DEFORD, FRANK::THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BILLIE JEAN KING.
- signiertes Exemplar 1982, ISBN: 9780246117922
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Gloucestershire UK: History Press, 2019. 1st pbk. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 237 pages. Before Marilyn tells the story of Marilyn Monroe's modeling career, during which time … Mehr…
Gloucestershire UK: History Press, 2019. 1st pbk. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 237 pages. Before Marilyn tells the story of Marilyn Monroe's modeling career, during which time she was signed to the famous Blue Book Agency in Hollywood. The head of the agency, Miss Emmeline Snively, saw potential in the young woman and kept detailed records and correspondence throughout their professional relationship and beyond. On the day of Monroe's funeral, Snively gave an interview from her office, talking about the girl she had discovered, before announcing, rather dramatically, that she was closing the lid on her Marilyn Monroe archive that day - to 'lock it away forever'. This archive was purchased by Astrid Franse, and together with bestselling Marilyn Monroe biographer Michelle Morgan they draw on this collection of never-before-seen documents, letters and much, much more. Before Marilyn explores an aspect of Monroe's life that has never been fully revealed - by charting every modelling job she did, and illustrating the text with rare and unpublished photographs of the young model and her mentor. Record # 380400, History Press, 2019, 3, Oberlin, OH: Kronos Publications, 1994. Saddle-stapled magazine. Light shelfwear; small rubbed spot on cover, tip of cover dogged. Flexi-disc present. Very good.. 48pp., including covers. Illustrated thoughout in b/w. A magazine of garage-underground subculture, featuring sleaze, sin, film, dirty books and music. Features: Sin Street Sleaze- Miriam Linna on adult paperbacks (with illo by Coop); two Bill Ward pin-ups; The Secret Sex Life of William Rotsler - on his career as a photographer, writer and maker of pornographic movies; To Dye For - a survey of Marilyn Monroe Wannabes (Kim Novak, Mamie Van Doren, Jayne Mansfield, Joi Lansing, Barbara Nichols, Cleo Moore, Maria Stinger, Arlene Hunter, Dixie Evans, and Stella Stevens); Carry On - David McGillivray on sexual perversity in Great Britain; Graf Haufen's Sexy Schoolgils: The Sequel - on German sexploitation cinema (featuring housewives, teenagers, violence etc.; includes filmography); You Have to Horsewhip Your Wife, by Tom Augusta; and reviews of "low hi fi" - strange and sexy records (includes reviews of an lp, 'The Erotic Delights of Lady C', with a woman reading the naughtier portions of Lady Chatterly's Lover; 'Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, and Me,' with Jayne Mansfield). Includes flexi-disc, with songs by Mono Men (El Dorado Hardpac) and Stokastikats (Chicago City 2000)., Kronos Publications, 1994, 3, Buffalo NY: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 278 pages. Illustrated throughout with 195 b/w plates. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The Cold War, Sputnik, Joseph McCarthy, Fidel Castro, the Rosenbergs, Marilyn Monroe, Rosa Parks, Father Knows Best and Rebel Without a Cause are just a few of the events, people, and cultural phenomena that marked the decade of the 1950s. This stunning book, a collection of two hundred large-scale duotone photographs of the 1950s culled from the New York Times photo archives, brings this watershed period to life and examines who and what was important and why. Record # 350495, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2002, 3, Loa Angeles: Los Angeles Times, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Hollywood's classic stars were icons for most of the world. But for The Los Angeles Times and The Los Angeles Mirror, these celebrities were the stuff of everyday local news. And the newspapers' photographers were on hand to record all the important events of Los Angeles' emerging film community. Marriages. Divorces. Births. Even, perhaps especially, arrests, court appearances and suicides. You'll find 200 of these extraordinary photos inside, many of them in their first-ever printing. You'll see Marilyn Monroe as she entered Hollywood, and as she left it; Liz Taylor when she signed her first studio contract at age 11 and as she lived with it for the next four decades; Mae West, in wax and in trouble. Also pictured are Jane Russell, Frank Sinatra, Rita Hayworth, Errol Flynn and scores of other stars at the height, and sometimes the depth, of their Hollywood lives. Record # 381187, Los Angeles Times, 1999, 3, New York: Knopf, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 141 pages, 70 b&w and color photos of Marilyn Monroe. Over a ten-year period from the early 1950's until shortly before Marilyn Monroe's death - the years in which she went from virtual anonymity to super-stardom,photographer Eve Arnold had six photo sessions with her. And here she has chosen the best images. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket. Record # 353453, Knopf, 1987, 3, Providence: Museum of Natural History, 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 96 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color photographs.Page 33/34 has been removed "In respectful consideration of the Moari people, the full-page photograph of the Mokomakai has been removed." Image on page 36 has been covered with white tape by the museum. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613489, Museum of Natural History, 2002, 3, UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[This is the trade export 1st edn as there is no printed publisher's price to front inner flap of dw/dj.] NFINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Subject colour portrait photographic wraps with minimal shelf-wear to dw/dj edges,some very light creasing/bumping to both head+foot of spine/backstrip with no nicks or tears.Top+fore-edges lightly aged as usual/normal,but contents bright, tight and pristine.Brown paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and clean plain beige eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,viipp+10-207pp includes title+half-title pages,contents list,16pp b/w photographs and an index. Billie Jean King's life has been as colourful and as determined as her performance on the tennis courts.Now she tells her own story in a forthright autobiography that is at once a moving personal history and a behind-the-scenes look at the world of women's sports.Billie Jean King spent much of her life as a trailblazer: as a young girl from a modest family playing the rich kid's game of tennis: as a female superstar in a sports world dominated by men; as a leader and spokeswoman for women's equality; and recently (then 1982),as a celebrity called upon to make public the details of her private life. She emerges as a thoughtful,sensitive person,an image far different from the one the press has usually imposed upon her.She writes of her life as a touring athlete,of the men and women who share that world,and the friendships and intense rivalries that develop.She tells about the agonies and pressure of becoming number one,about the difficulties of living without any privacy,and - most of all - how she has been affected, both as a competitor and as a woman.With rare and touching honesty, she evaluates her sometimes troubled marriage and calmly relates the story of her overpublicized affair with Marilyn Barnett.Billie Jean King played her first tennis match at the age of eleven and in 1979 achieved a record of 20 Wimbledon titles (6 singles,10 doubles,4 mixed doubles). She has won all other major titles. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its qualifying compensation rates too!So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.GRANADA,1982., 0<
