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Lothar Stiehm Verlages, 1962. Paperback. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Text in German. Red dust jacket over unmarked paperback. A farewell to Rudolf Alexander Schroeder. 17p. Small bump on bottom edge. Rudolf Alexander Schroeder (1878-1962) was a German translator and poet. Much of his work is Christian lyrical verse. He was a member of the Confessing Church which resisted Nazi Germany.
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Abschied von Rudolf Alexander Schroeder
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The Alchemy of Survival: One Woman's Journey (Radcliffe Biography Series)
by Mack, John E.; Rogers, Rita S
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Addison-Wesley, 1988. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 108x24x156. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Notes. Index. 239p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. The story of a young girl who rescued herself and her family from a Nazi concentration camp, escaped two Communist regimes, and survived to use her firsthand knowledge of pain, hardship, and conflict to provide psychiatric counseling for children.
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Anais: The Erotic Life of Anais Nin
by Fitch, Noel Riley
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Black Bay Books, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Section of black and white photographs. This biography of Nin, complements, corrects, and demystifies the image that Nin so artfully crafted in her diary. 525p. Bibliography.
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Angela's Ashes (The Frank McCourt Memoirs)
by McCourt, Frank
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Scribners, 1996. Hardcover. Good/very good. Unmarked text. A few creased pages at the back of the book. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. 364p. Measures 6.5x9.5 inches. Frank McCourt (1930-2009) was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Irish immigrant parents, grew up in Limerick, Ireland, and returned to America in 1949. For thirty years he taught in New York City high schools. This book, his first book, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the L.A. Times Book Award.
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Aurora's Motive
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Knopf, 1989. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. This novel reconstructs an actual murder case which took place in Spain in 1933, when Aurora Rodriguez felt compelled to kill her daughter. The child was reared to be a trail-blazer for her time, breaking all the conventions which her mother hated, but when she reached 18, her mother, "after careful consideration" shot her. Erich Hackl was winner of the 1987 Aspekte Literatur Preis in Germany with this novel. Translated from the German by Edna McCown.
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The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
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Columbia University Press, 1966. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Index. 407p. Translated by Eiichi Kiyooka. Foreword by Carmen Blacker. Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901) was a Japanese author, writer, teacher, translator, entrepreneur, journalist, and leader. He was probably the most-influential man outside government service in the Japan of the Meiji Restoration (1868). He also founded Keio University, Jiji-Shinpo and the Institute for Study of Infectious Diseases.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Innovative Eggz, 2017. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Unabridged student-sized 8.5x11 inch reproduction of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. The writing is an honest self-evaluation of the man who drafted the Declaration of Independence and negotiated the peace treaty with Britain. 45p.
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Autobiography of Mark Twain (Volume 1)
by Smith, Elinor Harriet (editor)
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University of California Press, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. A publication of the Mark Twain Project of the Bancroft Library. Includes bibliographic references and an index. Section of black and white photographs, and a few black and white images elsewhere. 736p. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist this country has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature.
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Beardsley: A Biography
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George Braziller, 1967. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Clipped dust jacket. Sixteen illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Index. 285p. At twenty, Beardsley, was an obscure clerk in a London insurance firm. Three years later he was the most notorious -- and perhaps the most influential -- artist in England. He died at twenty-five from tuberculosis.
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Between Love and Honor
by Lapierre, Alexandra
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Amazon Crossing, 2008. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. Unmarked text. 514p. Measures 5.5x8 inches. Translated by Jane Lizop. Based on an astonishing true story, Between Love and Honor is a sweeping historical novel in the grand style of Alexandre Dumas and a breathtaking love story of sacrifice and devotion.
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Beyond the Holocaust: An Immigrant's Search for Identity
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Balboa Press, 2020. Paperback. Very Good. 0x0x0. Unmarked text. 131p. Measures 6x9 inches. A holocaust refuge, this book chronicles her family's journey to Brazil, the harrowing experiences as they were smuggled to Argentina, the challenges faced in those dictatorship countries and the final immigration to the United States of America when the author was a teenager.
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Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
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Riverhead, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. Details a bi-racial child's unique struggle for identity when nothing in her world told her who she was or where she belonged. 320p. Written by the daughter of famed African American writer Alice Walker and liberal Jewish lawyer Mel Leventhal.
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A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis
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Atria Books, 2020. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Published quietly in 1945, then rediscovered nearly sixty years later in an attic, this book is a remarkable story of survival and resilience, of human cruelty and human spirit. I tells the story of a fearless woman who survives the Nazis and the heroic hands of strangers risking their lives to protect her. Preface by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano.
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Churchill: Visionary. Statesman. Historian
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Yale University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket with closed tear. A view of Winston Churchill, the workings of his historical imagination, and his successes and failures as a statesman. 202p.
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David Suzuki: The Autobiography
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Greystone Books, 2006. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Illustrated. Index. 404p. The book begins with his life-changing encounters with racism while interned in a Canadian concentration camp during World War II and continues through his troubled teenage years and later successes as a scientist and host of PBS's The Nature of Things.
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The Diary of John Holt (Research in Maritime History, No. 5)
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International Maritime Economic History Association, 1993. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Signed by editor. Badly bumped corner. Illustrated. John Holt (1841--1915) was an English merchant, who founded a shipping line operating between Liverpool and West Africa, and a number of businesses in Nigeria. He is considered a pioneer of West Africa's modern deep-sea trade.
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Doors to Madame Marie
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University of Washington Press, McLellan, 1997. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 153x100x22. Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear mylar cover. Black-and-white images. Memoir. As a young Jewish girl in Nazi-occupied France this book tells of her family's survival and the heroism of her rescuers. A powerful central figure is Madame Marie Chotel, the Catholic concierge and seamstress who hides seven-year-old Odette and her mother in her broom closet. 464p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches.
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Douglas Fairbanks: The Making of a Screen Character
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The Museum Of Modern Art, New York, 2002. Hardcover. Very Good. Unmarked. Classic portrait of Douglas Fairbanks first published in 1940. Essays by Alistair Cooke. Illustrated in B/W. 37p.
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The Early Career of Lord Rockingham 1730-1765
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University of California Press, 1952. Paperback. Good. Ex-library. Vol. 44, University California Publications in History. 54p. Index. This book covers the youth, Yorkshire, Westminster, and The Treasury period of the life of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, or Lord Rockingham.
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The Education Of Henry Adams (Modern Library 76)
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Modern Library, 1931. Hardcover. Acceptable/good. Unmarked text. Pieces missing on edge of rubbed dust jacket. Jacket under clear, archival mylar. Back of jacket lists the "complete list of Modern Library books". Corner tear on one page and a corner crease on a few others. 516p. Measures 5x7.25 inches. The autobiography of Henry Adams, grandson of John Adams.
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