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

Valley Springs, CA: ARM Press, (1994.). SIGNED first edition - An account of The Tennessee Children's Home Society and Georgia Tann - the largest black market baby selling scandal in US history, by a man who was one of the children "sold" to his adoptive parents, and who has since worked for adoption reform. INSCRIBED on the title page and dated in 2007. Bibliography, 294 pp. ISBN: 0-9658302-09.

Edmonton, Canada: Hurtig Publishers, (1982.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A year's diary entries (actually an amalgam of the many years she lived in Igloolik and Repulse Bay), written by an American-born Canadian living a semi-reclusive life in the Northwest Territories, and which reflect a vanishing Arctic way of life. INSCRIBED on the half title page. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 192 pp. Endpaper maps. Includes a mimeographed insert which lists pseudonyms for people mentioned in the book. ISBN: 0-88830-2258.

Paris: Boar's Head Books, 1951. First edition - The "secret drama" involved his marriage to Madeleine and the tensions in that relationship created by his homosexuality but their continuing love for each other despite everything. Because she was an intensely private person, he suppressed this account until after her death. Translated by Keene Wallis. Frontispiece drawing. 121 pp.

Boston: Little Brown, (1987) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A portrait of the making of a writer and an exploration of the Mississippi plantation life that shaped her during childhood. Illustrated with many photographs. SIGNED on the front endpaper. 166 pp. ISBN: 0-316-313157.

Waco, Texas: Word Books, (1967.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The dust jacket cover promises "Entranced by narcotics... sordid sex... an empty life ahead." Memoir of a reformed drug addictI , John Gimenez, a Puerto Rican from the Bronx, who survived drug addiction and prison to found a ministry with his wife Anne. Includes a two-page 'Junkie's Glossary' at the beginning of the book 167 pp.

New York: Da Capo Press / Perseus Books Group, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Edited by Juanita Liebermann-Plimpton and Bill Morgan, these journals "cover the most important and formative years of [his] life. During this time. . . he met Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, both of whom would become lifelong friends and significant literary figures in their own right. Ginsberg's journals--so candid he insisted they be published only after his death--also document his complex relationships with other figures of Beat lore as Carl Solomon, Lucien Carr, and Herbert Huncke... He reveals a growing self-awareness about himself, his sexuality and his identity as a poet." Illustrated with black and whte photographs from Ginsberg's private archive. An appendix of over 100 of Ginsberg's earliest poems, includes over 50 previously unpublished. Index. xviii, 523 pp. ISBN: 0-306-814625.

New York: Hyperion, (2002) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Book by the mayor of New York City at the time of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. SIGNED on the title page. Index. 407 pp. ISBN: 0-7868-68414.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The diary of a year in the form of brief prose pieces, poems and prose-poems. written with a "split voice" from the middle ground between two cultures. Winner of the North American Indian Prose Award. 115 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-21738.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1998.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays rooted in, and exploring, the author's Cherokee heritage and her Christian faith, and the fact that she is a 'marginal voice in several worlds.' Autobiographical segments and a section of photographs are found next to a poetic Ute Sun Dance Story. Includes a bibliography of her works, 109 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-21738.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The diary of a year in the form of brief prose pieces, poems and prose-poems. written with a "split voice" from the middle ground between two cultures. Winner of the North American Indian Prose Award. 115 pp. ISBN: 0-8032-21738.

New York: Hill & Wang, 1980. dj. Hardcover - A fascinating work by this Virginia writer, - although it still leaves many questions unanswered - originally published in 1954 (it was not published until after her death at her request.) Index. 307 pp. ISBN: 0-8090-97834.

New York: Ballantine, (1987.). African American novelist's first book - the story of her marriage to a Nigerian and her experiences in Africa. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-345-346696.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir of this immigrant from Mexico who becomes well known pathologist, essayist and natural history author - covers the story of his mother, who was brought by her widowed mother to the barrio of Mexico City in 1913 when she was just a year old, and his early years of poverty and ends with his arrival in the United States as a young physician . 209 pp. ISBN: 1-573221171.

Honesdale, PA: WordSong / Highlights, (2019) dj. Hardcover first edition - A memoir in verse, interspersed with some short entries from her notebooks and focusing on her childhood, by this award-winning African American author and poet. Illustrated with photographs. 325 pp.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1993). SIGNED first edition - A book in which Hall, an award winning poet, author of children's books and works of nonfiction, describes how work has filled his life with excitement - and he reflects on the different nature of work -his grandfather as a farmer in New Hampshire, his father in an office, and his work of putting a pen to paper. Halfway through writing this book, he found he had cancer, and it gave this book a new urgency, although he ultimately went on to live many more years. SIGNED on the title page. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 124 pp. Text design by Barry Moser.

Boston: Beacon Press, (1993). Hardcover first edition - A book in which Hall, an award winning poet and former US poet laureate, author of children's books and works of nonfiction, describes how work has filled his life with excitement - and he reflects on the different nature of work -his grandfather as a farmer in New Hampshire, his father in an office, and his work of putting a pen to paper. Halfway through writing this book, he found he had cancer, and it gave this book a new urgency, although he ultimately went on to live many more years. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year. 124 pp. Text design by Barry Moser. ISBN: 0-807070548.

Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. dj. Hardcover first edition - Young actor's memoir of his fight against leukemia - including several rounds of chemotherapy, remission and a recurrence treated with an autologous bone marrow transplant. Informative and moving. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-316-344095.

New York: Harper Collins, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, in which Hansen "talks about his novels, his childhood and family, and about such mentors as John Gardner. He explores prayer, stigmata, twentieth-century martyrs, and the Eucharist. A profile of his grandfather, a "tough-as-nails, brook-no-guff Colorado rancher," finds a place alongside a wonderfully informative portrait of Saint Ignatius of Loyola. A brilliant reading of a story by Leo Tolstoy follows an appreciation of the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins." SIGNED on the title page. List of works cited. 267 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0196661.

New York: Random House, (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hari, a Zagewa tribesman, grew up in the Darfur region of Sudan. After fleeing from his home, his family decimated and dispersed, among thousands of others villagers attacked by Sudanese-government backed militia groups, he used his high school English to eventually become the translator and guide in Darfur for journalists for The New York Times, NBC, and the BBC. He risked his life over and over again to ensure that the story of his people was told. Appendix. xii, 204 pp. ISBN: 9781400067442.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1992.). First edition - A rather unexpected account of the author's year long journey in search of himself in Africa, the land of his ancestors. 230 pp.

Walnut Creek: Devil Mountain Books, (1990.). SIGNED - Essays on growing up in Oildale in California's great central valley - but most of all, essays about family and love. SIGNED by Floyd Salas, who wrote the foreword. 90 pp. ISBN: 0-915685-078.

Walnut Creek: Devil Mountain Books, (1990.). SIGNED first edition - Essays on growing up in Oildale in California's great central valley - but most of all, essays about family and love. INSCRIBED on the first page by the author and signed at the end of a tribute to his Uncle Willie by his wife, Janice Haslam. Also SIGNED on the title page by Floyd Salas who wrote the foreword. 90 pp. ISBN: 0-915685-078.

New York: The Lyons Press, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of sixteen interlinked essays about growing up a woman on the grasslands of North Dakota. 233 pp. ISBN: 1558218874.

New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A memoir of war and peace, passion and politics" - "Hazleton first went to Jerusalem at the age of 20, remained 13 years, then moved to New York City. Five years later, in 1984, she returned for what she intended would be a final breaking away, only to find herself drawn yet again to the much-changed city. Recalling the innocence of the past - her own and the city's - she writes vividly of the passions and wars that have wracked Jerusalem and all of Israel (the "'blood and racism and hatred'); the religious-secular clash for 'the soul of the city'; and the friendships and excitement that continue to attract her to this 'city of paradox'." (Publishers Weekly) 243 pp. ISBN: 0-871130645.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, (1972) dj. Hardcover first edition - Based on 20 years of Heckman's close observations of the flora and fauna on Anderson Island, a small island in Puget Sound off the coast of Washington. "A diary of the natural world where the same things happen again and again but are always new. Each month brings surprises, expected or not." IIllustrated with a map and drawings by Laurie Olin Index. 255 pp. ISBN: 0-295951710.

New York: Public Affairs, (2003). Hardcover first edition - Written when she was 91, this autobiography recounts a life of service and leadership, from early protests against lynching to being on the platform as Martin Luther King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. She led the National Council of Negro Women for forty-one years, and after the battles of the 1960s, she concentrated on troubled black communities, on issues like rural poverty, teen pregnancy and black family values. In 1994, her efforts are officially recognized. Foreword by Maya Angelou.
Photographs, index. xi, 322p. ISBN: 1-586481576.