Category: Biography

Many Masks: A Life Of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Gill, Brendan

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Da Capo Press : August 1998

Seller ID: 122018

ISBN-13: 9780306808722

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover.--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works-among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum--earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earned him the rest. Here Brendan Gill, a personal friend of Wright and his family, gives us not only the fullest, fairest, and most e...
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Many Masks: A Life Of Frank Lloyd Wright

By: Gill, Brendan

Price: $24.99

Publisher: Da Capo Press : August 1998

Seller ID: 159098

ISBN-13: 9780306808722

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover.--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest of American architects. His works-among them Taliesin North, Taliesin West, Fallingwater, the Johnson Wax buildings, the Guggenheim Museum--earned him a good measure of his fame, but his flamboyant personal life earned him the rest. Here Brendan Gill, a personal friend of Wright and his family, gives us not only the fullest, fairest, and most e...
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We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals

By: Gill, Gillian

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Ballantine Books : May 2009

Seller ID: 203683

ISBN-13: 9780345484055

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Like New copy, jacket shows minor sunfading. All else pristine.
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William Wordsworth: A Life

By: Gill, Stephen

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : June 1989

Seller ID: 206238

ISBN-13: 9780198128281

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light wear to jacket, book itself Like New but for previous owner's name on flyleaf. Text pristine.
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Young Thomas Hardy

By: GITTINGS, ROBERT

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Little, Brown : 1975-01-01

Seller ID: 20080409138156

ISBN-13: 9780316314534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Used - good, no dustjacket. Ex library with usual markings, sun faded cloth boards, exceptionally solid binding, very clean & bright text. 259 pp.
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Young Thomas Hardy & Thomas Hardy's Later Years

By: GITTINGS, ROBERT

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Book of the Month : April 1990

Seller ID: 20080409138157

ISBN: B000NET19Y

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Used - very good. Dustjacket very good with sun fade lines. A very nice copy! 244 pp.
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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

By: GOODWIN, DORIS KEARNS

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : October 2005

Seller ID: 217280

ISBN-13: 9780684824901

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Very Good to Like New book, Very Good jacket showing minimal wear. Text pristine.
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Garbo

By: Gottlieb, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : December 2021

Seller ID: 202842

ISBN-13: 9780374298357

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham

By: Graham, Billy

Price: $40.00

Publisher: HarperCollins : January 1997

Seller ID: 221444

ISBN-13: 9780060633882

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Like New

As new leatherbound signature edition, pristine leather, gilt edging, and reading ribbon in its original edition, a splendid copy.
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Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham

By: GRAHAM, BILLY

Price: $9.75

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco : April 1997

Seller ID: 181061

ISBN-13: 9780060633875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text.
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Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham

By: GRAHAM, BILLY

Price: $7.50

Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco : April 1997

Seller ID: 217081

ISBN-13: 9780060633875

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Firm binding; minimal wear; previous owner stamp to front endpaper - text otherwise unmarked. Overall a solid, clean copy.
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Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian

By: Grant, James

Price: $29.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : July 2019

Seller ID: 167130

ISBN-13: 9780393609196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

During the upheavals of 2007-09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, the still-canonical guide to stopping a run on the banks, Bagehot prescribed the doctrines that--decades later--inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises.Born in the small market town of Langport, just after the Panic of 1825 swept across England, Bagehot followed in his father's footsteps and took a position at the local family bank--but his...
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My Dearest Julia: The Wartime Letters of Ulysses S. Grant to His Wife (Library of America)

By: Grant, Ulysses S.

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Library of America : October 2018

Seller ID: 210733

ISBN-13: 9781598535891

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Civil War's greatest general as you've never seen him before, in a revealing collection of letters to his wife Julia introduced by Ron Chernow. Ulysses S. Grant is justly celebrated as the author of one of the finest military autobiographies ever written, yet many readers of his Personal Memoirs are unaware that during his army years Grant wrote hundreds of intimate and revealing letters to his wife, Julia Dent Grant. Presented with an introduction by acclaimed biographer Ron Chernow, My Dearest Julia collects more than eighty of these letters, beginning with their engagement in 1844 and e...
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The Annotated Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

By: Grant, Ulysses S.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Liveright : November 2018

Seller ID: 216669

ISBN-13: 9781631492440

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

One hundred and thirty-three years after its 1885 publication by Mark Twain, Elizabeth Samet has annotated this lavish edition of Grant's landmark memoir, and expands the Civil War backdrop against which this monumental American life is typically read. No previous edition combines such a sweep of historical and cultural contexts with the literary authority that Samet, an English professor obsessed with Grant for decades, brings to the table.Whether exploring novels Grant read at West Point or presenting majestic images culled from archives, Samet curates a richly annotated, highly collectible ...
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F. F. Bruce: A Life

By: Grass, Tim

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company : January 2012

Seller ID: 94042

ISBN-13: 9780802867230

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This is the first-ever full-length biography of Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1910-1990), one of the most influential British biblical scholars of the twentieth century. Over his lifetime F. F. Bruce authored some fifty books and nearly two thousand articles and reviews. His career offers valuable insights into key issues that affected evangelicals from the 1950s onwards, including the relationship between academic theology and church life and the perception of evangelical scholarship within the academy at large.
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F. F. Bruce: A Life

By: Grass, Tim

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company : January 2012

Seller ID: 96067

ISBN-13: 9780802867230

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This is the first-ever full-length biography of Frederick Fyvie Bruce (1910-1990), one of the most influential British biblical scholars of the twentieth century. Over his lifetime F. F. Bruce authored some fifty books and nearly two thousand articles and reviews. His career offers valuable insights into key issues that affected evangelicals from the 1950s onwards, including the relationship between academic theology and church life and the perception of evangelical scholarship within the academy at large.
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Robert Graves: Volume 1: The Assault Heroic

By: Graves, Richard Perceval

Price: $11.50

Publisher: Viking Adult : May 1990

Seller ID: 182151

ISBN-13: 9780670813261

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. Remainder mark on bottom textblock edge.
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

By: Graves, Robert

Price: $8.75

Publisher: Vintage : February 1958

Seller ID: 179101

ISBN-13: 9780385093309

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Good

Externally like new, but text shows aging and foxing. Binding is firm, text unmarked.
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Good-Bye to All That: An Autobiography

By: Graves, Robert

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Vintage : February 1958

Seller ID: 189629

ISBN-13: 9780385093309

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

In this autobiography, first published in 1929, poet Robert Graves traces the monumental and universal loss of innocence that occurred as a result of the First World War. Written after the war and as he was leaving his birthplace, he thought, forever, Good-Bye to All That bids farewell not only to England and his English family and friends, but also to a way of life. Tracing his upbringing from his solidly middle-class Victorian childhood through his entry into the war at age twenty-one as a patriotic captain in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, this dramatic, poignant, often wry autobiography goes o...
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The World of James McNeil Whistler

By: GREGORY, Horace

Price: $8.75

Publisher: Hutchinson : January 1961

Seller ID: 192891

ISBN: B0000CL8S2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Good copy with a normally worn jacket. Binding is firm, text pristine.
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Category: Biography