Non-Fiction Books
First U.K. Edition. A near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket. The front board has a slight lift. The dust jacket has rubs to its spine tips and corners. Mild tanning to its spine and a 1/2" vertical closed tear at the front panel's upper edge.
The life and times of P. T. Barnum, the greatest showman of them all!
Traces the life of Ann Eliza Young, Brigham Young's twenty-seventh and youngest wife, who filed for divorce and helped end the Mormon practice of polygamy
The author documents the conception, research, writing, and editing of his novel, The Prize, and includes a brief synopsis of its story
A Biography of Harriet T. Beckert. An opera star turned Cattlewoman extraordinaire! Its a story about 2 successful and thrilling careers of a girl born in Wisconsin to impoverished German Polish parents. She was a free thinker, independednt, versatile, had beauty and charm. Harriet loved adventure and adapted well to unexpected situations, including hiding a cow in her bedroom. Nostalgic memories for cowgirls and cowboys!
Lists of interesting, intriguing, noteworthy, popular, important, and other people, places, events, and things are accompanied by commentaries, notes, and explanations
A completely new version of the popular reference work incorporates, under old and new headings, hundreds of ideas and information contributed by readers
An entirely new compendium of lists and the stories behind them has been collected from the contributions of celebrities and experts in every field and from the authors' own original research
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Fascinating, occasionally startling predictions by experts in a variety of fields consider what amazing advances and setbacks--in science, technology, politics, and economics--await us in the coming decades
“Revealing! An encyclopedia of what our celebrated betters do between the sheets.”— TIME “More astonishing and outrageous than most of us would even imagine.”— Forecast “Entirely fascinating. . . . Hugely entertaining.”—Auberon Waugh, Inquiry “Something for everyone . . . eminent flashers, fetishists, flagellants, plain old down home fornicators, and goings-on galore.”— Cosmopolitan From the indefatigable Wallace family, authors of The Book of Lists and The People’s Almanac series ( New York Times bestsellers that sold over eight million copies internationally), came 1981’s The Intimate Sex Lives of Famous People . This compelling bestseller that kept many a reader up at night with its two hundred revealing profiles and three hundred rare photos just got better with a dozen new entries on the nocturnal fascinations of the iconic Tupac Shakur, Carlos Casteneda, Jim Morrison, Nico, Wilt Chamberlain, Ayn Rand, Kurt Cobain, Princess Diana, Aleister Crowley, Anna Nicole Smith, Michael Hutchence, and Malcolm X. Irving Wallace was the famous novelist and screenwriting author of The Chapman Report and The Word . His wife, Sylvia Wallace , wrote the best-selling novel The Fountains . The Wallace family’s publishing magic lives on with Amy Wallace , author of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: My Life with Carlos Castaneda , and David Wallechinsky , author of The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics and Tyrants: The World’s Worst Dictators .
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