Biography

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, AND CONTAINS SIGNED LETTERS AND NOTES. 456 pages. Blue cloth cover, some fading and wear to edges. Dust jacket has bumped bottom edge, small chip missing from top edge of spine. Light foxing on fore edge, but inside is very bright and clean, with b&w illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Meredith Press, 2nd pr., 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 214 pages, b&w photos. INSCRIBED on half title as follows " ___________, I hope you enjoy the book as much as I did living it" and signed Toots. Tight binding text unmarked, closed tears repaired internally to back panel of jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 553 pages. The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America. Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld--and had a good time doing it. B&w illustrations, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Playbill/ Applause Thetre& Cinama Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Minor wear to dust jacket. Minor rubbing to top spine. Light soil on rear. This is the ultimate backstage tour of Broadway! AT THIS THEATRE tells the complete history of Broadway in the 20th century, theatre by theatre. This gorgeous book is now updated, revised and with a larger format, covering 1900 to 2001. PLAYBILL's columnist, Louis Botto, along with Robert Viagas, opens the doors and lets readers explore the 40 active Broadway theatres in New York. From the conception and design of the buildings, to their original creators, and on to the theatres' transformation, often under duress, from legitimate houses to vaudeville and Burlesque, to movie houses and then back to their original purpose, this book captures the magical world of Broadway. It is a complete and authoritative history that only Botto, the curator of PLAYBILL's incomparable 116-year-old archives, can tell.

Hardcover. London, William Hinemann, reprint, 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Half leather bound, with gilt titles and top edge, marbled gilt cover and endpaper and raised leather spine. Previous owner's embossed stamp on half-title page of volume I, binding loose on pages 55-58 on volume I. Minor edge wear, otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Spiegel & Grau, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor dust jacket wear. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 597 pages, b&w illustrations. Demagogue is a masterful portrait of a human being capable of immense evil, yet beguiling charm. McCarthy was a tireless worker and a genuine war hero. His ambitions knew few limits. Neither did his socializing, his drinking, nor his gambling. When he finally made it to the Senate, he flailed around in search of an agenda and angered many with his sharp elbows and lack of integrity. Finally, after three years, he hit upon anti-communism. By recklessly charging treason against everyone from George Marshall to much of the State Department, he became the most influential and controversial man in America. His chaotic, meteoric rise is a gripping and terrifying object lesson for us all. Yet his equally sudden fall from fame offers reason for hope that, given the rope, most American demagogues eventually hang themselves.

Hardcover. London, Edward Moxon, 1st, 1849, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Three hardcovers bound in polished calf, gilt rules to covers, black leather labels on spine with orate gilt decorations. Pages: xx+480+viii+464+viii+460, appendix, index. Marbled endpapers and text edges. Aside from previous owner's bookplate on inside cover of each volume, a bright, clean set. Biography of the Scottish poet, incorporating many of his letters.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Ignatius Press, Reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A brilliant and feared critic, Kenneth Tynan was a nabob of the National Theatre alongside Laurence Olivier, and he was also the daring impresario who created "Oh Calcutta". He was a notorious eccentric, a louche sophisticate: connoisseur of cuisine, wine, literature and women. Where else could you find such a judicious blend of aesthetics, theatre lore, love, marriage, sex and politics? These sizzling diaries will remind older readers of a man whose reputation as the greatest critic of the twentieth century is still unchallenged and introduce younger readers to an electrifying writer who simply could not be boring. B&w photos, 439 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 3rd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1167 pages, illus., bibliography, notes, index, Clean copy. In this third installment of Caro's epic biography he carries Johnson's story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 to 1960, in the United States Senate. At the heart of the book is its unprecedented revelation of how legislative power works in America, how the Senate works, and how Johnson, in his ascent to the presidency, mastered the Senate as no political leader before him had ever done. It was during these years that all Johnson's experience--from his Texas Hill Country boyhood to his passionate representation in Congress of his hardscrabble constituents to his tireless construction of a political machine--came to fruition. Small scar to front fly leaf where sticker was removed, otherwise a clean copy.

Softcover. Guilford, CT, Lyons Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. With his life's work, and in All Told, LeRoy Neiman captured sports heroes, movie stars, presidents, dishwashers, jet-setters, jockeys, and more than a few Bunnies at the Playboy Mansion.

Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Green Integer, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Small stain on rear wrapper, otherwise clean, tight copy. Small book; 6"x4".

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 374 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with short tape repaired tears along edges, fading to spine. Clean, unmarked pages.

NY, Random House, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An advisor to presidents, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and tireless champion of progressive government, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., was also an inveterate letter writer. Indeed, the term "man of letters" could easily have been coined for Schlesinger, a faithful and prolific correspondent whose wide range of associates included powerful public officials, notable literary figures, prominent journalists, Hollywood celebrities, and distinguished fellow scholars. The Letters of Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. reveals the late historian's unvarnished views on the great issues and personalities of his time, from the dawn of the Cold War to the aftermath of September 11. Here is Schlesinger's correspondence with such icons of American statecraft as Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson, Hubert Humphrey, Henry Kissinger, Bill Clinton, and, of course, John and Robert Kennedy (including a detailed critique of JFK's manuscript for Profiles in Courage). There are letters to friends and confidants such as Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kenneth Galbraith, Gore Vidal, William Styron, and Jacqueline Kennedy (to whom Schlesinger sends his handwritten condolences in the hours after her husband's assassination), and exchanges with such unlikely pen pals as Groucho Marx, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Bianca Jagger. Finally, there are Schlesinger's many thoughtful replies to the inquiries of ordinary citizens, in which he offers his observations on influences, issues of the day, and the craft of writing history.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Algonquin Young Readers, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 113 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by James McMullan throughout. Illustrated paste downs and end papers. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY MEDINA on title page. A happy, middle-class childhood lived in the shadows of sweeping social change and oncoming revolution -- such was the experience of novelist Pablo Medina. In this memoir, Medina revisits his curious double world, recalling the pre-revolutionary Cuba of his first twelve years, 1948-1960. His recollections move easily from his childhood adventures to warm remembrances of family and friends to his growing awareness of the social conflicts that would ultimately send his family into exile in the United States. Medina also draws on the memories of his elders to extend his memoir back to the Cuban War of Independence and forward through the twentieth century to the fall of the Batista regime, the victory of the Revolution in 1959, and the family's growing disillusionment with the Castro regime. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1984-09-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 316 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear and rubbing o dust jacket. Small stain to fore edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 49 pages, Hardcover with dust jacket. Includes b&w photos. Clean, tight copy. Spine lightly sunned.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 547 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR 0N PRELIMINARY PAGE. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Related article laid-in. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, Nan A. Talese, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 672 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Harrap, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on top page block, otherwise clean, tight copy. Moderate chipping/rubbing to dust jacket edges now covered in plastic protective sleeve.

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. New York, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with paper label on front and spine. 286 pages. B&w frontispiece and illustrations by Warren Chappell. Minor edgewear to cover and age staining to endpapers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Sanctuary Publishing Ltd, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 415 pages, b&w illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Hardcover with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf and signature. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 599 pages. Don't pick up this fascinating, deeply eccentric book expecting to find a conventional biography of Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926). The fiery American labor leader who founded the Socialist Party of America is not so much the subject as the central figure in a group portrait of utopian dreamers--including Karl Marx, Brigham Young, abolitionist Wendell Phillips, poet James Whitcomb Riley, and detective-agency founder Allan Pinkerton--from the time of the French Revolution through the dawn of the 20th century. Author Marguerite Young is a legendary Greenwich Village bohemian who died in 1995. She devoted the last 25 years of her life to this volume, which was intended as a recapitulation of the issues that had engaged Debs - justice for workers, peace for everyone, racial equality - and continued to galvanize America in the 1960s and beyond. Young doesn't provide a lot of straight factual information about Debs's life, but takes instead a snapshot of his soul as it was formed by reading and experience. The narrative closes (sort of) with the national railroad strike of 1877, a bitter defeat for labor that turned railroad worker and union activist Debs toward greater radicalism. Though not a work for the traditionally minded, Young's genre-bending book will thrill students of American social and socialist history. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Persea Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 page. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR BELTH ON TITLE PAGE AND DATED August 31, 2007. Otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor rubbing on dust jacket edges.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 11th pr., 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Alexander King, one of the first editors of Life magazine, a collaborator on plays with Clare Booth Luce, and a book illustrator, tells, among other things, of undergoing four "cures" for drug addiction in a ten-year period. Dedicated nonconformist King describes his life and those around him with irony and humor. Paper tanning, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a bookplate tipped onto a prelim page.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, b&w illustrations, dark blue cloth with gilt design on spine. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Haerdcover in a bright dust jacket. 354 pages, b&w illustrations. Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer and author, the author places him at the centre of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years onwards: his move to Florence seeking money, status, and greater freedom to attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy and narrow escape from torture; and his house arrest and physical (though not intellectual) decline. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Open Field, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Born in Cold War Czechoslovakia, Paulina Porizkova rose to prominence as a model, appearing on her first Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue cover in 1984. As the face of Estee Lauder in 1989, she was one of the highest-paid models in the world. When she was cast in the music video for the song "Drive" by The Cars, it was love at first sight for her and frontman Ric Ocasek. He was forty at the time, and Porizkova was nineteen. The decades to come would bring marriage, motherhood, a budding writing career; and later sadness, loneliness, isolation, and eventually divorce. Following her ex-husband's death--and the revelation of a deep betrayal--Porizkova stunned fans with her fierce vulnerability and disarming honesty as she let the whole world share in her experience of being a woman who must start over. Remainder dot to bottom edge otherwise like new,

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt and black stamping, 548 pages. Illustrated from photographs, facsimiles, plates. Study of Jefferson's mind based on contributions of "French thinkers" on his political philosophy. Inscription on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 417 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The Warhol superstar and transgender icon Candy Darling was glamour personified, but she was without a real place in the world. Growing up on Long Island, lonely and quiet and queer, she was enchanted by Hollywood starlets like Kim Novak. She found her turn in New York's early Off-Off-Broadway theater scene, in Warhol's films Flesh and Women in Revolt, and at the famed nightclub Max's Kansas City. She inspired songs by Lou Reed and the Rolling Stones. She became friends with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, borrowed a dress from Lauren Hutton, posed for Richard Avedon, and performed alongside Tennessee Williams in his own play. Yet Candy lived on the edge, relying on the kindness of strangers, friends, and her quietly devoted mother, sleeping on couches and in cheap hotel rooms, keeping a part of herself hidden. She wanted to be a star, but mostly she wanted to be loved. Her last diary entry was: "I shall try to be grateful for life . . . Cannot imagine who would want me." Candy died at twenty-nine in 1974, just as conversations about gender and identity were beginning to enter the broader culture. She never knew it, but she changed the world. Clean copy.

Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Sarah Gillespie Huftalen led an unconventional life for a rural midwestern woman of her time. Born in 1865 near Manchester, Iowa, she was a farm girl who became a highly regarded country school and college teacher; she married a man older than either of her parents, received a college degree later in life, and was committed to both family and career. A gifted writer, she crafted essays, teacher-training guides, and poetry while continuing to write lengthy, introspective entries in her diary, which spans the years from 1873 to 1952. In addition, she gathered extensive information about the quietly tragic life of her mother, Emily, and worked to preserve Emily's own detailed diary. Taken together, Emily's and Sarah's extraordinary diaries span nearly a century and thus form a unique mother/daughter chronicle of daily work and thoughts, interactions with neighbors and friends and colleagues, and the destructive family dynamics that dominated the Gillespies. Sarah's consciousness of the abusive relationship between her mother and father haunts her diary, and this dramatic relationship is duplicated in Sarah's relationship with her brother, Henry, Suzanne Bunkers' skillful editing and analysis of Sarah's diary reveal the legacy of a caring, loving mother reflected in her daughter's work as family member, teacher, and citizen. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1st Edition, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 150 pages. Hardcover. B/w frontispiece with tissue guard. Fore and bottom edges rough cut, gilt top edge. Green decorated cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Binding very good. Spine straight. Pages have some tanning, but unmarked and clean. Tight first edition. A heartfelt reflection on life, family, and community beneath the towering elms of Newton, Massachusetts. Claflin's evocative prose paints a vivid picture of a bygone era, capturing moments of joy, sorrow, and timeless memories in the shade of ancient trees that stood as silent witnesses to generations of American history.

Hardcover. NY, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1st, 1928, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in green and gilt, 389 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Charles Fox (1749-1806) was a British Whig statesman who opposed King George III and helped to gain passage of a Parliamentry resolution pledging the abolition of the slave trade and was also an advocate for independence for foreign colonies. Ex-lib with stamping to endpapers, paper scar to inside rear cover. Internally clean, very good.

Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1st Revised, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering, 402 pages, b&w frontis. portrait. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran, reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with faded gilt lettering. 322 pages, frontis. portrait. Autobiography of Edward Livingston Trudeau (1848-1915), American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake for the treatment of tuberculosis. Dr. Trudeau also established the Saranac Laboratory for the Study of Tuberculosis, the first laboratory in the United States dedicated to the study of tuberculosis. First published in 1915. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Emmaus PA, Rodale, 2nd pr., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ROSE on half title page. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

NY, Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 369 pages, b&w illustrations. in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Examines the life behind the eerie, mesmerizing photographs: Diane"s pampered childhood; her passionate marriage to Allan Arbus and their work together as fashion photographers during the fifties; the emotional upheaval surrounding the end of that marriage; and the radically dark, liberating, and ultimately tragic turn Diane"s art took during the sixties. Bosworth"s engrossing book is a compassionate portrait of the woman behind some of the most powerful photographs of our time.

Softcover. London/NY, Verso, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 403 pages, b&w illustrations. In this new edition of his memoirs, Tariq Ali revisits his formative years as a young radical. It is a story that takes us from Paris and Prague to Hanoi and Bolivia, encountering along the way Malcolm X, Bertrand Russell, Marlon Brando, Henry Kissinger, and Mick Jagger. Ali captures the mood and energy of those years as he tracks the growing significance of the nascent protest movement. This edition includes a new introduction, as well as the famous interview conducted by Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1971. Clean.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 4th, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 402 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom of page block. Otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges.

Softcover. Port Townsend WA, Feral House, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 339 pages. Ladies' man. Child soldier. Civil War hero. Egotist. Tramp. Drunkard. Published author. Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America tells the story of an American hobo entirely in his own words.William 'Roving Bill' Aspinwall was all of these things and yet no lone descriptor does him justice. Born one of 23 siblings, married 5 times, wounded fighting for the Union in one of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, kicked out of numerous jobs and soldiers' homes for drunkenness, and having spent decades wandering as a penniless vagabond, Bill also kept up a 24-year correspondence with John James McCook, Professor of Modern Languages at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut. In so doing Bill provided the earliest and best account of life on the road by an American hobo.Written between 1893 and 1917, Roving Bill Aspinwall: Dispatches from a Hobo in Post-Civil War America tells Bill's story entirely in his own words. Describing experiences on the road, the people he meets, his dalliances with women and his memories of the Civil War, the letters are a rich and unique correspondence. Having been physically and mentally scarred at the 1863 Battle of Champion Hill, Bill details his lifelong battle with booze. He also gives first-hand accounts of men thrown out of work during the economic Panic of 1893, of wandering around the country as an itinerant umbrella-mender, of working in factories, farms and even a circus, as well as his visit to the St. Louis World's Fair in 1903. Bill's words are the real voice of a nineteenth-century hobo.

Hardcover. London, Canongate, 1st UK, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 547 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone's founder, editor, and publisher, and the pioneering era he helped curate, is told here for the first time in glittering, glorious detail. Joe Hagan provides readers with a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-star hotel rooms; he tells never before heard stories about the lives of rock stars and their handlers; he details the daring journalism (Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O'Rourke) and internecine office politics that accompanied the start-up; he animates the drug and sexual appetites of the era; and he reports on the politics of the last fifty years that were often chronicled in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine.

Softcover. New York, Billboard Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 656 pages. Softcover with no dust jacket. Remainder mark on top edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Mann, a novelist and author of books on film history, presents this biography of director John Schlesinger (1926-2003), based on interviews with the director and his family following his stroke in 2001, in addition to other primary source documents, articles, and reviews. He describes Schlesinger's childhood; his early days as a documentary director at the BBC; his films during the era of New Hollywood; and Midnight Cowboy, which won an Academy Award. His other films, such as Billy Liar, Darling, Cold Comfort Farm, and The Day of the Locust, are discussed, as well as his accurate depictions of homosexuality, and his personal and professional relationships.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, b&w photo illustrations, black cloth covers, gilt on spine faded. INSCRIBED BY SHAWN and dated Nov. 5 1960 on front fly leaf. No dust jacket. Ted Shawn was an American dancer and choreographer. Considered a pioneer of American modern dance, he created the Denishawn School together with his wife Ruth St. Denis. After their separation he created the all-male company Ted Shawn and His Men Dancers. Covers Shawn's travels and tours: with the army, in the Orient; and his creation of the Denishawn Dancers with the male athletes at Springfield College. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Volume 1 only, 491 pages. Very clean and bright copy, unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket with slight rubbing.