Biography

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 518 pages, b&w illustrations. Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey--told in depth for the first time ever--as well as the story of this country's expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald's, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey's staff of carefully screened single young women--the celebrated Harvey Girls--were the country's first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Privately Printed, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, original two-tone cloth (dark green spines and light green sides). Gilt titles and decorations. Top edge gilt. Memoir of a successful banker and financial businessman. Notable for his his World War 1 recollections and numerous accounts of sporting trips: trolling for lake trout and moose hunting in Quebec, dove shoots in Georgia, trout fishing and elk hunting in Yellowstone, duck shooting in Minnesota, salmon fishing in Newfoundland, grayling fishing in Yukon, black bass fishing in Canada, fishing for sailfish and dolphin off Florida. Clean bright set.

Hardcover. NY, privately printed, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 230 pages, b&w photos. Heyward Isham (1926-2009) chronicles his life as a Foreign Service Officer for the United States. His diplomatic postings spanned much of the Cold War from vantage points in Berlin, Moscow, Hong Kong and Paris. Clean copy. Small printing.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 256 pages. A detailed study of the most celebrated male dancer of the twentieth century with a list of his many roles and productions. B&w photos. Clean copy.

Philadelpia, Vertex Book/Auerbach Publishers, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket, 243 pages. Map endpapers One man's story of being arrested on trumped up charges as an enemy of the Soviet State and being sent to Siberia for eight years. Inscription on dedication page (by book jacket designer).

Hardcover. Cambridge, Biograph, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 166 pages. SIGNED BY WILES on the front fly leaf. Maurice Wiles was Professor Emeritus of Divinity at the University of Oxford. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 505 pages with b&w illustrations. Amazing detail, yet easily flowing narrative of the governor who preceded FDR, who--with Frances Perkins assistance as Industrial Commissioner--shaped a state's humane response to sweatshops, immigration. His 1928 presidential campaign faced burning Klu Klux Klan crosses and harrassment when he ventured outside the Northeast. After losing to Herbert Hoover he left his successor to Governor of New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt, a working government and blueprint for social reform that Roosevelt would later put to use as President. Name on half title page, otherwise clean internally.

Hardcover. Rutland VT, Tuttle Publishing Co,, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 87 pages, limited to 500 copies. SIGNED BY NAY on the half-title page. "This is the real authentic story of an old Vermont country doctor written not as fiction but as the life of one of Vermont's oldest physicians....that beloved figure, the old-fashioned country doctor..." Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 351 pages. George Wilkins Kendall, who founded the New Orleans Picayune in 1837, was a restless, impatient, and colorful character in an exciting era. For thirty years he guided the Picayune and built it into a powerful force in behalf of America's westward expansion. Kendall's vigorous editorials championed the cause of the infant Republic of Texas. When the Texan Santa Fe Expedition was organized in 1841, for the purpose of occupying New Mexico (then still under Mexican rule), Kendall left his editorial chair to participate--and was marched off to Mexico as a captive for seven months when the expedition was overwhelmed at Santa Fe. A few years later, when Kendall accompanied American forces invading Mexico during the Mexican War, he became America's first war correspondent--reporting directly from the battlefront. His effective "courier expresses" brought the first news of each battle to an eager nation, including President Polk, who often read news of the war in Kendall's Picayune before hearing it from his field commanders. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with some light tape repairs. 312 pages, INSCRIBED BY FLANDERS on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 430 pages. In this book, backed by a wealth of new research, the author tells for the first time the story of the career of Eugenio Pacelli, the man who as Pius XII was Pope during the Second World War and arguably the most powerful churchman in modern history. Adding to the continuing debate about collective guilt and the Holocaust this is an extraordinary and explosive history. In the first decade of the century, as a brilliant young lawyer, Pacelli helped shape an ideology of unprecedented papal power; during the 1920s he employed cunning and moral blackmail to impose that power in Germany. In 1933 Hitler became his perfect negotiating partner and a concordat was established that granted religious and educational advantages to the Catholic Church in exchange for Catholic withdrawal from social and political action. This 'voluntary' abdication of political Catholicism imposed from Rome facilitated the rise of Nazism. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 203 pages, b&w illustrations. Memoir by sister of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Previous owner's stamp otherwise clean, Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Kraushar Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black lettering, 163 pages, b&w photos. Inspired by a visit to Stoney Reservation in Alberta, Canada, the author spent 15 years visiting & living among 47 tribes, and developed a touring show of pictures, songs, dances, stories & sign language. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, John Day, 1st, 1949, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn and chipped dust jacket. Explores the life and teachings of the ancient Chinese philosopher, Confucius. The book delves into Confucius' background, upbringing, and the cultural and political context in which he lived. It also examines the various interpretations of Confucianism throughout history and how his teachings have influenced Chinese society and beyond. The author offers a critical analysis of Confucius' philosophy and challenges some of the popular myths and misconceptions that have surrounded him. Mild musty smell, clean copy.

Hardcover. Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, price-clipped dust jacket. 463 pages. numerous b&w illustrations. Described as "Original Edition With a Continuation of the Journal in New York and Paris, a Preface, Appendices and Illustrations". The Journal of an Irishman who fell foul of English rule in the mid-19th century, was transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) and escaped. No date but probably late 1940s. Mild musty odor.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. b&w photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 481 pages. Clean and unmarked copy. Unclipped dust jacket with minor sun-fade to spine.

Softcover. Crossroad Pub Co, reprint, January 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 720 pages. Light wear, creasing, rubbing to wrappers, faint soil to edges, small dent to spine. Previous owner's notation in ink on contents-page.

Hardcover. New York, Blue Rider Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white illustrations and pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages. Illustrated with 16 black & white photographs. Previous owners signature at top of front endpaper. Dust jacket missing 3 small chunks at top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. 8 pages of black & white photographs. Foxing to top edge. Light wear to dust jacket edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 354 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only light marginal wear. Clean & unmarked.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, illustrated with color, b&w photos throughout. A visual biography of Edie Sedgwick, 60's fashion and film icon. Like new in an acetate dust jacket.Model, film star, socialite, friend, lover, addict, Edie Sedgwick was the first "it" girl of the Andy Warhol Factory scene and later muse to Bob Dylan. The arc of Edie's life traced the rise and fall of the 1960s from idyllic experimentation to dissolute recklessness. After being toasted by the whole of New York City, Edie died alone of a drug overdose in California at the age of 28. David Weisman (with John Palmer) filmed Edie for the last five years of her life in his cult film Ciao! Manhattan. When he recently uncovered lost footage of Edie, David was inspired to create Edie: Girl on Fire, a book and a documentary film that explores Edie's true story. He and coauthor Melissa Painter have tracked down and interviewed many of Edie Sedgwick's surviving intimates, including Danny Fields, Baby Jane Holzer, and Ultra Violet. They also unearthed hundreds of never-before-published photos portraits, professional ad shoots, and heartbreaking snapshots of the girl who won New York's heart and nearly burned down the Chelsea hotel. The book also features a CD with Edie's last interview ever, a riveting account of a rollercoaster life.

Hardcover. New York, Mason Brothers, 1st, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 696 pages, with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, edge and corner wear, small crack along top spine edge, and light foxing on some pages. Overall, in clean and tight condition.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 585 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout.

Softcover. NewYork, Aperture, 2nd, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 214 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers slightly yellow with age, clean inside and intact. Vol. 2: 290 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers slightly yellow with age, clean inside and intact. Soil/stain on bottom foredge, does not affect pages. From the back cover of Vol. 1: "To see, to react, to create; these are the fundamentals of all art production. But also to share is the measure of the great artist and the great person. In both his magnificent photographs and in the confidences and clarifications of his Daybook, Edward Weston takes us into himself and shares with us his particular mirror of beauty and compassion."

Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Anniversary Edition. 320 pages of black & white photos. In the elusive dust jacket! Light soil, fade to spine.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover with decoration. Tanning to pages and edges (agewear). Top edge gilt (faded). Binding good, spine straight. The autobiography of Justin McCarthy (1830-1912), who was an Irish politician, journalist, novelist, and historian.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 387 pages. The autobiography of a legendary advertising and marketing genius who was active in the early 1900s. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated with 237 b&w photos. Much has already been written about early motion picture pioneers like D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin, but their invaluable partner, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr has been overlooked and neglected - until now. With this very attractive and professional book, author Jeffrey Vance has given due credit to one of early cinema's most brilliant stars and dynamic personalities who not only had true star power but was a driving force behind the scenes as well. Often remembered these days only for his successful 1920s costume adventure dramas such as "The Mark of Zorro", "Robin Hood" and "The Three Musketeers" to name a few, Douglas Fairbanks had a varied, interesting and successful career well before this period, and also contributed greatly to the development of Hollywood. He was one of the founders of United Artists, he and wife Mary Pickford were the first `golden couple' of Hollywood who established Beverley Hills as the suburb of movie stars;

Hardcover. New York, Ecco, 2016, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 734 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages with 250 color and b&w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The first Vreeland book to focus on her three decades at Harper's Bazaar, where the legendary editor honed her singular take on fashion.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Originally born in Algeria, Yves Saint Laurent moved to Paris when he was 18, and only three years later he was handpicked by Christian Dior to take the reins as designer of his fashion house. Over time, Saint Laurent resurrected haute couture from the casual mores that predominated in the 1960s, but also offered chic cachet to ready-to-wear clothing. He was among the earliest of designers to incorporate non- European references into his work, and in 1983 he became the first living designer to be feted with a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent is a stellar volume in the series from the editors of British Vogue, featuring 20,000 words of original biography and history and studded with more than 80 images from their unique archive of images taken by leading photographers.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY JOAN DIDION on front flyleaf. 108 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with some slight shelfwear. Corner fold on dust jacket front inside flap.Otherwise tight copy. Salvador is a 1983 book-length essay by Joan Didion on American involvement in El Salvador.

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Co, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 219 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Clean,tight copy.

Hardcover. Plattsburgh, NY, O.R. Cook, 1st, 1834, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Original muslin boards with printed paper label on spine. Pages 153 and 154 missing. Front and rear hinges cracked and fragile. Light soil of cover boards. Foxing on pages.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 297 pages. A biographical novel of Sam Houston. A powerful adventure story from the career of the famous Texan whose feats were often as gigantic as the state he wrenched away from Mexico.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 578 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Of all the biographies of Henry James, Sr., the father of William, James, Jr. and Alice, this is the first one that attempts to capture the bewildering complexities of the James father's public and private history -- his early engagement with a radically deviant Calvinism, his stunning embrace of both authoritarian and democratic systems of ruling, his rich humanity and comic gifts, and his dealing with the most interesting people of his time.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 333 pages. Now, in the first ever full-scale investigation of the artist, reporter Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together the story of Banksy, building up a picture of the man and the world in which he operates. He talks to his friends and enemies, those who knew him in his early, unnoticed days, and those who have watched him try to come to terms with his newfound fame and success. And he explores the contradictions of a champion of renegade art going to greater and greater lengths to control his image and his work.

Hardcover. Maryland, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 167 pages. Hardcover with laminate covers. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 79 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated by Richard Bentley, William Blake, and Kathleen Hale. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Vendome Press, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket. In this beautiful volume, the glorious life of the incomparable Coco Chanel shines again through hundreds of illustrations and the lively prose of Edmonde Charles-Roux, her official biographer and close friend.

Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 522 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this second installment of Caro's epic biography we witness a momentous turning point in American politics: the tragic last stand of the old politics versus the new. Following Johnson through his service in the Second World War, it describes the foundation and the myths of his long-concealed fortune. The explosive heart of the book is Caro's revelation of the shocking true story of the fiercely contested 1948 senatorial election, which Johnson won with the the '87 votes that changed history.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 394 pages. Gives insight into the evolution of Schumacher's philosophy and character while providing the necessary historical details and context. The author is his daughter and while Ms.Wood's love for her Dad is evident throughout, she does not appear to treat him with kid gloves. Her report of Fritz's struggles to understand his family's tacit support for Hitler and the Nazi's was an interesting revelation. According to Ms. Wood, Fritz progressed from atheism early on to membership in the Roman Catholic Church toward the end of his life. Small sticker on dj spine otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 256 pages, b&w photos. For Bill Cunningham, New York City was the land of freedom, glamour, and, above all, style. Growing up in a lace-curtain Irish suburb of Boston, secretly trying on his sister's dresses and spending his evenings after school in the city's chicest boutiques, Bill dreamed of a life dedicated to fashion. But his desires were a source of shame for his family, and after dropping out of Harvard, he had to fight them tooth-and-nail to pursue his love. When he arrived in New York, he reveled in people-watching. He spent his nights at opera openings and gate-crashing extravagant balls, where he would take note of the styles, new and old, watching how the gowns moved, how the jewels hung, how the hair laid on each head. This was his education, and the birth of the democratic and exuberant taste that he came to be famous for as a photographer for The New York Times. After two style mavens took Bill under their wing, his creativity thrived and he made a name for himself as a designer. Taking on the alias William J.--because designing under his family's name would have been a disgrace to his parents--Bill became one of the era's most outlandish and celebrated hat designers, catering to movie stars, heiresses, and artists alike. Bill's mission was to bring happiness to the world by making women an inspiration to themselves and everyone who saw them. These were halcyon days when fashion was all he ate and drank. When he was broke and hungry he'd stroll past the store windows on Fifth Avenue and feed himself on beautiful things. Fashion Climbing is the story of a young man striving to be the person he was born to be: a true original. But although he was one of the city's most recognized and treasured figures, Bill was also one of its most guarded. Written with his infectious joy and one-of-a-kind voice, this memoir was polished, neatly typewritten, and safely stored away in his lifetime. He held off on sharing it--and himself--until his passing. Between these covers, is an education in style, an effervescent tale of a bohemian world as it once was, and a final gift to the readers of one of New York's great characters.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1628, the English physician William Harvey published his revolutionary theory of blood circulation. Offering a radical conception of the workings of the human body and the function of the heart, Harvey's theory overthrew centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy and had profound consequences for the history of science. It also had an enormous impact on culture more generally, influencing economists, poets and political thinkers, for whom the theory triumphed not as empirical fact but as a remarkable philosophical idea. In the first major biographical study of Harvey in 50 years, Thomas Wright charts the meteoric rise of a yeoman's son to the elevated position of King Charles I's physician, taking the reader from farmlands of Kent to England's royal palaces, and paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary mind formed at a fertile time in England's intellectual history. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 3rd pr., 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 527 pages, b&w illustrations. No one predicted success for Henry Ward Beecher at his birth in 1813. The blithe, boisterous son of the last great Puritan minister, he seemed destined to be overshadowed by his brilliant siblings--especially his sister, Harriet Beecher Stowe, who penned the century's bestselling book Uncle Tom's Cabin. But when pushed into the ministry, the charismatic Beecher found international fame by shedding his father Lyman's Old Testament-style fire-and-brimstone theology and instead preaching a New Testament-based gospel of unconditional love and healing, becoming one of the founding fathers of modern American Christianity. By the 1850s, his spectacular sermons at Plymouth Church in Brooklyn Heights had made him New York's number one tourist attraction, so wildly popular that the ferries from Manhattan to Brooklyn were dubbed "Beecher Boats." SIGNED BY APPLEGATE on the half-title page. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Sydney AU, Pacific Publications, 1st, 1968, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, black cloth covers, gilt titles on spine, b&w illustrations. Covers worn, tattered dust jacket. Australian George Wilfred Lambert Townsend (1896-1962) spent twenty-five years in New Guinea during which he battled head-hunters on the Sepik River, battled the Rabaul bureaucracy and finally the Japanese. There is some marking and highlighting to the text. A reading copy of a scarce title concerning Australia's administrative rule in New Guinea.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press , 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 464 pages, b&w illustrations. A great but frequently overlooked figure in America during the early decades of the 19th century now gets his due. Military historian Eisenhower (son of the late president) describes a natural leader of imposing stature, overweening pride, exceptional courage, and wide learning, who possessed considerable organizational and diplomatic skills along with outstanding martial instincts. As the nation's youngest general, Scott distinguished himself in the War of 1812, and he was a hero of the Mexican War in the 1840s. After a brilliant campaign fought entirely on foreign soil, he stormed and captured Mexico City despite considerable political maneuvering on the battlefield and the homefront by a variety of influential enemies. In peacetime, he served successfully as a diplomat to the Canadians, the British, the Seminoles, and the Cherokees. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 2nd pr., 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 314 pages. Once a correspondent for the "Daily Worker" of London, foreign reporter for The Times of London and founder of The Week, an anti-fascist periodical, This self portrait is a fascinating read, The book is solid but the cheap paper used has tanned considerably.