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Tyrrel, Rebecca: Camilla: An Intimate Portrait
Book Number: 40537
Short Books May 1, 2004 8vo softcover 288pp very good. Rebecca Tyrrel paints a vivid picture of the life of Camilla Parker Bowles-jolly, horsey, laid-back Camilla, loyal friend, loving mother, whose "open" county marriage was no one's business until it emerged that the other man in it was the heir to the throne. To her critics, Camilla will always be a manipulative marriage breaker, the woman who took on the "People's Princess" and won. But if nothing else, she is constant-a dignified consort, who has endured years of public vilification and never answered back. With the help of friends and county contacts, royal reporters and palace insiders, Tyrrel goes behind the scenes of an extraordinary love story-a story of romance and tragedy, which has rocked the monarchy to its foundations and yet doggedly prevailed.
Keywords: Camilla An Intimate Portrait Tyrrel Rebecca
Price: $9.00 |
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Gordon, Colin: Beyond the Looking Glass
Book Number: 40581
Hodder 1982 4to hardcover 255pp index, b/w illus. very good, light foxing / very good d/w.
Keywords: lewis carrol alice wonderland Looking Glass Gordon Colin
Price: $16.50 |
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Mankowitz, Wolf: Dickens of London
Book Number: 40627
Weidenfeld & Nicholson 1976 8vo hardcover 252pp index, colour & b/w illus. very good / good- chipped d/w.
Keywords: Dickens of London Mankowitz Wolf
Price: $15.00 |
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Taylor, Roberta: Too Many Mothers - A Memior of an East End childhood
Book Number: 40754
Atlantic Books London 2002 8vo softcover 245pp very good. Roberta Taylor played Irene Raymond on EastEnders and Gina Gold in The Bill. This is Roberta's story of growing up in the East End of London.
Keywords: Too Many Mothers Taylor Roberta
Price: $14.00 |
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Cook, Wendy E.: So Farewell Then - The untold life of Peter Cook
Book Number: 40776
Harper April 2, 2007 8vo softcover 400pp very good. After 30 years of silence, Wendy Cook, his first wife, talks openly of the years of chaos, hedonism, laughter and success that they shared together.
Keywords: So Farewell Then Cook Wendy E
Price: $16.00 |
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DRAKE, Mary:: THE TREES WERE GREEN Memories of Growing Up After the Great War
Book Number: 40800
Sydney. Hale & Iremonger. 1984. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Illustrated. Author recalls her childhood in Sydney, in particular Mosman and Balmoral.very good, some foxing. / very good d/w/
Keywords: Sydney, depression, NSW, australia
Price: $12.00 |
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McGinnis, Kerry: Heart Country
Book Number: 40965
Penguin Books Australia Ltd 31 Jan 2002 8vo softcover 324pp very good. After seven tough years of droving, Kerry McGinnis yearns for a proper home. When her father buys a property in Queenslands Gulf Country, it seems she might hve found one, but not everything goes smoothly. A rare insight into the difficulties of life in the Australian outback during the 1940's and 50's.
Keywords: Heart Country McGinnis Kerry
Price: $18.00 |
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Neville, Richard: Out of My Mind
Book Number: 41020
Penguin Books Australia Ltd August 1, 1996 8vo softcover 216pp very good. RUPERT IN ECOTOPIA, Extract from Chapter 42. The rapid rise of Rupert Murdoch, and his affect on planetary culture, is usually greeted with acclaim. The tycoon is seen as a visionary, an electronic equivalent to Alexander the Great. Other visionaries, the ones without inordinate wealth and a media empire, must rely on the power of their ideas to reach a mass audience. In the future, what if opposing champions met face to face, as they once did in ancient Athens?
Athens, 335BC: Alex, the most powerful man in the world, asked to be taken to meet a homeless derelict, nicknamed “the Dog”, found sprawled on the steps of the Parthenon. Towering over him, the General asked: “Is there anything I can do for you?”
“There is”, snapped the beggar, “Stand out of my sun.”
The General retreated, remarking to his companions. “If I was not Alexander the Great, then I would be Diogenes, the Dog.”
Diogenes, the famous Cynic, dressed in rags and slept in a clay pot . In reaction to an age of vulgarity and love of wealth, his teachings stressed voluntary simplicity, conveyed by personal example. Sold as a slave, he scolded the powerful, (including Plato, a “sell-out”) and regarded himself the one free man in Athens.
It is recorded that these two men - the one who had everything and the one who had nothing - died on the same day.
Keywords: Out of My Mind Neville Richard
Price: $18.00 |
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Keats, John.: You Might As Well Live. The Life And Times Of Dorothy Parker.
Book Number: 41188
Penguin Books., 1970 8vo. Softcover. 332pp. index, + b/w plates. reading copy.
Keywords: dorothy parker biography hollywood socialite rich famous
Price: $9.00 |
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MM. Erckmann-Chatrian: The Illustrious Dr. Matheus
Book Number: 41189
Ward Lock Bowden & Co. n.d. The Rainbow Series c. 1880 12mo. Brown decorated cloth. 200pp. Illustrations by Pannemaker,Yon Perrichon and Emile Banyard. The boards are clean and bright, the copy is clean and bright, som of the stiching, the spine webbing and cardboard and glue has sort of disintigrated, otherwise very good. The story of Dr. Matheus and his journey spreading the word on his magnificent work, in sixteen volumes, entitled Palingenesis-Psychologico-Anthropo-Zoology, explaining spontaneous generation, the transformation of bodies, and the peregrination of sould, citing Brahma, Vishnu, Siva, Isis and Orisris, Thales of Miletus, Heraclitus, Democritus...
Keywords: early science
Price: $250.00 |
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