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NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1994. 1st US Edition. HARDBOUND. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE jacket. 2nd Printing. 6.75 x 1.75 x 9.5 inche. pp. 406. Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux; 1st American ed edition (October 1, 1994) Language: English HARDBOUND: 406 pages ISBN-10: 0374103054 ISBN-13: 978-0374103057 Item Weight: 2 POUNDS Dimensions: 6.75 x 1.75 x 9.5 inches. NEAR FINE, NO MARKINGS, An intimate, detailed portrayal of the lives of four eighteenth-century sisters--great-granddaughters of King Charles II who lived wealthy, public lives--is based on diaries and letters and reveals the joys and tragedies they shared.

NY: Times Books, 1999. 1ST. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Three Rivers Press; First Edition (June 6, 2000) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 496 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0812933397 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0812933390 Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.11 x 1.3 x 9.1 inches C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb invites readers into a virtual conversation -- via the art of biography -- with the legends and luminaries who have helped define America. This informal dictionary of biography peers into the personalities who have left a mark on our world -- a Who's Who of American history, and the next best thing to chatting directly with the likes of Abraham Lincoln, Walt Whitman, Susan B. Anthony, Eleanor Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, Elijah Muhammad, Amelia Earhart, Katharine Graham, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Frank McCourt, Bill Clinton, and many others.

NY: McGraw Hill, 1969. 1ST. HARDBOUND. NEAR FINE in NEAR FINE jacket. Illustrated by Elmyr De Hory. 1ST. 10 x 8.5 x 1.4 inches. pp. 243. HARDBOUND: 243 pages Item Weight: 1.29 POUNDS. Black cloth with embossed boxing and embossed title in silver on front cover, embossed titling on spine. End-papers are silver. Black, foil embossed cover, w /illustrated DJ IN MYLAR PROTECTIVE SLEEVE. Copyright page states 1ST, DJ states Book Club. HAS PREVIOUS OWNERS SIGNATURE Author's fifth book and 1st Non-fiction. HARDBOUND Publisher: MCGRAW HILL PUBLISHING COMPANY; First Edition edition (1969) Publisher: Mcgraw-Hill; Weight: 1.3 POUNDS. Fake: the Story of Elmyr De Hory is a fascinating study of a man whose talent as a forger and taste for the finer things in life led him into a life of dubious dealings. The entire con game goes into a full tailspin. The book was published in 1969, and de Hory lived another 8 years, so to find out what happened to him in the end, one must read The Forger's Apprentice by his… Read More

NY: DOUBLEDAY, 2002. 1ST. HARDBOUND. LIKE NEW in LIKE NEW jacket. 1ST. 6.68 x 1.8 x 9.54 inches. pp. 698. Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (April 16, 2002) Language: English HARDBOUND: 698 pages ISBN-10: 0385499922 ISBN-13: 978-0385499927 Item Weight: 2.5 POUNDS Dimensions: 6.68 x 1.8 x 9.54 inches. By the time she was committed to an asylum in 1938, five years after T. S. Eliot deserted her, Vivienne Eliot was a lonely, distraught figure. Shunned by literary London, she was the neurotic wife whom Eliot had left behind. In The Family Reunion, he described a wife who was a restless shivering painted shadow, and so she had become: a phantom like shape on the fringe of Eliot's life, written out of his biography and literary history.

NY: RANDOM HOUSE, 1967. 1ST. HARDBOUND. Near Fine. 1ST. 9.59 x 6.44 x 1.64 inches. pp. 103. HAS A NEAR FINE SLIPCASE AND BOOK IS FINE Condition. GIFT WORTHY., Illustrated in full color. Publisher: Random House; Early Edition (January 1, 1967) HARDBOUND: 103 pages Item Weight: 12 OUNCES. Publisher: Random House; Early Edition (January 1, 1967) HARDBOUND: 103 pages Item Weight: 12 OUNCES. Another masterpiece by the great American writer Truman Capote is brought to an audience of all ages. Buddy and his closest friend, his eccentric, elderly cousin, Miss Sook-the memorable characters from Capote's A Christmas Memory--love preparing their old country house for Thanksgiving. But there's trouble in the air. Odd Henderson, a scrawny, freckled, red-headed bully makes Buddy the target of his relentless torment. But Miss Sook only counsels patience and understanding, He can't help acting ugly; he doesn't know any different, she says. Filled with emotions that are universal to both young readers and… Read More

St. Martins Press, 1994. 2ND. SOFTCOVER. LIKE NEW. 1ST. 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches. pp. 349. Publisher: St Martins Pr (January 1, 1994) Language: English SOFTCOVER: 349 pages ISBN-10: 0312113587 ISBN-13: 978-0312113582 Item Weight: 15.2 OUNCES. While Spender's brilliant autobiography, first published in 1951 and out of print for 12 years, has gained new prominence as a result of its thematic appropriation by David Leavitt in While England Sleeps, the work remains a powerful classic in its own right, recognized as one of the most illuminating literary autobiographies to have emerged from the 1920s and 1930s.