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MY FATHER AND MYSELF.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Poseidon Press, 1968. Includes black-and-white photographs. Truman Capote called this 'the most original autobiography I have read.'
Condition: Contents very good, rubbing and fading to covers.
Book ID: 13910More details Price: $8.50 -
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT: The Woman Behind Little Women.
Edition: First printing.
New York Henry Holt and Company (2009) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the life of Louisa may Alcott, who novels outsold such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville. Alcott's life is depicted through personal stories as well, including her service as a Civil War nurse. She was a feminist who wrote pulp fiction, and harbored radical abolitionist views. preface xiv, notes, bibliography, and index. 362 pp. ISBN: 0-8050-82999.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 60721More details Price: $17.50 -
A MODEL FOR A BETTER FUTURE.
Edition: 2nd printing.
Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "Supermodel, spokeswoman, athlete, and mom Kim Alexis shares her story and the convictions she's developed." SIGNED on the front endpaper. Notes. 213 pp. ISBN: 0-785274561.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71169More details Price: $15.00 -
MY HUSBAND'S WIFE AND OUR HOUSE.
Edition: First printing.
Eagle Rock, California: Prosperity Press, 1986. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A personal and humorous book, the story of a young couple's search for the perfect home (a search which ended in Redlands, California) by an author best known for her books on the history and notable figures of Hawaii. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. 281 pp. ISBN: 0-870621718.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (discoloration from sticker on front cover of dj).
Book ID: 73082More details Price: $20.00 -
TWENTY LETTERS TO A FRIEND.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper & Row, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - In this book the author relates the harrowing journey of one soul, one consciousness, through three dark decades of a totalitarian tyranny which sowed terror throughout an entire nation and reached into every corner of her persoal life. By the daughter of Josef Stalin.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 14546More details Price: $18.00 -
EXPERIENCES AND IMPRESSIONS: The Autobiography of A.A. Anderson.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1933. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of a man who was an artist in Paris and New York, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt and instrumental in determining the boundaries of the Yellowstone Forest Reserve, of which he was the first superintendent, involved in early aviation and in traffic control in New York City, a dog lover and a rancher in Wyoming. SIGNED on the front endpaper "Compliments of A. A. Anderson." Introduction by New York Supreme Court justice Edward R. Finch. Illustrated with 32 plates. xiv, 245 pp.
Condition: Rather poor condition, with water damage to the lower outer corner - some crinkling and staining throughout, although the book is still easily readable. A very uncommon title, and thus offered for sale despite its condition.
Book ID: 54232More details Price: $65.00 -
MY (UNDERGROUND) AMERICAN DREAM: My True Story as an Undocumented Immigrant Who Became a Wall Street Executive.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 68534More details Price: $40.00 -
LOOKING FOR THE KLONDIKE STONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir of five perfect summers spent at a camp in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-418946.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 43652More details Price: $17.50 -
LOOKING FOR THE KLONDIKE STONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of five perfect summers spent at a camp in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-418946.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80850More details Price: $30.00 -
THE EMINENT YACHTSMAN & THE WHOREHOUSE PIANO PLAYER.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Coward-McCann, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Described as a 'eminiscence' this is Asher's attempt to understand the father he never knew, a brilliant and troubled man who committed suicide when Asher was three, thru his father's friendship with S. N. Behrman.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some light soiling to soft paper dj.)
Book ID: 17165More details Price: $18.00 -
HERE AND NOW: LETTERS (2008-2011)
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Viking, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other'. 'Here and Now' is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends." 248 pp. ISBN: 978-0670026661.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71716More details Price: $20.00 -
LAUREN BACALL BY MYSELF.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979. Noted actress's first autobiography, which includes not only how she found her way to Hollywood, but much on her marriage to Humphrey Bogart. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "for Ed." Illustrated with photographs. 377 pp. ISBN: 0-394-423083.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 81073More details Price: $50.00 -
FRANCIS BACON: The Temper of a Man.
Edition: First printing.
New York & Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press / Little Brown, (1963) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography of Sir Francis Bacon, an English statesman who eventually became Lord Chancellor, a philosopher, and author - a book which takes a fresh look at his reputation, life and achievements. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eight pages of black and white plates. Author's note, index. 245 pp.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some toning to the pages and dust jacket, a few small chips to the dj)
Book ID: 77940More details Price: $16.50 -
TRAVELS IN A DONKEY TRAP.
Edition: Family Bookshelf edition.
New York: St Martin's, (1974.) dj. Hardcover - "For Daisy Baker, the acquisition of a donkey and trap at the age of 76 was a revelation. 'When Darkie came', she says, 'a whole new world opened up. So I found myself writing this book to express it all'. The donkey not only freed her from the confinement of four walls in the country cottage in which she had begun to see herself spending an increasingly cramped old age; but, because she moved so immutably at the pace of another era, Darkie also brought with her another kind of freedom" and so she begins to reflect on earlier eras, on her childhood and on the countryside she lived in. Illustrated with drawings by Pamela Mara. 160 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 49135More details Price: $10.00 -
EDWARD DICKINSON BAKER: Western Gentleman, Frontier Lawyer, American Statesman
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Near fine in light blue illustrated wrappers (crease to corner of front cover) .
Book ID: 79630More details Price: $21.50 -
PENINSULA OF LIES: A True Story of Mysterious Birth and Taboo Love.
Edition: First UK printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 54368More details Price: $18.00 -
HUNGRY FOR THE WORLD: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Villard, (2002.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A continuation of her award-winning memoir, and a lucid and open account of how a young woman can slip into a man's domination - sexual and controlling of her very being - and of the reserves that enabled her finally to free herself. SIGNED on the title page. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-375502289.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37914More details Price: $30.00 -
THE BARRYMORES.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - An important theatrical biography, one which ties the threads together. "The full, fascinating story of Ethel, Lionel and John Barrymore - the royal family of the American theater." Illustrated with photographs, index. 397 pp.
Condition: Fine in blue cloth with white and gold lettering in a very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some rubbing on the folds).
Book ID: 78130More details Price: $20.00 -
UNTIL OUR LAST BREATH: A Holocaust Story of Love and Partisan Resistance.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 76403More details Price: $30.00 -
CAMPING WITH THE PRINCE AND OTHER TALES OF SCIENCE IN AFRICA.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on two years of travel and research in Africa, this tells the stories of scientists who are working in virology, in the study of desertification and the causes of famine, in experimental planting, of those who are trying to combine traditional African methods with the modern scientific methods of the west. Bibliography, index. 304 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-395-415020.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37765More details Price: $15.00 -
DINGANE: KING OF THE ZULU 1828 - 1840 (orig title: Rule of Fear.)
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Crowell, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Study of the controversial Zulu ruler who was eventually defeated by the Boers under Pretorius, originally published in England under the title 'Rule of Fear'. Illustrated with drawings and maps. Bibliography, index. 283 pages.
Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket.
Book ID: 22838More details Price: $18.00 -
THE KAGURU: A Matrilinear People of East Africa.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1971.). A title in the 'Case Studies in Anthropology' series under the general editorship of George and Louise Spindler. Illustrated with photographs. Map, glossary, bibliography. 134 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0767652.
Condition: Good in illustrated wrappers (some rubbing to the covers, marginal notations in pencil - erasable.)
Book ID: 30562More details Price: $15.00 -
SELECTED LETTERS OF VANESSA BELL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Pantheon, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes more than 300 previously unpublished letters of Vanessa Bell, the older sister of Virginia Woolf, a well-known painter and and an important figure in the Bloomsbury circle. Biographical introduction and chronology by Marler, Photographs. Sources, selected bibliography, index. xxxix, 593 pp. ISBN: 0-679-41939X.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 58220More details Price: $30.00 -
PRINCE OF MANTUA: The Life and Times of Vincenzo Gonzaga.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1956. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of late Renaissance Italian duke. Translated by Stuart Hood. Index. 312 pages.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 21641More details Price: $30.00 -
WILLIAM KNOX: The Life and Thought of an Eighteenth Century Imperialist
Edition: First printing.
Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first full-scale biography of the man who was provost marshall of Georgia from 1757 to 1762 and Undersecretary of State in the American Dept of the British government from 1770 to 1782. Notes, bibliography and index. 264 pp. ISBN: 0-292-790074.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (Slight water damage to upper edge of text block, tear and associated creasing on front cover of dj.)
Book ID: 8638More details Price: $17.50 -
HORSES, MUSICIANS, AND GODS: The Hausa Cult of Possession-Trance.
Edition: First US printing.
South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, (1983.). Hardcover first edition - Forewood by Willard Rhodes. Study of the Bori cult in Nigeria based on data collected in 1971 and 1973. Frontispiece, photographs, musical transcriptions, references, index. xiv, 290 pp. ISBN: 0-89789-0205.
Condition: Very good in purple cloth boards with gilt lettering.
Book ID: 54676More details Price: $30.00 -
RARE BIRDS: An American Family.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79852More details Price: $30.00 -
THE AFRICAN QUEST FOR FREEDOM AND IDENTITY: Cameroonian Writing and the National Experience.
Edition: Large trade paperback.
Bllomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, (1994.). An authoritive and comprehensive look at the entire national literature of Cameroon within the context of the political and social life of the country. Includes chapters on writers Mongo Beti, Ferdinand Oyono, Guillaume Oyono-Mbia and Francis Beby, on anticolonialism and rebellion, on the negritude and anti-negritude movements. Extensive notes, index. 507 pp. ISBN: 0-253-209080.
Condition: Fine (appears unread.)
Book ID: 26762More details Price: $15.00 -
ALMOST GOLDEN: Jessica Savitch and the Selling of Television News.
Edition: 2nd printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988) dj. Hardcover - The true story of news anchor Jessica Savitch. "A network anchor at thirty-one, she had made it to the top in a male-dominated world of big stars, big money, and super-egos. But behind the scenes was another story - a woman desperately chasing her dream through a private nightmare of drugs, depression, and disastrous romances and spiraling ever downward." 16 pages of black and white photographs, index, 352 pp. ISBN: 0-671-63285.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61333More details Price: $12.50 -
A MIRROR FOR GREATNESS: Six Americans.
Edition: Family Bookshelf edition.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. dj. Hardcover - A look at six people whose strength and force of character shaped American history - included are Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Jefferson, Sojourner Truth, Emerson and Thoreau. ISBN: 0-07-0059047.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 17053More details Price: $12.00