BROTHERS IN ARMS: A Journey From War to Peace.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986. First edition. INSCRIBED on front endpaper. Fine in dust jacket. Item #51177 More
MEMOIRS
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OUR MAN IN VIENNA: A Memoir.
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
SPECIAL PEOPLE.
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1977). First edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author. Near fine in dust jacket. Item #47922 More
A SAILOR'S LOG: Recollections of Forty Years of Naval Life; [Inscribed from the American Admiral to his British Counterpart and with the first appearance of the poem written for Evans by Rudyard Kipling on p.402].
New York: D. Appleton, 1908. Later printing INSCRIBED BY EVANS on title page, "For Captain Keyes with my best wishes, R. D. Evans." Robley Dunglison Evans (1846-1912) was a rear admiral in the U.S. Navy, serving from the Civil War to the Spanish-American War. Roger John Brownlow Keyes (1872-1945), was..... Item #54171 More
A FAN'S NOTES: A Fictional Memoir.
New York: Harper & Row, (1968). First edition. Author's first book. A great book about obsession with the New York Giants and Frank Gifford. Crisp and fine with only the lightest of rubbing to edges; in near fine dust jacket with just a few tiny nicks and touch of light..... Item #53965 More
TRAVELS BY NIGHT: A Memoir of the Sixties.
(Toronto): Lester Publishing, (1994). First edition. SIGNED BY FETHERLING on title page. An unaccountably scarce book, an "unusual, vivid and often disturbing memoir ... Margaret Atwood, Marshall McLuhan, John Lennon, Allen Ginsberg, Gwendolyn MacEwan (and Charles Manson) are just some of the people who cross the pages of his story"..... Item #54886 More
RAMBLES OF A NATURALIST WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR.
Philadelphia: Book Association of Friends, 1877. Later printing/edition. Blind-stamped imprint on two leaves, otherwise near fine. Item #50973 More
FAMILY, FRIENDS AND POETRY.
Amador City, Ca: Quintessence Publications, 1980. First edition. Number 170 of 300. Included with this item are an announcement card for the 1980 exhibit of The Phoebe & Hans Barkan Collection of Robinson Jeffers, the funeral keepsake "To Remember Blanche," that contains her last poem "Not-Mind," in an edition of..... Item #55915 More
ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON, L.L.D: During the last Twenty Years of His Life.
London: Cassell & Co Ltd., 1887. First edition. A selection from Cassell's National Library Series. Edited by Professor Henry Morley. Piozzi and her first husband, Henry Thrale, were intimates of Samuel Johnson's. A pocket-sized book with decorative boards and ads for other Cassell books and products on endpapers. Binding a...... Item #47297 More
SAMUEL LONGFELLOW: Memoir and Letters.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1894. First edition. Top edge gilt. Cloth cover shows wear on spine ends and corners, black endpapers a little chipped on back inner hinge, previous owner's name and date on front free page, still good to about very good. Item #50074 More
THE COLOR OF WATER: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.
New York: Riverhead Books, 1996. First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author with quote from pg. 38, "I never saw Mommy 'Get Happy'," including valediction, "peace," followed by the author's signature. Advance reading copy in fine condition but for slight shelf wear around the edges. Item #50207 More
LOVE AND EXILE: Including A LITTLE BOY IN SEARCH OF GOD, A YOUNG MAN IN SEARCH OF LOVE and LOST IN AMERICA.
New York: Doubleday, 1984. First edition, limited issue. One-volume compilation of compilation of his three previous memoirs. Frontispiece by Raphael Soyer. Number 111 of 200 copies SIGNED BY SINGER. 8vo gilt-stamped gray cloth boards in gilt-stamped linen slipcase. Barest toning to spine otherwise fine in fine slipcase. Item #55968 More
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SHADOW AND SUNSHINE [cover title SHADOWS AND SUNSHINE].
Ohama, Neb. [Privately published], 1906. First edition. Elizabeth "Eliza" Gertrude Suggs (1876-1908) was a physically impaired African-American author and lecturer born to former slaves. In SHADOW AND SUNSHINE, her only published book, Suggs recounts her parents' stories of being enslaved, other stories of slavery recalled by her mother, and her..... Item #54954 More
THE PATH TO POWER.
(New York): HarperCollins, (1995). First U.S. edition. Number 127 of 175 SIGNED and numberd copies; there were also 26 signed, lettered copies. Scarcer than the London limited edition, which was 500 copies. Thatcher, who covered "The Downing Street Years" in her earlier (1993) memoir, takes us from her early life..... Item #54637 More
NOBODY'S SON: Notes from an American Life.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1998). First edition. SIGNED BY URREA. Memoirs of his childhood by the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. His childhood was "a mix of cultures, a clash of opposites," during which he endured "violence and fear" both outside his home and in it. Fine in fine..... Item #55454 More
WANDERING TIME: Western Notebooks.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, (1999). First edition. SIGNED BY URREA. Memoirs by the Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Ruminations on nature, music and poetry written while wandering the West with his cat, Resr Stop. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #55453 More
EXECUTIONER | SACK FULL OF OLD QUARRELS | ROMANCE | QUARTERLY WEST, WINTER 1979 | MONKEY WARS | SONG OF NAPALM | WHAT SAVES US | SWEET LORAIN (2 vols) | ARCHEOLOGY OF THE CIRCLE (2 vols) | AFTER THE OTHERS (2 vols) | THE CIRCLE OF HAHN | UNRAVELING STRANGENESS: Most volumes inscribed and each one signed; one volume with tipped in AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED, one volume INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY [15 volumes].
(Varous places: Various publishers, 1976 - 2002). First edition of each of the 15 volumes. Award-winning poet Weigl explores his experience serving in the Vietnam War in his work and says in his memoir, "The war took away my life and gave me poetry in return." Among many other honors..... Item #55495 More
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