Fort Bragg, CA: Cypress House, (2006). SIGNED first edition - Memoir of a man, born in Georgia in 1930, who, at every step of the way from farm boy to college student to married family man, father and prosperous businessman, did all that was expected of a Southern gentleman, until finally at the age of seventy he could finally admit to himself and the world that he was a man who loved men. SIGNED on the title page with the words "Be good to yourself." Photographs. 219 pp. ISBN: 1879384655.

Rochester, VT: Park Street Press, (2009). First edition - An account of almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by this noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. Although the Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the early 1950s as being the first to document the use of ayahuasca, other researchers, including de Rios, were responsible for furthering his findings and uncovering the curative capabilities of this compound. Illustrated with photographs, including some in full color. Glossary, list of publications by de Rios, bibliography, index. xvi, 190 pp. ISBN: 9781594773136.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir focusing on the first twenty-two years of her life, as the privileged daughter of the famous actor-manager Sir Gerald du Maurier and granddaughter of George du Maurier, the author and artist, and ending as she is falling in love with both Cornwall - the site of her most well-known novel,'Rebecca' - and with her future husband. Illustrated with photographs. Author's note, index. ix, 204 pp. ISBN: 0-385130163.

New York: North Point Press / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's second book, an account of a year spent surfing in Santa Cruz, California. xiv, 239 pp. ISBN: 0-86547494x.

Boston: Godine, 1991. dj. Hardcover first edition - Dubus's first collection of non-fiction, essays written between 1977 and 1990, on topics ranging from his Catholic boyhood in a Cajun-Creole community in Louisiana, to baseball and the accident that cost him the use of his legs. Introduction by Tobias Wolfe. 195 pp. ISBN: 0-87923-8852.

New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1959.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Noted African American dancer's memoir (written in the third person) of her childhood in the Midwest. Her second book, and quite uncommon in the first edition, especially in this condition. 312 pp. Dust jacket design by Jules Maidoff.

New York: Norton, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A poet's first venture into prose - five of these essays explore the composition of poetry, while the rest are autobiographical in nature, on such diverse topics as basketball, gambling and silence. 187 pp. ISBN: 0-393-034887.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1989.). SIGNED first edition - A 'free-wheeling investigation of Dunne's past - ... an examination of a family at once blessed with money and talent and scarred by suicide and other sorrows...Ranging from the Ireland of the Famine to the red-light district of today's Frankfurt,.. [this is] a brilliantly inventive reflection on what it means to be Irish in America." SIGNED on the title page. 235 pp.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2004) dj. Hardcover - Volume One of Dylan's autobiography focuses on the start of his musical career and the early years in Greenwich Village, where he arrived in 1961, along with accounts of his road trips to New Orleans, Woodstock and his home state of Minnesota. 293 pp. ISBN: 0-743228154.

New York: Voice / Hyperion, (2010.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - When her 12 year old son was diagnosed as having ADHD, Ellison, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist, realized that she had many of the same symptoms - this is an account of her year of learning more about ADD, her interactions with her children, how schools handle and mishandle kids like this, their experiences with various treatments and more. No easy solutions, but a thoughtful book with a good dose of humor. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 289 pp. ISBN: 9781401340889.

New York: HarperCollins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first major work of non-fiction, one in which she "brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions she experienced in the course of one twelve-month period - from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to a fall return to writing." SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171324.

New York: HarperCollins, (1995.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her first major work of non-fiction, one in which she "brilliantly and poignantly examines the joys and frustrations, the compromises and insights, the difficult struggles and profound emotional satisfactions she experienced in the course of one twelve-month period - from a winter pregnancy through a spring and summer of new motherhood to a fall return to writing." SIGNED on the title page. 223 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0171324.

New York & London: Abelard-Schuman, (1960). Hardcover first edition - An autobiography of the author's time on the icebound seas along the coasts of Alaska - and especially of the years he spent aboard whaling ships. Illustrated with both line drawings by the author and photographs. 256 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

Boston: Little Brown, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The second book - an autobiography of a remarkable life - by the widow of the slain Civil Rights worker Medgar Evers. Photographs, index. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-316255203.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Icland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky". SIGNED on the half title page. Map frontispiece, note on Icelandic. 289 pp. ISBN: 0-374525528.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux / North Point, (1998) dj. Hardcover first edition - An account of a season spent by the author, his wife and young son, at a remote farm in Iceland - without electricity, running water or other modern conveniences - "Little Lava is a farm on the west coast of Icland. No roads lead to it; the way lies across a lagoon flooded twice a day by the tide. A lava field borders the farm. From the house, views give onto mountains, volcanoes, rugged coast, and the pure Icelandic sky".Map frontispiece, note on Icelandic. .289 pp. ISBN: 0-374525528.

New York: Persea Books, (1978). An account of her childhood years in England, as a German-Jewish refugee, and especially of the time spent at an unusual school in the ancient town of Cirencester, where she and her brother and mother were among the evacuees from London. 140 pp. ISBN: 0-892551372.

New York: Scribner, (1999). First edition - A memoir of his family and the small much-loved Texas town he grew up in - and returned to 70 years later - by this Academy Award-winning screenwriter and playwright. A town where everyone knew everyone else and more or less accepted their eccentricities. He doesn't gloss over the harsh realities of racial prejudice and segregation, but his tone is nonetheless elegiac. 285 pp.

New York: Quality Paperback Book Club, (1994). Contains three complete books by this New Zealand writer - her first novel, her first book of poems, and a volume of her autobiography. Introduction by George Braziller. Each is paginated separately - 211, 121, 195 pp. respectively.

New York: Random House, (1999.) dj. Hardcover - Memoir of the noted journalist told in tandem with the "big news stories" of the time, starting with his boyhood in Nazi Germany and his wartime escape with his mother to New York. During the next half century he worked at the NY Times, he held just about every important position on the paper-- foreign correspondent (winner of Pulitzer Prize), Washington Bureau chief, executive editior, etc. Photographs. Index. 546 pp. ISBN: 0-679448241.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (2005.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Autobiography of this noted historian, whose work "From Slavery to Freedom" remained the classic text for over 60 years. Born in 1915, he was "confined to segregated schools, threatened and consistently subjected to racismÕs denigration of his humanity." Yet he went on to earn a Ph.D. at Harvard & become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution; he has reshaped the understanding and teaching of African American history. INSCRIBED on the half title page.Photographs, index. xi, 401 pp. ISBN: 0-374-29944-7.

New York: Delacorte, 1999. Raised as a Catholic, at about the age of 30, this author discovered she was Jewish. A moving account of her familyÕs experiences during the Holocaust and the changed relationship between a daughter and her parents.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of a projected trilogy of autobiograpical works by this Novel laureate, this cover spans Garc’a M‡rquezÕs life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 484 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-41341.

New York: Delacorte, (1995) dj. Hardcover first edition - Published shortly after his death, this book by the rock musician and icon of the 60s looks at his early life on Harrington Street in San Francisco, where he went to live with his maternal grandparents after the death of his father at age 5. Garcia calls this "auto-apocrypha, full of my anecdoubts." Includes notes from Deborah Garcia and from the publisher. Very colorfully illustrated, square format. Unpaginated. ISBN: 0-385313535.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first of a projected trilogy of autobiographical works by this Nobel laureate, this cover spans Garcia Marquez's life from his birth in 1927 through the start of his career as a writer to the moment in the 1950s when he proposed to his wife. Translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman. 484 pp. ISBN: 1-4000-41341.

Los Angeles: MFM Publishing, (2018). SIGNED first edition - The story of events in 1963 which were kept from the American public. Turkey was at war politically with Cyprus at the time of the author's husbands deployment, and the Turkish government was trying to force the United States to support the their invasion of Cyprus. As a means to gain leverage against the United States, the Turkish Government arrested three American military men on trumped-up charges and held them as political prisoners. Sondra Garner and their small children had joined her husband in Turkey and this is the story of her attempts to secure his release - and prevent his death. SIGNED by the author inside the front cover with the word "Hugs." 244 pp. ISBN: 978-1731155832.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. First edition - The distinguished scholar's recollection of his boyhood in West Virginia in the 1950s and '60s. 216 pp