New York: Red Dust, Inc., 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Anne de Viri is an American who was a student at an Indian university in 1954-55. This book is about friends she made there.

Los Angeles: Stratford Press, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "The rest of the story" recounted in Dean's first book, 'Blind Ambition.' Continues his discussion of Watergate and the fall of Richard Nixon, his speculation on the identity of 'Deep Throat,' his efforts to regain a normal lfe after being released from prison and more. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 370 pp. ISBN: 0-936906-1514.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1991.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this man, born in Alabama, who became what Coretta Scott King called "one of the most dedicated and effective civil rights lawyers in US history." Includes accounts of his battles with the Klan, death threats and more.INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To.... Many thanks for your generous support of our work." Photographs. Index. 353 pp. ISBN: 0-671-778757.

Methuen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes an introduction that covers Togo's origin, history, culture, and language, a chronology, list of acronyms, map, an extensive and in-depth bibliography, as well as the dictionary itself. The alphabetical arrangement provides useful information about the country in a convenient format. Foreword by series editor Jon Woronoff. xviii, 243 pp. Additional titles in this series available. ISBN: 0-8108-09427.

New York: Boni & Liveright, (1923). Hardcover first edition - Brief biographies of Jessie James, P.T. Barnum, Admiral Dewey, Frances Willard, Brigham Young, James J. Hill and Mark Hanna. The title comes from Theodore Roosevelt's "The Strenuous Life" in which he mentions those "who predominantly and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character." Frontispiece and 8 insterted glossy plates. Bibliographies at the end of each section. 370 pp.

New York: Dutton, 1964. dj. Hardcover first edition - Map frontispiece, illustrated with many line drawings and photographs by the author recording his travels in more than 20 African countries "in search of African Art." 271 pp

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - Journalist Christopher Dickey explores the volatile relationship he shared with his father, acclaimed poet James Dickey (1923-1997), who was ill-prepared for the notoriety and fame that his novel 'Deliverance' brought him. Estranged for years, they reconciled in 1994; this book began as their mutual project to describe the making of the Hollywood film version of 'Deliverance.' Photographs, bibliography, index. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-684842025.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1998) dj. Hardcover - Journalist Christopher Dickey explores the volatile relationship he shared with his father, acclaimed poet James Dickey (1923-1997), who was ill-prepared for the notoriety and fame that his novel 'Deliverance' brought him. Estranged for years, they reconciled in 1994; this book began as their mutual project to describe the making of the Hollywood film version of 'Deliverance.' SIGNED on the title page. Photographs, bibliography, index. 285 pp. ISBN: 0-684842025.

New York: Norton, (2003). First edition - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist recounts his 1950s and '60s childhood in the Midwestern steel town of Lorian, Ohio. The only boy of four children, he grew up in a blue-collar family with a father who "hated his lot in life with every particle of his moody, dissatisfied soul." To escape from home life, he buried himself in books - and describes many of them here. Photographs. Includes Dirda's book list. 330 pp.

New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins), (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the scientist who synthesized the birth control pill, and as such, has had an enormous influence on the lives of women in the 20th century - and on changes in our culture. Photographs, index. 321 pgs. ISBN: 0-465-057594.

New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins), (1992.). SIGNED - Autobiography of the scientist who synthesized the birth control pill, and as such, has had an enormous influence on the lives of women in the 20th century - and on changes in our culture. SIGNED on the title page with the words "with compliments" and dated in 1999.Photographs, index. 319 pgs. ISBN: 0-465-057586.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.). Doig's first book, an account of growing up in the rugged Montana wilderness with his restless father and his grandmother. 314 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6899825.

New York: Harper Collins, (1999). First edition - An account of his childhood and his coming of age by this award-winning poet. 198 pp.

Woodstock, VT & New York: The Overlook Press, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A young couple - Carol and her husband to be Michel - purchase a 10 acre disused olive farm in the South of France - and one result was this book: "A splendid tour of southern France, from the glamour of Cannes to the Isles de Lerins and a Cistercian monastery on the tiny isle of St. Honorat." Preface. 332 pp. ISBN: 1-585671061.

New York: Norton, (2011) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A powerful memoir which tells of his coming of age in a drug-ridden and depressed mill town in Massachusetts where his mother struggled to support them, while his father was a professor at a nearby liberal arts college. This is book is a meditation on violence, and a description of the creative process, and a story of coming together with his father. SIGNED on the title page. 387 pp. ISBN: 9780393064667.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967. dj. Hardcover first edition - Labour policies in Portuguese Africa and the British protest, 1850-1920. In Mozambique and Angola, despite well-intentioned legislation, a form of slavery existed until well into the 20th century - this weakened Portugal in relation to her other colonial neighbors, and kept her embroiled in controversy with the British government and a group of British humanitarians. Maps, index. 240 pp.

New York & London: Verso, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - An account of her childhood in rural Oklahoma, from the Dust Bowl days to the end of the Eisenhower era, in which she "bears witness to a family and community which still clings to the dream of America as a republic of landowners." INSCRIBED on the title page. viii, 224 pp. ISBN: 1-85984-8567.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1977) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book in which this couple, best known for their landmark work, 'The Story of Civilization, discuss their scholarly and personal life together, and their enduring love for each other, since their meeting in 1912, when he was a teacher at the Anarchist Center and she was only fourteen, and their acquaintanceship with almost every major literary and intellectual personality in Europe and America during much the mid-twentieth century. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper with both author's names but in what appears to be Will's handwriting. Illustrated with photographs. Index. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-671229257.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. dj. Hardcover first edition - The romance in this case is with the country Russia - but even more so with the interpretor for the film industry, whom the author met while he was on an assignment in the Soviet Union in 1988.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A warm and funny memoir by this distinguished naturalist and founder of the Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust - he "writes about his adventures with friends (human and animal), his family (including his brother novelist Lawrence Durrell), and a whole army of welcome and unwelcome visitors to the enchanted island of Corfu, on which the Durrell family lived in the halcyon days before the Second World War." SIGNED by Durrell on a blank preliminary page and uncommon thus. Originally published in the UK under the title 'Garden of the Gods.' 219 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Mark Hess. ISBN: 0-671247298.

Leeds, UK: Iroko Press, (1996.). SIGNED first edition - A study of the politics and government , armed forces and economic conditions since 1960. Foreword by Kunle Olajide of the Nigerian Patriotic Front (NPF). Egbezor begins by quoting Chinua Achebe "The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely a failure of leadership. Warmly INSCRIBED by the author on the first page and dated in the year of publication. Bilbiography. 64 pp. ISBN: 0-952911604.

New York: Large Print Press / Gale Cengage, (2008). First edition - A definite biography, drawing on new research and documents only recently made available, which " reveals the man behind the science, from his early years and thought experiments in Germany, to his marriages and children, his role in the development of the Atomic Bomb and his work for Civil Rights groups in the United States." Illustrated with photographs, Notes and sources. 942 pp. ISBN: 978-1594132599.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - From the dj flap: 'An account of the experience of a young Englishman teaching History and English in a Roman Catholic Mission Secondary School in northern Nigeria in the period between independence and the first intimations of the Nigerian Civil War.' Illustrated with line drawings, viii , 232 pp

New York: Voice / Hyperion, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - When her 12 year old son was diagnosed as having ADHD, Ellison, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, realized that she had many of the same symptoms - this is an account of her year of learning more about ADD, her interactions with her children, how schools handle and mishandle kids like this, their experiences with various treatments and more. No easy solutions, but a thoughtful book with a good dose of humor. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 289 pp. ISBN: 9781401340889.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Beginning with his mother's murder when he was just ten years old, this is a "raw, brutally candid memoir . . . Ellroy unsparingly describes his shattered childhood, his delinquent teens, his writing life, his love affairs and marriages, his nervous breakdown, and the beginning of a relationship with an extraordinary woman." SIGNED on the title page. 204 pp. ISBN: 978-0307593504.

n.p. By the author, (2004) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Memoir of a life spent in the jewelry trade, from visiting New York's Diamond district as a boy, with his father, a gem merchant, to his years at Cartier Winston and later as a private jeweler. Personally INSCRIBED on the title page "To - A lifetime of beautiful objects. Thank you for being a part of it." and dated in the year of publication. 100 pp plus colophon. ISBN: 0-974815101.