Biography from Book Happy Booksellers

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in DJ; 223pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, sticker & sticker remnants to front endpaper, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG condition. Autobiography of Jewish American entertainer Mickey Katz (1909-1985). Illustrated with photos.

Binghamton, NY: Harrington Park Press, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good+. 278pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Inscribed & Signed by Jose Sarria, the subject of the book, as "Widow Norton, Jose." Stories from the life of Jose Julio Sarria (1922-2013), aka The Grand Mere, Absolute Empress I de San Francisco and the Widow… Read more about this item

Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996. Softcover. Very Good. 210pp; Covers clean & bright with small light label stain to back cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Signed by Author. Memoir of writer Donald Windham's Depression-era youth in Atlanta Georgia, praised as a "masterpiece" by Georges Simenon.

London, UK: Chatto & Windus, 2016. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 415pp; Covers clean & bright, spine lightly creased, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Family memoir about a daughter trying to assemble her father's story that includes parachuting into France and Burma for British special forces during World War Two, as his mind dissolves into dementia. Illustrated with… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1954. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good+. Cloth in DJ; First English Language Edition; 132pp; DJ edgeworn, age-toned & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square & age-toned, date to front pastedown, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG-/Good+ condition. First English translation of Barbi's Life of Dante, first published in Florence in 1933. Contents:… Read more about this item

American Lifeograph, 2019. Softcover. Fine. 322pp; As new in shrinkwrap, Fine condition. Memoir of pregnant teen from Oklahoma who was forced to spend six months at Sellers Baptist Home for Unwed Mothers in New Orleans, in the 1960s.

New York: The Citadel Press, 1945. Hardcover. Good+/None. 242pp; No DJ, tan cloth boards with red titling to front & spine, minor staining to boards, spine age-toned, slight forward slant, previous owner's name to FFEP, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Vintage lesbian autobiography written under a pseudonym by Frances V. Rummell (1907-1969), an educator and columnist.

Chicago, IL: Clarke-McElroy Publishing Co.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; First Edition; 274pp; DJ slightly age-toned with a few closed tears & protected by mylar sleeve, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Scarce, vintage autobiography of Ethel Sturges Dummer (1866-1954), a progressive activist, writer &… Read more about this item

Cambridge, MA: Exact Change, 1999. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Fine. 274pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, as new, Fine condition. Account of the author's sixteenth year, when he ran away from English public school and was then sent to Shanghai to live with his father. Originally published in 1943. Foreword by Edith Sitwell.

Spurl Editions, 2017. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 320pp; Covers clean & bright, spine lightly creased, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Memoir by William Seabrook's second wife, about their life and adventures primarily in Paris and New York during the 1930s. At the time, Worthington was a successful fiction writer, while Seabrook wrote bestselling true adventure books and… Read more about this item

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; 329pp; Minor foxing & slight edgewear to DJ, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+/VG- condition. Diaries of Zinaida Hippius, Russian poetess, critic and religious thinker. Translated and edited by Temira Pachmuss.

New York: The James A. McCann Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. 324pp; No DJ, red cloth boards with gilt titling to front & spine, small stain to front board, else boards clean & bright, spine faded with wear to spine ends, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG- condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author, with date… Read more about this item

Madawaska, ME: Valley Publishing Co., 1980. Softcover. Very Good-. Wraps; 44pp; Minor staining to front cover, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG- condition. Inscribed & Signed by Author. Biography of Levite Eloi Rossignol of Madawaska, Maine. Illustrated with photos & maps.

New York: Avon Books, 1974. First Avon Printing. Paperback. Very Good+. 499pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG+ condition. Movie tie-in paperback edition of Patricia Hearst's memoir of her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in 1974. (Originally published as "Every Secret Thing" in 1982.)

Privately Printed, 1993. Softcover. Fine. 67pp; Covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is sound, as new, Fine condition. Privately produced biography of William Lysander Adams (1821-1906), an American writer, newspaper editor and doctor in Oregon, viewed as a pioneer of the Restoration Movement, a Christian movement of the 19th century.

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1940. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 292pp; No DJ, black cloth boards with red titling to front & spine, a few tiny white stains to rear board, pages slightly age-toned, text unmarked, binding is sound, VG condition. Scarce, vintage biography of Joseph Stalin, dictatorial leader of the Soviet Union, written when he was still in power.… Read more about this item

New York: Horizon Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Cloth in DJ; 479pp; DJ slightly edgeworn, boards square, clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG/VG- condition. Autobiography of crusading reporter, author of exposes, and leftist activist John L. Spivak (1897-1981). Fascinating first-hand account of old-time newsrooms, miners' strikes in West Virginia, the nation's march to World… Read more about this item

London, UK: Buckland Publications Ltd., 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 264pp; A few smudges to back cover else covers clean & bright, text unmarked, binding is tight, VG condition. Biography of Gerald Massey (1828-1907), an English poet and writer on Spiritualism and ancient Egypt. Illustrated with photos.

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. 320pp; No DJ, light orange cloth boards with titling to spine, minor staining to boards, previous owner's name to front pastedown, text unmarked, binding is sound, Good condition. Biography of George Francis Vanderveer (1875-1942), an American lawyer who defended members of the Industrial Workers of the World… Read more about this item

Lebanon, OR: Privately Printed. First Edition. Softcover. Good+. Wraps; First Edition; Minor staining & hand-written date to front cover, a few pages with taped tears at top edge, text unmarked, binding is tight, Good+ condition. Signed by Author. Reminiscences of American life in the early 1900s and of the author's experiences in World War One. Published circa 1995.