The Doyle Diary: the Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery. With a HolmesianInvestigation into the Strange and Curious Case.

Doyle, Charles Altamont

Paddington Press, Ltd.

Interviews with Master Photographers

Danziger, James

CONRAD, Barnaby

Photo illustrated - autobiography - BCE

Beyond Reason

History

Trudeau, Margaret

World

Dust jacket notes: "On Tuesday, September 6, 1977, Steve Biko was taken by South African Security Police to Room 619 of the Sanlam Building in Strand Street, Port Elizabeth. He was hand-cuffed, put into leg-irons, chained to a grille and subjected to twenty-two hours of interrogation, torture and beating. He received between two and four blows to the head, fatally damaging his brain. He died six days later. No charges were pressed against his captors. A shock wave exploded across South Africa and reverberated in every corner of the globe. Newspaper editor Donald Woods, a close friend of Biko's, led the outcry against this atrocity. On October 19, 1977 he was officially banned and completely prohibited from writing. He began this book in secrecy, in defiance of his banning order and under threat of Security Police surveilance. The tragedy of Biko's death was still painfully fresh in his mind. Chapter by chapter the book was smuggled out of South Africa. Publication became possible only when Donald and Wendy Woods and their five young children made a dramatic flight to freedom - an escape which captured the imagination of the world. To tell this story the author had paid the price of exile from his country. Woods vividly recaptures the life and eath of Steve Biko, the brilliant and charismatic man who became South Africa's leading Black Conciousness spokesman. Here is a portrait of the private as well as public Biko; personal and political dialogues; details of the gruesome torture and killing of Biko; verbatim scenes from the inquest and its findings wihch shocked the world. Biko is a personal testimony to a truly remarkable man; a moving portrait of a uniquely gifted leader destroyed in his prime; a searing indictment of a monstrous system and its gestapo tactics; and the story of a deep friendship which transcended race, class and politics under a system determined to keep them separate and unequal."

Biko

Literature & Fiction

Woods, Donald

Genre Fiction

First Edition. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Small rubs to the dust jacket's spine tips and corners.

The werewolf delusion

Religion & Spirituality

Woodward, Ian

Occult & Paranormal

Enter Ukiyo - the 'fleeting, floating world' inhabited by the merchant class of Japan in the 17th and 19th centuries. Physical love as a means of self-expression and as an art form has always assumed a greater importance in the East than in the West. In the uninhibited atmosphere of Ukiyo, erotic art and literature was openly produced and widely enjoyed; and it was here that Japanese eroticism found its truest and most perfect expression: int he famous wood-block prints know as the Ukiyo-e shunga. 'Shunga' is the generic name given to the erotic paintings, prints and illustrated books of Japan. Translated literally, it means 'spring drawings'...and it is a quality of spring-like freshness that the best of the shunga posess. Drawn with skill and imagination by some of the greatest names in Japanese art - among them, Moronobu, Harunobu, Utamaro and Hokusai - the shunga portray the sexual practices and conventions of a lively and unabashed society. At once tender, passionate and brimming with a witty, swaggering vitatlity, the shunga open our eyes to the most intimate details of the act of love and show us that, to the Japanese of the period, sex in all its forms was joyful and inspiring - something to be actively explored, studied and, above all, enjoyed. Presenting more than 200 examples of the shunga in color and black-and-white, the authors have created a superb visual and cultural portrait of one of the most enticing -- and misunderstood -- genres of art.

Shunga: The Art of Love in Japan

Tom Evans

First edition. With a Holmesian Investigation into the Strange and Curious Case of Charles Altamont Doyle by Michael Baker.A diary written by Arthur Conan Doyle's father in 1889 at the Montrose Royal Lunatic Asylum, where he was committed for a combination of alcoholism, depression, fatigue, and epilepsy. The diary was bought as part of a lot in the dispersal of household goods at the Doyle family country retreat in 1955, and stored thereafter in a children's playroom until 1977, when it was shown to a dealer who realized it was a major find. Profusely illustrated with Charles Doyle's sketches and watercolors. Jacket rubbed. xxix, 91+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket. large oblong 12mo..

Doyle Diary: Last Great Conan Doyle Mystery

The Weimar Chronicle, Prelude to Hitler Hardcover - Import, 1978 by Alex de Jonge

Weimar Chronicle: Prelude to Hitler

DE JONGE, ALEX

This Informative Book: JUGU Plan: Untold Story of the Japanese and the Jews During World War 11 is an important read. Here for the first time is the true and dramatic story of the machination of the clique of ranking Japanese military officers and cabinet ministers by which thousands of European Jews escaped anniliation in the holocaust.

FUGU PLAN: UNTOLD STORY OF THE JAPANESE AND THE JEWS DURING WORLD WAR II by MARY SWARTZ' 'MARVIN TOKAYER (1979-05-03)

Swartz, Mary

Tokayer, Marvin

Military

This book gives all the rules for sports . It is the first comprehensive illustrated guide to understanding and judging more than 400 national and international sporting events.

Rules of the game;: The complete illustrated encyclopedia of all the sports of the world,

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