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Biography
Hardcover. Contains letters from politician Salmon P Chase to his daughters, from his daughters to him and to each other - that span from when Kate, his older daughter, was a young child and Nettie not yet born to their father's death in 1873. This title provides insights into the personal lives and private thoughts of a prominent political family. Editor(s): McClure, James P.; Lamphier, Peg A.; Kreger, Erika M. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations, notes, biblio., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 36. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- The Kent State University Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873389884
- ISBN
- 9780873389884
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.40
€ 76.40
Paperback. Editor(s): O'Neal, John C; Mostefai, Professor Ourida. Series: Approaches to Teaching World Literature (Paperback). Num Pages: 157 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; JN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Modern Language Assn of Amer
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873529112
- ISBN
- 9780873529112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 41.76
€ 41.99
€ 41.76
Paperback. When an artist dies we face two great losses: the person and the work he did not live to do. This book is a moving collaboration by some of America's most eloquent writers, who supply wry, raging, sorrowful, and buoyant accounts of artist friends and lovers struck down by AIDS. Editor(s): White, Edmund. Num Pages: 312 pages, 27 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AGB; BG; DSBH; DSK; JFFH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 413.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299170745
- ISBN
- 9780299170745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.30
€ 24.30
Hardcover. A collection of articulate and perceptive letters and diary entries written by reporter William H. McDougall Jr. that offer an intimate, personal narrative of conditions in wartime East Asia. Editor(s): Topping, Gary. Num Pages: 318 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; BM; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 180 x 26. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Utah Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874808919
- ISBN
- 9780874808919
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.32
€ 19.32
Hardcover. Through letters and journal entries rich in detail, this text follows the trials of the 19th-century Palmer family who dominated the southern banks of South Carolina's Santee River. The volume offers insights into plantation life; education; religion; and slave/master relations. Editor(s): Towles, Louis P. Num Pages: 1100 pages, 32 halftones, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBTB; HBTQ; HBTR; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 68. Weight in Grams: 1628.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570030475
- ISBN
- 9781570030475
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.50
€ 50.99
€ 50.50
Paperback. This pictorial autobiography of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald documents two lives that have become legendary. The book draws almost entirely from the scrapbooks and photograph albums that the Fitzgeralds scrupulously kept as their personal record. Editor(s): Bruccoli, Matthew J. (Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English, University of South Carolina, USA); Smith, Scottie Fitzgerald; Kerr, Joan P. Num Pages: 264 pages, 524 halftones and 587 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; BGLA; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 217 x 20. Weight in Grams: 862.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of South Carolina Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570035296
- ISBN
- 9781570035296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.91
€ 34.91
Hardcover. Features Civil War letters to and from Spartanburg, South Carolina, with details on the battlefront and home front. This title chronicles through correspondence the lives and concerns of prominent families in piedmont South Carolina during the late-antebellum and Civil War eras. Editor(s): Craig, Tom Moore. Num Pages: 216 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; BJ; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Univ of South Carolina Pr
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570037986
- ISBN
- 9781570037986
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.48
€ 55.48
Paperback. In this collection of interviews, Rober Aldrich (1918-1983) tells fascinating stories of making motion pictures with such film legends as Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Jack Palance, Robert Mitchum, Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, and many, many more. Editor(s): Miller, Eugene L; Arnold, Edwin T. Num Pages: 277 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578066032
- ISBN
- 9781578066032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.48
€ 34.48
Paperback. Editor(s): Miller, Gabriel. Num Pages: 277 pages. BIC Classification: APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 313.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578066988
- ISBN
- 9781578066988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. Surveys the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman onwards. This title guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of gay writers since the nineteenth century, including a diverse array of American men of African, European, Jewish, Asian, and Latino heritage. Editor(s): Bergman, David. Series Editor(s): Bergman, David; Larkin, Joan. Num Pages: 536 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 5SG; BG; DSBH; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299230449
- ISBN
- 9780299230449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Hardcover. Editor(s): Long, Michael G. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG; BJ; JFSK2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 249 x 165 x 39. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610434
- ISBN
- 9780815610434
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.00
€ 40.99
€ 36.00
Paperback. Includes essays ranging from Xenophon's memoir of his two-year march with the mercenaries of the Persian Prince Cyrus, through Canadian accounts of the Boer War and American civilian women's narratives of confinement in WWII Japanese internment camps, to Vietnam veterans' online testimonials and post - Persian Gulf War memoirs. Editor(s): Vernon, Alex. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Kent State Univ Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873389105
- ISBN
- 9780873389105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28
Paperback. Hitchcock is still one of the most instantly recognizable film directors. These conversations dramatize his wit, intelligence, sophistication, serious contemplation, and even the playful manipulation of the interviewer. Editor(s): Gottlieb, Sidney. Series: Conversations with Filmmakers. Num Pages: 274 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: ANH; APFB; BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781578065622
- ISBN
- 9781578065622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.28
€ 29.28
Hardcover. Interviews with the director of "Dont Look Back," "The War Room," and "Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" Editor(s): Beattie, Professor Keith; Griffiths, Trent. Series: Conversations with Filmmakers (Hardcover). Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APB; APFB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University Press of Mississippi
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628462029
- ISBN
- 9781628462029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 55.48
€ 55.48
paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ8039227
- ISBN
- 9781905989836
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.12
€ 5.12
paperback. When Nazi Germany began bearing down on Europe in the late 1930s, Herman Bodson was a student pacifist at the University of Brussels. As the reality of eventual invasion sank into his soul, he entered the resistance and five years of dangerous work as, in his words, "a fighter and a killer". Series: Texas A & M University Military History S. Num Pages: 262 pages, 18 b&w illustrations, 3 maps, index. BIC Classification: 1DDB; 3JJH; BG; HBJD; HBWQ; JPW; JWK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781585442652
- ISBN
- 9781585442652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.57
€ 24.57
paperback. Intends to recreate the Pablo Picasso's life and work during the decade of 1907-17 - a period during which the artist and Georges Braque invented Cubism and to that extent engendered modernism. Bringing a fresh light to bear on the artist's sensationalised private life, this title presents a view of this paradoxical man of his paradoxical work. Num Pages: 512 pages, 1. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 184 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1278.
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845951566
- ISBN
- 9781845951566
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 34.69
€ 52.99
€ 34.69
paperback. A biography that establishes the complexity of Picasso's Spanish roots, his aversion to his native Malaga and his passion for Barcelona and Catalan 'modernisme'. It introduces material on the artist's early training in religious art. It provides fresh insights into the artistic failures of Picasso's father as an impetus to his sons' triumphs. Num Pages: 560 pages, 1. BIC Classification: ACX; AGB; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 185 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1392.
- Publisher
- Pimlico
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845951559
- ISBN
- 9781845951559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 34.69
€ 52.99
€ 34.69
Paperback. How many of us have dreamt of playing like Seve Ballesteros or Ben Hogan? Of playing just one round of par golf? Author John Richardson actually did it, and in this book, you will find out how. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BT; WSJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 61. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Blackstaff Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- V9780856408410
- ISBN
- 9780856408410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.45
€ 14.45
Paperback. A celebrated warrior who led his people to victory on the battlefield, Red Cloud was also a skilled diplomat who transitioned the Oglala Sioux to reservation life. In Red Cloud: Oglala Legend , John D. McDermott examines Red Cloud's early years, his rise to prominence, and his struggle to protect his people from cultural domination. Series: South Dakota Biography Series. Num Pages: 194 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BGH; BTM; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 121 x 7. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- South Dakota State Historical Society
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941813027
- ISBN
- 9781941813027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.69
€ 25.69