San Francisco: By the author, nd. (ca 1967.). First edition - An account of her family homesteading in the desert country of Eastern Washington around 1900. Illustrated with photographs and drawings by the author. SIGNED and dated 1967 by the author.

New York: Broadway Books, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, The British Isles, elsewhere in Italy, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, and North Africa, Fez" Map endpapers. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-767910052.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "the gripping personal account of Kate Millett's struggle to regain control of her life after being diagnosed as a manic-depressive. Shockingly honest and compulsively readable,..[Millett] has the courage to show us from the inside what devastation the specter of madness can cause. A damning indictment of our system of mental institutions from the patient's perspective." A moving book by the author of 'Sexual Politics.' 316 pp. ISBN: 0-671679309.

New York: Picador, (1999.). A moving account of his life with the writer Iris Murdoch, and especially of her last years as she descended into Alzheimers. Basis of the motion picture, Iris, starring Judi Dench. 275 pp. ISBN: 0-312-253826.

San Marino, CA: Huntington Library. (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first publication of the Civil War letters and journals of Eliza A.W. Otis and her husband, who together went on to become the publishers of the "Los Angeles Times." These cover the early years of their marriage, when he, a printer, joined the Union Army and she, a poet, travelled through the upper South to remain close to him. Edited and with an introduction by Ann Gorman Condon. Photographs, bibligraphy. xli, 267 pp. ISBN: 0-873281810.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1977.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first volume in his autobiographical series "To Keep the Ball Rolling." Powell who is best known for his landmark 12 volume series of novels, 'Dance to the Music of Time, ' was an Eton classmate of George Orwell and Cyril Connolly and a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and many others. Although this first volume of the memoirs only takes Powell to the age of 20 when he left Oxford for London, his commentary covers other periods and this book is notable for its 'memorials' to Orwell, Maurice Bowra and Connelly. llustrated with photographs. Index. 214 pp. ISBN: 0-030209919.

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, (1996.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Twenty-five years before, the author and husband left their native Connecticut for an abandoned farmhouse in New Brunswick, Canada. This book chronicles their life there in the country they made their own, illustrated with over 75 stunningly beautiful full-color photographs by the author. Printed on heavy glossy stock throughout - a book to savor and enjoy. 143 pp. ISBN: 1-556704607.

Dawlish, England: David & Charles, 1965. dj. Hardcover first edition - Foreword by Frank Howes. Memoirs covering 50 years of lives of the Radford sisters. In addition to the obvious joy they found in music of all kinds - from small village concerts to folk-dancing tours and especially with the Falmouth Opera Singers - this includes a lot of social history of England in the first half of the 20th century: World War I, their recalcitrant automobile, etc. 103 pp.

San Francisco: Alchemy Books (1985.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Local history at its finest, a fresh and lively memoir of the author's boyhood summers, starting in 1910, at the now long-gone lumber mill settlement of Pino Grande, 22 miles (originally a 6 hour trip by wagon) from Placerville, California. Fishing was one of his enduring favorite pastimes, and so much of this book is devoted to that -including fishing on the Rubicon River. Association copy INSCRIBED on the front endpaper to Sacramento journalist Mike Pulley "Thanks for your excellent feature. You must have spent a great deal of time on it to do such an excellent job. I hope you will enjoy reading my book. Good luck." Photographs. 252 pp.

New York: Penguin, 2009. dj. Hardcover - A woman tells of her journey as she uncovered the real life her mother led, and learns lessons of self-acceptance, independence, and rebellion. A small volume filled with humor and wisdom. 112 pp. ISBN: 978-1594202162.

New York: The Free Press, (1999.). First edition - A thoughtful study of how his attitude towards race changed when he went to Brazil - a country which looks at people through a broad spectrum of colors, rather than black and white as in the US. He discovered in the process that racial identity is of great value rather than the burden it had seemed. 271 pp.

New York: The Free Press, (1999.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thoughtful study of how his attitude towards race changed when he went to Brazil - a country which looks at people through a broad spectrum of colors, rather than black and white as in the US. He discovered in the process that racial identity is of great value rather than the burden it had seemed. 271 pp. ISBN: 0-684-857227.

New York: Viking, 1992. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, many dealing with the intersection and conflict of Mexican and United States culture in California. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-670-813966.

New York: Viking, (1992.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays, many dealing with the intersection and conflict of Mexican and United States culture in California. 230 pp. ISBN: 0-670-813966.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1961.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The Old Man is gone now, except in the Boy's memory - and the boy has left North Carolina to begin his life of travel and adventure. lllustrated with line drawings by Walter Dower. 302 pp.

New York: Norton, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Unpublished poems, letters, journals and photographs, selected and edited by Susan Sherman. Preface by May Sarton. Index. Slighly oversized, and profusely illustrated with photographs - a very attractive book. ISBN: 0-393-034518.

Palo Alto, CA: Gander Publishing, Inc. (1997.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Stories taken from the author's personal journal, sharing her experiences in childhood, as a student nurse at Massachusetts General in the 1930's, as an army nurse during World War II, as wife and widow, as a mother and grandmother of "brown babies and pink babies," and as an educator and public health advocate. INSCRIBED on the half title page "For -- with love and memories of so many years!" and dated in the year of publication. Illustrated with photographs. 249 pp. ISBN: 0-9639586-07.

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.

San Francisco: East Bay Filipino American National Historical Society, 2002. First edition - "An anthology of memoirs by Filipino Americans. The stories are culled from memories of growing up in different regions of the United States: from the urban jungle of Manhattan to the dusty farmlands of California. Contributing writers represent different generations, ranging from survivors of the Great Depression era in the 1930s to immigrants from the 1980s, escapees of an ancestral homeland in economic and political turmoil." Introductions by Toribio and James Sobredo. Includes 3-page glossary and 9-page Filipino American Timeline and notes on contributors. . xvii, 243 pp. ISBN: 1-887764569.

New York: Macmillan, (1994) dj. Hardcover - The author's third book, a true story of their live after World War II. "Living as refugees in Japan in 1947 while trying to locate their missing father, thirteen-year-old Yoko and her older brother and sister must endure a bad fire, injury, and false charges of arson, theft, and murder". 275 pp. Dust jacket art by Ed Young. ISBN: 0-02-7925269.

New York: Simon & Schuster, (2009.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - An account of "a life with the kitchen at its center. From her mother's pound cake, a staple of summer picnics during her childhood in Oklahoma, to the eggs she cooked for her father during the weeks before his death, food and memories are intimately entwined." Full of great recipes. SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Illustrations by Camilla Engman. Recipe index. 320 pp. ISBN: 1416551050.