Biography

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodBefore the American West was tamed, one man rode straight into its wild heart and came back with a story that changed travel writing forever. Roughing...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the gilded courts and sun-drenched piazzas of Quattrocento Italy, a quiet revolution in human vision was taking...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA towering intellectual of the twentieth century, Edward W. Said — born November 1, 1935, and lost on...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedIn the smoky haze of post-war London and Oxford, a remarkable cast of literary figures drank, argued, and burned with...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the twilight of the Victorian era to the turbulent heart of the twentieth century, Missing Persons is the remarkable...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedLong before the age of satellites and GPS, a succession of daring, obsessive, and often eccentric Westerners risked everything to...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the rich intersection of two literary giants, R.S. White's Keats as a Reader of Shakespeare presents a meticulous and illuminating study of how...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedIn the annals of Romantic poetry, few lives burned as brightly — or as briefly — as that of John Keats, and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodFrom the mist-shrouded slopes of Mount Fuji to the neon-lit corridors of modern Tokyo, Japan: The Story of a Nation...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the grand tradition of English letters, few stories are as richly layered as the rise and decline of the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the turbulent heart of eighteenth-century British politics stood a monarch determined to reclaim royal prerogative in the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodBefore Gene Kelly, before Michael Jackson, before any modern conception of the dancer as superstar, there was Fred Astaire — a man whose effortless elegance...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: YellowedOne of the most extraordinary partnerships in modern military history comes to life in Lawrence and the Arabs, Robert Graves's authoritative account of T.E. Lawrence —...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedAt a time when the ancient world was barely accessible to Western eyes, American adventurer John Lloyd Stephens embarked on...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the shadow of one of the most traumatic moments in American history — the assassination of John F. Kennedy...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingOn the night of April 14, 1912, the grandest ship ever built met an iceberg in the North Atlantic, and in doing so...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodAt the turbulent dawn of Australian colonial governance, one man stood as the cornerstone of legal order — Sir Francis...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedWhat do Maya Angelou, Erica Jong, Jack Lemmon, and Dr. Benjamin Spock have in common? In The First Time, Karl Fleming and Anne Taylor...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Remainder markAt the turbulent crossroads of art, literature, and revolution, Modern and Modernism: The Sovereignty of the Artist 1885–1925 chronicles one...

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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedSet against the bustling backdrop of early twentieth-century Chicago, On Dearborn Street presents the vivid experiences of an ambitious young Australian woman...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Sticker remnant on fep. Otherwise internally sound. In the tradition of great literary biography,...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: price clipped dj. At the turn of the twentieth century, one man stood at the heart...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: YellowedFew writers of the twentieth century possessed Christina Stead's fearless capacity to render the full, turbulent sweep of human experience — and...

Edition: Thin Paper Edition in One Volume Complete and Unabridged. ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingIn one of the most...

Edition: 1st ed., 1st pr.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodCondition remarks: Printed email laid-in (from Said to previous owner)To be perpetually caught between worlds — never fully belonging to...

Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the heart of one of the most turbulent and creatively fertile periods in literary history lies the private...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodCondition remarks: unclipped dj. Long before Sybylla Penelope Melvyn became an iconic figure in Australian literature, Miles Franklin conceived her as a...

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Edition: 1st uk ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodGraham Greene's Collected Essays assembles one of the twentieth century's most penetrating literary minds into a single, essential volume — a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the highland reaches of the Philippine Cordillera, where gold once drew the armored ambitions of Spanish conquistadors,...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageStep back in time with The Way We Were, a lovingly compiled collection that captures the essence of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodThe sky was never a neutral place — and Wings of War: Airmen of All Nations Tell Their Stories 1939–1945 proves it with devastating clarity....

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