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Double Lives - An Autobiography


Plomer, William

Hardcover. NY, Noonday Press, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with light soil, rubbing.

Record # 107547


Price: $15.00 

 

Downhill All The Way - An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939


Woolf, Leonard

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear.

Record # 609355


Price: $12.00 

 

Dream of Water, The


Mori, Kyoko

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Co, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 275 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456132


Price: $18.00 

 

Drug Store Days - My Youth Amoung the Pills and Potions


Armour, Richard

Hardcover. New York, MacGraw-Hill , 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, dust jacket price clipped previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf otherwise very good/very good

Record # 177771


Price: $18.00 

Duke Ellington Reader, TheTucker, Mark (ed.)

Duke Ellington Reader, The


Tucker, Mark (ed.)

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 536 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Mild fading to top and edges of jacket, slight normal wear.

Record # 2230887


Price: $23.00 

 

Dying, We Live: The Personal Chronicle of a Young Freedom Fighter in Warsaw, 1939-1945


Kulski, Julian Eugene

Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light edgewear and rubbing to cover boards, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 471864


Price: $15.00 

 

E.M. Forster


Trilling, Lionel

Norfolk, CT, New Directions Books, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Black & white photo on frontispiece. Previous owner's bookplate front pastedown endpaper.

Record # 502423


Price: $15.00 

 

Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight: Brook Farm and Concord


Cooke (Ed.), George Willis

Hardcover. New York , Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 294 pages, brown cloth with gilt and red design, top edge gilt.

Record # 900132


Price: $16.00 

 

Early Years of Alec Waugh, The


Waugh, Alec

New York, Farrar Straus, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 312 pages.

Record # 204600


Price: $20.00 

 

Eaton Family of Nova Scotia, The - 1760 - 1929


Eaton, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton

Hardcover. Cambridge, Privately Printed, First Edition, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 247 pages. Green cloth boards, mottled. Gilt titles to cover & spine. Gilt top edge. Pages untrimmed, unopened. Frontis illustration, Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, with tissue guard. Illustrations throughout in sepia tones, including family crest, all protected with tissue guards. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Toning throughout. Otherwise clean, unmarked.

Record # 3340115


Price: $100.00 

Edge of Everest. The: A Woman Challenges the MountainCobb, Sue

Edge of Everest. The: A Woman Challenges the Mountain


Cobb, Sue

Hardcover. Harrisburg PA, Stackpole Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 214 pages, b&w illustrations. Very good in a price-clipped dust jacket. Clean.

Record # 415220


Price: $19.00 

 

Edith Sitwell


Salter, Elizabeth

London, Bloomsbury, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 101 pages. Black & white photography. Color and black & white artwork.

Record # 205454


Price: $12.00 

 

Edmund Wildon - A Biography


Meyers, Jeffrey

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 53004


Price: $25.00 

 

Edmund Wilson: A Bibliography


Ramsey (Ed.), Richard D.

Hardcover. NY, Lewis, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 948


Price: $25.00 

 

Education by Uncles


Homans, Abigail Adams

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Henry Brooks and Charles Francis Adams as remembered by their niece. previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 108255


Price: $18.00 

 

Edwin Arlington Robinson


Neff, Emery

Hardcover. NY, William Sloane, 1st , 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 54200


Price: $15.00 

 

Ellen Glasgow - Beyond Convention


Wagner, Linda W.

Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 150 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper.

Record # 204361


Price: $18.00 

 

Emerson, Our Contemporary


Derleth, August

Hardcover. NY, Crowell-Collier, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Dust jacket pasted to front & rear end papers. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf otherwise Very Good.

Record # 64028


Price: $23.00 

 

Emerson


Buell, Lawrence

Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages. Illustrated with 5 black & white photos. Dust jacket price clipped and crease to back flap.

Record # 502390


Price: $20.00 

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in SudanScroggins, Deborah

Emma's War: An Aid Worker, A Warlord, Radical Islam, and the Politics of Oil - A True Story of Love and Death in Sudan


Scroggins, Deborah

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 389 pages. Bright and clean dust jacket. Binding structurally sound. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 809074


Price: $15.00 

Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of FranceMayle, Peter

Encore Provence: New Adventures in the South of France


Mayle, Peter

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on front cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469275


Price: $10.00 

 

Englishwoman's Love-Letters, An


N/A

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Previous owner's signature front fly leaf otherwise VG. Top edge gilt.

Record # 61573


Price: $20.00 

 

Enough About You: Adventures in Autobiography


Shields, David

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 174 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Clean inside and out, in great shape.

Record # 30571


Price: $15.00 

 

Erskine Caldwell - The Journey from Tabacco Road


Miller, Dan B.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine,

Record # 52922


Price: $25.00 

 

Etchings In an Hourglass


Simon, Kate

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 1928


Price: $12.00 

Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the MythsPhilipson, Ilene

Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths


Philipson, Ilene

Softcover. New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 390 pages. Softcover. Very light normal age wear, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2231051


Price: $15.00 

 

Evelyn Waugh - A Biography


Sykes, Christopher

Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 468 pages. B&W photos, Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf.

Record # 300983


Price: $10.00 

Evelyn Waugh The Later Years 1939-1966Stannard, Martin

Evelyn Waugh The Later Years 1939-1966


Stannard, Martin

Hardcover. New York, W W Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, New York, W W Norton, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Very Good, 523 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Foxing to top and fore edge, otherwise clean, tight copy. . Record # 467509

Record # 467509


Price: $15.00 

Evelyn Waugh: A BiographyHastings, Selina

Evelyn Waugh: A Biography


Hastings, Selina

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1995, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1995, Book: Good, Dust jacket: Good, 724 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 16 pages of b&w photographs. Gilt titles on spine. Foxing to edges. Edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 723 pages. Record # 467508

Record # 467508


Price: $13.00 

Every day by the sun : a memoir of the Faulkners of MississippiWells, Dean Faulkner

Every day by the sun : a memoir of the Faulkners of Mississippi


Wells, Dean Faulkner

Hardcover. New York, Crown Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 467095


Price: $13.00 

 

Excursions in the Real World


Trevor, William

Hardcover. London, Hutchinson, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 5757


Price: $25.00 

 

Eye of the Camera - A Life of Christopher Isherwood


Fryer, Jonathan

London, Allison & Busby, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages, b&w photos.

Record # 601666


Price: $6.00 

 

Ezra Pound: The Last Rower - A Political Profile


Heymann, C. David

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st , 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Light fade to cloth spine.

Record # 62745


Price: $15.00 

 

Factory of Facts, The


Sante, Luc

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated pastedowns and end papers. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 53070


Price: $20.00 

Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014Munro, Alice

Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014


Munro, Alice

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 640 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Covers show light staining otherwise clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468071


Price: $19.00 

 

Family Heart, The


Dew, Robb Forman

Paperback. Reading, MA, Addison Wesley, 1st pbk, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 5687


Price: $15.00 

 

Family Memories - An Autobiographical Journey


West, Rebecca

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 100679


Price: $15.00 

 

Famous Authors (Women)


Harkins, E. F.

Hardcover. Boston, L. C. Pane, 5th printing, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages, 15 B&W photo portraits, including one on cover label with gilt & 2-color decoration. Short biographies of 21 women authors. Top edge gilt.

Record # 304925


Price: $8.00 

 

Fanny Burney


Kilpatrick, Sarah

hardcover. London, David & Charles, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 232 pages.

Record # 64528


Price: $25.00 

 

Farthing Candle, The


Farquharson, Ronald

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Black fabric covers. Author photo glued to page opposite title page and original cover from dust jacket partially glued to title page. Spine slightly cocked. Mostly clean inside with a touch of foxing to endpapers and edges. Original owner inscription on front endpaper dated 1955, and personalized ink stamp on top edge. In very good shape considering age.

Record # 30650


Price: $19.00 

Fiery Trail, The: A Union Officer's Account of Sherman's Last CampaignsOsborn, Thomas Ward

Fiery Trail, The: A Union Officer's Account of Sherman's Last Campaigns


Osborn, Thomas Ward

Hardcover. Knoxville, Univ of Tennessee Pr, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 469909


Price: $13.00 

 

Fighting Chance, A (SIGNED BY WARREN)


Warren, Elizabeth

Hardcover. New York, Picador, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. SIGNED BY ELIZABETH WARREN ON TITLE PAGE.

Record # 2230179


Price: $63.00 

Fighting Spirit, The - A Championship Season at Notre DameHoltz, Lou and John Heisler

Fighting Spirit, The - A Championship Season at Notre Dame


Holtz, Lou and John Heisler

Hardcover. NY, Pocket Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos. Dust jacket with edgewear and sticker on the back. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 201300


Price: $15.00 

 

Findings and Keepings - Analects for an Autobiography


Mumford, Lewis

New York, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st , 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, price clipped.

Record # 304799


Price: $19.00 

 

Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright


Dardis, Tom

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 394 pages, b&w illustrations. Bright, clean copy in an unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 5706


Price: $8.00 

 

First Time Around, The: Some Irreverent Recollections


Wechsberg, Joseph

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Company, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 381 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. Pages and edges slightly yellow with age. dust jacket unclipped, but some age wear, still intact. In good shape considering its age.

Record # 30630


Price: $11.00 

 

Fitzgerald and Hemingway- A Dangerous Friendship


Bruccoli, Matthew J.

Hardcover. London, Andre Deutsch, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w photos. 236 pgs

Record # 70614


Price: $25.00 

 

Flagstad - A Personal Memoir


McArthur, Edwin

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 343 pages, plus index. Dust jacket with edgewear, chips, torn at front cover.

Record # 176331


Price: $15.00 

 

Flaubert - A Biography


Lottman Herbert

Boston, Little Brown , 1st , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 396 pages. B&W illust.

Record # 300541


Price: $20.00 

 

Flaws in the Glass - A Self-Portrait


White, Patrick

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 56363


Price: $18.00 

Fonda: my lifeFonda, Henry

Fonda: my life


Fonda, Henry

Hardcover. New York, New American Library, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469379


Price: $23.00 

For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer (SIGNED)Roosevelt, Archie

For Lust of Knowing: Memoirs of an Intelligence Officer (SIGNED)


Roosevelt, Archie

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Co., 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 500 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Some normal wear to cover and spine, slight bumping to lower outer corners. Some foxing to text block, mostly top. Inside flats of dust jacket included. Inscribed in title page by author.

Record # 2230925


Price: $35.00 

 

Foremost Good Fortune, The


Conley, Susan

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover, Dust jacket unclipped. Deckled fore edge. Gilt title on spine. In excellent condition, clean and bright inside and out.

Record # 30679


Price: $11.00 

 

Fortunate Grandchild, A.


Read, Miss

Boston, Houghton Mifflin , Book Club, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&W illust. by Derek Crowe. The author's recollections of a childhood in London during WWI. copyright pg. states 1st Ed. but no flap price

Record # 300114


Price: $15.00 

 

Forty Years with Berenson


Mariano, Nicky

Hardcover. 1966, Alfred A. Knopt, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 352 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear. Deckled foreedge, dyed top edge. A little age-yellowing to pages, but clean inside and in good condition.

Record # 30948


Price: $19.00 

 

Four Lives in Paris


Ford, Hugh

San Francisco, North Point, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Black & white photographs.

Record # 204669


Price: $18.00 

 

Foursquare: The Story of a Fourfold Life


Oliver, John Rothbone

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Deckled edges.Former owner's signature on front flyleaf, dated 12/12/1929. Covers bound in maroon fabric, in excellent shape for its age. Pages and edges a little yellow with age.

Record # 30721


Price: $15.00 

 

Fourth Musketeer, The - The Life of Alexander Dumas


Lucas-Dubareton, J.

NY, Coward McCann, 1st US, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Ex-lib with bookplate, light marking, residue.

Record # 69529


Price: $15.00 

 

Frank O'Connor - An Introduction


Wohlgelernter, Maurice

NY, Columbia Univ. Press, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 222 pages. Light darkening to portion of dust jacket, dust jacket price clipped otherwise VG/VG

Record # 62744


Price: $15.00 

Fred Gipson at WorkLich, Glen E.

Fred Gipson at Work


Lich, Glen E.

Hardcover. College Station, Texas A&M, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages, spotless and bright copy.

Record # 1097


Price: $8.00 

French spirits: a house, a village, and a love affair in BurgundayGreene, Jeffrey

French spirits: a house, a village, and a love affair in Burgunday


Greene, Jeffrey

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469394


Price: $13.00 

 

Freud and Mary - A Dialectical Study


Osborn, Reuben

NY, Equinox Co-Operatives, 1st US, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Intro. by John Strachey. 285 pages.

Record # 68639


Price: $12.00 

 

Friend of the Flock, A: Tales of a Country Veterinarian


McCormack, John

Hardcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on some internal pages, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233785


Price: $19.00 

 

From Iphigene: The Memoirs of Iphigene Ochs Sulzberger


Dryfoos (Ed.), Susan W.

Hardcover. Privately Published, Susan W. Dryfoos, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Very minor fading on cover edges. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852421


Price: $20.00 

 

From My Journal


Maurois, Andre

Hardcover. New York and London, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 250 pages. Dust jacket with small tears. "The record of a year of adjustment for an individual and for the world."

Record # 510666


Price: $8.00 

 

From Our House


Martin, Lee

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, ARC Wra[s, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 58241


Price: $18.00 

 

From Sea to Sea: Letters of Travel: Parts 1 & 2: The Works of Rudyard Kipling, (Volumes 15 & 16)


Kipling, Rudyard

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Vol 15 (Part 1): 494 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Vol 16 (Part 2): 553 pages. 3 b/w plates with tissue guards. Hardcovers. Deckled untrimmed edges. Early editions in the Scribner's series, bound in publisher's brown cloth with gilt decoration and elephant and swastika sign (Kipling's trademark) on the front cover and title page, top edge gilt. Just a touch of age wear to spine and cover boards, fading, soil, chipping. Bindings tight. Lovely, clean copies from this collection.

Record # 31474


Price: $25.00 

From Set Shot to Slam Dunk: The Glory Days of Basketball in the Words of Those Who Played ItSalzberg, Charles

From Set Shot to Slam Dunk: The Glory Days of Basketball in the Words of Those Who Played It


Salzberg, Charles

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 234 pages. Light blue cloth cover, light wear to edges, some faint stains. Dust jacket has minor bumping to edges. Inside is bright and clean with b&w photographs.

Record # 455663


Price: $12.00 

 

From Stone Orchard - A Collection of Memories


Findley, Timothy

Hardcover. Toronto, Harper Flamingo, 1st , 199 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A memoir of his life for 30 years in a 19th century farmhouse in the Ontario countryside. 170 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 56368


Price: $6.00 

 

From the Green Mountains to the Prairies


Barker, Frances Long

Softcover. Great Barrington, MA, The Berkshire Courier Press, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 25 pages. Softcover pamphlet. Green construction paper wrapper (spot on front cover bottom where label was removed-see image), gilt title on front cover. Previously exhibited at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, VT, proprietor label and stamp on front endpapers and flyleaf. Pages clean. Binding (staple) tight, no pages missing. Frances Barker recalls her journey by boat and covered wagon, in 1835 from Vermont to Chicago, at the age of 5 yrs., to start a new life with her family. Book later compiled by a descendant: "In 1835 my father became infected with the 'Western fever,' as it was then called, and resolved to try his fortune with others in the then far West." A true tale of adventure. RARE.

Record # 32281


Price: $25.00 

 

From The Kingdom Of Memory


Wiesel, Elie

NY, Summit Books, 1st, 1990,

Record # 201568


Price: $18.00 

 

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey


Thwe, Pascal Khoo

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2002, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Riveting memoir, a triumph of hope over despair. Black and white photographs. Nice copy.

Record # 803012


Price: $8.00 

 

Full of Life - A Biography of John Fante


Cooper, Stephen

Hardcover. NY, North Point Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 406 pages.

Record # 64040


Price: $38.00 

 

Fun While It Lasted


Conrad, Barnaby

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. by the author

Record # 56346


Price: $20.00 

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Portage, A (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)Gummer, W.K.

Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Portage, A (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Gummer, W.K.

Softcover. Ontario, Canada, W.K. Gummer, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 61 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Rare. In good shape, just a bit of foxing to endpapers and slight yellowing of covers. Author tells about his adventures over sixty years with friends and family on the open waters in Canada.

Record # 30634


Price: $38.00 

 

Gates of Excellence - On Reading and Writing Books for Children


Paterson, Katherine

Hardcover. NY, Elsevier Nelson, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, States First but 2 in lowest number

Record # 59756


Price: $20.00 

Gather Together In My NameAngelou, Maya

Gather Together In My Name


Angelou, Maya

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Light stain to rear dust jacket panel, not affecting book. dust jacket shows heavy spine fading.

Record # 66331


Price: $13.00 

 

Genet - A Biography of Janet Flanner


Wineapple, Brenda

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 53110


Price: $18.00 

 

Gentleman Junkie - The Life and Legacy of William S. Burroughs


Caveney, Graham

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Many color illust. photos. 224 pgs.

Record # 108338


Price: $20.00 

 

Geoffrey Chaucer


Richmond, Velma Bourgeois

NY, Continuum, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages.

Record # 65324


Price: $19.00 

 

George Ade - Warmhearted Satirist


Kelly, Fred C.

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 202583


Price: $15.00 

 

George Crabbe and His Times 1754-1832


Huchon, Rene

Hardcover. London, John Murray , 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 561 pages. B&W frontis portrait. Light wear to covers. Light tanning to endpapers, else internally very good.

Record # 305443


Price: $10.00 

 

George Eliot - Voice of a Century


Karl, Frederick R.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Several pages with corner fold otherwise

Record # 54062


Price: $18.00 

 

George Eliot: The Emergent Self


Rodinger, Ruby V.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 515 pages + index

Record # 59717


Price: $10.00 

 

George Moore 1852-1933


Frazier, Adrian

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 604 pages. Black & white photographs.

Record # 203824


Price: $30.00 

 

Gerald Brenan's Personal Record 1920-1972


Brenan, Gerald

New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 380 pages, With black & white photos. Dust jacket with edgewear, small water stains.

Record # 176645


Price: $18.00 

 

Get Dutch! A Biography Of Elmore Leonard


Challen, Paul

Softcover. Toronto, CN, ECW, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illustrations. Paperback with 182 pages.

Record # 203232


Price: $15.00 

 

Ghost Light: A Memoir


Rich, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and bright, binding tight, spine straight. Dark brown cover boards, gilt title stamped on spine and author's initials blind embossed on front cover. In beautiful condition, looks barely read.

Record # 31689


Price: $13.00 

 

Gift Imprisoned, A - The Poetic Life of Matthew Arnold


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 101197


Price: $20.00 

Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless MemoirErlbaum, Janice

Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir


Erlbaum, Janice

Hardcover. New York, Villard, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Some soil to front dust jacket cover. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468542


Price: $11.00 

 

Glad Tidings


N/A

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed by John D. Weaver : the correspondence of Cheever & John Weaver 1945-82

Record # 5211


Price: $20.00 

 

Gore Vidal - Writer Against The Grain


Parini, Jay

NY, Columbia University Press , 2nd, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like New.

Record # 200497


Price: $15.00 

 

Gorky - A Biography


Troyat, Henri

NY , Crown, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 601697


Price: $8.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend & Confident


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. San Francisco, Harper , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52934


Price: $18.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Closest Friend and Confidant


Duran, Leopold

San Francisco, CA, Harper Collins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. Light rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 201303


Price: $15.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Clost Friend & Confidant


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos

Record # 52931


Price: $18.00 

 

Graham Greene - An Intimate Portrait by His Clost Friend & Confidant


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1995, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white photos

Record # 52932


Price: $18.00 

 

Graham Greene


Duran, Leopoldo

Hardcover. SF, Harper Collins , 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st pub UK 1994

Record # 6030


Price: $15.00 

 

Grand Guy, A - The Art and Life of Terry Southern


Hill, Lee

New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good , 343 pages, B&W photos.

Record # 303832


Price: $25.00 

 

Growing Up in a Shipyard: Reminiscences of a Shipbuilding Life in Essex, Massachusetts (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Story, Dana A.

Softcover. Mystic, CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc., First Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to half title page. Light wear to edges of illustrated wraps. Faint foxing to top & small spot of soiling to right edge. Else clean with black & white illustrations.

Record # 751473


Price: $25.00 

 

H. G. Wells - Aspects of a Life


West, Anthony

Paperback. NY, Meridian / NAL, rep wraps, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 405 pgs. B&w photos.

Record # 100674


Price: $12.00 

 

H.L. Mencken - Iconoclast From Baltimore


Steverson, Douglas C.

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos

Record # 55752


Price: $18.00 

 

Half of Two Lives, A


Waley, Alison

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 326 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs.

Record # 510545


Price: $8.00 

 

Hand of a Stranger, The (Journal D'un Inconnu)


Cocteau, Jean

Hardcover. London, Elek Books, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 187 pages. Authorized transl. by Alec Brown. Ex-lib with erased label on spine, stamping to front endpaper, title-page. Fade to spine and top portions of front & back cloth binding.

Record # 502350


Price: $11.00 

 

Hand to Mouth - A Chronicle of Early Failure


Auster, Paul

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light remainder line to top edge

Record # 52955


Price: $10.00 

 

Hand to Mouth - A Chronicle of Early Failure


Auster, Paul

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, light remainder line to top edge

Record # 52956


Price: $20.00 

 

Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure


Auster, Paul

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 449 pages. SIGNED BY AUSTER on bookplate. Minor wear to dust jacket in protective brodart cover, else like new.

Record # 450235


Price: $35.00 

 

Happiest Man Alive, The - A Biography of Henry Miller


Dearborn, Mary V.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 55751


Price: $18.00 

 

Happy Yesterdays


Jarvis, Major C. S.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, Rep., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Humorous memoirs of a British military officer. Illust. by Roly. 2 small brown spots to cover otherwise VG

Record # 65747


Price: $8.00 

 

Hardy - A Biography


Seymour-Smith, Martin

NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 886 pages.

Record # 65334


Price: $38.00 

 

Harm Jan Huidekoper


Tiffany, Nina Moore & Francis

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Riverside Press, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 386 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean copy with minor scratches across front cover. Slight discoloration to front and back end papers from former dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine plus top edge gilt. Black & white images throughout.

Record # 470725


Price: $31.00 

 

Hawthorne's Secret - An Un-Told Tale


Young, Philip

Boston , Godine, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 200735


Price: $20.00 

 

Headed for the Blues


Skvorecky, Josef

Hardcover. New Jersey, The Ecco Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 149 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Very clean inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped.

Record # 30580


Price: $19.00 

 

Headed for the Blues


Skvorecky, Josef

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from Czech by Kaca Polackova Henley

Record # 53128


Price: $11.00 

 

Healing Imagination of Olive Schreiner, The - Beyond South African Colonialism


Berkman, Joyce Avrech

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Masachusetts Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 317 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket with light sunning to spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page.

Record # 602691


Price: $11.00 

 

Heaven's Coast - A Memoir


Doty, Mark

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 1996, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 305 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light surface rubbing. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 612704


Price: $13.00 

 

Henry & Self: The Private Life of Sarah Crease 1826-1922


Bridge, Kathryn

Softcover. Victoria, British Columbia, Sono Nis Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Other than a slight yellow to the edges from age, clean inside and out. In great shape. Previous bookstore price tag on back cover.

Record # 30608


Price: $13.00 

 

Henry Clifford V.C. His Letters and Sketches from Crimea


Clifford, Henry

Hardcover. London, Michael Joseph, 1st, 1956, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gutter cracked in several areas. Spine faded. Gilt lettering. Previous owner's writing on end papers and stamps on front flyleaf. Corners bumped.

Record # 2233437


Price: $38.00 

 

Henry Fielding


Thomas, Donald

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 436 pages.

Record # 58228


Price: $20.00 

 

Henry Irving


Craig, Edward Gordon

London, J.M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Edward Gordon Craig's biography of his mentor, the actor Henry Irving. 252 pp. Colior frontis otherwise illustrated in b&w.

Record # 512670


Price: $22.00 

 

Henry James - A Life In Letters


Horne (Ed.), Philip

NY, Viking, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 668 pages.

Record # 65325


Price: $31.00 

 

Henry James at Home


Hyde, H. Montgomery

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. No dust jacket. Light fade to spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 54093


Price: $6.00 

 

Henry James: A Life in Letters


Horne (Ed.), Philip

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 668 pages. No dust jacket. Red marks on upper edge of spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 63901


Price: $13.00 

 

Here But Not Here - My Life With William Shawn and the New Yorker


Ross, Lillian

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52960


Price: $20.00 

 

Heroes of My Time


Salisbury, Harrison E.

NY , Walker & Co., 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages.

Record # 300836


Price: $12.00 

 

Herself Defined - The Poet H.D. and Her World


Guest, Barbara

New York, Doubleday, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 360 pages. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket has some chipping at the spine edges.

Record # 204235


Price: $12.00 

Hills Of Tuscany: A MemoirMate, Ferenc

Hills Of Tuscany: A Memoir


Mate, Ferenc

Hardcover. New York, Albatross, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469272


Price: $11.00 

 

Home Before Dark: A Biographical Memoir of John Cheever


Cheever, Susan

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, b&w photographs. Dust jacket price-clipped otherwise very good in a very good jacket.

Record # 402499


Price: $18.00 

Home to the wildernessCarrighar, Sally

Home to the wilderness


Carrighar, Sally

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Good, Dust jacket: None, Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Foxing to top edge. Spine cocked, otherwise clean, tight copy. . 330 pages. Record # 467703

Record # 467703


Price: $10.00 

Home: chronicle of a north country lifePowning, Beth

Home: chronicle of a north country life


Powning, Beth

Hardcover. New York City, NY, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 143 pages. Hardcover. Extensive color photography throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Some wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469054


Price: $11.00 

 

Homes & Haunts of the British Poets


Howitt, William

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Co, 3rd, 1857, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 706 pages, bound in leather. Raised bands and tooled designs with gilt on spine. Marbled boards, slightly worn, marbled endpapers and marbled page edges. Edges of cover worn and corners slightly bumped. Gutter starting to open at pages 2-3 and 240-241. Previous owner's inscription on blank preliminary page.

Record # 509975


Price: $32.00 

Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and LoveWideman, John Edgar

Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race, and Love


Wideman, John Edgar

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, arc, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Softcover. Light edgewear to wrappers. Advanced Reading Copy. Uncorrected Proof.

Record # 470045


Price: $10.00 

 

Hostage to Fortune - The Troubled Life of Francis Bacon


Jardine, Lisa and Alan Stewart

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st US, 1999, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Black & white illust.

Record # 57654


Price: $24.00 

 

House in France: A Memoir, The


Wells, Gully

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy.

Record # 471238


Price: $15.00 

 

House of Elrig - An Autobiography of Childhood, The


Maxwell, Gavin

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Brown dust jacket with red and back lettering over red cloth covers with stamped decoration on front and gilt lettering on spine. Black and white photographs inside. Clean and bright interior.

Record # 613302


Price: $15.00 

 

House of Elrig, The: An Autobiography of Childhood


Maxwell, Gavin

Hardcover. New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket shows a bit of age wear, but still intact. Clean inside and covers in excellent shape. Bound in red fabric with design on front cover.

Record # 30723


Price: $11.00 

 

House of Happy Endings: A Memoir


Garis, Leslie

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2007, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 455918


Price: $15.00 

 

House of Many Rooms, A


Hunter, Rodello

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A humorous memoir of a Mormon family at the turn of the century in a small Utah town. 240 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with bumped corners. Chipping and edgewear to brodart-covered dust jacket. Decorative stain on top edge.

Record # 51507


Price: $18.00 

 

House of Trees: Memoirs of an Australian GIrlhood


Colebrook, Joan

Softcover. New York, Penguin Books, reprint, 1988, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF, color photograph on cover. Light wear to cover; a tight, clean copy.

Record # 802993


Price: $11.00 

 

How Count L.N. Tolstoy Lives and Works


Sergyeenko, P. A.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1st , 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 100 pages. Translated from the Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. Previous owner's signature on title page. Black & white photos with tissue guards. Facsimile page from manuscript. Tender gutters at hinges. Green cloth binding with gold lettering front, spine. Back flyleaf creased. Corners bumped. Light edgewear to spine edges.

Record # 509156


Price: $38.00 

 

I Could Tell You Stories - Sojourn in the Land of Memory


Hampl, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY HAMPL on half-title page.

Record # 107978


Price: $32.00 

 

I Could Tell You Stories - Sojourns in the Land of Memory


Hampl, Patricia

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 2nd, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Remainder line bottom edge otherwise VG/VG.

Record # 107612


Price: $12.00 

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns In the Land of Memory (SIGNED)Hampl, Patricia

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns In the Land of Memory (SIGNED)


Hampl, Patricia

hardcover. New York, WW Norton, reprint, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Blind stamp on cover. Reminder mark to bottom edge, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469590


Price: $25.00 

 

I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory


Hampl, Patricia

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR, remainder line on bottom edge, very clean, tight copy, like new, dust jacket covered with Mylar.

Record # 800799


Price: $18.00 

 

I Had a Father - A Post-Modern Autobiography


Blaise, Clark

Paperback. Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, 1st US, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 64509


Price: $23.00 

 

I Passed This Way


Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, Illust. by: Illustrated

New York , Knopf, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 499 pages. B&W illustrations. Remainder stamp bottom edge. Dust jacket with light edgewear, closed tears.

Record # 302799


Price: $18.00 

 

I See By My Get-Up


Querry, Ron

Softcover. Albuquerque, Univ. of New Mexico, 1st pbk., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A memoir of modern ranching in the southwest. Paperback ed. 151 pages. Black & white photos by wife Elaine Querry. Forward by Larry L. King.

Record # 61958


Price: $15.00 

 

I Wanted To Be An Actress: The Autobiography of Katharine Cornell


Cornell, Katharine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Random House, First Edition, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 361 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 32 pages of photographs in black & white to center. Red boards with gilt titles to cover & spine. Minor toning to pages throughout. Some tanning to endpaper gutters. Original dust jacket with heavy wear to edges, small tears, age toning and a few spots of tape. Grey dyed top edge. Clean inside, tight & unmarked copy.

Record # 751573


Price: $38.00 

 

I'd Hate Myself in the Morning - A Memoir


Lardner, Jr., Ring

Hardcover. NY, Thunders Mouth, 1st , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 198 plages.

Record # 60943


Price: $18.00 

 

Ibsen - A Biography


Meyer, Micahel

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, unknown, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, soil.

Record # 105961


Price: $18.00 

Idylls of the SeaBullen, Frank T.

Idylls of the Sea


Bullen, Frank T.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton, 1st US, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt, yellow and black, 266 pages, Spine slant, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Otherwise clean copy. Memoir of sea-going days.

Record # 412345


Price: $19.00 

If the creek don't rise: my life out West with the last Black widow of the Civil WarRita (Rita Ann) Williams

If the creek don't rise: my life out West with the last Black widow of the Civil War


Rita (Rita Ann) Williams

Hardcover. Orlando, Fla., Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469245


Price: $13.00 

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, A MemoirRabassa, Gregory

If This Be Treason: Translation and Its Dyscontents, A Memoir


Rabassa, Gregory

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 204 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy.

Record # 471410


Price: $15.00 

 

In Extremis - Life of Laura Riding, The


Baker, Deborah

Hardcover. NY, Grove , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder mk top edge

Record # 4337


Price: $18.00 

 

In Search of Bisco


Caldwell, Erskine

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light corner wear to dust jacket, corner chip, price clipped. Two pages with creases otherwise very good.

Record # 55496


Price: $30.00 

 

In the Storm of the Eye - A Lifetime at CBS


Leonard, Bill

Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photos throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some edge wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 53270


Price: $12.00 

In the Wings: A MemoirDarrid, Diana Douglas

In the Wings: A Memoir


Darrid, Diana Douglas

Hardcover. New York, Barricade Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 370 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464653


Price: $50.00 

 

In This Dark House - A Memoir


Kehoe, Louise

New York, Schocken, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages.

Record # 207186


Price: $12.00 

 

Indigo Bunting, The - A Memoir of Edna St. Vincent Millay


Sheean, Vincent

Hardcover. New York, Schocken Books, First Thus, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 131 pages. Hardcover. Blue boards with gilt titles to ivory cloth spine. Original dust jacket with light toning, small tears edges & price-clipped. Blue top edge. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751185


Price: $23.00 

 

Infants of the Spring


Powell, Anthony

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Powell's first vol. of his autobiography.

Record # 107472


Price: $20.00 

 

Inside Memory - Pages from a Writer's Workbook


Findley, Timothy

Hardcover. Toronto, HarperCollins, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 100277


Price: $25.00 

 

Intellectual Memoirs - NY 1936-(?)


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Janovich , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 3559


Price: $12.00 

 

Intent of the Artist, The - Sherwood Anderson, Thornton Wilder, Roger Sessions, William Lesaze


Centeno (Ed.), Augusto

Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ. Press, 1st , 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Dust jacket chipped, soiled, large chunk gone from front panel.

Record # 69532


Price: $20.00 

Interior Castle, The - The Art & Life of Jean StaffordHulbert, Ann

Interior Castle, The - The Art & Life of Jean Stafford


Hulbert, Ann

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages, unmarked and bright copy.

Record # 52919


Price: $10.00 

 

Interviews with Robert Frost


Lathem, Edward Connery

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54418


Price: $25.00 

 

Inventions of Mark Twain, The - A Biography


Lauber, John

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53048


Price: $18.00 

 

Invisible Spectator, An: A Biography of Paul Bowles


Sawyer-Laucanno, Christopher

Hardcover. NY, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 501 pages. black & white photos. Minor sun-fading to dust jacket spine, else a very nice copy in clear mylar sleeve.

Record # 11805


Price: $6.00 

 

Invisible Writer - A Biography of Joyce Carol Oates


Johnson, Greg

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 54091


Price: $28.00 

Iron Jaw: A Skipper Tells His Story, Charles N. Bamforth 1895-1975Bamforth, Charles A. (Editor)

Iron Jaw: A Skipper Tells His Story, Charles N. Bamforth 1895-1975


Bamforth, Charles A. (Editor)

softcover. Pittsburgh, PA, Dorrance Pub Co, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 436 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY BOTH EDITORS ON TITLE PAGE. (Charles Bamforth and Richard Bamforth) Black and white pictures. Light edgewear to wrappers, white label affixed to copyright page with editor's address over publisher's address to request more copies. otherwise clean copy.

Record # 468932


Price: $15.00 

 

Isaac Bashevis Singer - Children's Stories and Childhood Memoirs


Allison, Alida

Hardcover. NY, Twayne, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Twaynes U.S. Authors Series #661.

Record # 57245


Price: $11.00 

islandman, TheCrohan, Tomas O

islandman, The


Crohan, Tomas O

Softcover. Oxford, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 245 pages. Softcover. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Foxing to edges, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469397


Price: $10.00 

 

Istanbul: Memories and the City (With New Introduction by the Author)


Pamuk, Ophan

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st Deluxe Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 560 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Light remainder mark on bottom edge. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Looks nearly new. Beautiful copy. Ophan Pamuk's portrait of his city is a self-portrait, refracted by memory and the melancholy that all Istabullus share: the sadness that comes of living amid the ruins of a lost empire.

Record # 31715


Price: $31.00 

 

It Does Not Die - A Romance


Devi, Maitreyi

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press, Reprint, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A memoir of a young Indian girl's love affair with a European intellectual (Actually Mircea Eliade who fictionalized the affair in Bengal Nights). Dj edgewear, light pencil marks in margins.

Record # 60505


Price: $15.00 

It's Not My Fault: Tales of a Vermont DoctorConger, Beach

It's Not My Fault: Tales of a Vermont Doctor


Conger, Beach

Hardcover. Golden, Colo., Fulcrum Pub., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Slight fading to front of jacket and normal wear, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 2230660


Price: $11.00 

Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona Parks, Tim

Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona


Parks, Tim

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469283


Price: $15.00 

Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona Parks, Tim

Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona


Parks, Tim

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469281


Price: $19.00 

 

Italo Svevo - The Man and the Writer


Furbank, P. N.

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., 1st , 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos. Dj blurb taped to front fly leaf. Previous owner's signature front end paper, otherwise

Record # 54202


Price: $25.00 

 

Italo Svevo - The Man and the Writer


Furbank, P. N.

Berkeley, University of California, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 232 pages, B&W photos.

Record # 305248


Price: $12.00 

 

J. M. Barrie - The Man Behind the Image


Dunbar, Janet

London, Collins, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 318 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping.

Record # 61895


Price: $14.00 

 

James Boswell - The Earlier Years 1740-1769


Pottle, Frederick A.

New York, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 606 pages. Black & white photographs and portraits. Dust jacket chipping.

Record # 204570


Price: $30.00 

 

James Jones - A Friendship


Morris, Willie

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket with light rubbing, price clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Record # 107087


Price: $9.00 

 

James Joyce - The Years of Growth 1882-1915


Costello, Peter

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos, dust jacket with slight rubbing, otherwise, nice copy.

Record # 53357


Price: $8.00 

 

Jesting Apostle - The Private Life of Bernard Shaw


Winsten, Stephen

NY, Dutton, 1st US, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 231 pages. Light wear, soil to dust jacket.

Record # 62344


Price: $20.00 

 

John Buchan - A Biography


Smith, Janet Adam

Boston, Little Brown, 1st US, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white illust. 524 pages. Dust jacket with light edgewear, short tears.

Record # 69242


Price: $20.00 

 

John Cheever - A Biography


Donaldson, Scott

NY, Random House, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 416 pages. Previous owner's signature, dust jacket spine with light fade.

Record # 62326


Price: $15.00 

 

John Muir's Last Journey: South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence


Muir, John, Michael P. Branch

Hardcover. Washington, D.C., Island Press/Shearwater Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Orange cover boards, brown quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages and edges clean. Binding tight. Green endpapers. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Like new. Michael Branch has elegantly and creatively helped imagine John Muir's "missing years" and his astonishing journey to the tropics.

Record # 31567


Price: $25.00 

 

John O'Hara


Long, Robert Emmet

Hardcover. NY, Ungar, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 7126


Price: $15.00 

 

John Stanislaus Joyce - The Voluminous Life and Genius of James Joyce's Father


Jackson, John Wyse and Peter Costello

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, B&w illust. 494 pgs.

Record # 105677


Price: $28.00 

 

John Steinbeck - The Voice of the Land


Ferrell, Keith

NY, M. Evans & Co., 1st , 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 62345


Price: $15.00 

 

Johnson Reader, A


McAdams, Jr., E. L. and George Milne

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st collect, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Selections from the writings of Samuel Johnson. Dj worn, chipping. 464 pages.

Record # 57243


Price: $9.00 

 

Jorge Luis Borges - A Literary Biography


Moegal, Emir Rodriguez

New York , E.P. Dutton, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 502 pages including index. B&w illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear.

Record # 176710


Price: $30.00 

 

Joseph Anton: A Memoir (SIGNED)


Rushdie, Salman

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 636 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy. Little to no wear on edges.

Record # 2233775


Price: $38.00 

 

Joseph Severn: Letters and Memoirs


Scott, Grant F. (editor)

Hardcover. Burlington, VT, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 752 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 470120


Price: $100.00 

 

Josiah Volunteered: A Collection of Diaries, Letters And Photographs Of Josiah H. Sturtevant, His Wife, Helen, And His Four Children


Sturtevant, Arnold (editor), Illust. by: S.W. Hilton

Hardcover. Farmington ME, Knowlton & McLeary Co , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 559 pages. Hardcover. B&w illustrations by S.W Hilton throughout. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles and decoration on spine and cover. Related articles laid in. Some edge wear to dust jacket, tape repair, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469074


Price: $38.00 

 

Journal of Madam Knight, The


Knight, Sarah Kemble

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 39 pages. Includes an introductory note by Malcolm Freiberg and INSCRIBED BY FREIBERG on front fly leaf. Wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Mild, musty odor, otherwise very good with dust jacket.

Record # 302035


Price: $30.00 

 

Journal: Traduit de l'americain par Georges Agadjanian


Agadjanian, Georges and Robert Solo

Softcover. Paris, Les Editions de la Diaspora francaise, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 165 pages, French text, softcover.

Record # 404752


Price: $19.00 

 

Journals of John Cheever, The


Cheever, John

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 107993


Price: $20.00 

 

Journey to Java


Nicolson, Harold

Hardcover. London, Constable, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 254 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Heavy wear and creases, rubbing, fraying and small tears on dust jacket. Eight half-tone plates.

Record # 2233682


Price: $25.00 

 

Journey to the Trenches - The Life of Isaac Rosenberg 1890-1910


Cohen, Joseph

NY, Basic Books, 2nd, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A profile of the poet and painter who was killed at Somme in WW I. B&W photos. 224 pages. dust jacket price clipped

Record # 300125


Price: $18.00 

 

Joyce Cary - A Biography


Foster, Malcolm

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 555 pages

Record # 55248


Price: $28.00 


  

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