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Rebel in Sports, A by: Pickens, Champ

Hardcover. New York , A. S. Barnes, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 175 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. The autobiography of a Southern sports promoter and father of the Blue-Gray football game. Paper browning, otherwise very good in dust jacket with light spine fade. Record # 302773
Price: $12.00 

Sartre & Flaubert by: Barnes, Hazel E.
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Sartre & Flaubert by: Barnes, Hazel E.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 449 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has several chips, small holes, and closed tears. Gray cloth covers have some brown staining, but are generally in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright, despite foxing along top edge. Binding is solid. This book explores the extent to which "The Family Idiot" is all of a biography, a novel, an autobiography, a philosophical work, and literature rolled into one. Clean copy. Record # 34342
Price: $18.00 

 

Shaw: An Autobiography, 1856-1898 by: Shaw, Bermard

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, 2nd printing, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. B&W photos. Pictorial dust jacket with small tear on top front and worn and slightly soil on front and back. Black boards with gilt title to spine. Marked on front and back and sun-faded around top edges. Previous owner signature and date on front flyleaf. Record # 850128
Price: $12.00 

Stranger in Their Midst by: Van Den Berghe, Pierre L.
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Stranger in Their Midst by: Van Den Berghe, Pierre L.

Hardcover. Niwot, CO, The University Press of Colorado, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 300 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is lightly bumped along the top edge, but is still in very good condition. Green cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is an intellectual autobiography by the controversial sociology and anthropology professor at the University of Washington. It describes his 1933 birth in the Belgian Congo, youth in Nazi-occupied Belgium, education in the US, and years of field work in Africa and Latin America. Includes family photographs and a generous sprinkling of insights on race relations, social stratification, and age and sex differentiation. Clean copy. Record # 34132
Price: $20.00 

The Joy of Hooking by: Graham, Virginia
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The Joy of Hooking by: Graham, Virginia

Softcover. NY, Zebra Publications, Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages, soft cover. Paper covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is an intimate autobiography of the exploits of Virginia Graham, the prominent American play-for-pay girl, as well as television and radio talk show host known for her quick wit, sharp tongue, and "tart-edged candor". She later became even more well-known as the star witness who broke the Manson case. Clean copy. Record # 34610
Price: $45.00 

The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs [SIGNED COPY] by: Ball, George W.
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The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs [SIGNED COPY] by: Ball, George W.The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs [SIGNED COPY] by: Ball, George W.

The Past Has Another Pattern: Memoirs [SIGNED COPY] by: Ball, George W.

Softcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st Ed.; 1st Pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 544 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright. Page edges show some foxing, but the interior of the pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book is an autobiography by American diplomat, international lawyer, and statesman George W. Ball, chronicling his decades at the center of U.S. foreign policy. It has been signed by the author. Clean copy. Record # 34704
Price: $65.00 

What Am I Doing Here by: Chatwin, Bruce
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What Am I Doing Here by: Chatwin, Bruce

Not actual item image. A stock cover is shown for reference. The copy offered for sale is the one described below.hard back. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear to dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom. Record # 202236
Price: $12.00 

 

Where Love and Friendship Dwelt by: Lowndes, Mrs. Belloc

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead , 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 241 pages. Bookseller's label on rear end paper. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with faded spine, edgewear, light chipping. Lowndes wrote from 1898 until her death, and had a literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest. Four of her books were adapted for the screen. This is the second volume of her autobiography. Record # 801781
Price: $25.00 

Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Monograph Number 11 by: Kuniyoshi, Yasuo
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Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Monograph Number 11 by: Kuniyoshi, Yasuo

Hardcover. NY, American Artists Group, Inc., 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, hardcover. Cloth spine with paper covered boards are in good condition, with moderate edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout of Kuniyoshi's artwork. This is a small-format book, only about 6" tall. It is an autobiography of Yasuo Kuniyosho, accompanied by his artwork. Clean copy. Record # 34101
Price: $25.00 

 

Youth Unchartered by: Lawford, Stephen

Hardcover. New York , Macmillan, 1st U.S., 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Swashbuckling autobiography of an English army officer. Much on Middle East, Balkans, South America. Light cover soil, otherwise very good. Record # 301811
Price: $12.00