Biography

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two large hardcovers in a slipcase, Volume 1: African wildlife photos, Volume II: biography. 494 pages. Text in English. French & German. As a photographer, collector, diarist and writer, U.S. born Peter Beard has fashioned his life into a work of art; the illustrated diaries he kept from a young age evolving into a serious career as an artist. He first visited Africa as a teenager and his documenting of the plight of starving animals, including elephants and rhinos, has continued to highlight the problems facing conservationists. This special edition is based on the original limited Collector's Edition which sold out on publication. NOTE: THIS LARGE HEAVY SET UNAVAILABLE FOR SHIPPING OUTSIDE THE U.S.

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. NY, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 477 pages, two b&w plates. A reprint of the 1913 revised Second Edition. A selection from his correspondence with Boccaccio and other friends, designed to illustrate the beginnings of the Renaissance. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean

Hardcover. Chicago, Chicago Review Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 378 pages, b&w illustrations. Lanza looks at the life and work of director Ken Russell, detailing the wild ideas, surreal moments, personal faith, and the cavalcade of colorful personalities surrounding this eccentric filmaker, on and off the set. Clean copy.

Softcover. New York , Fireside Book/Simon & Schuster, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. 255 pages

Hardcover. South Bend IN, Gateway Editions, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR HARRISON on the title page. 628 pages, b&w illustrations. Thomas Cope was a wealthy merchant and ship owner, a force in city and state government, a philanthropist and--by no means least--a Quaker. He is best described in his own words about his writing and himself: "I have laid down no regular plan and I follow none. My diary is like myself, a chequered maze." He was committed to the service of others--the poor, the sick, the insane--and labored to improve the civic life of Philadelphia in far-sighted ways. He was a moving force behind the water system, a founder of the Mercantile Library, an advocate for the Penn. Railroad, and a supporter of poorhouses, among many other civic and philanthropic activities. He was also a deeply passionate man, whose fluent style at times seethes with emotion. Even into his eighties he struggled to control his temper. Perceptive and intelligently engaged, Cope comments on all the major historical events of his time, such as the yellow fever epidemics, the War of 1812, and the looming Civil War, as well as the more personal dramas of his own life. Some tape repairs ro dj, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Philip de Laszlo (1869-1937) was the pre-eminent portrait artist working in Britain between 1907 and 1937. He painted nearly 3,000 portraits, including those of kings and queens, four American presidents and members of the European nobility. This title gives an account of both his life and his work. Laid in is a printout of email exchanges between the author and previous owner revealing some of his research methods. Previous owner's sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. 151 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color, displaying beautiful realistic as well as surrealistic paintings. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 215 pages. 151 illustrations, including 51 plates in full color, displaying beautiful realistic as well as surrealistic paintings. Copy in mint condition. As good as new.

Softcover. New York, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. A look at book jackets designed by Grushkin, also includes jackets designed by George Salter, Grushkin's teacher. Table of contents, introduction, a biography of Grushkin, book jackets and examples of graphic design by Grushkin. Glossary, biographical sketches of important figures, biographical sketch of the author.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 570 pages. Beneath his quiet, self-effacing persona as "archetypal librarian," English poet Philip Larkin (1922-1985) led a much more dramatic and troubled life than was commonly known. Raised by an arrogant father--a Nazi sympathizer who corresponded with Hitler's economics minister--and by an overprotective mother, Larkin harbored self-disgust and sexual confusion. He had a homosexual crush in college, avidly collected pornography and wrote two facetious would-be lesbian romances under the pseudonym Brunette Coleman. His 30-volume diary was destroyed after his death by his indulgent companion Monica Jones. Drawing on unpublished papers and letters, Motion, Larkin's friend and fellow poet, has produced the first biography of a poet who some rank with Auden and Eliot. This revealing, disquieting portrait limns "a selfish man" who played off one lover against another, and a reactionary strongly prejudiced against immigrants, students, unions and socialists. Snippets of poems, interspersed with the narrative, remind us of Larkin's genius.

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages, illustrations. Philip II of Spain--ruler of the most extensive empire the world had ever known--has been viewed in a harsh and negative light since his death in 1598. Identified with repression, bigotry, and fanaticism by his enemies, he has been judged more by the political events of his reign than by his person. This book, published four hundred years after Philip's death, is the first full-scale biography of the king. Placing him within the social, cultural, religious, and regional context of his times, it presents a startling new picture of his character and reign. Drawing on Philip's unpublished correspondence and on many other archival sources, Henry Kamen reveals much about Philip the youth, the man, the husband, the father, the frequently troubled Christian, and the king. Kamen finds that Philip was a cosmopolitan prince whose extensive experience of northern Europe broadened his cultural imagination and tastes, whose staunchly conservative ideas were far from being illiberal and fanatical, whose religious attitudes led him to accept a practical coexistence with Protestants and Jews, and whose support for Las Casas and other defenders of the Indians in America helped determine government policy. Shedding completely new light on most aspects of Philip's private life and, in consequence, on his public actions, the book is the definitive portrayal of Philip II. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 898 pages, b&w illustrations. Appointed by Philip Roth and granted independence and complete access, Blake Bailey spent years poring over Roth's personal archive, interviewing his friends, lovers, and colleagues, and engaging Roth himself in breathtakingly candid conversations. The result is an indelible portrait of an American master and of the postwar literary scene. Bailey shows how Roth emerged from a lower-middle-class Jewish milieu to achieve the heights of literary fame, how his career was nearly derailed by his catastrophic first marriage, and how he championed the work of dissident novelists behind the Iron Curtain. Bailey examines Roth's rivalrous friendships with Saul Bellow, John Updike, and William Styron, and reveals the truths of his florid love life, culminating in his almost-twenty-year relationship with actress Claire Bloom, who pilloried Roth in her 1996 memoir, Leaving a Doll's House. Clean copy. (After sexual assault allegations about Bailey surfaced, Norton stopped shipping the book and pulverized the remaining copies.)

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in black cloth with design of a phoenix on the front cover. No dust jacket. First edition with Published in October 1936 on copyright page and no additional printings noted. Fading to the spine. 852 pages. A complete collection of D H Lawrence's unpublished essays. Discoloration to black cloth along bottom of front cover and spine, Interior is bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 464 pages. An autobiography from this important photographer. Includes numerous color and black and white images. A record of the photographic career of David Douglas Duncan, LIFE photographer and chronicler of wars from 1939 to Vietnam. From Picasso's private life and his unknown paintings to never-photographed treasures in Moscow's Kremlin, to America's historic 1968 Presidential Convention (also NBC's first photo-news one-man report), the results of Duncan's exuberance and keen eye are finally assembled in Photo Nomad. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washinton DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Hine became famous for his photographs of immigrants at Ellis Island, child laborers and European war refugees, and for his later celebrations of industrial workers.

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli , 1st, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. B&w and color photographs throughout. Binding cracked between two pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white photos. Very small closed tear on spine of dust jacket. An account of his life and work. Ponting became the official photographer of Scott's second expedition to the South Pole. With 77 black and white photographs taken on his travels.

Hardcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photographs of President Abraham Lincoln spanning over 20 years. Tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 340 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead , 1st, 2001-11-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Filled with fame, fortune, tragedy, excess, betrayal, and salvation, a powerful glimpse into the life of Picasso and his first family, as told by his granddaughter, reveals his controlling ways and alcoholism that led to the destruction of their family and how she learned to come to terms with the blessings and curses of the Picasso legacy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 588 pages, several color plates. Before Picasso became Picasso-the iconic artist now celebrated as one of France's leading figures-he was constantly surveilled by the French police. Amid political tensions in the spring of 1901, he was flagged as an anarchist by the security services-the first of many entries in an extensive case file. Though he soon emerged as the leader of the cubist avant-garde, and became increasingly wealthy as his reputation grew worldwide, Picasso's art was largely excluded from public collections in France for the next four decades. The genius who conceived Guernica in 1937 as a visceral statement against fascism was even denied French citizenship three years later, on the eve of the Nazi occupation. In a country where the police and the conservative Academie des Beaux-Arts represented two major pillars of the establishment at the time, Picasso faced a triple stigma-as a foreigner, a political radical, and an avant-garde artist. Picasso the Foreigner approaches the artist's career and art from an entirely new angle, making extensive use of fascinating and long-overlooked archival sources. In this groundbreaking narrative, Picasso emerges as an artist ahead of his time not only aesthetically but politically, one who ignored national modes in favor of contemporary cosmopolitan forms. Remainder dot to top edge, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. From the front flap: "This stimulating book is the first comprehensive examination of Picasso's political commitment, his motivations to join the French Communist Party, and his contributions as an active member. Guertje R. Utley assesses the impact Communism had on the artist's life and explores how Picasso's political beliefs and the doctrines of the Communist Party affected his artistic production."

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st US, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in full color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, faint foxing to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.