as issued .

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Book number: 2528

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Keywords: Memoirs; Lakeside Classics; American Indians Wounded Knee Biography; History Biography & Memoir Rare, Antiquarian, and Collectible Books