![Item #72492 TWELVE YEARS: An American Boyhood in East Germany; [Inscribed association copy]. Joel...](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage-req.png?auto=webp)
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1981). First edition. INSCRIBED TO HIS COPY EDITOR on half-title page, "For Carmen Gomezplata/ mit herzlichen glückwünschen/ (with hearty happiness-wishes)/ von/ Joel Agee/ New York, April 30, 1981." Carmen Gomezplata was chief copy editor at Farrar Straus for decades and well known for her..... Item #72492 More
New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., (1993). First edition. SIGNED by the author, who for seven long years was in darkness and chains, not knowing when, if ever, he would be free. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Item #42947 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition. Very good with faint foxing and some wear along the edges, most noticeably at the spine ends. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and soiling, and small chips at the spine ends and corners. Item #50780 More
London: Hutchinson, (1958). First edition. An autobiographical story of prison and Borstal life. Dust jacket by Balint Stephen "Val" Biro. Near fine with page edges and endpapers lightly foxed but boards crisp, bright and fine. In very good dust jacket with tear in spine internally mended, light wear on spine..... Item #55061 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. His time in the Senate. INSCRIBED "For Lisa I hope you enjoy the book -- Bill Bradley." Fine in dust jacket. Item #49868 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. His time in the Senate. SIGNED by Bradley. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Item #49907 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. His time in the Senate. SIGNED on title page. Fine in dust jacket. Item #50479 More
![Item #72131 REPORT FROM PART ONE and REPORT FROM PART TWO; [Two volumes of memoirs, BOTH SIGNED]....](https://qbbooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/72131.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1691262672)
Detroit / Chicago: Broadside Press / Third World Press, (1972 / 1996). First edition of each volume. The first one, “REPORT FROM PART ONE,” IS INSCRIBED on the half-title page, “For Richard and Joan, Warm regards!/ Sincerely,/ Gwendolyn Brooks”; and the second one, “REPORT FROM PART TWO,” IS SIGNED TWICE..... Item #72131 More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED, "For Pamela/ Thank you for being part of this book's birth! Peace/ James Carroll/ June 5, 1996." Winner of the 1996 National Book Award for non-fiction. Item #35383 More
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition. Published in the U.S. later the same month as A PERSONAL RECORD. Conrad's autobiography "with a fictional slant." 8vo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards. Very good with front hinge starting at first blank, flattened creasing to front pastedown, and light shelf wear to corners and..... Item #53951 More
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2000). First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "For --- remembering the old times - Richard Conroy." Page fore edges slightly soiled, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Memoir of the author's time in the Foreign Service. Item #37651 More
London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. First edition. Essay collection broken into four sections, two of which are autobiographical. The rest deal with his views on fellow novelists and on poets and artists. Near fine with foxing to top edge of cloth and subtle reflection of dust jacket design on spine;..... Item #54185 More
Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1965. First edition. "...from her 'debut' at the old Cotton Club in New York to her resounding triumphs on TV .... includes a candid discussion of her own responses to the issues of civil rights....and some marvelous anecdotes concerning the many celebrities she has known..... Item #71562 More
London: The Cresset Press, (1948). First of this edition. Originally published in 1860 and still considered one of the best autobiographies written. Edited and with an introduction and notes by J. E. Morpurgo. Fine in dust jacket. Item #49522 More
New York: Harper & Row, (1963). First edition. INSCRIBED by the trumpeter and bandleader on front free endpaper, "To Florence +/ Herb. White/ Best Wishes/ Max Kaminsky/ Feb. 5 1968" with doodle beneath. Illustrated with 8 pages of photos, most of which feature other jazz greats including Louis Armstrong, Billie..... Item #72607 More
New York: Delacorte Press, (1976). First edition, INSCRIBED on half title page in year of publication "For - - Long live theatre. Joshua Logan Tysons Corner 10.13.76." Very good to fine in like dust jacket. Item #49538 More
(New York): Scribner, (1999). First edition. SIGNED by author. His second book, continuing his life story starting with the last word in "Angela's Ashes," which, of course was an instant success. Fine in dust jacket. Item #40921 More
London: Michael Joseph, (1978). First edition. The fourth volume in the British comedic writer's war memoirs, this one spanning the landing in Salerno, Italy on Sept. 23, 1943 to his being wounded four months later. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his copious penciled notations..... Item #72628 More
Washington, DC: Press of Byron & Adams (for the author), 1918. First edition. Edited by C. H. Claudy. Illustrated with frontis photos of Mills and wife Hannah as well as a number of photos, drawings, and maps in the text. Bound in original imitation leather over flexible boards with gilt-stamped..... Item #72582 More
New York: Random House, (2002). First edition. Uncorrected proof. INSCRIBED "To a Fellow Texan" and SIGNED by Justice O'Connor. Filled with family photos of the Days on the ranch. Tentative publishing date of February 2002. Fine in publisher's logo-printed paperwraps. Item #48869 More
New York: Random House, (1969). Later printing, INSCRIBED to Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman. Randall was a bookseller, head of rare books at Scribner's, and then head librarian at Indiana University where he helped put together the Lilly Collection. Near fine with light foxing in like dust jacket. From the collection..... Item #54030 More
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1988). First edition, limited issue. The autobiography opens with a letter to fictional alter-ego Nathan Zuckerman and closes with a lengthy letter from "Zuckerman" to Roth (pointing out problems with the book). Number 9 of 250 numbered copies SIGNED BY ROTH. 8vo gilt-stamped brick-red..... Item #72629 More
London: Hamish Hamilton, (1951). First edition. Minor offset on endpapers and spine a trifle sunned, otherwise fine in slightly soiled dust jacket with spine a bit darkened. Item #33547 More
New York: Crown Publishers, (1950). First edition. SIGNED BY VAN WYCK BROOKS and dated "1950" in pencil on front pastedown. An autobiography of sorts of the older brother of Gertrude Stein edited by Edmund Fuller. Small 4to red cloth with gilt-stamped spine blocked in black; red top edge stain; 331..... Item #71945 More
Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. First edition. One of 200 copies of this four page excerpt from an autobiography that doesn't appear to have ever been published. (No copies in OCLC). Rust colored, handsewn paperwraps with compliments card from press laid in. Fine. Item #55130 More