HOBHOUSE, JANET

Everybody Who Was Anybody - a Biography of Gertrude Stein

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1975, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297769901). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of xii + 244 pages. 100 black and white illustrations, 8 colour plates. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) soon became aware that she was destined to 'create the twentieth century'. Brought up in Europe and the new frontier state of California, Gertrude never lost the sense of being a pioneer. In 1903 she moved to Paris and two years later bought her first Matisse, the notorious Femme au Chapeau, the most ridiculed work of the scandalous 'Fauve' exhibition. In 1905 Gertrude also met and began to buy the work of Picasso. With his portrait of her, a work seminal in the development of Cubism, and with her own writing of Three Lives, both in 1906, Gertrude Stein began to take her place at the centre of a group of artists and writers whose works were among the most important of the century. By the outbreak of World War I Gertrude, with her brothers Leo and Michael, had amassed the most important collection of modern art in the world. After the war Gertrude became mentor to several of the best known American writers, among them Ernest Hemngway. By the time of her death, Gertrude Stein had become a legend - she had been painted, sculpted and photographed by the most famous artists of her time. Her apartments at rue de Fleurus, and later at rue Christine, were landmarks in Paris. The book tells the story of the public personality and the deeply serious writer behind. It recounts the development and significance of her complex relationship with her brother Leo, with Alice B. Toklas and with Picasso, as well as her artistic relationships with the Cubists and the writers of the Lost Generation and her profoundly symbolic relationship with America, with France, with 'inside and outside reality', with personality and the nature of genius. PLEASE NOTE: A LARGE HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.95 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 16. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 009816

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: American Writer and Poet, Matisse, Picasso, Leo Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Ernest Hemingway 0297769901

HOCKENBERRY, JOHN

Declarations of Independence - War Zones and Wheelchairs

London, Viking. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 0670865044). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, First Pinting. First published in USA in 1995. A clean and unmarked copy VG+ with complete coloured photographic dustjacket VG+. The autobiographical journal of the author, a paraplegic since a car crash aged 19, who became a foreign correspondent and spent two years in the Middle East. He writes with black humour of riding a mule up a hillside in Iraq, having his wheelchair pushed at Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral by a friendly Iranian chanting 'Death to all Americans' and of life as a disabled reporter. NOT EX LIB A1B. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 001445

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Iraq, Middle East, War Correspondent in a Wheelchair 0670865044

HUBBELL, WEBB

Friends in High Places - Our Journey from Little Rock to Washington, D.C.

New York, William Morrow. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 0688157491). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked book with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. From the golf course to the Oval Office, the author, a longtime friend and political intimate offers a behind the scenes look at President Bill Clinton and Hilary Rodham Clinton. When the Clintons went to the White House, Hubbell, previously Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas and Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, partner in Hilary Clinton's law firm, followed as Associate Attorney General, the third ranking member of the Justice Department. His political career ended as he was sentenced for his involvement in the Whitewater scandal and he openly admits his crimes and why he committed them. 12. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 002997

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: 0688157491

TRUMP, DONALD J. WITH MCIVER, MEREDITH

How to Get Rich - the Secrets of Business Success from the Star of the Apprentice

London, BBC Books. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0563522143). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The property titan, bestselling author, and TV star, finally reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice. He tells about the lessons learned from the hit American reality television series The Apprentice, how he built up his massive property empire, about his position as head of the 20,000 member Trump organization and how he manages his most important role as a father. Now President of the United States of America. C3D. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 004202

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: President of the United States, American Multi-Millionaires, the Apprentice Tv Show, American Property Magnates, Trump Corporation 0563522143

JAMES, ROBERT RHODES

Henry Wellcome

London, John Curtis. 1994, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340606177). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. PRESENTATION COPY to David Somerset (Chief Cashier of the Bank of England 1980-1988) from Sir Roger Gibbs, Chairman of the Wellcome Trust, October 1994. A Fine unmarked copy, apart from the presentation inscription, in green cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket. First edition, first printing. xix + 422 pages. 109 illustrations. The Wellcome Trust is the largest and most significant benefactor ever to British medical research, yet few people, even those aware of the international pharmaceutical company that bears his name, know anything about its founder, Henry Solomon Wellcome. His life was an extraordinary story of achievement and disappointment, triumph and sadness, that began in deep poverty in northern Wisconsin in 1853 and ended in his death in London in 1936 as a celebrated and greatly honoured millionaire. His outstanding achievement, with his equally yound partner, the mercurial Silas Burroughs, was to finance and build research laboratories in Britain that made the fame and fortune of Burroughs Wellcome. This biography was commissioned at the request of the Wellcome Trust and is the first to tell the remarkable story of Wellcome's life. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.96 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4F. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 008607

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Burroughs Wellcome, Wellcome Foundation, Silas Burroughs, Henry Solomon Wellcome, Pharmaceutical History , Sir Roger Gibbs, David Somerset 0340606177

JAMES, STELLA FRANCES

In the Shadow of Jesse James

California, The Revolver Press. 1990, First Edition. (ISBN: 0946062293). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy with gold titles and gun motif on red boards. Dustjacket is near Fine and is not price clipped. Photographic illustrations and an appendix. Edited by Milton F. Perry. An account of the famous Civil War Guerrilla, bank robber and outlaw by his daughter in law (1882-1971) who wrote the book to set the record straight. NOT EX LIB A1E. Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 001312

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: American CIVIL War, Outlaw, Bank Robber 0946062293

KAPLAN, FRED

Gore Vidal - a Biography

New York, Doubleday. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780385477031). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING November 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a gift inscription written on a sticker to front endpaper else Fine with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. xi + 850 pages. 68 illustrations. The distinguished Professor of English literature's acclaimed and definitive biography of the novelist, cultural critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, provocateur, actor, and brilliant American icon that is Gore Vidal. Kaplan had complete access to Vidal's papers, letters, and private photographs, as well as television and newsreel footage and was guaranteed a free hand by Vidal to write as he saw fit. The result is a lively, witty, and textured life of a literary colossus. PLEASE NOTE - A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.29 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 4. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 010258

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: American Writers Biography, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, William Buckley, Anais Nin 9780385477031

KAPLAN, JUSTIN

Lincoln Steffens

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0671215922). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Silver title and decoration on black cloth boards with complete pictorial dustjacket. A near Fine copy with near Fine dustjacket. A fascinating detailed biography of the American investigative journalist who was the scourge of Theodore Roosevelt and politicians. The work by the Pulitzer Prize winning author was praised by John Kenneth Galbraith and is a masterly biography and an insight into America of the time and also Europe where Steffens travelled. 30 photographic illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.83 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 2. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 001858

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: 0671215922

KENIN, RICHARD

Return to Albion - Americans in England 1760-1940

New York, National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution/Holt Rhinehart and Winston. 1979. (ISBN: 0030428564). Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a neat name and date to half title page and light foxint to fore edge and which has a light crease to front cover. xv + 288 pages. Illustrated throughout. Introduction by Alistair Cooke. The book offers a richly illustrated and highly entertaining account of American expatriates who, over a span of almost two centuries, lived in and left an indelible mark on England. Although such personalities as James McNeill Whistler, Henry James, John James Audubon, T.S. Eliot and Robert Fulton were born on this side of the Atlantic, most of their creative energies were expended on foreign soil. The ten chapters each deal with a group of individuals - for example, Benjamin West and his followers, Ezra pound and his literary circle, some colourful American heiresses who married into the Briish peerage. 15. Very Good/No Jacket.

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N° du livre: 008720

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Benjamin West, Court of King George, John James Audubon, Washington Irving, George Peabody, Henry James, James Mcneill Whistler, Emerald Cunard, Chips Channon, Ezra Pouns, T.S. Eliot, Count Rumford, 0030428564

KISSINGER, HENRY

Years of Renewal

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1999, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297818945). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine unmarked copy apart from some light marks to fore and lower edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 1151 pages. 98 illustrations. 13 maps. First UK edition. The most celebrated American diplomat of his period, Kissinger was a major figure in world history and a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This third and concluding volume of his memoirs completes an outstanding work of contemporary history, full of startling insights and unsparing candour. It begins with President Richard Nixon's resignation, a man whom Kissinger knew perhaps more closely than anyone, and includes his final assessment of Nixon's tortured personality. Kisssinger continued to play a decisive role throughout President Ford's administration, and there are many intimate and sharply intelligent depictions of world leaders, including Mao Zedong and Leonid Brezhnev. This is a book abounding in crisis, as he details the agony of US extrication from Vietnam, the fall of Cambodia, the Greece-Turkey conflict over Cyprus, the origins of the war in Lebanon and the continuation of the Cold War at its perilous height. NOT EX LIB PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.8 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 13. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 008180

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Henry Kissinger's Memoirs, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Mao Zedong, Leonid Brezhnev, Vietnam War, Fall of Cambodia, Cold War, Cuba, Chile 0297818945

LASKY, VICTOR

Jimmy Carter - the Man and the Myth

New York, Richard Marek. 1979, First Edition. (ISBN: 039990042X). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on black cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a little creasing and is not price clipped. A definitive and critical analysis of the extraordinary rise of James Earl Carter, Jr. - better known as 'Jimmy', to the Presidency of the United States. A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.82 KILO WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 21. Very Good/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 007224

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: American Presidents, James Earl Carter Jr. , Richard Nixon, Robert Vesco, Watergate 039990042x

LEAMING, BARBARA

Mrs Kennedy - the Missing History of the Kennedy Years

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2001, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297643339). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The book is the first close-up account of Jacqueline Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of John F. Kennedy's presidency. This is the story of those years from the perspective of a woman who entered the White House at the age of 31, seven years into a deeply troubled marriage, and left at 34 after her husband's assassination. 31 illustrations. NOT EX LIB A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.85 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE EXTRA SHIPPING COSTS D4F. Fine/Fine.

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N° du livre: 006107

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy 0297643339

LINDBERGH, REEVE

Under a Wing - a Memoir

New York, Simon and Schuster. 1998. (ISBN: 068480770x). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine dustjacket SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page with the dedication 'For M. Theo Faberge who knows all about wings- with admiration and appreciation. December 7, 2002'. The author is the youngest daughter of Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator and Pulitzer Prize winning author, and Anne Morrow Lindbergh. She is an author of many children's books. She writes of her life growing up in a celebrity household overshadowed by the death of the Lindbergh's first child, her frank views of her father, her more accessible mother, the death of her own first child, the effects of several strokes which eroded her mother's mind and the death of her sister to cancer. A candid account of her parents life as writers and as parents. A1E. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Author.

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N° du livre: 001179

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Charles Lindbergh 068480770x

LOIS, GEORGE

Sellebrity - My Angling and Tangling with Famous People

New York, Phaidon Press. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0714842842). Hard Cover, 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with Very Good+ dustjacket. George Lois was born in New York City in 1931. He studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn before setting off for Madison Avenue in the early 1950's, eventually joining Doyle Dane Bernbach in 1958. Lois went on to found four seminal New York advertsing agencies over the next four decades. He has written five books and won a plethora of awards. New York magazine called him 'Pioneer..Innovator. Advertising genius..Superman of Madison Avenue..America's Master communicator'. Adman and image maker Lois was a leader of the Creative Revolution of the 1960's and is the mind behind an astonishing array of famous branding campaigns and unforgettable magazine covers during his 50 year career. This book is at once a poignant culmination of Lois' ideas and memoirs, and a showcase of 139 of his most influential celebrity campaigns for culture-bending products. Illustrated with the original ads and images, designed by Lois himself, the book presents the stories behind the ads. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.47 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST B2F. Fine/Very Good.

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N° du livre: 009291

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Advertising with Celebritys, Madison Avenue 0714842842

LOVELL, MARY S.

The Sound of Wings - the Biography of Amelia Earhart

London, Hutchinson. 1989, First Edition. (ISBN: 0091735963). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine uninscribed copy whose only fault is just light bumping to lower corner tips with complete near Fine dustjacket. 64 illustrations and 5 maps. A marvellous biography of the American female aviator who disappeared in 1937 whilst attempting to fly round the world. Based on original documents, letters and logbooks along with press reports, interviews with Earhart's family and recently declassified US Navy records. Also included is an interesting newspaper article from the Daily Telegraph of August 24 2002. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.96 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST NOT EX LIB D4B. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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N° du livre: 003201

Catalogue: Biography - American - General

Mots-clés: Biography, American Female Aviator Disappearance, Round the World Flight 0091735963