New York: Time Incorporated 1965. New introduction by A. L. Rowse to this highly acclaimed biography of Wolsey, one which gives a vivid picture of England during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII, and also includes the period after Wolsey's fall from power. Volume I has xxii, 344 pages, Volume 2 has 338. Both volumes include notes, Volume 2 has an index to both.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a fifteen year friendship with writer M.F.K. Fisher, telling of shared food adventures and portraying Fisher's daily life, her relationship with her family, her wit, and her struggles with the changes brought by age. Includes a M.F.K. Fisher chronology of xviii, 217 pp. ISBN: 0-871134500.

New York Norton, (1988.) dj. Hardcover - As told to Ralph Leighton, the last literary legacy of this Nobel Prize winner for Physics. A book which reflects his unquenchable thirst for adventure and which pays tribute to two people in his life - his father and his wife. The second section gives a behind the scenes look into the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger's explosion in 1986. Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-393-019217.

New York: Viking Penguin, (1994.) dj. Hardcover - The diary was written from September 1991 just before Zlata's 11th birthday to October 1993, when she and her parents were allowed to leave Sarajevo. Introduction by Janine Di Giovanni. Notes and translation by Christina Pribichevich-Zoric. Illustrated with photographs in color. 200 pp Endpapers illustrated with colored entries from her journal. ISBN: 0-670-857246.

New York: Morrow, (2000.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The often-moving memoir by a young man who grew up in the 1970's Midwest, attended a Free School there (based on Summerhill), was institutionalized by his father, and saved by being 'adopted' as a teenager by his uncle, the writer Edmund White, who was very involved in the gay world of New York City. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-060959304.

Austin: Jenkins Publishing Company, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - A major biography of Carter (1879-1955), the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, a major force in politics both in Texas and nationally, and a tireless promoter of Fort Worth. "During the 20s and 30s, he personified the image of the Texas cowboy in the national mind: an uninhibited story-teller, gambler, and drinker, generous with his money and quick to draw his six-shooters.: (wikipedia) Photographs. Index. 520 pp. ISBN: 0-836301552.

New York: Hyperion, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the actor, and also the story of living in his family with sister Jane Fonda and father Henry Fonda, and a picture of the 70's. Photographs. 498 pages.

Nashville, TN: Cumberland House, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Biography of the "legendary" entertainer, and of the complex and beautiful woman whom he married, by the eldest son of Ernie and Betty Ford, who is himself an actor, writer, and voiceover artist with more than twenty films, and hundreds of radio and television commercials to his credit. Illustrated with many photographs. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 256 pp. ISBN: 9781581826531.

London: Eyre and Spottiswoode, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A human and penetrating look at East Africa resulting from a series of journeys made by the author, a Catholic priest and chaplain at the university at Makerre, to parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika, describing the issues, political and moral, affecting East African life in the middle of the twentieth century. first edition. VG. dj VG, edgewear. Frontispiece amd 15 black and white photographs, 3 maps. 199 pp

New York: Cameron Associates, 1957. dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of a former corporate attorney and economics professor who chose to defend those accused of un-American activities in the era of McCarthy. Foreword by Dr Alexander Meiklejohn. 255 pp.

n.p. By the authors, (1937). First edition - A brief biographical sketch of this noted American scientist, compiled by his two surviving children, Anna Franklin Barnett and John Curtis , as a memorial. Among other things, Franklin was a professor of organic chemistry at Stanford University for many years, received the Nichols and Willard Gibbs Awardsm and served as a president of the American Chemical Society. Frontispiece portrait with a tissue guard. Includes a list of papers by E.C.F and co-workers. Unpaginated (24 pp)

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Memoir of growning up, squirming in his too-sensitive skin, by the award-winning author of 'The Corrections' and 'Freedom.' SIGNED on the title page. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-374-299196.

New York: Dutton, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir by this award-winning poet, of how he - born with disabled legs - went through many reconstructive sugeries, and a look back at the support given by his working-class, Jewish family, as well as the hidden tensions in his family life, the doctor who alone did not recommend amputation, and finally of his sexual awakening. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-525941622.

New York: Putnam, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A sequel to the author's Newbery Honor Book, 'Homesick' this tells of her return, accompanied by her husband, Michael, to Wuhan and coming to terms with the changes in China, and also how moved she was when she was declared an honoray citizen. Illustrated with both full color and black and white photographs by Michael Fritz. Notes, a brief outline of Chinese history, and bibliography, 142 pp. ISBN: 0-399-211829.

New York: Random House, (2002.). First edition - "A book about growing up white in rural Africa...a child's experience in a brawling bad-luck family on the losing side of an anti-colonial war." (William Finnegan) Set in Rhodesia and Zambia. Sometimes poignant, sometimes humorous, this is always interesting. Recommended. 255 pp.

New York: Mason/Charter. 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - Biography of the American inventor, generally considered the inventor of the steamboat, but in reality, while he was not the first to come up with a 'steamboat,' he was the inventor of many other things - including primitive submarines which he called "plunge boats", torpedoes, marble cutting machines, etc - and his contribution to the history of the steamboat was even more important than that of an inventor - he convinced the public that the - and the use of canals - were efficient and safe means of transport. Illustrated. Notes, bibliography, index. 235 pp. ISBN: 0-884054381.

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, (1996.). First edition - Comprehensive anthology, with extensive notes and commentary, of the many literary genres of Hausa - the language spoken in Nigeria, Niger, northern Ghana, Senegal and the Sudan. Includes both the original Hausa and translations of many works and places the development of each genre into a historical context. Notes, bibliography, index. 338 pp. ISBN: 1-56098-6956.

Drexel, PA Casemate (2008). First edition - The wartime memoir of Will, the nephew of Reinhard Gehlen, head of Nazi Germany intelligence agency, Foreign Armies East. He was only 10 when the war began but as a member of the Jungvolk, and lived in a small town near the Westwall, but he became a helper with the local Luftwaffe flak battery. Photographs, ix, 318 pp.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - While 'everyone' in Chicago knew his father, Gifford, whose parents were separated when he was 8, did not know him well. This picture of his father, sometimes a dangerous man, is based on his scattered memories of childhood and his attempt to understand him now. SIGNED on the title page. Photographs. 257 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1002509.

New York: Ballantine, (2014) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Both a personal account of Gillibrand's life and those who influenced her as she progressed from attorney to Congress to the US Senate and a call for women to become more involved. Foreword by Hillary Rodham Clinton. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper by Gillibrand "Your voice matters! Thank you for being a role model." Illustrated with color photographs. List of resources. 194 pp. ISBN: 978-0804179072.

New York: Warner, (2004.). First edition - Since the actual publication of this book - a trade paperback original - was delayed until 2005, this advance issue preceded the book by several months. From the letter to booksellers on the back cover: 'Gilman has managed to pull off a memoir - a series of coming of age stories - that's original, poignant, often hilarious and that uniquely chronicles a generation '- includes a great episode with Mick Jagger! 354 pp

London: Basil Blackwell , (1963.) dj. Hardcover - Six anthropological lectures on the ways in which quarrels are handled by African societies based upon their customs, including witchcraft, conflicting allegiances, morals, rituals and beliefs. Reading list. ix,173 pp.

New York: Random House, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Biographical account of his return to Europe and beyond, in search of roots and community and an answer to the question - what am I? It was only in the middle of his life that he became what he was born - a Jew. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-394470982.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of the last 20 years in the life of Emma Goldman, who was deported from the United States in 1919 at the height of the Red Scare. Photographs, extensive notes, index. xv, 301 pp. ISBN: 0-807070041.