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| Lanoux, Armand: Zola
Book Number: 30469
Staples Press, London, 1955. 8vo. hardcover. 318pp b/w frontis. very good. / good, chipped d/w.
Keywords: zola biography
Price: $25.00 |
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| Pearson, John: Facades: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell
Book Number: 30782
London Macmillan, London, 1978 8vo hardcover 534pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep. / good d/w. Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Sitwell Edith Facades Edith Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell Pearson John
Price: $18.00 |
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| Skinner, B F: Particulars of My Life
Book Number: 30784
New York Knopf, 1976 8vo hardcover 320pp. b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Biographies united states america Memoirs General Particulars of My Life Skinner B F
Price: $18.00 |
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| Middles, Mick: FRANKIE HOWERD: THE ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHY
Book Number: 30824
2000. Headline. first edition. small 4to. near fine unmarked copy with po sticker on back of d/w. 144pp. b/w photos in text throughout. Throughout his showbusiness career, Frankie Howerd remained an enigma, a very private public figure who suffered terribly from insecurity. This is a fitting tribute to a truly funny comedian. '
Keywords: Humour, sit com. movies.
Price: $25.00 |
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| Mulieribus, De Claris, Guarino, Giudo A. [Boccaccio, Giovanni]: Boccaccio. Concerning Famous Women.
Book Number: 31110
Rutgers University Press. 1963. 8vo. hardcover. 257pp. very good. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Boccaccio, Giovanni women biographies
Price: $35.00 |
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| Throssell, Ric: Wild weeds and wind flowers : the life and letters of Katharine Susannah Prichard
Book Number: 31128
Angus & Robertson 1975 8vo. hardcover. 273pp. index, b/w illus. very good. / good d/w.
Keywords: life and letters of Katharine Susannah Prichard
Price: $18.00 |
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| Pascal, Valerie: The disciple and his devil
Book Number: 31345
London Joseph 1971 8vo hardcover 319pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Pascal Gabriel 1894 1954 The disciple and his devil Pascal Valerie
Price: $18.00 |
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| Chaplin,Michael (Charlie Chaplin): I Couldn''t Smoke the Grass on My Father''s Lawn.
Book Number: 31389
UK: Leslie Frewin, 1966. Very Good. 1st.edition. 8vo, hardcover in d/w,spine slanted. 173pp. Illustrated throughout with b&w plates. Comes with 4 newspaper cuttings and 2 magazine articles from the late sixties regarding Chaplin, titled - His Name Is Chaplin, Exit the Little Tramp, Chaplin Takes His Final Bow, Sir Charlie''s Angels, Chaplin Wedding, Runaway Chaplins.
Keywords: Charlie Chaplin, celebrity childhood, children,
Price: $20.00 |
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| Fido, Martin: The World of Charles Dickens
Book Number: 31404
Carlton Books, 1997 4to hardcover 144pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Looks at the life and works of Dickens, describes what life was like during the times in which he lived, and surveys the stage and screen adaptations of his works.
Keywords: Poetry Drama Criticism History Biography The World of Charles Dickens Fido Martin
Price: $18.00 |
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| Miller, Dan B.: Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road
Book Number: 31446
New York Knopf 1995 8vo hardcover 459pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w. A major new biography, Erskine Caldwell: The Journey from Tobacco Road presents the fascinating life and times of a prolific and profoundly influential -- yet nearly forgotten -- figure in American literature.nnIn the 1930S and '40s, Erskine Caldwell's impassioned work dealing with the Southern poor -- most notably, the novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre -- earned him wide critical acclaim. Although many Southerners reviled him for his brutal exposes of their region, literary scholars at the time ranked him alongside Fitzgerald, Wolfe, and Steinbeck. William Faulkner thought him one of America's five greatest novelists, and as late as 1960, Caldwell was under consideration for the Nobel Prize.nnAlthough Caldwell worked for years in abject poverty, eventually his commercial success matched his lofty critical standing. The dramatic adaptation of Tobacco Road became the biggest hit in Broadway history, and paperback editions of Caldwell's novels -- frequently under attack for their explicit sexuality -- sold in record numbers around the globe. By the 1960s, in fact, his publicists declared him "The World's Best-Selling Novelist," and by 1970 he had written more than one hundred short stories and twenty-five novels. This should have secured Caldwell an enduring place in America's literary history, but today he is largely forgotten, one of the great disappearing acts in American letters.nnCaldwell's personal life was no less complicated than his professional one, and Dan B. Miller's evocation of it is uncommonly subtle and provocative. Lonely and isolated as a boy; Caldwell treated his own children with alternating neglect and brutality. He was married four times (once to the photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White), had a number of extramarital affairs, drank heavily, and was prone to violent mood swings.
Keywords: Biography Erskine Caldwell The Journey from Tobacco Road Miller Dan B
Price: $22.00 |
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