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My Own River Kwai


Boulle, Pierre

Hardcover. NY, Vanguard, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 214 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket covered in brodart, shows chipping, and rips. The author's own true adventures as a secret agent in the Far East during WW II. Light fading to cover boards. Gilt "PB" initials on front cover.

Record # 58240


Price: $15.00 

 

My Sister Life : The Story of My Sister's Disappearance


Flook, Maria

Hardcover. US, Pantheon, 1st, 1998-01-12, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 353 pages. Faint musty smell, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462980


Price: $10.00 

 

My Stephen Crane


Linson, Corwin K.

Hardcover. Syracuse, Syracuse University Press , 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 115 pages, hardcover, b&w illustrations. Light wear to dust jacket edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 602640


Price: $10.00 

Naipaul's StrangersBarnouw, Dagmar

Naipaul's Strangers


Barnouw, Dagmar

Softcover. Bloomington, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 177 pages. Minor wear to wrappers, else like new.

Record # 453051


Price: $12.00 

 

Nathaniel Hawthorne - The American Years


Cantwell, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, light browning, residue to front end paper, otherwise VG

Record # 53140


Price: $11.00 

 

Nature of Generosity, The


Kittredge, William

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless and tight copy.

Record # 456207


Price: $30.00 

 

North of Now


Wetherell, W.D.

Hardcover. New York, The Lyons Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Half cloth boards. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 511830


Price: $8.00 

 

Notorious Life of Gyp, The


Silverman, Willa Z.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford U. Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, right-wing anarchist in Fin-De-Siecle France

Record # 6332


Price: $18.00 

 

Okay, Let's Try It Again


Lange, Willem

Softcover. Hanover, New England Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608986


Price: $15.00 

 

On Fire


Brown, Larry

Softcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books, Uncorrected proof wraps, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 182 pages. Softcover. Uncorrected Paperback proof. Minor foxing to top edge. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 300497


Price: $40.00 

 

On My Way: Being the Book of Art Young in Text and Picture


Young, Art

Hardcover. New York, Horace Liveright, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 302 pages. Limited edition of 1000 copies. Black boards with white binding, small gilt pictorial to front cover, many page ends uncut, black book ribbon profusely illustrated with b&w plates, burgundy slip case with black pasted labels. Light soiling to spine, very slight rubbing to boards, pages crisp and unmarked, edgewear to slipcase.

Record # 807703


Price: $40.00 

 

Origins of Faulkner's Art


Sensibar, Judith Levin

Hardcover. Austin, Univ of Texas Pr, 2nd printing, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 290 pages, b&w illustrations. Soiling to rear endpaper, light wear to dust jacket. Nice, tight copy.

Record # 453575


Price: $10.00 

Origins: A MemoirMaalouf, Amin

Origins: A Memoir


Maalouf, Amin

Softcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st US, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear.

Record # 471393


Price: $15.00 

 

Orton diaries, The : Including the correspondence of Edna Welthorpe and others


Orton, Joe

Hardcover. US, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461033


Price: $10.00 

Pact, The : My friendship with Isak DinesenBj

Pact, The : My friendship with Isak Dinesen


Bj

Hardcover. US, Louisiana State University Press, 2nd printing, 1983-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 169 pages. Light sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461814


Price: $10.00 

 

Papa - A Personal Memoir


Hemingway, M.D., Gregory H.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Preface by Norman Mailer. A personal biography by his son. Dj price clipped

Record # 56359


Price: $15.00 

 

Paradise, Piece by Piece


Peacock, Molly

Hardcover. US, Riverhead Hardcover, 1st, 1998-05-04, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 337 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463847


Price: $10.00 

 

Parting from Phantoms: Selected Writings, 1990-1994


Wolf, Christa

Hardcover. Chicago, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 315 pages. Slight bump to upper edge of spine, else a clean unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 456742


Price: $15.00 

Passions and ImpressionsNeruda, Pablo

Passions and Impressions


Neruda, Pablo

Softcover. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st thus, January 15, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 396 pages. Creases to spine. Else very good.

Record # 454276


Price: $8.00 

 

Paston Letters, The


Fenn (Ed), John

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, reprint , 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Two volumes. Brown top edge. In very good condition.

Record # 503431


Price: $13.00 

Pauses : autobiographical reflections of 101 creators of children's booksHopkins, Lee Bennett

Pauses : autobiographical reflections of 101 creators of children's books


Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460632


Price: $11.00 

Perfect Stranger, The : A MemoirKavanagh, P. J.

Perfect Stranger, The : A Memoir


Kavanagh, P. J.

Hardcover. US, Graywolf Pr, 1st, 1989-01-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 213 pages. Light shelf-wear and sunning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461813


Price: $10.00 

 

Pictures & Conversations


Bowen, Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, ex-lib, her last book

Record # 7243


Price: $12.00 

 

Pilgrim in the Ruins


Tolson, Jay

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The life of Walker Percy

Record # 6163


Price: $18.00 

 

Pioneers: Narratives of Noah Harris Letts and Thomas Allen Banning, 1825-1865


Angle, Paul M.

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 290 pages, b&w illustrations and maps. Blue covers w/ gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. Foxing to fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850803


Price: $30.00 

 

Poet Auden, The - A Personal Memoir


Rowse, A.L.

Hardcover. London, Methuen, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 138 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 604303


Price: $11.00 

 

Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir 1964 to 2006


Vidal, Gore

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Gore Vidal's memoir. Mild rubbing to dust jacket. Slight tear to dust jacket spine at top edge. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952599


Price: $13.00 

 

Praying for Rain


Weidman, Jerome

Hardcover. NY, Harper & row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 52928


Price: $15.00 

 

Praying for Rain


Weidman, Jerome

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 422 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 609346


Price: $12.00 

 

Private History of Awe, A


Sanders, Scott Russell

Hardcover. New York, North Point Press, First Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 322 pages. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards with silver titles to navy cloth spine. Dust jacket with light wear to edges, small tears & price-clipped. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751196


Price: $15.00 

 

R.L.S. - Stevenson's Letters to Charles Baxter


Ferguson, Delancey and Marshall Waingrow

Hardcover. New Haven, Yal Univ. Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 385 pages, dust jacket with edgewear and closed tears, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 55464


Price: $16.00 

 

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books


Nafisi, Azar

Hardcover. New York, March 25, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 347 pages. Very good.

Record # 452248


Price: $8.00 

 

Realms of Strife: The Memoirs of Juan Goytisolo 1957-1982


Goytisolo; Bush, Peter (Translator), Juan;

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press , rep, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean. toght copy. Minor wear to edges. Small abrasion on fore edge bottom.

Record # 2233492


Price: $15.00 

 

Reiselieder mit b

Softcover. US, Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, 1st, 2001-07-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 627 pages. Text in German. Light shelf-wear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464381


Price: $25.00 

 

Remembeing Randall - A Memoir of Poet, Critic and Teacher Randall Jarrell


Jarrell, Mary von Schrader

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st , 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 54198


Price: $18.00 

 

Remembering John Masefield


Lamont, Corliss

Hardcover. NJ, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good,

Record # 4753


Price: $12.00 

 

Reminiscences (2 Volume Set)


McCarthy, Justin

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages (Vol. 1), 424 pages (Vol. 2), hardcover. Two volumes of the reminiscences of Justin McCarthy, M.P. and advocate of home rule for Ireland. Illustrated frontispiece intact. Previous owner's inscription to title page. (Volume 1) Light bumping, edgewear, and light rubbing to both volumes, as well as light age toning to text blocks. Gilted top edges. Tight and clean copies.

Record # 951510


Price: $31.00 

 

Reminisences of Lafcadio Hearn


Koizumi (Mrs. Hearn), Setsuko

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 87 pages, dark blue covers with silver decoration. Previous owner's bookplate inside front cover. Light rubbing to silver on cover otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 405213


Price: $25.00 

 

Renegade in Power: The Diefenbanker Years


Newman, Peter C.

Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Limited, 2nd pr, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 414 pages. SIGNED BY NEWMAN ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust jacket. Edgewear, chipping and mild rubbing to dust jacket, previous owner's pencil notations to rear endpaper.

Record # 807280


Price: $25.00 

 

Richard Harding Davis Years, The - A Biography of as Mother and Son


Langford, Gerald

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with edgewear, chipping. black & white photos

Record # 55465


Price: $11.00 

 

Richer, The Poorer, The


West, Dorothy

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 1995-06-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 254 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463084


Price: $13.00 

 

Ring - A Biography of Ring Lardner


Yardley, Jonathan

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos. From the library of Bernard Malamud (written on front end paper, signature?) with a letter from pub. PR dept. soliciting & blurb

Record # 56385


Price: $20.00 

 

Ring Lardner


Elder, Donald

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & whiote photos on end papers

Record # 55233


Price: $11.00 

 

Riverby


Burroughs, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Gilt top edge. Light edge wear, rubbing to covers. Pencil marking to several pages and inside front cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 850902


Price: $15.00 

 

Romance of an Old Time Shipmaster, The


Paine (Editor), Ralph D.

Hardcover. New York, Outing Publishing, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Front and rear hinges cracked. Cover cloth age darkened.

Record # 608702


Price: $30.00 

 

Salem Is My Dwelling Place: Life Of Nathaniel Hawthorne


Miller, Edwin Haviland

Hardcover. US, University Of Iowa Press, 1st, 1991-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 596 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463687


Price: $15.00 

 

Salman Rushdie - Sentenced to Death


Weatherby, W.J.

Hardcover. NY, Carroll $ Graf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 2999


Price: $15.00 

San Francisco Childhood, Memories of a Great City Seen Through the Eyes of Its ChildrenZee, John van der (Author, Editor)

San Francisco Childhood, Memories of a Great City Seen Through the Eyes of Its Children


Zee, John van der (Author, Editor)

Softcover. Kensington, Calif., Grizzly Peak Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 225 pages, b&w illustrations. Minor tearing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460089


Price: $15.00 

 

Saroyan - A Biography


Lee, Lawrence and Barry Gifford

Hardcover. NY, Harper & row, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white photos

Record # 52926


Price: $18.00 

 

Scott and Ernest - The Hemingway Friendship


Bruccoli, Matthew J.

Hardcover. NY, Random House , 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos, 168 pgs. Closed tears, dust jacket with edgewear, chips.

Record # 100972


Price: $40.00 

 

Sean O'Casey and His World


Krause, David

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's inscription on front end paper. Dust jacket with short closed tears, otherwise very good.

Record # 106175


Price: $18.00 

 

Sean: An Intimate Memoir of Sean O'Casey


O'Casey, Eileen

Hardcover. New York , Coward McCann Goghegan, 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages, brown cloth covers with a lightly worn dust jacket. His wife's recollections edited by J.C. Trewin.

Record # 406377


Price: $13.00 

Seductive Poison - A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples TempleLayton, Deborah

Seductive Poison - A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple


Layton, Deborah

Hardcover. NY, Anchor/Doubleday, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Black & white photos throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 58135


Price: $15.00 

 

Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy


Kiernan, Frances

Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 2nd printing, 2000-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 845 pages, b&w photos. Faint must smell, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462987


Price: $11.00 

 

Seeking, The


Thomas, Will

Hardcover. New York , A. A. Wyn, Inc., 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 290 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Scarce. Light tanning and edgewear to price clipped dust jacket, else a lovely copy.

Record # 854855


Price: $80.00 

 

Selected Letters of Raymond Chandler


MacShane (Editor), Frank

Hardcover. New York, Columbia University Press, Reprint, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 501 pages. Some underlining in pen. Book shows standard wear overall - good research copy. Price clipped dust jacket with wear to edges.

Record # 609352


Price: $8.00 

 

Selected Works of William Herman Bloom


Bloom, William Herman

Softcover. Middleton Springs, VT, William Herman Bloom, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Contains four works: Wit, Wisom & Whimsy, After all, It's Only Brain Surgery, The Life and Times of Samuel W. Bloom, and The Great American Malpractice dilemma. B&w photographs and illustrations. Torn price sticker on back cover. Some wear to cover. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851844


Price: $50.00 

 

Self-Consciousness: Memoirs by John Updike


Updike , John

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages. Illustrated endpapers and fly leaves. Gilt lettering on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 857425


Price: $10.00 

 

Shabunin Affair, The - An Episode in the Life of Leo Tolstoy


Kerr, Walter

Hardcover. Ithaca, Cornell, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53041


Price: $18.00 

Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the WildAskins, Renee

Shadow Mountain: A Memoir of Wolves, a Woman, and the Wild


Askins, Renee

Hardcover. US, Doubleday, 1st, 2002-07-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 461306


Price: $25.00 

 

Shady Side, The: or, Life in a Country Parsonage


N.A.

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, John P. Jewett and Company, 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, No author name given, but referred to as a "Pastor's Wife." 348 pages. Green cloth cover, embossed design, beveled edges. Cloth faded on spine, some wear to edges and corners. Some foxing on front and rear pages, very light foxing on some places throughout. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf and title page. A nice copy.

Record # 853124


Price: $20.00 

 

Shaw - An Autobiography 1856 -1898 - Selected from His Writings


Weintraub (Ed.), Stanley

Hardcover. NY, Weybright and Talley, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illus. Some fade to edges of covers otherwise

Record # 54415


Price: $25.00 

 

Sherwood Anderson Diaries 1936-1941, The


Campbell (Ed.), Hilbert H.

Hardcover. ASthens, CA, Univ. of Georgia, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, INSCRIBED BY THE EDITOR CAMPBELL on front fly leaf. 398 pages.

Record # 69533


Price: $8.00 

Six Presidents, Too Many Wars - The 40 Year Memoirs of a Washington CorrespondentLawrence, Bill

Six Presidents, Too Many Wars - The 40 Year Memoirs of a Washington Correspondent


Lawrence, Bill

Hardcover. New York, Saturday Review Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 307 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Dust jacket has edgewear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 205875


Price: $12.00 

 

Sixty Acres - more or less - The Diary of a Week-end Vermonter


Lent, Henry B.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 142 pages. Black & white illustrations by author. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Dust jacket worn with chipping and short tears along edges.

Record # 609141


Price: $20.00 

 

Sketchbook 1946-1949


Frisch, Max Geoffrey Skelton (translator)

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st English, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 301 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Slight yellowing to edges, boards and pages in excellent condition, clean inside and out. Dust jacket unclipped, some yellowing to jacket, but still whole with no rips or tears.

Record # 30698


Price: $19.00 

 

Skyward


Byrd, Richard E.

Hardcover. Chicago, R. R. Donnelley & Sons, 1st thus, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Lakeside Classic edition. 388 pages, b&w photographs. Brown covers w/ gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge gilt. Light soiling to covers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 850800


Price: $35.00 

 

Sort of Life, A


Greene, Graham

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 1st US, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj with light edgewear

Record # 56364


Price: $18.00 

 

Sound-Shadows of the New World


Mehta, Veda

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 430 pages. Nicks to dust jacket spine. Else very good.

Record # 2840


Price: $8.00 

 

Soviet Odyssey, A


Rosenberg, Suzanne

Hardcover. Toronto ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, August 11, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages, b&w photographs. Light edge wear to dust jacket, sticker residue on rear cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 453385


Price: $12.00 

 

Sparkling-Eyed Boy, The: A Memoir of Love, Grown Up


Benson, Amy

Paperback. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Very good pictorial wrappers. Intro by Ted Conover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND TED CONOVER.

Record # 220909


Price: $26.00 

 

Speaking With Strangers - A Memoir


Cantwell, Mary

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

Record # 53002


Price: $18.00 

 

Speaking with Strangers: A Memoir


Cantwell, Mary

Hardcover. US, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1998-04-28, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463846


Price: $10.00 

Spiral Staircase, The : My Climb Out of DarknessArmstrong, Karen

Spiral Staircase, The : My Climb Out of Darkness


Armstrong, Karen

Hardcover. New York ; Toronto, Knopf, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 458664


Price: $13.00 

Stand Before Your God: A Boarding-School MemoirWATKINS, PAUL

Stand Before Your God: A Boarding-School Memoir


WATKINS, PAUL

Hardcover. US, Random House, 1st, 1994-02-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461579


Price: $13.00 

 

State Of California, The : Growing Up Foreign in the Backyards of Eden


Pejovich, Ted

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1989-03-04, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 181 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light edgewear, rubbing and tanning to dust jacket. small stain to fore edge.

Record # 465848


Price: $25.00 

 

Steeplejack


Huneker, James Gibbons

Hardcover. New York, NY, Charles Scribner's Sons , First Thus, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Hardcover, publisher's dark green cloth. Gilt cameo to cover, faded gilt titles to spine. Deckled edge, some pages unopened. Frontis illustration, James Gibbons Huneker, in sepia tones, protected with a tissue guard. Small 2mm dent to right side edge. Wonderful illustrations in black & white throughout, clean and unmarked pages, with only light toning.

Record # 6670142


Price: $31.00 

 

Stone Work


Jerome, John

Hardcover. New York, 1st, July 3, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 212 pages. Very good.

Record # 451722


Price: $8.00 

 

Stories from Tory Island


Therman, Dorothy Harrison

Hardcover. Dublin, Country House, 1st, June 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 172 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 458505


Price: $63.00 

 

Stranger on the Square


Koestler, Arthur/Cynthia Koestler

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. illustrated with black & white photographs. Red remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 609361


Price: $12.00 

Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of ProvenceChristensen, Paul

Strangers in Paradise: A Memoir of Provence


Christensen, Paul

Hardcover. US, Wings Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Slight wrinkling to front cover and first few pages. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 466922


Price: $13.00 

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Alex AwardsCox, Lynne

Swimming to Antarctica: Tales of a Long-Distance Swimmer (Alex Awards


Cox, Lynne

Hardcover. New York, 1st, January 13, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 323 pages. Light edge wear to dust jacket, two stickers on front cover, else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451089


Price: $20.00 

 

Talking to Myself - A Memoir of My Times


Terkel, Studs

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st , 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good,

Record # 53358


Price: $15.00 

 

Tender Hour of Twilight - Paris in the 50's, New York in the '60's:A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age, The


Seaver, Richard/Jeannette Seaver (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, New York, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613183


Price: $19.00 

 

Tesserae: Memories & Suppositions


Levertov, Denise

Hardcover. US, New Directions, 1st, 1995-04-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 148 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 463849


Price: $10.00 

The Last Happy OccasionShapiro, Alan

The Last Happy Occasion


Shapiro, Alan

Hardcover. Chicago, 1st, October 1, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 229 pages. Small tear to dust jacket. Sticker on front cover. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451184


Price: $12.00 

This Is Not the Story You Think It Is...: A Season of Unlikely HappinessMunson, Laura

This Is Not the Story You Think It Is...: A Season of Unlikely Happiness


Munson, Laura

Softcover. Berkley Trade, 5th printing, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light wear to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460290


Price: $13.00 

This Is Not the Story You Think It Is...: A Season of Unlikely HappinessMunson, Laura

This Is Not the Story You Think It Is...: A Season of Unlikely Happiness


Munson, Laura

Softcover. Berkley Trade, 5th printing, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 343 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light wear to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 460289


Price: $13.00 

Thousand Pieces of Gold, A Mah, Adeline Yen

Thousand Pieces of Gold, A


Mah, Adeline Yen

Hardcover. Harper Collins, New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454384


Price: $10.00 

 

Through the Jungle of Death: A Boy's Escape from Wartime Burma


Brookes, Stephen

Hardcover. US, Wiley, 1st, 2001-04-13, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462670


Price: $13.00 

Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's HouseSeymour, Miranda

Thrumpton Hall: A Memoir of Life in My Father's House


Seymour, Miranda

Hardcover. New York, 1st US, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages, b&w photos. Light wear to pictorial dust jacket, else like new.

Record # 453042


Price: $15.00 

 

Titania - The Biography of Isak Dinesen


Migel, Parmenia

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Black & white photos. 325 pages. Light wear, closed tears to edges of dust jacket else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 60938


Price: $8.00 

To a Distant IslandMcConkey, James

To a Distant Island


McConkey, James

Softcover. Philadelphia, 2nd, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 203 pages, very clean and tight.

Record # 451104


Price: $10.00 

Toil: Building YourselfProcter, Jody

Toil: Building Yourself


Procter, Jody

Hardcover. White River Junction, Vt., Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 458663


Price: $19.00 

Toil: Building YourselfProcter, Jody

Toil: Building Yourself


Procter, Jody

Hardcover. White River Junction, Vt., Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.

Record # 458662


Price: $19.00 

 

Tolstoy's Letters (2 Volumes)


Christian (Ed.), R.F.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes, 737 pages total. Blue cloth covers with gilt and red design on spine. Dust jackets with color fading to spines, otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 404903


Price: $38.00 

 

Touching the Rock - An Experience of Blindness


Hull, John M.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st , 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 218 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Light dust jacket wear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 54201


Price: $15.00 

True at First Light: A Fictional MemoirHemingway, Ernest

True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir


Hemingway, Ernest

Hardcover. New York, 1st, July 6, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 319 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 451504


Price: $15.00 

 

True Crimes: A Family Album: Essays


Harrison, Kathryn

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages, remainder mark bottom edge, light bumping on dust cover edges and spine, mild bumping on spine edge, light smudges on dust cover. Clean copy. Kathryn Harrison memoir.

Record # 30047


Price: $19.00 

 

Truth Comes In Blows - A Memoir


Solotaroff, Ted

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

Record # 52949


Price: $18.00 

 

Turning Bones


Martin, Lee

Hardcover. Lincoln, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 194 pages. Dust jacket with edgewear, slight shelf-wear. Yellow remainder mark on top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453126


Price: $18.00 

 

Twenty Years at Hull-House


Addams, Jane, Illust. by: Norah Hamilton

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Co., reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 462 pages, b&w illustrations and frontispiece. Brown cloth covers w/ gilt lettering and color plate. Top edge gilt. Light edge wear to covers. Else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 851417


Price: $12.00 

Twisted Head: An Italian American MemoirCapotorto, Carl

Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir


Capotorto, Carl

Hardcover. US, Broadway, 1st, 2008-10-07, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 306 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 461436


Price: $19.00 

Unbearable Saki: The Work of H. H. MunroByrne, Sandie

Unbearable Saki: The Work of H. H. Munro


Byrne, Sandie

Hardcover. 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Light wear, shelf-rubbing to dust jacket, lower front corner slightly bumped. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453075


Price: $35.00 

Unchained Eagle: From Prisoner of War to Prisoner of Christ (SIGNED)Certain, Robert G.

Unchained Eagle: From Prisoner of War to Prisoner of Christ (SIGNED)


Certain, Robert G.

Hardcover. Palm Springs, CA, ETC Publications, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very minor are wear, clean and tight copy inscribed in front end papers by author.

Record # 2231052


Price: $38.00 

Uncivil LibertiesTrillin, Calvin

Uncivil Liberties


Trillin, Calvin

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st , 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Light wear to dust jacket. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 63979


Price: $15.00 

 

Unsentimental Education, An - Writers and Chicago


McQuade (Ed.), Molly

Hardcover. Chicago, Univ. of Chicago, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Anthology of writers associated with the Univ. of Chicago

Record # 53380


Price: $8.00 

 

Vanished Present - The Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, A


Pasternak, Alexander

Hardcover. London, Oxford, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 214 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Front endpaper creased. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607864


Price: $12.00 

 

Vertigo


DeSalvo, Louise

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

Record # 53124


Price: $18.00 

 

Very Private Eye, A - An Autobiography


Pym, Barbara

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Ed. by Hazel Holt & Hilary Pym. dj with short tears, edgewear

Record # 53056


Price: $15.00 

Victorian childhood : themes and variationsJordan, Thomas Edward

Victorian childhood : themes and variations


Jordan, Thomas Edward

Hardcover. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 391 pages. Light shelf-wear to maroon laminated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 460559


Price: $19.00 

 

VN - The Life and Art of Vladimir Nabokov


Field, Andrew

Hardcover. NY, Crown, 3rd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Previous owner's inscription of front fly leaf. Dj price clipped otherwise

Record # 54407


Price: $15.00 

 

Voice From the Chorus, A


Tertz, Abram

Hardcover. London UK, Collins & Harvill Press, 1st UK, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 328 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Based on author's letters to his wife during six years imprisonment in a Soviet forced labor camp. With an introduction by Max Hayward. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Light bumping to corners. Light soiling to fore edge text block. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952110


Price: $19.00 

Voices from a Sacred Land: Images and EvocationsPaulson, Lisa

Voices from a Sacred Land: Images and Evocations


Paulson, Lisa

Softcover. Plymouth, Wis., Thistlefield Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 68 pages, illustrations in color. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 460093


Price: $13.00 

 

W. Somerset Maugham - A Candid Portrait


Pfeiffer, Karl G.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dj edgeworn, spine sunned

Record # 55750


Price: $18.00 

 

Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir


Goodwin, Doris Kearns

Hardcover. US, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1997-10-21, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 261 pages, b&w photos. Light shelf-wear and foxing to price clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463855


Price: $10.00 

 

War and Colonel Warden, The: Based on the Recollections of Commander C. R. Thompson


Pawle, Gerald

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 422 pages, plus index, b&w photographs. Dust jacket has chipping, tears and old tape on top edge. Red top edge, slightly stained; else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 809013


Price: $15.00 

 

Waters of Darkness: Scenes from the Life of an American Jew. Vol 2


Sanford, John

Hardcover. Santa Barbara, CA, Black Sparrow Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 289 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with little to no wear to covers. Plastic clear jacket.

Record # 2233698


Price: $25.00 

What Am I Doing Here?Chatwin, Bruce

What Am I Doing Here?


Chatwin, Bruce

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1989-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Light edgewear and sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 461788


Price: $10.00 

What Am I Doing Here?Chatwin, Bruce

What Am I Doing Here?


Chatwin, Bruce

Hardcover. US, Viking Adult, 1st, 1989-09-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 367 pages. Small damp stain to lower corner. Remainder mark to bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 461787


Price: $10.00 

Whole Hog, The: A Sequel to Donkey's Years and Dog DaysHiggins, Aidan

Whole Hog, The: A Sequel to Donkey's Years and Dog Days


Higgins, Aidan

Hardcover. London, Secker & Warburg, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 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 # 407845


Price: $19.00 

 

Willa Cather - The Emerging Voice


O'Brien, Sharon

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white Illustrations, 464 pgs.

Record # 101004


Price: $25.00 

 

William Butler Yeats Memoirs


Donoghue, Denis

Hardcover. US, n/a, 4th printing, 1977-01-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 318 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with slight chipping to edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 462815


Price: $50.00 

William Faulkner and Southern HistoryWilliamson, Joel

William Faulkner and Southern History


Williamson, Joel

Softcover. 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 509 pages. Light sunning and wear to wrappers, small stain to lower edge. Interior very clean and tight.

Record # 453012


Price: $25.00 

William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and PerformanceWatson, James G.

William Faulkner: Self-Presentation and Performance


Watson, James G.

Softcover. University of Texas Press, 1st pb, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, b&w photos. Dog-ear on page 187, minor wear to pictorial wrappers. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453572


Price: $8.00 

 

William Shakespeare - The Man Behind the Genius


Holden, Anthony

Paperback. Boston, Little Brown, Unc proof wraps, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 56379


Price: $18.00 

 

With All My Might - An Autobiography


Caldwell, Erskine

Hardcover. Atlanta, Peachtree, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white Illustrations

Record # 53050


Price: $15.00 

 

With Chatwin - Portrait of a Writer


Clapp, Susannah

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 2nd, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pgs. Author was his editor at Jonathan Cape.

Record # 105992


Price: $25.00 

 

Witness to Power


Childs, Marquis

NY, McGraw-Hill, 3rd, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Light edgewear, chip to dust jacket.

Record # 106430


Price: $12.00 

Working the Sea: Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine Lobster FishermanSeavey, Wendell

Working the Sea: Misadventures, Ghost Stories, and Life Lessons from a Maine Lobster Fisherman


Seavey, Wendell

Softcover. Berkeley, Calif., North Atlantic Books, 2nd printing, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 275 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light sun-fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 459208


Price: $23.00 

Writing HomeBennett, Alan

Writing Home


Bennett, Alan

Softcover. New York, Picador, 1st Thus, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Softcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked and tight copy.

Record # 750143


Price: $11.00 

 

You Got Nothing Coming: Notes from a Prison Fish


Lerner, Jimmy A.

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages. Small tear to dust jacket. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 401800


Price: $12.00 

 

You've Had Your Time - Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Burgess, Anthony

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. Hardcover SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Brick boards with gilt titles to spine. Light marginal toning throughout. Bright dust jacket with light wear to edges, now protected with a plastic cover. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Tight binding, sharp corners, clean & unmarked pages throughout.

Record # 751144


Price: $56.00 

 

Young Sea Dogs: Some Adventures of Midshipmen of the Fleet


Pears, Randolph

Hardcover. London, Putnam, 1st, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 251 pages. B&w illustrations. Spotting to edges. Light wear to cover edges. Chipping, wear, rubbing to dust jacket.

Record # 851911


Price: $12.00 

 

Young Widow's Book of Home Improvement, The


Lloyd, Virginia

Softcover. Australia, University of Queensland Press , reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 266 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 460276


Price: $19.00 


  

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