Biography / Writers
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(Biography titles are arranged by subject)
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University of Texas Press
2000 ISBN: 0292791518 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. A work intersecting biography and literary criticism. Illustrated. AMERICAN WRITERS,AMERICAN LITERATURE,NOVELISTS,LITERARY CRITICISM Book #7216 |
US$10.00 |
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Counterpoint 2000
ISBN: 158243185X Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Bottom edge remainder mark - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. Janet Frame is New Zealand's most celebrated and least public author...Relying on previously unexamined documents, including Frame's diaries and health records, King reveals the formative episodes of her life. Illustrated. NEW ZEALAND,AUTHORS Book #6562 |
US$9.75 |
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Harper & Row
1970 ISBN: Near Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Cloth binding. Small marginal impressions on several later pages - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with some edge wear and some separation of layers; now in a clear protective cover. A classic biography of the fascinating and tragic mate of F. Scott Fitzgerald. AMERICAN WRITERS,F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,MENTAL ILLNESS,JAZZ AGE Book #6159 |
US$7.50 |
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Arcade First U.S. Edition
2003 ISBN: 1559706880 Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Small corner creasing of three leaves and tiny marking on four pages. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Six years in the making, this powerful biography is the first on Zelda in more than thirty years. In it, Sally Cline presents a far more complex and controversial portrait, and an analysis of the Fitzgeralds' marriage very different from what we have been told so far. F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,AMERICAN LITERATURE,AMERICAN WRITERS,JAZZ AGE,MENTAL ILLNESS, HEMINGWAY Book #6101 |
US$13.75 |
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St. Martin’s First U.S.
Edition 1998 ISBN: 031218039X Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Appears unread. A compelling portrait of the complex relationship between the controversial British playwright Oscar Wilde and the equally unconventional novelist Andre’ Gide. Illustrated. LITERATURE,AUTHORS,IRISH AUTHORS,FRENCH AUTHORS,PLAYWRIGHTS,BELLES LETTRES Book #7064 |
US$17.50 |
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Ecco 1993 ISBN: 088001329X Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A collection of autobiographical essays by twenty-four well-known writers - Edmund White, R.K.Narayan, Derek Walcott, Annie Dillard, John Fowles and others. Each essay is preceeded by a portrait of the author created by artist John Sokol. AUTOBIOGRAPHY,AUTHORS,LITERATURE,LITERARY CRITICISM Book #6351 |
US$12.00 |
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Little, Brown Seventh Printing
1994 ISBN: 0316341088 Near Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Corner creasing of one leaf - else Fine. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Twenty years after his last drink, the author examines the years he spent as a full-time member of the drinking culture. JOURNALISTS,AUTHORS,ALCOHOL,ALCOHOLISM Book #6995 |
US$9.00 |
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Little, Brown First Edition
2004 ISBN: 0316734519 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Book has top edge remainder mark. Otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. In Downtown, Hamill leads us on an unforgettable journey through the city he loves, from the island’s southern tip to Times Square, combining a moving memoir of his days and nights in New York with a passionate history of its most enduring places and people. NEW YORK CITY,TRAVEL,CITY LIFE Book #7426 |
US$7.00 |
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Sutton 1999 ISBN: 0750922508 New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. This compelling book is the first to examine in detail Hemingway’s trail through war-torn Europe, chronicling his tangled personal life and assessing the impact that first-hand experience of war had on him, both as a writer and as a man. AMERICAN WRITERS,AMERICAN LITERATURE,WORLD WAR II Book #7324 |
US$8.50 |
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Walker First U.S. Edition
2001 ISBN: 0802713629 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Chester Himes’s novels and memoirs represent one of the most important bodies of work by any American writer, but he is best known for The Harlem Cycle, the crime stories featuring Coffin Ed Johnson and Grave Digger Jones. AMERICAN WRITERS,BLACK WRITERS,AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS,HARLEM CYCLE Book #7450 |
US$16.00 |
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Thames and Hudson
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050026032X Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A nicely illustrated life of one of the master stylists of the English novel. One of the Thames and Hudson Literary Lives series. ENGLISH LITERATURE,NOVELISTS Book# 6924 |
US$9.00 |
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Simon & Schuster First
Edition 2004 ISBN: 0743234472 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. “Coast to Coast is Nora’s (the author of The World of Henry Orient) account of a childhood spent shuffling between Manhattan and Hollywood. What emerges is a marvelous portrait of American life in the 1940s and 1950s - from the movie lots of California to the cocktail parties of the Upper East Side - and also a touching story of a shrewd, observant girl who would grow up far too fast.” Illustrated. AMERICAN AUTHORS,DIVORCE,COMING OF AGE,THE WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT Book #7665 |
US$12.50 |
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Haus 2004 ISBN: 1904341810 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. An interesting, short biography of the 18th century author, lexicographer, conversationalist and personality. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY,BRITISH AUTHORS,LEXICOGRAPHERS,DICTIONARIES,LONDON, CONVERSATIONALISTS,BOSWELL Book #7662 |
US$10.00 |
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Random House First Edition
1999 ISBN: 0375503684 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Memoirs of the well-known author of A Prayer for Owen Meany, The World According to Garp, The Cider House Rules among others. Illustrated with many photographs. MEMOIRS,OWEN MEANY,GARP,AMERICAN AUTHORS,NOVELISTS Book #6022 |
US$14.00 |
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Harcourt First U.S. Edition
2005 ISBN: 0151007527 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Eighty years after his death, Franz Kafka remains one of the most intriguing figures in the history of world literature. Yet there has not been a definitive biography of him until now. Illustrated. LITERATURE,THE TRIAL,AMERIKA,THE JUDGEMENT,THE METAMORPHOSIS,PRAGUE Book #7415 |
US$21.50 |
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Viking First Edition
2000 ISBN: Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. From Mary Karr - author of the bestselling The Liar's Club - comes the gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. COMING OF AGE,ADOLESCENCE,TEXAS Book #3629 |
US$12.50 |
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Viking 2000 ISBN: 0141002077 Near Fine Trade Paperback. Very slight wear of wraps. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. From Mary Karr - author of the bestselling The Liar's Club - comes the gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. MEMOIRS,COMING OF AGE,ADOLESCENCE,TEXAS Book #4773 |
US$6.95 |
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Barricade Books First Printing
1991 ISBN: 0942637364 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. "She bashed Frank Sinatra, she trashed Nancy Reagan. Now it's her turn." Illustrated. BIOGRAPHERS,FRANK SINATRA,NANCY REAGAN,ELIZABETH TAYLOR,JACQUELINE ONASSIS Book #5350 |
US$12.50 |
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Alfred A. Knopf 1976
ISBN: Near Fine Trade Paperbacks (2 volume set) in Good Book Box. The very slightest wear of wraps. Spines are uncreased. Books are tight, bright and unmarked. Book Box intact with some edge wear and fading. CHINA,ASIA,MEMOIRS,COMING OF AGE Book #5563 |
US$11.00 |
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Quality Paperbacks Direct 2004
ISBN: New Unread Trade Paperback. Unmarked. The Lambs of London brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, actors and theatre managers...a masterly re-enactment of London life which keeps the reader guessing until the end. ENGLISH LITERATURE,BRITISH WRITERS,MARY LAMB,CHARLES LAMB,SHAKESPEARE Book #7451 |
US$7.50 |
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Bantam 1988 First Edition
1989 ISBN: 0553057030 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Shortly before his death in June 1988, Louis L'Amour completed his most unique adventure story: a personal reflection on his lifelong love affair with learning. In Education of a Wandering Man, he vividly recalls many of the books he read, the places he visited, and the people he met that catalyzed his evolution as a writer. Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin. MEMOIRS,READING,WESTERNS,ADVENTURE,AUTHORS,NOVELISTS Book #5760 |
US$14.00 |
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Pocket Books Fifth Printing
2000 ISBN: 0671042556 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970's and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. FAMILY,CHILDHOOD,GIRLHOOD,COMING OF AGE,MEMOIRS Book #4459 |
US$14.00 |
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Pocket Books First Printing
2000 ISBN: 0671042556 Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. MEMOIRS,FAMILY,COMING OF AGE Book #6839 |
US$12.00 |
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Overlook Press 2000
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1585670200 Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Small corner creasing of front wrap - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. A major biography of the much-loved writer, philosopher and Holocaust survivor and witness. Illustrated. ITALY,ITALIAN WRITERS,HOLOCAUST,AUSCHWITZ,LAGER,PERIODIC TABLE, WORLD WAR II,TWENTIETH CENTURY Book# 6171 |
US$10.50 |
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Henry Holt First American Edition 2003 ISBN: 0805073434 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. Primo Levi, the author of Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table, wrote books that have been called the essential works of mankind...Primo Levi: A Life is certain to take its place as the standard biography and a necessary companion to the works themselves. Illustrated. ITALIAN WRITERS,AUSCHWITZ,NAZIS,IF THIS IS A MAN,THE PERIODIC TABLE Book #7806 |
US$14.00 |
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W.W. Norton First Edition
2005 ISBN: 0393042065 New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover. “A writer’s return to the old country reveals the binding ties of family, faith, language, and home place - the precious and perilous nature of tribe and ‘people’ and ethnicity.” Illustrated. IRELAND,ERIN,FAMILY Book #7666 |
US$14.00 |
