Biography / Autobiography (Stalin to Zanuck)
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352. STALIN... Svanidze, Budu (Translated & with a Preface by Root, Waverley.
Introduction by Bessedovsky, Gregory). MY UNCLE JOSEPH STALIN: AN INTIMATE
PORTRAIT BY HIS NEPHEW. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1953. 1st. Hardcover -
cloth, Small octavo. Very good condition in worn chipped dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Light corner wear. Black & white photos. An
intimate portrait of Joseph Stalin by his nephew. Inside info on the Purge,
World War II & "The Secret of Lenin's Body". Good tight copy. 235
pages......$15.00
353. STALIN... Trotski, Leon (Translated from the Russian by Malamuth,
Charles). STALIN: AN APPRAISAL OF THE MAN AND HIS INFLUENCE. London, Hollis &
Carter Ltd, 1947. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition.
Light cover/edge wear. Store tag endpaper. Black & white photos & frontis.
With Chronological Guide, Stalin's Aliases & Pseudonyms, Communist Party
Congresses, Glossary, Extensive Index. Trotsky's epic - and mammoth -
biography of Stalin. Good tight copy. 516 pages......$17.50
354. STARKIE... Starkie, Walter. SCHOLARS AND GYPSIES: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1963. 1st U.S. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition. Slight corner wear. Edge mark. Good tight copy.
324 pages......$12.00
355. STENDAHL... Josephson, Matthew. STENDHAL or THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
New York, Doubleday, 1946. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very
good condition. Black & white frontis. Thorough, well-written biography of
Stendhal. With appendix: The Stehdhal Revival, Biographical Notes, Extensive
Index. Good tight copy. 489 pages......$16.00
356. STRACHEY... Holroyd, Michael. LYTTON STRACHEY: A CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY: Vol
1-THE UNKNOWN YEARS (1880-1910)-Vol 2-THE YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT 1910-1932
(BOXED SET). New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1968. 1st edition. Decorated
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in slightly worn, slightly soiled djs..
Color frontis each volume. 2 volume boxed set. Box edgeworn, slightly soiled.
Good tight copies. 475+754 pages......$30.00
357. STRACHEY... Strachey, James & Strachey, Alix (Edited by Meisel, Perry &
Kendrick, Walter). BLOOMSBURY/FREUD: THE LETTERS OF JAMES AND ALIX STRACHEY
1924-1925. New York, Basic Books, Inc, 1985. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photos. Pictorial endpapers. Intimate correspondence. Year of
almost daily correspondence between husband & wife while Alix was in Berlin
being analyzed by Freud's disciple Karl Abraham. Highlights of Bloomsbury, as
well as Vienna. Good tight copy. 360 pages......$15.00
358. STRACHEY... Strachey, John St. Loe. THE RIVER OF LIFE. New York, G.P.
Putnam's Sons, 1924. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Good condition+. Some
cover wear. Bumped. Label removed, title. Title, half-title tape repaired.
Strachey's diary/memoirs. Good tight copy. 335 pages......$12.50
359. STRANG... Strang, Lord. HOME AND ABROAD. London, Andre Deutsch Limited,
1956. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white frontis & photos. Diplomatic
memoirs. World War II. Good tight copy. 320 pages......$17.50
360. STREETER... Streeter, Lieut. Edward 27th (N.Y) Division. "THAT'S ME ALL
OVER, MABLE". New York, Frederick A. Stokes Co, 1919. 1st. Decorated boards,
12mo. Very good condition. Light cover/edge wear. Owner signature front
endpaper. Black & white drawings. With 25 Black & white illustrations by
Corp. G. William Breck. Wartime humor. Funny, ironic letters home. Scarce.
Good tight copy. 63 pages + illustrations.....$15.00
361. STRINDBERG... Lagercrantz, Olof (Translated by Hollo, Anselm). AUGUST
STRINDBERG. New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1984. 1st U.K.. Hardcover -
cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Lt cover wear. Corner bumped. Edge
mark. Signature endpaper. Black & white photos. Excellent, photo-illustrated
biography of Strindberg's life & works. Good tight copy. 399
pages......$17.50
362. STRINDBERG... Strindberg, August (Translated by Sprinchorn, Evert,
Quinn, Seabury, Jr., and Peterson, Kenneth). THE CHAMBER PLAYS: AUGUST
STRINDBERG: STORM WEATHER - THE BURNED HOUSE - THE GHOST SONATA - THE
PELICAN. Minneapolis, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1962. 2nd Revised. Hardcover
- cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Number written front endpaper. Edge
mark. Black & white photos. Biographical introduction. Contains NOTES TO THE
MEMBERS OF THE INTIMATE THEATRE, by Strindberg. Good tight copy. 228
pages......$12.00
363. STUART... Stewart, Alexander. THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER STUART. London,
Allen & Unwin, 1948. 2nd impression. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Good
condition. Covers lightly scuffed. Black & white photo frontice. Fold-out
map. 182 pages......$10.00
364. SULZBERGER... Sulzberger, C. L. A LONG ROW OF CANDLES: MEMOIRS AND
DIARIES [1934-1954]. New York, Macmillan, 1969. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth,
Large octavo. Very good condition. Slight cover/ edge wear. Lightly bumped.
Black & white photos. World War II Memoirs by man who knew de Gaulle,
Churchill, Dulles, Krushchev, Nasser, Castro, etc. Good tight copy. 1061
pages......$16.00
365. SUPREMES... Turner, Tony with Aria, Barbara. ALL THAT GLITTERED: MY LIFE
WITH THE SUPREMES. New York, Dutton, 1990. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards,
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Edge mark. Good tight copy. 308 pages......$12.00
366. SWIFT... Leslin, Shane. THE SKULL OF SWIFT. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill,
1928. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Covers lightly soiled.
Corners/spine ends worn. Light foxing. Tinted frontis & plates. Fascinating
biography of Dean Jonathan Swift. Including details of the exumation & study
of the famous Skull. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 347 pages......$12.00
367. SYDNEY... Bill, Alfred H. ASTROPHEL: OR THE LIFE AND DEATH OF THE
RENOWNED SIR PHILIP SYDNEY. New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc, 1937. 1st.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Lightly bumped. Slight cover
wear/fading. Black & white frontis & plates. Good tight copy. 372
pages......$14.00
368. SYDNEY... Howell, Roger. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY: THE SHEPHERD KNIGHT. Boston,
Little, Brown & Co, 1968. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Black & white frontis of Sydney. Excellent biography of SIDNEY.
Good tight copy. 308 pages......$12.50
369. SYMINGTON... Wellman, Paul I. STUART SYMINGTON: PORTRAIT OF A MAN WITH A
MISSION. New York, Doubleday, 1960. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Corners very lightly bumped. "Book length profile of the Senator from
Missouri who is a potential candidate for President in the 1960 election".
Advance edition. Good tight copy. 281 pages......$14.00
370. TABOR... Hall, Gordon Langley. THE TWO LIVES OF BABY DOE. Philadelphia,
Macrae Smith Co, 1962. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, Small octavo. Good
condition. Some cover & edge wear. Slight soiling. Edges bumped.. Gift
inscription endpaper. Owner's stamp, endpaper, title & upper edges. 252
pages......$20.00
371. TALMADGE... Talmadge, Herman E. with Winchell, Mark Royden. TALMADGE: A
POLITICAL LEGACY, A POLITICIAN'S LIFE: A MEMOIR. Atlanta, Peachtree
Publishers, 1987. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good
condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Black &
white photos. Political & personal memoirs of Georgia Governor Gene Talmadge.
Indexed. Good tight copy. 371 pages......$12.00
372. TENNYSON... (Tennyson). ALFRED LORD TENNYSON: A MEMOIR: BY HIS SON. New
York, Macmillan, 1911. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition.
Light cover/corner/edge wear. Bookplate front endpaper. 1st one-volume new
edition/2nd printing. Reminiscences by & about Tennyson, tributes, letters,
poetry. Solid volume. 551 pages......$20.00
373. THEATRICAL... Chroley, Plance, and Young (Edited by Stoddard, Richard
Henry). PERSONAL REMINISCENCES. New York, Scribner, Armstrong & Co, 1875.
1st. Decorated cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Light cover wear. Spine
edges lightly frayed. Owner's plate. From the Bric-a-Brac Series. Personal
reminiscences of scores of literary & theatrical figures by authors. Tight
copy. Included are Byron, Landor, Disraeli, Lytton, Vigny, Hawthorne, Hood,
Thackery, Hunt, Coleridge, Wordsworth & many more. Good tight copy. 299
pages......$15.00
374. THOMAS... Atholl, Desmond and Cherkinian, Michael. THAT GIRL AND PHIL:
AN INSIDER TELLS WHAT LIFE IS REALLY LIKE IN THE MARLO THOMAS - PHIL DONAHUE
HOUSEHOLD. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white photos. Day to day life in the Thomas/Donahue
household - by Atholl, their household Steward. Good tight copy. 222
pages......$12.00
375. THOMSON... Brandon, Russell. ROY THOMSON OF FLEET STREET. London,
Collins, 1965. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Light
cover/edge wear. Spine slightly bumped. Black & white photos. Well-documented
biography of Lord Thomson of Fleet Street. Good tight copy. 397
pages......$15.00
376. TOLSTOY... Citati, Pietro (Translation from the Italian by Rosenthal,
Raymond). TOLSTOY. New York, Schocken Books, 1986. 1st. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Acclaimed the best short critical biography of Tolstoy in
any language. Good tight copy. 265 pages......$12.00
377. TOLSTOY... Tolstoy, Alexandra (Translated from the Russian by Hapgood,
Elizabeth Reynolds). TOLSTOY: A LIFE OF MY FATHER. New York, Harper & Bros,
1953. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good condition in torn dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Corner wear. Signature endpaper.
Foxing endpapers. Black & white photos. Detailed portrait of Tolstoy. 40
Black & white photographs, many from the family archives. Well-indexed.
Well-bound volume. 543 pages......$12.50
378. TORRIO... McPhaul, Jack. JOHNNY TORRIO: FIRST OF THE GANG LORDS. New
York, Arlington House, 1970. 1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge
mark. Black & white photos. Inside story of Al Capone's boss, Johnny Torrio,
from his birthplace in Italy to King of Crime in Chicago. Includes
information from long-sealed Federal documents. With Bibliography, Notes,
Chronology of Crime & detailed Index. Good tight copy. 489 pages......$15.00
379. TOSCANO... Toscano, Louis. TRIPLE CROSS: ISRAEL, THE ATOMIC BOMB & THE
MAN WHO SPILLED THE SECRETS. New York, Birch Lane Press, 1990. Hardcover -
1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. True story of the man who documented & exposed Israel's
secret manufacture of Atomic Bombs. Indexed. Good tight copy. 321
pages......$10.00
380. TRELAWNY... Armstrong, Margaret. TRELAWNY: A MAN'S LIFE. New York,
Macmillan, 1940. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good
condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Store stamp, paper clip mark endpapers. Black & white frontis portrait. Vivid
biography of Edward Trelawny. Including details of his adventures &
friendships with Shelley & Byron. Indexed. Good tight copy. 379
pages......$15.00
381. TRENCHARD... Boyle, Andrew. TRENCHARD: MAN OF VISION. London, Collins,
1952. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Detailed
biography of Lord Trenchard "The Father of the Royal Air Force." With
extensive index. Scarce. Good tight copy. 768 pages......$30.00
382. TRIPLET... Triplet, June. SALT WATER TAFFY. N.Y, G.P. Putnams, 1929. 8th
impression. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Black & white
photos. Good tight copy. 206 pages......$10.00
383. TRUDEAU... Trudeau, Margaret. BEYOND REASON. New York, Paddington Press,
1979. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. very good+ in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Good tight
copy. 256 pages......$12.00
384. USHALOV... Ushakov, Alexander A. IN THE GUNSIGHT OF THE KGB: THE STORY
OF ONE MAN'S SPECTACULAR ESCAPE ACROSS THE MOST HEAVILY GUARDED BORDER IN THE
WORLD. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Ushakov's harrowing flight to freedom over the
heavily guarded Soviet-Turkish border in the Caucasus Mountains. The most
heavily guarded border in the world. Thorough analysis of the Soviet system.
Good tight copy. 273 pages......$13.50
385. VANDENBERG... Vandenberg, Arthur H., Jr. (Editor) With the collaboration
of Morris, Joe Alex. THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF SENATOR VANDENBERG. Boston,
Houghton Mifflin, 1952. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth, octavo. Very good
condition. Very light cover wear. Black & white frontis & photos. With Index.
Good tight copy. 599 pages......$16.50
386. VANDERBILT... Vanderbilt, Gloria. ONCE UPON A TIME: A TRUE STORY. New
York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white
photos. Good tight copy. 301 pages......$10.00
387. VOLTAIRE... Tallentyre, S.G. THE FRIENDS OF VOLTAIRE: WITH PORTRAITS.
New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very
good condition. Light cover/corner wear. Black & white plates. Lively
biographical portraits - significant contemporaries of Voltaire. Included are
D'Alembert, Diderot, Galiani, Grimm, Helvetius, Beaumarchais & others. With
extensive index. Good tight copy. 303 pages + ads......$15.00
388. VON HORN... von Horn, Major General Carl. SOLDIERING FOR PEACE. New
York, David McKay Co, 1967. 1st American. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Light
cover wear. Black & white photos. Personal history of von Horn, Commander of
the U.N. peacekeeping forces in Palestine, the Congo & Yemen. His struggles
against political intrigue, bureaucracy & lack or money & men. Well-indexed.
Good tight copy. 402 pages......$14.00
389. VON RIBBENTROP... Weitz, John. HITLER'S DIPLOMAT: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF
JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP. New York, Ticknow & Fields, 1992. 1st. Hardcover -
1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. very good+ in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. The 1st full length English-language bio of Joachim von
Ribbentrop, Hitler's foreign minister. Good tight copy. 376 pages......$12.50
390. VON RICHTOFEN... Green, Martin. THE VON RICHTHOFEN SISTERS: THE
TRIUMPANT AND THE TRAGIC MODES OF LOVE. New York, Basic Books, 1974. 2nd
edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Slight
cover/edge wear. Lightly bumped. Edge marks. Black & white photos. Biography
of the Von Richtofen sisters & their liasons with D.H. Lawrence & Max Weber.
Good tight copy. 396 pages......$10.50
391. WALESA... Walesa, Lech. A WAY OF HOPE. New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1987.
1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket
with protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Black & white photos.
Autobiography of Lech Walesa. Indexed. Good tight copy. 325 pages......$12.00
392. WALKER... Walker, Mickey with Reichler, Joe. MICKEY WALKER: THE TOY
BULLDOG AND HIS TIMES. New York, Random House, 1961. 1st/3rd prntg. Hardcover
- cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white photos. Life story of Mickey Walker; one of the most
colorful personalities in the 1920's. Boxing champion in 3 divisions. Friends
with Texas Guinan, Norma Talmadge, Al Capone, Polly Adler, Jack Dempsey,
Fanny Brice, Jimmy Durante, the Price of Wales, to name a few. Good tight
copy. 305 pages......$15.00
393. WALTON... Walton, Sam with Huey, John. SAM WALTON: MADE IN AMERICA - MY
STORY. New York, Doubleday, 1992. 1st/2nd printing. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Sam Walton, Wal-Mart
entrepreneur tells his own story - life & business. Well-indexed. Good tight
copy. 269 pages......$11.50
394. WATTERSON... Wall, Joseph Frazier. HENRY WATTERSON: RECONSTRUCTED REBEL.
New York, Oxford University Press, 1956. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in slightly chipped, taped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white frontis photo. Bio of the famed editor and spokesman
of 'the New South.' Civil War. Good tight copy. 362 pages......$17.50
395. WEBB... Crouthamel, James L. JAMES WATSON WEBB: A BIOGRAPHY. Middletown
CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1969. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, octavo.
Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge
mark. Black & white frontis. Biography of an American journalist. Good tight
copy. 262 pages......$15.00
396. WEINGARTEN... Weingarten, Violet. INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY. New York,
Alfred A. Knopf, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo.
Very good condition in clipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Very slight foxing lowed edge. Edge mark. Good tight copy. 243 pages..$12.00
397. WEISS... Carpenter, Teresa. MOB GIRL: A WOMAN'S LIFE IN THE UNDERWORLD.
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1992. 1st. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photos. Biography of Arlene Weiss, girl friend of Bugsy Siegel
& later intimate with several notorious Mafia members. Well indexed. Good
tight copy. 288 pages......$12.50
398. WHITE... DeArmond, R.N. (editor). 'STROLLER' WHITE: TALES OF A KLONDIKE
NEWSMAN. Vancouver Canada, Mitchell Press Ltd, 1969. 1st. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Small light stain right dj foredge. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Good
tight copy. 182 pages......$15.00
399. WHITE... Hinshaw, David. A MAN FROM KANSAS: THE STORY OF WILLIAM ALLEN
WHITE. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1945. 2nd impression. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Slight bumping. Black & white photos. Good tight copy. 305 pages......$12.50
400. WHITE... White, Stewart Edward. SPEAKING FOR MYSELF. N.Y, Doubleday,
1943. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, 12mo. Very good condition. Black &
white drawings. Autobiography ofthe Author of the Betty Books - Unobstructed
Universe, The Road I know, etc. Illustrated by David Hendrickson. 245
pages......$12.50
401. WHITE... White, Vanna with Romanowski, Patricia (Foreword by Sajak,
Pat). VANNA SPEAKS. New York, Warner Books, 1987. 1st edition. Hardcover -
1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Color & Black & white photos. Autobiography of
Vanna White. Many color plates. Good tight copy. 191 pages......$12.00
402. WHITMAN... Aronin, Ben. WALT WHITMAN'S SECRET. Chicago, Argus Books,
1955. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Revealing biography of
"America's Poet." Good tight copy. 374 pages......$16.00
403. WIGFORCE... Forman, Denis. TO REASON WHY. London, Andre Deutsch, 1991.
1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Continuation of SON OF ADAM. Forman relates the
Story of Wigforce & the War in Italy. Good tight copy. 220 pages......$12.50
404. WILDE... Ellmann, Richard. OSCAR WILDE. N.Y, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 1st
Amer. edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust
jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Slight edgewear. Black & white
photos. Definitive bio of Wilde. Good tight copy. 680 pages......$12.00
405. WILDE... Pearson, Hesketh. OSCAR WILDE: HIS LIFE AND WIT. N.Y, Harper &
Bros, 1946. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Good condition. Edge/cover wear.
Taped owner plate. Bumped. Edge mark. Black & white photos. Front free
endpaper smudged. 345 pages......$12.00
406. WILDE... Winwar, Frances. OSCAR WILDE AND THE YELLOW NINETIES (A candid,
human picture of the fantastic rise and tragic disintegration of a great
genius). New York, Blue Ribbon Books, 1940. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very
good condition in lightly chipped dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Black & white photos. Blue Ribbon edition of the Harper & Brothers
volume. Foreward by Lord Alfred Douglas. Good tight copy. 381
pages......$16.00
407. WILLARD... Gordon, Anna A. (Introduction by Lady Henry Somerset. With
character sketches & memorial tributes by a host of worthies). THE BEAUTIFUL
LIFE OF FRANCES E. WILLARD: A MEMORIAL VOLUME. Chicago, Women's Temperance
Assn, 1898. 1st. Leather/cloth, Imperial octavo. Very good condition. Edge
wear. Bumped. Upper corner stains. Endpapr inscriptions. Black & white photos
& frontis. Massive biography of the head of the Woman's Temperance Assn.
Photo-illustrated. With Memoriam, Character Sketches, Tributes. 416
pages......$18.00
408. WILLIAM II... Wilson, Lawrence. THE INCREDIBLE KAISER: A PORTRAIT OF
WILLIAM II. New York, A.S. Barnes & Co, 1963. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Small
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Black & white photos. Comprehensive, psychologically penetrating history of
Kaiser William II, a tragic victim to his own temperament. 196
pages......$15.00
409. WILLIAMS... Rader, Dotson. TENNESSEE: CRY OF THE HEART (AN INTIMATE
MEMOIR OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS). New York, Doubleday, 1985. 1st edition.
Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Black & white photos. Intimate
portrait of Williams by a close confidante & frequent companion. Good tight
copy. 347 pages......$14.00
410. WILLIAMS... Rasky, Harry. TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: A PORTRAIT IN LAUGHTER AND
LAMENTATION. New York, Dodd Mead, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Black & white photos. Imtimate portrait of
Tennessee Williams by documentary film maker, Harry Rasky. Good tight copy.
148 pages......$12.50
411. WILLIAMS... Smith, Bruce. COSTLY PERFORMANCES: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: THE
LAST STAGE - A PERSONAL MEMOIR BY BRUCE SMITH. New York, Paragon House, 1990.
1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in
dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Black & white photos. Close-up
of Tennessee Williams during his last years. Good tight copy. 262
pages......$11.50
412. WILLIAMS... Williams, Tennessee (With commentary by St. Just, Maria &
Preface by Kazan, Elia). FIVE O'CLOCK ANGEL: LETTERS OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TO
MARIA ST. JUST 1948 - 1982. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. 1st edition.
Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Black & white photos. Tennessee
Williams - over 3 decades of intimate correspondence with his best friend &
confidante, Maria St. Just. St. Just was the inspiration for Maggie in CAT ON
A HOT TIN ROOF. Open, expressive letters; serious, funny, gossipy, moving.
Good tight copy. 407 pages......$15.00
413. WILLIAMS... Williams, Hank Jr. with Bane, Michael. LIVING PROOF: AN
AUTOBIOGRAPHY. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979. 1st U.S. Hardcover -
cloth, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic
wrapper. Corner very slightly bumped. Black & white photos. Hank Williams Jr.
- his Autobiography. Good tight copy. 222 pages......$12.50
414. WILLIAMS... Williams, Valentine. WORLD OF ACTION. Boston, Houghton
Mifflin, 1938. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Good condition. Slight
cover/edge wear. Bumped. Spine faded. Edge mark. Black & white photos &
frontis. Autobiography. Good tight volume. 430 pages......$15.00
415. WILSON... Baker, Ray Stannard. WOODROW WILSON: LIFE AND LETTERS:
GOVERNOR 1910 - 1913 (Volume 3). New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1931. 1st.
Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. Very good condition. Light cover wear. Upper
spine end frayed. Black & white frontis & photos. Good tight copy. 483
pages......$18.00
416. WILSON... Wilson, Mary & Romanowski, Patricia. SUPREME FAITH: SOMEDAY
WE'LL BE TOGETHER. New York, Harper Collins, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover -
1/2 cloth/boards, octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective
plastic wrapper. Edge mark. Black & white photos. Story of Mary Wilson & The
Supremes. Good tight copy. 303 pages......$12.00
417. WINSTON... Winston, Pfc. Keith (Edited with a preface by Winston, Sarah)
Introduction by Eisenhower, John S.D. V...-MAIL: LETTERS OF A WORLD WAR II
COMBAT MEDIC. Chapen Hill, Algonquin Books, 1985. 1st. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition. Edge mark. Very light cover wear. Corners
lightly bumped. Black & white photos & maps. Decorated endpapers. Personal
account of one soldier's (WWII) involvement in war. Indexed. Good tight copy.
310 pages......$14.00
418. WOLFE... Turnbull, Andrew. THOMAS WOLFE. N.Y, Charles Scribner's Sons,
1967. 1st edition. Hardcover - cloth, Large octavo. very good+ in torn
somewhat chipped dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper. Edge mark.
Black & white photos. Good tight copy. 374 pages......$10.00
419. WOMEN... von Gleichen-Russwurm, Alexander (Translated by Waller, Hannah.
FAIR WOMEN: THEIR LOVES, THEIR POWER, THEIR FATES. New York, Alfred A. Knopf,
1927. 1st U.S. Hardcover - 1/2 cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good
condition. Very light cover/edge wear. Black & white plates. Alluring women
throughout history - famous & infamous. With Introductory Essay on "Beauty
and Daemony of Woman". Stories of 20 "Queens of Love and Courtesans".
Included are Cleopatra, Nel Gwynn, Jeanne Poisson (Madame de Pompadour),
Pauline Bonaparte, The Red Tsaritza (Tatiana), Clodia, the Lesbia of
Catullus, Fredegunde, Tullia d'Aragona & 11 others of note. Elegant volume.
Well-bound. Scarce. 268 pages......$30.00
420. WRITERS... Cowley, Malcolm. A SECOND FLOWERING: WORKS AND DAYS OF THE
LOST GENERATION. New York, Viking Press, 1973. 1st U.S. Hardcover - cloth,
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Story of the "Lost Generation" of American writers in terms of 8
representative figures.. Included are Hemingway, Dos Passos, Cummings,
Wilder, Faulkner Wolfe & Hart Crane - their biographies & place in literary
history. Well-indexed. Good tight copy. 276 pages......$16.00
421. WYCHERLEY... Connely, Willard. BRAWNY WYCHERLEY: FIRST MASTER IN ENGLISH
MODERN COMEDY. Port Washington NY, Kennitak Press, 1969. Repr 1950 edition.
Hardcover - cloth, octavo. Very good condition. Corners lightly bumped. Edge
mark. Black & white frontis. The life & dramatic career of Wycherley. With
Bibliography & Index. Good tight copy. 352 pages......$16.00
422. YULE... Yule, James Colton, M.A. RECORDS OF A VANISHED LIFE: LECTURES,
ADDRESSES, ETC., OF JAMES COLTON YULE, M.A. Toronto, Baptist Publishing Co,
1876. 1st edition. Eng Leather, 12mo. Very good condition. Slight edge/cover
wear. Front hinge starting. 169 pages......$15.00
423. YURKA... Yurka, Blanche. BOHEMIAN GIRL: BLANCHE YURKA: A THEATRICAL
LIFE. Athens, Ohio University Press, 1970. 1st. Hardcover - cloth, Large
octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with protective plastic wrapper.
Edge mark. Color frontis - Black & white photos. Colorful life of actress,
Blanche Yurka. Inside looks at Barrymore, Lunts, Fontaine, Pickford, Bette
Davis, Hepburn. Indexed. Good tight copy. 106 pages......$15.00
424. ZANUCK... Mosley, Leonard. ZANUCK: THE RISE AND FALL OF HOLLYWOOD'S LAST
TYCOON. Boston, Little, Brown & Co, 1984. 1st edition. Hardcover - 1/2
cloth/boards, Large octavo. Very good condition in dust jacket with
protective plastic wrapper. Corners lightly bumped. Black & white photos.
Good tight copy. 424 pages......$12.50
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