New York: Random House, (1977.) dj. Hardcover - Non-fiction. "Speculations on space, science and the sea, together with fragments of an equatorial autobiography". Serendip is one of the ancient names for Sri Lanka where Clarke made his home. Topics range from Mars exploration to Willy Ley and Chesley and Asimov, and to the second century of the telephone and the limits of technology. 242 pp. ISBN: 0-394-417968.

New York: Broadway Books, (2000). First edition - An American writer and his wife find a new home in the 16th century hill town of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. 264 pp.

Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1999. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's first book, SIGNED on the title page. Illustrated with photographs. 194 pp. ISBN: 1578061679.

Fort Bragg, CA: Cypress House, (2019). SIGNED first edition - The story of a woman's determination to succeed in business, no matter what the obstacles - she "broke into the previously all-male arena of selling the kind of wire that supermarkets and other businesses use to bind cardboard boxes into recyclable bales. Knowing nothing about the recycling process or the industry's baler-wire needs, she taught herself all the details of the trade, figured out how to be an efficient employer, and learned to fend off predatory competitors on her way to turning her small start-up, Vulcan Wire, into a thriving company that sells over $10 million in wire per year." SIGNED on the title page. Endnotes. x, 304 pp. ISBN: 978-0998785417.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1998.) dj. Hardcover - Memoir by the the first female tenured full professor of neurosurgery in the country, who, in May 1991, "made headlines news when she resigned from her position at Stanford University to protest the medical school's overt and long-engrained gender discrimination. 245 pp. ISBN: 0-374-286213.

New York: Walker, (1991.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Armchair adventure for the reader with a keen interest in both natural history and exotic culture... Here is an 'on the road'tale that combines a naturist's observations, misadventures, encounters with birds and people - and discoveries about himself - during several months in backcountry Mexico." Accounts of life among the Nahuat Indians, and several sections describing the birds. Illustrated with drawings by Kelli Glancey.Index. xi, 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802711529.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A look at the various narrative forms of autobiography, why we are drawn to reading these, and especially at the differences between those of women and those of men - among the writings Conway examines are those of W. E. B. DuBois, George Sand, Virginia Woolf, Frank McCourt and Katharine Graham. Notes, bibliographical note, index. 205 pp. ISBN: 0-679-445935.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2008) dj. Hardcover - The author grew to early adolescence in the priviledged strata of Liberian society, but after the 1980 bloody coup, she and her family fled to America. More than twenty years later she returned to try and find the foster sister left behind, and to find the home of her childhood. Map, photographs, family tree. 354 pp. ISBN: 9780743266246.

New York: Henry Holt, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book - a memoir about family and farming which teaches a lesson about the risks that make life worth living. Unsure of what he wanted to do, the summer he was thirty-one, Crawford returned home to work on the farm for the summer harvest at New Morning Farm - 75 acres tucked in south-central Pennsylvania where his parents had been growing organic vegetables for almost forty years. SIGNED on the title page with the words "My second autograph ever" and dated in 2013 . 256 pp.

New York: Henry Holt, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's first book - a memoir about family and farming which teaches a lesson about the risks that make life worth living. Unsure of what he wanted to do, the summer he was thirty-one, Crawford returned home to work on the farm for the summer harvest at New Morning Farm - 75 acres tucked in south-central Pennsylvania where his parents had been growing organic vegetables for almost forty years. INSCRIBED on the title page. 256 pp.

New York: Viking, (2006) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "A powerful memoir about the complicated but ultimately loving relationship between a black daughter and her white mother. . a portrait of a childhood spent in two very different worlds: one white, one black. In 1957, when June Cross was four years old, she was sent by her white mother to live with a black family in Atlantic City." INSCRIBED on the half title page "To-- stay strong, keep the faith!" Photographs. 304 pp. Author's business card laid in. ISBN: 0-67088555X.

New York: Morrow, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. A behind-the-scenes memoir from the first female captain at one of New York Citys most prestigious restaurants. While there are no recipes included, there is lots of talk about food - and some very important dining tips: '.Please do not ask your waiter what else he or she does. Please do not steal your waiter's pen. Please do not say you're allergic when you don't like something. Please do not send something back after eating most of it.' A fun, provocative and always interesting book to read. 226 pp. ISBN: 9780061228148.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'). 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'}. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - SIGNED on the front endpaper. Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'). 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.

New York: Holt, Rinehart, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - An amazingly frank and gutsy book by the Southern poet and writer. Don't let the title turn you off - at the bottom of this book is an acceptance of people as they are - Cover praise from Alice Walker, Rita Mae Brown and Pat Conroy (who called it 'tough, bawdy, reckless and humane.'}. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-03-0624312.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1942. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An uncommon account of one family's journey to the Northwest and the panhandle of Idaho. Driven from their Colorado sheep farm after a long struggle with the dust-bowl conditions of the late 1930s, Nelle Davis and her husband migrated, with their two children, to the second growth forests of northern Idaho to begin again as stump ranch farmers. SIGNED on the front endpaper with the word "sincerely." Synopsis from the dust jacket has been pasted onto the first blank page. 245 pp.

Deerfield Beach, FL Health Communications (2007). SIGNED first edition - "A true story of identical twin brothers, each fighting similar physical and emotional battles. One would lose his life; the other would nearly self-destruct." SIGNED by the author and dated on the title page. Appendices on resources available. 243 pp. ISBN: 0-7573-06497.

Boston: Beacon Press, (2000.). First edition - Autobiography of the African American Congressman - one of the most radical and progressive congressman in the second half of the 20th century - who was first elected in 1971 and served until 1998 - "a book on social change and working as an outsider on the inside." 210 pp. plus photographs.

New York: Norton, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Realizing that her light skin and 'good hair' conspired to give her a unique, unasked-for perspective on the racial divide in the United States, African American poet Toi Derricotte inscribed her anguish in two decades' worth of journal entries. The Black Notebooks records countless moments when Derricotte was showered with offhand entitlements and racist confidences by whites who assumed she, too, was white" SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. 205 pp. . ISBN: 0-393045447.

New York: Norton, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Realizing that her light skin and 'good hair' conspired to give her a unique, unasked-for perspective on the racial divide in the United States, African American poet Toi Derricotte inscribed her anguish in two decades' worth of journal entries. The Black Notebooks records countless moments when Derricotte was showered with offhand entitlements and racist confidences by whites who assumed she, too, was white" Nominated for the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. 205 pp. . ISBN: 0-393045447.

New York: Norton, (1997) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Realizing that her light skin and 'good hair' conspired to give her a unique, unasked-for perspective on the racial divide in the United States, African American poet Toi Derricotte inscribed her anguish in two decades' worth of journal entries. The Black Notebooks records countless moments when Derricotte was showered with offhand entitlements and racist confidences by whites who assumed she, too, was white" SIGNED on the title page. Nominated for the 1998 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. 205 pp. . ISBN: 0-393045447.

New York: Mayflower Books / Heinneman, (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - A partial autobiography by the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens, an author of 30 books, including fiction, children's books and non-fiction, who has "established herself as a brilliant, penetrating and compassionate observer of people. Here she observes herself as well, objectively and often mockingly." Illustrated with photographs. Index. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-831766204.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 214 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.

New York: Harper & Row, 1987. dj. Hardcover first edition - An evocation of her childhood - 'growing up in Pittsburgh in a house full of books and comedians.' 255 pp, map endpapers. ISBN: 0-06-0158050.