Santa Barbara: Fithian Press, 1996. First edition - In 1939, when the author was just 7 years old, he and his family moved from Nebraska to Torrance in Southern California - where he found an idyllic world for boys to grow up in. 188 pp. ISBN: 1-564741818.

New York: Ecco Press, (2017) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir on her "life as a writer, her childhood, and the symbiotic relationship between fiction and emotional memory." Photographs. 357 pp. ISBN: 978-0062319296.

Boston: Northeastern University Press, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates at San Quentin, just north of San Francisco. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work - of first giving those who have been silenced the feeling that their voice is worth hearing. A very personal book - one in which she recounts what she has learned herself and about herself during those years - but also one in which the inmates emerge, not as beasts or heroes, but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings. Notes. 217 pp. Cover praise from Hettie Jones, Luis Rodriguez and others. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 1-55553-452x.

Boston: Northeastern University Press, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates at San Quentin, just north of San Francisco. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work - of first giving those who have been silenced the feeling that their voice is worth hearing. A very personal book - one in which she recounts what she has learned herself and about herself during those years - but also one in which the inmates emerge, not as beasts or heroes, but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings. INSCRIBED on the title page. Notes. 217 pp.Cover praise from Hettie Jones, Luis Rodriguez and others. ISBN: 1-55553-452x.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - In 1988, at the age of 50, Thayer became the first woman to ski solo to the North Pole, her only companion a black husky named Charlie. Illustrated with a map and full-color photographs. Foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary. 254 pp. ISBN: 0-671793861.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1946.). Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of a young African American girl growing up in North Dakota after her family moved there in 1914. 300 pp.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Thirty years after Stein wrote "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," Toklas herself has "provided her own entertaining account of her life with Gertrude Stein, recapturing not only the essence of her friend's remarkable personality but the essence of a remarkable time." Photographs. Index. 186 pp.

San Francisco: East Bay Filipino American National Historical Society, 2002. First edition - "An anthology of memoirs by Filipino Americans. The stories are culled from memories of growing up in different regions of the United States: from the urban jungle of Manhattan to the dusty farmlands of California. Contributing writers represent different generations, ranging from survivors of the Great Depression era in the 1930s to immigrants from the 1980s, escapees of an ancestral homeland in economic and political turmoil." Introductions by Toribio and James Sobredo. Includes 3-page glossary and 9-page Filipino American Timeline and notes on contributors. . xvii, 243 pp. ISBN: 1-887764569.

New York: Julian Messner / Simon & Schuster, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's account of growing up in California in the 1930s as a 2nd generation Japanese-American and her family's internment in a Utah concentration camp during WWII. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-671741640.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of a childhood divided - Urrea was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother from Staten Island. He moved to San Diego when he was three - his childhood was a clash of cultures, a mix of languages. Winner of the Lannan Award. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Rudolf Anayo, Ernest J. Gaines, Terry Tempest Williams and many more. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-816518653.

Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - A memoir of a childhood divided - Urrea was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother from Staten Island. He moved to San Diego when he was three - his childhood was a clash of cultures, a mix of languages. Winner of the Lannan Award. Dust jacket praise from Rudolf Anayo, Ernest J. Gaines, Terry Tempest Williams and many more. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-816518653.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography of the French film director, focusing on his three wives - Brigitte Bardot, Catherine Deneuve and Jane Fonda. Translated from the French by Peter Beglan. Illustrated with photographs. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-151119066.

London: Faber & Faber, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A memoir by one of Latin America's most celebrated writers, beginning with his birth in 1936 in Arequipa, Peru. and the story of his organization of the reform movement which culminated in his bid for the Peruvian presidency in 1990." Translated by Helen Lane. 532 pp. ISBN: 0-571-169694.

New York: Harper Collins, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from a drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security, in the sport they love and in each other. But when the dark beast that is David's addiction emerges once again, almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened. . . an unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive." SIGNED on the title page. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-060174056.

New York: Rayo/ Harper Collins, 2004. First edition - A memoir of"an extremely angry adolescence" by this award winning writer - he had to cope both with an undiagnosed learning disabilty and the frustrations of growing up a Latino in an American school system, where he was made to feel ashamed about his culture and his heritage. Letter from publisher laid in. 316 pp.

New York: Arbor House, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Both the author - and the protagonist - are described as an international television and news personalities and a best -selling novelist - leaving one with the impression that under their different pseudonyms, these are one and the same person. A story of increasing sexual obsession. ISBN: 0-87795-190x.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A book Walker spent 10 years in the writing, this is perhaps her most personal book yet. The story of the making of the film "Color Purple" and of the changes in her life. SIGNED by Walker. Index. 302 pp. ISBN: 0-684-814196.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. First edition - By the daughter of Alice Walker, her first book, an exploration of growing up bi-racial and multi-cultural in the US.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. SIGNED first edition - By the daughter of Alice Walker, her first book, an exploration of growing up bi-racial and multi-cultural in the US. INSCRIBED on the title page with a drawing of a flower.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. SIGNED first edition - By the daughter of Alice Walker, her first book, an exploration of growing up bi-racial and multi-cultural in the US. SIGNED on the title page with a drawing of a flower.

New York: Riverhead Books, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - By the daughter of Alice Walker, her first book, an exploration of growing up bi-racial and multi-cultural in the US. ISBN: 1-57322-1694.

New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The inside story of the OJ Simpson trial, but also the story of Darden himself, growing up poor in Richmond , California, but determined to succeed in his dream of being a lawyer. Photographs. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391839.

New York: HarperCollins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The inside story of the OJ Simpson trial, but also the story of Darden himself, growing up poor in Richmond , California, but determined to succeed in his dream of being a lawyer. SIGNED on the title page by co-author Jess Walter (who gets the small type, but said he just wanted it large enough for his mother to see.) Photographs. 287 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0391839.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. dj. Hardcover - A young woman from Iowa, a sculptor and wood-carver, accompanies her husband to Liberia during World War II, where he was to manage a rubber plantation. sometimes humorous account of her learning the ways of the tribes people among whom she was living. Illustrated with sketches and decorations by Liberian artist Jo Dendel. 302 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1948. Hardcover - A young woman from Iowa, a sculptor and wood-carver, accompanies her husband to Liberia during World War II, where he was to manage a rubber plantation. sometimes humorous account of her learning the ways of the tribes people among whom she was living. Illustrated with sketches and decorations by Liberian artist Jo Dendel. 302 pp.