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General H. Norman Schwarzkopf - The Autobiography: It Doesn't Take a Hero

By: Schwarzkopf, H.Norman (written with Peter Petre)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, Bantam Books: 1993

Seller ID: 005624

ISBN: 0553563386

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

625 pp, 32 pp black and white photographs, index. Spine creased and curved, minor edgewear, corners bumped. Text is clean and unmarked. " He set his star by a simple motto: Duty, Honor, Country. Only rarely does history grant a single individual the ability, personal charisma, moral force, and intelligence to command the respect, admiration, and affection of an entire nation. But such a man is General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the Allied Forces in the Gulf War. Now, in this refreshingly candid and typically outspoken autobiography, General Schwarzkopf reviews his remarka...
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Herself: An Autobiographical Work

By: Calisher, Hortense

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Arbor House: 1972

Seller ID: 004535

ISBN: 0877950423

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine slightly slanted, one corner slightly bumped. DJ has 1/4"tear at back flap, very minor shelfwear. A clean attractive copy. "This is Hortense Calisher's account of her life-in-progress as a woman and a writer --- and the inseparability of the two in her mind and heart. In this intimate "rediscovery" of herself and those moments of truth that have formed her, Miss Calisher includes her private writings and journals, and begins with her appraisal of the '30s (which she designates the Era of The Big Apple), treats of ego art, gives her views of sex and politics, of wri...
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I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up

By: Ventura, Jesse

Price: $6.25

Publisher: Thorndike, Maine, Thorndike Press: 1999

Seller ID: 005944

ISBN: 078622214x

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine slanted, a little bumping and edgewear. Glossy pictorial boards with no jacket, apparently as issued. A bright, attractive copy. "In his own inimitable words, Jesse Ventura reveals the secrets of his stunning electoral success and maps his innovative strategies for pioneering a new era in American government. Having defied the pollsters and pundits who predicted he would get 10% of the vote at best, he takes on bloated government, career politicians, and apathetic voters. Born James George Janos in Minneapolis, this towering figure has never forgotten his roots as he journeye...
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In the Company of Heroes: A True Story

By: Durant, Michael; Hartov, Steven

Price: $11.95

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Son's: 2003

Seller ID: 004536

ISBN: 0399150609

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A bright, attractive copy. "A true story by Michael J. Durant, Chief Warrant Officer 4 (Ret.). Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk, Durant was shot down and captured on October 3, 1993, in the battle depicted in Mark Bowden's bestselling book Black Hawk Down. Although saved by two valiant but doomed Delta Force operators from being town apart, Durant became a prisoner of Somali warlord Mohammed Aidid --- the man responsible for prolonging starvation in his country by hijacking United Nations food shipments. U.S. policy makers had determined that capturing Aidid was the ...
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Intern

By: Doctor X

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1965

Seller ID: 005933

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

404 pp., grey cloth boards with silver lettering. Spine somewhat slanted, a few pages have corners a little crinkled, cracked at front pastedown. Text is clean and unmarked. "This book is a journal of the most critical year in the training of a present-day doctor of medicine: the year that he spends as a hospital intern." The author holds nothing back in this riveting account.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Into That Good Night

By: Rozelle, Ron

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Thorndike, Maine, G K Hall & Co: 2000

Seller ID: 006185

ISBN: 0783889631

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Glossy pictorial cover. No jacket, apparently as issued. "This Large Print Book carries the Seal of Approval of NAVH." "Strong willed and charismatic, Lester Rozelle was school superintendent in the small East Texas town of Oakwood from the 1930s to the 1960s. With a firm hand, he guided his schools through disastrous fires and the strained process of integration in President Lyndon B. Johnson's home state. But several years ago Lester began to show signs of Alzheimer's disease, and his son had to watch the painful transformation of his proud father into a dependent and ult...
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Quest (1712-1758) (Vol. I): A New Interpretative Analysis of His Life and Works

By: Crocker, Lester G.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Macmillan: 1974

Seller ID: 004480

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket

Corners & bottom of spine a little worn. DJ has a few shallow chips at spine and flap ends, two 1/2" tears. Text is clean and unmarked. "Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Quest is Part One of a proposed two-volume critical biography of the eighteenth-century French political and social philosopher whose Confessions and other personal writings have left their mark on the consciences and literature of later generations. It is the first Rousseau biography to benefit from the recent publication of the multi-volumed Rousseau correspondence, a major event in modern Rousseau scholarship.; 8v...
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King Edward VIII: A Biography

By: Ziegler, Philip

Price: $9.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred a Knopf Inc: 1991

Seller ID: 005978

ISBN: 0394577302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

552 pp., notes, nomenclature, bibliographical notes, index, 74 glossy black and white photographs tipped in. Pastedowns depict genealogy starting with Victoria and Albert. Spine slightly curved. DJ has minor edgewear and one tiny tear. A bright, attractive copy. "Edward was twentieth century's Prince Charming. He was handsome, eloquent, quick-witted, charismatic, a dazzling foil to his stuffy royal parents. He was a popular hero who saw firsthand the hell of the trenches in the Great War, who raged at the miseries of the Depression, who adored jazz, danced the night away and seeme...
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Ladies Were Not Expected: Abigail Scott Duniway and Women's Rights

By: Morrison, Dorothy Nafus

Price: $5.75

Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1977

Seller ID: 005667

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket

Boards worn and frayed at bottom. DJ in protective plastic wrapper tapped to boards. Ex-library with usual stamps. Light stain on p. 115. Black and white photographs throughout text. "Abigail Scott's mother wept bitterly when she was born and her father was cross - she was a girl and a girl was grievance almost too burdensome to be borne. When Abigail's father moved the family west, she saw her mother die along the way, o a trip she hadn't wanted to take. In Oregon, marriage to Ben Duniway began as a round of house and farm work and babies, just as for the other women settlers, ...
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Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise

By: Monette, Paul

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: 1994

Seller ID: 004380

ISBN: 0151000719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

A bright, attractive copy. "With Borrowed Time and Becoming a Man, these essays constitute the third volume of Paul Monette's autobiographical writing. Freewheeling and yet focused, brimming with outrage and yet tender, Last Watch of the Night represents a profound personal reconciliation but also a testament to the struggle for freedom of all gay and lesbian people."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Life in a Putty Knife Factory

By: Smith, H. Allen

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran, & Company, Inc.: 1943

Seller ID: 004356

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight some edgewear, bookplate inside.. Red cloth boards, spine has humorous picture of a seated man looking through what appears to be a telescope. Text is claean and unmarked. A solid copy. From the author's comments: "Here are further adventures in madness by the 'screwball's Boswell,' the biographer of human oddities, the chronicler of the fabulous commonplace, who recounted his struggle with the human race in the now legendary. . . Low Man on a Totem Pole. This book begins approximately where that one left off, somewhere on the nether side of insanity, and ta...
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Life Is What Happens When You're Making Other Plans

By: Bloomingdale, Teresa

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company: 1984

Seller ID: 005954

ISBN: 0385180640

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

214 pp. Red boards with gold lettering on spine. Front board has shallow indent. DJ has a few small tears. Text is bright, tight and clean. An attractive copy. "What Teresa Bloomingdale says about the entertaining side of motherhood has tickled the funny bones of mothers (fathers, too!) all over the country. After ten children, it could be said that she knows a thing or two about raising a family. . . Now, the irrepressible Mrs. B. trades a mid-life crisis for a mid-life career [and] life's unexpected twists are no match for this lady."; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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Life on the Road

By: Kuralt, Charles

Price: $20.00

Publisher: E Rutherford, New Jersey, Putnam Publishing Group, The: 1990

Seller ID: 006328

ISBN: 0399134883

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good+ dust jacket

253 pp. sixteen pages of glossy black and white photographs tipped in to text. Printer's binding problem leaves webbing exposed between last page and back free end paper, back free endpaper is not attached to textblock. Foxing along edges of textblock. Inscription page tipped in before title page reads "This special production of 'A Life on the Road' has been prepared especially for customers and friends of The Intimate Bookshop, Christmas, 1990, and is signed by the author, Charles Kuralt." "In 'A Life on the Road,' [Kuralt] chronicles his boyhood traveling around North Ca...
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Lincoln for the Ages

By: Newman, Ralph G. (Editor)

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company: 1960

Seller ID: 006079

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dust jacket

512 pp., references, sources, "A Basic Lincoln Library," index. Corners bumped, PO names inside, some underlining. DJ sunned on spine, with large tear repaired with tape, a 1 1/2" tear and some very small chips at spine and flap ends. In Lincoln for the Ages, 78 of our finest writers and most distinguished Americans and most distinguished Americans reveal Lincoln's tremendous impact upon the world in a brilliantly conceived collection of original papers." Contributors include Carl Sandburg, Allan Nevins, Senator Paul H. Douglas, Henry S. Commager, Mark Van Doren, Adlai ...
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Louis Pasteur - Free Lance of Science

By: Dubos, Rene

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1976

Seller ID: 005071

ISBN: 0684145006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dust jacket

Corners bumped, slight edge wear, name on front end paper. Jacket shows minor edge wear and rubbing, front flap creased back about an inch from the edge. An attractive copy. "This is a reissue of the 1950 biography of the French chemist who was the founder of the microbiological sciences. The author has provided an important introduction which throws new light on the subject. The word 'pasteurization' is now part of the international vocabulary - as meaningful to the housewife as to the food technologist and the research biologist. The development of pasteurization techniques, howev...
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Louis R. Wilson: A Biographical Sketch Presented to the Friends of Louis Round Wilson at a Centennial Celebration in His Honor

By: Tauber, Maurice F.

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC, 1956

Seller ID: 006103

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

18 pp. Grey paper wraps. This note from George London, Chairman of the Friends of the Library, dated December 2, 1976, is tipped on the first page: "The first part of this biographical sketch, by Maurice F. Tauber, was a preview of Professor Tauber's full-scale biography, Louis Round Wilson: Librarian and Administrator, published in 1967 by Columbia University Press. Tauber's sketch covered L.R. Wilson's life and career up to the mid-1950's and was presented on the occasion of Dr. Wilson's retirement as Chairman of the Friends of the University of North Carolina Library. Like Loui...
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Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill With Novak

By: O'Neill, Thomas P. Jr.; Novak, William

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York, Random House Inc: 1987

Seller ID: 005661

ISBN: 0394552016

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

387 pp., 16 pp. black and white photographs, index. Red boards with black cloth spine with gold and red lettering. Bottom of spine has 2" waterstain that has affected DJ and a few back pages. Otherwise this book is in excellent shape. Tip O'Neill, one of America's most colorful figures, is a master politician and a master storyteller, a man of wit and wisdom. The narrative stretches from O'Neill's humble background in Cambridge (where the closest he got to Harvard was a summer job mowing the lawn) to his tenure as the nation's top ranking Democrat. Never one to hold back, O'Neill ...
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Memories of Manteo and Roanoke island, N.C. As Told By Cora Mae Basnight

By: Tate, Suzanne; Basnight, Cora Mae

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Nags Head, NC, Nags Head Art: 1988

Seller ID: 007621

ISBN: 0961634421

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Pictorial wraps, 52 pp including 16 pp of b/w photos. Reading crease, corners bumped, a little edge wear. Review copy, inscribed to the reviewer and signed by both authors on title page. Handwritten thank you note from Suzanne Tate laid in, plus clippings of the newspaper review and Cora Mae Basnight's obituary. A unique copy of this oral history of Manteo, North Carolina and Roanoke Island in the first half of the 20th century.; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; Signed by Author
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Mr. Cat

By: Freedley, George

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Howard Frisch: 1960

Seller ID: 003925

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, small spot on top edge, one bottom corner somewhat worn, gift note to PO inside. DJ price-clipped with some shelfwear along top and three small chips. "From their first meeting in the rear of a Second Avenue pet shop they were good and comforting companions for over 16 years. Mr. Cat's adventures were not spectacular or unique - he roamed, he played with his friends, he got lost and then found - but every cat lover will recognize and respect his master's fondness and pride." Charming black and white sketches by Victor J. Dowling.; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾...
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Mr. England: The Story of Winston Churchill the Fighting Briton

By: Manning, Paul; Bronner, Milton

Price: $14.50

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, John C. Winston Company: 1941

Seller ID: 004086

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

250 pp., index, 15 full-page black and white photographs. Spine very slightly slanted, very minor edgewear. Boards are red with black line drawing of family crest with words "Dieu, Defend, Le Droit." Calligraphic gift inscription inside dated Oct 22, 1941. DJ price-clipped, some edgewear including a few tiny chips at ends. Copy is clean and attractive. A biography of Winston Churchill written in the depths of World War II. The book is divided into four parts: a portrait of the man, his first period from childhood to the aftermath of World War I, his time "in the wilderne...
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Category: Biography/Autobiography