Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1976). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this well-known American opera singer, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. Slightly oversized format. Index. 240 pp. ISBN: 0-672522683.

Boston: Little Brown, (1971.). First edition - Bibliography, index. 169 pages.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1999). First edition - "In this 2nd volume of his memoirs, playwright Neil Simon begins immediately following the death of his wife, Joan. From that moment of unbearable sadness, Simon moved quickly to work on another play to keep himself busy and his mind off his loss. The work was therapeutic, and he met an actress who had a role in his play, Marsha Mason. Almost immediately a bond developed, which led to marriage. When Mason's career required that she be in Hollywood, Simon and his two daughters from his first marriage moved there as well. He immersed himself in his work & created: ''Brighton Beach Memoirs,'' ''Biloxi Blues,'' ''Broadway Bound,'' and ''Lost in Yonkers.'' 329 pp.

Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc. (1998.). SIGNED first edition - Inspirational stories about their lives and their work by Catherine Oxenberg, Paul Williams, Keely Shaye Smith, Guru Singh, Be atrice Wood, Robert Townsend, Lord Robin Russell, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Leeza Gibbons, Sandy Gallin, Wyland, Chris Chandler, Tatjana Patitz, Arnold Palmer, Robert A. Johnson, Janet Yang, and Woody Harrelson. SIGNED by Sivertsen on the title page. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographs. 398 pp. ISBN: 1558745939.

Mountain View, CA & and Omaha, NE: Pacific Press Publishing Association 1966. dj. SIGNED hardcover - SIGNED on front endpaper 'with love' Autobiography of an African orphan, who was educated in a mission school and then adopted by an American couple. Her life was featured in a "This is Your Life" segment, and she herself returned to Africa in a missionary capacity.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The Revolutionary Years." Set in South Africa in the early 1960s, during the years of apartheid, this is a portrait of Mandela as "a committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state" Photographs. Timeline, notes, selected bibliography, index. 405 pp. ISBN: 978-0316035484.

New York: Warner, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Second memoir by this New York City fireman, this one focusing on what it is like to grow up in a big city, Irish, Catholic and poor. 369 pp. ISBN: 0-446-524476.

New York: Time Incorporated, 1966.

New York: Warner, (2002). First edition - The true stories of a Manhattan Supreme Court Justice judge and her account of years on the bench, behind the courtroom trials, and how her rulings have placed a permanent stamp on the legal system. 338 pp.

Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, (1967.). First edition - Includes an Introduction by Spiro and 5 long essays: Some reflections on constitutionalism for emergent political orders, by Carl. J. Friedrich; Nationalism in a new perspective: the African case by Ibrahim Abu-Lughod; The challenge of change: Japan and Africa, by Claude E. Welch; Borrowed theory and original practice in African politics, by Ali A. Mazrui and Repetition or innovation? by Herbert. J. Spiro. A Spectrum book. 144 pp.

New York, NY: Scribner, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A lyrical, haunting story of family, love, and loss in a land as dangerous as it is beautiful." (Jeannette Walls) A story of growing up in war torn Rhodesia during the 1970s and early 1980s. Photographs. Glossary. 269 pp. ISBN: 978-0-743286794.

Hanover, NH: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - The love letters from Olaf Stapledon to his cousin and future wife, Agnes Miller, after the outbreak of World War I. Index.

New York: Morrow, 1974. dj. Hardcover first edition - Edgar Cayce as a boy in a small Kentucky town in the early 1900's, already aware of his remarkable gifts. Illustrated with photographs. 301 pages. ISBN: 0-688-002587.

New York: Praeger, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes index and bibliography.

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2008. First edition - A memoir of a childhood growing up in New York, with a drug addicted mother, and the author's divided life -as a successful college graduate who kept her past hidden - and one who was struggling with addiction herself. 255 pp.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Part autobiography, part elegy, part inquiry into the dynamics of mental illness, this is the story of the author's family, "which is haunted by the tragedy of the first child's schizophrenia. Four essays, one for each family member's story, combine to create a complex and resonant picture of the four sides of a family rectangle." 243 pp. ISBN: 0-374152195.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on two years of living in the market town of Eldoret, in the highlands of Kenya, this is a look at how Africans 'make do' with both modern and traditional materials, both imported and indigenous, to create a useful technology. An unconventional approach to cultural anthropology and a lively picture of a growing urban area. Illustrated with line drawingsby the author. Bibliography, index. 228 pp. ISBN: 0-8165-14941.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972) dj. Hardcover - The life story of Nancy Astor from her childhood in Virginia, her unhappy first marriage and her second to one of the richest men of the era, to being the first woman Member of Parliament. Illustrated with photographs, Notes on sources at the end of each chapter, index, 543 pp. ISBN: 060141840.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1976.) dj. Hardcover - 'My Years Before Stillmeadow.' Reminiscences of her life before she moved to Stillmeadow, her family, her childhood in the mining country of Mexico and the southwest, her education, including college at Wellesley during World War I, her marriage to music instructor Frank Taber, and her life as a writer in New York City during World War II, and much more. Illustrated with sketches by Pamela Johnson. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-397011334.

New York: Harper Collins, (2020). SIGNED first edition - A book in which Tallent explores "the ferocious desire for perfection" which has shaped her writing life as well as her personal life. Sigrid Nunez called it "that brilliant, that intense, and one of the finest explorations I know of what it means to be a woman and an artist." SIGNED on the title page. Notes on sources. 227 pp.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1928. dj. A biography of this great 18th century French writer. Illustrated.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2002). A behind the scenes view into Robert Kennedy's personal life. Including revelations about the 1960 and 1968 presidential campaigns, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and his struggles with J.Edgar Hoover and Lyndon Johnson. 16 pages of black and white photographs, includes source notes, bibliography and index, 509 pp. ISBN: 0-7432-03291.

New York: Harper & Row, 1973. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of one of the most influential English socialists in 30's, 40's, 50's. Index. 319 pages.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1960. dj. Hardcover - Extensive study of the economy, politics, and infrastructure of Gabon, Chad, the French Congo, and the Central African Republic in the 1950s. 529pp plus bibliography, notes, index.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Growing up is difficult enough, but when you add in undiagnosed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, it becomes even more so. In this memoir, years later, Jennifer remembers these scenes with candor and humor. What emerges is a portrait of a well-meaning girl and her good-natured parents, and a very funny, very sharp look back at growing up. SIGNED on the title page. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-316158771.

New York: Vintage Books, 1978.

New York: Penguin, 2004. SIGNED first edition - SIGNED on the title page. An interesting account of his first years as a firefighter in a gritty urban area: Oakland, California. From the back cover: " he was an Ivy League grad responding to an ad at a bus stop. He couldn't keep his boots shined, and he looked terrible in his uniform. Working Fire is the story of how, from this unlikely beginning, Zac Unger came to feel at home among this close- knit tribe, came to master his work's demands, and came to know what it is to see the city of Oakland through a firefighter's eyes." 260 pp.