New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2020). First edition - A collection of essays -plus a few drawings and poems - on insecurity, fame and anxiety. 280 pp. Publisher's letter laid in.

NY & London: The Free Press. (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Nobel prize winning poet Joseph Brodsky was also a great talker as well as a writer. These interviews, recorded over a period of more than 15 years, starting in 1978, in Brodsky's Greenwich Village apartment, recount his childhood in war-torn Leningrad, his life as an underground poet, standing trial in Kruschev's Russia, imprisonment in the icy north his expulsion from the Soviet Union and more. Photography by Mariana Volkov. Translated by Marian Schwartz. Photographs. 306 pp with notes and index. ISBN: 02982450.

Boston: Little Brown, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of the Drinkers of Philadelphia. 301 pgs, illustrated with photographs.

New York: Grove Press, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first book, a memoir by the daughter of Steve Jobs described as a coming of age story which is partially a portrait of a complex family and partly a love letter to California in the 70s and 80s. SIGNED on the title page by the author. Named one of the best books of the year by the NY Times, the New Yorker, NPR and many others. Illustrated with photographs. ISBN: 978-0802128232.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third book by this Afrikaaner poet and painter about returning to South Africa as a visitor from his exile in France - as a white South African, a member of the ANC, one who was imprisoned by the apartheid government for 7 years, and as one who has lived most of his adult life in exile, he is both an insider and an outsider. This is a vivid picture of the paradoxes of South Africa in transition - Nelson Mandela is now free, but bloodshed and looting are still common - 'how do you reconcile liberal instincts with the preservation of property?' 224 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1770867.

New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969.) dj. Hardcover - Facsimile edition of a book originally published in 1860. Includes reproductions of original engraved illustrations. Missionary account of living in Liberia, primarily - includes brief mentions of the slave trade, witchcraft, etc. 353 pp.

Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, (1979.) dj. Hardcover - Originally published in 1953 in the UK. In this book, the author travelled 'southwards from the Mediterranean coast to the sands, the heart of the Sahara, and beyond to the savannas of the Sudan and the fringes of the great forests' - to Niger, Libya and French Equatorial Africa. Illustrated with 33 photographs, mostly of art and architectural ruins. Index. 212 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-837151864.

Washington, D.C.: Worldwatch Institute, 1985. First edition - Focuses on the breakdown between a people and their natural support systems - with famine and the threat of famine as one of the results of this breakdown - and on what can be done to restore these systems: the soil, the forests. Specifically deals with population issues. Charts, notes. 81 pp. ISBN: 0916468-658.

New York: The National Temperance Society, 1881. Hardcover first edition - Although the title page indicates "Volume 1" this book stands by itself - among the abstainers profiled are Horace Greeley, Horace Mann, Rutherford Hayes, William Cullen Bryant and more - illustrated with portraits of each subject.. Uncommon in the first edition.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995. dj. Hardcover first edition - A study extending over a period of 25 years in northern Cameroon, a region of great cultural diversity, populated by the politically dominant Fulbe, the pastoral Mbororo, and farming groups like the Gbaya. Looks also at the conflicts between traditions and nationalism, and of the effects of organizations like the World Bank. Extensive notes, glossary, bibliography, index. 210 pp. ISBN: 1-56098-6948.

New York: St Martin's, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A memoir from the author of 'Running with Scissors' - this focuses on his relationships in New York City, often humorous, always frank, and sometimes quite wise. SIGNED on the title page, and uncommon thus. 295 pp.

New York: Ecco Press, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first book - "an extraordinary memoir about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Writing with enormous poignancy, Benjamin Busch - a decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who served two combat tours in Iraq, an actor on The Wire , and the son of celebrated novelist Frederick Busch-offers an unforgettable meditation on life and loss, the longing for the elemental and the call of the wild, and how the curious children we were remain alive in us all."SIGNED on the title page with the last two words in the book "Live forever" and dated in the year of publication. 305 pp. ISBN: 978-0062014849.

New York: Ecco Press, (2012) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book - "an extraordinary memoir about ordinary things: life and death, peace and war, the adventures of childhood and the revelations of adulthood. Writing with enormous poignancy, Benjamin Busch - a decorated U.S. Marine Corps infantry officer who served two combat tours in Iraq, an actor on The Wire , and the son of celebrated novelist Frederick Busch-offers an unforgettable meditation on life and loss, the longing for the elemental and the call of the wild, and how the curious children we were remain alive in us all." 305 pp. ISBN: 978-0062014849.

New York: Negro Universities Press, (1969.). Hardcover - Reissue of this account of native life in South Africa written by the missionary priest at St Cuthbert's and originally published in 1905. Illustrated with several photographs. 154 pp. ISBN: 0-83711277X.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1984). Hardcover first edition - Biography of one of four American Catholic missionary workers brutally murdered on a back road near the Salvadoran capital of San Salvador - from her privileged upbringing in a Connecticut suburb to her decision to dedicate her life to helping the poor and oppressed. Illustrated with photographs. 317 pp. ISBN: 0-67147992x.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2010) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The author's first memoir, which won first place in the 2008 Pacific Northwest Writer's Association's literary contest. "After twenty years of living with terminal illness, Zoes mother decided to end her lifeand asked her three daughters for their assistance. For months, the decision drags on as her mother changes her methods and schedule, and the negotiations stir up old memories, sibling rivalries, and questions about family loyalty." A controversial but warm and sometimes even funny book which deals with the issues at the center of the debate on assisted suicide. SIGNED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1439148242.

New York: Summit Books, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - More than just a memoir of the author's own life, this is the story, told in brief glimpses, of his family, frozen in time in the jazz age, while in 1931 in Fall River, Massachusetts, the mills were closing - and of the impact of Pearl Harbor, his own experiences as a student at Harvard where he agreed to be injected with mind-altering drugs as part of an experiment at a famous hospital, a brief and funny stint as a CIA agent. ISBN: 0-671-694782.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an unconventional memoir of life in a hippie vaudeville caravan, led by The Flying Karamozov Brothers, which traveled to small towns in the American Northwest and Canada. 197 pp. ISBN: 0-151170126.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A biographical memoir of the writer John Cheever by his daughter. Photographs. x, 243 pp. ISBN: 0-395-352975.

New York: Bantam, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - A history of several generations of her family, including of course, her father, the writer John Cheever. Treetops was the name given to a cluster of cottages built by her grandfather and used by her family as a summer home. Photographs. Family tree on endpapers. 204 pp. ISBN: 0-553-072250.

New York: Putnam, (1976.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of a great performer and showman extraordinare. He grew up in a family with a 250 year traditional of traveling shows and built his father's modest troupe into the greatest circus in Europe. Photographs. Index. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-399-116168.

New York Ballantine, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir of the comedian, icon and TV star. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-345-440137.

New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment (SSE), (2008). SIGNED first edition - An account of the decades long relationship between these two entertainers who became counterculture icons. "The straight dope of one of the most popular comedy teams of all time." SIGNED on the title page by Tommy Chong and dated 5 -31-08. 243 pp.

New York: Viking, 1928. dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Representative Women series - each women in the series was chosen because her life can act as a mirror of her time. Elizabeth Chudleigh was a maid of honor to the Princess of Wales, mother of George III - and her fame and notoriety reached its height when she was tried and found guilty of bigamy. Bibliography. 187 pp