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Auto Racing Murphy, Daryl E: Carrera Panamericana, History of the Mexican Road Race 1950-1954, Motorbooks International, Osceola, WI, 1993 ; sig.; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0879387343
Condition: Fine in Good- DJ. Inscribed by author on frontispiece 'David: Enjoy the experiences of Carrera. Happy Birthday Daryl Murphy.' Tape repair to DJ. Book Size: 4to.

Carrera Panamericana, History of the Mexican Road Race 1950-1954 by Daryl E Murphy. Published by Motorbooks International, Osceola, WI, 1993. 1st Stated Pr. Hardbound, no DJ. Size 4to (up to 12'' tall). 650 Pgs. Nr Fine. LCCN 64-19808. In the years after WWII, the American continents began building a great Panamerican highway running from Argentina to Alaska. In 1949, Mexico finished its section, and decided to have a road race to celebrate. Thus was born the Carrera Panamericana Mexico, the Mexican Road Race. Run from 1950-1954, the Carrera was fast, dangerous, and unlike any other race in the world. More grueling than LeMans, four times longer than the Indy 500, more treacherous than the Mille Miglia. This was a World Championship race. This book is a history of the Mexican Road Race told in the colorful words of the men and women who were there. Firsthand accounts and anecdotes retell each of the five races from start to finish; who won, who crashed, and who was sidelined with the Mexican Two-Step. More than 200 rare photographs show the cars, the country and the drivers. Description text copyright 2007 BooksForComfort. Item ID 13383.; 1st Signed Ed

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Patchett, Ann: Bel Canto. A Novel. London, Fourth Estate, 2002. ISBN: 1841155837
Guter Zustand. Buch am oberen Rücken gestaucht - mit einem kleinen Einriß. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. "Eines jener seltenen Bücher, die man sich eigentlich zwischendurch verbieten möchte, damit man sie nicht so schnell verschlingt - und so lange wie möglich im Paradies bleiben darf." Brigitte Ann Patchett wurde für ihren Bestseller "Bel Canto" mit dem PEN/Faulkner-Prize und dem britischen Orange Prize for Fiction ausgezeichnet. - Bel Canto is a 2001 novel by American author Ann Patchett, published by Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. It was awarded both the Orange Prize for Fiction and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. It was placed on several top book lists, including Amazon's Best Books of 2001. Based on the Lima Crisis, this book is about a group of terrorists who hold high executives and people of high political standing hostage. It explores how the terrorists and hostages cope with living in a house together for several months. Many of the characters form unbreakable bonds of friendship, while some fall in love. wikipedia-org-wiki-Bel_Canto_(novel) - - Ann Patchett (born December 2, 1963 [1]) is an American author. She received the Orange Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2002 for her novel Bel Canto. Patchett's other novels include Run, The Patron Saint of Liars, Taft, and The Magician's Assistant, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and received the Nashville Banner Tennessee Writer of the Year Award in 1994. Early years: Patchett was born in Los Angeles, California. She moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was six, where she continues to live. Her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray.[2] Education: Patchett attended high school at St. Bernard Academy, a private, non-parochial Catholic school for girls run by the Sisters of Mercy. [3] [4]. Following graduation, she attended Sarah Lawrence College and took fiction writing classes with Allan Gurganus, Russell Banks, and Grace Paley. [5] She later attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she met longtime friend Elizabeth McCracken.[3] It was also there that she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars. Published work: Patchett's first published work was in The Paris Review. She sold her story to the journal and had it published before she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. For nine years, Patchett worked at Seventeen magazine. [3] She mostly wrote non-fiction, and the magazine would publish only one of every five articles she wrote. She said that the magazine was cruel and eventually she stopped taking criticism personally.[6] She ended her relationship with the magazine after getting into a fight with an editor and exclaiming, "I'll never darken your door again!"[3] In 1992, Patchett published The Patron Saint of Liars.[4] The novel was made into a movie of the same title in 1998. [7] Her second novel Taft won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize in fiction in 1994.[4] Her third novel, The Magician's Assistant, was released in 1997. In 2001, her fourth novel Bel Canto became her breakthrough, winning many awards, including the PEN/Faulkner Award, and becoming a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist.[5] She was friends with fellow writer Lucy Grealy and has written a memoir about their relationship, Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. Patchett's latest novel, Run, was released in October 2007.[8] What now?, published in April 2008, is an essay based on a commencement speech she delivered at her alma mater in 2006. Patchett has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, ELLE, GQ, Gourmet, and Vogue. [5] She is the editor of the 2006 volume of the anthology series The Best American Short Stories. Home: Patchett loves her home in Nashville with her doctor husband and dog. If asked if she could go any place, that place will always be home. 'Home is ...the stable window that opens out into the imagination.'[9] References: ^ "GoodReads". http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2531.Ann_Patchett. Retrieved 2008-09-08. ^ Swilley, Stephanie (May 2002). "For Jeanne Ray, writing is all in the family". BookPage. ProMotion, Inc.. http://www.bookpage.com/0205bp/jeanne_ray.html. Retrieved December 12, 2009. ^ a b c d Weich, Dave (2001-06-27). "Ann Patchett Hits All the Right Notes". http://www.powells.com/authors/patchett.html. Retrieved 2007-07-03. ^ a b c Dukes, Jessica. "Meet the Writers: Ann Patchett". Barnes & Noble. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/writers/writerdetails.asp?z=y&cid=1020421#interview. Retrieved 2007-07-02. ^ a b c ["http://www.annpatchett.com/aboutann.html" "About Ann"] (HTML). Ann Patchett's Official Website. "http://www.annpatchett.com/aboutann.html". Retrieved 2007-07-02. ^ "Ann Patchett on The Patron Saint of Liars". HarperCollins. 2006. http://www.harpercollins.com/author/authorExtra.aspx?authorID=20650&isbn13=9780060540753&displayType=bookinterview. Retrieved 2007-06-03. ^ "The Patron Saint of Liars". Internet Movie DataBase. http://imdb.com/title/tt0119869/. Retrieved 2007-07-03. ^ "BEA 2007: An Early Q&A with Ann Patchett". Amazon.co.uk. 2007-06-18. Archived from the original on 2007-06-23.http://web.archive.org/web/20070623093120/http://www.amazon.com/gp/blog/post/PLNK12MSHH70LUY2U. Retrieved 2007-07-03. wikipedia-org-wiki-Ann_Patchett ^ Patchett, Ann (October 13, 2010). "Domestic Lives: A Novelist's Prime Nesting Place in Nashville". 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15. Auflage. 318 Seiten. 19,7 cm. Taschenbuch. Kartoniert.

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Koningsberger, Hans: Love and Hate in China. London, Jonathan Cape, 1967.
Guter Zustand. Aus der Bibliothek der Gräfin Ledebur. - Hans Koning (born Hans Koningsberger) (July 12, 1921 - April 13, 2007), author of over 40 fiction and non-fiction books, was also a prolific journalist, contributing for almost 60 years to many periodicals including The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Harper's, The New Yorker, and De Groene Amsterdammer. Biography: Born in Amsterdam in 1921 to Elisabeth van Collem (daughter of socialist poet Abraham Eliazer van Collem) and Daniel Koningsberger, he was educated at the University of Amsterdam 1939-41, the University of Zurich 1941-43, and the Sorbonne in 1946. Escaping occupied Holland with the Resistance (he was a wearer of the Dutch Resistance Cross), he was one of the youngest sergeants in the British Liberation Army, 7 Troop, 4 Commando, working as an interpreter during the allied occupation of Germany at the end of the war. As an editor of the Groene Amsterdammer, a Dutch weekly, 1947-50, he was invited to run a cultural program on Radio Jakarta, Indonesia which he did from 1950-51. It was after this that he came by freighter to the United States. His first novel, The Affair, was published in 1958. He also began writing non-fiction, including several travel books, including Love and Hate in China (1966). During the Vietnam War he turned his attention to protest, helping to found the still-active 'Resist' organization in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Noam Chomsky among others. For the next thirty years he wrote fiction and non-fiction and was a two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship for creative writers, for fiction. Four of his novels were made into films: A Walk with Love and Death, which was Anjelica Huston's first film, directed by her father, John Huston, The Revolutionary, starring Jon Voight, Death of a Schoolboy, for the BBC London, and The Petersburg-Cannes Express. From 2000 to 2006 he also found time to run Literary Discord, a radio program broadcast by WPKN Bridgeport, dedicated to discussing such literature and the state of publishing in the United States. He interviewed, among many others, Russel Banks and Sadi Ranson about the state of publishing in the United States. wikipedia-org-wiki-Hans_Koning Aus: wikipedia-org

Englische Erstausgabe. Hardcover, a sound, clean and tightly bound copy, in very good-fine general condition, in very solid though price-clipped dust jacket. Further details or images promptly on request. First Edition Binding - Hard Cover *Small Octavo -.205mm (8") tall Oranges Leinen mit silbergeprägten Rückentiteln und Schutzumschlag.

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James Grippando: Born to Run (Jack Swyteck) Harper ISBN: 0061556157

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