Clarke, Gerald

Capote; a Biography

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1988. Hardcover. pp. 631. 8vo. Quarterbound in light teal cloth. Light shelfwear, smoky odour; very good in very good dustjacket. .

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Book number: 085303

Catalogue: Biography

Cleaver, Eldridge

Soul on Ice

New York, Delta Books, 1968. Paperback. 8vo. Edgeworn, scuffing to covers; good. Introduction by Maxwell Geismar. .

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Book number: 056435

Catalogue: Biography

Coddington, Grace

Grace: A Memoir

New York, Random House Publishing Group, 2012. Hardcover. 4to. Black and white and colour photographs and illustrations. Light shelfwear; very good+ in good+ dustjacket showing dampstain and rippling to front panel. .

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Book number: 062539

Catalogue: Biography

CODY, H. A.

An Apostle of the North Memoirs of the Right Reverend William Carpenter Bompas, D.D.

Toronto, Musson Book Company, 1908. Hardcover. pp. 386. Larger 8vo. Bound in wine-red cloth with dog sled vignette on front board. Nick and small split to front joint, boards bumped & scuffed. Front free endpaper removed; contents clean, overall good+. Ill.: black-and-white photographs.

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Book number: 9900030221

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Arctic;Religion;Fur trade;;;;;; black-and-white photographs

[COLDEN, Cadwallader]

A Steel Engraving of Cadwallader Colden of the Province of New York

1850.A trifle age-toned at the margins, one corner slightly wrinkled,Colden (1688-1776) was a physician, natural scientest and lieutenant-governor for the Province of New York (i.e. New York State). He served as the first Colonial representative to the Iroquois Confederacy, an experience that resulted in his writing 'The History of the Five Indian Nations' (published 1777), the first book on the subject. An armorial crest appears above the facsimile signature. The engraving is impressed on heavy unwatermarked paper (similar to arches paper), and the engraver is identified as V. Balch & Co. This engraving originally appeared in the book 'The Documentary History of the State of New York', published by Weed, Parsons & Co. The engraving measures 22 x 14 cms. The oval image measures 8 x 6 cms. Facsimile of Cadwallader's signature just below image. Ill.: steel engraving.

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Book number: 9900045139

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: New York;Iroquois;;;;;;; steel engraving

Cole, Lester

Hollywood Red; the Autobiography of Lester Cole

Palo Alto, Ramparts Press, 1981. Hardcover. pp. 448. 8vo. Bound in orange cloth. No discernible flaws. Dustjacket with some minor creasing and edgewear, protected with plastic brodart sleeve; near fine in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 090315

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Film; Red scare; oppression; free speech; First amendment; McCarthyism; hollywood

Coles, Robert

Anna Freud; the Dream of Psychoanalysis

Reading, Merloyd Lawrence, 1992. Hardcover. 8vo. Small owner's sticker to ffep; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 061058

Catalogue: Biography

Collinson, Patrick

Elizabeth I.

Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in near fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 047690

Catalogue: Biography

Colum, Padraic

My Irish Year

New York City, James Pott & Co, 1912. 1st edition. Hardcover. pp. xiii, 286. Thick 8vo. Bound in original decorated ribbed green cloth. 15 black & white plates & photos. Cloth wrinkled, edge-rubbed, lightly soiled & scuffed. Carries old donation bookplate. Binding shaken; else good condition. Colum (1881-1972) was an Irish-American author and poet. Born in Longford, Ireland, he was active in the Irish literary renaissance and helped found the famous Abbey Theatre. He married in 1912, and moved with his family to New York in 1914. They relocated to France in the 1930s, where Colum renewed his friendship with James Joyce, and for whom he typed parts of 'Finnegan's Wake'. On returning to America, he taught comparative literature at Columbia University, and became an American citizen in 1945. 'My Irish Year' is composed of studies made while the author was living among the people of the Midlands and the West [of Ireland]. 'It is not representative of the whole of Ireland: Catholic and Peasant Ireland only is shown, localized in a strip of country crossing the Midlands to the West.' 'The life described may stand for the life of the Catholic peasantry. And the Catholic peasantry are not merely the bulk of the Irish population; they are, roughly speaking, the historic Irish nation' (from the author's Introduction). The book is divided into four Parts, the final one of which deals with 'The Crisis in Ireland'. The author was clearly a republican, and eschews the control which England then exerted over Irish life and government. In this, and in the experssion of his sentiments, he clearly antecedes 'the Troubles' only a few years' hence. This is the first American edition, this title also having been published in Great Britain, by Mills and Boon, 1912. It is a very scarce title by an important Irish American author, playwright, and poet. .

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Book number: 9900034099

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Ireland; Erin; Northern Ireland; Dublin;

Connelly, Karen

Burmese Lessons

Toronto, Vintage Canada, 2009. Paperback. pp. 463. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good. .

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Book number: 074713

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Travel; Burma; Politics; History

Cosgrave, Bill

Love Her Madly; Jim Morrison, Mary, and Me

Toronto, Dundurn, 2020. Paperback. pp. 215. Lightest shelfwear; near fine. .

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Book number: 067438

Catalogue: Biography

Couture, Christa

How to Lose Everything

Madeira Park, Douglas & McIntyre, 2020. Hardcover. pp. 188. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine in near fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 086280

Catalogue: Biography

Crystal, Billy

700 Sundays

New York, Warner, 2005. Hardcover. pp. vi. 182. Black and white photographs. Light shelfwear; very good+ in very good+ dustjacket. .

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Book number: 088426

Catalogue: Biography

Curran, Andrew S.

Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

New York, Other Press, 2019. Paperback. pp. 520. 8vo. Light shelfwear; very good+. .

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Book number: 079438

Catalogue: Biography

Curtis, James

Spencer Tracy; a Biography

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. Hardcover. pp. 1001. 8vo. No discernible flaws. Dustjacket protected with plastic brodart sleeve; near fine in near fine dustjacket. .

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Book number: 090314

Catalogue: Biography

Keywords: Film; Hollywood