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London: Allen Lane, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 531 pages. 60 illustrations. The book is an incomparable reckoning with the nature of the world - how we got here, what we're living through and what lies over the horizon. Greenspan, Chairmn of the Federal Reserve Board from 1987 - 2006, shares the story of his life to convey the full flavour of the extraordinary years he has experienced and helped shape, taking full measure of the individuals who made strong impressions on him, including everyUS President from Nixon to Geore W. Bush, Prime Ministers Thatcher, Blair and Brown, and the great crises and challenges that they faced. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY BOOK OF 1.04 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST A1C. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Smith Gryphon, 1992. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The author has interviewed Clint Eastwood at length on many occasions including an unprecedented evening at the star's Hog's Breath restaurant in Carmel, California and reveals that Eastwood, against his image, is a talker and the book tells of his attitudes, his loves, his hates, his heartaches, his passions and desires. There is much good, bad and ugly in his life and loves, which has never been revealed until now. 34 photographs. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harper and Row, 1988. A near Fine copy ( Fine apart from an inscription to half title page) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 133 pages. 12 illustrations. Welcome to the world of Sandra Bernhard; sophisticated, sardonic, and witty, nothing escapes her acute eye and sharp tongue. With her pitch-perfect sense of style and humour, Bernhard chronicles the thrill of emergency vehicles, whu she moved bak to suburbia, a traumatic abortion, tattoos, the art of manicures. Her prose is both biting and vulnerable, feminine and tough.. Whether reminiscing about her doctor-father learning hypnosis or her mother's fascination with all things Japanese, her stories are powerful, funny, scathing, erotic, and at times unsettling. The book captures perfectly the strong, subversive humour that she is known for. 20. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy with light foxing to closed edges with dustjacket which has some chipping and wear. First UK edition. 'Dasher' was Jimmy Carter's secret service codename throughout his successful election campaign - an apt name for a man who swept meteorically from being an obscure peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia to become the President of the United States. **** NOT EX LIB **** 2. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Viking, 1996. 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 *** A1B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Harper Collins, 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a thin quarter inch biro 'v' mark to top edge) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition, first printing. xx + 874 pages. Illustrations in the text. The authorized biography of President Ronald Reagan, written with complete interpretative freedom, whilst he was still president. During 13 years of archival research and interviews with Reagan, his family, friends, admirers and enemies, Morris studied his subject with a closeness and dispassion, not to mention alternations of amusement, horror and amazed respect. **** A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.2 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST **** 13. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: W.H. Allen, 1982. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First British edition. 368 pages. 69 illustrations. In this autobiography of the singer, Eddie Fisher tells the whole story of his remarkable life and career - a roller coaster ride from the slums of Philadelphia to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, a plunge into a nearly fatal drug addiction and, finally, a successful comeback through the love and encouragement of his family and friends. A teenage idol in the 1950's and a friend of the leading personalities of three decades in the worlds of politics, sports and show business, the book is filled with the famous. He was romantically involved with countless women, among them Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, and Ann Margaret, and in lavishly publicized affairs, he married and divorced Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Connie Stevens. **** NOT EX LIB **** **** NOT BOOK CLUB **** 16. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over… Leer más

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of xii + 244 pages. 100 black and white illustrations, 8 colour plates. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) soon became aware that she was destined to 'create the twentieth century'. Brought up in Europe and the new frontier state of California, Gertrude never lost the sense of being a pioneer. In 1903 she moved to Paris and two years later bought her first Matisse, the notorious Femme au Chapeau, the most ridiculed work of the scandalous 'Fauve' exhibition. In 1905 Gertrude also met and began to buy the work of Picasso. With his portrait of her, a work seminal in the development of Cubism, and with her own writing of Three Lives, both in 1906, Gertrude Stein began to take her place at the centre of a group of artists and writers whose works were among the most important of the century. By the outbreak of World War I Gertrude, with her brothers Leo and… Leer más

London: Simon and Schuster, 2007. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 411 pages. On July 6 200, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic article 'What I didn't Find in Africa' appeared in the New York Times.A week later, conservative pundit Robert Novak revealed in his newspaper column that Ambassdor Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA operative. The public disclosure of that secret information spurred a federal investigation and led to the trial and conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, and the Wilsons' civil suit against top officials of the Bush administration. Valerie Wilson retired from the CIA in January 2006 and sets the record straight providing an extraordinary account of her training and experiences. As readers will see, the CIA still deems much of the detail of her story to be classified and parts… Leer más

New York: Reynal / William Morrow, 1978. 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. 23. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: William Morrow, 1997. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. A Fine unmarked book with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. From the golf course to the Oval Office, the author, a longtime friend and political intimate offers a behind the scenes look at President Bill Clinton and Hilary Rodham Clinton. When the Clintons went to the White House, Hubbell, previously Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas and Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court, partner in Hilary Clinton's law firm, followed as Associate Attorney General, the third ranking member of the Justice Department. His political career ended as he was sentenced for his involvement in the Whitewater scandal and he openly admits his crimes and why he committed them. 12. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Michael Joseph, 1970. 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'. D4E. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Conrad, Barnaby. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Gallery Books, 2014. A Fine unmarked copy with Very Good+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 352 pages. 4 photographs. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.(1960-1999) and heir to his father's charming good looks and relentless ambition, ultimately inherited JFK's tragic legacy too when he died in a plane crash piloted by himself in July 1999. Christopher Andersen explores the unique connection between the extraordinary son who captivated America and the beautiful and mysterious mother who molded him into a man.Like many parents and their children, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and JFK jr. shared an intense, tender and often tempestuous bond. Andersen reveals how mother and son influenced, challenged, and supported each other through good times and bad, unveiling startling new details about the family we thought we already knew. B2D. First. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Doubleday, 1999. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING November 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a gift inscription written on a sticker to front endpaper else Fine with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. xi + 850 pages. 68 illustrations. The distinguished Professor of English literature's acclaimed and definitive biography of the novelist, cultural critic, essayist, historian, comic satirist, image maker, provocateur, actor, and brilliant American icon that is Gore Vidal. Kaplan had complete access to Vidal's papers, letters, and private photographs, as well as television and newsreel footage and was guaranteed a free hand by Vidal to write as he saw fit. The result is a lively, witty, and textured life of a literary colossus. PLEASE NOTE - A HEAVY VOLUME OF 1.29 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST 4. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: John Curtis, 1994. PRESENTATION COPY to David Somerset (Chief Cashier of the Bank of England 1980-1988) from Sir Roger Gibbs, Chairman of the Wellcome Trust, October 1994. A Fine unmarked copy, apart from the presentation inscription, in green cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket. First edition, first printing. xix + 422 pages. 109 illustrations. The Wellcome Trust is the largest and most significant benefactor ever to British medical research, yet few people, even those aware of the international pharmaceutical company that bears his name, know anything about its founder, Henry Solomon Wellcome. His life was an extraordinary story of achievement and disappointment, triumph and sadness, that began in deep poverty in northern Wisconsin in 1853 and ended in his death in London in 1936 as a celebrated and greatly honoured millionaire. His outstanding achievement, with his equally yound partner, the mercurial Silas Burroughs, was to finance and build research laboratories in Britain that made… Leer más

London: Hutchinson Gilt title on red cloth boards which are clean, unmarked and with no wear or damage. Internally there is some marks and crinkling to endpapers and some foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. The dustjacket is complete but has some wear and tears. 2nd impression not dated c. 1945 ( first was 1944). The author (1864-1948) was Past President of the Institute of Journalists, Editor of The Daily Express for 30 years and author of the famous R.D.B.'s Diary. He recounts his early life in a maze of picturesque memories, commencing as far back as 1867, when buffalo roamed the prairies of the undeveloped West, cowboys were real beings and Red Indians were in evidence as friends. It is the story of a boy's ambitions intermingled with the growth of a mid-western town, whose pioneer settlers spoke to each other in Latin, Greek, French, German and English. *** A SCARCE TITLE *** 11. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: BBC Books, 2004. First UK edition. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. The property titan, bestselling author, and TV star, finally reveals the secrets of his success in this candid and unprecedented book of business wisdom and advice. He tells about the lessons learned from the hit American reality television series The Apprentice, how he built up his massive property empire, about his position as head of the 20,000 member Trump organization and how he manages his most important role as a father. Now President of the United States of America. C3D. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Dutton, 1996. STATED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING MARCH 1996. An account of the legendary Hughes which draws on nearly 400,000 pages of recently unsealed court documents, over 2,000 pages of secret FBI reports and more than 600 new interviews, which expose the truth about his affairs with actresses such as Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn and Ava Gardner. They reveal why Ginger Rogers wouldn't marry him, why Rita Hayworth aborted his child, his emotionally incestuous ties to his beautiful mother, his tortured marriage to Jean Peters, his breakdowns and recoveries, disappearing acts and disguises. The authors also call into question the accepted account of Hughes's death. 53 illustrations. PLEASE NOTE: A HEAVY VOLUME OF 0.882 KILO UNPACKED WEIGHT WHICH MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL SHIPPING COST D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few very minor spots to closed top edge with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 276 pages. 23 photographs. The autobiography of America's 'Queen of Disco' - a story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. It charts her meteoric rise to stardom in the 1970's with a string o hit records and the song that has immortalized her 'I Will Survive', which became a number one gold seller. D4D. First. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Sun Dial Press, 1946. Black title and decoration on red boards which are clean and unmarked. Slight bumping to one corner but no discernible wear. Internally there is a coloured contemporary bookplate to front endpaper else clean and unmarked. Top edge red. A VG+ copy. Jessie Benton Fremont (1824-1902) was an American author, daughter of a Senator and wife of an explorer. A1B. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.