Brereton, Charles,

New Hampshire Notables presenting biographical sketches of men & women who have helped shape the character of the granite state.

Portsmouth, NH Historical Soc./Randall, (1955). VG. Green binding, gilt lettering. Few scratches back cover.

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Book number: BOOKS042926I

Catalogue: Biography

Breslin, Jimmy,

The Good Rat: a true story.

NY, Perennial, (2009). 1st ptg PB. VG PB. Breslin was born in Jamaica, Queens, Oct 17, 1930, and began his newspaper career as a copy boy at the Long Island Press in. 1948. He became a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune in 1963, moving on to the New York Post in 1968. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in 1986. IN 1988 he joined Newsday where he is still a frequent contributor despite having officially retired in 2004. IN 1969 he ran for New York City councilman on the same ticket that featured Norman Mailer as the city's mayoral candidate, and in 1977 when serial killer David Berkowitz, Son of Sam, began corresponding with him. Breslin's books include a biography of Damon Runyon, The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?, The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez, several anthologies, and the memoir I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me. He lives in NYC.

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Book number: BOOKS053686I

Catalogue: Biography

Bretholz, Leo with Michael Olesker,

Leap into Darkness: 7 years on the run in wartime Europe.

NY, Anchor/Random, (1999). 1st PB ed. VG PB.

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Book number: BOOKS038039I

Catalogue: Biography

Brian, Denis,

Tallulah, Darling: a biography of Tallulah Bankhead.

NY, Macmillan, (1980). 1st ptg ss. VG in VG DJ. DJ browned at edges.

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Book number: BOOKS011929I

Catalogue: Biography

Editors of Bride's Magazine,

Wedding Nightmares.

NY, Plume, (1993). 1st ptg. VG PB. True tales of floral fiascos, ruinous receptions, honeymoon horrors & other bridal calamities, from collapsing wedding cakes. to wedding-day hurricanes. Edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS033815I

Catalogue: Biography

Bridge, Ann,

Facts and Fictions: some literary recollections.

NY, McGraw Hill, (1968). G in G DJ ex-library. Highlights of a full life as wife of a British diplomat over two continents. Library markings.

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Book number: BOOKS042417I

Catalogue: Biography

Bridges, Styles,

Card acknowledging sympathy edges in black dated 1938.

np, np, (1938 postmark). VG. Card printing reads "Styles Bridges and family gratefully acknowledge with deepest appreciation your kind remembrance and. sympathy", postmarked June 9 1938, 2:30 p.m., Concord, N.H., with 3 cent stamp attached, in black edged envelope torn at top. Styles Bridges was a former N.H. governor, born 9/9/1898 in W. Pembroke, Maine, and died 11/26/1961, American teacher, editor, and Republican Party politician from Concord, staunch supporter of Joseph McCarthy, friend of J. Edgar Hoover whom he allegedly used to spy on political enemies, anti-New Deal and FDR, and called FDR's 1932 election a "ghastly mistake". Stridently conservative, nonetheless one of the strongest supporters of unemployment relief, and in 1935 asked FDR's administration for an additional $20 million for "direct relief" from the Emergency Relief Administration, driven in part by the collapse of the textile industry in New England.

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Book number: BOOKS047837I

Catalogue: Biography

Bridgman, Richard,

Gertrude Stein in Pieces.

NY, Ocford University Press, 1970. VG. Sp sl worn, crnr bmpd.

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Book number: BOOKS000509I

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Bridgman, Helen Bartlett,

Within My Horizon.

Boston, Small Maynard, (1920). G. Bridgman writes about her old-fashioned chldhood where she began life as a boy since she cared nothing for dolls or clothes. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering, edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS053060I

Catalogue: Biography

O'Brien, P. J.,

Forward with Roosevelt: authentic narrative of his life, aims & ambitions, & story of his endeavors for Social Security.

Philadelphia, Winston, (1936). G. Blue binding, black lettering. Edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS033090I

Catalogue: Biography

Briggs, John,

Leonard Bernstein: the man, his work, and his world.

NY, World, (1961). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Bernstein's meteoric rise at the age of 25 to the conductorship of the NY Philarmonic is a musical Horatio Alger story. He made musical history in almost every phase of serious and popular music, including as a pianist and composer. He wrote symphonies, ballets, an opera and scores for Broadway musicals West Side Story, On the Town and Wonderful Town. DJ edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS045516I

Catalogue: Biography

Bright, Johnnie Gibson,

"Clean Dirt": a memoir of Johnnie Mae Gibson, FBI Special Agent.

np, Privately printed, (2003). VG in VG DJ. Signed by author. In 1990, Gibson was tasked with monitoring all civil rights violations in Michigan. She created the first. FBI ethnic community semi-annual open house for sharing crime related information during the Persian Gulf War. She was an agent for 23 years. DJ edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS040223I

Catalogue: Biography

Brightman, Carol,

Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and her world.

NY, Clarkson Potter, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS019061I

Catalogue: Biography

Brindley, Louise,

They Must Have Seen Me Coming.

NY, St. Martins, (1979). BCE. VG in G DJ. ".a warm and exciting book about ordinary people - te kind who exist in every town - old folk who are so easily ignored. and whose problems are submerged in the rush of life.touching and vastly entertaining." James Herriot Brindley always had an ambition to live by writing so she left her job in editorial dept. of a paper to be a full time author on a variety of subjects including history, humor, and horror stories. In her spare time she writes poetry. Owner name front endpaper, DJ slight edge wear.

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Book number: BOOKS055391I

Catalogue: Biography

Brinnin, John Malcolm,

Dylan Thomas in America: an intimate journal.

NY, Viking, (1964). 5th ptg. G PB. The most flamboyant fulfillment since Byron of the public's conception of the wild, amoral, romantic poet. Edge wear,. fading toward spine. Thomas made 4 trips to America where he was lionized and sought after coast to coast but also saw him caught in a mounting frenzy of driking, party going, and emotionally charged relationships. He first came to NYC at the invitation of Brinnin, director of the YM-YWHA Poetry Center and was closest to him during those years.

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Book number: BOOKS041517I

Catalogue: Biography