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Flora Whitney Miller: Her Life, Her World

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art. 1987. (ISBN: 0-87427-054-5). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 128 pages, profusely illustrated; an "Album of Reminiscences and Photographs". Essay contributions by dozens of notables such as, John Baur, Lloyd Goodrich, Michael Graves, Benno Schmidt, James Michener, and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Clean and tight; over wrapper worn along the top edge. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 000706

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Flora Whitney Museum American Art 0874270545

CARSWELL, JOHN

Lives and Letters: A.R. Orage, Beatrice Hastings, Katherine Mansfield, John Middleton Murry, S.S. Koteliansky - 1906-1957

New York, A New Directions Book. 1978, First Edition. (ISBN: 0811206815). Brown cloth, 8vo. 307 pages; b&w illustrations. Memoir of a literary freelancer and of freelancers with whom he kept company. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 005013

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Carswell Mansfield Hastings Murry Orage Koteliansky Lives Letters Freelancer Literature & Literary 0811206815

DA PONTE, LORENZO; ELISABETH ABBOTT (TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN); ARTHUR LIVINGSTON (EDITED AND ANNOTATED); THOMAS G. BERGIN (PREFACE)

Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte

New York, The Orion Press. 1959. Embossed Quarter Cloth, 10" x 7". 277 pages; 25 b&w illustrations. "Mozart's librettist (and friend), Casanova's friend, the first Professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University." Reads like a novel with a stream of characters and places that the author encounters. Clean throughout; binding tight; boards darkened on edges. Jacket chipped with some material loss at extremities. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 004938

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Lorenzo Da Ponte Mozart Librettist Casanova Friend Music

ELWIN, MALCOLM

The First Romantics

New York, Longmans, Green and Co. 1948, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo. 280 pages. A collective biography of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey. Contents clean and tight, nearly unblemished; boards are clean with gilt titles, one corner is lightly worn. Dustjacket is chipped along the edges and price-clipped. Good/Good.

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Book number: 000870

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Petry English Poets Wordsworth Coleridge Southey Literature & Literary

GILL, ANTON

Art Lover, a Biography of Peggy Guggenheim

New York, Perennial. 2003. (ISBN: 006095681x). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), thick 8vo. 480 pages; b&w illustrations. Clean within; tight binding; remainder mark on bottom edge. Very Good.

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Book number: 003994

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Peggy Guggenheim 006095681x

GOLD, ARTHUR; ROBERT FIZDALE

Misia

New York, Morrow Quill Paperbacks. 1981, First Paperback Edition. (ISBN: 0688003951). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Large 8vo. 338 pages; well illustrated, color and b&w. The wife, muse, sponsor. Perhaps the personification of Art Nouveau. "Her greatest talent - she was a pianist - was the gift of inspiring and bringing together others." Clean throughout; lightly rubbed. Very Good.

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Book number: 004418

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Misia Natanson Edwards Sert Paris Society Marcel Proust, Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Odilon Redon, Paul Signac, Claude Debussy, Stéphane Mallarmé, André Gide 0688003951

HUDDLESTON, SISLEY

Paris Salons, Cafés, Studios

New York, Blue Ribbon Books. 1928. Orange cloth, 8vo. 366 pages. Memoir post-World War I. First person narratives of luncheons, cocktails, time spent with every notable writer, painter, journalist who lived in or passed through Paris and other parts of France. Clean throughout; head and tail of spine lightly worn; front top corner worn. Front hinge neatly repaired; bindng tight. For the love of Paris.. Good./No dutjacket.

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Book number: 005149

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Paris Salons Cafes Studios Memoirs World War I Great War Parisian Nights Entertainments Early Twentieth Century Literature & Literary

JOUHANDEAU, MARCEL; GEORGE LAMB (TRANSLATED)

St. Philip Neri

London, Longmans. 1960, First Thus. Glossy Printed Boards, 7"x 5". 129 pages. The author, "I am no historian. All I shall try to do is to give some sense of the exceptional being St. Philip was, and to make him palpable.." "With his character and teaching, he left a great name behind him and also a memory of great gaiety." Clean throughout; tight binding. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued.

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Book number: 005312

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Saint Philip Neri Oratory Oratorians London Oratory Brompton Oratory John Cardinal Newman Religion & Theology

KANE, JOHN; FRANK CROWNINSHIELD (FOREWORD) (MARIE MCSWIGAN)

Sky Hooks, the Autobiography of John Kane

Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company. 1938, First Edition. Cloth, 4to. 196 pages; color frontispiece (self portrait), 22 b&w reproductions, 4 photographs. Autobiography but "as told to" Marie McSwigan, who has no credit on the title page. A man whose life wasa hardscrabble affair the great majority of its time rises to prominence as a painter. Clean within, tight binding; boards worn at the edges and corners; front board discolored and marred by a seies of small pointed depressions. The jacket worn with losses of material at edges and corners. Good/Poor.

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Book number: 004151

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: John Kane Marie Mcswigan Coal Miner American Artist Painter

KOTLOWITZ, ROBERT

Before Their Time - a Memoir

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1997. (ISBN: 0-679-44789-x). Hard Cover - Paper Boards, 8vo. 195 pages. Kotlowitz recounts his experience as an infantryman in World War II. He recalls his comrades, the drudge of army life and the massacre of his platoon in northeastern France. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 001482

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: World War II Two Memoir Autobiography 067944789x

LAWTON, THOMAS; LINDA MERRILL

Freer: A Legacy of Art

Washington and New York, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian with Harry N. Abrams. 1993. (ISBN: 0-8109-2538-9). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 272 pages; 184 illustrations in color and b&w; chronology; endnotes; bibliography; index. A Handsome publication that marked the reopening of the Freer Gallery. Choice essays on Freer, his philosophy of art and his friendships and associations with artists, scholars and collectors. Fine.

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Book number: 001307

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Freer Gallery Whistler Fenollosa Asian American Art Peacock Room 0810925389

LEE, M. OWEN

A Book of Hours: Music, Literature, and Life. A Memoir

New York, Continuum. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0826415865). Cloth, 8vo. 284 pages. A fascinating memoir. Perhaps it should be first read by students who are just moving-up from high school. Lee's teaching in Rome, his love of opera and his travel to opera hotspots; his imagination. The dialogue narrative technique creates an enjoyable read. Clean and bright throughout. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 005318

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: M. Own Lee Memoir Music Literature Basilian Fathers Metropolitan Opera 0826415865

LEVER, MAURICE; SUSAN EMANUEL (TRANSLATED BY)

Beaumarchais, a Biography

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2009, First American Edition. (ISBN: 9780374113285). Cloth, 8vo. 411 pages. Author of The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro, also an inventor, entrepreneur, musician, dramatist, diplomat, spy, fighter, confidant of kings, a patron of the American War of Independence. A life that offers a fabulous window on the history of the 18th-century. Clean throughout, no marks or tears. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 005346

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Beaumarchais Paris Playwright Politician Spy the Marriage of Figaro 9780374113285

MANN, WILLIAM J.

How to Be a Movie Star: Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2009, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780547134642). Cloth, 8vo. 484 pages; numerous b&w photo-illustrations. The author also wrote "Kate" ; he had access to private papers of Mike Todd, Hedda Hopper and other Hollywood personalities and confidants of Taylor. Clean throughout; tight binding. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 004336

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Elizabeth Taylor Hollywood Movie Star 9780547134642

MATTHEWS, T.S.

Jacks or Better

New York, Harper & Row. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0060128429). Cloth, 8vo. 354 pages. The narrative of six people, including Matthews, who when young project can't-miss futures. The author surveys their lives decades later; the early projections largely miss the mark. Clean throughout, tight binding. The jacket unmarked with only a slight curl along the top edge. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 004479

Catalogue: Biography & Autobiography

Keywords: Matthews Narrative Robert Graves Laura Riding Schuyler Jackson 0060128429