Lost Road

AUTOGRAPH. Chicago. STEIN, Gertrude. "We do like Chicago". Eigenhänd. Brief mit eigenhänd. Unterschrift. Handwritten letter by Stein and signed. Briefkopf / Letter Head: Midway Drexel Apartment Hotel, Chicago. (March, 1935). ; sig.
"We do like Chicago!"- An Mrs. Hahner: "We have been most joyously wading our way through all the delicious grape fruits and oranges, and the salad was very welcome ... I hired myself a drive yourself car and we had a wonderful Sunday getting lost all around Chicago, and we even went the wrong way in a road and the policeman said what's the matter with the other road and we said we were strangers and he said well you'll get killed before you get out of here, but we didn't we only got lost but we like it we do like Chicago and you have been so very kind and we do appreciate it. Always, Gtde. Stein." Getrude Stein stieg im Midway Drexel Apartment Hotel während ihrer Lesetour 1935 durch Amerika ab. Letterhead: "Midway Drexel Apartement Hotel, Chicago". One paged handwritten letter in excellent condition. Joint: A devotional piece: a wonderful "tender button" from Stein's graveyard at the Pere Lachaise in Paris with a dedication by friends of her from the United States, dated 3/21/2000.

Written recto and verso. FINE COPY ! 8°. 1 Blatt (vorne und hinten beschrieben). Sehr gut erhalten.

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Kerouiac, Jan: BABY DRIVER. A Story About Myself. First edition! Hardcover with DJ, Book in good clean cond., no marks. Original cloth, Good Dustjacket. Andre Deutsch,London/A 1982.
isbn 0233974873 - Jack Kerouac gave birth to a whole generation of young people, kids who left the safety of suburbia for the harder truths of the road. THOUSANDS went searching, and the beatniks of the jazzy 1950s gave way to the hippies of the psychedelic 1960s, a generation lost on the American highway. But ONE person inherited Jack's legacy like no other in the world, chasing the dream unti it shatttered; his own daughter. With a graceful, often disturbing detachment and a spellbinding gift of descriptive imagery, Jan Kerouac explores the tortured, freewheeling soul of a woman on the road and on her own. It is a frightening, revealing brilliant book by a remarkable talent. Just as Jack Kerouac captured the cool beat of the Fifties generation with his writing, his daughter captures the gyrating, driving rhythm of the generation that followed!

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Coetzer, O. The Road to Infamy (1899-1900) Colenso, Spioenkoop, Vaalkrantz, Pieters, Buller and Warren, Johannesburg, South Africa: William Waterman Publications, 1996

Soft Cover. As New. First Edition. ISBN:1855409993665. The Road to Infamy tells the story of the Natal Campaign of the Boer war. Using controversial pro-Boer reports and contemporary British sources, the author attempts to vindicate Sir Charles Warren, the man who was condemned by history as the man who lost Spioenkop. Owen Coetzer uses the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the war as the genesis o f the story, where Roberts, White, Buller, Warren and a host of other heroes of The British empire took the stand, in 1902 and early 1903.

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Pico Iyer: The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, New Delhi, India Penguin/Viking 2008 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed. ISBN: 9780670082247
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One of the most acclaimed and perceptive observers of globalism and Buddhism now gives us the first serious consideration-for Buddhist and non-Buddhist alike-of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's work and ideas as a politician, scientist, and philosopher. Pico Iyer has been engaged in conversation with the Dalai Lama (a friend of his father's) for the last three decades-an ongoing exploration of his message and its effectiveness. Now, in this insightful, impassioned book, Iyer captures the paradoxes of the Dalai Lama's position: though he has brought the ideas of Tibet to world attention, Tibet itself is being remade as a Chinese province; though he was born in one of the remotest, least developed places on earth, he has become a champion of globalism and technology. He is a religious leader who warns against being needlessly distracted by religion; a Tibetan head of state who suggests that exile from Tibet can be an opportunity; an incarnation of a Tibetan god who stresses his everyday humanity. Moving from Dharamsala, India-the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile-to Lhasa, Tibet, to venues in the West, where the Dalai Lama's pragmatism, rigor, and scholarship are sometimes lost on an audience yearning for mystical visions, The Open Road illuminates the hidden life, the transforming ideas, and the daily challenges of a global icon. Printed Pages: 262. First Edition New Hardcover 16 x 24 Cm; First Edition

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