BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925. Hardcover. Good. some staining on spine edge, corners bumped, several dents in back board; being the account of the visit to London in 1763-4 of Giacomo Casanova, chevalier de Seingalt; his schemes, enterprises & amorous adventures, with a description of the nobility, gentry & fashionable courtesans whom he encountered... 17 b&W illustrations. more information

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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1991. Second printing. Hardcover. Good/good. 216 pp. ex-library with usual markings, some spine lean, edge wear; The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee grandmother and half-Cherokee grandfather in the Appalachian mountains of Tennessee during the Great Depression. more information

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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Mass Market Paperback. Good. 373 pp; spine creasing, edge wear, spine has a bit of taped repair in lower 1/4; This is the unauthorized biography of Lee Radziwell, the only sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, who led a well-publicized life among the international jet set. DuBois traces Radziwell's life from her childhood in East Hampton to her jealous rivalry with her sister in adulthood. more information

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Forge Books, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 0765305267 How the unprepossessing Ulysses S. Grant, whose military genius ultimately preserved the Union, came to the forefront in the Civil War is a story as surprising as it is compelling. Forced to resign his commission in the peacetime army for drinking, and thereafter reduced to eking out a living for himself and his family with hardscrabble jobs, at the outbreak of hostilities he suddenly found himself a colonel, and then a general, of volunteers. Grant made the most of unexpected commands. what he knew best, it turned out, was how to wage war, relentlessly and with irresistible force. Early in 1862, with the conflict a year old and both sides in the West relunctant to fight, Grant seized the iniative and took Forts Henry and Donelson, capturing an entire rebel army. Later, in Mississippi, he conducted the ardous campaign against Vicksbug, cutting the confederacy in half and capturing a second army. All the time Grant was forced to cope with jealous superiors, like General Henry Halleck, while finding staunch allies in General William Sherman and Admiral David Dixon Porter, and dealing with disloyalty, like that of General John McClernard, who actually came close to replacing him.But for his many victories Grant was named commander in the West, and sent to relieve the seige of Chattanooga, which earned him his promotion to general-in-chief. ''Whip the Rebellion'' was Grant's watchword every day of the war. This dramatic narrative---peopled with the heroics of hundreds of officers and enlisted men, crammed with first-hand accounts of battles, tactics, and civilian hardships---offers fresh insights into both the public and personal lives of Grant and his immediate circle. more information

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New York: Liveright Inc., 1933. First edition. Hardcover. Good +/No Jacket . 351 pp. Light brown cloth over boards, gilt lettering and illustration on spine, raised illustration of Stanley on front cover; map endpapers showing Stanley's three journeys into Africa. An extensive biography of the life and journeys of Henry Morton Stanley - explorer, geographer, and adventurer. some rubbing and edge wear to boards, corners bumped. more information

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