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Book Description: Macmillan, New York, 1981. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First edition as per number string but interestingly the inside back of dustjacket has printed "Book- of- the- month club alternate" . Book is clean and unmarked but dustjacket has a 2 1/2 inch tear to fron but is complete. Written by correspondents of The New York Times. Bookseller Inventory # 000886
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Book Description: The Bodley Head, London, 1952. Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Revised edition, first published 1951, with a foreword by W. Somerset Maugham illustrated with half tone plates. Appendix of Chaplin's films. Bookseller Inventory # 000629
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Book Description: Robert Hale, London, 1978. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A carefully documented account of Hughes's secret life, his incredible use of money and the people he bought with it and the staff who took care of his personal life. Based on interviews with the many peolple involved and hundreds of authenticated stories. Slight shelf wear to base of book, internally clean and unmarked with dustjacket of photograph of Hughes slightly chipped but complete. Bookseller Inventory # 000805
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Book Description: Century, London, 1987. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The film actress and wife of Charles Bronson writes of her fight aginst breast cancer and of her life growing up in England. An inspiring and witty account of her battle. Bookseller Inventory # 000830
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Book Description: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A near Fine copy with near Fine dustjacket. The American author recounts her story when, newly divorced, met and fell in love with Philip Heymeyer a stock market trader who rose to become the youngest chairman of the New York Cotton Exchange in 1976 before committing suicide in 1982. The lavish lifestyle was coupled with heavy drinking and drug abuse. It is a deeply personal story that provides insight into the pressures of Wall Street. Bookseller Inventory # 002045
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Book Description: W. H. Allen, London, 1979. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First British edition. A very clean and unmarked copy with pictorial dustjacket which is complete. The author is a famous Hollywood columnist and Lily Shiel is the heroine of her autobiographical account of her early years. It is more than a Cinderella story and relates society between the wars and celebrities include The Prince of Wales, Noel Coward, Winston Churchill, Charles Laughton and Florenz Ziegfeld. ** NOT EX LIB **. Bookseller Inventory # 001190
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Book Description: Doubleday & McClure, New York, 1902. Cloth. Book Condition: Good. No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Edited by Bliss Perry. Etching of Franklin to frontispiece tissue protected. Gilt lettering on red cloth. Slight darkening to spine. A volume of selections from the autobiography and works in pocket book format. Bookseller Inventory # 000460
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Book Description: Viking, London, 1996. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition, First Pinting. First published in USA in 1995. A clean and unmarked copy VG+ with complete coloured photographic dustjacket VG+. The autobiographical journal of the author, a paraplegic since a car crash aged 19, who became a foreign correspondent and spent two years in the Middle East. He writes with black humour of riding a mule up a hillside in Iraq, having his wheelchair pushed at Ayatollah Khomeini's funeral by a friendly Iranian chanting "Death to all Americans" and of life as a disabled reporter. *** NOT EX LIB ***. Bookseller Inventory # 001445
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Book Description: Elm Tree / Hamish Hamilton, London, 1977. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The American author, poet and international concert artist recounts his search for not ony the father he has never met but also for his roots. Born in the depth of the Depression to a dime-a-dance hostess, his only fragment of information, callously revealed to him in adolescence, was that his father was not the image he had formed in his mind, but just a man passing through, leaving behind a bastard son. Bookseller Inventory # 002852
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Book Description: Little Brown, London, 2000. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The biography of Linda Eastman, who married Beatle Paul McCartney in 1969 and died of breast cancer in 1998, aged 56. The American biographer reveals the public and private side with interviews with Linda and Paul and with friends, relatives and stars. 30 photographs. Bookseller Inventory # 003747
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Book Description: Michael Joseph, London, 1974. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A VG+ clean and unmarked copy in complete dustjacket VG+. A biography by the American author tells of five women in his life in 1932,1935,1939,1940, and 1945. Bookseller Inventory # 001264
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Book Description: W. H. Allen, London, 1980. Cloth. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Naturally a very amusing addition to Burns's range of autobiographies packed full of memories, anecdotes, marriage and recounts his start in show busiiness at the age of seven through to the early days of radio and Holywood's heyday. Dustjacket showing photographs of Burns, plastic cover protected has price clipped else fine. 68 photographic illustrations of many stars of the past. Bookseller Inventory # 000603
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Book Description: Piatkus, London, 1989. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. A moving and candid unauthorised biography of the actor and his wife, their successful marriage, a survey of the films they have made together and the glamour of Hollywood to the pleasures and sadness of family life. *** NOT EX LIB ***. Bookseller Inventory # 003885
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Book Description: Century, London, 1998. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine uninscribed copy with complete dustjacket which has a touch of creasing to top. The autobiography of the actor, his early success on Broadway opposite the legendary Katherine Hepburn, the filming of Superman, his acclaimed successes both in theatre and films and his tragic accident. *** NOT EX LIB ***. Bookseller Inventory # 002543
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Book Description: Robert Hale, London, 1974. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A near Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped but has some repaired closed tears and some small removals to back. Starting as a Californian football player, Marion Michael Morrison put his foot into the stirrup and headed towards the pass, to become a legend. John Wayne - the Duke - made over 125 films, has survived the maelstrom of Hollywood, was vilified because of his political opinions, been given up for dead and struggled through a couple of chili spiced marriages. In this candid biography the author assesses the true John Wayne. *** NOT EX LIB ***. Bookseller Inventory # 003485
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Book Description: The Bodley Head, London, 1975. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with dustjacket which is complete and has a few small marks to back. Starting her biography with the opening of her one woman show in Las Vegas, she looks back over the years and tells the intimate story of herself and the fascinating world in which she lives. Particularly memorable is her trip to China as leader of a delegation of women and what she saw was a deep shock to her, where there was no role for the individual, and the effect was that she has gone back to her earlier self, returning to song and dance. Bookseller Inventory # 002459
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Book Description: Reynal / William Morrow, New York, 1978. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Gold title on blue cloth spine with light blue paper boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear and just a touch fading to top. Internally there is a signature to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete but has some small removals to bottom of front and a small closed tear to back G+. The American author was editor of Look and Flair magazines in the 1940's and 1950's and became acquainted with a number of White House occupants with her most valued friend being President Eisenhower, on whose behalf she attended the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. Others in her memories are Winston Churchill, Pope John, Pablo Picasso, Marilyn Monroe et al. She moved to England in 1955 to seriously pursue her ambition as a painter and became a collected artist. 22 photographic illustrations. A very fascinating autobiography of an accomplished woman. Bookseller Inventory # 002131
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Book Description: Victor Gollancz, London, 1962. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. Gold title on blue boards which are clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally clean, tight and unmarked with a small signature to front endpaper. A Very Good + copy. A short biography of the Kennedy clan. Bookseller Inventory # 001943
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Book Description: Victor Gollancz, London, 1989. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. The autobiographical account of her childhood, her role as a fundraiser, civil rights campaigner and at the age of 27 how she became a prostitute and loved the job. She has worked the famous windows in Amsterdam, the dangerous brothels of Puerto Rico, founded the prostitutes union HIRE (Hooking is for real), was appointed to the Mayor's task force on prostitution in Georgia, Atlanta and as a consultant on the Centers for Disease Control's study on prostitution and AIDS. She is married to a civil rights lawyer and still works as a prostitute. Bookseller Inventory # 001552
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Book Description: Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1994. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK Edition, First Printing. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The popular American actor, after three decades in the business, has now relented and written his autobiography after years of declining to do so. Raised in Florida, he grew up in the shadow of his tough father, the city's chief of police and in this self deprecating and frank book he dispenses delicious anecdotes and recalls the women and many celebrities he has known. 33 photographs. Bookseller Inventory # 003075
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Book Description: Michael Joseph, London, 1970. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Conrad, Barnaby (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Very Good + unmarked copy with VG complete dustjacket. The author is a well known American who has worn many hats - a vice consul to Spain, amateur bullfighter, art teacher, author, secretary to Sinclair Lewis, socialite, raconteur, are just a few in his long life. He was acquainted with many famous people and this autobiography is replete with them and also with delightful drawings by the author. It begins at Sardi's in New York with a marvellously funny conversation with Noel Coward and Eva Gabor and ends with his collecting famous and infamous last words such as the poisoner William Palmer's, who just before his hanging asked "is it safe". Bookseller Inventory # 003475
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Book Description: Flamingo, London, 1999. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A near Fine uninscribed copy with dustjacket which is complete and has a small amount of wear to head of spine. The sequel to "Angela's Ashes" relates the story of the author's American journeyfrom impoverished immigrant to a raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic Party, then by the US Army and then by a New York University. Bookseller Inventory # 002441
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Book Description: Citadel Press, New Jersey, 1996. Soft Cover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. A lavishly illustrated softcover with photographic plates in colour and black and white of 23 of the popular American actor's films with a biography and the stories behind the films. Bookseller Inventory # 001029
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Book Description: Fourth Estate, London, 1998. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The delightfully true story of Sonny Hickam, who when Sputnik, the world's first space satellite, flew over Coalwood, West Virginia in 1957, made the decision to build a rocket to rival the Russians. With the help of high school friends he forms the Big Creek Missile Agency and it is the boys' determination that drags, cajoles and inspires and unites Coalwood in the quest to build bigger and better rocket and to compete at the National Science Fair, where they meet Jack Kennedy who is already talking enthusiastically about the space race. He went on to a career with NASA. Bookseller Inventory # 003441
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Book Description: Michael Joseph, London, 1976. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Fine uninscribed copy with Fine complete dustjacket. The author and acclaimed biographer's biography of Jackie Kennedy Onassis or Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, as she preferred to be known. The author was a personal friend of Onassis for twenty years and is well equipped to show Jackie as she really was and he was encouraged by Onassis to convey a rounded picture of his wife to counter the fantastic rumours and reports which abounded. 16 photographs. Bookseller Inventory # 003011
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Book Description: Mitchell Beazley, London, 2004. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Craig Robinson (illustrator). First Edition. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Minipops has been entertaining millions of people the world over on Craig Robinson's Flip Flop Flyin' website. Between the covers of this book you will find the official definitive minipops collection of over 700 celebrities in all their tiny pixellated glory. 128 pages, Very Good condition. Bookseller Inventory # 000010
Book Description: Viking Press,, New York:, 1963. First U.S. Edition Gray cloth stamped in gilt. 276 pages with 157 numbered photographic plates of works of art, 14 in color, and several drawings and maps in the text. First published in France and England. Text just a little toned; erased pencil price on front endpaper has left an impression. Jacket is just a little rubbed. Hardback quarto Very Good + in Near Fine Dustjacket. Bookseller Inventory # 10046
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