New York: Heritage Press, (1970). Hardcover - A handsome edition of this classic book, originally published in 1901, with an introduction by Booker T. Washington III and full color illustrations by Denver Gillen, While Washington wrote many other books, this remains his most popular book and one of the most influential books of the early years of the 20th century - and one which has remained in print, and valued ever since . Born a slave in Virginia, Washington went on to become head of Tuskegee Institute, where he emphasized training in practical skills. Includes a chronology. Slightly oversized, bound in brown cloth with illustration pasted on front cover. The Sandglass is tipped onto the front endpaper. xxi, 212 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American actress and singer's second autobiography, focusing on her later and more spiritual years. Illustrated with photographs (including several of the young Waters by Carl Van Vechten). introduction by Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn. Dust jacket praise by Dale Evans Rogers. Printed signature and inscription on title page (often mistaken for the real thing.) Editor's note on the 'performance highlights' of her career. 162 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, (1972.). African American actress and singer's second autobiography, focusing on her later and more spiritual years. Illustrated with photographs (including several of the young Waters by Carl Van Vechten). introduction by Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn. Dust jacket praise by Dale Evans Rogers. Facsimile signature and inscription on title page (often mistaken for the real thing.) Editor's note on the 'performance highlights' of her career. 162 pp.

New York: Harper & Row, 1972. dj. Hardcover first edition - African American actress and singer's second autobiography, focusing on her later and more spiritual years. Illustrated with photographs (including several of the young Waters by Carl Van Vechten). introduction by Eugenia Price and Joyce Blackburn. Dust jacket praise by Dale Evans Rogers. Printed signature and inscription on title page (often mistaken for the real thing.) Editor's note on the 'performance highlights' of her career. 162 pp.

New York: HC - Harper Collins, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first book, an "amazingly sane" account of survival of both her drug addiction and her two years at a school designed to brainwash it out of her. 245 pp. ISBN: 9780061189586.

New York: Scribner, (2012. SIGNED first edition - A book which "investigates one of the most universal human institutions--marriage. Elizabeth Weil and her husband Dan have two basic ground rules for their marriage: no cheating, no dying. For ten years it's worked fine, but Elizabeth started to wonder if it could be better.. . In this book, Weil examines the major universal marriage issues--sex, money, mental health, in-laws, children--through bravely recounting her own hilarious, messy, and sometimes difficult relationship." SIGNED on the title page. Selected bibliography. 177 pp.

London: Allan Wingate, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - From Trieste to Greece, Syria, Iraq, India, and Australia and New Zealand and more. A young boy - 16 years of age - with only 9 pounds left out of his original 25, meets up with a 24 year old woman, and she begins to teach him how to flatter the border guards to get a transit visa, and how to create an image of a normal tourist, and more the beginning of a 5 1/2 years of hitchhiking from country to country. Illustrated with black-white photographs. 303 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001. dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's memoir of "discovering the game that has been his singular passion for nearly fifty years. It is equally, inevitably, the story of the roots of black basketball in Ameica Ñ a story inextricable from race, culture, love, and home. " 242 pp. ISBN: 0-395-857317.

New York: Vantage Press, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - A slightly fictionalized account of traveling on a rubber raft down the Tajo River, which flows for more than 1000 kilometers from eastern Spain to Lisbon in Portugal and into the Atlantic. Illustrated with photographs. 109 pp. ISBN: 0-533047625.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. dj. Hardcover first edition - For more than three decades Tennessee Williams wrote letters to his dear friend Maria St. Just, the inspiration for Maggie in "Cat on the Hot Tin Roof." Letters that touched on all aspects of his life and work, his loves, his fears, his travels, his family, his addictions and his depression. Includes commentary by Maria St. Just and a preface by Elai Kazan, Illustrated with black and white photographs. Index, xix, 407 pp. ISBN: 0-394-564278.

Menlo Park, California: Albert Wilson Publishing Co., (1963) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The story of the San Francisco Nursery for Homeless Children, as told by one of the children who lived there and who found it a happy place, one which saved his life and that of many other children. SIGNED by Wilson on the title page. Illustrated with line drawings by John Milton Ramm and photographs. 358 pp plus index. A newspaper clipping of the obituary of harriet Ackerman, who served on the board for many years, written by Wilson, is tipped onto the rear endpaper.

Paia, HI: Pilgrim's Tales Inc., (2006.). First edition - Adventures of the author and his wife, a young couple who live in Hawaii when not traveling, on a trip from Morocco to the southern tip of Africa, partly as part of a group of "overlanders" (a group trip from hell), and partly on their own, Written with humor but also with a deep respect for both the people and the natural environment of Africa. Photographs. Map. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-9770536-44.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978.) dj. This volume of Woolf's letters cover a period when her literary career and the Hogarth Press were well launched and she was in relatively good health, Includes letters to Dora Carrington, Vita Sackville-West, Vanessa Bell, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Maynard Keynes and more. Illustrated with photographs, Index. 600 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1509263.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1979.) dj. This volume of Woolf's letters cover the years when she was writing her masterpiece, "The Waves." Although this includes letters old friends - including Vita Sackville-West, Vanessa Bell, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, and more - these years (and the letters) are dominated by a new acquaintance - the composer Ethel Smythe. Illustrated with photographs, Index. xxi, 442 pp. ISBN: 0-15-1509263.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., (1999). A memoir of a woman "trained as an elite soldier in the Chinese army, her forbidden love for an American, and her seemingly impossible escape - with his help - from the nation to which she had pledged her life. . . a compelling look at life inside the rigid walls of Communist China." 349 pp. ISBN: 0-471390194.

New York: Basic Books (HarperCollins), (1993.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The promises of 'Liberty, equality, and fraternity' did not extend to women, but with the publication of Blood Sisters, the voices of the women who witnessed the French Revolution are finally restored to history. The memoirists portray themselves as active participants cheering the Revolution on its course or, more frequently, resisting it." Based on 80 accounts of the Revolution left by women, from the 16 page testimonial by the wife of the concierge in Marie-Antoinette's prison to the 10 volume memoirs of Mme de Genlis. Illustrated, notes, index. 308 pp. ISBN: 0-465-092632.

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing, (1998.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The 1992 Olympic gold medal winner in figure skating tells of her early life in California, the importance of her Japanese heritage, and how she fell in love with the ice. SIGNED on a special bookplate on the front endpaper with a small drawing of a flower. Photographs and illustrations by Doug Keith. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-87833-9965.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - Six writers on the pleasures and pitfalls of writing about their past, based on a series of talks sponsored by the Book of the Month Club and held at the NY Public Libary in 1986. Edited with a memoir and an introduction by William Zinsser. The other authors are Russell Baker, Annie Dillard, Alfred Kazin, Toni Morrison, and Lewis Thomas. Notes on the contributors. 172 pp. ISBN: 0-395445264.