Memoir from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

Beaufort, SC: The Peacock Press, 1970 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 398pp. illus. blue cloth tall 8vo w/gilt titles: Very Good+ in a near Very Good dj in poly cover. Stories by the Anglo-American South Carolinian Dowling (1915-2004).

New York: Little, Brown, 2006 1st ed. 321pp. hardback sm 4to: near Very Good in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [text is age browned owing to low quality publisher's paper; edges are age foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A humorous memoir of the Alpha Delta Phi house at Dartmouth, 1959-63, where the author got his… Read more about this item

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985 1st ed. 259pp. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [some light foxing to fore edge; some stray thin ink lines bottom edge; else a nice crisp copy]

New York: Harper, 2008 reprint. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 321pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [name of person to whom book is inscribed is blacked out on title p; some scuffs on covers; text is age browned; else a nice clean and crisp copy; dj = scuffed patch near… Read more about this item

New York: Vantage Press, 1999. INSCRIBED on half-title p. by author. 117pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A memoir by a traveling salesman for Proctor and Gamble in the rural South during the 1950s.

New York: HarperCollins, 1998 1st ed. INSCRIBED boldly on half-title p. by author. 229pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012 2nd ptg. SIGNED on title p. by author. 291pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [text is lightly age browned; else a nice crisp copy] A bookstore memoir praised by Andre Dubus III among others.

Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2014 1st ed. 328pp. paperback 8vo: Very Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A humorous memoir by a former L.A. paparazza.

London: Phoenix Press, 2000 1st ed. thus. 170pp. w/illustrations by the author. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice clean and crisp copy] The Irish writer’s memoir of his time as a young Red Cross stretcher-bearer during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. Cary (1888-1957) had been an art student, and his sketches illustrate this book, which was… Read more about this item

London: Vintage, 2002 1st ed. thus. 227pp. paperback: near Very Good [text is age browned & edges are foxed owing to paper quality; else a nice clean and uncreased copy] Cover praise from Antonia Fraser, et al.

London: Macmillan. 1957 1st ed. 318pp. w/folding map. illus. green cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [some age browning of endpp; smudged spot top edge; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A memoir by the American diplomat and conservationist Crowe (1908-76) who served as U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon in the early 1950s… Read more about this item

Atlanta: Peachtree, 1986 1st ed. 160pp. illus. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a generally Good dj with some edge tears and loss [some tiny foxing top & fore edges; else a nice crisp copy] Georgia newspaper humorist Lewis Grizzard (1946-94) said of this third wedding (to the author) that he especially enjoyed the individually wrapped Slim Jims at the reception. He… Read more about this item

Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007 reprint. 173pp. green cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj [top corners very slightly bumped; else VG] A memoir about inheriting wealth that won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction.

New York: The John Day Co.,  1953 1st ed. 190pp. grey cloth 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [touch of age darkening to top edge & endpp; else nrF] A London bus conductor’s memoir of a workingman’s life in the Communist Party, originally published in Britain as "The Communist Technique" in Britain.

London: Harrap, 1960 1st ed. 187pp. hardback sm 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj. A follow-on to the author’s "Harley Street Hypnotist."

privately issued, 1980 1st ed.  INSCRIBED by author. 82pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: Very Good [bit of age browning; else VG] Life in the parsonage by the wife of a United Methodist Church minister.

McPhee Gribble/Penguin Books Australia, 1984 reprint. 245pp. illus. paperback: Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A memoir portrait of Aboriginal life in 20th century Australia by a woman born in 1923.

New York: Dutton, 1956 1st Am. ed. 189pp. hardback 8vo: Very Good in a Good+ dj [hint of shelf rubbing; else VG] A marvelous true story of the rescue of an eccentric Englishman, West de Wend Fenton (1927-2002), from the clutches of the French Foreign Legion in Algeria in 1955. "Beau West" had impulsively and foolishly joined the Legion only… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson, undated [1947]. 126pp. blue cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = some loss @ spine head; else G] A frank account of the author's impressions while on jury duty at a French Assize Court. Andre Paul Guillaume Gide (1869-1951) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.

New York: Penguin, 1981 reprint. 276pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned with some foxing of edges; else a clean, complete & tight copy] American writer Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) served in France during the First World War and was a member and chronicler of the Lost Generation in Paris during the 1920s. Back cover praise from Wallace Stegner and John Cheever… Read more about this item