The Life of Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Michael O'Mara Books, 2004. Softcover. More
Biography/Memoir
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Dance to the Piper: The Life Story of America's Greatest Creative Dancer
New York: Bantam Books, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market Paperback. More
The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World
New York: Penguin Press, 2007. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. More
Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. First Edition (presumed). First Printing. Hardcover. In this innovative book, Alfred W. McCoy takes a new approach to the military and political history of the Philippines. Comparing two generations of graduates from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)—the classes of 1940 and 1971—McCoy uncovers fundamental..... More
Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2013. David Frye (tr.), Ilan Stavans (ed.). First Edition. Paperback. This new Norton Critical Edition recounts the 1527–36 expedition of Cabeza de Vaca, the first Spanish explorer to cross North America. Published in 1542 to an astonished and captivated public, Chronicle of the..... More
Gandhi (A Photographic Story of a Life)
DK Publishing, 2006. Softcover. More
Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Angelica Garnett (cover illustration). Paperback. More
A Girl's Story
New York: Seven Stories Press, 2020. First Printing. Trade Paperback. Translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer Another masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted author of The Years. In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the night fifty years earlier when she..... More
Royal Charles: Charles II and the Restoration
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First Edition. Third Printing. Hardcover. More
Life isn't everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends
New York: Picador, 2020. First Edition. Paperback. An up close and personal portrait of a legendary filmmaker, theater director, and comedian, drawing on candid conversations with his closest friends in show business and the arts―from Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep to Natalie Portman and Lorne Michaels. The work of..... More
A Girl from Yamhill
New York: Harper, 2016. Revised Edition. Trade Paperback. Told in her own words, A Girl from Yamhill is Newbery Medal–winning author Beverly Cleary’s heartfelt and relatable memoir. For everyone who has enjoyed the pranks and schemes, embarrassing moments, and all of the other poignant and colorful images of childhood..... More
Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir
London: Pocket Books, Inc, 2003. Reprint. Paperback. More
The Only Way Is West : A once in a lifetime adventure walking 500 miles on Spain's Camino De Santiago
Self Published. Paperback. Bradley Chermside was looking for something when he ventured onto the Camino. What he was found was transformation. His life was changed forever. He returned home and wrote "The Only Way Is West - A once in a lifetime adventure walking 500 miles on Spain's Camino de..... More
Between Extremes
London: Black Swan, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. More
The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science, and Character
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1998. First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author. David Baltimore won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1975. Known as a wunderkind in the field of immunology, he rose quickly through the ranks of the scientific community to become the..... More
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1976. Paul Bacon (jacket design). First Edition (stated), First Printing. Hardcover. Doris Kearns Goodwin's classic life of Lyndon Johnson, who presided over the Great Society, the Vietnam War, and other defining moments the tumultuous 1960s, is a monument in political biography. From the moment..... More
Time Bites: Views and Reviews
London: Fourth Estate, 2004. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by author. 'The approach to old age, that Via Dolorosa, is presented to us as a long descent after the golden age of youth... But now start the delightful surprises. Best of all, not ever predicted nor, I think..... More
Exploding Into Life
New York: Aperture/ Many Voices Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Rare. In 1978, 34 year old Dorothea Lynch discovered she had breast cancer. In an attempt to gain control over the disease and communicate her experience to others, she asked her longtime friend, photographer Eugene Richards, to visually document her..... More
Eve and the Apes
New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. More
Emlyn: An Early Autobiography (1927-1935); A Sequel to George (1905-1927)
Middlesex, England: Penguin Books, 1976. Paperback. More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2017. William L. Andrews, William S. McFeely (eds.). Second Edition. Paperback. This revision of the acclaimed and widely assigned Norton Critical Edition of Frederick Douglass’s great autobiography Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself includes key examples of..... More
Thomas Jefferson
New York: Pyramid Books, 1959. Paperback. A Ladder Edition adopted by Adolph Myers Pyramid Books no. E 15. More
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
London: Penguin Books, 2001. Reprint. Trade Paperback. A fascinating insight into the vibrant culture of Modernism, and the rich artistic world of Paris's Left Bank, Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas includes an introduction by Thomas Fensch in Penguin Modern Classics. For Gertrude Stein and her wife..... More
The Few Lines: A Convict Story - The Lost Lives of Myra & William Sykes
Sydney: ABC Books, 2006. First Edition. Paperback. More
