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The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia - Annette D’agostino Lloyd - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Harold Lloyd, born in 1893, became one of the greatest comic actors in America. This is a compendium of all things Lloyd, with entries on noteworthy persons, recurring themes, crucial elements of Lloyd''s life (birth, education, marriage, family, hobbies, death, etc.), his prime co-stars and co-workers, the films that made him a legend (201 of them), and numerous other topics covering every facet of the man and the actor, all fully cross-referenced and accompanied by a vast collection of images and advertisements. An Appendix A lists the Lloyd shorts in the order produced, with the Production Code assigned by the Rolin Film Company officials. Appendix B is a proper filmography, listing each Lloyd film from 1913 to 1966 in chronological order.

DKK 449.00

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Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman - James W. Raab - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Lloyd Tilghman was a man of distinguished family. His forefathers, men of rank during colonial times, included Matthew Tilghman, who helped frame Maryland''s constitution, Chief Justice William Tilghman of Pennsylvania and Lieutenant Colonel Tench C. Tilghman, George Washington''s military secretary. Trained at West Point, Lloyd Tilghman originally resigned his commission in 1836. However, with the onset of the Mexican conflict--a veritable training ground for the War Between the States--in 1846, Tilghman rejoined the army as an aide-de-camp to General David E. Twiggs. When the ultimate question was posed almost two decades later, Tilghman, a Southern sympathizer with decidedly Northern ties, followed his moral dictates and joined the Confederate cause. Relying heavily on contemporary sources such as newspapers and periodicals, this biography chronicles the life of Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman, a gallant Confederate commander and staunch defender of states'' rights. While covering Tilghman''s entire career, including his service during the Mexican War and his contributions to the construction of the Panama railroad, the work concentrates primarily on his Civil War years and 1863 death. The book details the military movements in which he was involved with the stated goal of informing the reader about the battles that took place between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River and the extraordinary generals who fought them. Extensive maps, illustrations and contemporary photographs are included. The work is also indexed.

DKK 334.00

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John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood - Peter O. Koch - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Daring exploits and astounding achievements were common for two 19th century adventurers--John Lloyd Stephens, a New York lawyer and best-selling author, and Frederick Catherwood, a London architect and renowned topographical artist. Separately, these explorers covered much of the same ground, touring Italy, Greece, Egypt, Arabia, and the Holy Land in search of ancient sites that were of historical significance. Jointly, these adventurers endured many life-threatening obstacles in a determined effort that led to the discovery of nearly fifty forgotten Mayan cities buried deep in the jungles of Central America and Mexico. The vivid accounts penned by Stephens coupled with the magnificent drawings of ruins by Catherwood brought back to life a vanished civilization that both considered equal to the greatness of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The story concludes with the premature and tragic deaths of the two.

DKK 429.00

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American Military Training Aircraft - Lloyd S. Jones - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The U.S. did not become the world''s foremost military air power by accident. The learning curve--World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and more recently the war on terror--has been steep. While climbing this curve, the U.S. has not only produced superior military aircraft in greater numbers than its foes, but has--in due course--out-trained them, too. This book provides a comprehensive historical survey of U.S. military training aircraft, including technical specifications, drawings and photographs of each type of fixed and rotary-wing design used over a 98-year period to accomplish the first step of the learning process: the training of pilots and aircrews.

DKK 523.00

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Playwriting - Shelly Frome - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Fifteen chapters explain every aspect of playwriting, with excerpts from classic and prominent modern works, quotations from noted playwrights, and anecdotes from the author''s personal experiences with such masters as Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. Interviews with A.R. Gurney, Lloyd Richards, Connie Congdon, Alfred Uhry, and others are included. An appendix gives information about submitting playscripts, getting grants, entering contests, doing play festivals, securing an agent and other topics of interest to aspiring playwrights.

DKK 329.00

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The Body in Hollywood Slapstick - Alex Clayton - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Because they rely heavily on physical comedy, many Hollywood slapstick films can be understood as comic meditations on the place and nature of the human body. Focusing on the works of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy, among others, this book examines ways that the body represents or interacts with the mind, setting, voice and machines in slapstick films. Also covered are female performances in slapstick and brutality and suffering in the slapstick tradition.

DKK 314.00

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Big and Little Poison - Clifton Blue Parker - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Waner brothers, Paul and Lloyd--also known as "Big Poison" and "Little Poison"--played together for fourteen seasons in the same Pittsburgh outfield in the 1920s and 1930s. More than half a century after retiring, they still rank as the best-hitting brothers in major league history with a combined 5,611 hits--517 more than the three Alou brothers, 758 more than the three DiMaggio brothers, and 1,400 more than the five Delahanty brothers. And both Waners are in the Hall of Fame, the only playing brothers so honored. This work tells the story of the Waner brothers from their early lives in Oklahoma through their playing days, which included a World Series against the legendary 1927 New York Yankees. It is also the story of two American eras: the Roaring Twenties and the Depression years. Both put up impressive numbers individually: Paul amassed 3,152 hits, and his .333 lifetime average ranks among the highest ever in the game. Lloyd, a lifetime .316 hitter, collected 2,459 hits, and had it not been for health problems, he might have cleared the 3,000 hit milestone as well. Together, they were baseball heroes.

DKK 287.00

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Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The J. Lloyd Eaton Conferences on Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature--long held at the University of California, Riverside--have been a major influence in the study of science fiction and fantasy for thirty years. The conferences have attracted leading scholars whose papers are published in Eaton volumes found in university libraries throughout the world. This collection brings together 22 of the best papers--most with new afterwords by the authors--presented in chronological order to show how science fiction and fantasy criticism has evolved since 1979.

DKK 429.00

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Artists of the Page - Kenneth Marantz - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The creative process of those who make picture books come alive is explored in this collection of 30 interviews with children''s book illustrators. The interviewees (Allan and Janet Ahlberg, Molly Bang, Nicola Bayley, Gavin Bishop, Quentin Blake, Anthony Browne, Ashley Bryan, John Burningham, Babette Cole, Peter Collington, Roy Gerrard, M.B. Goffstein, Diane Goode, Shirley Hughes, Pat Hutchins, Ann Jonas, Errol Lloyd, Deborah Niland, Graham Oakley, Jan Ormerod, Helen Oxenbury, Ken Robbins, Tony Ross, Amy Schwartz, Peter Sis, Ralph Steadman, Ed Young, and Paul Zelinsky) discuss their craft, methods, and philosophies.

DKK 262.00

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Walter Hill - Wayne Byrne - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This is a comprehensive journey through the long career of auteur Hollywood filmmaker Walter Hill, director of The Driver, The Warriors, Southern Comfort, 48 Hrs., Streets of Fire and many more. The book covers every motion picture that Hill directed, with historical detail and critical commentary on each, and discusses Hill''s overall cultural relevance and industrial impact. It includes candid conversations with Hill; producer Larry Gordon; actors Nicholas Guest, William Sadler and Michael Pare; cinematographers Lloyd Ahern and Matthew Leonetti; composers Van Dyke Parks and David Mansfield; screenwriter Larry Gross, and others who worked with Hill throughout his prolific career.

DKK 429.00

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New Deal Art in Alabama - Jimmy S. Emerson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

As the United States struggled to recover from the Great Depression, 24 towns in Alabama would directly benefit from some of the $83 million allocated by the Federal Government for public art works under the New Deal. In the words of Harold Lloyd Hopkins, administrator of the Federal Emergency Relief Act, "artists had to eat, too," and these funds aided people who needed employment during this difficult period in American history. This book examines some of the New Deal art--murals, reliefs, sculptures, frescoes and paintings--of Alabama and offers biographical sketches of the artists who created them. An appendix describes federal art programs and projects of the period (1933-1943).

DKK 259.00

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The Louisville Grays and the Myth of Baseball's First Great Scandal - Wendell Lloyd Jones - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The National League was in its second season of existence in 1877. In mid-season, the Louisville Grays suddenly took the league by storm and by mid-August were considered a lock to win the pennant. Then, disaster struck. The Grays fell out of first place, and the pennant was lost. Suspicions were high that the club had sold out to gamblers. Three players were tricked into confessing to the selling of exhibition games and were blacklisted from the sport along with a fourth player who refused to cooperate with the investigation. Since then, historians have presented a simple narrative about how the Grays sold the pennant to gamblers, how that treachery was discovered, and the steps that followed. However, none of this is true. For nearly 150 years the story of the Louisville Grays has been told, and the story has been wrong. For the first time, the objective evidence that was there all along is examined in comparison to the narrative that has been told about the Grays. The evidence shows the Grays did not sell the pennant; they simply lost it. This is the story of how Major League Baseball''s first great scandal never truly happened.

DKK 396.00

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They Fought in the Creature Features - Tom Weaver - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

These men and women saved the planet from aliens, behemoths, monsters, zombies, and other bloated, stumbling threats--in the movies, at least--and now they tell their stories. Julie Adams, John Agar, Richard Anderson, John Archer, Jeanne Bates, Billy Benedict, Turhan Bey, Lloyd Bridges, Ricou Browning, Robert Cornthwaite, Louise Currie, Richard Denning, Anne Francis, Mark Goddard, June Lockhart, Eugene Lourie, Jeff Morrow, Lori Nelson, Rex Reason, William Schallert, Don Taylor, George Wallace and Jane Wyatt give behind-the-scenes insights into such classic movies as Creature from the Black Lagoon, Forbidden Planet, Destination Moon and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms . They also discuss the impact "monster-fighting" had on their careers and what they are now doing.

DKK 255.00

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Forties Film Funnymen - Wes D. Gehring - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The twelve classic comedy films examined within these pages are distinguished by an equal number of defining comic performances. Ranging from The Great Dictator (1940) to A Southern Yankee (1948), each film focuses on the most central theme of "clown comedy": Resilience, the encouragement or hope that one can survive the most daunting of life''s dilemmas--even during the war-torn 1940s. And each film can be regarded as a microcosm of the antiheroic world of its central clown (or clowns). Among the performers represented are Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Abbott and Costello, Jack Benny, Eddie Bracken, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, the Marx Brothers, Harold Lloyd and Red Skelton. This lavishly illustrated work includes an introduction by noted film critic and historian Anthony Slide.

DKK 329.00

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One Earth, One People - Marek Oziewicz - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

This work presents the genre of mythopoeic fantasy from a holistic perspective, arguing that this central genre of fantasy literature is largely misunderstood as a result of decades of incomplete and reductionist literary studies. The author asserts that mythopoeic fantasy is not only the most complete literary expression of a worldview based on the existence of supernatural or spiritual powers but that the genre is in a unique position to transform social consciousness with a renewed emphasis on anticipating the future. The author lays out theoretical foundations for his argument in the first four chapters and then demonstrates how the works of fantasy authors Ursula K. LeGuin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L''Engle, and Orson Scott Card exemplify his argument in the remaining four chapters.

DKK 334.00

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They Knew Marilyn Monroe - Les Harding - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Taking an innovative approach to the life and legend of Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962), this biographical dictionary concentrates on her circle of friends, acquaintances and coworkers--1618 in all. Distilled from hundreds of celebrity biographies are references to, and quotes about, the iconic Hollywood sex symbol from such diverse personalities as architect Frank Lloyd Wright, Israeli diplomat Abba Eban, beat poet Jack Kerouac, novelist Somerset Maugham, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, counterculture guru Timothy Leary and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson, to name but a few. All of these remarkable people have, in one way or another, crossed paths with the magnificent Monroe. The entries in this volume (with source listings for further reading and research) confirm the fact that Marilyn Monroe remains a figure of enduring fascination five decades after her death.

DKK 334.00

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The Fountainheads - Donald Leslie Johnson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Speculation abounds about the relationship between Frank Lloyd Wright and Ayn Rand. Was he the inspiration for Howard Roark, architect hero of Rand''s The Fountainhead ? What can be made of their collaboration on the book''s failed 1944 movie adaptation, and what can be gleaned from the 1949 film version of The Fountainhead ? Where does harassment by the FBI (Wright was dubbed a communist sympathizer and Rand was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee) fit into the story? Art, architecture, philosophy, film and politics come together in this book, which relies on the writings of Wright and Rand, FBI files, visual evidence and more to cement their connection. There are set designs and architectural images from the 1949 film; several appendices supplement the text, and a filmography, bibliography and index are included.

DKK 329.00

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Larry Semon, Daredevil Comedian of the Silent Screen - Claudia Sassen - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Prior to his premature death from tuberculosis in 1928, Larry Semon was one of the most popular comics on the silent screen. For a time he rivaled comedy legends Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton for fame and fortune. The son of magician Professor Zera the Great, Semon participated in many of his father''s early performances. A talented youth, he worked as an illustrator and cartoonist before going into motion pictures with the Vitagraph Company. He soon became a Hollywood legend, responsible for his own stories, gags, acting and direction. The result of 30 years of research, this long overdue biography recognizes one of Hollywood''s most overlooked auteurs. The author draws on numerous articles and contacts with Semon''s family and friends, and screens many films previously believed to be lost.

DKK 429.00

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Bungalow Modernity - Mary Lou Emery - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Despite its cozy image, the bungalow in literature and film is haunted by violence even while fostering possibilities for personal transformation, utopian social vision and even comedy. Originating in Bengal and adapted as housing for colonialist ventures worldwide, the homes were sold in mail-order kits during the "bungalow mania" of the early 20th century and enjoyed a revival at century''s end. The bungalow as fictional setting stages ongoing contradictions of modernity--home and homelessness, property and dispossession, self and other--prompting a rethinking of our images of house and home. Drawing on the work of writers, architects and film directors, including Katherine Mansfield, E. M. Forster, Amitav Ghosh, Frank Lloyd Wright, Willa Cather, Buster Keaton and Walter Mosley, this study offers new readings of the transcultural bungalow.

DKK 571.00

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Bebe Daniels - Charles L. Epting - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Bebe Daniels had one of the most diverse and lengthy careers in show business. From her beginnings as a child on the vaudeville circuit to her resurgence as a radio and television star in postwar Britain, Daniels'' story has not been told. Best remembered for her work in silent films, Daniels was a child actress in the earliest days of the West Coast film industry before becoming Harold Lloyd''s first leading lady. Later she was one of Cecil B. DeMille''s vamps before reaching the pinnacle of success with Paramount in the 1920s. With the advent of talkies, she was able to reinvent herself, enjoying a resurgence in the 1930s until her eventual retirement to England. Daniels'' life was filled with determination and steadfast principles but also high-profile romances and the glitz and glamour of early Hollywood.

DKK 429.00

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Too Funny for Words - David Kalat - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

American silent film comedies were dominated by sight gags, stunts and comic violence. With the advent of sound, comedies in the 1930s were a riot of runaway heiresses and fast-talking screwballs. It was more than a technological pivot--the first feature-length sound film, The Jazz Singer (1927), changed Hollywood. Lost in the discussion of that transition is the overlap between the two genres. Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd kept slapstick alive well into the sound era. Screwball directors like Leo McCarey, Frank Capra and Ernst Lubitsch got their starts in silent comedy. From Chaplin''s tramp to the witty repartee of His Girl Friday (1940), this book chronicles the rise of silent comedy and its evolution into screwball--two flavors of the same genre--through the works of Mack Sennett, Roscoe Arbuckle, Harry Langdon and others.

DKK 514.00

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The Greatest Minor League - Dennis Snelling - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

In 1903, a small league in California defied Organized Baseball by adding teams in Portland and Seattle to become the strongest minor league of the twentieth century. Calling itself the Pacific Coast League, this outlaw association frequently outdrew its major league counterparts and continued to challenge the authority of Organized Baseball until the majors expanded into California in 1958. The Pacific Coast League introduced the world to Joe, Vince and Dom DiMaggio, Paul and Lloyd Waner, Ted Williams, Tony Lazzeri, Lefty O''Doul, Mickey Cochrane, Bobby Doerr, and many other baseball stars, all of whom originally signed with PCL teams. This thorough history of the Pacific Coast League chronicles its foremost personalities, governance, and contentious relationship with the majors, proving that the history of the game involves far more than the happenings in the American and National leagues.

DKK 320.00

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I Was a Monster Movie Maker - Tom Weaver - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Phil Brown, who played Luke Skywalker''s uncle in Star Wars, said, "In my long life in films, there are ones I''m proud of and those I''m not proud of. The Jungle Captive and Weird Woman fall into the latter category." House of Wax co-star Paul Picerni was fired by the film''s director when he refused to put his head in a working guillotine during a climactic fight scene. Packed with wonderful tidbits, this volume collects 22 interviews with the moviemakers responsible for bringing such films as This Island Earth, The Haunting, Carnival of Souls, Pit and the Pendulum, House of Wax, Tarzan the Ape Man, The Black Cat, Them! and Invasion of the Body Snatchers to the movie screen. Faith Domergue, Michael Forest, Anne Helm, Candace Hilligoss, Suzanna Leigh, Norman Lloyd, Maureen O''Sullivan, Shirley Ulmer, Dana Wynter and many more are interviewed.

DKK 329.00

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Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City - Tom Calarco - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

During the fourteen years Sydney Howard Gay edited the American Anti-Slavery Society''s National Anti-Slavery Standard in New York City, he worked with some of the most important Underground agents in the eastern United States, including Thomas Garrett, William Still and James Miller McKim. Gay''s closest associate was Louis Napoleon, a free black man who played a major role in the James Kirk and Lemmon cases. For more than two years, Gay kept a record of the fugitives he and Napoleon aided. These never before published records are annotated in this book. Revealing how Gay was drawn into the bitter division between Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, the work exposes the private opinions that divided abolitionists. It describes the network of black and white men and women who were vital links in the extensive Underground Railroad, conclusively confirming a daily reality.

DKK 429.00

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Rewriting the Victorians - Andrea Kirchknopf - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The 19th century has become especially relevant for the present--as one can see from, for example, large-scale adaptations of written works, as well as the explosion of commodities and even interactive theme parks. This book is an introduction to the novelistic refashionings that have come after the Victorian age with a special focus on revisions of Charlotte Bronte''s Jane Eyre and Charles Dickens''s Great Expectations . As post-Victorian research is still in the making, the first part is devoted to clarifying terminology and interpretive contexts. Two major frameworks for reading post-Victorian fiction are developed: the literary scene (authors, readers, critics) and the national-identity, political and social aspects. Among the works examined are Caryl Phillips''s Cambridge , Matthew Kneale''s English Passengers , Peter Carey''s Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs , Lloyd Jones''s Mister Pip , Jean Rhys''s Wide Sargasso Sea , D.M. Thomas''s Charlotte , and Jasper Fforde''s The Eyre Affair .

DKK 334.00

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The Harold Lloyd Encyclopedia - Annette D’agostino Lloyd - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman - James W. Raab - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood - Peter O. Koch - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

American Military Training Aircraft - Lloyd S. Jones - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Playwriting - Shelly Frome - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Body in Hollywood Slapstick - Alex Clayton - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Big and Little Poison - Clifton Blue Parker - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Bridges to Science Fiction and Fantasy - - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Artists of the Page - Kenneth Marantz - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Walter Hill - Wayne Byrne - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

New Deal Art in Alabama - Jimmy S. Emerson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Louisville Grays and the Myth of Baseball's First Great Scandal - Wendell Lloyd Jones - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

They Fought in the Creature Features - Tom Weaver - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Forties Film Funnymen - Wes D. Gehring - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

One Earth, One People - Marek Oziewicz - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

They Knew Marilyn Monroe - Les Harding - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Fountainheads - Donald Leslie Johnson - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Larry Semon, Daredevil Comedian of the Silent Screen - Claudia Sassen - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Bungalow Modernity - Mary Lou Emery - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Bebe Daniels - Charles L. Epting - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Too Funny for Words - David Kalat - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Greatest Minor League - Dennis Snelling - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

I Was a Monster Movie Maker - Tom Weaver - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Secret Lives of the Underground Railroad in New York City - Tom Calarco - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

Rewriting the Victorians - Andrea Kirchknopf - Bog - McFarland & Co Inc - Plusbog.dk

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