ABRAMSON, LORRAINE LOTZOF

My Race: A Jewish Girl Growing Up Under Apartheid in South Africa

DBM Press, LLC, 2010. Hardcover. ISBN: 0981610234. SIGNED, Inscribed by the author 5/15/2012: to xxx, With Best Wishes! Love, Lorraine. Very good binding, very clean. Memoir of a gifted Jewish athlete, the social inequities she grew up with, and her family roots in a Latvian village; ; Signed by Author. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 21790

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0981610234 Biography Jewish Sports Runners South Africa Apartheid Latvia Table Mountain Cape Town Maccabi Games Lorraine Lotzof Abramson Signed Book a Jewish Girl Growing Up Under Apartheid in South Africa Black South Africans Signed By Author Jewish Hist

ADLER, LESLIE LEVINE; MERYLL LEVINE PAGE

Jewish Luck: A True Story of Friendship, Deception, and Risky Business

Salt Mine Press, 2013. Softcover. ISBN: 0989735656. Very good spine, clean, light crease on the back cover. 369 pages. 47 chapters ;. VG .

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Book number: 23673

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0989735656 Jewish Women -- Soviet Union -- Biography Jews -- Soviet Union Anti-Semitism Judaism Jewish Luck Judaism

ALBOM, MITCH

Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family

Harper Paperbacks, 2021. Paperback. ISBN: 0062952404. 235 pages. Clean, very good binding. Illustrated. An orphan in Haiti faced with a life-threatening illness, and her relationships formed with a loving family;. Near Fine .

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Book number: 26815

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0062952404 Orphans Haiti Earthquakes Memoirs Adopted Children

ALMAN, DAVID

Conquest: A Book About Scientists, Their Inquiries and Achievements

Doubleday, 1963. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Anne Wrotzlau, Designer. Clean text, boards scuffed at the spine. DJ has major tears, tape, and chipping. Book is based on the CBS News TV broadcasts of the same name. Discusses the Universe, Problems of Space, The Oceans, Evolution and the Origin of Life, Porpoises, Blue Babies, Communication with Insects, Religion and Ethics, etc ; Illustrated with photos. Scientists and their explorations, including: The Riddle of the Porpoise, Love and Monkeys, Tuberculosis, Atoms and Waves, Invisible Waves, Volcanoes, the Oceans, and many other science fields. Includes many science experiments that can be done at home.. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 6350

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Science Volcanoes Evolution Porpoises Human Centrifuge Bathyscaphes Dr. Wendell Stanley Underwater Acoustics Science Sound Animal and Human Behavior Science

ANDERSON, MARGARET C.

The Strange Necessity: The Autobiography - Resolutions and Reminiscence to 1969

Horizon Press, 1969. Softcover. ISBN: 0818002123. 223 pages. Clean inside, cover creased at the right edge. Illustrated with photos. Ms. Anderson was the editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, publisher of a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers ;. Good .

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Book number: 21398

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0818002123 Anderson, Margaret C Editors -- Biography the Little Review Magazine George Gurdjuieff Periodical Editors -- Unitied States -- Biography Solita Solano Dorothy Caruso Photographs By Man Ray Literature

ANGLE, PAUL M (EDITED BY)

The Lincoln Reader

Rutgers University Press, 1947. Hardcover. 564 pages. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. 65 authors' writings on Abraham Lincoln. 24 chapters, Epilogue, References, Bibliography, Index. Cloth boards have DJ residue stains on the back boards. DJ has chipping, tears, creases. Text is clean, back pages have light edge stains. Some of the writers are: Carl Sandburg, Albert Woldman, Ward Hill Lamon, Elizabeth Todd Grimsley, Noah Brooks, Lord Charwood, Philip Van Doren Stern, Charles Carleton Coffin, William Tecumseh Sherman, et al. Fair .

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Book number: 19231

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biography Presidents United States Abraham Lincoln Gettysburg Address Civil War (War between the States) Black History Slavery Ward Hill Lamon Charleston Sc History Mary Todd Lincoln Hunley Submarine Politics and Government History

ARCE, HECTOR

Gary Cooper: An Intimate Biography

William Morrow, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780688036041. 288 pages. Clean, very good binding. Illustrated with 38 photographs. Book mainly deals with Gary Cooper's many romances ;. Good in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 28493

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 9780688036041 Movie Tie-in

ASANTE, MK

Buck: A Memoir

Spiegel & Grau, 2013. Hardcover. ISBN: 0812993411. Clean text, very good binding, red mark on the bottom. 252 pages. This book was banned by a Baltimore City Public School in 2017. Born and raised until age 10 in Zimbabwe to American parts, living on the streets of North Philadelphia, powerful memoir of how a rebellious, precocious kid educated himself through the most unconventional teachers—outlaws and eccentrics, rappers and mystic strangers, ghetto philosophers and strippers, and, eventually, an alternative school that transformed his life ;. VG/VG .

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Book number: 24000

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0812993411 Molefi Asante -- 1981- African-American Authors Autobiography Philadelphia, Pa -- Biography Ghettos Rappers Banned Book Judaism

BARNAI, JACOB

Shmuel Ettinger: Historian, Teacher, and Public Figure (Signed)

Jerusalem: The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History, 2011. Hardcover. Hebrew only in the text. Bibliography is in English and Hebrew. 487 pages. SIGNED, inscribed by the author. Shmuel Ettinger: 1919–1988, was one of Israel's foremost historians. Includes: Kiev-Leningrad-Palestine; The Hebrew University; Communism and Nationalism; Historical Research: East European Jewry and Antisemitism; Historiography, etc. Index. Clean, very good binding, Hebrew inscription on endpaper; Signed by Author. Very Good .

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Book number: 28224

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Shmuel Ettinger (1919–1988) Kiev (Ukraine) Historiography East European Jewry Hebrew University History Communism and Nationalism Signed By Author Jewish History

BEHRMAN, S. N.

Portrait of Max, an Intimate Memoir of Sir Max Beerbohm

Random House, 1960. First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1121400264. Illustrated by Janet Halverson, Jacket Design. Clean book, good binding. 317 pages. Over 20 illustrations. A novel of a Max Beerbohm, who was a novelist, essayist, critic and supreme caricaturist. DJ has large edge tears, discoloration. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 4858

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 1121400264 Beerbohm, Max -- Sir -- 1872-1956 Behrman, S.N. (Samuel Nathaniel) -- 1893-1973 Authors, English -- 20th Century -- Biography Caricaturist Rapallo, Italy Art Theatre

BELL, QUENTIN

Virginia Woolf: A Biography

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Hardcover. ISBN: 0151937656. 314 pages. Family tree in the front, book is divided into two section, Volume I and Volume II, each with appendices. Cloth has tear on spine, book intact. Brown cloth boards. NOT an ex-library book. Illustrated with photos. Fair .

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Book number: 10301

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0151937656 Woolf, Virginia -- 1882-1941 Novelists, English -- 20th Century -- Biography Edward Albee the Voyage out the Dradnought Hoax Haskell Wexler Hugh Walpole Lytton Strachey Desmond Maccarthy Literature

BEN HALPERN, SHALOM WURM (EDITORS)

The Responsible Attitude: The Life and Opinions of Giora Josephthal

Schocken Books, 1966. Hardcover. 269 pages, clean text, good binding, endpapers browned, one edge browned, DJ has creases, chipping - piece missing at the upper edge, edge tears. Josephthal was director of the Absorption Dept of the Jewish Agency to receive, shelter and orient immigrants from post-Hitler Germany into Israel. The essays, reports, letters and speeches collected in this volume are divided into three main section: the German Period, 1932-38; the Jewish Agency Period 1951-56; and the time of party and government service 1956-62. Illustrated with 8 pages of photos, including photos of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Levi Eshkol, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mayor David Lawrence of Philadelphia; David Ben Gurion and Golda Meir; Tom Mboya and Ogden Reid. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 3649

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Biographical Sketch Josephthal, Gloria, -- 1912-1962 Miriam Eshkol Israel Palestine Levi Eshkol Eleanor Roosevelt Chaim Weizmann Chaim Weizmann Judaism Jewish History

BERRIGAN, PHILIP (INTRODUCTION) ; VINCENT MCGEE (COMPILED AND EDITED BY)

Prison Journals of a Priest Revolutionary

Ballantine, 1971. Paperback. 225 pages. Clean text, cover has scuffing, discoloration. An account of Philip Berrigan's seven months in prison and other articles during, mostly from Baltimore City jail. Berrigan was one of the "Baltimore Four" and one of the "Catonsville Nine anti-military peace activist. Good .

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Book number: 26314

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Philip Berrigan (1923-2002) Baltimore, Md Baltimore Four Draft Dodgers Catonsville 9 Catholic Left Vietnam War Protests History Military Baltimore

BOYER, BRIAN D

Prince of Thieves: The Memoirs of the World's Greatest Forger

Dial Press, 1975. First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 080375387X. Illustrated by George Janoff, Photo. No library cards, however, one page is stamped "Sunpapers Library". 239 pages, clean text. Back of DJ has edge tears. The true story of "Peter Milan", whom the FBI at the time thought was the greatest freehand forger of all time ; Ex-Library. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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Book number: 16771

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 080375387x Forgery -- United States -- Biography Peter Milano Criminals -- United States -- Biography Prince of Thieves George Janoff Photographer History

BRADLEE, BEN

A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures

Simon & Schuster, 1995. Hardcover. ISBN: 0684808943. 514 pages, clean, very good binding. Illustrated with photos. 19 chapters. Index. Harvard, Navy, New Hampshire, Washington Post, Newsweek, JFK, Pentagon Papers, Watergate and much more ;. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 24848

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: 0684808943 Bradlee, Benjamin Journalists -- Biography Newsweek Magazine Washington Post -- Watergate Pentagon Papers Janet Cooke National Security Kennedy, John F -- (John Fitzgerald) -- 1917-1963 -- Assassination Art Buchwald History