Resultados de búsqueda: Memoir / Autobiography / Biography from The Brooklyn Bookman

GILMOUR, David: The Film Club. New York & Boston, Twelve, 2008. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover with dust jacket, 225 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Plus. Jacket has a gently-used appearance. Otherwise a copy in near-excellent condition (almost new). Delightful but profound memoir about the bonding of father and son – through the movie-going experience. Recommended. ISBN: 044619929X

ADAMS, Jad: Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India. New York, Pegasus Books, 2011. Advanced Reading Copy/First Edition. Softcover wraps, 323 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Biography / Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948 / History-India 20th Century. Condition: Good Plus. Light edge-wear to the extremities and one lower right hand corner crease and a small tear on the upper left-hand corner of front cover. Light pen markings on a few of the pages with a bit of ruffling to some page corners. Otherwise a generally decent copy. Cogent and penetrating examination of the life and times of the world-famous leader of modern India's independence movement and philosopher of non-violence. ISBN: 9781605981710

AUGENBRAUM, Harold & STAVANS, Ilan (Editors), Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories. Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993. Softcover, 348 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Cultural Studies / Literature. Condition: Very Good Minus. Slightly tilt to book-spine. Pages near the last fifth part of the book bent (near the fore-edges). All-in-all a copy in first-rate condition. A compelling anthology of American-Latino writing. A rich cultural tapestry of fiction and memoir by today's prominent authors. Contributions by diverse writers such as Oscar Hijuelos, Sandra Cisneros and Piri Thomas. ISBN: 9780395661246

FARBER, Stephen and GREEN, Marc: Hollywood Dynasties. Stated First Ballantine Books Edition: August, 1985. Paperback, 392 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Film & Movies / Hollywood – History & Biography. Condition: Good Plus. Creasing mainly to the bookspine with a small chip to the top extremity on the back cover. Pages toned but clean and unmarked. A copy in decent condition overall. This book documents the unique history of the Hollywood entertainment industry – as told through biographical accounts and anecdotes of its most illustrious families. A must-read for film aficionados and fans alike. ISBN: 0449207994

BRESLIN, Jimmy: I Want to Thank My Brain for Remembering Me: A Memoir. New York & Boston, Back Bay/Little Brown and Company, 1996. First Paperback Edition. Softcover, 219 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir and Biography / American Journalists-Jimmy Breslin, 1928-2017. Condition: Very Good Minus. Faint curling to the covers. Otherwise an above-average and first-rate copy with clean and unmarked pages. Frank and candid autobiography by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author. ISBN: 0316118796

CAMPBELL, Bruce: If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor – An Autobiography. New York, LA Weekly Books, 2002. First Paperback Edition, 344 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir & Autobiography-Actors, American / Bruce Campbell, 1958-Present. Condition: Very Good/Fine. Very light bumps to the book cover corners. Small remainder mark at the book's topside. Otherwise the book is in near-fine condition with all pages clean with clear readable text. A frank, outrageous, hilarious and entertaining memoir by one of the great pillars of Hollywood B-moviedom. Campbell is well-known for his appearances in cult horror flicks like The Evil Dead and The Army of Darkness. He also starred in many hit television shows such as Hercules, Zena: Warrior Princess and The X-Files. ISBN: 0312291450

WHITE, Neil: In the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir. New York, Harper Perennial, 2010. Originally published: 2009. Trade Paperback, 216 pp (with a 10-page appendix). Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir / Prisoners-Carville, Louisiana-Autobiography. Condition: Good Plus. Minimal underlining and marking of text found on pages 169, 182, 186-188, 190-193, 198, and 212-214 (but still quite readable). Light edge-wear to boundary of book-spine. Numerical markings on the reverse cover's interior. Otherwise a copy in near first-rate condition. Compelling and poignant account of one individual – convicted of bank fraud – and sentenced to a term of imprisonment in America's last leper colony (which also doubled as a Federal prison). "An extraordinary memoir at once funny, poignant, and uplifting. In the Sanctuary of Outcasts reminds us all what matters most." ISBN: 9780061351631

KRAKAUER, Jon: Into The Wild. New York, Anchor Books, 1997. Originally published: 1996. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback, 207 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Biography / Adventure and Adventurers / Hitchhiking / Wayfaring Life – U.S. West and Alaska. Condition: Good / Acceptable. Some page margins are marked in pen, but the text is readable. Slight tilt to book-spine with USED sticker on it. Moderate wear and creasing to the corners. Compelling account of the life (and death) of Christopher Johnson McCandless who had embarked on an ill-fated odyssey in the deep Alaskan wilderness. ISBN: 0385486804

PADOVER, Saul K. : Jefferson: A Great American's Life and Ideas. New York, Mentor Books, 1964. Mentor Books # MB408. (Originally published in 1942.) Paperback, 192 pp. Abridged. Subject : Nonfiction / Biography / U.S. History / Statesmen – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826). Condition: Good Plus. Diagonal corner crease to the front cover. Small corner tear adjacent to the book-spine with some light edgewear to it. Light wear / creasing to the reverse cover. Normal age-toning to pages, but unmarked and clean. A copy in decent shape overall. Concise and abridged classic biography of the founding father and great American statesman by renowned Jefferson scholar. A must for students and readers of American history.

WIESEL, Elie: Legends of Our Time. New York, Schocken Books, 1982. Originally published in 1968. Reprinted 2004. Trade Paperback, 197 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / Memoirs / Jewish Studies. Condition: Very Good Plus. Gently used copy, but the book is in near-excellent condition with clean and crisp pages. "As a child in Sighet, as a young boy in Auschwitz, as a teenage displaced person...as a young man at the beginning of his career, Elie Wiesel had haunting, often surreal encounters with a wide range of people – sages, mystics, teachers, and dreamers. In Legends of Our Time, he shares with us some of their stories." A powerful, enduring all-too-human document of the last century. ISBN: 0805211756

MAYLUNAS, Andrei & MIRONENKO, Sergei: A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas & Alexandra-Their Own Story. New York, Doubleday, 1997. First U.S. Edition, February 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 667 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History – Russia, 19th thru 20th Centuries / Tsar Nicholas II, 1868-1918 / Tsarina Alexandra, 1872-1918 / Correspondence & Diaries,1894-1917-Sources. Book and jacket condition: Very Good Plus. Book is in exceptionally near fine condition (both jacket and copy). All pages unmarked with rare photos and portraits of the ill-fated family of Russia's last Tsar. The letters, diaries and sources herein present a profound picture of the last royal family of Imperial Russia – their loves, hopes and resignation to their fates. A moving historical account. Translations from original documents by Darya Galy. ISBN: 0385486731

FRITZ, Jean: Make Way for Sam Houston. New York, PaperStar, 1986. Later Printing. Paperback, 109 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Biography-Children's Literature / Sam Houston (1793 – 1863) / History of Texas to 1846. Condition: Very Good. Former owner's name inscribed in pen on the interior of the front cover. Otherwise no other visible imperfections; book copy pages are clean and bright. Short and to-the-point biography of one of American history's luminaries – and a "Founding Father" of the great state of Texas! Illustrations by Elise Primavera. ISBN: 0698116461

GLUCKEL of Hameln: The Memoirs of Gluckel of Hameln. New York, Schocken Books, 1989. Originally published in 1932. First Schocken Books Edition published in 1977. Translated with notes by Marvin Lowenthal. Softcover, 295 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / History / Autobiography & Memoir / Women's Studies / Jewish Studies. Condition: Very Good. Very faint edge-wear to the lower extremities with light bumps to the lower corners. All pages unmarked and clean. "Begun in 1690, this diary...tells how she [Gluckel] guided the financial and personal destines of her children, how she engaged in trade...Her memoir, a rare account enlightens not just her children , for whom she wrote it, but all posterity about her life and community. Gluckel speaks to us with determination and humor from the seventeenth century. She tells of...all human events that befell her during her lifetime. She writes in a matter of fact way of the frightening and precarious situation under which the Jews of northern Germany lived....This memoir… Leer más

ELLROY, James: My Dark Places: An L.A. Memoir. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, EX-LIBRARY COPY. Hardcover with dust jacket, 355 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir / True Crime. Book and jacket condition: Good Plus. Ex-library copy with all the typical stamps and markings present (Brooklyn Public Library). Jacket flaps pasted to the interior boards. Some signs of wear to book's jacket and extremities (the jacket itself is protected by a plastic cover). Book signed by the author on the blank page following the front endpaper. Still a nice, decent-looking copy with unmarked pages. The best-selling crime novelist's devastating, but moving account of his mother's unsolved 1958 murder in Los Angeles. A most harrowing work as comparable to any of Ellroy's best-selling mystery/thrillers. ISBN: 0679441859

KIDDER, Tracy: My Detachment: A Memoir. New York, Random House, 2005. Hardcover with dust jacket, 192 pp. Subject: Non-Fiction / Memoir. Book & jacket condition: Very Good. Extremely light edgewear to the top of the dust wrapper. Otherwise book is in first-rate condition with all pages clean and unmarked. Penetrating, but moving narrative of the author's experiences as an officer during the Vietnam War. ISBN: 0375506152

THURBER, James: My Life and Hard Times. New York, HarperPerennial, 1999. (Originally published: 1933.) Paperback, 106 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Memoir & Autobiography / Humor / American Humorists & Cartoonists – James Thurber, 1894-1961. Condition: Very Good. Few signs of wear to extremities. All pages clean and unmarked and illustrated by iconic drawings from the author. "James Thurber looks back at his own life growing up. . . with the same humor and sharp wit that defined his famous sketches....he recounts the delightful chaos and frustrations of family, boyhood, youth, odd dogs, recalcitrant machinery, and the foibles of human nature." With an introduction by John K. Hutchens and an afterword by Russell Baker. ISBN: 9780060933081

DULLY, Howard: My Lobotomy – A Memoir. New York, Crown Publishers, 2007. First Edition. Written with Charles Fleming. Hardcover with dust jacket, 272 pp. Subject: Non-Fiction / Memoir / Autobiographies / Psychosurgery (Lobotomies). Book Condition: Very Good Plus. Edge-wear to the jacket's lower extremities. Evidence of wear at the foot of the spine. Two of the book corners are lightly bumped. There's an inscription written in blue ink at the front end-paper. Green remainder dot found at the bottom of the back cover's interior. Still a nice and decent-looking copy. A moving narrative account of one man's lifetime ordeal and consequences resulting from a forced lobotomy procedure underwent during childhood. ISBN: 9780307381262

LEEMING, John F.: The Natives are Friendly. New York, E.P. Dutton and Company, 1952. First American Edition. Ex-Library copy. Hardcover with dust jacket, 222 pp. (Originally published in England under the title "Always to-morrow.") Subject: Nonfiction / Second World War – Autobiography and Memoir / Humor. Book and jacket condition: Very Good/Good-Fair. Some wear to the book tips. Extensive wear to the dust jacket with chipping to the extremities but still intact. Otherwise a copy in about first-rate condition (all pages clean and unmarked.) The humorous true-life experiences of the noted British aviator and entrepreneur in Italy during the Second World War.

TITTLE, Y.A. & CLARK, Kristine Setting: Nothing Comes Easy: My Life in Football. Chicago, Triumph Books, 2009. Hardcover with dust jacket, 237 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Sports / Football and Football Players – U.S. - Biography & Memoir / Y.A. Tittle, 1926-2017. Book and jacket condition: Good Plus. Few signs of wear and tear to the jacket. A small ding or two to the book's lower extremities. All pages unmarked. The life and times of one of America's most valuable players and iconic football legend. With a forward by Frank Gifford and introduction by Steve Sabol. ISBN: 9781600782107

TEACHOUT, Terry: Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong. New York, Mariner Books, 2010. Originally published in 2009 by Houghton-Mifflin. First Paperback Edition 2010. Softcover, 475 pp. Subject: Nonfiction / Biography-Jazz Musicians / Louis Armstrong, 1901-1971. Condition: Very Good. Light toning to the pages a bit more pronounced at the fore-edges. No other visible defects noted; a copy in near-fine condition with clean, unmarked pages. A definitive biography of one of the greatest American jazz legends of the twentieth century. ISBN: 9780547386379