Authors
- with maginal comments and markings from a copy annotated by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi
- James Boswell
Publication date: 1993
Review The Life of Samuel Johnson (3 Volume Matched Set) / Easton Press:
Publication date: 2005-03-05
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $499.00
Price: $499.00
Review Up from Slavery / Afchron.Com:Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's, "Up from Slavery" is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W. E. B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society. Nineteenth-century African American businessman, activist, and educator Booker Taliaferro Washington's Up from Slavery is one of the greatest American autobiographies ever written. [+]Its mantras of black economic empowerment, land ownership, and self-help inspired generations of black leaders, including Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and Louis Farrakhan. In rags-to-riches fashion, Washington recounts his ascendance from early life as a mulatto slave in Virginia to a 34-year term as president of the influential, agriculturally based Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. From that position, Washington reigned as the most important leader of his people, with slogans like "cast down your buckets," which emphasized vocational merit rather than the academic and political excellence championed by his contemporary rival W. E. B. Du Bois. Though many considered him too accommodating to segregationists, Washington, as he said in his historic "Atlanta Compromise" speech of 1895, believed that "political agitation alone would not save [the Negro]," and that "property, industry, skill, intelligence, and character" would prove necessary to black Americans' success. The potency of his philosophies are alive today in the nationalist and conservative camps that compose the complex quilt of black American society.
Publication date: 1937
Review Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography, with Musings on Recent Events in India (Signed) / John Lane, the Bodley Head, London:
Publication date: 2001-12-01
Dewey code: 306.90973
List Price: $14.95
Price: $549.00
Review Dying in America: Mindful of His Death, a Memoir & The Illusion of Maturation in an Age of Decline / Cadmus Editions:Memoir of father and father's death by son and philosophical essay, criticism of certain values in American society.
Publication date: 1949
Review Abraham Lincoln...The War Years..SIGNED BY SANDBURG / Harcourt Brace:
Edition: 2nd
Publication date: 1629
Review The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh [Raigne] (Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh) / J H[aviland] & R Y[oung]:Illustrated, cancel titlepage. "Whereunto is now added a very usefull and necessary Table. " "London printed by I H and R Y and are to be sold by Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith. " First printing with ten page index Table.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1953
Review THE NAKED ISLAND (HARDCOVER BOOK) (BY RUSSELL BRADDON) (1953 DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY INC.) / DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY INC.:MEMOIRS OF AN AUSTRALIAN WHO WAS CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE AFTER THE FALL OF SINGAPORE AND SPENT 4 YEARS AS A PRISONER OF WAR DURING WW II.
Edition: Limited and numbered
Publication date: 1995
Review Good-Bye, Good Luck (The Biography of William McMaster Murdoch) / Self-Publsihed:Trade Paperback. Biography of Murdoch the 1st Office of the R. M. S. Titanic.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 2000
Review Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics [Deluxe Autographed Limited Edition of 1,225] / Easton Press:[Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2001, Illustrated - SIGNED LEATHER LIMITED FIRST EDITION of 1,225 copies] - [Science & Technology] - Dr. Edward Teller was Director Emeritus of the Livermore Laboratories and a Senior Research Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He was the architect and chief promoter of the hydrogen bomb and won many honors including the Albert Einstein Award, the Harvey Prize and the National Medal of Science. - Teller received his Ph. D. in physics in Germany from the University of Leipzig in 1930. In 1935 he became Professor of Physics at George Washington University in Washington, D. C. Active in the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, Teller went on to work on the more powerful hydrogen bomb, first tested in 1952. From 1954 to 1975 he held top positions at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory at the University of California. [+]One of the leading figures of the 20th century with major contributions not only to science but to American strategic policy as advisor to Ronald Reagan and principal supporter of the president's Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) in the 1980's. This is his autobiography, a candid account of a fascinating and challenging life. - The book is beautifully crafted with a distinctively designed dark gray leather cover, hubbed spine, 22k gilt stamped titles, gilt page edges, silk moiré endleaves, Smyth-sewn pages for strength and durability and a bound-in silk bookmark. - Limited Edition of 1,225 AUTOGRAPHED by Dr. Teller.
Authors
- Von Wolfgang Beutin, Klaus Ehlert, Wolfgang Emmerich, Helmut Hoffacker, Bernd Lutz, Volker Meid, Ralf Schnell, Peter Stein und.... (Funfte, uberarbeitete Auflage, Mit 400 Abbildungen) Von den Anfangen bis zur Gegenwart (Deutsche Literaturgeschichte)
Review Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, Von Den Angangen bis zur Gegenwart, Funfte, uberarbeitete Auflage, Mit 400 Abbildungen / J. B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung:
Creator: Ann Heilmann
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 2002-11
Dewey code: 820
List Price: $595.00
Price: $595.00
Review Anti-Feminism in the Victorian Novel (Victorian & Edwardian Anti-feminism) / Thoemmes Continuum:At University College, London, the corpse of Jeremy Bentham can still be seen seated inside a glass cabinet. This was in accordance with his own wishes, but scholars have never had the material available to understand his reasons. The heart of this volume, however, is Bentham's never before published justification for the auto-icon, as well as the medical, philosophical, and religious contexts for his thoughts.
Creator: J.A.G.D. COMMANDANT EDWARD H. YOUNG COLONEL
Publication date: 1970
Review THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY SECOND PRINTING OF TEN VOLUME SET THIRD EDITION OF THIS VOLUME (VOLUME TWO) / PUBLISHERS CO NY:
Edition: Limited Edition
Publication date: 1997
Review Mentations: Archer Baxter Forsyth / Jean Schulz:A biographical/genealogical collection on the fascinating of Archer Baxter Forsyth. It was published at 1 Snoopy Place by his daughter Jean Forsyth Schulz, the wife of the eminent cartoonist, the late Charles Schulz, in a limited edition of 250. It contains 44 page appendix plus additional 25 pages of prefaced materials.
Creator: Elizabeth Uhlig
Publication date: 2007-08-20
Dewey code: 940.5318092
List Price: $14.95
Price: $399.99
Review From Dachau to D-Day / Marble House Editions:The personal memoir of a German Jew who left Nazi Germany, became an American citizen and returned to Europe to participate in the Normandy Landing.
Authors
- One who dare not NOW disclose his identity
Publication date: 1883
Review Jesse James: The Life and Daring Adventures of This Bold Highwayman and Bank Robber and His No Less Celebrated Brother, Frank James. Together with the Thrilling Exploits of the Younger Boys / Barlcay & Co:This original pamphlet has many names. The Life and Tragic Death of Jesse James, The Western Desperado. Jesse James, His Life and Startling Adventures and the title you see above. It includes several engraved illustrations and is the only book containing The Romantic Life of Jesse James and his Pretty Wife, Who Clung to Him to the Last!.
Creator: John Morley
Publication date: 1901
Review English Men of Letters (36 Volumes) / Harper & Brothers Publishers:NY & London:Thirty-six Volumes, published by Harper & Brothers, 1901. Samuel Taylor Coleridge by H. D. Traill-Joseph Addison by William John Courthope-Lord Byron by John Nichol-David Hume by Thomas Henry Huxley-Thomas de Quincey by David Masson-John Keats by Sidney Colvin-Sir Walter Scott by Richard Holt Hutton-William Makepeace Thackeray by Anthony Trollope-Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp-Thomas Gray by Edmund W. Gosse-Edward Gibbon by James Cotter Morison-Laurence Sterne by H. D. Traill-William Wordsworth by Frederick W. H. Myers-John Milton by Mark Pattison-Richard Bentley by R. C. [+]Jebb-Percy Bysshe Shelley by Johy Addington Symonds-Thomas B. Macaulay by James Cotter Morison-Sir Philip Sidney by John Addington Symonds-Geoffrey Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward-Charles Lamb by Alfred Ainger-Samuel Johnson by Leslie Stephen-Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Mrs. Oliphant-Edmund Spenser by Richard William Church-John Locke by Thomas Fowler-Jonathan Swift by Leslie Stephen-Alexander Pope by Leslie Stephen-William Cowper by Goldwin Smith-Walter Savage Landor by Sidney Colvin-Charles Dickens by Adolphus William Ward-Daniel Defoe by William Minto-Edmund Burke by John Morley-Francis Bacon by Richard William Church-Oliver Goldsmith by William Black-Henry Fielding by Austin Dobson-John Bunyan by James Anthony Froude-Robert Southey by Edward Dowden.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1959
Review Things Fall Apart the Story of a Strong Man / McDowell Obolensky:
Publication date: 2001-09
Review Paris to the Moon / Random House:
Authors
- Earl of Clarendon Edward Hyde
Review The Life Of Edward Earl of Clarendon ... Written by himself, etc. / At the Clarendon Printing-House:Two volume octavo set.
Authors
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Edition: 1st US
Publication date: 1824
Review Memoirs Of Goethe : written by himself [Goëthe] / Collins & Hannay:
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The Life of Samuel Johnson (3 Volume Matched Set), Up from Slavery, Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography, with Musings on Recent Events in India (Signed), Dying in America: Mindful of His Death, a Memoir & The Illusion of Maturation in an Age of Decline, Abraham Lincoln...The War Years..SIGNED BY SANDBURG, The Historie of the Reigne of King Henry the Seventh [Raigne] (Historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh), THE NAKED ISLAND (HARDCOVER BOOK) (BY RUSSELL BRADDON) (1953 DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY INC.), Good-Bye, Good Luck (The Biography of William McMaster Murdoch), Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics [Deluxe Autographed Limited Edition of 1,225], Deutsche Literaturgeschichte, Von Den Angangen bis zur Gegenwart, Funfte, uberarbeitete Auflage, Mit 400 Abbildungen, Anti-Feminism in the Victorian Novel (Victorian & Edwardian Anti-feminism), THE HISTORY OF THE NEGRO IN MEDICINE INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY SECOND PRINTING OF TEN VOLUME SET THIRD EDITION OF THIS VOLUME (VOLUME TWO), Mentations: Archer Baxter Forsyth, From Dachau to D-Day, Jesse James: The Life and Daring Adventures of This Bold Highwayman and Bank Robber and His No Less Celebrated Brother, Frank James. Together with the Thrilling Exploits of the Younger Boys, English Men of Letters (36 Volumes), Things Fall Apart the Story of a Strong Man, Paris to the Moon, The Life Of Edward Earl of Clarendon ... Written by himself, etc., Memoirs Of Goethe : written by himself [Goëthe]Top headlines: Miracle Worker author dies at 94: Playwright William Gibson, whose "The Miracle Worker" has thrilled audiences for nearly a half-century with the true story of the deaf-blind Helen Keller's rescue from a world of ignorance, has died. He was 94. ›14:05 28 Nov, Fri Circus will get you in the mood to groove: It's time for another Britney Spears comeback: Call this one the remix version, and Circus will leave you thoroughly entertained. ›17:44 Detroit: Behind the UAWs Striking Ways: The unions strategic mini-strikes against Chrysler and GM struck a chord with members and fear among management. 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