New York: Sheed and Ward, 1942. dj. Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of a young African American woman who was born in Santa Barbara, California to a family in "comfortable circumstances" although she grew up during the Depression, and who converted to Catholicism after her graduation from high school. This book attempts to reconcile both her sense of herself as a "new Negro" and her spiritual life as a Catholic who eventually became a Franciscan Tertiary. She recounts not only her spiritual awakening, but also the necessity to overcome racial prejudice even within the Church itself.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1997) dj. Hardcover - The second book, a memoir, by the author of "Drawing Down the Moon." A look back at the 1960s and their impact on American history and culture, when Adler was a free speech advocate at Berkeley during the sixties, a woman who helped register black voters, and an anti-war activist who began a friendship with a soldier in Vietnam. Index. xiii, 309 pp. ISBN: 0-80707098X.

Dallas, Texas: Taylor Publishing Company, (1995.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography written for children by the Dallas Cowboy's quarterback, one which emphasizes using change as an advantage and viewing setbacks as temporary. Illustrated with photographs and full color paintings by Doug Keith. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 0-87833-8888.

New York: Bloomsbury, (2005) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - After 9/11, the author's father sold his clothing store in Oakland and returned to Afghanistan to become President Hamid Karzai's chief spokesman and later the governor of Kunar. Said visited Afghanistan during three consecutive summers, recording his travels on a minidisc recorder which aired on NPR's 'This American Life.' This book "interweaves his personal journeya teenager struggling with his identity in his parents' homeland with a dramatic behind-the-scenes account of political and civilian life in post-Taliban Afghanistan." SIGNED on the title page by Akbar.Maps, list of characters. xi, 339 pp. ISBN: 1-582345201.

Binghamton, NY: Brundage Publishing, (2006.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A candid autobiography which tells how the author, as a 37 year old single mother of two, decided that she was going to go after her dream of being a pilot, and how she rose through the ranks at United despite great sexism and animosity. INSCRIBED by author opposite title page - "To - - Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. Believe in God! and always hold onto your dreams" and dated in 2007. Photographs. 139 pp. ISBN: 1892451476.

New York: Grand Central Publishing, (2015). First edition - A beautifully written and very moving account of the sudden death of her husband by this noted African American poet - and also a picture of a rich and loving marriage. Ficre Ghebreyesus, born in Eritrea and a refuge from the war there, was known both as a gifted artist and a creative chef, when he died at just 50. 209 pp.

New York & Boston: Little Brown, (2017). First edition - A very highly praised memoir by this award-winning writer - a "look at the complicated relationship between a remarkable mother and an equally remarkable son, set, mostly, in the Spokane Indian Reservation where Alexie spent his childhood. His whip-smart, sometimes cruel mother saved the family when she stopped drinking, but was inexplicably tough on her kids something Alexie traces back to mental illness, sexual assault, and the Indian experience of violence and oppression." Response to this book has been complicated by charges of sexual harrassment against Alexie, and he declined the Carnegie Medal. 417 pp.

New York: Ballantine, (2021) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An upbeat memoir by this novelist who grew up in Chile, and whose life has not always been easy. A self-described romantic feminist, she was approaching 80 when this was written and she has lots of wise insights to share. SIGNED on a blank preliminary page. 171 pp. ISBN: 978-0593355626.

New York: North Point Press, (2002). First edition - First time author Robert Anasi writes a personal memoir of amateur boxing today - at the age of thirty-two, the last year of his eligibilty, he sets out to train for the Golden Gloves tournament. 238 pp.

New York: Random House, (2002). First edition - The sixth volume in Angelou's autobiography which began with "I Know Why a Caged Bird Sings." This opens as she is returning from a trip to Africa, and to the news that Malcolm X had been assassinated. 159 pp.

New York: Random House, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fifth and final volume in Angelou's autobiography - in this she recounts how she joins a 'colony' of Black American expats in Ghana only to discover that you can't go home again. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-394-521439.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "The day after Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends, duscussing the attack from his perspective as an Afgan American. That message, spreading via the Internet, reached and touched millions of people around the world." An always interesting,sometimes moving, account of growing up in two worlds, the Afghan of his father, and the America of his mother. 292 pp. ISBN: 0-374-287570.

New York: Picador / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2003.). "The day after Islamic terrorists destroyed the World Trade Center, Tamim Ansary of San Francisco sent an anguished e-mail to twenty friends, duscussing the attack from his perspective as an Afgan American. That message, spreading via the Internet, reached and touched millions of people around the world." An always interesting,sometimes moving, account of growing up in two worlds, the Afghan of his father, and the America of his mother. 300 pp. ISBN: 0-312421516.

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., 1988. SIGNED first edition - A collection of 32 prose pieces about growing up in California now long gone; the authors include Devorah Majors, James D. Houston, Genny Lim,, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Soto, M. F. K. Fisher, Mary Helen Ponce, Gerald Haslam, Hisaye Yamamote, Richard Dokey, Domenic Stansberry, Soto himself and many others. SIGNED by THREE authors at their selections: Maxine Hong Kingston, Genny Lim and Floyd Salas. 255 pp plus notes on the contributors. ISBN: 0-88739-0579.

Berkeley, CA: Creative Arts Book Co., 1988. SIGNED first edition - A collection of 32 prose pieces about growing up in California now long gone; the authors include Devorah Majors, James D. Houston, Genny Lim,, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gary Soto, M. F. K. Fisher, Mary Helen Ponce, Gerald Haslam, Hisaye Yamamote, Richard Dokey, Domenic Stansberry, Soto himself and many others. SIGNED by TWO authors: INSCRIBED on the title page by Gary Soto and SIGNED by Maxine Hong Kingston at her story "The Quiet Girl". 255 pp plus notes on the contributors. ISBN: 0-88739-0579.

New York: Scribner, (2008.). First edition - Includes three selections from his second book, one which weaves Gustavo's family story with the history of Orange County and the current immigrant experience, and 'Glossary for Gabachos' from his first book, "Ask a Mexican." 35 pp.

New York: Scribner, (2008.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second book by the author of "Ask a Mexican." This weaves Gustavo's family story with the history of Orange County and the current immigrant experience. SIGNED on the title page with the word "Gracias" 269 pp. ISBN: 1416540040.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. First edition - Published posthumously, this third of Asimov's autobiographical works looks at events over his entire life and how they influenced his writings and thoughts. A more reflective book than his earlier chronological ones. Includes an epilogue by his wife, Janet Asimov. 552 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (1997). First edition - The author's memories of surviving in New York City and Paris before success came - or as the cover says this "is essentially an autobiography about money and what it means not to have it." Includes some previously unknown early writings - three plays, a tabletop baseball game, a pseudonymous mystery and more - all of which testify to his efforts to make money. 449 pp.

Milwaukie, OR: M Press, (2004.). In 1939, when she was just 11 years old, Ursula and her parents were among the last Jewish families to be able to get out of Germany - and at the time, when of the few places open to Jews was the city of Shanghai, the 'armpit' of the world as one sailor described it. Twenty-thousand Jews found refuge in this city already teeming with people; this is an account of the hardships they encountered, but also the friendships and the helpfulness, and also an account of coming to age in a world torn by war. A fascinating account. Photographs. 267 pp.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, (2009) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A first hand account of the early days of America's civil rights struggle. Inspired by the actions of the four black college students who refused to leave the whites-only lunch counter of a Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's on February 1, 1960, D'Army Bailey, the freshman class president at Southern University - the largest predominantly black college in the nation - joined with his classmates in their battle against segregation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Now a circuit court judge in Tennessee, this is a look at the years that changed America and shaped his life. Warmly INSCRIBED by Bailey on the half title page. Foreword by Nikki Giovanni. Illustrated with photographs, index. xiv, 257 pp. ISBN: 978-0807134764.

New York: Doubleday, (1989.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with photographs. 270 pp. ISBN: 0-385-262027.

New York: William H. Morrow, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second memoir - in this book he chronicles the growth of his journalistic career, from newsboy, to police reporter and White House correspondent, to columnist, during the 1950s and early 1960s - including recounting the mischances and lucky breaks that influenced his decision to write satiric or thoughtful commentary rather than go for the scoop. Photographs. 351 pp. ISBN: 0-688061702.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.

New York: Harper Collins, (1996.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A look at learning through experience of global culture - from her travels and living in Iran, the Philippines, Tibet, America and more. By the daughter of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, who is herself a well-known anthropologist. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Sources. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0168595.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2007) dj. Hardcover first edition - An incredible first hand memoir on how war looks to a child soldier - at the age of 13, he was involved in the fighting in Sierra Leone, but at 16, he was removed by UNICEF. Chronology. 229 pp. ISBN: 978-0374105235.

Boston: Little Brown, (1999) dj. The author's very highly praised first book, a collection of 'fierce, funny and wholly unforgettable' autobiographical essays, ranging from her childhood to the present day, forty years later. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-316086251.