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0451126823 DAVIS, JUDITH, Richard Gere an Unauthorized Biography
DAVIS, JUDITH
Richard Gere an Unauthorized Biography
New York, NY: Signet, 1983. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0451126823. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. "August 31, 1949) is an American actor. He began in films in the 1970s, playing a supporting role in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) and a starring role in Days of Heaven (1978). He came to prominence with his role in the film American Gigolo (1980) , which established him as a leading man and a sex symbol. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
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Book number: 43993
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: 0451126823 Biography Judith Davis Richard Gere Actors Actor Biographies

0670867187 DECARO, FRANK, A Boy Named Phyllis a Suburban Memoir
DECARO, FRANK
A Boy Named Phyllis a Suburban Memoir
New York: Viking, 1996. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0670867187. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author on the half-title page. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Frank DeCaro (born November 6, 1962) is an American writer, performer and talk radio host. He is best known for his work on The Daily Show, where he appeared as a contributor from 1996 to 2003. Starting in 2004 until 2016 he was the host of The Frank DeCaro Show, a live daily radio show with producer/co-host Doria Biddle, for SIRIUS XM OutQ 106. In April 2019 his book, Drag: Combing Through the Big Wigs of Show Business, about the history of drag queens was released by Rizzoli Libri. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
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Book number: 41210
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: 0670867187 Biography Frank Decaro Memoirs New Jersey

 DEVAMATA, SISTER, Swami Paramananda and His Work
DEVAMATA, SISTER
Swami Paramananda and His Work
La Crescenta, CA: Ananda Ashrama / Superior Press, 1926. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; The book is in Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and loss of paper. The there are spots of generalized rubbing to the covers as well. The text pages are clean and bright with the exception of a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper and a cracked rear inner hinge. "Like his teacher Vivekananda, Paramananda believed in equality between men and women. He established disciplined communities of nuns under the supervision of Sister Devamata (1867–1942) , his American first disciple, whom he ordained to teach Vedanta from the platform in 1910. She was the first American woman teach Vedanta . Throughout the entire history of the community, women were accorded positions of leadership in all areas of the work. The first Indian woman to join the community was Gayatri Devi (1906–1995) , who was brought by Paramananda in 1926 to be trained as one of his assistants. She became the spiritual leader of the ashramas upon Paramananda's death in 1940 and was the first Indian woman to be ordained a teacher in America. At a result of ordaining women to teach, the Ramakrishna Mission excommunicated Ananda Ashrama. In 1995 Dr. Susan Schrager (a. K. A. Mother Sudha Puri) accepted the spiritual leadership. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
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Book number: 44491
USD 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 41.75 | £UK 35.75 | JP¥ 6811]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography Sister Devamata Swami Paramananda Eastern Religions Indian Religion

 DUGGAN, ALFRED, Julius Caesar a Great Life in Brief
DUGGAN, ALFRED
Julius Caesar a Great Life in Brief
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book cover have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, some rubbing, and a large chip from the top spine end. "Duggan's novels are known for their basis of meticulous historical research. He also wrote popular histories of Ancient Rome and the Middle Ages. Knight with Armour, his first novel, appeared in 1946. He visited practically every place and battlefield described, since he was also an archaeologist, having worked on excavations in Istanbul during the 1930s. Unlike many historical novelists, he does not idealise his subjects. A few characters are noble, some rather nasty, many mixed in their motives. Some of the novels can be seen as funny, in a dry noir style. A recurring theme is the slow moral corruption of a character who begins with an exalted opinion of himself as noble, wise and brave, but gradually compromises himself morally. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
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Book number: 45325
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography Alfred Duggan Roman Emperors Roman History Middle East Italy Biography Political Biography

 L'ENGLE, MADELEINE, The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
L'ENGLE, MADELEINE
The Summer of the Great-Grandmother
New York: Harper & Row, 1974. Reprint; 4th Printing. Paperback. This is a trade paperback book with illustrated cardstock covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good + condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages and inside covers have some generalized toning. "L'Engle determined to give up writing on her 40th birthday (November 1958) when she received yet another rejection notice. "With all the hours I spent writing, I was still not pulling my own weight financially." Soon she discovered both that she could not give it up and that she had continued to work on fiction subconsciously. The family returned to New York City in 1959 so that Hugh could resume his acting career. The move was immediately preceded by a ten-week cross-country camping trip, during which L'Engle first had the idea for her most famous novel, A Wrinkle in Time, which she completed by 1960. It was rejected more than thirty times before she handed it to John C. Farrar; it was finally published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 1962. " (from Wikipedia); Vol. 2. Very Good+ .
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Book number: 37600
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography Memoirs Madeleine L'Engle Personal Recollections Personal Reminiscences Familes Relationships Mother and child Biography

0871314800 FERRELL, KEITH, John Steinbeck: The Voice of the Land
FERRELL, KEITH
John Steinbeck: The Voice of the Land
New York: M. Evans & Company, 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0871314800. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean, but has some toning to the dust jacket flaps." Now a family man, Keith set out on his career in publishing, first at Walnut Circle Press as a print salesman, then as editor of trade magazine The Professional Upholsterer, onward to feature writer of COMPUTE! Magazine, where he was at the forefront of reporting on the burgeoning home computing industry throughout its emergence as a household staple. All the while, he raised his son and loved his wife, planted many gardens, and wrote and wrote and wrote. From 1983 through 1987, Keith published four critically-acclaimed biographies of legendary writers for young adults through M. Evans and Company: H. G. Wells: First Citizen of the Future; Ernest Hemingway: The Search for Courage; George Orwell: The Political Pen; and John Steinbeck: The Voice of the Land. These were the first of many printed works to bear his name in the byline." (from Keithtalk). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
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Book number: 43948
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Catalogue: Author Biography
Keywords: 0871314800 Author Biography John Steinbeck Authors Nature Naturalists Salinas River Valley California California writers Author Biography

 FIELDS, ANNIE (EDITOR), Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe
FIELDS, ANNIE (EDITOR)
Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe
Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Company / the Riverside Press, 1897. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is a large patch of foxing to the rear endpaper / rear pastedown page. "In 1832, at the age of 21, Harriet Beecher moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary. There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, Caroline Lee Hentz, Salmon P. Chase (future governor of the state and Secretary of Treasury under President Lincoln) , Emily Blackwell and others. Cincinnati's trade and shipping business on the Ohio River was booming, drawing numerous migrants from different parts of the country, including many free blacks, as well as Irish immigrants who worked on the state's canals and railroads. Areas of the city had been wrecked in the Cincinnati riots of 1829, when ethnic Irish attacked blacks, trying to push competitors out of the city. Beecher met a number of African Americans who had suffered in those attacks, and their experience contributed to her later writing about slavery. Riots took place again in 1836 and 1841, driven also by native-born anti-abolitionists." (from Wikipedia). Very Good .
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Book number: 43966
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Catalogue: Author Biography
Keywords: Author Biography Annie Fields Harriet Beecher Stowe Abolitionists Anti-slavery Movement

0679427252 FISHER, M. F. K., Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me Journals and Stories, 1933-1941
FISHER, M. F. K.
Stay Me, Oh Comfort Me Journals and Stories, 1933-1941
New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679427252. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name and address on the front endpaper. The dust jacket is clean and bright. "Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose." " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .
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Book number: 39971
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Catalogue: Author Biography
Keywords: 0679427252 Author Biography M. F. K. Fisher Cooking Cook Books Author Biography

 FLEMING, PEGGY (WITH PETER KAMINSKY), The Long Program Skating Towards Life's Victories
FLEMING, PEGGY (WITH PETER KAMINSKY)
The Long Program Skating Towards Life's Victories
New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1999. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with an inscription, on the title page. The book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is a small bump to the bottom spine end of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is in mostly clean condition, but has a small semi-closed tear to the top front panel, along with some light rubbing and wear to the top front flap joint. "Fleming's mother selected a color for her Grenoble skating costume, chartreuse, named after the liqueur of that color produced by neighboring Carthusians in their founding monastery, which also gives the name "chartreuse" to the region, thereby perhaps inspiring local French audience support for Peggy's virtually flawless performance. Her award in Grenoble was singularly important for the American athletes and the nation as a whole, for this was the only gold medal that the U. S. Olympic team won in the 1968 Winter Olympics. It signaled a return to American dominance in the sport of women's figure skating following the unprecedented tragedy of the 1961 Sabena plane crash. " (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
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Book number: 45518
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Catalogue: Sports Biography
Keywords: Sports Biographies Peggy Fleming Peter Kaminsky Skating Figure Skating Olympic Champions Grenoble, France Signed Edition

 FLYNT, JOSIAH (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONDS), My Life
FLYNT, JOSIAH (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ARTHUR SYMONDS)
My Life
New York, NY: Outing Publishing Company, 1908. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and beginning fraying. The spine of the book has some generalized sunning / fading. The text pages are clean and bright. "It was while in St. Petersburg that he first took place in a police raid. [2] Shortly after returning to the United States in 1898, he received an invitation from railroad executive L. F. Loree to return to tramping and spy on the tramps using the railroad, as well as the private policemen who were supposed to be enforcing the anti-tramp rules. After a month of this, he decided he could do the job while riding in comfort as a passenger. After several years of experience as a vagrant, he had published Tramping with Tramps in 1899, a picaresque study. His further works dealing with the lower and criminal classes include The Powers that Prey (1900) , a collection of short stories written in collaboration with Alfred Hodder (writing pseudonymously as Francis Walton) , Notes of an Itinerant Policeman (1900) , The World of Graft (1901) , a volume of short stories, and The Little Brother (1902) , his only sustained attempt in fiction. His name is perpetuated in the annals of fiction as the dedicatee of Jack London's The Road. He died in Chicago. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .
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Book number: 45489
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 115.75 | £UK 99.25 | JP¥ 18919]
Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography Josiah Flynt Tramp Life Travel & Exploration Outdoor Life Travel & Exploration

 GADD, DAVID, The Loving Friends a Portrait of Bloomsbury
GADD, DAVID
The Loving Friends a Portrait of Bloomsbury
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front endpaper. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century, including Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. This loose collective of friends and relatives was closely associated with Cambridge University for the men and King's College London for the women, and they lived, worked or studied together near Bloomsbury, London. According to Ian Ousby, "although its members denied being a group in any formal sense, they were united by an abiding belief in the importance of the arts." Their works and outlook deeply influenced literature, aesthetics, criticism, and economics as well as modern attitudes towards feminism, pacifism, and sexuality.". Very Good+ in Fine dust jacket .
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Book number: 36909
USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 14 | £UK 12 | JP¥ 2270]
Catalogue: Author Biography

0312439423 GIFFORD, BARRY AND LAWRENCE LEE, Jack's Book an Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
GIFFORD, BARRY AND LAWRENCE LEE
Jack's Book an Oral Biography of Jack Kerouac
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978. Trade Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0312439423. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has some noticeable fading to the spine, spine joints and front top edge. "Kerouac is recognized for his style of spontaneous prose. Thematically, his work covers topics such as his Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, life in New York, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. He became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. He has a lasting legacy, greatly influencing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s, including Bob Dylan, the Beatles, and the Doors. In 1969, at age 47, Kerouac died from an abdominal hemorrhage caused by a lifetime of heavy drinking. Since then, his literary prestige has grown, and several previously unseen works have been published. All of his books are in print today. " (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
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Book number: 42080
USD 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.5 | £UK 16 | JP¥ 3027]
Catalogue: Author Biography
Keywords: 0312439423 Biography Barry Gifford Lawrence Lee Jack Kerouac Author Biography The Beat Generation 1960's Authors

 GILDER, ROSAMOND, Letters of Richard Watson Gilder
GILDER, ROSAMOND
Letters of Richard Watson Gilder
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. Several of the text pages (including the last two pages) are unopened. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some beginning bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy includes a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page (Elena R. Goodwin). "Richard Watson Gilder (February 8, 1844 – November 19, 1909) was an American poet and editor. "The death of his father, while serving as chaplain of the Fortieth New York Volunteers, obliged him to give up the study of the law. A little later, he became a reporter on the Newark (New Jersey) Advertiser, of which he was later editor. With Newton Crane, he founded the Newark Register. In 1870, he became editor of Hours at Home, a monthly magazine published by Scribner's. It merged with Scribner's Monthly, which was edited by J. G. Holland. Gilder became managing editor. When Holland died in 1881, Gilder became editor. In November 1881, the monthly was renamed as The Century Magazine, and Gilder remained its editor until his death. Gilder's assistant editor at Century was Sophia Bledsoe Herrick.". Very Good+ .
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Book number: 33114
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography Rosamond Gilder Richard Watson Gilder Editor Century Magazine Politics Spelling Reporters Biography

0913568007 GINZBURG, RALPH  (ET AL), Castrated: My Eight Months in Prison
GINZBURG, RALPH (ET AL)
Castrated: My Eight Months in Prison
New York: Avant-Garde Books, 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0913568007. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The endpapers are illustrated with black and white photographs of the author (his prison booking photos). The black dust jacket has some light, but noticeable rubbed spots and both top and bottom spine ends of the dust jacket have small chips missing. There is one very small nick to the front dust jacket flap edge. From Wikipedia: "Ginzburg studied journalism at the City College of New York, was editor-in-chief of its downtown campus newspaper, and on graduation in 1949 became a copyboy and cub reporter at the New York Daily Compass. Two years later he was drafted into the Army during the Korean War and assigned to Fort Myer, where he edited the post newspaper. While still in the Army, he worked at night as a copy editor for the Washington D. C. Times-Herald. Upon discharge from the Army he shifted into broadcasting and magazines, working for Esquire magazine, NBC, Reader's Digest, Collier's, LOOK and, as he put it, "other pillars of communications industry respectability". He finally saved enough money to rent his own office — a fifth floor walkup in an old Manhattan office building. His first publication was An Unhurried View of Erotica (New York: Helmsman Press, 1958). This rather scholarly-seeming book explored an ostensible undercurrent of pornography that runs throughout English literature. Beginning with a manuscript given by Leofric, Bishop of Exeter, to his cathedral in 1070 through the outright pornographic work of the 1950s, An Unhurried View examines examples of English erotic literature in an interpretive and explanatory context. The end of the book includes a bibliography of 100 titles. He convinced the notable psychoanalyst Theodor Reik to write the introduction." Ginzburg was the editor and publisher of the short lived and suppressed quarterly Eros which led to his imprisonment and from that, this biographical piece. Later, he launched Avant-Garde, another quarterly for "People ahead of their time". (from Wikipedia). Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
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Book number: 41395
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: 0913568007 Biography Ralph Ginzburg Social Issues Prison Erotica Sexuality Supreme Court cases Biography

1887178325 GIOIA, DOMINIQUE (COMPILED AND ANNOTATED BY), A Welcoming Life the M.F. K. Fisher Scrapbook
GIOIA, DOMINIQUE (COMPILED AND ANNOTATED BY)
A Welcoming Life the M.F. K. Fisher Scrapbook
Washington D. C.: Counterpoint, 1997. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1887178325. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition and has a Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. "Mary Frances Kennedy Fisher (July 3, 1908 – June 22, 1992) was a preeminent American food writer. She was a founder of the Napa Valley Wine Library. Over her lifetime she wrote 27 books, including a translation of The Physiology of Taste by Brillat-Savarin. Fisher believed that eating well was just one of the "arts of life" and explored this in her writing. W. H. Auden once remarked, "I do not know of anyone in the United States who writes better prose." " (from Wikipedia). Fine in Fine dust jacket .
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Book number: 38314
USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 23.25 | £UK 20 | JP¥ 3784]
Catalogue: Author Biography
Keywords: 1887178325 Author Bibliography Dominique Gioia M.F.K. Fisher Cooking Cook Books Author Biography

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