biography

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. George Sand was the most famous and most scandalous woman in nineteenth-century France. As a writer, she was enormously prolific. She wrote more than ninety novels, thirty-five plays, and thousands of pages of autobiography. She inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but is often remembered for her love affairs with such figures as Musset and Chopin. Her affair with Chopin is the most notorious: their nine-year relationship ended in 1847 when Sand began to suspect that the composer had fallen in love with her daughter, Solange.

Softcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume of the definitive work of George Segal. Softcover, 128 pages, 118 b&w and color illustrations. In very good condition, shows some rubbing on cover. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Discusses the full range of Segal's work. Includes photographs of the artist at work. Topics include early cast sculpture, fragments and painted plasters, public commissions, and more. George Segal (1924-2000) was an American painter and sculptor associated with the Pop Art movement.

Softcover. NY, Capricorn Books, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. The classic biography by the brilliant English historian Roger Fulford has been hailed as one of the best royal biographies ever written; it is, as well, an indispensable guide to the intricacies of the Regency and Pre-Victorian England. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 192 pages, Two endpaper maps, b&w frontispiece. As the author follows Washington's life from childhood onwards "the real man begins to emerge: fallible, often impatient, eager for honor when he was young". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hoboken NJ, John Wiley & Sons, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The biography of one of the most controversial figures in sports: New York Yankees owner George SteinbrennerFor 34 years, he berated his players and tormented Yankees managers and employees. He played fast and loose with the rules, and twice could have gone to jail. He was banned from baseball for life--but was allowed back in the game. Yet George Steinbrenner also built the New York Yankees from a mediocre team into the greatest sports franchise in America. The Yankees won ten pennants and six World Series during his tenure. Now acclaimed sportswriter and New York Times bestselling author Peter Golenbock tells the fascinating story of "The Boss," from his Midwestern childhood through his decades-long ownership of the Yankees-the longest in the team's history. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, Rizzoli, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 319 pages, illustrated throughout with 235 illustrations, including 150 in full color. Faint soil to fore edge. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Small tear on front end paper.

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A pioneer of modern art and founder of Cubism, Georges Braque was a creative genius and tireless innovator, constantly pushing back the boundaries of the possible. In this magisterial work, Alex Danchev taps a wide range of new sources to reveal the heart and mind of one who helped usher in the greatest revolution in the ways of seeing since the Renaissance and changed the face of modern art. Chapters include: "Memories in anticipation:" The Confirmed Painter, "Mon vieux Wilbourg:" The Encounter with Picasso, "If I should Ide Out There:" The Great War, The prong of the rade" : Late Braque. And much more.

Hardcover. New York, Arcade Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 440 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A pioneer of modern art and founder of Cubism, Georges Braque was a creative genius and tireless innovator, constantly pushing back the boundaries of the possible. In this magisterial work, Alex Danchev taps a wide range of new sources to reveal the heart and mind of one who helped usher in the greatest revolution in the ways of seeing since the Renaissance and changed the face of modern art. Chapters include: "Memories in anticipation:" The Confirmed Painter, "Mon vieux Wilbourg:" The Encounter with Picasso, "If I should Ide Out There:" The Great War, The prong of the rade" : Late Braque. And much more.

Hardcover. NY, Arcade Publishing, 1st us, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 440 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This biography examines Braque's creativity, his personal and professional relationships (with Beckett, Cezanne, Giacometti, Matisse, Miro, Picasso etc) and enriches our understanding of France's early 20th century art culture.

Softcover. Hanover NH, University Press of New England, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 679 pages, b&w illustrations. Georgia O'Keeffe is arguably the 20th century's leading woman artist. Coming of age along with American modernism, her life was rich in intense relationships -- with family, friends, and especially noted photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Her struggle between the rigorous demands of love and work resulted in extraordinary accomplishments. Her often-eroticized flowers, bones, stones, skulls, and pelvises became extremely well known to a broad American public. The New York Times Book Review named this richly detailed and moving biography a Notable Book of the Year. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, New York Graphic Society Books, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Exceptional copy. Based on the Exhibition at the National Gallery(1988-1989), "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986" 120 color and 11 black and white illustrations. The book is complemented by documentary photographs and portraits as well as over 120 letters--most of them never published before--written to artists, critics, and friends.

Softcover. London, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Unpaginated (49 pages) with 29 illustrations 21 in color. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London 11 March-16 April 1988. Selected Biography and Bibliography. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 192 pages. A critical examination of American photographer Gertrude Kasebier. Features text by Barbara L. Michaels. Includes 120 duotone illustrations. NAME ON FRONT FLY LEAF, OTHERWISE CLEAN.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 510 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY CLARKE and dated on the front fly leaf. Bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 326 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A personal history of 50 years in photo-journalism by one of the top journalists of the 20th century. John Morris tells the inside stories from the field, ranging from photos of the D-Day landing to the assassination of Robert Kennedy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 128 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with small crumbled tear to rear cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 360 pages. A compelling insight into Gilbert & George's everyday enigma. The artists' unfailing politeness, consideration for others and open nature exert an irresistible charm. But it's Jonquet's walks with G & G around their home patch of Spitalfields that shed new light on the work, lavishly illustrated with accompanying personal photos.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 360 pages. A compelling insight into Gilbert & George's everyday enigma. The artists' unfailing politeness, consideration for others and open nature exert an irresistible charm. But it's Jonquet's walks with G & G around their home patch of Spitalfields that shed new light on the work, lavishly illustrated with accompanying personal photos.

Hardcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., & Da Capo Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Biography of painter Gilbert Stuart. Contains 7 black/white illustrations; 6 are reproductions of Stuart's work, and one is a portrait of the artists himself. Very good condition; brown cloth with gilt lettering, corner of the back cover bumped. This edition is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in Cambridged, Massachusetts, in 1932. It is reprinted by arrangement with Harvard University Press.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2nd pr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 335 pages. Giordano Bruno is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland's pathbreaking life of Bruno establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo, a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. By the time Bruno was burned at the stake as a heretic in 1600 on Rome's Campo dei Fiori, he had taught in Naples, Rome, Venice, Geneva, France, England, Germany, and the Prague of Emperor Rudolph II. His powers of memory and his provocative ideas about the infinity of the universe had attracted the attention of the pope, Queen Elizabeth and the Inquisition, which condemned him to death in Rome as part of a yearlong jubilee. Writing with great verve and sympathy for her protagonist, Rowland traces Bruno's wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where every certainty of religion and philosophy had been called into question and shows him valiantly defending his ideas (and his right to maintain them) to the very end. Clean copy.

hardcover. NY, Morrow, Book Club, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 279 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. States First Edition but no price on flap. Black & white illustrations. An autobiography by the popular children's author. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Beach Lloyd Publishers, 2nd Ed., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. pictorial boards, 142 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. I had all kinds of courage and guts; I don t know where that came from, says Fernande Keufgens Davis ( Freddie ) of the risks that she took as a teenager in the Belgian Resistance of World War II. After the shock of finding her formerly occupied village annexed as part of Germany, Davis was drafted to work in a German munitions factory. Determined not to aid the enemy, she jumped from the train and went underground. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Rhinebeck NY, Epigraph Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 437 pages, b&w illustrations. Leslie Armstrong's memoir is a delightful reading experience about growing up on New York's Upper East Side and becoming one's own woman. Whether relating life in an exclusive private school, working as a clerk at Harrod's in London, or apprenticing to renowned artists at Italy's Spoleto Festival, this intrepid girl remains always her determined self. Her occasional instances of naivete make it easy to identify with the exceptional life she has lead. Clean copy.