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WRITING IN A STATE OF SIEGE: Essays on Politics and Literature.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, 1983. dj. Hardcover first edition - First book of nonfiction by this internationally acclaimed South African writer. Topics range from apartheid to Mahatma Gandhi, censorship, the position of the Afrikaans writer and more. ISBN: 0-671-47751x.
Condition: Fine in a fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 16502More details Price: $25.00 -
THE BINGHAMS OF LOUISVILLE: The Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunes.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Crown, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which traces the history of one of America's richest and most powerful families and offers a hypothesis regarding the death of Mary Lily Kenan, the widow of Henry Flager, the Standard Oil Tycoon, who died "of natural causes" just 8 months after she married Robert Bingham - who used the money he inherited to start his publishing kingdom. Originally published, but never distributed, by Macmillan, this includes a preface which lays out the history of this cancellation. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Extensive notes, index. xii, 292 pp. Genealogical tables on endpapers. ISBN: 0-517568950.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84436More details Price: $19.50 -
LAMPS IN THE WIND: South Indian College Women and Their Problems.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Very good in illustrated cloth (previous owner's name, offsetting to the front endpaper), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 69139More details Price: $20.00 -
HOUSE ARREST.
Edition: 3rd US printing.
Boston: Gambit, 1970. dj. Hardcover - First person account of this Greek newspaper owner who refused to publish under censorship in the 1960's when the Greek government was overthrown by the junta of colonels, and of her eventual escape to England. In addition, Vlachos tells of her life during the occupation of Greece during World War II and of the civil war that followed. Photographs, Index, 183 pp.
Condition: Fine in a near fine dustjacket (some rubbing to the dj).
Book ID: 45149More details Price: $13.50