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| 1627 |
Allen, Gay Wilson |
Waldo Emerson (Illus.) |
Viking 1981, 2nd pr, genealogy, sources, notes, index, 751pp, vy fine |
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| 1643 |
Best, Otto F. |
Peter Weiss |
Frederick Ungar 1978, 2nd pr (of 1976 ed), bibliog, index, 150pp, dj price clippd with 3 5mm tears btm spine, else vy fine |
6.50 |
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"An assessment of the author of Marat/Sade and The Investigation, whose life and work reflect to an unusual degree the themes of a world in turmoil." |
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| 1628 |
Bowlby, John |
Charles Darwin:
A New Life (Illus.) |
Norton 1990, BC, ep maps, appendx, biblio, notes, who's who, index, 511pp, vy fine |
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Biography of Charles Darwin |
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| 1613 |
Branca, Vittore |
Boccaccio:
The Man and His Works
(Tr. by Richard Monges) |
NY Univ 1976, appears as unstated 1st ed US, 341pp, no dj, else vy fine |
13.50 |
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"The present work is not the direct translation of a single book done by Branca in Italian, but rather a carefully constructed volume designed by the author from his important and basic Boccaccio Medievale and some complementary writings appearing in encyclopedias and other important sources." |
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| 1612 |
Branden, Barbara |
The Passion of Ayn Rand (Illus) |
Doubleday 1986, Could be BC, tho usual markgs not present, 442pp, dj price present, 15mm tear top dj spine, else vy fine |
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Fictional works by Ayn Rand |
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| 1212 |
Church, Peggy Pond |
The House at Otowi Bridge:
The Story of Edith Warner and Los Alamos |
Univ New Mexico 1960, 1st ed, 149pp, top corners sl bumpd, dj price clippd w/5mm tear top spine, else fine |
25.00 |
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Signed by author, drawings by Connie Fox Boyd. The extraordinary story of Edith Warner who lived among the San Ildefonda Pueblo people and the scientists and wives from many nations who gathered around her table in the tense years before Hiroshima. |
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Fictionalized by Frank Waters |
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| 1615 |
Clark, Ronald W. |
Benjamin Franklin (Illus) |
Random Hse 1983, BC, references, biblio, index, 530pp, 5mm tear top dj spine, else vy fine |
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| 1629 |
Clark, Ronald W. |
The Survival of Charles Darwin (Illus) |
Random Hse 1984, BC, references, biblio, index, 449pp, vy fine |
8.50 |
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A biography of Darwin and a history of his ideas of natural selection, variability of species, and the descent of man. |
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Additional biographical material on Charles Darwin |
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| 1624 |
Dalton, David |
Piece of My Heart:
The Life, Times and Legend of Janis Joplin (Illus) |
St Martins 1986, 1st ed, 287pp, fine+ |
9.50 |
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"Janus' extraordinary life was as tragic and intense as any blues lyric. The endless one-night-stands, [and] hard drinking and drugs have made her life the stuff of legend." |
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| 1616 |
Foster, Barbara &
Foster, Michael |
Forbidden Journey: The Life of Alexandra David-Neel (Illus) |
Harper & Row 1987, 1st ed, sources, notes, biblio, index, 363pp, vy fine |
12.50 |
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An interesting biography of the much celebrated Tibetan explorer and mystic: "..a prolific author, inveterate explorer and traveler, pioneer feminist, and world authority on Tibetan Buddhist tantric rites." |
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| 1635 |
Furlong, Monica |
Thérèse of Lisieux (Illus) |
Pantheon 1987, 1st ed US, bibliog, notes, index, 144pp, vy fine |
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| 1634 |
Furlong, Monica |
Zen Effects:
The Life of Alan Watts (Illus) |
Houghton Mifflin 1986, 1st ed, notes, index, 236pp, sm scuff on front dj, else vy fine |
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| 1626 |
Gilman, David |
Faith, Sex, Mystery |
Simon & Schuster 1986, 2nd pr, 253pp, RM, else vy fine |
4.50 |
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"With the same accomplishment that he brings to his theater criticism and literary essays, Gilman writes about the deeply moving religious and spiritual experiences of his own life." [Conversion from Judaism to Catholicism] |
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| 1657 |
Grant, Ulysses S. |
Memoirs and Selected Letters
McFeely, Mary D. & McFeely, William S., etal. (eds) |
Library of America 1990, 4th pr, slip case, appendices, chronology, notes, 1199pp, vy fine |
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| 1650 |
Harding, Walter |
The Days of Henry Thoreau (Illus) |
Dover 1982, reprint of 1965 ed, notes, index, 498pp, vy fine |
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| 1649 |
Harding, Walter (ed) |
Thoreau as Seen by His Contemporaries |
Dover 1989, reprint of 1960 ed, chrono, notes, brief bibliog, index, 245pp, vy fine |
6.50 |
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"Presents a portrait of Henry David Thoreau by a large number of his friends, neighbors and acquaintances. Originally published in 1960 as, Thoreau Man of Concord." |
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| 1604 |
Hayman, Ronald |
Kafka (Illus) |
Oxford Univ 1981, 2nd pr, in mylar cvr, notes, biblio, index, 349pp, fine |
7.00 |
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"The first full-scale biography of Franz Kafka since Max Brod's memoir of 1937." |
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Fictional works by Franz Kafka, and additional biographical material |
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| 1610 |
Huntford, Roland |
Shackleton (Illus) |
Atheneum 1985, BC, 3rd pr, notes, sources, maps, index, 774pp, vy fine |
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| 1648 |
Hynd, Alan |
Defenders of the Damned |
A.S. Barnes 1960, appears as a later printg, 182pp, several ~5mm tears along dj edge, 25mm tear btm rear dj flap fold, else vy good |
8.50 |
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The lives of three of the most celebrated criminal lawyers in the United States, Earl Rogers, William J Fallon and Clarence Darrow. |
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| 1630 |
Johnson, Joyce |
Minor Characters |
Houghton Mifflin 1983, 1st ed, 262pp, vy fine |
7.50 |
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"A memoir of a young woman of the 1950s in the Beat oribit of Jack Kerouac." |
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Biography of Jack Kerouac |
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| 1651 |
Leiris, Michel |
Nights as Day, Days as Night
(Tr. by Richard Sieburth) |
Eridanos Press 1987, 1st ed US, 169pp, vy fine |
9.50 |
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"Nights as Day is a diary of over a hundred short dreams composed over the course of four decades. As the title implies, the texts in this volume pursue an extended pun on the porous demarcation between waking and dreaming. By transcribing the events of his daily life as if they were episodes in an ongoing dream, by recording his dreams as if they embodied the true narrative of his waking existence, Leiris in effect defuses the distinction between the two." This volume is #5 in the Eridanos Library series. |
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| 1618 |
Levenson, Claude B. |
The Dalai Lama (Illus) |
Unwin Hyman 1988, 1st ed UK, notes, biblio, index, 291pp, vy fine |
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