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Cheever, Susan: Home Before Dark
Book Number: 34687
London Weidenfeld & N 1985 8vo hardcover 243pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Home Before Dark Cheever Susan
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Mansfield, Irving and Block, Jean Libman: Life With Jackie. The personal story of Jacqueline Susan
Book Number: 34698
Toronto ; New York Bantam Dell Pub Group 1983 8vo hardcover 276pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Biographies Memoirs General Life With Jackie Mansfield Irving and Block Jean Libman
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TENNANT, KYLIE: The Autobiography of Kylie Tennant. The Missing Heir.
Book Number: 34747
(Australia), Macmillan, (1986). First edition; 8vo; pp. b/w illustrations; very good, owner's inscription on fep. / very good d/w.
Keywords: literary biography Australian literature modern first editions biography
Price: $25.00 |
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Ustinov, Peter.: Dear me
Book Number: 34751
London Heinemann 1977 8vo hardcover 374pp index, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Autobiography of Peter Ustinov.
Keywords: Ustinov Peter Authors English 20th century Biography Actors Great Britain Biography Dear me Ustinov Peter
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Kinnane, Garry: George Johnston: A biography
Book Number: 34959
Melbourne, Vic. Nelson 1986 8vo hardcover 329pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's initials on fep. / very good d/w.
Keywords: Johnston George Henry 1912 1970 George Johnston A biography Kinnane Garry
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Hesse, Hermann: Autobiographical Writings of Hermann Hesse
Book Number: 34982
London, Cape 1973 8vo hardcover 291pp. very good / good chipped d/w missing small piece from rear top edge.
Keywords: Poetry Drama Criticism Autobiographical Writings of Hermann Hesse Hesse Hermann
Price: $30.00 |
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Harrison, Kathryn: Another place at the table : a story of shattered childhoods and the healing power of family / Kathy Harrison.
Book Number: 35295
Crows Nest, N.S.W. Allen & Unwin 2003 8vo softcover 224pp very good.
Keywords: Harrison Kathryn 1952 Foster home care Massachusetts Case studies Foster mothers Massachusetts Biography Foster children Another place at the table a story of shattered childhoods and the healing power of family / Kathy Harrison Harrison Kathr
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Moriarty, Dorothy: Dorothy: The Memoirs of a Nurse, 1889-1989
Book Number: 35568
Sidgwick & Jackson 1989 8vo hardcover 180pp, b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Dorothy Bishop was born in 1889, just two years after Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee. A hundred years later, she tells her story, of how 'a bit of Victoriana' shocked the expectations and escaped the constraints of her large and unusual family to become a nurse in the London of the First World War and the Cairo of the early twenties. A happy childhood in London and Kent during the Edwardian Golden Age is brought to life in visits to the circus, holidays at the seaside and the eccentric behaviour of the Bishop household. Dorothy's was not a conventional family and the close relationship which existed between her charming but remote mother and Richard Austin Freeman - doctor, artist and celebrated detective novelist - created a strange manage a trois which coloured her childhood. And then came the War. 'Hell' for her three brothers who volunteered for the front, but it set Dorothy free from waiting at home for suitable marriage offers. This is the first book to tell how a training nurse survived in the days before antibiotics and unions: when surgeons baptised babies before operating; when cockroaches in the ward were an everyday hazard; and when nurses worked fourteen-hour days for #8 a year. After qualifying, a brief spell of private nursing left Dorothy disillusioned, until her sense of adventure took her to Cairo - exotic, eye-opening and full of romance. Today, Dorothy Moriarty lives in Camberley in Surrey. She has contributed to the Help the Aged handbook, "Take Care of Yourself" (1988), and has recently broadcast on 'Woman's Hour' and American TV. An annuitant of the Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association, she herself is an example of their motto - 'Independent When Elderly'.
Keywords: History Biography Dorothy The Memoirs of a Nurse 1889 1989 Moriarty Dorothy
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Nolen, Stephanie: Shakespeare's Face
Book Number: 35691
Melbourne The Text Publishing Company 2002 Large 8vo softcover 352pp index, b/w illus. very good.
Keywords: Poetry Drama Criticism Art Architecture Photography Shakespeare's Face Nolen Stephanie
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Kaplan, Fred: Gore Vidal: A Biography
Book Number: 35683
Bloomsbury Pub Ltd 2000 8vo softcover 850pp index, b/w illus. very good+. From Publishers Weekly: Kaplan has written esteemed lives of Henry James, Dickens and Carlyle and is a professor of English at Queens College. He candidly admits, in a "prelude" that opens the book, "I prefer my subjects dead," and perhaps having a subject not yet dead has made it more difficult for Kaplan to synthesize the life and work, to put Vidal into context and to pinpoint the telling details of his subject's productive life. For this extremely long biography showcases erudition at the expense of selection, and the book drowns in encyclopedic detail. Much of the detail, drawn from Kaplan's access to Vidal's papers, is enlightening. Kaplan is especially good on Vidal's relationships with his editors at publishing companies and magazines and his friendships and feuds with Joanne Woodward, Christopher Isherwood, Tennessee Williams, Norman Mailer, William Buckley and others. His analysis of Vidal's multifarious work (novels, essays, plays, screenplays) is often elucidating. His accounts of Vidal's various runs for office are also useful. Yet it is annoying to read long-winded prose with a disappointing lack of immediacy. (Compare, for instance, Gerald Clarke's scintillating biography of Truman Capote, also about a contemporary writer known for his wit and style, and also written with the cooperation of its subject.) Kaplan, falling far short of that standard, convinces the reader that Vidal's unusually vast involvement with the political and literary life of his times is impressive, without seeming to draw much inspiration from Vidal's own biting prose, which, though cited dutifully, fails to spark in this context. Rather than coming to life, Vidal seems entombed within the pages of this book. 12 pages b&w photos. (Nov.) nCopyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Keywords: Biographies Memoirs General Gore Vidal A Biography Kaplan Fred
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