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 FUTURE LASTS A LONG TIME: and The Facts
London: Chatto & Windus, 1993. First English language edition. Hardcover. Tall 8vo. Black cloth, gilt-stamped spine. In blue and cream dust jacket. Mild edgewear, corners bumped. Slight spine lean. Very faint spotting to edges of text block. Very good. English translation of Althusser's two autobiographical texts, found in the author's.....
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 ROYAL DUTY
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (2003). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Publisher's quarter blue imitation cloth over purple boards. In original photographic dust jacket. Near fine in very good plus DJ. SIGNED by Burrell at title page. Light creases and edgewear to jacket. Bright, clean, crisp, and tight, 405pp. A.....
TRAINING AND REWARDS OF THE PHYSICIAN
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1918). First Edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue cloth. Very good. A touch shaken. Rubbing to titles. Else clean and sound. From Lippincott's Training Series. 153pp. with several illustrations. Includes chapters on public health work, urban vs. country practices, influence of "other" medical practices (Christian Science, etc.), rewards, etc......
WHAT'S WELSH FOR ZEN: The Autobiography of John Cale
London: Bloomsbury, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to. Cardboard covers with paper mounted. SIGNED in black marker by Cale across front cover. Minor edgewear and bumping. Very good plus. Cale's autobiography, from his childhood in 1940s Wales and early classical training to the conflict-ridden 1990s Velvet Underground reunion and the death.....
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 GUEST AND THE FUTURE: Anna Akhmatova and Isaiah Berlin
London: John Murray, (1998). First edition thus. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Near fine like jacket. DJ unclipped. A few tiny spots soil to top of text block. Some darkening to gutters, apparently from manufacture. Else bright, clean, sound, and tight overall. Originally published in Germany, this translation by Anthony Wood. First.....
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.