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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 -
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 -
MEMOIRS.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A partially autobiographical book by this author who wrote more than 20 novels, including the Booker Award winning "The Old Devils." It includes opening chapters on his family, school days, and life at Oxford, but much of the book is about other writers, including a piece on Philip Larkin (rewritten from a version published before Larkin died), and his praise for neglected writers, such as Elizabeth Taylor, and for Powell's A Dance to the Music of Time series. Index. 346 pp. ISBN: 0-671749099.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82089More details Price: $16.50 -
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. 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 AND 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, through his father's friendship with S. N. Behrman. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-698105176.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (some light soiling to soft paper dj.)
Book ID: 17165More details Price: $18.50 -
THE EMINENT YACHTSMAN AND 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, through his father's friendship with S. N. Behrman. 256 pp. ISBN: 0-698105176.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket (short closed tear and edgewear to the dj, toning to the spine and discoloration on front cover from sticker).
Book ID: 84082More details Price: $15.00 -
AFTER A FUNERAL.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1986. dj. Hardcover first edition - An unsparing account of why and how an exceptionally charming man killed himself, in Athill's flat. Didi was an Egyptian exile, whom Athill, a director at Andre Deutsch, supported during his final three years. 158 pp. ISBN: 0-899194540.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 82077More details Price: $21.50 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
BLACK GOLD: The Story of an Oil Pioneer. Selected Experiences and Incidents Associated With Sixty Years of World-Wide Petroleum Exploration and Oilfield Development.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the "Grand Old Man of Oil," an English engineer who traveled to Africa in 1896, to Baku two years later and then to the Caribbean, Peru, Egypt, Arabia and Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania in the United States. A foreword by former President Herbert Hoover, but one which focuses on the association between his mining firm and Beeby-Thompson's oil firm. Stamped on the front pastedown is the notice "A personal reading copy for our bookseller friends whose opinions and criticisms we welcome and value." Photographs, index. 544 pp.
Condition: Near fine in black cloth with a blue illustration of an oil rig and gilt lettering on the spine a fair only dust jacket (price-clipped, rubbing, creasing and edgewear, now protected by an archival cover).
Book ID: 86716More details Price: $75.00 -
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 -
GRANDFATHER J. B.: Letters to My Grandson.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, (1976) dj. Hardcover first edition - Letters from a Jewish immigrant, born in Romania in 1879 who emigrated to the US in 1904 - he was a self-taught linguist, philospher and journalist, and the author of one novel under a pseudonym. These letters begin in 1959 when his grandson Joel leaves New York City for graduate work at the University of Iowa, and end in November 1966, a short time before Bercovici's death in February 1967. Edited and with an introduction by Mary Hengstenberg Grossman, the wife of Joel. xiv, 210 pp. ISBN: 0-316089966.
Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (chip to lower edge of back cover, a few short closed tears).
Book ID: 83491More details Price: $16.50 -
RARE BIRDS: An American Family.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 79852More details Price: $30.00 -
THE STORY OF MARIE-ANTOINETTE.
Edition: First edition.
New York: The Century Company, 1897. Hardcover first edition - A detailed biography of this doomed queen of France, illustrated with a frontispiece and 27 interior plates. Top edge gilt. xiv, 334 pp.
Condition: Good overall in lavender cloth with gold decorations and titling (toning to pages, some light foxing to endpapers, shelfwear and a bit of soiling/dulling to cloth)
Book ID: 85544More details Price: $30.00 -
RABBI ON FORTY-SEVENTH STREET: The Story of Her Father.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of Bernard Birstein (1892-1959) by his youngest daughter - an account of his emigrant travels, his struggles and his growing family, and finally his years as a rabbi whose synagogue, close to Broadway in New York City, attracted many actors and performers from the nearby theaters xv, 202 pp. ISBN: 0-385274297.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light remainder speckle to bottom edge, short tear to dj)
Book ID: 83318More details Price: $16.50 -
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: $18.50 -
YOU CAN'T WIN.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Very good in red cloth with gold lettering on the spine (offsetting to the endpapers, bookplate on front pastedown, corners somewhat bumped), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 81836More details Price: $800.00 -
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 -
I'LL TELL THEM I REMEMBER YOU.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Norton, (1973) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book in which Blatty discusses his mother and life after death - and his most famous work, "The Exorcist." 173 pp. ISBN: 0-39307479X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 81682More details Price: $18.50 -
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