Bloomington: University of Michigan Press, (1990). "A groundbreaking theoretical exploration of the relationship between class formation and gender based on intensive study of the recent historical experience of Ghanaian market women." Photographs, charts and graphs. Prologue, blbiography, index. xv, 299 pp. ISBN: 0-472064444.

New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1937. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A Friendly Glimpse of Edwin Arlington Robinson" - a memoir of a friendship between two writers who first met in 1923 at the McDowell Colony in New Hampshire in 1923. Frontispiece of Robinson. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper "to -- pursuer of the ends of the earth - if there are any - and of all standardized wolves in other places." 98 pp.

Berkeley, CA: Zenobia Press (1995). SIGNED first edition - A moving account of life with a new born baby, born profoundly brain-damaged, who was first given only days to live - but who survived seven months. INSCRIBED on title page, smaller size, 132 pp. ISBN: 1-57143-0458.

Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications, 1967. First edition - A look at the African empires of Ghana, Mali and Songhai., and also of the 'highways' provided by the Niger River and the Sahara Desert. Maps, glossary, bibliography, index. Cover by Nigerian artist Solomon Irein Wangboje. 86 pp.

London: Faber & Faber, (1931). Hardcover first edition - Rothenstein was "an English painter, printmaker, draughtsman, lecturer, and writer on art." (wikipedia) This is the first in his three volumes of memoirs - it describes his childhood, his travels as a young man to Germany and Paris, and includes anecdotes about Oscar Wilde, Beerbohm, James Whistler, Paul Verlaine, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, and many others. Illustrated with reproductions of his work. Index. 390 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2006). A book which is both funny and sad. The author, burnt out at twenty-eight, decides to retire early. He travels to southern Florida, where he moves in with an elderly piano teacher at a retirement community that is home to thousands of senior citizens. This is "an irreverent, hilarious, and ultimately warmhearted account of Rodney's journey deep into the heart of retirement. Rodney struggles for acceptance from the senior citizens he shares a swimming pool with and battles with cranky octogenarians who want him off their turf." Includes a brief epilogue not found in the hardcover edition. 241 pp. ISBN: 0-743270584.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2001.). SIGNED first edition - The autobiography of this mathematician, beat writer and science fiction writer who was one of the creators of cyberpunk. SIGNED on the half title page. Bibliography. 327 pp.

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, (1982.) dj. Hardcover first edition - An authoritative biography of this influential Victorian figure. Illustrated with more than 50 photographs. Extensive notes, index. 512 pp. ISBN: 0-460-045474.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983 (c 1970) dj. Hardcover - Autobiography of a man born in southwest Alberta in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, and who still runs a working ranch there - a look back at his life as a cowboy, broncbuster, trapper, guide, outfitter, rancher and wildlife photographer. Illustrated with photographs and drawings at the head of each chapter. xv, 298 pp. ISBN: 0-39444938X.

New York: Spiegel & Grau, (2013). Hardcover - The author's first book, an account of an unconventional coming of age in the 1990s. "Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving town north of Boston, in a trash-filled house on a dead-end road surrounded by a river and a salt marsh. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious local figure, was a drug addict and sometimes dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches. . despite the fact that there was not a book to be found in her household, Domenica developed a love of reading, which helped her believe that she could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by." 207 pp. ISBN: 978-0812993240.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009) dj. Hardcover - "Joan Ryan tells the powerful story of how her sonÕs near-fatal accident, and his struggle to become whole again, gave her a second chance to become the mother she had always wished she could be." Despite the generally hopeful tone of this book - and the fact that Ryan recovered far more than first thought possible - this book is a reminder that traumatic brain injuries have a lasting and often unpredictable effect. Photographs. 260 pp. ISBN: 978-1416576525.

New York: Greenwood Press, 1968. Hardcover - A study of a South African medicine man, whom he called John Chavafambira -originally intended to be a psychoanalytic study, but one which became much more. Frontispiece drawing. 324 pp.

Milwaukee, Wisconsin: The Bruce Publishing Co., (1962.) dj. First edition - Translated from the French by Alba I. Zizzamia. - the first book by the author, who was a White Sister missionary nurse and worked for many years in Francophone West Africa, to appear in English. Covers West African family life, customs, education with a special emphasis on the role and importance of African women. Index. xviii, 239 pp.

San Francisco: Everett Madison Publishing, (2007). SIGNED first edition - "Driving a cab has been rated the most dangerous job in the United States, surpassing the risk of being a police officer. At the same time, it is most entertaining. Especially in San Francisco, cab passengers are from diverse and contrasting walks of life: the rich and the poor, the sorry and the psychotic--drug dealers, gang members, French tourists, hookers, derelicts, transvestites, muggers, and even other cab drivers. They share their predicaments, a snippet of their lives. Sometimes a snippet is too much." SIGNED on the title page and dated in 2008. Illustrated by Shanon Essex. Double page map, cab driving glossary. 284 pp. ISBN: 978-0978575106.

New York: Random House, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir, in which "one of America's finest writers re-creates people, places, and events spanning some fifty years. [This book] captures a singular life, beginning with a Manhattan boyhood and then, graduation from West Point, followed by service in the Air Force as a pilot. In some of the most evocative pages ever written about flying, Salter describes the exhilaration and terror of combat as a fighter pilot in the Korean War, scenes that are balanced by haunting pages of love and a young man's passion for women." Index. x, 365 pp. ISBN: 0-375500154.

Rodale, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Stanford's philosophical, groundbreaking and honest tales of life as a paralyzed man and his journey in viewing himself as "whole" person. INSCRIBED on dedication page" ----, Wonderful things happen a little at a time. With smiles and hope." xiv, 241 pp. ISBN: 1-59486-3024.

New York: Pantheon, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - Notebooks kept by a young Jean-Paul Sartre when he was a mobilized reservist in Alsace, during the so-called Phoney War, and only discovered forty years later. Sartre was a French existentialist philosopher, writer and activist, who refused the Nobel Prize in literature he was awarded in 1964. Translated from the French and with an introduction by Quintin Hoare.Index. xix, 306 pp. ISBN: 0-394538137.

New York: Ballantine, (1998.). First edition - Award winning Australian novelist's story of the years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father, jazz drummer, Gerry Sayer.

New York: Ballantine, (1998.). First edition - Award winning Australian novelist's story of the years she spent performing on the streets of New York and New Orleans with her father, jazz drummer, Gerry Sayer.

London: Allison & Busby, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Arranged topically - from girl and woman through beauty and life to witchcraft and poisoning. Map. Notes on oral sources, bibliography. ISBN: 0-85032-8637.

Bloomington & Oxford: Indiana University Press & James Currey, (1997.). First edition - A comprehensive look at iron technology in East Africa from ancient times to the present, the result of more than 20 years of research. Includes an account of the reenactment of traditional iron smelting by the elders of the Haya people in northwestern Tanzania. Illustrated with many photographs, maps, charts and drawings. Glossary, extensive bibliography and index. 328 pp. ISBN: 0-253211093.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1964) dj. Hardcover first edition - Brief biographies of those important to the history of the Unitarian - Universalist Church, written for older children and young adults. Included are George de Benneville (1703-1793), John Murray (1741-1851, the founder of the Universalist Church in America), Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Rush, Hosea Ballou, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mary A. Livermore, Susan B. Anthony, Thomas Starr King, Clara Barton and others, arranged chronologically. Portrait drawings of each subject by Robert MacLean. Foreword by Henry H. Cheetham. Footnotes. 277 pp.

New York: Random House, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A bittersweet memoir about drug abuse and alcoholism in See's family for over fifty years, frank but also wryly optimistic, told with humor and grace. SIGNED on the title page by this award-winning novelist. Illustrated with photographs. 343 pp. ISBN: 0-679430261.

New York: Harper Collins, (2005.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Part biography, part memoir, part a history of the turbulent years of the 20th century, this is the story of an extraordinary couple: Seth's great uncle, who was sent from India to Germany in the 1930's to study medicine, before emigrating to England, and of his aunt, the young daughter of the Jewish family with whom he lodged in Berlin, and who escaped to England just one month before war broke out. When Seth was 17 he was sent to live with them. 503 pp. ISBN: 0-06-599669.

New York: Celadon Books / Macmillan, (2019) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book by this NPR journalist, a memoir, a coming of age story and "a love letter" from a modern woman to her old-world father. "The Shahanis came to Queens -from India, by way of Casablanca -in the 1980s. They were undocumented for a few years and then, with the arrival of their green cards, they thought they'd made it. This is the story of how they did, and didn't." This is the story of the mistakes that propelled them into years of disillusionment and heartbreak. SIGNED on the title page. 245 pp. ISBN: 978-1250204752.

New York: Random House, (1988). In the mid-seventies, Sharansky became a spokesman for Moscow's dissidents - the Jews amd the human rights advocates. This begins with his arrest in 1977, tells of the 16 months of interrogation, and his conviction as "American Spy." He was threatened with execution, put in solitary, but this ends as he wins his freedom after nine years as a prisoner, and rejoins his wife, who worked tirelessly on his behalf, as they fly to Israel. Translated by Stefani Hoffman. Photographs, index. xxi, 437 pp. ISBN: 0-394558782.

New York: McGraw-Hill, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a marriage of opposites - John Quincy Adams, stolid American, bred to a life of public service, US Ambassador, Senator and then President, and Louisa Catherine Adams, a lively European-bred young woman - one which acknowledges both the significant role Louisa played in his life and career and the difficulties she encountered as a woman whose individuality was suppressed. Illustrated. Notes, selected bibliography, index. xiv, 440 pp. ISBN: 0-070567301.

New York: Library of America, (1990) dj. Hardcover - Memoir of one of the most controversial generals of the American Civil War. " 'War is cruelty, and you cannot refine it,' he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges. With the propulsive energy and intelligence that marked his campaigns, Sherman describes striking incidents and anecdotes and collects dozens of his incisive and often outspoken wartime orders and reports. This complex self-portrait of an innovative and relentless American warrior provides firsthand accounts of the war's crucial events Shiloh, Vicksburg, Chattanooga, the Atlanta campaign, the marches through Georgia and the Carolinas." Maps, charts, chronology, appendix, index, notes. 1136 pp. ISBN: 0-940450658.

Oxford & Cambridge, MA: Basil Blackwell, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Institute of British Geographers Special Publications Series, no. 23. Study of thesignificant economic and social changes which have occurred in rural Africa in the colonial and post-colonial periods - looking at factors like migration, nomads, land rights, famines, and much more. Bibliography and index. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-631158553.

New York: Harper & Row, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this French film actress, originally published in France in 1976. index. vii, 403 pp. ISBN: 0-060139862.