Rogers The Giles

Giles, Sarah: FRED ASTAIRE - His Friends Talk, New York Doubleday Religious Publishing 1988
ISBN: 0-385-24741-9 As New Condition

This handsome photo album assembled by Giles, editor-at-large at Vanity Fair bring the late Fred Astaire to life in the words of thje people who knew him best and loved him most. <P> . Perhaps the Duke of Devonshire got it right: ""He had great charm, but, to be slightly unkind, he wasn't frightfully interesting. But, then, why should he have been?'' Born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha in 1899, the self-effacing Astaire established an unequaled standard of dancing, . . The photographs do full justice to a man whose incandescent face rivaled the impeccable optimism of his feet.> <P> Expanding a Vanity Fair article, Giles presents snippets taken from some 75 interviews with Astaire's friends, relatives, colleagues, and admirers, with the intent of providing the reader with a broadened sense of this man who was perfection on screen. The collection of quotes addresses aspects of the public and private man. Those interviewed include some expected names: i.e., Hermes Pan, Ginger Rogers, Ava Astaire (his daughter), Irving Berlinand some unexpected namesTwiggy, Jerry Hall. Barrie Chase, a favorite partner, and Robyn Smith, Astaire's second wife, are noticeably absent. The quotes are light, chatty, and sometimes informative. 210 pages with over 200 photographs in black & white, mostly never seen before.. Book Jacket is VERY GOOD! Hardcover 9 x 11" Oversize

[SW: ASTAIRE FRED 1899 1987 BIOGRAPHY, Celebrity, Ginger Rogers, Dance, Dancer, Movies]

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Pearson, David, ed. FOR THE LOVE OF THE BINDING: Studies in Historical Bookbinding Presented to Mirjam Foot, New Castle, DE / London Oak Knoll Press / The British Library 2000
ISBN: 1584560355 Fine (Like New)

xiv, 378 pp. 220 black-and-white illustrations, color plates, bibliographical notes, index. In publisher's original, clear plastic protective jacket. Twenty-six of the world's most prestigious bookbinding experts have contributed essays reflecting Mirjam Foot's own research interests, particularly the placement of bindings in their historical context. CONTENTS: Mirjam Foot [Robin Myers]. A Romanesque blind-stamped binding at the Queen's College, Oxford [Michael Gullick]. Medieval manuscript leaves as publishers' wrappers in the 1920s [Christopher de Hamel]. Fragments found in bindings and their role as bibliographical evidence [Lotte Hellinga]. Crutched Friars, lambs, roses, and crosses: Brussels incunables on the shelves of the Crutched Friars at the turn of the sixteenth century [Elly Cockx-Indestege]. The advent of gold tooling in English bookbinding and the intermediary role of Thomas Linacre [Giles Barber]. Plaquette and medallion bindings: a second supplement [Anthony Hobson]. Commissioni Dogali: Venetian bookbindings in the British Library [Laura Nuvoloni]. Some unrecorded sixteenth-century French bookbindings [Nicolas Barker]. Tacketed bindings--a hundred years of European bookbinding [Nicholas Pickwoad]. Bookbinding in Cambridge in the second half of the sixteenth century [David Pearson]. Seventeenth-century Cambridge pyxides [Elisabeth Leedham-Green]. A Bible bound in 1661 by Patrick Erskine for the Earl and Countess of Caithness [John Morris]. Putting book structures within an historical context: a note on the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century paper bindings in the Wolf Collection, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Hamburg [Vanessa C. Marshall]. It glitters and is more than gold: fore-edge paintings in the Dutch Royal Library [Jan Storm van Leeuwen]. The autograph album of a journeyman bookbinder: Alexander Troschel of Nuremberg (1758-69) [David Paisey]. Scott bindings on the 1770 Foulis Milton [Richard Ovenden]. John Whittaker's edition of the Magna Carta, its printing, and his bindings on the Wormsley copies [Bryan Maggs]. Four bindings and a will: Thomas Jones Ellison and some notes on nineteenth-century signed rolls [John Collins]. John Hannett's "Bibliopegia and Inquiry," and Salt Brassington's revision [Paul Morgan]. The bookbindings of Benjamin West (1804-83) [Esther Potter]. A mid-nineteenth-century book-trade binder: Florent Pollender and the firm of Hanicq-Dessain in Mechelen [Christian Coppens]. The book cover designs of William Harry Rogers [Edmund M. B. King]. The mysterious Mr de Sauty [Marianne Tidcombe]. Secret, loud and clear [Anna Simoni]. The Keatley Trust Collection of modern British bindings [Dorothy A. Harrop]. A Jean de Gonet binding at the British Library [P. J. M. Marks]. Bibliography of the writings of Mirjam Foot. OVERSIZED. First Edition No Jacket (as issued) Hardcover 29 x 23 cm

[SW: Bookbinding book books binding bindings binder binders western europe history mirjam foot festschrift art design middle ages medieval crutched friars monastic venetian french english tacketed pyxides Wolf collection dutch royal library alexander troschel of nuremberg scott foulis milton john whittaker magna carta thomas jones ellison rolls john hannett bibliopegia and inquiry salt brassington benjamin west florent pollender hanicq-dessain william harry rogers keatley trust jean de gonet british library]

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Thompson, Harvie (editor): VETERANS' REVIEW - A Collection of War Stories, Toronto Veterans' Review 1983
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(viii) 255 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the back cover and a faint crease on the spine; no interior markings. The full subtitle is: A Collection of War Stories by the Veterans of Sunnybrook Medical Centre. The Chapters are: BOER WAR 1899 - 1902: I Remember by Walter Patchett; War Correspondent by William Dodd; Boer War Memories by Ivor Currie-Mills; Founder of the Toronto Old Contemptibles by Frederick Uzzell; Siege of Ladysmith by Joseph Gibbs. WORLD WAR ONE 1914 - 1918: Canada's Recruitment Effors; Just a W.W.I. Incident; A Booby Trap Dugout; and Youngest Canadian Officer by Herbert McClellan; Under Instruction - 1915; Social Interludes of Airmen; and Engineering Class of 2T3 by William Purvis; Rival Admirals by Fred Thompson; The Donkey by Donald Nasmith; The Adventure of a Reservist; and St Julien April 22nd 1915 by George Robert Skilton; How I Went to War; Why We Changed the Colour of Our Tanks; A Blighty; Our Battery Commander; The Banquet; Stop Your Damned Love Affairs; The Anzacs; A Glorious Holiday on the Mediterranean; How I Spent Armistice Day; and Our Joint Bride by Robert Haultain; The Great War by J. H. Weiss; Passchendaele by Percival White; Excerpts from World War One Diary by Harold Smith; Journal of an Ordinary Joe by Albert Ross; My Free Trip to Paris by James Neff; 60 Pdr Guns Anyone; and November 11 1918 - Memories by Russell Murdock; 13 Lucky or Unlucky by William Marshall; Memories of World War One; and Battlefield Revisited by George Price; Wounded at Valence by Harry Waller; What a Way to Fight a War by Arthur G. Teer; With Lawrence in Arabia by Alfred Rice; An Italian Vet Remembers by Joseph Colantonio; Dirigible Airship Naval Patrols by Percy Devenish; We Shall Remember Them; Double Jeopardy; and My Buddy by James Harrell; Daniel Friel - Himself by Daniel Friel; Rescue at Sea by William Hainey; Veterans Teach History to Pen Pals by Edward Elliott; That Grand Old Legionnaire by Thomas Bonner; CNR War Vets' Association Founder by Arthur Crutchlow; Memoirs of a Teenage Soldier by Clement P. Taylor; The Souchey Patrol by Dr William VanVliet; Old Soldiers Never Die by Norman Hallett; War Ends by Fred Hopkinson; My Wars; and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by Thomas B. Watt; Armistice Day - 1918 by Roy Johnstone; Double Champion by John Anderson; A Milestone in Journalism by Philip Daniels; Last to Die in 1918 by Edmund Sandell; The Joys of Being a Buck Private by Willard A. Stewart; A Vet's Story by John B. Mason. WORLD WAR TWO 1939 - 1945: Pop Smith; and A Game of Poker by Bill McGarvey; The North Atlantic Patrol by John Francis French; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the War by Russ Colombo; Spy Business Isn't What It Used to Be; Almost Top Secret; Good Old Monty; and War on the Home Front by Eric Curwain; Bomb Disposal Boys by Hugh Reynolds; A Hundred Madcap Heroes; More of the Hundred Madcap Heroes by Ernest Finlay; Memories of Christmas by Glen Jenkins; Teaching Lady Astor to Gamble by Louis Kardish; A Fighter Pilot by Harvie Thompson; The Saga of the E-5 by Archie Strang; Shot Down Over Cologne; Attempted Escape; and The Great Escape by George Harsh; The Wavy Navy by Jack Garton; Canadian Officers by Thomas Cunning; What Did You Do On D-Day Daddy; Veteran; and Sherman's Wisdom by Neil Steenberg; The Dover Dash by Ed Taylor; Christmas 1939 by Jim McDowell; A Maple Leaf in Sussex; and On Thoughts of Home by John Boag; The Desert War by Neil Buchanan; Hear This Hear This by Alstair Hunter; Book Review; The RCAF Lancastrian Bombers; and Warriors' Day - 1974 by Allan Findley; A Big Haw Haw to Lord Haw Haw by Ken Sanderson; Army Experiences by Len Summers; Lost Weekend by Dean Valentine; 1160 - Hever Castle - 1942 by Wilf W. McWhinnie; Letter from the Belgians by George J. Lindfield; VE Day by Charles Howe; My Nurse Wore Battle Dress by David Duff; Days I Remember by Norman Rowan; Sunnybrook Veterans' Wives by Frank Roche; May 8th 1945 by Joseph Richtiger; A Tough Walk by Jack Sheridan; Farewell to Ernie by Ernie Stier; Excerpt from a Prisoner of War Diary by Robert Whitbread; Bondy's Service by Clarence Bond; A Raid on Hamburg by Jim Harris; The Provost Corps by Joseph Klinck; The Army Re-establishment Program by Cam McNeil; Life in a POW Camp by Fred Churchard; I See a Soldier by Herb Helliker; With the Canloan Boys by John Russell Waters; The First Op by Aubrey Winch; One of the Queen's Own by Dennis Morland; Recollections of the Great Escape by Fred Scythes; Boxing by Ed Rogers; It Happened in 1944 by Hugh Ritchie; Air Force Memories by Roy Iles; My Meeting with His Holiness Pope Pius by Bill Kelly; My War Ends by Fred Shakespeare; Without a General's Direction; and Conduct to the Prejudice by Bill Locke; Memories by Charlie Giles; A Tribute to a Gremlin; June 6 1944; and To Those Who Make This Pilgrimage by Bill Kensett. KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953: Ambushed in Korea by John Hayward. LADY VETERANS: WORLD WAR ONE: Ambulance Driver by Ethel Grainger; English War Bride WWI by Mrs Maud Purmal; One Hundred Years and More by Ida Noice; Service Overseas by Marion Pigott; Served with John McCrae by Alice Ironsides; Front Line Humour by Elizabeth Coughlan; Buckingham Palace Garden Party by Winnifred Bauer; Wartime Life in a Tent by Edith Rogers; One of the First to Use Penicillin by Edna Jeffrey; Queen's University Hospital Unit by Isabel McEwan; McGill University Hospital Unit by Lillian Pidgeon; Service at the Front by Lillian Cunningham; The Quarter Mistress by Alison Dickenson; Holiday in Paris by Florence Graham; A Close Call by Maude Wilkinson; Surgical Nurse by Marion Wilson; Life on a Soldier Settlement Prairie Farm by Mrs Ann McCaffrey. And LADY VETERANS - WORLD WAR II: Nightmare in Siberia by Bernice Gajda; Christmas in Halifax - 1943; and A Service of Thanksgiving - 1945 by Vi Kazakoff; Awarded Oak Leaf by Alice Mowatt; Impressions by Elizabeth Morton; Basic Training Nov/41 by Ina Neilson; Public Relations Officer by Emily McNaught; Shipwrecked by Marguerite McDougall; Service in Africa by Winnifred Hendrikz; Telephone Operator by Lillian Heron; Head Upholsterer by Valerie Lowry; Canadians Arrive by Mrs Ruby Smithers; Red Cross No. 15; and Canadian General Hospital by Mary Cox; and Experiences of an Overseas Nursing Sister by Grace Patterson. Scans are available for all books. First Edition Trade Paperback 8vo

[SW: war; warfare; military; collectible; collectable;]

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Masterton, Graham (editor) (Peter Valentine Timlett; C. Dean Anderson; Peter Tremayne; and J. N. Williamson; Roald Dahl; Bruce Boston; James Herbert; Gary A. Braunbeck; John Burke; Ramsey Campbell; Frank Coffey; John Daniel; Jeff Gelb; Giles Gordon): SCARE CARE (1) One: Little Miss Muffet; Night Watch; The Last Gift; Monstrum; The Wish; Mammy and the Flies; Breakfast; Time Heals; The Tourists; The Ferries; Cable; The Woman in the Wall; Family Man; A Towpath Tale; By the Sea; Sarah's Song, New York Tor Books 1989
ISBN: 0312931565 Very Good+

(xii) 403 pp. Black boards lettered with silver on the spine. Light edge and corner wear on the dustjacket; price clipped. This anthology contains: Little Miss Muffet by Peter Valentine Timlett; Night Watch by C. Dean Anderson; The Last Gift by Peter Tremayne; Monstrum by J. N. Williamson; The Wish by Roald Dahl; Mammy and the Flies by Bruce Boston; Breakfast by James Herbert; Time Heals by Gary A. Braunbeck; The Tourists by John Burke; The Ferries by Ramsey Campbell; Cable by Frank Coffey; The Woman in the Wall by John Daniel; Family Man by Jeff Gelb; A Towpath Tale by Giles Gordon; By the Sea by Charles L. Grant; Sarah's Song by Roderick Hudgins; Manny Agonistes by James Kisner; The Pet Door by Chris B. Lacher; Mars Will Have Blood by Marc Laidlaw; Junk by Stephen Laws; David's Worm by Brian Lumley; Models by John Maclay; Changeling by Graham Masterton; In the West Wing by Roland Masterton; My Name is Dolly by William F. Nolan; Spices of the World by Felice Picano; Mommy by Kit Reed; Table for None by William Relling; Loopy by Ruth Rendell; The Night Gil Rhys First Met His Love by Alan Rogers; The Clocks by Darrell Schweitzer; Printer's Devil by Celeste Paul Sefranek; Down to the Core by David B. Silva; Crustacean Revenge by Guy N. Smith; Things Not Seen by James Robert Smith; Good Night Sweet Prince by D. W. Taylor; Strangers by Steve Rasnic Tem; and The Avenger of Death by Harlan Ellison. Scans are available for all books. First Edition Very Good+ Hard Cover 8vo

[SW: supernatural literature; weird horror tales;]

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