New York: Warner, (2004.). SIGNED 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! INSCRIBED on the title page - "for ... the non-hypocrite. It was a joy to meet you!" dated Oct 2, 2004. 354 pp

New York: Random House, (1996) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir about her search to discover the truth about her father, who died when she was just seven. In doing so, she discovers the many lies - about his birth, his native language, his education and more - and the contradictions that defined him and required Gordon to re-evaluate all of her assumptions. INSCRIBED on the half title page. xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 0-679428852.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A very intimate book in which Reeve Lindbergh shares her thoughts while caring for her elderly mother, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, in the final years of her life. "Challenged by the perils of old age and a series of strokes, Mrs. Lindbergh made her final home on a farm in Vermont, in a house adjacent to her daughter's. Famous for her writing and her proficiency as a navigator for her aviator husband, Charles, her retreat into silence and varying stages of dementia distressed Reeve, who longed to communicate with her once eloquent mother. Reeve writes fluidly about her mother's fading, expressing herself poignantly and posing powerful questions about life, death, and the depth of silence." (ALA) 174 pp. ISBN: 0-743203135.

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. INSCRIBED on the title page. 256 pp. ISBN: 978-1439148242.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1979) dj. 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." Originally published in the UK under the title 'Garden of the Gods.' 219 pp. Wraparound dust jacket art by Mark Hess. ISBN: 0-671247298.

New York: Random House, (1995) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Luba Brezhneva, the niece of the former General Secretary, has written a vivid chronicle of a family and its life inside the Soviet system. 'The World I Left Behind' is particularly valuable for its candid portrait of Brezhnev, who presided over the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, longer than any other leader except Stalin." (NY Times review). INSCRIBED on the half title page. Introduction by Robert Conquest, translated by Geoffrey Polk. Photographs, index. xvii, 392 pp. ISBN: 0-679-439110.

New York: Atria / Enliven Books, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir, "told with uncensored Southern wit and guidance, which tells the story of a Hollywood film executive who, against all odds, discovers psychic superpowers that radically transform her life. . . after the devastating loss of her mother, the world of make-believe became reality when Julie captured her first ghost in a photograph and blew open a door to the Other Side." SIGNED on the front endpaper. Photographs. 243 pp. ISBN: 978-1501158896.

New York: Atria (Simon & Schuster), (2023). SIGNED first edition - A memoir of 'motherhood, hunger and higher education' this continues the story told in her first book "Maid," a surprise bestseller and basis for the Netflix series. This describes her struggles as she finishes college and tries to pursue her writing career, as it focuses on the questions of who has the right to go to college and what kind of work is valued in our society. SIGNED on the title page and uncommon this. 272 pp.

New York: St Martin's, (1982) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A definitive biography of Harvey Milk, who even before his election to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, was known as the 'mayor of Castro Street." His "personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s. His is a story of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassination in City Hall and massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope." Boldly and warmly INSCRIBED("keep the dream alive")on the title page and dated in 1982,the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. Notes on sources, index. xvii, 388 pp.". ISBN: 0-312523300.

Nevada City, California: Illuminated Owl Press, (2016). SIGNED first edition - A memoir which "weaves together four strands: a mature woman in search of herself, a marriage in trouble, the dark side of Japan, and the beauty of Japanese art and culture. While living in Japan in 1993, Patricia Dove Miller's dream of a year of exploration is shattered when her husband is detained on drug charges. She struggles with a sense of betrayal upon learning her husband's secrets and yet she stands by him, in the face of the terrifying uncertainties now confronting them. To save herself, she seeks refuge in two Japanese traditional arts--ikebana and shakuhachi (bamboo flute)" SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated. 319 pp. ISBN: 978-0997253900.

Sutter Creek: The ESSIC Company, (1985). SIGNED first edition - A Polish immigrant who settled in Amador County in the Sierra Foothills writes a tribute to his dog of more than 18 years - Illustrated with photographs. INSCRIBED on the first page. 175 pp,

Printed at Thai Watana Panich, Bangkok: By the author, nd (ca 1962). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this 'millionaire socialist,' pacifist and author of numerous psychology books and periodicals, founder of several schools for boys using Montessori principles and more. He was jailed and fined for his strident anti-war views, pro-union activities, and investigated for his associations with such social reformers as Upton Sinclair and Emma Goldman, although he comments in this book that with the rise of Hitler and Mussolini's dictatorships he reluctantly renounced his previous pacifist views (p 141). Includes a 9 page list of the 'personalities in this history.' INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "with the compliments of" and dated May 19, 1962. 205 pp.

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: 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.

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.

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)

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the "Grand Old Man of Oil," an English engineer who traveled to Africa in 1896, to Baku two years later and then to the Caribbean, Peru, Egypt, Arabia and Texas, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania in the United States. A foreword by former President Herbert Hoover, but one which focuses on the association between his mining firm and Beeby-Thompson's oil firm. Stamped on the front pastedown is the notice "A personal reading copy for our bookseller friends whose opinions and criticisms we welcome and value." Photographs, index. 544 pp.

New York: Scribner, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - Sequel to his Pulitzer Prize- winning 'Angela's Ashes' which described his childhood, This covers his journey from impoverished immigrant, through the Army, college and on to his life as a schoolteacher and raconteur. 367 pp. ISBN: 0-684818783.

Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2015) dj. Hardcover first edition - A reflective memoir in which Coyote describes the mentors who shaped him - a violent, intimidating father, a be-bop Bass player, an ex game-warden who initates him into the laws of nature, a gay dancer in Martha Grahams company who introduces him to Mexico and marijuanas, beat poet Gary Snyder, who introduces him to Zen practice, and others. His initial flirtation with Zen deepens into a life-long avocation, and his ordination as a priest. "Through Zen, Coyote discovers a third option that offers an alternative to both the worlds of Love and Powers correlatives of status seeking and material wealth." Photographs, notes. 272 pp. ISBN: 978-1619024960.

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.

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.

Salem, Oregon: Deep Well Publishing. 1992. First edition - A biography of Frances Fuller Victor who at age 25 in 1851 began her work as a magazine editor. Born in Rome, New York, this is an account of how she came West, her life on the frontier and her personal struggles - but despite these struggles, she wrote eleven books about the life and history of the Pacific Northwest. Illustrated with 25 pages of historical photographs. Notes, sources, bibliography, xiii, 277 pp. ISBN: 0-9632066-05.

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.

New York: Hearst Books, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - While many of us dream of quitting city life in favor of a "carefree" country life, this is an account of the first two years in the life of one family who acted on their dreams - Sallyann, a print and broadcast journalist, her photographer husband, Greg, and their five-year-old daughter, Charley, leave their Chicago home for a rundown 22-acre farm in Brown County, Indiana. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. Illustrated with drawings by Glenn Wolff. Includes appendices with recipes and garden plans. ISBN: 0-688123252.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1986). A memoir about growing up in the Midwest, written when he was in his nineties, by this author best know for cycle of epic poems about the American West and for Black Elk Speaks. It describes the people and events instrumental in shaping his life as a poet, historian, and authority on Indians. Introduction by Dick Cavett. x, 173 pp. ISBN: 0-803283555.