Biography - Autobiography - Memoirs from Bookfever.com, IOBA

New York:: Harper & Row,, (1977). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine in a near fine dust jacket (price-clipped).. First US printing. The second autobiography by this English art historian, museum director, and broadcaster. who is best known for the landmark television program "Civilizatipm." - "beginning with the hazardous evacuation… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books in association with Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The story of an immigrant Jewish family's life in America's heartland. "With his wife and small daughter, Max Weisberg left Russia in 1904, went first to Cincinnati and eventually to a 60-acre farm… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY:: Doubleday,, 1967,. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in very good dust jacket (some discoloration to the gutters from binder's glue, minor wear to dj, toning to dj and folded slightly offcenter) . First printing. "The greatest pitcher in the Major Leagues tells the inside story of his rise to the top." Autobiography from… Read more about this item

New York:: Alfred A. Knopf,, 1935.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in original black cloth with the thin title strip around binding still intact (minor sunning to spine), no dust jacket. . First printing. An autobiography of a young German girl, "reaching maturity after the war, deeply moving, grimly dramatic. The picture of wartime Germany, of… Read more about this item

Scappoose, OR:: RBA Publishing,, 2006.. First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. First printing, a large trade paperback original. A memoir of the 1950s and the Beat era, the pivotal decade of the 20th Century in which a Beat Generation revised the awareness of consciousness at the same time as a deceptive military-industrial complex was corporatizing… Read more about this item

Pasadena, California: : Clara Vista Press,, (1951). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in red cloth with gilt lettering (some dulling to the lettering on the spine). Tipped inside the front cover is a printed letter by the President of Alpha Phi, noting that this book was being given to the attendees of the 1958 convention). Quite… Read more about this item

London:: Bloomsbury,, (1988). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.). First thus. An illustrated edition - in both full color and black and white - of Strachey's most famous and influential book, originally published in 1918, and one which revolutionized the writing of biography. His barbed prose removed these revered… Read more about this item

San Francisco:: Straight Arrow Books,, (1973). Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in black cloth in a good only dust jacket with a large chip to the lower corner f the front cover.. First printing. An indictment of our prison system - McCune, a "low IQ" man, was convicted of rape and sentenced to death although his… Read more about this item

New York:: Random House,, (2012). SIGNED hardcover -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. 5th printing. A book which was a James Beard Award Nominee and named one of the ten best books of The Year By Vogue. "It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmothers house and… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper & Row, , (1981). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in very good dust jacket (price-clipped) . First printing. A "major biography of a fascinating, complex, and enormously influential family [which]covers an entire era of American history - the nineteenth century. Almost every member of the Beecher family, from the patriarch, Lyman (1772-1863),… Read more about this item

New York:: Viking,, (2001). SIGNED first edition -. Very near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (slight bumping to corners).. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A memoir by this influential poet which explores the first three decades of her life and chronicles the Beat years - including her relationships with Frank O'Hara, Audre Lorde, Franz Kline and… Read more about this item

New York:: W W Norton & Co / Center for Documentary Studies,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Letters between these two Mississippi writers, friends since their teenage years, which began in the late 1940s and continued until Percy's death in 1990. "Jay Tolson has selected, edited, and annotated the letters… Read more about this item

New York:: Harper Collins,, (1995). Very near fine (remainder line). 1st trade paperback printing. Using letters and other family documents, as well as interviews with living family members, Frazier reconstructs the history of his family during the 200 years they lived in America - including their role in the Civil War, the town in Ohio founded by an… Read more about this item

New York:: Atlantic Monthly Press,, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (small spot delaminated on front cover of dj from sticker removal).. First printing. Hartley, a journalist who worked in Africa in the 1990s describes his childhood as the son of a British colonial officer, a legacy that stretched back… Read more about this item

Englewood Cliffs, NJ:: Prentice-Hall,, (1961). SIGNED hardcover -. Near fine (over-opened before half title page) in a very good dust jacket with some small chips to ends of dj spine.. Hardcover. Autobiography of a woman who became one of the most successful restaurateurs of her time in the New York City and Ft Lauderdale areas - Born in… Read more about this item

Sonoma, CA:: Vine Book Press,, (1983). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Bartholomew grew up in the San Francisco Bay area, and his careeer in journalism included covering the 1925 earthquake in Santa Barbara, but was most significant as a World War II correspondent in the Pacific. New Guinea, and Okinawa. Includes… Read more about this item

Chapel Hill, NC:: Algonquin Books,, (2015). First edition -. Fine in illustrated wrappers.. Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A moving memoir by this acclaimed novelist - "Grimsley was eleven years old in 1966 when federally mandated integration of schools went into effect in the state and the school in his small eastern North Carolina… Read more about this item

New York:: St Martin's,, (1995). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.. First US printing. A collection of reminsences of mid-20th century Ireland, one which "takes her readers along the byways of Ireland and into the heart of the country. In stories by turn comic and poignant, she explores the character of family… Read more about this item

New York:: Da Capo Press/ Perseus, , 2014.. First edition -. Very good in illustrated wrappers (crease to lower corner of front cover). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) A "meticulously researched biography, drawing on much unpublished material, of a woman who was a century ahead of her time. As the "daughter of Salmon P.… Read more about this item

New York:: Henry Holt,, (1940). SIGNED hardcover -. Very good in rust-colored cloth with gilt lettering on spine (some fraying to cloth at top of spine, dulling of lettering), no dj.. 3rd printing (same year as the first) Autobiography of this German-American Socialist editor, author, and labor organizer from the late 1890s until his death in 1943. He… Read more about this item