GEORGE GERSHWIN.
New York: Longmans Green & Co., 1938. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Attractively produced tribute to George Gershwin edited and designed by Merle Armitage. Published the year after he..... #50524
Biography
UNITED Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
New York: Ballantine Books, 2016. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Booker on title page. Booker signed this copy during his February 27th appearance at North Atlanta High..... #50542
THE PLAY OF THE EYES.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First U.S. Edition. Softcover. Translated from the German by Ralph Manheim. Third volume in the memoirs by the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature..... #28502
POPS.
New York: Harper, 2018. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Collection of essays about fatherhood. SIGNED by Chabon on specially bound-in page by the publisher. 8vo cloth. #28734
MAMA'S GIRL. A Memoir
NY: Riverhead Books, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Memoir of growing up Black in Brooklyn in the 1970's. Comment by Bebe Moore Campbell and Lorene Taylor (who wrote BLACK ICE). #8055
CAN'T WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING MORE PLEASANT? A Memoir (SIGNED ARC)
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. First Edition / First Printing. Softcover. Softcover ADVANCE READING COPY of the first U.S. edition hardcover published in May 2014. SIGNED BY CHAST on the..... #50015
AT SEA WITH JOSEPH CONRAD.
London: Grant Richards, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated Limited first edition, one of 1250 unsigned copies. Illustrations, including a nice photo of Conrad as frontispiece. 8vo cloth. Fine uncut copy..... #27837
BAGGAGE Tales from a Fully Packed Life
New York: Dey Street Books, 2021. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Cumming on specially bound-in page by the publisher. Memoir by the actor and author of the..... #50583
TWO LIVES, ONE RUSSIA.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed & Inscribed by the author on the title page. 8vo cloth & boards. #50163
"GENTLEMAN MORE DOLCE PLEASE!" (Second Movement) An Irreverent Memoir of Thirty-Five Years in the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Boston: Beacon Press, 1974. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED BY DICKSON on the front fly-leaf "with the best wishes of / Harry Elis Dickson." Not signed to anyone..... #50379
PASSPORT TO PARIS.
Boston: Little Brown, 1955. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Autobiography of Vernon Duke (1903-69), the American composer best known for his songs "Taking a Chance on Love", "I Can't..... #50523
PAGES FROM A COLD ISLAND.
New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy with slip laid in. Stated first edition. first printing, with no mention of a later printing on copyright page. Second..... #27737
DON'T SQVEEZE DE BOW! Reminiscences About Alexander Schneider.
Norwich, VT: Terra Nova Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Affectionate anecdotes and tributes from some of "Sasha" Schneider's many friends and colleagues. Schneider (1908-1993) was a noted violinist, cellist, and..... #21048
THE SECRET LIFE OF COWBOYS.
New York: Scribner, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing, with full number line on copyright page. What it's like to be a cowboy by this Montana rancher. 8vo..... #27786
LONG ISLAND LIGHT: Poems & a Memoir.
NY: Vanguard, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Simultaneous first softcover edition. Wrappers. #5588
THAT'S THE WAY I SEE IT.
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1993. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Edited by Nikos Stangos. The second volume in David Hockney's impassioned autobiography. Signed by Hockney on the title page..... #50686
THE HOUSE OF DENT 1888-1938.
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1938. First Edition thus. Hardcover. The memoirs of J. M. Dent, with additional chapters on the last sixteen years by Hugh R. Dent..... #50491
THE ART OF MEMOIR.
New York: Harper Collins, 2015. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Karr on a special extra page bound in by the publisher. Stated first edition, first printing, with full number line..... #27292
SOMETHING OF MYSELF For My Friends Known and Unknown
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1937. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. The first edition, first printing of Kipling's posthumously published autobiography. Somewhat uncommon in the original dust jacket. 8vo..... #50488
HURRICANE STREET.
[Brooklyn, NY]: Akashic Books, 2016. Simultaneous First Paperback Trade Edition. Softcover. Signed & inscribed "This book is for --- Hope for review / Ron Kovic 7/16/16" opposite the title page..... #29467
THE LIVES OF THE BOHEMIANS. Growing Up With My Father's Painting.
Santa Monica, CA: Danger! Books, 2005. First Edition / Signed Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Copy #9 of 124 numbered copies signed by Jonathan Lethem and painter Richard Lethem (Jonathan's father). The..... #50510
LIFE AFTER DARKNESS. Finding Healing & Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings.
New York: Hachette, 2016. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by Knight on a preliminary page. Author of a previous book which tells her story FINDING ME: A DECADE..... #29319
A CHILDHOOD IN SCOTLAND. Illustrated by Ray Evans.
New York: Doubleday, 1982. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Stated first American edition. 8vo boards & cloth. #29452
THE BLACK VEIL: A Memoir with Digressions.
Boston & New York: Little Brown & Co., 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Moody on the title page. Borrowing his title from Hawthorne's story "The Minister's Black Veil", the..... #20426
A CLOAK OF LIGHT Writing My Life
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1985. Signed First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author. 8vo full leather, gilt-stamped, a.e.g, with silk marker. #50057