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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 

 

His Ownself: A Semi-Memoir


Jenkins, Dan

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 266 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped and excellent. Clean and unmarked inside and out. Looks barely read, in very good condition.

Record # 5560120


Price: $15.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 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 

 

Houseboat of the Seine - A Memoir


Wharton, William

Hardcover. NY, Newmarket Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 105814


Price: $18.00 

 

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
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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.
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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
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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
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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