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LOOKING FOR THE KLONDIKE STONE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of five perfect summers spent at a camp in the Green Mountains of southern Vermont. SIGNED on the title page. 321 pp. ISBN: 0-679-418946.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 80850More details Price: $30.00 -
THIRTEEN TANGOS FOR STRAVINSKY.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Santa Fe, NM: Sherman Asher Publishing, (1999). SIGNED first edition - The story of the poet's boyhood in California, where he arrived from his native Costa Rica in 1939 at age twelve. Cover praise from Marjorie Agosin, among others who called it a "lyrical memoir shaped by an exquisite language and a wise heart." IINSCRIBED on the half title page - "To --- the delights of meeting" and dated in 2000. 140 pp. ISBN: 1-890932078.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 54529More details Price: $17.50 -
AN OPEN BOOK: Coming of Age in the Heartland.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: Norton, (2003). First edition - Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist recounts his 1950s and '60s childhood in the Midwestern steel town of Lorian, Ohio. The only boy of four children, he grew up in a blue-collar family with a father who "hated his lot in life with every particle of his moody, dissatisfied soul." To escape from home life, he buried himself in books - and describes many of them here. Photographs. Includes Dirda's book list. 330 pp.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 75890More details Price: $18.50 -
MYSELF WHEN YOUNG: The Shaping of a Writer.
Edition: First US printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (very faint remainder spray, spot to fore-edge of text block)
Book ID: 79169More details Price: $20.00 -
LITTLE EDEN: A Child at War.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
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.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 82641More details Price: $12.50 -
HYPOCRISY OF DISCO: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - An account of growing up (up to age 13) as the daughter of a wandering hippie mother and an absent father, in Northern California in the 1970's, and in New Mexico. Praise from Peter Coyote (who makes a brief appearance in this as a teacher at a free school) who calls this 'an insightful and riveting book about a hippie child gone bad.' SIGNED on the title page. 240 pp. ISBN: 9780811859455.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 39399More details Price: $30.00 -
UNDER MY SKIN: Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first book in this Nobel laureate's autobiography - covers her childhood in Africa and ends with her arrival in London in 1949, with the manuscript for her first book - 'The Grass Is Singing' - in her luggage. Frontispiece portrait and 16 pages of photographs. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-060171502.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 84634More details Price: $21.50 -
UNDER MY SKIN: Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The first book in this Nobel laureate's autobiography - covers her childhood in Africa and ends with her arrival in London in 1949, with the manuscript for her first book - 'The Grass Is Singing' - in her luggage. Frontispiece portrait and 16 pages of photographs. SIGNED by Lessing on the half title page. 419 pp. ISBN: 0-060171502.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 84740More details Price: $125.00 -
HOW I GREW
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1987.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's candid and intimate memoir which focuses on eight formative years of her life, from age 13 to 21, from high school through college. Illustrated with 16 pages of photographs. Includes biographical glossary of some of the figures mentioned in the book, 278 pp. ISBN: 0-151421935.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33798More details Price: $16.00 -
ANGELA'S ASHES.
Edition: Later printing.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)
Book ID: 84115More details Price: $16.50 -
WILL'S BOY: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33553More details Price: $18.00 -
WILL'S BOY: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (embossed seal of previous owner on front endpaper, dj priceclipped.)
Book ID: 36418More details Price: $15.00 -
WILL'S BOY: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1981.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award winning novelist's account of his childhood and youth. When his mother died when he was just 6, he was raised by his father Will - first in rural Nebraska and then in Chicago. Frontispiece. 200 pp. ISBN: 0-06-014856x.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dust jacket (remainder mark, chip to lower corner of dj.)
Book ID: 52287More details Price: $14.50 -
CAKEWALK: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dial Press, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - A funny and touching memoir of a crummy - and crumby - childhood in the 1960s and 70s. Each chapter includes a recipe. 350 pp. ISBN: 978-0385342988.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64930More details Price: $18.50 -
MEMOIRS OF A PUBLIC BABY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company. (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - The autobiography of poet and journalist for the BBC Philip O' Connor, focusing on his difficult and uncommon childhood. Includes both introductions by Stephen Spender, for the first edition in 1958 and to the new edition in 1988 in the UK. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-393-027635.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 61364More details Price: $16.50 -
HARVEST OF YESTERDAYS.
Edition: Family Bookshelf edition.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1976.) dj. Hardcover - 'My Years Before Stillmeadow.' Reminiscences of her life before she moved to Stillmeadow, her family, her childhood in the mining country of Mexico and the southwest, her education, including college at Wellesley during World War I, her marriage to music instructor Frank Taber, and her life as a writer in New York City during World War II, and much more. Illustrated with sketches by Pamela Johnson. 224 pp. ISBN: 0-397011334.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket. (blacked out spot on front endpaper, some edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 46650More details Price: $11.50 -
THE SLOW FARM.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some curling to the edges of the covers) .
Book ID: 79578More details Price: $16.50 -
THE ZIEGFELDS' GIRL.
Edition: First UK printing.
London: Hutchinson, (1965) dj. Hardcover first edition - Autobiography by the daughter of Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke - in which she describes her childhood, which included such things a pet baby elephant, as "abnormally happy." Photographs. 209 pp. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon.
Condition: Very good in brown cloth in a fair only dust jacket (price-clipped, some damage to front cover of dj along side of spine, large chip and creasing to back cover) .
Book ID: 85925More details Price: $16.50