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A Cloak of Light: Writing My Life


Morris, Wright

Hardcover. New York, 1st thus, January 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Previous price sticker on front fly leaf. Covers slightly warped. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 452314


Price: $10.00 

 

Adrift on an Ice-Pan


Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 68 pages. Blue covers w/ light edge wear. Previous owner's signature on title page. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850801


Price: $60.00 

 

Alpine Path, The: The story of my career


Montgomery, L. M

Hardcover. Don Mills, Ont., reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 96 pages. Edge wear, fading, small tears to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451909


Price: $15.00 

 

Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel


Ward , Mrs. Humphrey (translator)

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1891, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, b&w frontispiece. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, handwritten poem on front end paper. Foxing, soiling to end papers and first few pages. Edges of some pages rough. Binding slightly weak. Else pages clean and crisp.

Record # 401970


Price: $20.00 

 

And Did You Once See Sidney Plain?


Wilk, Max

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, a memoir of S.J. Perelman

Record # 1953


Price: $15.00 

Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic TravelsHiestand, Emily

Angela the Upside-Down Girl: And Other Domestic Travels


Hiestand, Emily

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Pr, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469738


Price: $15.00 

Angela's AshesMcCourt, Frank

Angela's Ashes


McCourt, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 363 pages. Edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 452961


Price: $8.00 

 

Anna Akhmatova - Poet & Prophet


Reeder, Roberta

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 5185


Price: $30.00 

 

Anthony Burgess


Coale, Samuel

Hardcover. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very minor wear on edges of jacket, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230493


Price: $19.00 

 

Anton Chekhov - A Life


Rayfield, Donald

Hardcover. NY, H.Holt, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 674 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 52958


Price: $30.00 

 

Anton Tchekhov - Literary and Theatrical Reminiscences


Koteliansky (Editor), S. S.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1st UK, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 249 pages. Foxing to edges and some pages throughout. Covers show standard wear. Unmarked text.

Record # 609515


Price: $20.00 

 

Apocalypse of the Word - The Life and Message of George Fox (1624 - 1691) (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)


Gwyn, Douglas

Softcover. Richmond, Friends United Press, Reprint, 1991 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 241 pages bound in wine colored wraps. Inscribed by the author to title page. Light creases to spine & a touch of faint foxing to top edge. Otherwise clean & unmarked.

Record # 751197


Price: $15.00 

 

Are You Somebody? The Accidental Memoir of a Dublin Woman


O'Faolain, Nuala

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co. , 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 1/4 black cloth, 3/4 green paper. Gilt lettering on spine. Color pictorial dj with photograph of author.

Record # 803797


Price: $26.00 

 

Art of Frank Norris, Storyteller, The


Hochman, Barbara

Hardcover. Columbia, University of Mo., 1st., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53078


Price: $15.00 

 

Aspects of E.M. Forster - Essays and Recollections Written for His 90th Birthday


Stallybrass (Ed.), Oliver

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Contributions by E. Bowen, Plomer, D. Garnett, others. Dust jacket price clipped, chipped, short tears

Record # 55238


Price: $15.00 

 

Author and Agent - Eudora Welty & Diarmuid Russell


Kreyling, Michael

Hardcover. NY, FSG, 3rd, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos.

Record # 55481


Price: $18.00 

 

Autobiography by Eric Gill


Gill, Eric

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 283 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Light sunfade to spine edge. Red top edge. Frontis illustration, Eric Gill, Self Portrait (1927), in black & white. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's stamp to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751210


Price: $19.00 

 

Autobiography of Mark Twain Volume One


Smith, Harriet Elinor

Hardcover. California, University of California Press, 3rd, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 736 pages. Volume one. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Very clean inside and out. Very clean inside and out.

Record # 30639


Price: $23.00 

 

Autobiography of Mrs. Oliphant, The


Coghill, Mrs. Harry (Ed.)

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago, Rep. Paperback , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Paperback.

Record # 302259


Price: $12.00 

Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A LifeWilson, Frances

Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, The: A Life


Wilson, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 316 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color illustrations throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471555


Price: $19.00 

 

Ben Hecht - A Biography


MacAdams, William

Paperback. NY, Barricade, 1st pbk, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 53088


Price: $15.00 

 

Bernard Shaw - The Pursuit of Power


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, review slip

Record # 1781


Price: $30.00 

 

Beyond Business: An Inspirational Memoir from a Visionary Leader


Browne, John

Softcover. US, Orion Publishing, 1st, 2010-02-08, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages, color photos. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464295


Price: $25.00 

 

Big Swingers, The - A Biography


Fenton, Robert W.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice Hall, 2nd, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The story of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Tarzan in the movies. Black & white photos.

Record # 53042


Price: $35.00 

Black IceCarey, Lorene

Black Ice


Carey, Lorene

Hardcover. New York, 1st, March 6, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket, spine slightly faded. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451419


Price: $15.00 

 

Blue Suit, The : A Memoir of Crime


Rayner, Richard

Hardcover. Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995-10-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460716


Price: $13.00 

 

Bookmaker's Daughter, The : A Memory Unbound


Abbott, Shirley

Hardcover. US, Ticknor & Fields, 2nd printing, 1991-08-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463886


Price: $10.00 

 

Boy Down Kitchen Street, The


Paul, Leslie

Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, INSCRIBED BY PAUL

Record # 5553


Price: $18.00 

 

Boy in the Model-T, The: A Journey in the Just Gone Past


Longstreet, Stephen

Hardcover. Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages, illustrated with line drawings by the author. Light edgewear and rubbing to price clipped dust jacket with minor sunning to spine. Internally very good.

Record # 856712


Price: $23.00 

 

Briar Patch with Harry Crews (1935-2012) - A Memoir, In the


Nagel, Edward

Softcover. New York, Quantum, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613109


Price: $10.00 

 

Burden of Memory, the Muse of Forgiveness, The (W.E.B. Du Bois Institute)


Soyinka, Wole

Hardcover. US, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1998-12-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463761


Price: $10.00 

Captain of the Vanished Fleet, ASharp, Benjamin

Captain of the Vanished Fleet, A


Sharp, Benjamin

Hardcover. Boston, MA, The Pilgrim Press, Reprint, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 40 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Very slight normal wear to cover edges of this small thin book, but otherwise in very good shape. Clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230921


Price: $19.00 

 

Chelsea 79


de Palchi (Editor), Alfredo

Softcover. New York, Chelsea Associates, Inc., 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 248 pages. Softcover. INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE BY WRITER AL CLEMENTE FEATURED IN THIS COLLECTION. includes: "A Photographic Retrospective - 34 Portraits by Gerard Malanga". Light wear - narrow wrinkle along edge of page 229/230. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611412


Price: $15.00 

 

Chicago Days/ Hoboken Nights


Pinkwater, Daniel

Hardcover. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461679


Price: $10.00 

Child of Bliss, A : Growing Up With Mervyn PeakePeake, Sebastian

Child of Bliss, A : Growing Up With Mervyn Peake


Peake, Sebastian

Hardcover. Luton, Queen Anne Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. Sticker over bar code on rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460471


Price: $25.00 

Churchill and Secret ServiceStafford, David

Churchill and Secret Service


Stafford, David

Hardcover. Woodstock & New York, Overlook Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages, b&w photos. Pictorial dust jacket with light wear to edges and slight rubbing to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.

Record # 606483


Price: $20.00 

 

Clear Pictures: First Loves First Guides


Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. US, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1989-06-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463956


Price: $10.00 

 

Clear Pictures


Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 2714


Price: $18.00 

 

Cold Beer and Crocodiles: A Bicycle Journey into Australia


Smith, Roff

Hardcover. Washington D.C., National Geographic Society, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Price clipped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 809076


Price: $12.00 

 

Collection of Letters of Thackery 1847-1855, A


Thackery, William Makepeace

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Black & with illustrations. Fraying to cloth at top and bottom of spine, with 1/4" piece of cloth missing at very base of spine. Cover corners bumped. Front hinge tender with all paper intact. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609330


Price: $25.00 

 

Colorado Volunteers in New Mexico, 1862


Hollister, Ovando J.

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 309 pages, b&w illustrations. Blue covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Gilt top edge. Light foxing to fore-edge and end papers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850804


Price: $30.00 

 

Confessions of a Literary Archaeologist


Lake, Carlton

Hardcover. New York, New Directions, 1st thus, None, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages, b&w photos. Light de-lamination on front cover of dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460505


Price: $13.00 

 

Continual Lessons - The Journals of Glenway Wescott 1937-1955


Phelps, Robert/Jerry Rosco

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus Giroux, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 410 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609356


Price: $18.00 

Conversations With Ernest GainesLowe (ed), John

Conversations With Ernest Gaines


Lowe (ed), John

Softcover. Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Sunning to spine, otherwise nice copy.

Record # 205081


Price: $15.00 

 

Conversations with Menuhin


Dubal, David

Hardcover. reprint, April 8, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 179 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451990


Price: $15.00 

 

Conversations With Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series)


Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1991-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Record # 463713


Price: $10.00 

 

Country Girl: A Memoir


O'Brien, Edna

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 357 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Memoir of Irish writer. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 952313


Price: $19.00 

 

Courage for Truth, The


Merton, Thomas

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 3457


Price: $18.00 

 

Crabcakes - A Memoir


McPherson, James Alan

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, remainder line bottom edge

Record # 52907


Price: $20.00 

 

Crime of the Century and Other Misdemeanors, The


Godey, John

Hardcover. New York , G.P. Putnams, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 191 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Some tears to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 175237


Price: $12.00 

D.H. Lawrence - The Story of a MarriageMaddox, Brenda

D.H. Lawrence - The Story of a Marriage


Maddox, Brenda

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 620 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 11317


Price: $10.00 

 

Dear Departed - A Memoir


Yourcenar, Marguerite

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Transl. from French by Maria Louise Ascher

Record # 54420


Price: $20.00 

Dearest Chums and Partners - Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children - A Domestic BiographyHarris, Joel Chandler/Hugh T. Keenan (Editor)

Dearest Chums and Partners - Joel Chandler Harris's Letters to His Children - A Domestic Biography


Harris, Joel Chandler/Hugh T. Keenan (Editor)

Hardcover. Athens, University of Georgia Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 531 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket in very good condition. Clean, unmarked & tight copy.

Record # 750131


Price: $25.00 

 

Diary of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. Secretary to the Admirality in the Reigns of Charles II and James II


Pepys, Samuel

Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton & Co., Reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 844 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear, rubbing, soiling to blue covers, spine-label slightly peeling. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607714


Price: $25.00 

 

Dinghies to Divas


Caplat, Moran

Hardcover. London, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1st, June 3, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 281 pages, several b&w photographs. Light edgewear, two small tears to dust jacket; sticker residue and hole on front cover. Light foxing to top edge. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454037


Price: $10.00 

 

Disraeli - A Picture of the Victorian Age


Maurois, Andre

Hardcover. NY, Apleton, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Illust. Previous owner's bookplate. Dj worn, chipped, creased, with spittong to front cover. Inernallt clean and tight.

Record # 57636


Price: $8.00 

Dog Days: A Sequel to Donkey's YearsHiggins, Aidan

Dog Days: A Sequel to Donkey's Years


Higgins, Aidan

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages, black cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 407846


Price: $19.00 

 

Don't Tread On Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman


Crowther (Editor), Prudence

Hardcover. New York, Viking, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 372 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. B/w illustrations throughout. Inscribed by former owner on front flyleaf. Just a touch of foxing to tope edge, otherwise in good condition. Pages clean inside.

Record # 30793


Price: $13.00 

 

Donkey's Years


Higgins, Aidan

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages, black cloth covers with silver lettering on spine. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 407847


Price: $13.00 

Doors to Madame MarieMeyers, Odette

Doors to Madame Marie


Meyers, Odette

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, February 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 463 pages, b&w photographs. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454909


Price: $15.00 

 

Down on The Shore: The Family and Place That Forged A Poet's Voice:A Memoir


Holden, Adele V.

Hardcover. Baltimore MD, Woodholme House, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. hardcover with dust jacket. Memoirs of a African-American woman poet. Moderate soiling and rubbing to dust jacket. Front flyleaf missing. Black-and-white photos throughout. Rough-cut edges. A tight copy.

Record # 952275


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 

 

Duc de Saint-Simon: Historical Memoirs


Norton, Lucy (Ed.)

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 Volumes in slipcase. 535 and 525 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Blue top edges. Light edge wear to dust jackets. Else very clean, tight copies.

Record # 851365


Price: $40.00 

 

Edmund De Rothschild: A Gilt-Edged Life


Rothschild, Edmund De

Hardcover. US, JOHN MURRAY PUBLISHERS LTD, 1st, 1998-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 243 pages, b&w photos. Previous owner's markings and notes in pencil. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 464279


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

Electronic Elephant, The


Jacobson, Dan

Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd, 1st, 1994, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 373 pages. Light bumping to corners, foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with minor wear and sunning to lower edge of front cover. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 452896


Price: $15.00 

 

Etchings In an Hourglass


Simon, Kate

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

Record # 1928


Price: $12.00 

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 

 

Excursions in the Real World


Trevor, William

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

Record # 5757


Price: $25.00 

 

Extended Travels in Romantic America


Jobe, Joseph

Hardcover. Loussanne, Edita, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Accounts of 19th Century travel in North America by foreigners, tipped in color plts, illust by watercolor drawings & engravings of the period. Slipcased

Record # 11049


Price: $21.00 

 

Extreme Exposure


Kirkpatrick, Marlo

Hardcover. 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 299 pages, b&w photographs, illustrated end paper. Dust jacket price-clipped. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450818


Price: $15.00 

 

Faces of Philip


Mitford, Jessica

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A memoir of Philip Toynbee. Fading and mild rubbing to dust jacket. Remainder mark to lower text block edge. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Rough-cut fore edge. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 4450006


Price: $13.00 

 

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 

 

Family


Frazier, Ian

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 386 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine and decoration on spine. Chapter headings illustrated with b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 56372


Price: $15.00 

 

Far Appalachia: Following the New River North


Adams, Noah

Hardcover. US, Delacorte Press, 1st, 2001-04-10, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462994


Price: $11.00 

Farther Off from HeavenHumphrey, William

Farther Off from Heaven


Humphrey, William

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1977-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461477


Price: $15.00 

Faulkner at West PointFant, Joseph L. (Editor)

Faulkner at West Point


Fant, Joseph L. (Editor)

Hardcover. Jackson, Reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 125 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453007


Price: $15.00 

 

Fifty Days of Solitude


Grumbach, Doris

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 114 pages, b&w photos. Postcard handwritten by the author and related news articles laid-in. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460404


Price: $35.00 

 

First Loves: A Memoir


Solotaroff, Ted

Hardcover. US, Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2003-06-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 464248


Price: $10.00 

First Loves: A MemoirSolotaroff, Ted

First Loves: A Memoir


Solotaroff, Ted

Hardcover. New York, Seven Stories Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket with tiny stain to front cover. Faint foxing and soil to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 459118


Price: $38.00 

 

First Time Around, The: Some Irreverent Recollections


Wechsberg, Joseph

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 381 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket; protected by mylar cover. Foxing to top edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850752


Price: $12.00 

 

Fishers of Men: The Gospel of an Ayahuasca Vision Quest


Elenbaas, Adam

Hardcover. US, Tarcher, 1st, 2010-07-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462671


Price: $11.00 

 

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 

 

Flower of England's Face, The: Sketches of English Travel


Dorr, Julia C.R.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., Reprint, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 259 pages. White cloth w/ gilt lettering and design on front and spine. Some staining/wear on boards/spine. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front flyleaf. B/W photos throughout with tissue guards.

Record # 512600


Price: $10.00 

 

Forbidden Territory: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo 1931-1956


Goytisolo; Bush, Peter (Translator), Juan;

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press , rep, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean. toght copy. Minor wear to edges. Small abrasion on fore edge bottom.

Record # 2233490


Price: $15.00 

 

FORTY-SEVEN ROSES


SHERIDAN, PETER

Hardcover. US, Macmillan, 1st, 2001-09-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463534


Price: $50.00 

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 Lessons: A Memoir


Kaplan, Alice

Hardcover. Chicago, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 456763


Price: $10.00 

 

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 the Headlands


Blythe, Ronald

Hardcover. US, Chatto & Windus, rep, 1982-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463000


Price: $25.00 

From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral DissenterDellinger, David

From Yale to Jail: The Life Story of a Moral Dissenter


Dellinger, David

Softcover. Rose Hill Books, 1st thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 501 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 460343


Price: $31.00 

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky FlatsIversen, Kristen

Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats


Iversen, Kristen

Hardcover. New York, Crown, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460112


Price: $14.00 

Gaily, GailyHecht, Ben

Gaily, Gaily


Hecht, Ben

Hardcover. New York , Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 227 pages, in a dust jacket with light edgewear, unclipped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 408232


Price: $23.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

H.L. Mencken and the Debunkers


Martin, Edward A.

Hardcover. Athens, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 251 pages. Dust jacket worn and sun faded with small tear to upper edge. Faint foxing to top edge.

Record # 453142


Price: $12.00 

Hack: Stories from a Chicago CabSamarov, Dmitry

Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab


Samarov, Dmitry

Hardcover. Chicago ; London, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 124 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 459097


Price: $15.00 

 

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. 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 

 

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 

 

Hell Among the Yearlings


Randolph, Edmund

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 406 pages, several b&w photographs. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850799


Price: $25.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Horse Tradin'


Green, Ben K.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A Knopf, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Decorative stain to top edge. Light rubbing, soiling to dust jacket in brodart. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 851847


Price: $30.00 

 

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 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 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 

 

Houseboat on the Seine: A Memoir


Wharton, William

Hardcover. New York , Newsmarket Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Minor wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 607648


Price: $10.00 

 

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 

Ian Nicolson Omnibus, The NICOLSON, IAN

Ian Nicolson Omnibus, The


NICOLSON, IAN

Hardcover. US, ASHFORD PRESS PUB, 1st, 1986-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 500 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461490


Price: $13.00 

 

In Exile from the Land of Snows: The First Full Account of the Dalai Lama and Tibet Since the Chinese Conquest


Avedon, John F.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 383 pages w/ index. 1/4 gray cloth, dark gray boards. Pictorial dust jacket shows edgewear and chipping. Large tear on dust jacket along fold of back flap. Map end papers. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Brown spotting on top edge.

Record # 804036


Price: $10.00 

 

In Gratitude


Diski, Jenny

Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 250 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. A candid literary memoir. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Very slight soiling to dust jacket as well. Unmarked. A bright and tight copy.

Record # 951548


Price: $19.00 

 

In My Father's Footsteps


Matthews, Sebastion

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 278 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.

Record # 220912


Price: $22.00 

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost WarWolf, Tobias

In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War


Wolf, Tobias

Hardcover. New York, Borzoi/Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 221 pages. Remainder-mark to bottom edge, top edge cosmetic stain. Very nice in brodart cover.

Record # 606465


Price: $20.00 

 

In Retrospect:: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam


Mcnamara, Robert S.

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 414 pages, illustrated end paper. Very light edge wear, rubbing to dust jacket. Rough-cut pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 450833


Price: $12.00 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Innocents in Africa: An American Family's Story


Pifer, Drury

Hardcover. US, Harcourt, 1st, 1994-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages, b&w photos. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462310


Price: $11.00 

Inside memory: Pages from a writer's workbookFindley, Timothy

Inside memory: Pages from a writer's workbook


Findley, Timothy

Hardcover. US, HarperCollinsPublishers, 1st, 1990-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461803


Price: $10.00 

 

Intellectual Memoirs: New York, 1936-1938


McCarthy, Mary

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1992, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 114 pages. Dust jacket price clipped, else a very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450339


Price: $9.00 

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 

Into the Tangle of Friendship : A Memoir of the Things That MatterKephart, Beth

Into the Tangle of Friendship : A Memoir of the Things That Matter


Kephart, Beth

Hardcover. Boston, 1st, September 14, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 201 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451189


Price: $12.00 

 

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 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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

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 

 

Journal of Madam Knight, The


Knight, Sarah Kemble, Illust. by: Michael McCurdy

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 39 pages, illustrated with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy. Limited to 2,000 copies.

Record # 900160


Price: $16.00 

 

Journal of voyages: containing an account of the author's being twice captured by the English and once by Gibbs the pirate ...


Series, Michigan Historical Reprint

Softcover. US, Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, rep, 2005-12-20, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages. Small ink mark to rear cover, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462729


Price: $23.00 

 

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 Dorothy Wordsworth - Volume 1 and 2


De Selincourt (Editor), E.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. , Reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Hardcovers. Volume 1 - 443 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Light pencil marginalia. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 444 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Light pencil marginalia. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612531


Price: $44.00 

 

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, The (2 Vols.)


Knight (Ed.), William

Hardcover. London, Macmillan, reprint, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, maroon cloth covers with gilt lettering on spines, 254, 292 pages. Frontispiece portraits of Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Many pages unopened. Clean, tight set.

Record # 602486


Price: $30.00 

 

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 

 

Kafka's Other Trial: The Letters to Elise


Canetti, Elias

Softcover. London, Calder and Boyers, reprint, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 121 pages. Green wrappers, perfect binding, letters translated by Christopher Middleton. Slight rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 806235


Price: $15.00 

 

Kay Boyle - Author of Herself


Mellen, Jean

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux , 1st , 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. 670 pages

Record # 56401


Price: $19.00 

 

Keepers of the Flame: Literary Estates and the Rise of Biography from Shakespeare to Plath


Hamilton, Ian

Hardcover. Boston, Faber and Faber, 1st US, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 402932


Price: $18.00 

 

Kiss, The: A Memoir


Harrison, Kathryn

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardccover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Light edgewear with small crease to front bottom.

Record # 2233489


Price: $15.00 

 

Kitchen Privileges : A Memoir


Clark, Mary Higgins

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2002-11-19, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463928


Price: $10.00 

 

Kokoro - Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life


Hearn, Lafcadio

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Unk., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Spine gilt faded. Previous owner's bookplate, signature.

Record # 55787


Price: $30.00 

 

La Fontaine and His Friends


MacKay, Agnes Ethel

Hardcover. NY, Braziller, 1st US, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 7136


Price: $18.00 

 

Land of Contrasts - A Briton's View of his American Kin, The


Muirhead, James Fullarton

Hardcover. Montreal, Montreal News Company, Limited, 1st, 1898, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Blue cloth with gilt title on cover and spine. Light wear to corners. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609838


Price: $30.00 

 

Later Years (SIGNED COPY)


N/A

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1854, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 353 pages. INSCRIBED BY PRIME on front fly leaf. A collection of sketches, mostly of the author's life in the country & fishing. Blue cloth boards ribbed and worn, slightly torn at edges of spine. Light foxing throughout.

Record # 60673


Price: $40.00 

Learning a Trade: A Craftsman's Notebooks: 1955-1997Price, Reynolds

Learning a Trade: A Craftsman's Notebooks: 1955-1997


Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. US, Duke University Press Books, reprint , 1998-11-25, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 604 pages. Gilt titles on spine and front cover. Light edge wear and rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466507


Price: $13.00 

 

Learning to Look


Pope-Hennessy, John

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages, b&w photographs throughout, unclipped dust jacket with some rubbing. Heavy foxing to edges, but interior very clean.

Record # 451170


Price: $12.00 

 

Ledge Between the Streams


Mehta, Ved

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 2595


Price: $20.00 

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of FriendshipCaldwell, Gail

Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship


Caldwell, Gail

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 3rd printing, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 186 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458554


Price: $15.00 

Letters from Etretat: Recollections and Letters 1917-1922 (SIGNED)Pappenheimer, A.M

Letters from Etretat: Recollections and Letters 1917-1922 (SIGNED)


Pappenheimer, A.M

Hardcover. Seattle, Grampus, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 387 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front flyleaf. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Small tears to front and rear dust jacket, each no longer than one inch. Mild spotting and age toning to text block edges. Includes tipped-in photos and funeral tribute of the author. A tight copy.

Record # 952316


Price: $38.00 

 

Letters of Eric Gill


Gill, Eric/Walter Shewring (Editor)

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, First Edition, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 480 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Pink top edge. Light marginal sunfade to spine edge. Front hinge cracked, tender & held in place with light threads of cloth at bottom edge. Black & white illustrations throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751230


Price: $19.00 

 

Letters of Horace Walpole


Lucas (Ed.), C. B.

Softcover. London, Simpkin Marshall, reprint, n.d., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 849 pages, in limp red suede with gilt design, ribbon marker. Gutter cracked at introduction page, previous owner's signature opposite half title page. Top of spine with small tear to spine edge otherwise a nice, handsome volume printed on thin paper.

Record # 602496


Price: $8.00 

 

Letters of James Gibbons Huneker


Huneker, Josephine

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, First Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 324 pages. Hardcover. Frontis illustration, James Gibbon Huneker, in sepia tones protected with tissue guard. Green cloth covered boards with gilt cameo to cover, gilt titles to spine. Deckled side edge, green dyed top edge. Tight binding, previous owner's signature to front fly leaf, else clean.

Record # 6670157


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters of Max Beerbohn 1892-1956


Hart-Davis (Ed), Ruper

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages. Hardcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 662


Price: $8.00 

 

Letters of T. S. Eliot - Volume I - 1898-1922


Eliot (Editor), Valerie

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, Jovanovich, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 639 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609372


Price: $15.00 

Letters of Ted HughesHughes, Ted

Letters of Ted Hughes


Hughes, Ted

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 758 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453151


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters to Dorothy L. Sayers, The - 1899 to 1936: The Making of a Detective


Reynolds (Ed), Barbara

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 421 pgs.

Record # 100934


Price: $25.00 

 

Letters to Georgian Friends


Pasternak, Boris

Hardcover. London, Marin Secker & Warburg Limited, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 190 pages. Hardcover. Covers bound in tan with gilt title on spine. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped with some chipping (agewear). In decent shape. Some foxing to dust jacket and edges. Otherwise clean inside.

Record # 30799


Price: $13.00 

Lewis Carroll: A CelebrationGuiliano, Edward

Lewis Carroll: A Celebration


Guiliano, Edward

Hardcover. New York, Random House Value Publishing, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Dust jacket price clipped with light wear to edges and spine. Nice, bright copy.

Record # 454362


Price: $15.00 

 

Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe


Fields, ed., Annie

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 406 pages. B/W photograph of bust of Stowe opposite title page. Green cloth covers with gold lettering on spine and front. Very minor foxing on end papers. Excellent condition for age.

Record # 802580


Price: $26.00 

 

Life of Langston Hughes, The


Rampersad, Arnold

Hardcover. NY, Oxford, 3rd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 vols

Record # 1773


Price: $45.00 

 

Lillian Hellman - The Image; The Woman


Wright, William

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Embossed lib stamp otherwise

Record # 6465


Price: $10.00 

 

Long Light of Those Days, The : Recollections of a Vermont Village at Mid-Century


Coffin, Bruce

Hardcover. US, The Elm Tree Press, 1st, 2005-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465849


Price: $25.00 

 

Lost Childhood: A Memoir


Nir, Yehuda

Hardcover. San Diego, New York, London, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Spotting last few pages and fore edge.

Record # 803352


Price: $10.00 

 

Love's Apprentice - The Romantic Education of a Modern Woman


Abbott, Shirley

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53003


Price: $18.00 

 

Lytton Strachey by Himself - A Self Portrait


Holroyd, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 184 pages. price clipped dust jacket shows wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609344


Price: $10.00 

M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her KitchensHesser, Amanda

M. F. K. Fisher among the Pots and Pans: Celebrating Her Kitchens


Hesser, Amanda

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 2nd, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 168 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 460666


Price: $23.00 

 

Madness Visible: A Memoir of War


Giovanni, Janine Di

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 286 pages. Grey boards, black cloth spine, gilt. Very good pictorial dust jacket.

Record # 40083


Price: $10.00 

 

Making of the Modern Greek Family, The: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)


Cassia, Paul Sant, Constantina Bada

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 282 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Light (erasable) pencil throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travelers' accounts memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century.

Record # 32241


Price: $38.00 

 

Man Working, 1919 - 1962: William Faulkner - A Catalogue of the William Faulkner Collections at the University of Virginia Library


Faulkner, William/Linton R. Massey (Editor) & John Cook Wyllie (Introduction)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia/Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered board with black printed titles to canvas ivory cloth spine. Full page, full color & bw illustrations throughout. Related ephemera laid-in. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751235


Price: $94.00 

 

Mark Twain in Elmira


Jerome, Robert D. and Herbert A. Wisbey, Jr. (eds)

Hardcover. Elmira, NY, Mark Twain Society, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 242 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Clean and tight copy. Includes illustrations.

Record # 2230497


Price: $15.00 

 

Mark Twain's Letters Vol I - 1853-1866


Branch, Edgar Marquess, Michael B. Frank and Kenneth M. Sanderson

Hardcover. Berkeley, Univ. of Calif., Unk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust.

Record # 57650


Price: $44.00 

 

Max Brand - The Big "Westerner"


Easton, Robert

Hardcover. Norman, Unif. of Okla., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A biography of Frederick Faust who pub. over 30 million words as Max Brand. Black & white photos. Very slightly warped boards otherwise

Record # 57656


Price: $38.00 

 

McCully Report: The Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905


McCully

Hardcover. Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 337 pages. Edited by Richard von Doenhoff. Previous bookseller's bookplate on front flyleaf. Dust jacket soiled.

Record # 802225


Price: $19.00 

 

Meditations and Contemplations in Two Volumes


Hervey, James

Hardcover. Troy, NY, Solomon Wilbur, 1st, 1813, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes in one. 212 and 177 pages. Brown leather covers w/ edge wear, rubbing, small tears to front cover and bottom of spine. Front hinge starting to crack on outside. Foxing and soiling to pages and end papers. Else binding tight.

Record # 851078


Price: $50.00 

 

Memoir of Robert Wheaton, with Selections from His Writings


unknown

Hardcover. Boston, Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 385 pages. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering. Pieces from top and bottom of spine missing. Rubbing to cover corners. Previous owner's signature inside front cover. Else a nice, tight copy.

Record # 850652


Price: $30.00 

Memoirs of a Dada DrummerHuelsenbeck, Richard

Memoirs of a Dada Drummer


Huelsenbeck, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 252 pages. Softcover. Heavy foxing to textblock edges. Sunfading to dust jacket. Otherwise a clean copy with minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 471653


Price: $13.00 

 

Memoirs of a Publisher, The


Doubleday, F. N.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. B&w frontispiece. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Light rubbing to dust jacket in brodart. A clean, tight copy.

Record # 851930


Price: $25.00 

 

Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully (Volume 3)


de Bethune, Maximilian

Hardcover. London, 1757, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 3 only. 416 pages. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Rubbing, edge wear to covers. Hinges starting to crack. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Discoloration to endpapers and title page. Else pages clean and tight.

Record # 851525


Price: $60.00 

 

Memoirs of Princess Natal'ja Borisovna Dolgorukaja


Townsend, Charles E.

Paperback. Columbus OH, Slavica Publishers, Inc., Reprint of 1913 ed., 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 146 pages. White covers. Top corner of front cover has crease. Foxing to covers. Otherwise, clean, tight unmarked. B/W photos of gravemarker at end. One map and family tree.

Record # 804007


Price: $58.00 

 

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq.


Braybrooke, Richard Lord (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne & Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 815 pages. Green cloth covers w/gilt lettering on spine. Light edgewear to covers. Residue on endpapers. Small stain on fore-edge. Else clean and tight.

Record # 852077


Price: $12.00 

 

Memoirs


Amis, Kingsley

Hardcover. New York, Summit, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 346 pages. Black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609335


Price: $10.00 

 

Memoirs


Williams, Tennessee

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., 1st, October 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 264 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket; spine faded. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 451629


Price: $15.00 

 

Memorial of Andrew J. Shipman: His Life and Writings


Pallen, Conde B.

Hardcover. New York , Encyclopedia Press, Inc., 1st, 1916, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 362 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover, top edge gilt, no dust jacket. Wear, rubbing and soiling to edges and spine. Front hinge cracked. Interior very clean.

Record # 607719


Price: $12.00 

 

Mightier Than the Sword: Memories and Criticisms of Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, H.G. Wells, Stephen Crane, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Ivan Turgenev, W. H. Hudson, Theodore Dreiser, Algernon Charles Swinburne


Ford

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1st UK, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 292 pages, gilt tile on spine. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor corner and edge wear. Black pen line on bottom edge and slight ex-library residue on rear end paper. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Record # 852839


Price: $20.00 

 

Model Childood, A


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 407 pages. Black remainder mark on top edge. Light fading to dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609354


Price: $12.00 

Morning After, The - American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986Will, Geroge F.

Morning After, The - American Successes and Excesses 1981-1986


Will, Geroge F.

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 5th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 430 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. A collection of his columns & essays from the 80's. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 58145


Price: $12.00 

 

Moscow diary


Micunovic, Veljko

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 474 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 453386


Price: $12.00 

My BrotherKincaid, Jamaica

My Brother


Kincaid, Jamaica

Hardcover. New York, 1st, October 30, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 197 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451198


Price: $12.00 

 

My Father's Voice - MacKinlay Kantor long Remembered


Kantor, Tim

Hardcover. NY, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53051


Price: $15.00 

 

My First Cousin Once Removed - Money, Madness & the Family of Robert Lowell


Stuart, Sarah Payne

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 2nd, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 244 pages, black & white photos. Light edge wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Else very good.

Record # 53374


Price: $6.00 

 

My Life as Author and Editor


Mencken, H.L.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1993, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Ed. by Jonathan Yardley

Record # 54049


Price: $25.00 

 

My Life with John Steinbeck: The Story of John Steinbeck's Forgotten Wife


Brown, Douglas

Softcover. UK, Lawson Publishing, 1st paperback, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Softcover. Wrapper excellent. Pages clean. Binding tight. In great shape, looks barely read. Based on interviews between Gwyn Steinbeck and Douglas Brown. A look at the mysterious author, John Steinbeck.

Record # 31886


Price: $23.00 

My Losing SeasonConroy, Pat

My Losing Season


Conroy, Pat

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Light wear to dust jacket, else nice and tight.

Record # 450323


Price: $10.00 

 

My Mother's Music: A Memoir


West, Paul

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1996-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462500


Price: $10.00 

 

My Mother's Music: A Memoir


West, Paul

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1996-05-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 210 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462501


Price: $10.00 


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