biography and memoir
SHAKESPEARE: The Biography
New York: Nan A. Talese, 2005. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in near fine jacket. Jacket sharp and bright with a couple of small rubs at one fold. Unclipped. Book clean and sound. SIGNED by author on published-issued bookplate affixed to ffep. 572pp. with index.
HENRY JAMES: Selected Letters
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in like jacket. Touches of rubbing to jacket. Mild shelf-wear. Else clean and sound throughout. DJ unclipped. 587pp.
THE HEART OF A WOMAN
New York: Random House, 1981. First Edition. 8vo. Black boards over black cloth spine, stamped in red. In white pictorial dust jacket. Light scuffing and toning to jacket, with one small closed tear to front panel. Minor wear to boards. INSCRIBED on ffep: "Caroline Little, / Joy! / Maya Angelou.....
TALKING TO MYSELF
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket. SIGNED at title page. Jacket suffers some rubbing, soil and wear at spine extremities. Price clipped. Interior pages lightly toned but clean. Very good. Pearl Bailey's follow-up to her successful autobiography THE RAW PEARL.....
EVERGREEN BOUGHS AND MINCE MEAT PIE: Or Christmas in the Eighties
Eugene, OR: Witteveen Press, 1952. First edition. Paperback. 12mo. Stiff wraps. Very good. Some fading to covers. Minor edgewear. Else clean and sound throughout. The author offers a nostalgic look back at the Christmases of her youth. Includes her mince meat recipe. A charming production. With several B&W photographs. 19pp.....
J.M. BARRIE AND THE LOST BOYS: The Love Story that Gave Birth to Peter Pan
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, (1979. Second printing. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter purple cloth over blue boards, in photographic dust jacket. A very good plus copy in like DJ. Mild rubbing and toning to jacket, 1/2" tear to back panel. Slight yellowing to endpapers. Interior else bright and clean throughout.....
KEEPING THE RAILROADS RUNNING: Fifty Years on the New York Central: An Autobiography, and a Review of the Railroad Crisis Today
New York: Hastings House, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue boards in photographic dust jacket. Near fine in a very good DJ. Small tears to jacket. Clean, bright throughout. 244pp. Memoirs of the former Senior Vice President of the New York Central System. Railroadiana.
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BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON [Complete in Four Volumes]
London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859. Hardcover. 8vos. Original publisher's stamped decorative cloth with gilt spines. Good overall;. Some starting here and there. Cloth worn, rubbed. Couple of chips at spine. But clean and sound overall. A handsome edition of one of the greatest biographies ever written.
WINSTON CHURCHILL 1874-1951
New York: Philosophical Library, (1952). First American edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Black cloth in printed dust jacket. A very good copy, in a good plusjacket. Moderate rubbing to jacket. Touches of soil. Edgewear. 1" tear at spine, small chips to back panel fold. Verso reinforced with tape. Light touches of.....
A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY Volume VII
New York: Methuen, (1980). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Light-green boards in pictorial dust jacket. Near fine in a very good plus DJ. Mild touches of edgewear to jacket. Promo sticker to front panel. Interior clean, crisp, and unmarred. 239pp. Apocryphal memoirs of the Monty Python funnyman, illustrated throughout with.....
THE LETTERS OF JOHN CHEEVER
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Quarter cloth, pastepaper boards. Jacket with mild handling wear, small owl stamp to front free endpaper. Clean, tight, unmarked. And intimate look at the master of the short story, edited by his son.
THE OTHER MOZART
Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, (2001). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth in pictorial dust jacket. About fine in like DJ. INSCRIBED by Chmielarz to title page. Clean, bright, unmarred throughout. 97pp. Speculative biographical collection of verse about Maria Anne (Nannerl), who was Mozart's older sister.
REMINISCENCES OF HAZEL DOROTHEA CHRISTOPHER
Brooklyn: Remington Publishing, n.d. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. Black cloth spine over brown cardstock boards, hand-sewn and decorated. Light edgewear and scuffing. Boards attached to cloth tape of spine, but not to sewn text block, apparently as constructed. Typescript with hand annotations and corrections in pen and pencil. Illustrated with.....
CAPOTE: A Biography
New York: Simon & Schuster, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Quarter turquoise cloth over grey boards, in photographic dust jacket. A near fine copy in a very good plus DJ. Jacket mildly wrinkled at top edge, slightly dented at head and tail of spine. Mild toning/sunning to spine and.....
THREESCORE: the Autobiography of Sarah N. Cleghorn
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green woven cloth. In illustrated dust jacket, unclipped. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to first endpaper: "with pleasure, / Sarah Cleghorn." Jacket with prominent section of loss to lower, rear; additional minor edge wear, chipping. Cloth corners lightly bumped.....
SWEET AND LOW: A Family Story
New York: Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine in like jacket. Bright, tight and sharp. Appears unread. SIGNED by author Cohen to title page. Well-received memoir about the author's investigations into his family's conflicts surrounding family business: Sweet and Low artificial sweetener. 272pp.
MEMORIES OF THE GREAT AND THE GOOD
(London): Pavilion Books, (1999). Second printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue silver-stamped boards in jacket. Near fine condition overall. Presentation copy, SIGNED by Cooke to bookplate affixed to front free endpaper. Cooke's essay portraits of some of the famous figures he profiled: Wodehouse, Gary Cooper, Frank Lloyd Wright, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.....
LIKE IT IS
Chicago: Playboy Press, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth in original metallic dust jacket. SIGNED at ffep. Moderate rubbing and edgewear with several short closed tears and creasing at rear panel. Price-clipped. Touched of wear to cloth at edges. Interior bright and clean. Very good. A collection of.....
THE LAST LOVE SONG: A Biography of Joan Didion
New York: St. Martin's Press, (2015). First Edition. Wraps. Large 8vo. Photographic wraps. Very good plus. ADVANCE READING COPY, with promotional ephemera laid in. Light traces of edgewear, remnant of sticker to front. Interior clean and bright throughout. Good and sound. 699pp. Quite thorough (and acclaimed) biography of Didion.
CARLOS LACERDA, BRAZILIAN CRUSADER, Volume One: The Years 1914-1960
Austin: The University of Texas Press, (1991). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in very good minus jacket. DJ lightly worn at edges. Chip/tear to spine with bit of loss. Book bright and sharp with just trace shelf-wear at extremities. Warmly INSCRIBED at length by author Dulles to former US.....
THE SCORSESE PICTURE: The Art and Life of Martin Scorsese
(New York): Carol Publishing Group, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Publisher's black cloth in photographic dust jacket. A very good plus copy in like DJ. Mild toning/sunning to jacket, trivial edgewear. Spine mildly cocked. Interior bright, clean, crisp, and tight. 244pp. A thorough examination of Scorsese's oeuvre, abundantly illustrated.
MADAME IMPRESARIO: A Personal Account of an Epoch
Yucca Valley, CA: Manzanita Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. 4to. Very good plus in like jacket. Minor edge / shelfwear. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by author Esser to title page. Memoir of her time in music, dance, theater, and art. Uncommon in jacket. 230pp. with numerous B&W photos throughout...
YOUNG ROBERT DUNCAN: Portrait of the Poet as Homosexual in Society
Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow, 1983. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Publisher's printed wraps. Touches of edgewear. Mild toning to spine. Interior bright and clean. Near fine. 361pp. Ekbert's biography of the landmark 20th century poet. From the publisher: "It is Ekbert Faas’s achievement in Young Robert Duncan to bring us.....
HOLDING ON TO THE AIR: An Autobiography
New York: Summit Books, (1990). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good-plus in like jacket. Small 4to. Quarter cloth, pastepaper boards. In original pictorial dust jacket. Unclipped. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR i year of publication, to leaf preceding title page: "To Paul, / With warm regards - / Suzanne Farrell / 10.04.90.".....
SOMETHING LIKE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY
New York: Knopf, 1982. First Edition. 8vo. Quarter grey cloth over white boards. Near fine in like jacket. Touches of wear here and there. Else clean and bright. DJ uncliiped. SIGNED by Kurosawa to title page. 205pp. "I am not a special person. I am not especially strong; I am.....