- Keyword = memoir
-
DISGUISED AS A POEM: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates at San Quentin, just north of San Francisco. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work - of first giving those who have been silenced the feeling that their voice is worth hearing. A very personal book - one in which she recounts what she has learned herself and about herself during those years - but also one in which the inmates emerge, not as beasts or heroes, but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings. INSCRIBED on the title page. Notes. 217 pp.Cover praise from Hettie Jones, Luis Rodriguez and others. ISBN: 1-55553-452x.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 61065More details Price: $24.50 -
DISGUISED AS A POEM: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, (2000.). SIGNED first edition - Tannenbaum spent four years teaching poetry to maximum security prison inmates at San Quentin, just north of San Francisco. In this book she details the challenges, rewards and paradoxes of this work - of first giving those who have been silenced the feeling that their voice is worth hearing. A very personal book - one in which she recounts what she has learned herself and about herself during those years - but also one in which the inmates emerge, not as beasts or heroes, but as human beings with expressive voices, thoughts and feelings. Notes. 217 pp. Cover praise from Hettie Jones, Luis Rodriguez and others. SIGNED on the title page. ISBN: 1-55553-452x.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 31007More details Price: $27.50 -
CURANDERO: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing,
Edition: Trade paperback.
Condition: Fine (a new copy)
Book ID: 87997More details Price: $18.00 -
THE INVISIBLE THREAD.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Julian Messner / Simon & Schuster, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - Award-winning author's account of growing up in California in the 1930s as a 2nd generation Japanese-American and her family's internment in a Utah concentration camp during WWII. 136 pp. ISBN: 0-671741640.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 63425More details Price: $12.50 -
NOBODY'S SON: Notes From an American Life.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1998). Hardcover first edition - A memoir of a childhood divided - Urrea was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother from Staten Island. He moved to San Diego when he was three - his childhood was a clash of cultures, a mix of languages. Winner of the Lannan Award. Dust jacket praise from Rudolf Anayo, Ernest J. Gaines, Terry Tempest Williams and many more. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-816518653.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 75067More details Price: $18.50 -
NOBODY'S SON: Notes From an American Life.
Edition: First printing.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1998). SIGNED hardcover first edition - A memoir of a childhood divided - Urrea was born in Tijuana to a Mexican father and an Anglo mother from Staten Island. He moved to San Diego when he was three - his childhood was a clash of cultures, a mix of languages. Winner of the Lannan Award. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Rudolf Anayo, Ernest J. Gaines, Terry Tempest Williams and many more. 184 pp. ISBN: 0-816518653.
Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)
Book ID: 75060More details Price: $27.50 -
THE TENNIS PARTNER: A Doctor's Story of Friendship and Loss.
Edition: 3rd printing.
New York: Harper Collins, (1998) dj. SIGNED hardcover - "When Abraham Verghese, a physician whose marriage is unraveling, relocates to Texas, he hopes to make a fresh start as a staff member at a county hospital. There he meets David Smith, a medical student recovering from a drug addiction, and the two men begin a tennis ritual that allows them to shed their inhibitions and find security, in the sport they love and in each other. But when the dark beast that is David's addiction emerges once again, almost everything Verghese has come to trust and believe in is threatened. . . an unforgettable, illuminating story of how men live and how they survive." SIGNED on the title page. 345 pp. ISBN: 0-060174056.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 62073More details Price: $28.50 -
MOTHER TONGUE: An American Life in Italy.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1997) dj. Hardcover first edition - An American woman tells of her changed life after moving to Parma, Italy with her husband and daughter. Illustrations and photographs in black and white. Bibliography. x, 374 pp. ISBN: 0-865475016.
Condition: Near fine in a very good+ dustjacket (gift inscription on front end page, creasing to back of dustjacket).
Book ID: 54503More details Price: $15.00 -
BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. SIGNED by both Belle Yang and Amy Tan on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. ISBN: 0-15-1000638.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 64291More details Price: $45.00 -
BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders.
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1996). SIGNED - The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Boldly INSCRIBED on the front endpaper and dated in the year of publication, with a drawing of a cat by Yang. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. ISBN: 0-15-1000638.
Condition: Very good+ (covers slightly bent).
Book ID: 72854More details Price: $25.00 -
BABA: A Return to China Upon My Father's Shoulders.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1994) dj. Hardcover first edition - The artist / author's first book, one in which she retells her father`s story of his coming-of-age in northern China in the 1930s and 1940s. He was the fourth son of a prominent Manchurian family and his odyssey included the years of the Japanese occupation of China, the Russian onslaught upon Northeastern China and the civil war that followed. Illustrated throughout with beautiful full page watercolor paintings by the author as well as many black and white drawings. Preface by Amy Tan. Large square format. 211 pp plus a final portrait of her father. ISBN: 0-15-1000638.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 58747More details Price: $25.00