Catálogo de libros: Biografía: general

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  • Sergei Koussevitzky and His Epoch
    Arthur Lourie
    Arthur-Vincent Lourié was a significant Russian composer. Lourié played an important role in the earliest stages of the organization of Soviet music after the 1917 Revolution but later went into exile. His music reflects his close connections with contemporary writers and artists, and also his close relationship with Igor Stravinsky.Lourié gives a biographical sketch of Sergei ...
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    41,46 €

  • Victor Herbert - The Biography Of America’s Greatest Composer Of Romantic Music
    Joseph Kaye
    One autumn night in the eighties a young Irishman of twenty-seven, who had passed most of his life in Germany, took his place in the orchestra pit of the Metropolitan Opera House to play the cello. His name was Victor Herbert. He had just arrived in New York, and from his obscure seat he looked around curiously at the mass of faces glowing weirdly in the vast, dim auditorium. H...
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    33,42 €

  • Violinists of Today
    Donald Brook
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    33,70 €

  • Something of Myself for My Friends Known and Unknown
    Rudyard Kipling
    This volume contains a short autobiography of the seminal English poet and author, Rudyard Kipling. It offers a unique insight into the life and mind of this prolific man of letters, who strove to uphold the Victorian values of patriotism, duty, and obedience; yet simultaneously sympathized with outlaws and children. This autobiography outlines his unhappy childhood years in th...
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    33,53 €

  • Walter Rathenau
    Count Harry Kessler
    This early work on Walter Rathenau is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It details the life and work of the German industrialist and politician Walter Rathenau. This fascinating work is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history of early twentieth century Europe. Many of the earliest books, particularly those da...
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    45,67 €

  • Walden
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American naturalist, poet, philosopher, and essayist who played a leading role in the transcendentalist movement. A prolific writer, he produced more than 20 volumes of articles, essays, journals, poetry and books, with his most notable contributions including his work on philosophy and natural history. Arguably his most famous work, “Wald...
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    26,26 €

  • Speculations
    T. E Hulme / TE Hulme
    The history of the philosophers we know, but who will write the history of the philosophic amateurs and readers? Who will tell us of the circulation of Descartes, who read the book and who understood it? Or do philosophers, like the mythical people on the island, take in each other’s washing? Are they the only readers of each other’s books? For I take it, a man who understands ...
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    34,68 €

  • Seventy Years a Showman
    George Sanger / Lord George Sanger
    SEVENTY years a showman. Seventy years!A long, long day is waning at last. Here in the peaceful shadows of the Garden of Life I pause awhile. I want to drink in the scene. I want to realize the full meaning of it all.Rest-yes, I can rest now. The way has been long. It has often been weary. A showman’s life, my friends, is not all glory. Beneath the glitter and the tinsel is man...
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    38,08 €

  • The Shadow Line - A Confession
    Joseph Conrad
    This volume contains Joseph Conrad’s 1916 short novel, 'The Shadow-Line'. It is a semi-autobiographical tale of a young man who takes up a captaincy in the Orient. This significantly fictionalised account of Conrad’s first command as a young sea captain constitutes one of his late masterpieces, and is highly recommended for fans and collectors of his work. Joseph Conrad (1857 -...
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    22,27 €

  • To My Sons
    Harold Bell Wright
    This antiquarian book contains an autobiography of Harold Bell Wright, written at the age of sixty-one for his sons. It describes the most important events of the first thirty years of his life. Wright was America’s favourite author during the early twentieth century, his books setting many sales records. His books were also turned into popular movies, and were found in more ho...
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    40,36 €

  • Upton Sinclair Presents William Fox
    Upton Sinclair
    This antiquarian volume contains Upton Sinclair’s uniquely insightful and veritably thrilling biography of one of the most important and influential figures in motion picture history - the founder Fox Film Corporation, William Fox. Written at a time when there was considerable controversy and turmoil between the financiers and organisers in the film industry, this sensational a...
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    42,47 €

  • Kay Francis
    Scott O'Brien / Scott O’Brien
    I Can’t Wait To Be Forgotten pays tribute to Kay’s compassionate nature, her concern for others, her great contributions on behalf of those serving in the armed forces during World War II, and the financial legacy she contributed to The Seeing Eye. Kay felt that being of some service to others was far more important than focusing totally on promoting herself and a film career....
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    35,14 €

  • Close-Ups
    Eddie Lucas
    Interviews with TV legends!Bewitched/Designing Women: Alice Ghostley The Big Valley: Peter Breck Father Knows Best / The Andy Griffith Show:Elinor Donahue Hazel: Lynn Borden Hazel: Ray Fulmer I Love Lucy: Keith Thibodeaux The Jeffersons / 227: Marla Gibbs Lassie: Jon Provost Leave it to Beaver: Barbara Billingsley Leave it to Beaver: Tony Dow The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Dwa...
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    32,06 €

  • Fred MacMurray
    Charles Tranberg
    Fred MacMurray was one of the most durable stars in motion picture history. Fred arrived in Hollywood in 1934 and within a year he was one of the top leading men in the movie industry. He was the leading actor or one of the leads in films through 1973 when Walt Disney Studios released his final starring role in a motion picture, Charley and the Angel. Thirty-nine years - five s...
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    35,08 €

  • Kay Francis
    Scott O'Brien / Scott O’Brien
    American stage and film actress Kay Francis moved quickly from a brief run on Broadway during the late 1920s to her film debut in  Gentlemen of the Press (1929) and the Marx Brothers film, The Cocoanuts (1929). Kay starred in nearly two dozen important films between 1929 and 1931, yet today she is largely forgotten, yet when author Scott O’Brien gained access to Kay’s personal ...
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    37,19 €

  • How I Found God and Love at Austin High, 1952 to 1956
    Lowell Streiker
    He was president of the student body, the Key Club, Masque and Gavel, etc. at America’s largest coeducational high school but he was just looking for God and love. What did he find? ...
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    23,44 €

  • Miracles & Memories
    Gertrude M. Brown / Gertrude MBrown
    'He sent his word and healed me' Psalms 107-20In the year of 1995 I was in great need of a healing. Doctors were not giving me any hopes of survival. I was told I had three months of less to live. I have been asked many times to write a book on my supernatural healing. I believe this is the appointed time. As I lay in the hospital paralyzed from salmonella blood poisoning with ...
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    12,06 €

  • Up Through the Cracks
    Jack Reynolds
    Amazingly, there was a sense of calm, even though the sounds of sirens and the sight of burning buildings loomed all around. The smell of tear gas filled the air, yet this crowd remained eerily calm as they waited for someone to speak. Jackson assumed that the panthers were armed and scattered throughout the area but there was no voice of leadership to be heard. They had yet to...
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    18,72 €

  • Gilbert C. Hurry Home! I Just Want to Say I Love You...
    Janey Lee Caravallo
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    17,80 €

  • Gilbert C. Hurry Home! I Just Want to Say I Love You...
    Janey Lee Caravallo
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    24,67 €

  • Hotter Than a Motherfucker!
    Warren E. Henderson / Warren EHenderson
    One of the most deepest, truest, rawest, versatile, informative, knowledgeable books of the Century. A must read for every color of people, every class of people, every mind set of people, for all people of indoctrination. Things you thought you knew about but didn’t really know about. Things that happen in the past, that’s happening now in the present, that’s going to happen i...
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    18,86 €

  • Up Through The Cracks
    Jack Reynolds
    Amazingly, there was a sense of calm, even though the sounds of sirens and the sight of burning buildings loomed all around. The smell of tear gas filled the air, yet this crowd remained eerily calm as they waited for someone to speak. Jackson assumed that the panthers were armed and scattered throughout the area but there was no voice of leadership to be heard. They had yet to...
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    25,64 €

  • Red Hair
    Elinor Glyn
    This vintage book contains Elinor Glyn’s 1905 romance novel, 'Red Hair'. The story revolves around the young, bold Evangeline who is determined to run away and embark on an exciting adventure. Elinor Glyn (1864 - 1943) was a British novelist and scriptwriter. She became famous for her romantic fiction, which was considered scandalous for its time. This early work is highly reco...
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    24,40 €

  • Puccini Among Friends
    Vincent Seligman
    Puccini was an Italian, a musician, highly strung, temperamental, diffident and easily discouraged, changing quickly from exaltation to despair.Nearly all of Puccini’s biographers remark on his distaste for writing letters, nevertheless when my mother died nearly two years ago I found amongst her papers more than seven hundred letters from him, all written during the last twent...
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    40,99 €

  • Our Old Home
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    This vintage book contains a collection of essays written by Nathaniel Hawthorne during his stay in England from 1853 to 1853. In these writings, Hawthorne’s humour, empathy, patriotism, and sharp judgement are displayed as he takes us on a tour through rural England and Scotland. The work displays the whole gamut of life, from the grandeur of London, to the horrors of poverty ...
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    30,52 €

  • Sitting Bull - Champion Of The Sioux - A Biography
    Stanley Vestal
    This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive biography of the famous champion of the Sioux, ’Sitting Bull’. The fruit of prolonged first-hand research among Plains Indians with whom the author had been closely associated since boyhood, this definitive biography offers a unique insight into the life of this most famous of Plains Indians. It will be of considerable utility to...
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    48,00 €

  • Sketch For A Self Portrait
    Bernard Berenson
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    38,42 €

  • William Buckland 1734 - 1774 Architect of Virginia and Maryland
    Rosamond Randall Beirne
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    33,83 €

  • Under a Lucky Star - A Lifetime of Adventure
    Roy Chapman Andrews
    Under a Lucky Star is the autobiography-the lifetime of adventure-of the explorer and archaeologist Roy Chapman Andrews. Adored by the public and pursued by the press, Andrews came as close to superstar status in the 1920s as any explorer of the twentieth century. Much of Under a Lucky Star focuses on his grandest adventure, the Central Asiatic Expeditions, a series of five dar...
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    32,24 €

  • A True Treasure
    Rose Weiss
    A True Treasure is my story, part of my story. It takes you from the chaos of a mental and emotional breakdown through the begining process of recovery and learning to live and how it all affected the relationships with those around me. ...
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    12,43 €


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