2023, ISBN: 9780307962881

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Trade Paperback. Publisher: Faber & Faber | Utg. 2022 | Trade Paperback | 636 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Pop music didn't begin… More...

Trade Paperback. Publisher: Faber & Faber | Utg. 2022 | Trade Paperback | 636 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century . . . Who were the earliest record stars, and were they in any meaningful way 'pop stars'? Who were the likes of George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after the Second World War? The prequel to Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Taking in superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads and golden needles that bind the form together. Bringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life - from ragtime, blues and jazz to Broadway, country, crooning and beyond - Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers. | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 0, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967. First edition. First Edition [stated]. Presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. DJ has wear, soiling, edge tears and chips. Compliments card laid in. Small brochure on the History of the Smithsonian Castle laid in.. Funk, Tom [Jacket Drawing]. 224 p. 22 cm. Index. Material in this book originally appears i The New Yorker in slightly different form. Smithson, illegitimate son of the Duke of Northumberland, never visited the United States or showed any particular interest in this country. It is curious, therefore, that he left over half a million dollars to the U. S. Government for the establishment of an institution for the "increase and diffusion of knowledge among men." Smithson died in 1829; the Institution was not established until 1846, "after, " as Geoffrey Hellman puts it, "a few prenatal roadblocks had been demolished." Some congressmen were opposed on chauvinistic grounds to accepting a bequest from an Englishman. President Andrew Jackson showed no enthusiasm. By the time the Institution was set up, nearly all the half million dollars had been lost by the United States Government in state bonds which defaulted. Today the Smithsonian has an annual income of approximately forty-five million dollars. It includes collections of science and invention, of art and books, of historical relics, of almost every conceivable thing that can be collected. From Wikipedia: "Geoffrey T. Hellman (February 13, 1907 September 26, 1977) was the son of writer and rare-books dealer, George S. Hellman. Born in New York City, he was also the great-grandson of banking titan Joseph Seligman, and thus. by ancestry, part of the city's German-Jewish elite who referred to themselves as Our Crowd. He attended Yale and contributed to the Yale News, Yale Record and the Yale Literary Magazine. Upon graduating in 1928, he wrote for the New York Herald Tribune's Sunday book supplement thanks to a recommendation by Thorton Wilder. By 1929, he secured a position at The New Yorker magazine as a reporter for the "Talk of the Town" section. Though he contributed to numerous publications in his career, he would be affiliated and most firmly identified with The New Yorker. While with The New Yorker, Hellman wrote extensively about New York institutions such as the New York Zoological Society and the Bronx Zoo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Opera House, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York Public Library, the Pierpont Morgan Library, the United Nations, and the New York Stock Exchange, to promote public awareness of these institutions and of interesting events they sponsored. He also wrote about prominent people such as author Louis Auchincloss; New York Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who sent him story ideas; and architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Because of his background and family connections, he was also The New Yorker's link to Manhattan society, reporting on parties, local clubs and societies such as the Grolier Club, the Explorer's Club, the National Audubon Society, and the American Geographical Society, and exclusive restaurants, from which he collected an impressive number of menus. His books include compilations of his pieces that appeared in The New Yorker ('How to Disappear for an Hour' and 'Mrs. De Peyster's Parties') and a book about the Smithsonian Institution ('Octopus on the Mall') and a history of the American Museum of Natural History ('Bankers, Bones and Beetles'). As recently as June 2013 his research for an 1940 profile on Robert Ripley was cited for its exhaustive scope in a review of the latest Ripley biography. From 1936-1938, he was also the associate editor of Life Magazine. During World War II, Hellman was in Washington D.C. where he wrote for the Office of Inter-American Affairs, the War Department and helped to write a top-secret history of the OSS....Hellman's distinguished wife, with whom he had an affair as her first marriage was falling apart, was Daphne Hellman, a banking heiress who became a highly admired jazz harpist. They married in Reno, Nevada in 1941 just hours after her divorce from magazine editor Harry A. Bull. Their daughter, herself a musician, is sitar player Daisy Paradis. The couple also had an adopted son, Digger St. John. At some point in the., J. B. Lippincott Company, 1967, 2.75, London: Macdonald, 1968. A remarkable story of a remarkable woman born with a silver spoon, from bird watching to building & running a Hospital during the first world war to learning to fly at the age of sixty one & earning a place in aviation history.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good in Protector. Illus. by Ills with Photographs. 8vo., Macdonald, 1968, 3, Trade Paperback. Publisher: Faber & Faber | 2023 | Trade Paperback | 512 p. | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: The prequel to Bob Stanley's universally acclaimed Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the only book that brings together all genres to tell the definitive story of the birth of Pop, from 1900 to the mid-fifties. 'An absolute landmark/joy/gossip-fest/door to Narnia: the history of pop music before rock'n'roll. Fascinating. I can't recommend it enough.' CAITLIN MORAN 'An encyclopaedic introduction to the fascinating and often forgotten creators of Anglo-American hit music in the first half of the Twentieth Century.' NEIL TENNANT 'A perfect guidebook, filled with smart thinking and the kind of communicable enthusiasm that sends you rushing to the nearest streaming service, eager to hear what all the fuss was about.' ALEXIS PETRIDIS, GUARDIAN Pop music didn't begin with the Beatles in 1963, or with Elvis in 1956, or even with the first seven-inch singles in 1949. There was a pre-history that went back to the first recorded music, right back to the turn of the century . . . Who were the earliest record stars, and were they in any meaningful way 'pop stars'? Who were the likes of George Gershwin writing songs for? Why did swing, the hit sound for a decade or more, become almost invisible after the Second World War? The prequel to Bob Stanley's Yeah Yeah Yeah, Let's Do It is the first book to tell the definitive story of the birth of pop, from the invention of the 78 rpm record at the end of the nineteenth century to the beginnings of rock and the modern pop age. Taking in superstars such as Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra alongside the unheralded songwriters and arrangers behind some of our most enduring songs, Stanley paints an aural portrait of pop music's formative years in stunning clarity, uncovering the silver threads and golden needles that bind the form together. Bringing the eclectic, evolving world of early pop to life - from ragtime, blues and jazz to Broadway, country, crooning and beyond - Let's Do It is essential reading for all music lovers. 'Stanley has provided something invaluable to the growing numbers who get their music via streaming services: a guide to pop's back pages, where artists mostly remembered in sepia tones are brought into vivid colour by the author's enthusiastic sense of discovery.' BILLY BRAGG, NEW STATESMAN 'Inspired.' THE TIMES 'Remarkable.' CLASSIC ROCK 'Exhilarating.' CAUGHT BY THE RIVER 'Essential.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A joyous read.' THE ECONOMIST 'Wholly entertaining.' MOJO 'Enthralling.' DAILY MAIL 'Great fun.' LITERARY REVIEW 'Colossal.' UNCUT 'A joy.' RECORD COLLECTOR 'A triumph.' LOUD & QUIET | We have this book in our store house - please allow for a couple of extra days for delivery., 0, New York, NY: Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 2002. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by author on title page in black ink. Hours after Holmes and Russell return from solving the murky riddle of THE MOOR, a bloodied but oddly familiar stranger pounds desperately on their front door, pleading for their help. When he recovers, he lays before them the story of the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, younger brother of the Duke of Beauville, returned to England upon his brother's death, determined to learn the truth about the untimely death of the hall's expected heir - a puzzle he is convinced only Holmes and Russell can solve. It's a mystery that begins during the Great War of 1918, when young Gabriel Hughenfort, the late Duke's only son, died amidst scandalous rumors that have haunted the family ever since. While Holmes heads to London to uncover the truth of Gabriel's war record, Russell joins an ill-fated shooting party. A missing diary, a purloined bundle of letters, and a trail of ominous clues comprise a mystery that will call for Holmes's cleverest disguises and Russell's most daring journeys into the unknown, from an English hamlet to the city of Paris to the wild prairie of the New World. The trap is set, the game is afoot, but can they catch an elusive villain in the act of murder before they become his next victims? Sixth mystery novel in this great series featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. As new ,first edition, first printing, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped} M37, Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 2002, 5, New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. inscrioption signed by one of the authors [presumed bo be Fournier}. Glued binding. Paper over boards. x, 260, [2] p. Notes. Index. From Wikipedia: "Ron Fournier (born 1963) is an American national political journalist currently of the National Journal. Fournier had previously served as Washington bureau chief at the Associated Press (AP) until leaving in In June 2010. Fournier is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He attended the University of Detroit. His wife, Lori, is also a graduate of the University of Detroit. They have three children, who they have raised in Arlington County, Virginia. Fournier began his journalism career in 1985 at The Sentinel-Record in Hot Springs, Arkansas. Two years later, he moved to the Arkansas Democrat in Little Rock, Arkansas. He stayed there for another two years before joining the Little Rock bureau of the AP in 1989. While there, he covered Bill Clinton during his final term as Governor. When Clinton was elected President, Fournier moved to the AP's Washington bureau. Fournier first left the AP in 2004 to take a Harvard Institute of Politics fellowship. During this period, he also co-wrote the book Applebee's America with Matthew Dowd, a Republican strategist, and Doug Sosnik, a Democratic strategist. The site failed to catch on, however, and Fournier returned to the AP in March 2007 as its Online Political Editor, after considering a senior advisory role with Republican Senator John McCain's presidential campaign. In May 2008, Fournier was named the acting Washington bureau chief, replacing his "mentor" Sandy Johnson. Since taking over the position, Fournier has led a dramatic shift in the AP's policy, moving it away from the neutral and objective tone it had become known for and toward a more opinionated style that would make judgments when conflicting opinions were presented in a story. Fournier has won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2000 Sigma Delta Chi Award for coverage of the United States presidential election, 2000. He is also a three-time winner of the White House Correspondents' Association Merriman Smith award. In July 2008, while investigators for the House Oversight Committee were looking into the death of Pat Tillman, they uncovered a 2004 email from Fournier to Karl Rove encouraging him to "keep up the fight." On August 23, 2008, following U.S. Senator and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama's announcement of his selection of Senator Joe Biden as a running mate, Fournier wrote a widely circulated piece titled "Analysis: Biden pick shows lack of confidence". A Washington Monthly columnist described the piece as "mirror[ing] the Republican line with minimal variation". Editor & Publisher noted that Fournier's article "gained wide linkage at the Drudge Report, Hot Air and numerous other conservative sites...." and was targeted for alleged bias, a criticism also alleged by liberal media watchdog group Media Matters for America. In February 2013, Fournier wrote a column about breaking ties with a White House official after a pattern of "vulgarity, abusive language" and "veiled threat(s)", but did not identify the official due to his policy of granting blanket automatic anonymity to all his sources. Fournier received some criticism from commentator Glenn Greenwald for behaving in a "petulant" manner and for his policy on anonymity for sources."" From Wikipedia: "Douglas Brian Sosnik (born September 26, 1956), an American political strategist. Sosnik is a 1978 graduate of Duke University. Sosnik is affiliated with the Democratic Party, and notably served as the political director for President Bill Clinton during his second term. He also was a campaign strategist for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry during his unsuccessful 2004 presidential bid. Prior to joining the Clinton Administration, Sosnik was the chief of staff for Connecticut Senator Chris Dodd, and later worked with the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. He was most recently an informal adviser to Mark Warner, the former governor of Virginia during his preparation for a possible 2008 run for., Simon & Schuster, 2006, 3, New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1976. Book Club Edition [Verso states Second Printing]. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xxxvi, [2], 441, [1] pages. Footnotes. Illustrations. Index. DJ has some wear, soiling, tears and chips. Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Long after her death, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, titled Lost Laysen, were published. A collection of newspaper articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. Richard (Barksdale) Harwell (1915-88) was Bowdoin College's librarian from 1961-68. Before coming to Bowdoin, Harwell was educated in Atlanta Public schools. Born on June 6, 1915 in Washington, Ga., Harwell furthered his education at Emory University, where he received his Library of Science degree (1938). For the next two years (1938-40), he was assistant to the director of the George Washington Flowers Memorial Collection of Southern Americana at the Duke University Library. He served his country as lieutenant for the U.S. Navy during World War II (1943-46). He returned to his alma mater and was named assistant librarian in 1948. From 1954-56, he was the director of the Southeastern Interlibrary Research Facility; from 1956-57, he was the director of publications for the Virginia State Library. A noted Civil War historian, Harwell was also author of several books, numerous articles and hundreds of reviews. Derived from a New York Times review: "Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind' Letters" is accurately named, for the volume is made up almost exclusively of letters concerned with the novel and the film. Always determined to preserve her privacy, Miss Mitchell destroyed many purely personal letters. Her other papers, after her death and the death of her husband, passed into the hands of her brother, Stephens Mitchell, who in 1970 gave them to the University of Georgia. If a selection of the letters was to be published, a procedure to which Mr. Mitchell reluctantly agreed, it was natural to put them in the hands of Richard Harwell, the curator of rare books and Georgian history at the University of Georgia Library, author of several books on the Confederacy and editor of many others. Her constant writing of letters had something to do with the development of her style, but again the virtues of the style, though real, are out of proportion to the success of the book. The letters have plenty of interest in their own right. Her letters acknowledging favorable reviews were not merely appreciative but warmhearted and detailed. For instance, she wrote Herschel Brickell of The New York Evening Post: "I am Margaret Mitchell, of Atlanta, author of Gone With the Wind,' and I want to thank you so very much for the marvelous review you gave me on June 30. . . . Thank you for picking up the parallel between Scarlett and Atlanta. No one else (as far as I know) caught it. Thank you for going on record that while my story borders on the melodramatic' at times, the times of which I wrote were melodramatic. Well, they were but it takes a person with a Southern background to appreciate just how melodramatic they really were. I had to tone down so much, that I had taken from actual incidents, just to make them sound barely credible. And thank you for your defense of Captain Butler and his credibility." Either she wrote almost no letters quarreling with reviewers editor omitted them. She had to leave Smith College after her mother's death to keep house for her father and brother. For a time she worked on The Atlanta Journal, but she broke her ankle, developed arthritis, and was on crutches for three years, a period during which she read quantities of books about the Civil War and the history of Atlanta. The writing of "GWTW" was interrupted by other accidents and illnesses, and its success when it was finally published subjected her to the merciless attention of readers, local, nationwide and eventually worldwide, who sought favors of her. The excitement over the filming of "GWTW" was even greater than that over the book. Miss Mitchell had specified in her contract that she would have nothing to do with the script of the moving picture or the selection of the cast. In spite of this, there were constant letters, wires and telephone calls that she felt obliged to acknowledge despite the contract. There are no letters in which she states what she thought about the movie, but she does speak of watching it five times., Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1976, 2.75, She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain's last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain's future naval and colonial supremacy. While the Queen's military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attentionindeed her realmrested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment. At the core of Anne Somerset's riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England ("Definitive"London Evening Standard; "Wonderfully pacy and absorbing"Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Annereserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen's great generalbeautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught backgroundthe revolution that deposed Anne's father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestanther parents' conversion to Catholicism had grave implicationsand she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines "wicked and dangerous") . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil warthe much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I ("Exhilarating"The Spectator; "Ample, stylish, eloquent"The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne's favor, how her replacement, Sarah's cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation.To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material. Queen Anne is history on a large scalea revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013-10-15, 6<

2013, ISBN: 9780307962881

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UK: 007 Magazine and Archive Ltd., 2011. Magazine format in pictorial glossy card wraps, stapled at spine. Pp.34. 'A Deluxe Limited Edition Publication' with colour photographs throughou… More...

UK: 007 Magazine and Archive Ltd., 2011. Magazine format in pictorial glossy card wraps, stapled at spine. Pp.34. 'A Deluxe Limited Edition Publication' with colour photographs throughout. Fine / as new. Includes a tribute to the James Bond cover artist Raymond Hawkey by Edward Milward-Oliver, SIGNED by contributor Jon Gilbert. 007 Magazine is the definitive journal on the literary and screen James Bond., UK: 007 Magazine and Archive Ltd., 2011, 0, Oxford: OUP, 1989. [Literary biography] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.397; [1], blank. Publisher's blue cloth, illustrated dust-jacket priced £25. A clean, fine copy. William Plomer CBE, was a close friend of Ian Fleming, his trusted Editor-in-chief, the dedicatee of the novel Goldfinger, and the very first reader of the James Bond debut 'Casino Royale'. This copy is from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.650., Oxford: OUP, 1989, 0, New York, NY: Times Reading Progrm, Special Edition/Time Inc, 1964. 1st Edition First Thus. Soft cover. New/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover/Fine. Light brown (acidic paper reaction) & soiling upper text block. First published 1949; this is the 1964 Special Edition of the Time Reading Program. Laid-in: publisher's bookmark. Memoir of early career days of Sir Fitzroy Maclean (1911 - 1996) while w/the British diplomatic corps in Russia. An absorbing mixture of military adventure, political judgement, urbane wit, cool humour & surprising incidents of a junior diplomat in Moscow. Account of travels in the USSR, particularly to forbidden zones of Central Asia; exploits in the British Army & SAS in the North Africa theatre of war; and time spent in Yugoslavia with Josip Broz Tito & the Partisans. 561 pgs w/archival photos, 37 chapters divided in 3 parts: 1, Golden Road; 2, Orient Sand; and 3, Balkan War. Later in his career, Sir Fitzroy was a Parliament member, and served as Under-Secretary for War to both the Churchill and the Eden governments. The American edition, published a year later in 1950, was titled Escape To Adventure. Small wonder Sir Fitzroy is thought by many to be upon whom Ian Fleming's James Bond is based., Times Reading Progrm, Special Edition/Time Inc, 1964, 6, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.698. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, typographic jacket priced £15.00. A clean, fine copy. Diaries of the flamboyant English playwright, edited by his partner Graham Payn and his biographer Sheridan Morley. Noel Coward was a close friend and neighbour of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, and was one of only two guests at Fleming's wedding. Coward was godfather to Fleming's son Caspar. With several mentions of Fleming within. From the Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.639., London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982, 0, London: Fourth Estate, 2007. [Literary correspondence] FIRST EDITION, fourth printing. Edited by Charlotte Mosley, daughter-in-law of Diana Mitford. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xxiv; 834; [6], blank. Illustrated with four suites of eight photographic plates. Publisher's black cloth, illustrated jacket priced £25. Text block slightly toned else fine. An impressive collection of letters between the stylish, aristocratic and often controversial Mitford sisters. Nancy, the eldest, was a close friend and correspondent of James Bond novelist Ian Fleming. There are several references within to Ann Fleming, the socialite wife of Ian, and to several of their circle; Cyril Connolly, Cecil Beaton, Noel Coward, Patrick Leigh-Fermor, President Kennedy, Evelyn Waugh, etc. This copy is from the Ian Fleming Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.650., London: Fourth Estate, 2007, 0, She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain's last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain's future naval and colonial supremacy. While the Queen's military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attentionindeed her realmrested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment. At the core of Anne Somerset's riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England ("Definitive"London Evening Standard; "Wonderfully pacy and absorbing"Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Annereserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen's great generalbeautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught backgroundthe revolution that deposed Anne's father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestanther parents' conversion to Catholicism had grave implicationsand she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines "wicked and dangerous") . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil warthe much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I ("Exhilarating"The Spectator; "Ample, stylish, eloquent"The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne's favor, how her replacement, Sarah's cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation.To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material. Queen Anne is history on a large scalea revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013-10-15, 6<

2013, ISBN: 9780307962881

London: Hamlyn, 1989. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Glossy photo-documentary in a large softcover format; a paperback original (30 x 22cm), pp.128. Illustrated throughout w… More...

London: Hamlyn, 1989. [Bondiana] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Glossy photo-documentary in a large softcover format; a paperback original (30 x 22cm), pp.128. Illustrated throughout with black and white and colour stills, with accompanying text. A near fine copy. A behind-the scenes look at the eighteenth James Bond film. Author Sally Hibbin also wrote The Official James Bond Movie Book (1989). This copy is from the comprehensive bibliographical archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his bookplate. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography., London: Hamlyn, 1989, 0, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.698. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers, typographic jacket priced £15.00. A clean, fine copy. Diaries of the flamboyant English playwright, edited by his partner Graham Payn and his biographer Sheridan Morley. Noel Coward was a close friend and neighbour of James Bond creator Ian Fleming, and was one of only two guests at Fleming's wedding. Coward was godfather to Fleming's son Caspar. With several mentions of Fleming within. From the Bibliographical Archive assembled by Jon Gilbert, with his pencilled notes and ownership to endpaper. His comprehensive guide to the works of Ian Fleming (2012) won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert. Ian Fleming The Bibliography, p.639., London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1982, 0, She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain's last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain's future naval and colonial supremacy. While the Queen's military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attentionindeed her realmrested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment. At the core of Anne Somerset's riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England ("Definitive"London Evening Standard; "Wonderfully pacy and absorbing"Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Annereserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen's great generalbeautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught backgroundthe revolution that deposed Anne's father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestanther parents' conversion to Catholicism had grave implicationsand she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines "wicked and dangerous") . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil warthe much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I ("Exhilarating"The Spectator; "Ample, stylish, eloquent"The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne's favor, how her replacement, Sarah's cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation.To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material. Queen Anne is history on a large scalea revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013-10-15, 6<

2013, ISBN: 9780307962881

She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain's last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotlan… More...

She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain's last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune, overcoming ill health (she suffered from crippling arthritis; by the time she became Queen she was a virtual invalid) and living through seventeen miscarriages, stillbirths, and premature births in seventeen years. By the end of her comparatively short twelve-year reign, Britain had emerged as a great power; the succession of outstanding victories won by her general, John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough, had humbled France and laid the foundations for Britain's future naval and colonial supremacy. While the Queen's military was performing dazzling exploits on the continent, her own attentionindeed her realmrested on a more intimate conflict: the female friendship on which her happiness had for decades depended and which became for her a source of utter torment. At the core of Anne Somerset's riveting new biography, published to great acclaim in England ("Definitive"London Evening Standard; "Wonderfully pacy and absorbing"Daily Mail), is a portrait of this deeply emotional, complex bond between two very different women: Queen Annereserved, stolid, shrewd; and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, wife of the Queen's great generalbeautiful, willful, outspoken, whose acerbic wit was equally matched by her fearsome temper. Against a fraught backgroundthe revolution that deposed Anne's father, James II, and brought her to power . . . religious differences (she was born Protestanther parents' conversion to Catholicism had grave implicationsand she grew up so suspicious of the Roman church that she considered its doctrines "wicked and dangerous") . . . violently partisan politics (Whigs versus Tories) . . . a war with France that lasted for almost her entire reign . . . the constant threat of foreign invasion and civil warthe much-admired historian, author of Elizabeth I ("Exhilarating"The Spectator; "Ample, stylish, eloquent"The Washington Post Book World), tells the extraordinary story of how Sarah goaded and provoked the Queen beyond endurance, and, after the withdrawal of Anne's favor, how her replacement, Sarah's cousin, the feline Abigail Masham, became the ubiquitous royal confidante and, so Sarah whispered to growing scandal, the object of the Queen's sexual infatuation.To write this remarkably rich and passionate biography, Somerset, winner of the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography, has made use of royal archives, parliamentary records, personal correspondence and previously unpublished material. Queen Anne is history on a large scalea revelation of a centuries-overlooked monarch., Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013-10-15, 6<