Autobiography

NY: Harpercollins. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060535342 . Front cover's upper fore corner is very lightly bumped, otherwise binding is clean, sound and unworn. Brief note on ffep. Contents and DJ are almost like new. ; Light tan boards, bright gold lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "His off-the-record take on fashion, from the inside out. With breezy irreverence, he looks at guys and taste, divas and deviousness, fabric and texture, and all those ties. He takes us to the luxe bastion of Louis Boston, where he came of age and learned the trade, and to the seductive domain of Polo Ralph Lauren, where he became associate director of menswear design. He reveals the mystique of department-store politics, what's what at the sample sale, and who copies whom. He explains the process of making great clothes, from conception and sketch to manufacturing and marketing. Whether he's traveling by daredevil horse, plunging plane, Paris Metro, or cross-country limo, Abboud is an illuminating gudie to a complex world. " ..Index. 16p color and b/w photos. . more information

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NY: Villard Books. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket. c. 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. 0679420657 . . Minor DW wear and soil. Top edge lightly stained. Binding clean, sound, unworn. Contents are almost like new. VG - / VG - . ; Red cloth spine, red boards, black lettering . BIOGRAPHY. The Hollywood call-girl scandal is laid bare by the woman at its red-hot center -Alex Adams, the doyenne of sex in Hollywood, the madam to the stars, who 'created' the notorius Heidi Fleiss, as well as a dream team of call-girl Cinderellas. She answers the questions: Why do men - men who can have everything and everyone - choose to pay for sex? Whom do they pay? What do they pay for? ; 9-1/2" Tall; 284 pages . more information

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NY: Heritage Press. Very Good-. c, 1918, 1942. Hardcover. The tip of the front cover's fore corners are worn through to the boards, else minor wear on the clean and sound binding. Bkpl and date on front endpapers. "22" written small at bottom of page v, else contents are almost as new. No sliplcase. ; Brown Marbled boards, medium brown cloth spine, bright gold lettering. Frontispiece gravure plus 11 full-page gravures in text. Index. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Introduction by Henry Seidel Canby. "Adams came out of an 18th century tradition where it still seemed possible to explain the universe as a unity with man at its center. When that unity began to break up into a multiplicity of conflicting forces, he sought in history for evidence of a more stable and more powerful unity, and found it in Catholicism of the 12th century. Strengthened by that vision, he came back to his own times to search for an explanation of the dynamisms that seemed to be driving his modern world into tempos of change so rapid that it seemed that the whirling multiple civiliation around him must soon break and fly apart. All he learned was the fact of multiplicity and the fact of rapid change. Like Thoreau, who tried to find a formula which would cover both spirit and nature, he found only direction and ended (so he said) more ignorant than he began... As a result, it has become a fashion to speak of this really great book as a monument to genteel futilitariansism..." but it is much better to regard it as a spiritual autobiography. 4 x 6" color photo of John Adam's house in Quincy MA, dated 1999, is loosely laid-in. The book is printed on easy-on-the-eye cream colored paper. ; 10-1/4" Tall; 483 pages . more information

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NY: MacMillan. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. c. 1971. First Printing. Hardcover. Very minor edge wear on clean and sound binding. Minor soil inside back cover. Contents are almost like new. Numerous shallow dent lines on DJ's front panel. Minor edge wear on complete DJ. DJ's inner side is moderately stained, outer side is clean. ; Green cloth, bright silver lettering. 8p b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY / EDUCATION. Adams believed that a rank-and-file professor with a love of the university could deal effectively with all elements, on and off the campus, and thus agreed to serve as president of Michigan State University - but for only nine months. He dealt with students' protests against recruiting on campus, black students' occupation of Wilson Hall, an anti-ROTC demonstation, a strice by university employees, and the October 15 Vietnam Moratorium with an equanimity born of genuine interest and concern. His administration style was marked by a certain barbed wit and a willingness to listen and to talk. In this book, he offers a unique insight into the political and emotional turmoil of a major American university during a time of great upheaval. What makes his book more than a vitally important document on higher education in America is that it serves as a model for administering any large organization in which the individual feels depersonalized, dehumanized, and victimized by the bureaucratic machine. ; 8-1/2" Tall; 240 pages . more information

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Stuttgart, Germany: Deutscher Bucherbund. Very Good- in Good- dust jacket. c. 1965. Hardcover. Top of the spine, where not protected by DJ, is a little suntanned, front cover's lower fore corner is lightly bumped, else binding is clean, sound and unworn. Contents are almost like new. 1" piece missing from top of DJ's spine, else minor wear and soil on the DJ. ; Light gray cloth, bright gold lettering in black spine panel. Inhalt. B/w portrait frontispiece plus 14p b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "Konrad Adenauer war 74, als er das Steuer der deutschen Nachkriegsppolitik in die Hand nahm. 14 Jahre lang lenkte er die schweren Geschicke des deutschen Volkes. Mit 88 begann er, das erst Buch seines Lebens zu schreiben, einen Rechenschaftsbericht, der- gewollt oder ungeqwollt - ein unschatzbares Zeugnis ablegt von des Autors Charakter, vom Frunktionieren seines Geistes, von den Grundintentionen seiner Staatskunst. "; 8-3/4" Tall; 606 pages . more information

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co.. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Name, address in ink on ffep. Top edge lightly foxed. Top edge of DJ is chipped with two small tears. Minor wear on clean and sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. ; AUTOBIOGRAHY. Blue cloth spine, bright gold lettering. Chapter-head drawings. This book is a gentle celebration of the ties that bind man to nature, a mirror to the ceaseless urgings that bind man to man. The setting is an outland of pine, caramel sand and clean tidwater on Cape Cod, to which Allen returns each year in early autumn, to walk the Cape's beaches and marshlands, to sail in its shallow reaches, to mark sunrise and nightfall and the passage of the seasons. Here is a book for all who have sought a 'quiet place' in their own lives. Truly, it is impossible to read THIS QUIET PLACE without wishing to visit there. ; 9-1/8" Tall; 280 pages . more information

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Boston: Little, Brown. Good. c. 1956. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Top 1/16" of binding is faded, else very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Lightly soiled fore and top edges. Minor margin stains on p. 14-15, very occasional ink marks in top margin, else contents are clean. No DW. Good. ; AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Blue cloth, bright gold spine lettering. Index. 8p b/w photos. Here is an excellent view into life on the Vaudeville circuit, the struggles of an aspiring entertainer who isn't sure just what his line of entertainment is/will be. This is a warm, humorous and human look at the early life of one of the great entertainers of the 20th century, Fred Allen, prior to his radio days. ; 8-5/8" Tall; 380 pages . more information

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Boston: Atlantic Monthly - Little Brown. Good+. 1956. First Edition. Hard Cover. Name in ink on ffep. Light scratch on front cover, spine is darkened but lettering, 'tho a little dulled, is readily legible. Contents are clean. No DJ. ; AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Blue cloth, gold spine lettering. Index. 8p b/w photos. Here is an excellent view into life on the Vaudeville circuit, the struggles of an aspiring entertainer who isn't sure just what his line of entertainment is/will be. This is a warm, humorous and human look at the early life of one of the great entertainers of the 20th century, Fred Allen, prior to his radio days. ; 8-5/8" Tall; 380 pages . more information

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NY: Harper & Row. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. c. 1969. Hardcover. Moderate wear to top & bottom of DJ's spine, o/w minor wear and soil on DJ. Very minor soil on sound and unworn binding. Contents are clean. VG / G + . ; Full black cloth, bight gold lettering . AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Translated by Paul Chavchavadaze. In Dec. 1966 Svetlana Alliluyeva she left Russia on a one month's visa. In Dec. 1967 she broke completely with the world of Communism, turned her back on her country, her childen, her friends, and faced the unknown world as she and two American friends joined in a toast to her new life of freedom in Princeton NJ. This is the story of that year , a year of pain, discovery, turmoil and new hope. Svetlana Alliluyeva is the daughter of Josef Stalin . ; 8-5/8" Tall; 444 pages . more information

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NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1982. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. Moderate wear and soil on the complete DJ. ; 8-1/2" Tall, 215pp. Gray boards, orange lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "As rich in joy and drenched in heartbreak as life itself, full of fights, lovemaking, parties, children, births and deaths. June Allyson's story will plunge the reader alternately into laughter and tears - a book as heartwarming as the lady herself. " William Powell. Ronald Reagan Jane Wyman. Van Johnson. Peter Lawford. John F. Kennedy, Claudette Colbert. Jimmy Stewart. Louis B. Mayer. Robert Walker. Judy Garland. Etc. Etc. 58 b/w photos. . more information

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NY: Simon & Schuster. c. 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. 0671794256 . Very minor rubbing on book's spine - lettering is not affected. Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. Minor edge wear on clean, complete dust jacket. ; Blue cloth spine, bright gold lettering. 8p b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The wanton, wild, and wickedly humorous exploits of a former member of the Los Angeles Police Deparment who became a high-priced Beverly Hills prostitute. Disillusioned by the hypocrisy and corruption in the L. A. Police Dept. , she traded in her blue uniform for the lacy lingerie of an upscale call girl. It is all here - the inside story of "The Life" revealed in totally candid and colorful detail. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 312 pages . more information

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Surrey England: The World's Work Ltd.. Good in Good dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Minokr top edge foxing. Gift note on ffep. Contents are clean and unmarked, 'tho slightly musty. Moderate edge wear, very minor soil, on the complete DJ. ; Green boards, bright gold lettering. 4p b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "Here is a full account of a remarkable and versatile career that spans more than half a century of medical history. A lifelong love affair with medicine, plus an unquenchable enthusiasm for life, have made Dr. Walter Alvarez a legend in his own lifetime. Through his popular newspaper column he is thought of by millions as 'America's family doctor. '...Dr. Alvarez tells hundreds of anecdotes and stories - some comic, some tragic - that provide revealing portraits of himself, his colleagues and his patients. " ; 8-3/4" Tall; 274 pages . more information

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Fredericksburg VA: Mary Washington College Foundation. Very Good-. c. 1987. Trade Paperback. Front cover's upper fore corner is lightly creased, else binding is clean, sound and unworn. Upper fore corner of first few pages are lightly creased, else contents are almost as new. ; Light gray cover is lighter than posterboard. 8 b/w photos & copy of Alvey's first published article from STAMPS, April 1918. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page: "My best wishes! Edward Alvey, Jr. June 1988"... Edward Alvey, Jr. served as Dean and Professor of education at Mary Washington College for 37 years, but this book is not about his time at the college. It is, rather, as the title states, about the days of his youth, ending with the first year of his marriage and his "new work at the University. " The book covers his own school days, his early work experiences, and his principalship at Warm Springs High School and the Valley High School. ; 9" Tall; 189 pages . more information

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Geneva: Fabriart. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1990. Hardcover. 2883880018 . Bottom edge's fore edge is a little soiled, else binding is clean, sound and unworn. Contents are almost like new. 1/4" x 3" area on DJ's spine has been purposely rubbed, even to the point of wearing completely through the paper in spots, otherwise very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ. This is a heavy book and is not eligible for Priority , Air or International under standard fees. ; 9-3/4" Tall, 585pp. Blue-gray cloth, light gray and gold lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "A highly original work combining fragments from the journal of a professor at one of the world's most prestigious institutions, MIT, with personal letters chronicling a spiritual and geographical exile, essays challenging certain principles of art and criticism, science and religion...Some of the stories told are delightfully funny, others poignant, others revealing about Andersen's relationship to the Establishme nt. His exchanges with Richard Shiff....one of the important and central metacritical debates of our time. " Index. Occasional b/w photos plus original drawings by Jacques Jubert throughout text. . more information

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NY: Hearthstone Book, Carlton Press. Very Good in Good- dust jacket. c. 1979. Hardcover. 0806210753 . One tiny dark spot on the front cover, else binding is clean, sound and unworn. Gift note on ffep indicates a personal knowledge of the author; it reads "For Jackie in memory of George and with good wishes from Ethel. " Contents are almost like new. DJ is not much to look at (it never was! ) , but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; Blue cloth, black lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Warm, vivid, intense, this book, through the metaphor of a young boy's passage into manhood, recalls the decades when America lost her innocence. The time was the turn of the last century, the twilight of the Victorian age. Anderson reports on his life in China just before the Revolution, in South America at the nascence of American influence; in the eastern and midwestern US before television. "The spirited reminiscence is a gold mine of intriguing facts and data, with a strong lode of reflective assessment of the tenor of the times...the contrast of the beauty of the Himalayas and the splendor of the Taj Mahal with the squalor, death and horror of the streets of Calcutta; the report of the devastating wreck of the Titanic, fathfully recorded with a scientist's eye and a poet's pen...a fascinating account of a nearly forgotten time. " Anderson was awarded a chair in English at Brown University in Rhokde Island and headed its Department of english for ten years. He has been acclaimed for his work in Medieval, Renaissance, and English Literature studies. ; 8-1/8" Tall; 350 pages . more information

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NY: Prentice Hall. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. c. 1990. Second Printing. Hardcover. 0131094637 . Binding and contents are almost like new. Very minor wear and rubbing on clean, complete dust jacket. ; Navy-blue cloth spine, bright gold lettering. Index. 16p b/w photos. SPORTS AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Sparky Anderson is the only man to win a hundred games in both the American and National leagues, to win the World Series in both leagues, and to be named Manager of the Year in both leagues. Herein he offers his unique perspective on the national pastime, both as a manager and as a man. He talks baseball - and he talks turkey. He discusses the qualities a successful manager must have and names the managers he most admires, describing the impact they have had on the game. He looks at the difference between good baseball players, clutch players, and great players - those who have transcended the game to attain heroic status - and picks his all-time dream team at every position. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 264 pages . more information

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NY: Crown Pub.. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. c. 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. 0517593017 . Binding, DJ and contents are almost like new. Fine / VG + . ; Index. 16p b/w photos . Gray and black boards, bright silver lettering . AUTOBIOGRAPHY. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY TERRY AND HIS WIFE on half-title: "Janet, God Bless, Terry Anderson, Madeleine Bassil. " What is it like to exist for seven years in darkness and chains, not knowing from one day to the next how much longer you will be a prisoner? Or if you will be released from captivity the next day - or killed. His memoir is not only about how he survived, but also about how his spirit endured and triumphed. . ; 9-1/4" Tall; 356 pages . more information

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NY: Warner Books. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. c. 1986. Hardcover. 0446513164 . Very minor edge wear to clean DJ. Very minor top edge soil, o/w binding and contents are almost like new, VG + / VG . ; HARDCOVER. Ivory cloth spine, bright gold lettering . AUTOBIOGRAPHY. She joins two American Indian medicine women to further her quest for ancient knowledge and serve as the bridge between the primal mind and the white consciousness . ; 9-1/4" Tall; 246 pages . more information

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NY Putnam C 1994. Hardcover. 336pp. Index. 32p b/w photos . Tall 8vo . HC. Gray boards, bright silver lettering . HOLLYWOOD AUTOBIOGRAPHY. She opens the door to her private world, in a memoir that tells her life as it really was. Relentlessly honest, these pages are filled with warmth, wit, poignancy, and truth . A woman of guts, humor, energy, and inspiration. . One corner is lightly bumped, o/w binding, DJ and contents are almost like new. VG / Fine . . more information

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NY: Metropolitan Books. Very Good. c. 2000, 2005. Hardcover. 9780739466001 . Very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Contents are almost like new. ; The illustrated PAPER COVER is about the weight of posterboard. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "The author, a woman living in Berlin, took meticulous note of everything that happened to her as well as her neighbors and friends from late April to mid-June 1945 - a time when Germany was defeated, Hitler committed suicide, and Berlin was occupied by the Red Army...The earliest entries were literally notes from the underground, recorded in a basement where the author sought shelter from air raids, artillery fire, looters - ultimately rape by the victorious Russians (According to the best estimates, more than 100, 000 women were raped after the conquest of Berlin. ) ...As a semblance of normalcy returned to the city...the author expanded her view, and began reporting on the life of her building, then of her street, then on the forced labor she had to perform and her encouters in other neighborhoods. " ; 8-1/4" Tall; 261 pages . more information

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London: John Blake. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. c. 2001. First Printing. Hardcover. 1903402328 . Binding and contents are almost like new. Minor wear and soil on the complete dust jacket. ; Textured black boards, bright silver lettering. 20p b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Within hours of a car accident, Ashby was undergoing advanced brain surgery. It took eleven-and-a-half hours to save her life but that was just the start of the fight since she had extensive injuries to her face, with her skin scarred from ear to ear. The reconstructive surgery that followed was genuinely miraculous. It took many years and nearly a million pounds to complete. This is the incredible story of her terrible accident and the amazing events that followed. It is a heartwarming story of the triumph of medicine and the human spirit against seeminly insurmountable odds, for, although doctors said she would never be able to work as an actress again, she now has a flourishing career in Hollywood. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 256 pages . more information

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London: John Blake. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. c. 2001. Second Printing. Hardcover. 1903402328 . One undogged page, else binding and contents are almost like new. Minor wear on clean, complete dust jacket. ; Textured black boards, bright silver lettering. 20p b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Within hours of a car accident, Ashby was undergoing advanced brain surgery. It took eleven-and-a-half hours to save her life but that was just the start of the fight since she had extensive injuries to her face, with her skin scarred from ear to ear. The reconstructive surgery that followed was genuinely miraculous. It took many years and nearly a million pounds to complete. This is the incredible story of her terrible accident and the amazing events that followed. It is a heartwarmin g story of the triumph of medicine and the human spirit against seeminly insurmountable odds, for, although doctors said she would never be able to work as an actress again, she now has a flourishing career in Hollywood. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 256 pages . more information

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NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good-. c. 1938, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. Red coloring of the spine is faded but the black panel and gold lettering are unaffected. Otherwise, very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Ex-church library with markings on ffep and back pastedown. Pencil notes on p. 193's margin & back pastedown. Pages 228, 229, 230 & 231 have foxed areas from the newspaper clipping. Else contents are clean on easy-on-the-eye cream colored paper. ; Extra-durable red buckram cloth, bright gold lettering in black spine panel. AUTOBIOGRAPH Y. Leonard Bacon, (1887 - 1954) was a poet and critic who taught at the University of California. His poetry was published in the Saturday Review of Literature under the pseudonym "Autholycus. " He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 for SUNDERLAND CAPTURE. "I have tried to set down what I saw or knew and to expres my feelings about the seen or the known as exactly aand vividly as lay in my powers. The matters I have chosen to relate have been selected from a memory, which, like all memories, is as crowded as the rush-hour in a subway, and they were chosen because I hoped they might divert or attract persons who had never heard of me and might perhaps prefer things that way. " Bacon grew up in Rhode Island, returned here on vacations, and retired to Peace Dale in Rhode Island. Newspaper book review is loosely laid-in. ; 8-7/8" Tall; 273 pages . more information

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NY: St. Martin's Press. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. c. 1974. Hardcover. Ex-church library with call label on DJ's spine, library label on ffep and charge-out slip and pocket on back endpapers. Very minor wear on clean and sound, 'tho slightly cocked, binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. DJ's top edge is moderately worn, else minor wear and soil on complete dust jacket. ; Black cloth, bright gold lettering. Family Bookshelf Edition. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This is the tale of a 76 year old woman living in North Devon, England, who, because she was no longer able to walk any distance, bought a pony and its cart. The book cover 's her first year's adventures with the pony, many of which brought up memories of her past, which she shares with you. Quite a bit of quiet philosophy along with much nature-lore add extra interest to the tale. ; 7-1/2" Tall; 160 pages . more information

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NY: Wm. Morrow & Co.. Very Good. c. 1999. Hardcover. 0688061702 . Name and date on ffep, else Binding and contents are almost like new. Very minor wear on clean, complete DJ. ; Maroon cloth spine, bright silver lettering. A few b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "In this wonderful autobiography - funny, moving, exciting, reflective, history haunted - a man writes in valedictory to his striving and achieving twenties and thirties, and to this nation's sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. "; 9-1/2" Tall; 351 pages . more information

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Reading MA Addison-Wesley C 1987. Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. Hardcover. 0201570734 . Clean and unworn DJ's back panel is damp wrinkled. Binding is clean, sound and unworn with no trace of damp but all the pages are wavy. Good + / Good + . ; 201pp. 4p b/w photos. 8vo . HC. Blue cloth spine, ivory boards, bright gold lettering . AUTOBIOGRAPHY. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by author on ffep: "To Jerry. May you know God's love, peace & joy. You have done a great job as mother to Dennis! Love & prayers. Marie Balter Nobody's Child. " At the age of 17 she entered a mental hospital where she spent the next 20 years. From the terror of the back wards, where she lay curled in catatonic silence, she gradually fought her way toward health, eventually finished high school, worked her way through college, married, and began a distinguished career in the service of the mentally ill. In this clear, honest, inspiring book the reader can see deep in the nature, and ultimate mystery, of healing, and into the power of hope in one woman's astonishing life . . more information

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Chicago: Sears Readers Club. Good. 1952. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. The color is worn from the tips of the fore corners , the top/bottom of the spine and bottom edges. Otherwise minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Endpapers are moderately foxed. Contents are clean and unmarked. ; 8-1/8" Tall, 335pp. Green boards, silver lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 24-page b/w photo section. Small on-stage parts led to the silent screen, the London stage, and stardom in Hollywood and on Broadway. Index. . more information

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NY: Posedion Press. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. c. 1990. Hardcover. 0671673122 . Binding and contents are almost like new. Very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ. ; HARDCOVER. 8p b/w photos. Traces Barkalow's rise from cadet to commander - begining with her years at the Academy: from the rigors of Beast Barracks to the camaraderie of Camp Buckner; from the female cadet who would wake her roommate calling "Yes, Sir! No, Sir!" in her sleep to the one who found a ketchup-drenched saber driven through her pillow; from complicated cadet romances to friendships forged in the crucible of shared experience. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 283 pages . more information

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NY: MacMillan. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1970. First American Edition; Second Printing. Hard Cover. Other than numerous light speckles on the faded top edge, the book is almost as new. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; 9-1/2" Tall, 402pp. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Blue cloth, bright gold spine lettering. Index. Top edge colored red. Printed on easy-on-the-eye cream colored paper. "The totally fascinating personal and professional quest of a medical pioneer whose dedication often resembled obsession, whose dreams were always greater than his defeats. For above all other things Christiaan Barnard chose life, and the unique moral and practical responsibility of the physician. His compelling autobiography eloquently testifies that this responsibility was not misplaced. " ..."He recounts the successful human kidney transplant which preceded the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky in 1967. And finally, the complete story of that momentous operation itself, and of the remarkable man who was granted a second life with a young girl's heart. " . more information

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Garden City: Anchor Press/Doubleday. Very Good in Good dust jacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. 0385159668 . Black DJ is lightly rubbed, quite edge worn and torn, but complete and clean. Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Minor edge foxing. Contents are clean and unmarked. ; BIOGRAPHY. Black cloth, bright gold lettering, 270pp. Index. As an editor of PARTISAN REVIEW, Barrett was intimately involved with the ideas and movements of the post-World War II generation, and with the people who figured in them. His vivid portraits of Delmore Schwartz, Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Lionell Trilling, Philip Rahv, and others in their New York circle are sensitively and beautifully written, and they recapture the excitement and creative energy of their lives and times. ; 9 . more information

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NY Arbor House C 1986. Hardcover. 291pp. Tall 8vo . HC. Black boards, bright gold lettering . AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Prostitution. She ran the best and finest escort service in the country. Its clients were the rich, the prominent, the powerful. Its "girls" were flawlessly dressed, trained, schooled to deliver perfectly. . Minor edge soil, o/w binding, DJ and contents are almost like new. VG / Fine . . more information

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NY: W. W. Norton. Very Good- in Very Good dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0393049604 . Binding's upper fore cornes are very lightly bumped, else Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Contents and DJ are almost like new. ; 9-1/2" Tall, 327pp. Two-tone blue boards, bright silver lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "The American memoir now has a Long Island voice. In PULL ME UP, a deeply affecting book with prose that to Frank McCourt 'flashes with poetry, ' NEW YORK TIMES columnist Dan Barry sings, to startling and profound effect, the song of his life. Beginning with his boyhood in the distant time when Kennedy was president and Mantle was God, Barry weaves the rhythms of Galway, Ireland - his mother's birthplace - and Deer Park, New York, to tell the story of an unforgettable American family. " A few b/w photos. . more information

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NY Harper C 1955. Hardcover. First Edition . 310pp. Index. 32p b/w photos . 8vo . Hc. Black cloth spine, rose boards, gold lettering . HOLLYWOOD AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "..I am hoping this will at lest give a flavor of this family that has lived for generations in a series of goldfish bowls, completely obscured by myths and legends. " . Top 1/2" of covers is faded, Spine is rubbed, 'tho no longer bright, lettering is clear. Binding is moderately soiled, sound, with minor wear. A few of the photos were at one time slightly stuck together, leaving the surface a little roughened. There has been a mild chemical reaction between the photos and their facing pages, resulting in a minor amount of foxing, o/w contents are clean and sound. No DJ. Good . . more information

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London: Michael Joseph. Good+. c. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Hotel's name and address stamped on front cover (dimly) p. 5 and on ffep. . The color is worn from the tips of the fore corners and the top/bottom of the spine, but nowhere is the cloth worn through to the boards. Else very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. ; Medium brown cloth, bright gold lettering. Illustrated endpapers. Quite a few drawings throughout text. AUTOBIOGRAPHY of Herbert Ernest (H. E. ) Bates, English novelist and short-story writer. This is quite a frank and open account, often amusing, of his beginnings as a writer, starting when he was five months short of his 21st birthday and ending with his entry into a project for the Royal Air Force Public Relations in which he would show not figures, statistics, bulletins, communiques and so on to the public, but men, characters, faces, dedicated to the proposition that figures mean nothing, but that a pilot with a pint of beer in his hand and a popsie in bed can illuminate the troubled business of war in a way that would bring war and its participants vividly, excitedly, even painfully alive. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 182 pages . more information

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Kansas City MO: Stonecroft Ministries. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. c. 1984. Hardcover. Binding and contents are almost like new. Minor edge wear on clean, complete DJ. ; Black boards, bright gold lettering and decorations. Frontispiece portrait plust 69p blue & white photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a card glued on title page: "Helen D. Baugh, Jeremiah 33-3, 33-3" "This is the story of one woman's dedication to the Lord and the many blessings resulting from her trust in His promises. Miracle after miracle unfolds in this outstanding woman's life...This delightful, inspiring story reveals how God took a simple dinner meeting with a few bank employees in San Jose, California, and turned that into an international ministry serving the United States, Canada, and over 50 foreign countries..." The Stonecroft Ministries encompasses a number of corporations and includes three major areas of outreach: 1) Christian Business and Professional Women's Councils, Christian Women's Clubs, Business and Professional Couples' Clubs; 2) Village and Rural Missions; and 3) Christian literature. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 260 pages . more information

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NY: Arbor House. Very Good in Poor dust jacket. Hard Cover. 2" x 3" piece missing from DJ's back panel. Back panel is creased. Minor wear to clean and sound binding. Contents are clean and unmarked. ; AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Blue cloth spine, bright gold lettering. First printing. Cprt 1986. 176pp. In this revealing personal account, Bauman tells what happened and what has followed when headlines revealed a sexual rendezvous with a young male hustler. For the first time we learn what it is to be a homosexual in high political office. The 'gay' world of our nation's capital has been hinted at for years. Here is how it really operates. ; Over 9" Tall . more information

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Boston Little Brown 1948. Hardcover. 3rd prnting 247pp. 8" Tall. Hardcover. Red cloth, black lettering . AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Wherein are to be found the reminiscences and philosophy of a country auctioneer, well seasoned with yarns about profits and people . Very minor soil and wear on sound binding. Name on ffep. Contents are clean and unmarked. No DJ. VG - . . more information

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Lancaster OH: Lucky Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c. 2001. Hardcover. 0970637705 . Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; Black boards, bright gold lettering. Small chapter-head drawings. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. He occupied the most sought-after position at IBM. A twelve-year employee, he was fired for a minor infraction of corporate policy. Stunned to find his work, his family, and his identity turned upside down, he found himself commited to a mental institution, his life and his sanity slipping away. Although this book reads like a novel, it is the true story of a well respected businessman, his experience as a top executive, and his journey to rebuild his life and career. ; 9-3/8"Tall; 371 pages . more information

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Chevy Chase: Claycomb Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. c. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0933905173 . Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; Black cloth, bright gold lettering. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR on ffep: "Kevin - 'Your heart is not measured by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others. ' Thank you for the love - Vinnie Aug '89." AUTOBIOGRAPHY. "He always wondered...just who his birth parents might have been...Had his birth parents been struggling actors too poor to raise their child? Had one of them been a writer? How had the unknown past affected his personality, his marriage, the health of his children - and how might it affect thier children? ...He tells his story as it unfolded relentlessly for him until the moment his birth mother stepped off the plane, and long after that. In simple, honest prose. Vincent Begley reveals the drama - romantic and tragic - of his parents' story and his own search. " ; 8-1/4" Tall; 202 pages . more information

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NY: Prospect Hill Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c. 2000. Hardcover. 0967698707 . Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; Blue cloth, bright gold lettering. Index. 61 b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. General counsel, president, chairman and CEO of The Sperry and Hutchinson Company, the nation's leading trading stamp company (Green Stamps) . In this honest and compelling memoir, Beinecke tells the story of the 20th century through his life: from student days at boarding school and Yale and Columbia Law School to his role in creating Yale's business school; from hard times in the depression and wartime service to prosperity as CEO of one of the nation's largest corporations. It is a clear-eyed portrait of a successful American family, a shrewd commentary on the workings of business, education, and philanthropy, and a warm and affectionate recollection of one man's upbringing, interests, travels, friendships, and good times. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 569 pages . more information

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NY: Carroll & Graf. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Hardcover. 0881845752 . Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are almost like new. Minor edge wear on clean, complete DJ. ; Green cloth spine, gray lettering. First Carroll & Graf edition 1990. 427pp. 24p b/w photos. 9-1/2" Tall. BIOGRAPHY. "...The story of a love affair that began when she was a sophomore in high school and a marriage that withstood the intense pressure of John's enormous success...The book recounts how a young woman, a widow at 31, confronts her pain and attempts to heal her spirit...Brimming with anecdotes and the presence of people such as Bill Murray, Hunter Thompson, Penny Marshall, Chevy Chase..." . more information

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NY: Harpercollins. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. c. 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. 0002157462 . Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; Black cloth spine, HARDCOVER, bright silver lettering. 8p b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. In this book, Bembenek, The "Bambi" in the 1981 trial for murder, cuts through the media circus that has swirled relentlessly around her case for over ten yeras, and tells her side of the story. Convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison, she escaped after ten year and fled to Canada. She chose to return to the US and continue her fight, for it is in Wisconsin that she must win back her freedom. This is her story. A story of love, corruption, and murder. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 351 pages . more information

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NY: Linden Press. Good+ in Good- dust jacket. Hardcover. 0671252941 . S&S symbol stamped on bottom edge. Minor edge wear on clean, sound binding. Moderate top edge soil. Small address label inside front cover. Contents are clean and unmarked. DJ is not much to look at, but it provides plenty of protection and information. ; Rose boards, bright silver lettering. Cprt 1984. 3rd printing. Dozens of b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This "...is a book all about growing up - about the comedy of expectations that ruled Candice Bergen's early life, about the ironies that attended her exotic rites of passage...Seeking identity through the expectations of others, she armored herself with the implacable poise that was the legacy of being born famous...Told with wit, self-deprecation and a rare degree of courage, KNOCK WOOD is the extraordinary record of Candice Bergen's coming of age. It is at once the moving fable of the love between a father and a daughter, of a woman's triiumph over self-doubt, and a dazzling journal of America's life and times..." . more information

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NY: Linden Press. Very Good-. Hardcover. 0671252941 . S&S symbol stamped on bottom edge. Very minor edge wear on clean, sound binding. Contents are almost like new. Huge piece torn from bottom of DJ's back & front panel and spine but DJ still contains all the informative written blurb on the flaps. ; Rose boards, bright silver lettering. Cprt 1984. 4th printing. Dozens of b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This "...is a book all about growing up - about the comedy of expectations that ruled Candice Bergen's early life, about the ironies that attended her exotic rites of passage...Seeking identity through the expectations of others, she armored herself with the implacable poise that was the legacy of being born famous...Told with wit, self-deprecation and a rare degree of courage, KNOCK WOOD is the extraordinary record of Candice Bergen's coming of age. It is at once the moving fable of the love between a father and a daughter, of a woman's triiumph over self-doubt, and a dazzling journal of America's life and times..." . more information

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Boston: Houghton Mifflin. VG-/G+. 1967. First Edition. Hardcover; First Printing. Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Very minor edge foxing. Minor foxing of some photo pages and the text pages facing them, else contents are clean, unworn. Top of DJ's spine is moderately worn, otherwise minor wear and soil on the complete DJ. ; Stated First Printing . 172pp. 24p b/w photos . 8-3/8" Tall. Brown cloth, bright gold lettering. Gold, red and silver coat-of-arms on front cover. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Lady Berkeley was born Mary Emlen Lowell in Chestnut Hill, near Boston. Delightful, slightly mad-cap memories of a Boston childhood; a difficult time as a young wife in conventional Philadelphia; the dizzy days of the First World War in Washington; marriage to the Earl of Berkeley; a great, tumbling mass of friends, famous and otherwise. Foreword by L. P. Hartley. . more information

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NY: McGraw Hill. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. c. 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. 0070049130 . Very minor edge soil, else Binding, DJ and Contents are almost like new. ; Black cloth spine, bright silver lettering. Index. 32p b/w photos. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. This book is about Milton Berle's sixty years in the Friars Club - that ribald, rollicking collection of zanies. The Friars Club is to humor what Fort Knox is to gold. This sixty-year memoir is filled with the wit, ad libs, pithy remarks, risque roasts, one-liners, and anecdotes that Milton Berle collected for sixty years. This book is a treasure trove of stories about politicians, actors, sports stars, singers, writers, comedians, gangsters, band leaders, drinkers, gamblers, and lovers, all seen through the irreverent, irrepressibly hilarious eyes of Milton Berle. ; 9-1/4" Tall; 286 pages . more information

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NY: Tudor Publishing. Very Good- in Good dust jacket. c. 1932. Hardcover. The very tips of the fore corners are lightly bumped, else very minor wear on the clean, sound binding. Very slight wave in top margin, otherwise contents are clean, unmarked. The dust jacket is moderately edge worn, especially the spine, which has minor soil. Remainder of the complete dust jacket is clean with minor rubbing. ; Blue cloth, bright gold lettering. Index. 10p b/w illus. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Translated by Rachel (Scott Russell) Holmes and Eleanor Holmes. Annotated, and the translation revised, by Ernest Newman. "The autobiographical writings of Berlioz rank among the most vivacious and fascinating records of life in Paris and other European capitals during the first seven decades of the nineteenth century...Mr. Newman enters the picture with his supplementary narratives and notes, written in a language whose vigor and point are worthy of the distinguished company of Berlioz himself. " ..."What a mine of pungent comment and racy tales lies in the pages of thse memoirs. One of the most important books in the history of music, written by the only musician who could really write. " Contains references to: Lesueur, Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Camille Moke, Thomas Moore, Mozart, Napoleon I, Napoleon III, Joseph Ortigue, Nicolo Paganini, Leon Pillet, Pischek, Rossini, Adolphe Sax, Henrietta Smithson, Spontini, Horace Vrnet, and Karl Maria von Weber. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 546 pages . more information

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NY: Basic Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. c. 1978. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 0465086187 . Name embossed on half-title, else binding and contents are almost as new. Very minor wear and soil on the complete DJ. ; Red cloth, gold lettering. Index. 16p b/w illus. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Translated from the French by Olivier Bernier. Preface by Virgil Thomson. "A truly fascinating book - the autobiographical account of the tumultuous yet dedicated life of a man who passed from a luxurious life in Saint Petersburg, through the Bolshevik revolution, to Spain, to a career as a painter in Paris, the Second World War as a French soldier, the grimness of life as a prisoner of war in a German labor camp building coastal defenses, to the liberation of Paris and, at last, to the deck of a ship bound for America. Leonid, with his keen painter's eye and his sense of drama, gives us something of human history not in the history books. "; 8-1/2" Tall; 275 pages . more information

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NY: Simon & Schuster. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. c. 1989. Hardcover. 0671649426 . Binding is clean, sound and unworn. Contents are clean and unmarked, 'tho a little age-yellowed. Minor edge wear on clean, complete DJ. ; Blue cloth spine, bright gold lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY / HISTORY. Bernstein focuses all his reportorial and writing skills on his own family: on the events that shaped his childhood in Washington, D. C. , and led to the persecution of his parents and thousands of others during the McCarthy era. This is an exploration of the last undisturbed corner or our national nightmare, drawn from the vivid memories of his childhood; from interviews with his parents and their friends; from President Harry Truman's closest associates; and from the secret files the FBI maintained on the Bernstein famiy for thirty years - until 1972, the year of the Watergate break-in. ; 9-1/2" Tall; 262 pages . more information

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San Francisco: Harper & Row. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1987. First Edition; Third Printing. Hardcover. 0062500570 . Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Contents are lightly age-yellowed but are otherwise clean and unworn. Very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ. ; 9-1/2" tall, 356pp. Maroon cloth spine, bright gold lettering. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. Berrigan was one of the Cantonsville Nine, antiwar protesters in 1968. This "is the story of Daniel Berrigan's life and his commitment to the stuggle for peace and justice. He creates a portrait of our times out of the words, events, feelings, and choices of his own life. It is a dramatic and poignant journey that touches and illuminates the wounds of American society. " Index. 16p b/w photos. . more information

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