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Browse Books We have over 2,000 books available for sale, from antiques to contemporary bestsellers. Note that the prices below do not include shipping. Please visit the How to Order page to place an order. Order Now! BookId: A1-000200 Title: Queen Victoria Author: Woodham-Smith Cecil Publisher: Alfred A Knopf, Price: 30.00 Description:Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Queen Victoria from her birth to the death of the Prince Consort .by Cecil Woodham-Smith.with 28 illustrations mostly photographs . A great biography - a great hist ory- Cecil Woodham-Smith 's magnificent life of Victoria , is the largest most important work we have yet have from this author .Book is like new .495 pgs .Book club edition. Order Now! BookId: A1-001 ISBN: 067161209 Title: Wallis and Edward Letters 1931-1937 Author: Michael Blogh Publisher: Summit Books Price: 15.00 Description:Hard cover , ex-library book, good condition, 367 pages Order Now! BookId: A1-003 ISBN: 0862720389 Title: Royal Birthday book Author: anonymous Publisher: Kingfisher books Price: 15.00 Description:Journal with a Royal family theme , to use for your scrap paper on Royal family , plenty of photographs . Order Now! BookId: A1-004263 ISBN: 0385016255 Title: Times to Remember Author: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Publisher: Doubleday Price: 35.00 Description:1974 the dust jacket is well used but the book itself is as new or very good , great photographs inside... 536 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: A1-005 ISBN: 1555843530 Title: Eminent Victorians The illustrated edition Author: Lytton Strachey Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicholson Price: 68.00 Description:First edition. Small quarto. 192 pp; numerous colour & b/w illustrations. Cloth with dust-jacket. First published in 1918, revolutionized modern biography.... Four choices Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr Arnold and General Gordon.... fell off their pedestal !Enjoyable and funny as much as when it was first written. Order Now! BookId: A1-005365 ISBN: 0385192991 Title: Grace The secret lives of a princess Author: James Spada Publisher: Dolphin Price: 18.00 Description:First edition ... was a library book, usual markings . mylard cover...The first biography of Grace Kelly revealing and exposing the reality behind the myth ...well used , good book and dust jacket , many black and white photographs , 346 pages indexed. Order Now! BookId: A1-005374 ISBN: 0818404728 Title: A woman named Jackie Author: C David Heymann Publisher: Lyle Stuart Price: 12.00 Description:An intimate biography of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis . Book Condition: Very Good, good dust jacket as well.... 715 pages; In this intimate portrait of the world's most famous and elusive woman, we learn what really went on in the Kennedy White House, aboard the Onassis yacht, in the raising of the two Kennedy children, and so much more. A Woman Named Jackie is a startling account of the complexities and contradictions of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy's fascinating life and character. Order Now! BookId: A1-199 Title: Nicholas and Alexandra Author: Robert K Massie Publisher: Atheneum Price: 55.00 Description:First edition .Historian Robert K. Massie’s historical non-fiction, Nicholas & Alexandra: The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1967), narrates the lives of Tsar Nicholas II, Russia’s last monarch, and his beloved wife Alexandra. Massie’s portrait of the Russian royal family is notably more sympathetic than previous historians’, focusing on Nicholas and Alexandra’s struggle with their son Alexis’s hemophilia. Starting his working life as a journalist at Newsweek, Massie’s interest in the Romanov family began when his own son, Robert, was diagnosed with hemophilia. Massie begins his narrative with the ascension to the throne of Nicholas II after his father’s sudden death. On the day of Nicholas’s coronation, many people are killed in riots. Nicholas decides to ignore this tragedy, continuing with the planned celebrations. Massey notes that the Tsar’s inclination to ignore uncomfortable truths—especially about the people he rules—will ultimately prove his undoing. Robert Kinloch Massie III was an American journalist and historian. He devoted much of his career to studying and writing about the House of Romanov, Russia's imperial family from 1613 to 1917. Massie was awarded the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Biography for Peter the Great: His Life and World. The book is a hard cover , no dust jacket, first edition, fine condition, no writing , marking or else, 613 pages including index , a few pictures en black and white. Order Now! BookId: A1-501913 Title: The Queen's Gift book. In Aid of Queen Mary's Convalescent Auxiliary Hospitals for Soldiers and Sailors Who Have Lost Their Limbs in the War J.M. Barrie, John Buchan, Jeffrey Farnol, Jerome K. Jerome, Sapper, Joseph Conrad / illustrated by Arthur Rackham, Eugene Hastain, Dudley Hardy Author: collective Galsworthy and 24 more Publisher: Hodder and Stoughton Price: 75.00 Description:First Edition 4to. Blue binding, blue titles & Royal Emblem. 100 pages. 25 short stories by J.M. Barrie, John Buchan, Jeffrey Farnol, Jerome K. Jerome, Sapper, Joseph Conrad et al. 10 mounted colour plates. Artists include Arthur Rackham, Eugene Hastain, Dudley Hardy et al.In all 25 writers and 10 illustrators . A great collectable book. Order Now! BookId: A1-501916 Title: King Albert's Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughtout the World. [Introduction by Hall Caine] Published by The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald & Hodder and Stoughton, [London], 1914 Author: Collective Daily Telegraph and a huge list of contributors Publisher: Daily Telegraph Price: 85.00 Description:Daily Telegraph 1914 King Albert's Book: A Tribute to the Belgian King and People from Representative Men and Women Throughtout the World. [Introduction by Hall Caine] Published by The Daily Telegraph in conjunction with The Daily Sketch, The Glasgow Herald & Hodder and Stoughton,First edition. Contains Full-page Colour Plates by Arthur Rackham, Maxfield Parrish, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen, William Nicholson, L. Bruckman, Briton Riviere, Sir E.J. Poynter, John Lavery, etc. Prose and Poetry by Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Fritjof Nansen, Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George, Jack London, Edith Wharton, and many more , 188 pages .A highly collectable edition . Order Now! BookId: A2-001478 ISBN: 0002156849 Title: Mary Pickford From here to Hollywood Author: Scott Eyman Publisher: Harper Collins Price: 25.00 Description:" I had a good time with Scott Eyman's biography of Mary Pickford, which proves that Pickford was a shrewd,tough,but nonetheless human and woundable woma, for whom today's 'stars' (male and female ) could learn valuable lessons" (Stephen Birmingham) Order Now! BookId: A2-002237 ISBN: 0394583493 Title: Woody Allen: A Biography Author: Lax, Eric Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc Price: 25.00 Description:A First edition of Woody Allen biography by Eric Lax . a superb biography allowing an extraordinary look into the mind and feelings of an artist, productor and and most famous film maker of our times. This is an ex-library book , in good condition , dust jacket is good , firstend paper page has been cut-out probably because of the library marks .Everything you always wanted to know about Woody Allen . Order Now! BookId: A2-002239 ISBN: 1886049106 Title: Elvis: Precious Memories Author: Early, Donna Presley; Edge, Lynn; Hand, Edie Publisher: Southern Pub Group Price: 37.50 Description:First edition, as new , Elvis : Precious memories by Donna Presley Early and Edie Hand , with Lynn Edge . Elvis : the name says it all. The world knew him as an entertainer, beloved by fans who had their love returned . His family knew him as a vulnerable man with feeling and flaws . It's a warm Southern story told by those who knew him best . Book is as new, dust jacket as new, 311 pages including 48 pages of photographs Order Now! BookId: A2-002244 ISBN: 0671225235 Title: Garbo: Her Story Author: Gronowicz, Antoni Publisher: Simon & Schuster Price: 17.50 Description:Autobiography of Greta Garbo , Her Story by Antoni Gronowicz , with an afterword by Richard Schickel . Behind the most fabulous of faces was always a mystery .In this extraordinary book the real Garbo is revealed for the first time as the very human woman she was . ex-library book , in good condition , good dust jacket , endpaper first page cut out ( library mark) , 476 pages plus 50 pages of photographs , some getting loose. Order Now! BookId: A2-002245 ISBN: 0399129847 Title: Elvis and Me Author: Presley, Priscilla Beaulieu; Harmon, Sandra Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Price: 18.00 Description:Another biography of Elvis by Priscilla Beaulieu Presley . Elvis and me . They were together for fourteen years . This is Priscilla Presley's poignant and powerful story of her life with the most successful entertainer of all time . Book is as new , so is the dust jacket , 320 pages , including 72 photographs for illustrations , many from the Presley family album. Order Now! BookId: A2-002277 ISBN: 0575036419 Title: Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe Author: Summers, Anthony Publisher: V. Gollancz Price: 22.50 Description:Still a shimmering presence, She was the female legend of the century , but an elusive one . Goddess is the result of more than two years of investigation .Drawings from interviews with hundreds of people who have never before spoken openly , Anthony Summers has sifted facts from fantasy. All previous books on Marilyn Monroe become redundant after this thorough analyses of the mysteries around the Goddess. Book is in good condition, dust jacket is good and clean , 414 pages, plus 20 pages of photographs . Order Now! BookId: A2-002298 Title: The Fox That get Away... Thye Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty Author: Stephen M Silverman Publisher: Lyle Stuart Price: 16.00 Description: Order Now! BookId: A2-002301 ISBN: 0345365828 Title: Goldwyn: A Biography Author: Berg, A. Scott Publisher: Ballantine Books Price: 35.00 Description:A Scott Berg : Goldwyn , a biography . a First Edition in Soft cover .Heavy volume 580 pages including an index of names of 25 pages . carefully researched , gracefully written , as much about an industry as it is about a man Samuel Goldwyn . Whether you own a thousand film books or none , room ought to be made for this One . Soft cover, no dust jacket, in good condition , 64 pages of photographs . ! Order Now! BookId: A2-002310 Title: Are you lonesome tonight ? Author: Lucy de Barbin Dary Matera Publisher: Villard Books Price: 18.00 Description:The untold story of Elvis Prestley's one true love- and the child He never knew... Hard cover , good condition, dust jacket, 295 pages Order Now! BookId: A2-002323 ISBN: 0671400622 Title: And a Voice to Sing with, a Memoir Author: Joan Baez Publisher: Summit Books Price: 25.00 Description:A very good book in as new condition by the Great Joan Baez . an autobiography , the Queen of Folk and an international Star .as well as the Apostle of non-violence. , and defender of Human Rights . a wonderful person. Book is as new, dust jacket is perfect, 378 pages, plus 32 pages of photographs. Order Now! BookId: A2-002324 ISBN: 0399138595 Title: Howard Hughes the Secret Life Author: Charles Higham Publisher: Putnam Price: 17.00 Description:Ex library book , what seems to be a first edition , by the author of The Duchess of Windsor , Charles Higham . a Biography of Howard Hughes, the Secret Life . " an outing of the billionaire closet bisexual. the first-half of Hughes'life fascinates with its immense network of seductions and his descent into Hollywood S&M .strongly documented. The recluse's last years are ripe. Undeniably a hypnotic portrait of a great American monster " ( Kirkus Review ) . Book is in good condition , if an ex- library book , dust jacket is good, 355 pages plus 16 pages of photographs , Order Now! BookId: A2-002334 ISBN: 038517733X Title: The Ballad of John and Yoko Author: Doudna, Christine, J Scott and the Editors of Rolling Stone Publisher: Dolphin Books Price: 28.00 Description:By the editors of Rolling Stone, The Ballad of John and Yoko .John Lennon and Yoko Ono shared an extraordinary romance which was reflected in their life and work . Rolling Stone editors here look back at their childhoods, their complex personalities, their music and their Art . a good book , with pictorial soft cover, no dust jacket, 317 pages , lots of color and black and white photographs . Order Now! BookId: A2-002337 ISBN: 0773731229 Title: The Beatles an Oral History Author: Lysag, Pritchard Publisher: Stoddart Kids Price: 30.00 Description:The Beatles , an oral History by David Pritchard and Alan Lysaght . book is new as well as the dust jacket , orange cloth cover , 332 pages , some photographs . This is the real history of the Beatles , told by the people who really knew them- their childwood, playmates, friends, families, rivals, lovers teachers , fellow musicians - but before all by John Lennon. Paul ,George and Ringo themselves . a must for the collector of Beatlemania . Order Now! BookId: A2-002341 Title: My Autobiography Charles Chaplin Author: Charles Chaplin Publisher: Bodley Head Price: 40.00 Description:A great autobiography fpr the Actor who is the symbol of what Cinema is all about . the great "Charlot" tells all about his life .My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin with over 110 photographs of this master of movie making. Book is good , no dust jacket, decorative cloth with a bit of discoloration , 545 pages including index. Order Now! BookId: A2-003575 ISBN: 806500018 Title: Bogey The films of Humphrey Bogart Author: Clifford McCarty Publisher: The Citadel Press Price: 18.00 Description:A great reference of Bogey and his films from: "Broadway's Like That"-1930 to "The Harder They Fall"-1956. Good study/reference for the film student and/or the movie buff. Bogart appeared in seventy-five feature films. Large soft cover, in good condition, minimum shelf wear, lots of pictures, 190 pages. Order Now! BookId: A2-003581 ISBN: 085965012x Title: James Dean, a biography Author: John Howlett Publisher: Plexus Price: 30.00 Description:Plexus, London, 1975. 1975 Edition. A comprehensive account of the movie actor, impressively illustrated throughout. Subjects: James Dean. Movie actors - United States - Biography. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean. Dead at 24 and still, decades later, one of the most charismatic and idolized actors of all times. 195 pages. Order Now! BookId: A2-003638 ISBN: 0394708121 Title: The Rolling Stones the first Twenty years Author: David Dalton Publisher: Alfred A Knopf Price: 26.00 Description:Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1981. Soft Cover. VERY GOOD Large (10.5" x 12") Trade Paperback, 192 pages. A superb copy of this highly detailed history of the Stones, gift inscription and light edge wear to covers only, interiors as-new. Hundreds of photos in color and b&w, long articles, fascinating little-known stories. Includes large fold-out full size drawing of one of Keith Richard's guitars. Order Now! BookId: A2-003642 ISBN: 1895246105 Title: The Beatles Album Author: Geoffrey Giuliano Publisher: Stewart House Price: 60.00 Description: Featuring rare photographs from their pre-fame days, a complete visual record of the career of the Beatles offers more than 1,500 previously unexhibited or rare items, including never-before-published promotional materials. More than 800 photographs of rare and largely unseen objects from one of the largest collections of Beatles recordings artifacts in the world, mostly in full color. Hard cover , oversize, 256 pages in as new condition Order Now! BookId: A2-005 Title: Madame Sarah, illustrated with photographs Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Price: 60.00 Description:356 pages , Hard cover , great condition. Order Now! BookId: A3-001 Title: A writer's Diary Virginia Woolf Author: Virginia Woolf Publisher: The Hogarth Press Price: 695.00 Description:This is a First Rare edition of Virginia Woolf A writer's Diary being extracts from the diary of Virginia Woolf, edited by Leonard Woolf, 1953. Adeline Virginia Woolf ( née Stephen; 25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London, the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London, where she studied classics and history and came into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement. Encouraged by her father, Woolf began writing professionally in 1900. After her father's death in 1904, the Stephen family moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where, in conjunction with the brothers' intellectual friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917, the couple founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. They rented a home in Sussex and moved there permanently in 1940. Woolf had romantic relationships with women. One female lover was Vita Sackville-West, whose books Woolf published through Hogarth Press. Both women's literature became inspired by their relationship, which lasted until Woolf's death. During the inter-war period, Woolf was an important part of London's literary and artistic society. In 1915, she published her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her half-brother's publishing house, Gerald Duckworth and Company. Her best-known works include the novels Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and Orlando (1928). She is also known for her essays, such as A Room of One's Own (1929). Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism. Her works, translated into more than 50 languages, have attracted attention and widespread commentary for inspiring feminism. A large body of writing is dedicated to her life and work. She has been the subject of plays, novels and films. Woolf is commemorated by statues, societies dedicated to her work and a building at the University of London. Throughout her life, Woolf was troubled by mental illness. She was institutionalised several times and attempted suicide at least twice. According to Dalsimer (2004), her illness was characterised by symptoms that would later be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, for which there was no effective treatment during her lifetime. In 1941, at the age of 59, Woolf died by drowning herself in the River Ouse at Lewes. Overview. An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those that are relevant to the raw material of her work, and, finally, comments on the books she was reading. The book is in very good condition, orange cloth cover , with title and name of author on spine in gold letters, clean inside , no name of past owner but some underlining with a pencil ( very light and not affecting the book , they could be erased ). The dust jacket has suffered with time , small tears , nice cubist design on the cover , 372 pages including index. a great book to collect. |
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