A PERSONAL NOTE. An Essay
Toronto: Basilike, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. One of 125 copies printed. Wrapper sewn into card covers in Cockerell dust jacket, front-label. #42
Biography
FUN HOME: A TRAGICOMIC.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. This well-received graphic memoir was also adapted into a musical and won a Tony Award for Best Musical in 2015..... #28746
UNTOLD STORIES.
London: Faber & Faber, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Bennett on the title page. Autobiographical writings, along with most of his other published work over the past decade, being..... #22802
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
REMEMBERING RAY: A Composite Biography of Raymond Carver.
Santa Barbara, CA: Capra Press, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. A paperback original. With several important contributors, among them Tobias Wolff, Joyce Carol Oates, Tess Gallagher, William Kittredge, Hayden Carruth, Robert..... #11207
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
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
A HISTORY OF HAVING A GREAT MANY TIMES NOT CONTINUED TO BE FRIENDS The correspondence between Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, 1911-1934
Albuquerque NM: University of New Mexico, 1996. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo brown cloth. #28230
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
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TURNAROUND. A Memoir [INSCRIBED].
New York: Villard Books, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & dated "To --- and --- / from their friend / Milos Foreman / April '94" on the half-title page shortly..... #27492
FATHER & I. A Memoir.
London: Little, Brown, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Gebler on the title-page. First edition, first printing, with First Published in Great Britain by Little, Brown and Company in 2000"..... #27711
MY MOTHER'S PEOPLE.
Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Company, 1976. First Edition. Softcover. One of 1500 copies in wrappers. Briefly but warmly inscribed to his friend Marshall Clements on publication ("...again, as always, the..... #20270
UNCLE BUCK.
Fort Bragg, CA: Ten Mile River Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Briefly inscribed to Marshall Clements by Gifford in 1983 on the title page. A brief family memoir. Original wrappers..... #20305
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TO BE OR NOT TO BOP [INSCRIBED] Memoirs
New York: Doubleday, 1979. First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Inscribed "To -- / Be Bop! / Dizzy Gillespie - 10/14/79" on the front flyleaf. With many photos, a select..... #29125
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
THE IMAGINARY GIRLFRIEND. A Memoir
London: Bloomsbury, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. True first edition. Like PIGGY SNEAD, this appeared first in Britain. 148-page memoir that interweaves writing & wrestling. Illustrated With Photographs. Very fine in..... #3496
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
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
FATHERS, SONS, AND BROTHERS. The Men in My Family.
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Lott on the title-page. Stated first edition, first printing, with "ABCDE" on copyright page. Intriguing nonfiction by the author of..... #14384