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| Dally-Watkins, June: Secrets behind My Smile
Book Number: 35094
Camberwell, Vic. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated 2002 8vo hardcover 280pp index, b/w illus. very good+ / very good+ d/w.
Keywords: Biography Secrets behind My Smile Dally Watkins June style fashion
Price: $25.00 |
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| Fitzpatrick, Kate: Name Dropping: An Incomplete Memoir
Book Number: 35152
Sydney, N.S.W. ; New York HarperCollins Publishers 2004 Large 8vo softcover 390pp index, b/w illus. very good, owner's inscription on fep.
Keywords: Biography Name Dropping An Incomplete Memoir Fitzpatrick Kate
Price: $25.00 |
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| John Bayley: Iris & the Friends
Book Number: 35156
TIME WARNER BOOKS 2000 8vo softcover 282pp b/w illus. very good+.
Keywords: Biography Iris the Friends John Bayley
Price: $14.00 |
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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
Price: $15.00 |
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| A. L. Rowse - Edited by Richard Ollard: The Diaries of A. L. Rowse
Book Number: 35391
Penguin 2004 8vo. Penguin Paperback, 462pp. Index. A Cornish Childhood, Cornwell, Diaries from the Twenties, Thirties, Fourties, Fifties, Sixties.
Keywords: A Cornish Childhood, Cornwell, Diaries from the Twenties, Thirties, Fourties, Fifties, Sixties
Price: $22.00 |
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| Ayliffe, John Stephen: Blind Man's Bluff - Roger's Extraordinary Journey
Book Number: 35496
Hal Books Halbooks Publishing 1997 8vo. 462pp. Illustrated with b&w photo's. Very Good. Signed by Author with dedication on title pages. The story of a teenage boy who was blinded by Meningitis at 14 and his life growing up.
Keywords: The story of a teenage boy who was blinded by Meningitis at 14 and his life growing up.
Price: $25.00 |
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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
Price: $30.00 |
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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
Price: $18.00 |
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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
Price: $18.00 |
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| D'arcy Cresswell: Margaret McMillan A Memoir
Book Number: 35800
Hutchinson & Co. Publishers. 1948 8vo. Red cloth. faded. Signed by author on ffl, with inscription to (Poet) John Schroder. The Memoirs of Margaret McMillian Founder of the Open Air Nursery School Movement, who with her sister - The Rachel McMillian Training College for Nursery School Teachers, reformed the Nursery School, for the health and wellbeing of generations. Includes Newspaper clipping and flyer promoting a National Appeal to continue the work of Margaret McMillian. The idea of the nursery school, school medical services, the school meals service, and much of the new education which sees the development of the child as the main objective, not merely how much learning can be crammed into one head, all stem from Margaret McMillan.
Keywords: Nursery School, London, Bradford, Deptford,
Price: $55.00 |
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