Fortuna Books: Biography
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Arthur Ruppin Memoirs Diaries Letters
London, Weidenfeld. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0297993704) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. VG hardback in a good DW with edge wear including some tears and chipping as well as the front fold in being \'curled\' and creased. DW is price clipped but generally complete. 332pp + plates. Arthur Ruppin opened the Palestine Office of the Zionist Organization in Jaffa in 1908. The foremost authority on the sociology of the Jews, encouraged the kibbutz, moshav and moshav shitufi. First professor of sociology at the Hebrew University.Held central position in World Zionist Organization. First part are his memoirs followed by selections from his letters and diaries. Very Good/Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 000227
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Zionist Zionism Jew Judaism Israel Zionist Organisation Brit Shalom Arthur Ruppin Kibbutz Moshav Shitufi 0297993704
Wired, the short life and fast times of John Belushi
London, Faber. 1985, First Edition. (ISBN: 0571135773) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. VG copy, DW is unclipped and slightly surface soiled with small split at the top corner along the fold. Top edge of book slightly soiled. 461pp + plates. DW spine slightly sunned. Very Good/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 001598
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Movies Actors Biography Hollywood John Belushi Blues Brothers 0571135773
Which ones Cliff? an autobiography by Cliff Richard
London, Hodder. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0340220740) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. VG 156pp + plates. DW price clipped, spine slightly sun faded. Autobiography by Cliff. Very Good/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 000741
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Pop Music Christian Cliff Richard British Biography 1960s 0340220740
On Moral Courage
London, Collins. 1962, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. stunning deep blue cloth, book is near fine, no faults. DW price clipped and spine faded a little. examples of moral courage, mostly from the twentieth century, collected and commented upon. Very Good/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 000780
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Morals Ethics Biography Heroes
I\'m Eve (Three Faces of Eve)
New York, Doubleday. 1977, First Edition. (ISBN: 0385120621) Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. DW rubbed chipped to spine ends and corners, book signed to verso of fep [For Mona | all good wishes | Chris Costner Sizemore | November 1, 1979] and title page at top has [I\'m Eve], \'the compelling story of the internationally famous case of multiple personality \' xvi 463pp. Very Good/Good. Signed by Author.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 002031
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Schizophrenia Multiple Personality Disorder Three Faces of Eve Signed Presentation Copy Psychiatry Psychology Therapy 0385120621
The Marquis De Sade with a Postscript on Restif De La Bretonne
London, Peter Davies. 1931, First Edition. Cloth, 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall. wine red boards slightly dust soiled, bumped corners, small puncture to centre of backstrip, rubbed spine ends, bookseller label foot of paste down, light foxing or soiling , 230pp scarce work on de Sade and de la Bretonne and the philosphical and political climate that led to de Sade\'s imprisonment and writings. Good/No Jacket.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 002824
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Donatien Alphonse Francois Marquis de Sade Restif de la Bretonne Biography French Eighteenth Century 18th Century France Literature Sadism Sadist Politics Philosophy Biography Marquis de Sade Erotica France French Literature Literary Critic Ism Sexology R
The Life and Times of Steele Rudd ...
Melbourne, Lansdowne. 1976, First Edition. (ISBN: 0701803290) Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. Ill.: Norman Lindsay. DW under library plastic cover, book and DW are getting on to fine condition, ther is however a small round plain label on front of DW under the plastic with original price on it, I have left it in place. spine of DW seems a trifle faded but not noticeable. 223pp. Biography of Arthur Hoey Davis (Steele Rudd) by his son. photographs and illustrations. Fine/Fine.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 000351
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Steele Rudd on Our Selection Australia Folk Tales Humour 0701803290 Norman Lindsay
The Bentincks the history of a European Family
London, Weidenfeld. 1976, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. boards rubbed to edges, book label to paste down, map end papers, a bit of tape residue from dw protector to end papers at bottom and top edges. DW is in a plastic cover and VG excepting a bit of sunning to spine. 262pp + plates, at blank tail of final page (index) are written some notes in ink. An influential Dutch family from the time of the Dutch Confederation in the fifteenth century, whose influenced continued in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also. Includes genealogical tables etc. Very Good/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 000217
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Holland Dutch Biography Bentinck
Getting to Know the General
London, Bodley Head. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0370308085) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. unclipped DW has fade to the red G of Graham at the base of the cover, and the title panel to the spine is faded from green to grey otherwise near fine, memoir of Greens acquaintance with General Omar Torrijos of Panama. Fine/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 002245
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: British Modern First Edition Biography Omar Torrijos Panama Greene 0370308085
Lawrence of Arabia
London, Harrap. 1938, seventh impression. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. orange cloth titled black, DW price clipped, short tears at top edge , one small nick without loss to spine, VG and bright, book some foxing to page edges ink inscr dated 1939 to endpaper, ix , 198 + frontis, plates and maps. all plates present although one is detached. Very Good/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 000119
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: T E Lawrence Arabia World War One
Charles Bradlaugh a Record of His Life and Work By His Daughter 2 Vols
London, T Fisher Unwin. 1895, Second Edition. Buckram, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. blue buckram blind embossed and with gilt titles, surface rubbing and dust soiling, closed edges dusty, foxed endpapers from paste action, contemporary ink name to feps, dated 1922, tissue guards present at frontispieces, vol 1 lacks fep and has name to half title instead, xv 400pp + xi 440pp + plates, biography of an atheist parliamentarian. Very Good/No Jacket.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 002062
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: British Free Thought Politics Victorian Parliament
The Nympho and Other Maniacs, Stories of Some Scandalous Women
London, Cassell. 1971, First Edition. (ISBN: 0304937533) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. 475pp tidy, small edge splits to DW taped. Very Good/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 002866
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Women Nympho Scandals Femme Fatales 0304937533
The Letters of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Marie Being the Confidential Correspondence Between Nicholas II, Last of the Tsars, and His Mother, Dowager Empress Maria Federovna
London, Ivor Nicholson and Watson. 1937, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. dust jacket is lightly soiled and rubbed, has a rubber date stamp to foot [28 DEC 1937] and also a small red marker price at top left corner, two small gouges from the blank lower panel, BOOK very tidy, dust soiled closed fore edge, red dusted top edge, very minimal minor spots of foxing to prelims, 311pp + frontis portrait of the Tsar and other plates, scarce item. Very Good/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 002069
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Imperial Russia Tsar Letters Correspondence Politics Royalty
Fear, and be slain adventures by land, sea and Air
London, Hodder. 1936, reprint. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. book VG minor bump to top edge board, DW chipped top and bottom spine and a bit on the rear panel, front panel mainly intact. 306pp. Autobiography (?) touching on his experiences of heroism and courage before during and after the great war, nautical, aviation, at the Peace Conference etc. A Statesmans memoirs showing how courage \'comes through\'. Large book. Very Good/Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 000361
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Autobiography Memoirs First World War Great British
Winston Spencer Churchill Servant of Crown and Commonwealth Atribute By Various Hands
London, Cassell. 1954, First Edition. Cloth, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. \'A tribute by various hands presented to him on his eightieth birthday\', DW has edge wear and short splits at ends of joints, light surface soiling, unclipped, complete with the 80th birthday card wrap around band which was intended to be sent off to Churchill by the purchaser, this has some old sellotape to the folds of its front part, ix 172pp + frontis port. Very Good/Very Good.
Fortuna Books Professional sellerBook no.: 002111
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Catalogue: Biography
Keywords: Biography Politics World War Two Second World War Military British Churchill