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| 1652 |
Adamson, George |
My Pride and Joy:
An Autobiography (Illus.) |
Simon & Schuster 1987, 1st ed US, index, 304pp, boards vy sl bowed, else fine |
12.50 |
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"In Born Free, Joy Adamson told the story of how she and her husband, George, raised Elsa from a [lion] cub and then returned her to the Kenyan wild, and the world was amazed and charmed. Now George tells the rest of the story." |
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| 1627 |
Allen, Gay Wilson |
Waldo Emerson (Illus.) |
Viking 1981, 2nd pr, genealogy, sources, notes, index, 751pp, vy fine |
9.50 |
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A massive biography of Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England author, philosopher and Transcendentalist. |
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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 |
7.50 |
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Study by British psychologist examining Darwin's relationships to his family and friends as well as his public life and work. |
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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 |
8.50 |
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From her Russian childhood amid the Communist revolution to her arrival in U.S. & leap into Hollywood screenwriting & marriage to Frank O'Connor. When they made this book into a cable movie, you were led to think it was all sex. The book is better at telling the story." |
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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 |
7.50 |
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In this book, the author unfolds the extraordinary life story of the man behind the one publically known. |
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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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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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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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Furlong, Monica |
Thérèse of Lisieux (Illus) |
Pantheon 1987, 1st ed US, bibliog, notes, index, 144pp, vy fine |
6.50 |
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This biography of Saint Therese [Therese Martin] offers new perspectives on women whose talents helped shape the world. "We watch the Little Flower change into the great saint. We listen to her inmost thoughts in a different way from her own contemporaries, notably to the grief of a holy woman who could never be a priest." "Piercingly perceptive alive and witty." |
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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 |
8.50 |
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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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| 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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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 |
17.50 |
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Subtitled, "Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant; Selected Letters 1839-1865." |
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| 1650 |
Harding, Walter |
The Days of Henry Thoreau (Illus) |
Dover 1982, reprint of 1965 ed, notes, index, 498pp, vy fine |
6.50 |
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"Writing always with supreme clarity, Professor Harding has marshaled all the facts so as best to 'let them speak for themselves.' Thoreau's thoughtfulness and stubbornness, his more than ordinarily human amalgam of the earthy and the sublime, his unquenchable vitality emerge to the reader as they did to his own family, friends and critics." |
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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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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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| 1639 |
Hemingway, Ernest |
A Moveable Feast:
Sketches of the Author's Life in Paris in the Twenties (Illus) |
Scribner 1988, BC (reprint of 1964 ed), 211pp, vy fine |
9.50 |
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"Hemingway left the world a generous legacy in these sketches of his early life in Paris in the Twenties. So complete is the spell of his art that the four decades between what was done and felt then and what was remembered and written later seem barely to have intervened. Everything is perceived directly through the eyes and ears of the young writer himself, living in the pre-dawn of world recognition." |
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Hunter, Lynette |
G.K. Chesterton:
Explorations in Allegory |
St Martins 1979, 1st ed, notes, biblio, index, 190pp, vy fine |
7.50 |
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This critical analysis by an academic looks at the life of Chesterton and how he developed the analogical function of allegory to indicate the presence of God and to avoid the dangers of human authority implied in fantasy. |
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Fiction by Chesterton. |
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| 1610 |
Huntford, Roland |
Shackleton (Illus) |
Atheneum 1985, BC, 3rd pr, notes, sources, maps, index, 774pp, vy fine |
9.50 |
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The trials and tribulations of Ernest Shackleton as he tried to be the first one to the south pole. A story of epic endurance and courage, and also of tragic ineptitude, of hardships and hairbreadth escapes and of bitter rivalries, betrayal and fatal disappointment. Includes documention on the voyages of both the Discovery, and the Endurance. |
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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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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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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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Levenson, Claude B. |
The Dalai Lama (Illus) |
Unwin Hyman 1988, 1st ed UK, notes, biblio, index, 291pp, vy fine |
19.50 |
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"The Bearer of the White Lotus, the Jewel that fulfils all desires, the ocean of wisdom, the precious victory, the incomparable master, or simply. The presence -- these are a few of the titles that Tibetans bestow upon the most illustrious and venerable among them, the Dalai Lama, their exiled leader. "Claude Levenson went in search of this exceptional man and her quest carried her from one end of the Himalaya to the other, from Lhasa to the Dalai Lama's headquarters-in-exile in Dharamsala. Each step of her journey was marked by personal encounters, help and guidance which eventually led to Tenzin Gyatso, the present Dalai Lama, the spiritual and personal guide to a people who recognize his eternal significance and his secular importance to them." |
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