Biography - American - General from Goldring Books

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a few very minor spots to closed top edge with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 276 pages. 23 photographs. The autobiography of America's 'Queen of Disco' - a story of riches and fame, despair, and finally salvation. It charts… Read more about this item

London: Simon and Schuster, 2007. An As New copy in an As New Dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 411 pages. On July 6 200, four months after the United States invaded Iraq, former ambassador Joseph Wilson's now historic article 'What I didn't Find in Africa' appeared in the New York Times.A week… Read more about this item

London: Allen Lane, 2007. A Fine unmarked copy with a near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 531 pages. 60 illustrations. The book is an incomparable reckoning with the nature of the world - how we got here, what we're living through and what lies over the horizon. Greenspan, Chairmn of the Federal Reserve Board from 1987… Read more about this item

New York: Gallery Books, 2014. A Fine unmarked copy with Very Good+ dustjacket which is not price clipped. First Edition, First Printing. 352 pages. 4 photographs. John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr.(1960-1999) and heir to his father's charming good looks and relentless ambition, ultimately inherited JFK's tragic legacy too when he died in a plane crash piloted by himself in… Read more about this item

New York: Doubleday, 1999. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING November 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy which has a gift inscription written on a sticker to front endpaper else Fine with near Fine dustjacket which is price clipped. xi + 850 pages. 68 illustrations. The distinguished Professor of English literature's acclaimed and definitive biography of the novelist, cultural critic, essayist,… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, 1987. A Fine unmarked copy with dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition. x + 624 pages. 30 illustrations. As head of the FBI from 1924 until his death in 1972, J. Edgar Hoover created a unique role for himself in American life - one that had never existed before, one that wil probably… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Row, 1988. A near Fine copy ( Fine apart from an inscription to half title page) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 133 pages. 12 illustrations. Welcome to the world of Sandra Bernhard; sophisticated, sardonic, and witty, nothing escapes her acute eye and sharp tongue. With her pitch-perfect sense of style and humour,… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. A large format volume of xii + 244 pages. 100 black and white illustrations, 8 colour plates. Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) soon became aware that she was destined to 'create the twentieth century'. Brought up in Europe and the new frontier state… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 1971. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to front endpaper with inscription 'To Donald Maclaren of Maclaren with much affection from his father's friend'. xvii + 253 pages. 13 illustrations. Francis Picken Miller (1895-1978), whose career had many facets: statesman, politician, soldier, educator, author, and churchman. His contacts have been worldwide. Born… Read more about this item

New York: Phaidon Press, 2003. A Fine unmarked copy with Very Good+ dustjacket. George Lois was born in New York City in 1931. He studied at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn before setting off for Madison Avenue in the early 1950's, eventually joining Doyle Dane Bernbach in 1958. Lois went on to found four seminal New York advertsing agencies over… Read more about this item

New York: National Portrait Gallery/Smithsonian Institution/Holt Rhinehart and Winston , 1979. A clean, tight and unmarked copy apart from a neat name and date to half title page and light foxint to fore edge and which has a light crease to front cover. xv + 288 pages. Illustrated throughout. Introduction by Alistair Cooke. The book offers a richly illustrated… Read more about this item

London: John Curtis, 1994. PRESENTATION COPY to David Somerset (Chief Cashier of the Bank of England 1980-1988) from Sir Roger Gibbs, Chairman of the Wellcome Trust, October 1994. A Fine unmarked copy, apart from the presentation inscription, in green cloth boards with near Fine dustjacket. First edition, first printing. xix + 422 pages. 109 illustrations. The Wellcome Trust is… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which has fading to spine and is not price clipped. xii + 372 pages. The author was the first career diplomat to be appointed American Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. As America's top representative in Britain from 1991 to 1994, his many friends in… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy apart from some light marks to fore and lower edges with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. 1151 pages. 98 illustrations. 13 maps. First UK edition. The most celebrated American diplomat of his period, Kissinger was a major figure in world history and a winner of the… Read more about this item

London: Harper Collins, 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from a thin quarter inch biro 'v' mark to top edge) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First UK edition, first printing. xx + 874 pages. Illustrations in the text. The authorized biography of President Ronald Reagan, written with complete interpretative freedom, whilst he was still president.… Read more about this item

London: W.H. Allen, 1982. A Fine unmarked copy with near Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First British edition. 368 pages. 69 illustrations. In this autobiography of the singer, Eddie Fisher tells the whole story of his remarkable life and career - a roller coaster ride from the slums of Philadelphia to the pinnacle of fame and fortune, a… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1978. A very clean, tight and unmarked copy with light foxing to closed edges with dustjacket which has some chipping and wear. First UK edition. 'Dasher' was Jimmy Carter's secret service codename throughout his successful election campaign - an apt name for a man who swept meteorically from being an obscure peanut farmer in Plains, Georgia… Read more about this item

New York: Richard Marek, 1979. Gold title on black cloth boards which are very clean and unmarked with no wear. Internally there is light foxing to closed edges else very clean, tight and unmarked. A Very Good+ copy. Dustjacket has a little creasing and is not price clipped. A definitive and critical analysis of the extraordinary rise of James Earl… Read more about this item

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. The book is the first close-up account of Jacqueline Kennedy during the dramatic thousand days of John F. Kennedy's presidency. This is the story of those years from the perspective of a woman who entered the White House at the age of 31,… Read more about this item

New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002. A near Fine unmarked copy with near Fine complete dustjacket. Third printing. From housewife to billionaire chief executive, Martha Stewart is not just the businesswoman with the midas touch, she is also a lightning rod for many of the most important and controversial social and economic issues of post World War II American… Read more about this item