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Paperback. Etat : Fine. 3rd Edition. M. Evans and Company, Inc. 1996 3rd Edition Fine/ Bright photo illustrated pages. HEAVY ITEM 1.25 Pounds. No Exp.

Paperback. Etat : New. Bonnie Ehrlich was tired of Dior suits and diamond necklaces and being told by her press agent, "You're just not newsworthy." She had made headlines once before when she sued world famous filmmaker Hercules Fokis for running her over in a drive-in brothel. And she would, at any cost, make headlines again. She would, at any cost, make headlines again. She would write a book."I'll write about the broads I used to know in Hollywood," she explained to her husband Manny."No good," he said. "Polly Adler done that bit years ago.""Not those broads, stupid. I mean actresses I knew when they were starting out. The ones who made it big. Of it's dirty enough it can't miss."The Broadbelters is the story of what happened when Bonnie Ehrlich signed a contract with Dave Shmeer, publisher of bestsellers, and made use of his formula: Chapter = 2 Bedroom Scenes + Narrative. It's a very funny story. In fact The Broadbelters is probably the funniest book since Candy, or Candide, or Candle in the Night, or Valley of the Dolls, or Up the Down Staircase, or Jean Christophe, or Auntie Mame.…

Paperback. Etat : New. This is the story of Ruby Wilson whose beauty was something startling. She was born somewhere and brought up in the back of a hat shop owned by her Aunt Carrie. Men always slipped in and out of Aunt Carrie's life. Ruby was never shocked. This novel of the Roaring Twenties spares nobody's feelings as it follows how Ruby took to men, and how men took to Ruby. Ruby of the flaxen hair, pale skin, and long eyes also had a vicious temper, but when men saw her image on a billboard with the legend Wear Ruby Garters they wanted her. Among her suitors were Nicki the Greek, to whom Aunt Carrie clung desperately; Red, the lingerie salesman; Karl, whose parents owned the furniture store where Ruby's greatest romance found a darkened happiness; and finally Jed, whose squirrel coat Ruby enjoyed so much she wore it in bed. When Ruby was ready to spread her wings and fly beyond the boundaries of her hometown, would she be haunted by her past suitors and coaxed to remain within the confines of what she had always known, or would she find herself free to soar into the larger world, ready to take on new adventures and find someone who could secure her lasting affection.…

Hardcover. Etat : VG. Etat de la jaquette : NF.

Paperback. Etat : New. The people have fled the countryside. They have come by the thousands into the city. What it is they are fleeing they cannot say. They fear "the enemy"-an enemy whom they are certain will one day attack. One man sits beyond the gates watching. But when the true enemy attacks, he comes not from the outside, but from within.From the beginning, Marcel Clouzot weaves this fascinating contemporary fable that may be interpreted as a political statement or a philosophical summation of the future of the West.The Walled City is an allegory about the malaise infecting today's world. In it Clouzot has created a Western Society which is about to lose its souls in its battle with technology. It would prefer to lay the blame on external enemies, but the sickness is within-inside the walls. All the symptoms are there: the all-powerful state, Law and Order, the swollen Factory, the controlled Press, inflation and bad money, the ailing Church, the arrogance of Science, the ravages of Pollution, the deadening impact of the egalitarian society, even Feminism-and the man of good will, its protagonist, who is trapped between the Law and his own conscience. When The Walled City was published in France it was called 'a great hallucinatory book' and Clouzot was compared to Celine. …

Hardcover. Etat : nf. Etat de la jaquette : nf.

Paperback. Etat : New. Out of the pages of European history comes a story as colorful and torrid as any modern fiction-the never-been-told-before-told account of the lives of the grand duchess of Courland and her daughters Wilhelmina and Dorothea. By Influence and Desire is the story of how these independent, intelligent women helped shape the course of history in the only way open to them-in the boudoirs of Paris, Vienna, Saint Petersburg and Berlin.Catherine the Great was in power when in 1779 the beautiful, eighteen-year-old Anna-Dorothea von Medem, daughter of one of the richest and most cosmopolitan families of Courland (now Latvia), was chosen to be the wife of Courland's Grand Duke Peter. When Anna proved more popular and politically astute than her husband, Peter took her abroad where the grand duchess's influence, and her list of male admirers, grew.In Paris the grand duchess, whose romantic escapades had long titillated Central European court circles, became the mistress of Talleyrand, Napoleon's foreign minister, whom she aided in an undercover campaign to unseat Napoleon. Love affairs entangling the duchess and her daughters seemed to be the way of the Courland women. For, like their mother, the Courland daughters were liberated, bright, beautiful, and adept at handling men.Metternich, the Austrian chancellor who shared with Talleyrand the distinction of being one of the greatest statesmen of the day, took Wilhelmina as his mistress. And while the Congress of Vienna struggled to bring order to a Europe in chaos, Talleyrand and Metternich sought solace and advice in the bedrooms of the Courland women. A few years later, Dorothea was to steal the affections of Talleyrand, who was thirty-nine years his senior, supplanting her mother as Talleyrand's mistress and maintaining that role until his death in 1938.Rosalynd Pflaum was inspired to write this fascinating history when she was given a volume of letters between Metternich and Wilhelmina. These letters, discovered by Dr. Maria Ullrichova behind an artificial wall in a Cistercian Abbey, proved invaluable. Drawing on this newly uncovered correspondence, on the extensive Talleyrand correspondence already available, and on numerous private archives, Pflaum has recreated these women's extraordinary lives.…

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Good DJ. Book Club Edition. Evans, Lippincott 1972 Book Club Edition Near Fine/Good DJ Light tip bumping/wear to light-teal leather like boards with gold spine lettering. Published and printined in 1963. Bright age toned dust jacket with mended tears and chips with all text preserved, INCLUDING REVERSE SIDE WHICH HAS A VALUABLE GLOSSARY OF NEARLY 300 LATIN TERMS COMMONLY USED IN THE BOTANICAL NAMES OF PLANTS. 512 pages with index. LARGE HEAVY ITEM 2.2 Pounds. Size: 9 3/8 x 6 3/8 x 1 5/8 inches. No dollar amt on dust jacket. No Exp.…

Hardcover. Etat : vg. Etat de la jaquette : nf.

Paperback. Etat : Good.

Spiral-bound. Etat : Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good/Very Good.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +. Inscribed by author at half title page. Navy blue cloth under cream paper boards with debossed gold titling to spine. Pages are clean, no markings from previous owners. Boards are clean and bright with light bumping and rubbing to spine tail and top corners. Binding is tight and square. Text block is lightly soiled to fore edge but is otherwise clean. DJ is clean and bright with light scuffing to surfaces, light creasing and rubbing to spine head cap and tail and corners, small closed tear to top rear edge, light wear to extremities. Signed.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good +. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good +. First Edition, second printing. First edition, second printing. Navy blue cloth boards with debossed cream titling to spine. Pages are clean with no markings from previous owners. Boards are bright with light bumping and rubbing to spine head cap and tail and corners, light discoloration to top and lower edge of rear board. Binding is tight and square but is slightly splitting at title page. Text block has light foxing to top edge, light soiling to fore and lower edge. DJ is clean and bright with light creasing to spine head cap and tail and top rear corner, light wear to extremities.…

Paperback. Etat : New. Bonnie Ehrlich was tired of Dior suits and diamond necklaces and being told by her press agent, "You're just not newsworthy." She had made headlines once before when she sued world famous filmmaker Hercules Fokis for running her over in a drive-in brothel. And she would, at any cost, make headlines again. She would, at any cost, make headlines again. She would write a book."I'll write about the broads I used to know in Hollywood," she explained to her husband Manny."No good," he said. "Polly Adler done that bit years ago.""Not those broads, stupid. I mean actresses I knew when they were starting out. The ones who made it big. Of it's dirty enough it can't miss."The Broadbelters is the story of what happened when Bonnie Ehrlich signed a contract with Dave Shmeer, publisher of bestsellers, and made use of his formula: Chapter = 2 Bedroom Scenes + Narrative. It's a very funny story. In fact The Broadbelters is probably the funniest book since Candy, or Candide, or Candle in the Night, or Valley of the Dolls, or Up the Down Staircase, or Jean Christophe, or Auntie Mame.…

Paperback. Etat : New. This is the story of Ruby Wilson whose beauty was something startling. She was born somewhere and brought up in the back of a hat shop owned by her Aunt Carrie. Men always slipped in and out of Aunt Carrie's life. Ruby was never shocked. This novel of the Roaring Twenties spares nobody's feelings as it follows how Ruby took to men, and how men took to Ruby. Ruby of the flaxen hair, pale skin, and long eyes also had a vicious temper, but when men saw her image on a billboard with the legend Wear Ruby Garters they wanted her. Among her suitors were Nicki the Greek, to whom Aunt Carrie clung desperately; Red, the lingerie salesman; Karl, whose parents owned the furniture store where Ruby's greatest romance found a darkened happiness; and finally Jed, whose squirrel coat Ruby enjoyed so much she wore it in bed. When Ruby was ready to spread her wings and fly beyond the boundaries of her hometown, would she be haunted by her past suitors and coaxed to remain within the confines of what she had always known, or would she find herself free to soar into the larger world, ready to take on new adventures and find someone who could secure her lasting affection.…

Paperback. Etat : New. The people have fled the countryside. They have come by the thousands into the city. What it is they are fleeing they cannot say. They fear "the enemy"-an enemy whom they are certain will one day attack. One man sits beyond the gates watching. But when the true enemy attacks, he comes not from the outside, but from within.From the beginning, Marcel Clouzot weaves this fascinating contemporary fable that may be interpreted as a political statement or a philosophical summation of the future of the West.The Walled City is an allegory about the malaise infecting today's world. In it Clouzot has created a Western Society which is about to lose its souls in its battle with technology. It would prefer to lay the blame on external enemies, but the sickness is within-inside the walls. All the symptoms are there: the all-powerful state, Law and Order, the swollen Factory, the controlled Press, inflation and bad money, the ailing Church, the arrogance of Science, the ravages of Pollution, the deadening impact of the egalitarian society, even Feminism-and the man of good will, its protagonist, who is trapped between the Law and his own conscience. When The Walled City was published in France it was called 'a great hallucinatory book' and Clouzot was compared to Celine. …

Paperback. Etat : New. Out of the pages of European history comes a story as colorful and torrid as any modern fiction-the never-been-told-before-told account of the lives of the grand duchess of Courland and her daughters Wilhelmina and Dorothea. By Influence and Desire is the story of how these independent, intelligent women helped shape the course of history in the only way open to them-in the boudoirs of Paris, Vienna, Saint Petersburg and Berlin.Catherine the Great was in power when in 1779 the beautiful, eighteen-year-old Anna-Dorothea von Medem, daughter of one of the richest and most cosmopolitan families of Courland (now Latvia), was chosen to be the wife of Courland's Grand Duke Peter. When Anna proved more popular and politically astute than her husband, Peter took her abroad where the grand duchess's influence, and her list of male admirers, grew.In Paris the grand duchess, whose romantic escapades had long titillated Central European court circles, became the mistress of Talleyrand, Napoleon's foreign minister, whom she aided in an undercover campaign to unseat Napoleon. Love affairs entangling the duchess and her daughters seemed to be the way of the Courland women. For, like their mother, the Courland daughters were liberated, bright, beautiful, and adept at handling men.Metternich, the Austrian chancellor who shared with Talleyrand the distinction of being one of the greatest statesmen of the day, took Wilhelmina as his mistress. And while the Congress of Vienna struggled to bring order to a Europe in chaos, Talleyrand and Metternich sought solace and advice in the bedrooms of the Courland women. A few years later, Dorothea was to steal the affections of Talleyrand, who was thirty-nine years his senior, supplanting her mother as Talleyrand's mistress and maintaining that role until his death in 1938.Rosalynd Pflaum was inspired to write this fascinating history when she was given a volume of letters between Metternich and Wilhelmina. These letters, discovered by Dr. Maria Ullrichova behind an artificial wall in a Cistercian Abbey, proved invaluable. Drawing on this newly uncovered correspondence, on the extensive Talleyrand correspondence already available, and on numerous private archives, Pflaum has recreated these women's extraordinary lives.…

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, with Reilly & Lee on the spine. Hardcover. Very good condition (no dust jacket). Top and bottom of spine, corners, slightly rubbed. Former owner's ink signature on title-page. Internally clean and tight.

Soft Cover. No Jacket. First Thus. Paperback, 1974, 1st Edition THUS STATED, Reproduced in Facsimile from the copy in the Huntington Library, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2 in. , NF+/NF-, AS-IS, SOFTCOVER, Beige Color Cover light wear Soil shows 2 children on Hillside with spilt Pail, Interior nice, tight Clean light Creases FoX, Unpaginated.…