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  • LOOKING FOR THE KLONDIKE STONE. by Arthur, Elizabeth.
    Arthur, Elizabeth.
    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: 80850
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  • THIRTEEN TANGOS FOR STRAVINSKY. by Cardona-Hine, Alvaro.
    Cardona-Hine, Alvaro.
    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: 54529
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  • ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD: A Self-Portrait. by Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983)
    Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983)
    ANOTHER PART OF THE WOOD: A Self-Portrait.

    Edition: First printing.

    London: John Murray, (1974) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first autobiography by this English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. who is best known for the landmark television program "Civilization." In this, he recounts his Edwardian childhood, set in a world of shooting parties, life on the Riviera, yachting and gambling - but from an early age he learned how to recognize and enjoy art, and that became the center of his life. Illustrated with photographs. Index. xi, 288 pp. ISBN: 0-719529794.

    Condition: Very near fine in bright yellow cloth in a like dustjacket (previous owner's name on front endpaper).

    Book ID: 89843
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  • AN OPEN BOOK: Coming of Age in the Heartland. by Dirda, Michael .
    Dirda, Michael .
    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: 75890
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  • MYSELF WHEN YOUNG: The Shaping of a Writer. by du Maurier, Daphne.
    du Maurier, Daphne.
    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: Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, some edgewear to dj)

    Book ID: 91304
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  • MYSELF WHEN YOUNG: The Shaping of a Writer. by du Maurier, Daphne.
    du Maurier, Daphne.
    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: 79169
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  • LITTLE EDEN: A Child at War. by Figes, Eva.
    Figes, Eva.
    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: 82641
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  • ORDINARY HAZARDS: A Memoir. by Grimes, Nikki.
    Grimes, Nikki.
    ORDINARY HAZARDS: A Memoir.

    Edition: First printing.

    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.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87424
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  • HYPOCRISY OF DISCO: A Memoir. by Hayward, Clane.
    Hayward, Clane.
    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: 39399
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  • ROCKET BOYS: A Memoir. by Hickam, Jr., Homer H.
    Hickam, Jr., Homer H.
    ROCKET BOYS: A Memoir.

    Edition: 3rd printing.

    New York: Delacorte, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Memoir of a boy growing up in Appalachia who became an engineer at NASA. "In a town where the only things that mattered were coal-mining and high-school football, a young man watched the Soviet satellite Sputnik race across the West Virginia sky - and found his future in the stars. In 1957, Homer H. 'Sonny' Hickam, Jr., and a handful of his friends were inspired to start designing and launching the home-made rockets that would change their lives and their town forever. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking readers into the life of the little mining town of Coalwood and the boys…

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    New York: Delacorte, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover - Memoir of a boy growing up in Appalachia who became an engineer at NASA. "In a town where the only things that mattered were coal-mining and high-school football, a young man watched the Soviet satellite Sputnik race across the West Virginia sky - and found his future in the stars. In 1957, Homer H. 'Sonny' Hickam, Jr., and a handful of his friends were inspired to start designing and launching the home-made rockets that would change their lives and their town forever. Looking back after a distinguished NASA career, Hickam shares the story of his youth, taking readers into the life of the little mining town of Coalwood and the boys who would come to embody its dreams." Basis for the award-winning film 'October Sky' featuring Jake Gyllenhaal. INSCRIBED on the title page. xii, 368 pp. ISBN: 0-38533320X.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 90605
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  • UNDER MY SKIN: Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949. by Lessing, Doris.
    Lessing, Doris.
    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: 84634
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  • UNDER MY SKIN: Volume One of My Autobiography to 1949. by Lessing, Doris (1919-2013)
    Lessing, Doris (1919-2013)
    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: 84740
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  • McCarthy, Mary.
    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: 33798
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  • ANGELA'S ASHES. by McCourt, Frank.
    McCourt, Frank.
    ANGELA'S ASHES.

    Edition: Later printing.

    New York: Scribner, (1996) dj. Hardcover - The author's first book, a memoir of his childhood, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. "'When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.' So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his…

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    New York: Scribner, (1996) dj. Hardcover - The author's first book, a memoir of his childhood, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. "'When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.' So begins the luminous memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression-era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Frank's mother, Angela, has no money to feed the children since Frank's father, Malachy, rarely works, and when he does he drinks his wages. Yet Malachy -exasperating, irresponsible and beguiling-- does nurture in Frank an appetite for the one thing he can provide: a story." Frontispiece, 363 pp. ISBN: 0-684874350.

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    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 84115
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  • CATHERINE CERTITUDE. by Modiano, Patrick, illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe.
    Modiano, Patrick, illustrated by Jean-Jacques Sempe.
    CATHERINE CERTITUDE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A children's book by this Nobel laureate - "A charming book which will delight any child or adult who appreciates ballet, Paris, New York, childhood, and mystery. The book's plot is deceptively simple: Catherine, the eponymous heroine, begins her story watching her own daughter demonstrate jazz steps in their ballet school on a snowy afternoon in New York. Memory takes her (and the reader) back to her childhood, spent in the tenth arrondissement of Paris. In her youth, Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certitude, who runs a shipping business with his partner, a loud, failed poet named Casterade. The real partners in this story, however, are…

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    Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - A children's book by this Nobel laureate - "A charming book which will delight any child or adult who appreciates ballet, Paris, New York, childhood, and mystery. The book's plot is deceptively simple: Catherine, the eponymous heroine, begins her story watching her own daughter demonstrate jazz steps in their ballet school on a snowy afternoon in New York. Memory takes her (and the reader) back to her childhood, spent in the tenth arrondissement of Paris. In her youth, Catherine lives with her gentle father, Georges Certitude, who runs a shipping business with his partner, a loud, failed poet named Casterade. The real partners in this story, however, are the father and daughter who share the simple pleasures of daily life: sitting in the church square, walking to school, going to her ballet class every Thursday afternoon. Behind this gossamer storyline, Catherine Certitude is filled with mystery. Why did Georges change his name to Certitude? What kind of trouble with the law did Casterade rescue him from? Exactly what does Georges do, and what kind of deals is he always discussing with men in worn raincoats? Why did Catherine's mother, herself a ballerina, leave Georges to return to New York? That these mysteries remain mysteries is part of the book's charm. But that Catherine and her father love the ballet, music, and City of Lights, is certain." Illustrated throughout with drawings by Jean-Jacques Sempe. Translated from the French by William Rodarmor. Review copy with publisher's letter laid in. Large format. 58 pp plus a final drawing and colophon. ISBN: 0-87923959X.

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    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 91587
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  • WILL'S BOY: A Memoir. by Morris, Wright.
    Morris, Wright.
    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: 52287
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  • Morris, Wright.
    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: 36418
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  • Morris, Wright.
    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: 33553
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  • CAKEWALK: A Memoir. by Moses, Kate.
    Moses, Kate.
    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: 64930
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  • MEMOIRS OF A PUBLIC BABY. by O'Connor, Philip. Introduction by Stephen Spender
    O'Connor, Philip. Introduction by Stephen Spender
    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: 61364
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  • MAGIC: Once Upon a Faraway Land. by Ortega, Mirelle.
    Ortega, Mirelle.
    MAGIC: Once Upon a Faraway Land.

    Edition: First printing.

    Petaluma: Cameron Kids / Harry N. Abrams (2022) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - In her first book as both author and illustrator, Ortega shares her own story of growing up near her familys pineapple farm in Mexico, where she learned the true meaning of magic - book about change and transformation of all kinds what we cant control, such as natural disasters and loss, and what we can. Magic can transform dirt into pineapples, seeds into trees, wool into blankets, words into stories, blank pages into pictures a story into a picture book. SIGNED on the title page with small doodles. A 2023 Pura Belpre Youth Illustration Honor Book. Oblong format, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-1951836573.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated boards in a fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 89635
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  • HARVEST OF YESTERDAYS. by Taber, Gladys.
    Taber, Gladys.
    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: 46650
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  • MEMORIAL DRIVE: A Daughter's Memoir. by Trethewey, Natasha.
    Trethewey, Natasha.
    MEMORIAL DRIVE: A Daughter's Memoir.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - A personal and moving memoir by this award-winning poet, the story of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather - a book in which she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. As she follows the tragic course of her mother's life, she delves into the ways her own life was shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience and her own girlhood as a "child of miscegenation" in Mississippi, as well as a look at the enduring effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Winner of the Southern Book Prize…

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    New York: Ecco Press / Harper Collins, (2020) dj. Hardcover first edition - A personal and moving memoir by this award-winning poet, the story of a daughter reckoning with the brutal murder of her mother at the hands of her former stepfather - a book in which she explores the way this experience lastingly shaped the artist she became. As she follows the tragic course of her mother's life, she delves into the ways her own life was shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience and her own girlhood as a "child of miscegenation" in Mississippi, as well as a look at the enduring effects of white racism and domestic abuse. Winner of the Southern Book Prize for Nonfiction, a New York Times Notable Book, and more. 213 pp. ISBN: 978-0062248572.

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    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 88770
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  • THE SLOW FARM. by Wilson, Tarn.
    Wilson, Tarn.
    THE SLOW FARM.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Port Townsend, WA: Ovenbird Books, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's account of her early years on a Gulf island north of Vancouver in British Columbia - an attempt to look back and understand them, and also an account of revisiting this island - reconnecting with her father. "In the early 1970s, Tarn Wilson's father quit his job as the Brookings Institution's first computer programmer, packed his family into a converted school bus with 'Suck Nixon' painted on the side, and headed for the Canadian wilderness. He planned to give his two young children an Edenic childhood, free from the shadows of war, materialism, and middle class repression. Between each lyric chapter, told from the child's point of…

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    Port Townsend, WA: Ovenbird Books, (2014). SIGNED first edition - The author's account of her early years on a Gulf island north of Vancouver in British Columbia - an attempt to look back and understand them, and also an account of revisiting this island - reconnecting with her father. "In the early 1970s, Tarn Wilson's father quit his job as the Brookings Institution's first computer programmer, packed his family into a converted school bus with 'Suck Nixon' painted on the side, and headed for the Canadian wilderness. He planned to give his two young children an Edenic childhood, free from the shadows of war, materialism, and middle class repression. Between each lyric chapter, told from the child's point of view, Wilson incorporates 'artifacts' that reveal larger cultural forces shaping her parents' decisions: letters, photographs, timelines, newspaper clippings, excepts from radical approaches to child rearing." INSCRIBED on the title page. Foreword by Judith Kitchen. Photographs. 367 pp. ISBN: 978-1940906065.

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    Condition: Very good in illustrated wrappers (some curling to the edges of the covers) .

    Book ID: 79578
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