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Bianchi, Roland R.
Delivery boy a memoir of life and love in San Francisco
Octavo in blue color illus. paper wraps ; 220 p. ; 22 cm. Signed by author ; Italian Americans -- California -- San Francisco -- Biography ; Social life and customs -- 20th century.Childhood and youth.
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Gih, Andrew
When war comes
Duodecmino with green boards in orange DJ ; 126 p. ; 19 cm. Missions -- China. Evangelistic work ; Missionaries -- Biography. Christian life.
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Russo, Luigi
Carducci Senza Retorica
Octavo in white paper wraps with black title; includes bibliographical references and index; 372 p., 21 cm In Italian. // Series: Biblioteca Universale Laterza 507.
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Beauvoir, Simone de
La force des choses
Octavo in offwhite paper wraps; 686 p. Includes bibliographical references An unopened copy. In French; Series: Collection Soleil,; 137; || French writers -- 20th century; Ensaio Frances
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Kraemer, Ruth S.; West, Benjamin,; 1738-1820 ; West, Raphael Lamar,; 1769-1850
Drawings by Benjamin West and his son, Raphael Lamar West
Large quarto in green boards; dark green spine; xiv, 104 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. Includes bibliographical references. || West, Benjamin, 1738-1820; West, Raphael Lamar, 1769-1850; American artists -- 19th century
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Keegan, Frank L. (1925-
Blacktown, U.S.A.
Octavo in black and green boards; black spine; DJ is black; xiii, 430 p. illus., ports. 22 cm. B&w photos. Signed and inscribed by the author. Mimeograph of a 21-page typed manuscript laid in: "Resign or be fired: An open letter to present and future college presidents from a former one" (p. 21). Also by Keegan. || African Americans -- Biography; African Americans -- Race identity; Autobiography; Interviews.
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Baldry, George; Haggard, Lilias Margitson Rider (ed.)
The Rabbit Skin Cap A tale of a Norfolk Countryman's youth
Large octavo in rustic beige cloth boards; color illus offwhite DJ; 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Country life -- England -- Norfolk; Baldry, George; autobiography; title page: "Written in his old age by George Baldry."
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Rosenberg, Alfred; Lang, Serge; Schenck, Ernst von
Memoirs of Alfred Rosenberg
Octavo in red DJ (black spine); xxii, 328 p, b&w illus; 21 cm. Biography.
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Dalton, Sir Cornelius Neale
The Life of Thomas Pitt
Large octavo in maroon cloth bords; 611p., 25 cm. This book contains the biography of Thomas Pitt, the grandfather of William Pitt the Elder and owner of the famous Pitt Diamond. The book focuses mostly on Pitt's time as Governor of Madras, but also addresses his role in the Hanoverian succession and his youthful adventures.
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Remilleux, Jean-Louis (Interviews with)
Mobutu Dignity for Africa
Small quarto in offwhite wraps; b/w illus.; 201 p., 26 cm.
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Eliasoph, Gene
Swing
Octavo in greyish tan cloth; illus. (some color) ports.; 167p., 22 cm. Very scarce. Inscribed by Author. The publisher, Camden Writers, specializes in oral histories and memoirs for individuals, families and family businesses.
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Mitchell, Lucy Sprague
Two Lives: The Story of Wesley Clair Mitchell and Myself
Octavo in black boards grey and red cloth spine; illus.; 575 p., 22 cm. In English.
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Ratner, Rochelle
Leads: a journal
illus.; 128 p., 23 cm.
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Townsend, Irving
The Less Expensive Spread, The Delights & Dilemmas of Weekend Cowboy
Octavo in light blue cloth in blue and white illus. dust jacket (white spine); illus.; 186 p. 22 cm. Inscribed by author in blue pen on front endpaper: "To Leza and Arie. Best Wishes from The Yellow Cowboy Irving Townsend"
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Gattai, Zelia
Anarquistas, gracas a Deus
Dark blue-cloth octavo; 271 p ; 21 cm. In Portuguese. || Authors, Brazilian -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Montandon, Pat
The Intruders
Octavo in quarter yellow cloth with black paper overlay in brownish pictorial dust jacket; 286 pages ; 22 cm. Signed by Montandon on front endpaper; From Jacket: "Here is a harrowing true story of a near fatal encounter with the forces of darkness and malevolence. Pat Montandon, well-known West Coast TV talk show hostess, had no reason to believe in the power of the supernatural-- either for good or for evil--when she movd into a spacious apartment in a town house overlooking San Francisco Bay, an apartment that appeared to offer sanctuary from her stressful career. Instead, as bizarre incident followed incident, climaxing in the tragic death by fire of her closest friend, she was forced to acknowledge that she was locked in a mortal struggle with dark and menacing forces. A true story, as riveting in its way as The Exorcist, this account will intrigue all those drawn by the continuing fascination of the occult."
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Heiner, Albert P.
Henry J. Kaiser: American Empire Builder An Insider's View
Octavo in black boards and yellow and white text with a b&w ports. of Kaiser; 434 pp., [8] pages of plates : illus.; 23 cm.
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Weed, Steven; Swanton, Scott
My Search for Patty Hearst
Octavo in black cloth and brown paper in off white dust jacket; 343 p., [16] leaves of plates: illus.; 24 cm. Inscribed and sign by Steven Weed on front free endpaper
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Roberts, John S.; Manning, E. A.
The Life and Explorations of David Livingstone, LL. D., including extracts from Dr. Livingstone's last journal, by Rev. E. A. Manning
Octavo in brown cloth wiht gilt and black embossed decoration and titles on cover and spine; 384 p. map, plates, port. In English. Very scarce in two libraries worldwide.
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Williamson, Henry
Goodbye West Country
Octavo in green cloth with gilt titles on spine in yellow illustrated, unclipped dust jacket; 369 pp.; frontispiece, plates; 23 cm. Original price of $3.00 on flap. In English. "In 1936, Mr. Williamson realized that his family had outgrown its Devon farm. He realized that he himself needed fresh fields to explore. With this determination, he brought his days in Devon to an end. "Goodbye West Country" is the journal of his last year on the Devon Moors. In its vivid passages we follow the outward activities and the intellectual problems of a great naturalist who is also a great writer."
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Kingman, Russ
A Pictorial Life of Jack London
Large quarto in black wrappers with white text and color illustration of Jack London; b&w illus.; 288 pp., 29 cm., with errata sheet laid in. In English. || Kindly inscribed and signed by author Russ Kingman on half-title page; Inclues lengthy Errata sheet (corrections to pages, bibliography, index, addenda and dust cover); opposite a letter by the author on Jack London Bookstore (Glen Ellen, CA) letterhead detailing the evidence he used to draw a conclusion to Jack London's mysterious cause of death. "Biography of Jack London. Includes account of the period London spent in the Yukon."
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Buell, Evangeline Canonizado
Twenty-Five Chickens and a Pig for a Bride: Growing up in a Filipino Immigrant Family
Octavo in dark blue cloth with gilt titles in color pictorial dust jacket; orange and gree spine; illus.; 190 pp., 22 cm. In English. Inscribed and signed by author on title page; out of print.
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Nider, Jacqueline
Aids The Smoldering Fire
Octavo in white wrappers with red illustration; 43 pages. In English. || Inscribed and signed by author on copyright page; also includes an autograph signed letter; No publisher information; likely self-published. Jacqueline Nider lost her son Frank to AIDS in 1991. "Society forgets that for every AIDS patient, their is a mother. She also suffers from the disease. When a child is in pain, the mother is in pain. When a child is subject to prejudice, the mother also feels that prejudice. Often the prejudice is directed to the mother... For a mother, her child is always a child, no matter what the age."- Introduction; this is her Jacqueline Nider's story.
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Fung, Eddie; Yung, Judy
The Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War
Large octavo in red (spine) and grey wrappers; 227 pp. In English. || Inscribed and signed by editor Judy Young; Chapter Titles: Growing up in Chinatown -- A Chinese cowboy in Texas -- A good soldier -- A prisoner of the Japanese -- A POW survivor -- Learning to live with myself.
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FrÈmont, Lily; Martin, Ismena Teresa
Recollections of Elizabeth Benton FrÈmont: Daughter of the Pathfinder General John C. FrÈmont and Jessie Benton FrÈmont, his wife
Small octavo in black-blue cloth with gilt titles; 184 pages; frontispiece; 8 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, portraits; 20 cm. In English.
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Kroc, Ray; Anderson, Robert
Grinding it out: The making of McDonald's
Octavo in brown boards in blue, unclipped jacket (white spine) protected in mylar; 201 pages, [8] leaves of plates : b&w illustrations ; 24 cm.; light to moderate edge and cornerwear to jacket; lightly bumped corners of boards; light foxing to ffep, front pastedown, and edges of leaves; o/w a solid, gently used copy with clean, crisp, bright pages and plates; binding is tight and square. In English.
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Paschall, Y. C.
Things I Remember
Octavo in blue cloth; 328 pages : illustrations, b&w portraits ; 21 cm.; cloth shows faint to light signs of wear and dust soiling; no fraying or rubbing; one leaf with small crease to upper open corner; o/w pages are clean, crisp, bright and free of marks and creases; binding is tight and square; a gently used copy; inscribed by author on ffep. In English.
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Ondaatje, Michael
Running in the Family
Octavo in white boards in white jacket still sealed in shrinkwrap; 234 pages : illustrations, map; 20 cm.; new copy. In English. || Abstract: 'During certain hours, at certain years in our lives, we see ourselves as remnants from the earlier generations that were destroyed I think all of our lives have been terribly shaped by what went on before us.' Twenty-five years after leaving his native Sri Lanka for the cool winters of Ontario, a chaotic dream of tropical heat and barking dogs pushes Michael Ondaatje to travel back home and revisit a childhood and a family he never fully understood. Along with his siblings and children, Ondaatje gathers rumours, anecdotes, poems, records and memories to piece together this fragmented portrayal of his family's past, his father's destructive alcoholism and the colourful stories and secrets of ancestors both disgraced and adored throughout centuries of Sri Lankan society. In an exotic, evocative portrait of the heat, wildlife, sounds and silences of the Sri Lankan landscape, Ondaatje combines vivid recreations of a privileged, eccentric older generation with a deeply personal reconciliatory journey in which he explores his own ghosts, and how his family's extraordinary history continues to influence his life. 'Michael Ondaatje is here at his agile and evocative best. His latest book is an account of an exotic and outrageous family, a true story with all of the most exciting qualities of fiction. Brightly coloured, sweet and painful, bloody-minded and otherworldly, it achieves the status of legend' Margaret Atwood 'An outstandingly evocative, semi-autobiographic account of a journey back to the beginning, to Ceylon where Ondaatje was born into a privileged group of mixed Dutch, Tamil and Sinhalese origins. Created from asides, snapshots, poems, glimpses in every way unorthodox and incomplete, it falls magically on the page with all the grace of a billowing, seamless dress. Like all classic writing the motion of this book lingers on, like the movement of a boat, long after the last pages' New Statesman 'A beautiful, luscious book. Michael Ondaatje has depicted his extraordinary family, who delighted in masks and costumes and love affairs that "rainbowed over marriages" in the kind of language that makes glory of their lives. He has gone on a poet's journey to Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and the reader who travels with him enters a truly magical world' Maxine Hong Kingston 'Eloquent, oblique, witty, full of light and feeling .Ondaatje's knowledge of the fragility and luck of life is very clear. So, too, is the grace and originality of his prose' New Yorker. SUBJECT(S) Descriptor: Authors, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography. Memoirs -- Sri Lanka (Ceylon) -- Canada. Named Person: Ondaatje, Michael, 1943- -- Childhood and youth.
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Shapiro, Dani
Hourglass : time, memory, marriage
White octavo with B&W photogragh; gray cloth; 145 pages ; 21 cm Signed by author || "The best-selling novelist and memoirist delivers her most intimate and powerful work: a piercing, life-affirming memoir about marriage and memory, about the frailty and elasticity of our most essential bonds, and about the accretion, over time, of both sorrow and love. Hourglass is an inquiry into how marriage is transformed by time--abraded, strengthened, shaped in miraculous and sometimes terrifying ways by accident and experience. With courage and relentless honesty, Dani Shapiro opens the door to her house, her marriage, and her heart, and invites us to witness her own marital reckoning--a reckoning in which she confronts both the life she dreamed of and the life she made, and struggles to reconcile the girl she was with the woman she has become. What are the forces that shape our most elemental bonds? How do we make lifelong commitments in the face of identities that are continuously shifting, and commit ourselves for all time when the self is so often in flux? What happens to love in the face of the unexpected, in the face of disappointment and compromise--how do we wrest beauty from imperfection, find grace in the ordinary, desire what we have rather than what we lack? Drawing on literature, poetry, philosophy, and theology, Shapiro writes gloriously of the joys and challenges of matrimonial life, in a luminous narrative that unfurls with urgent immediacy and sharp intelligence. Artful, intensely emotional work from one of our finest writers" || Marriage -- Social aspects. Women novelists, American -- Biography. Novelists, American -- 20th century -- Jewish women --Personal Memoirs.
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Sachs, Albie
The soft vengeance of a freedom fighter [Signed]
Black octavo; xxv, 249 pages ; 21 cm Signed by author|| Originally published in Cape Town: D. Phillip, 1990, with new foreword by Desmond Tutu and introduction by Nancy Scheper-Hughes.|| African studies; Anthropology; Biography; Mozambique -- People with disabilities -- Lawyers -- Amputees. Health.
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Ady, Julia Mary Cartwright
The perfect courtier, Baldassare Castiglione; his life and letters, 1478-1529 (Vol. 2)
Vol. 2 of 2 volume set; Red cloth small quarto; handsome gilt floral design and lettering to spine and front board; 507 pages-- illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles, genealogical tables 23 cm Italy -- History -- 1492-1559
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Nicosia, Gerald
Memory babe : a critical biography of Jack Kerouac [Inscribed]
Small quarto illus. white spine; viii, 767 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Inscribed by author. || Contents: Prologue: Americans Twice Over -- The Trademark of Breton -- The Ruins of Pearl Harbor -- The Sound of New York -- Wolfeans and Black Priests -- Metamorphosis -- Slow Boat to China -- The Sponsors of Waste -- More Day to Dawn -- The Footsteps of the Bard -- Double Vision -- Clowns in a Circus of Power -- "The Obsessive Violence of Rimbaud" and "The Ravbeled Nerve-Ends of Huysmans" -- The Ghosts of Northport -- Jack's Last Tape -- Epilogue -- Books by Jack Kerouac. Originally published: New York : Grove Press, 1983.
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Sadkowski, Waclaw
James Baldwin
Black octavo; 93 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 18 cm Very scarce. In Polish || Series: Klasycy literatury XX wieku || African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography
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Darrow, Clarence
The story of my life
Octavo black cloth gilt lettering in black and red jacket, archival mylar wrap; viii, 495 pages illustrations 21 cm Autobiography of one of the greatest criminal lawyers of our time || Records and correspondence.
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Davies, Lillian Bridgman
Lilian Bridgman architect
Small orange octavo, 37 pages, b&w illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. Women architects -- California -- Biography. || Bridgman, Lilian, 1866-1948. || Signed by author. || Scarce.
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Henderson, J. Y; Taplinger, Richard
Seltsame Patienten : Tierarzt im grossten Zirkus der Welt
White-cloth octavo, 164 p, 8 b&w leaves, b&w illus. In German. || Circus, Performing Animals, Veterinarians -- United States -- Biography. || DJ protected in archival mylar wrap.
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Stassi, Fabio
A Ultima Danca de Chaplin
Blue multicolored octavo, white spine, 222 p. In Portuguese. || Charlie Chaplin, Biography. || No records found in Worldcat.
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Colum, Padraic
Ourselves alone! : the story of Arthur Griffith and the origin of the Irish Free State
Brown-cloth octavo, gilt to spine, xvi, 400 pages ; 23 cm. Scarce, Out of Print. || DJ protected in archival mylar wrap. || Presidents -- Ireland -- Biography, Griffith, Arthur, 1872-1922.
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Biblioteca Selecta
Amics de Gaspar de Portola : memoria, 1981-1993 = report, 1981-1993
Large dark red quarto in red DJ, gilt to front board, 104 pages, color illustrations ; 29 cm. Beautiful b&w map on orange paper to front pastedown and front free endpaper. || Includes color folded map. || California -- History -- To 1846. || Translated from Catalan to English. || DJ protected in archival mylar wrap. || Novelized biography of Gaspar de Portola.
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Halberstam, David
The amateurs The story of four young men and their quest for an Olympic gold medal
Grey octavo in blue DJ, black spine, 221 pages, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. Rowers -- United States -- Biography. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
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Kohler, Joachim; Taylor, Ronald (translator)
Nietzsche and Wagner : a lesson in subjugation
Black-cloth octavo in purple-violet DJ, gilt to spine, 186 pages, b&w illustrations ; 23 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Biography, Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900, Wagner, Cosima, 1837-1930. || "An absorbing account of the bizarre and fluctuating relationship between the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the composer Richard Wagner and his wife Cosima ... The book sheds new light on Nietzsche's early writings, showing how they were subverted by Wagner to parade his own ideas ... The source of Nietzsche's Superman and Will to power are traced to the pre-fascist ideology of Richard and Cosima Wagner."--Jacket. || Contents: 1. A Visit to the Underworld -- 2. Learning the Art of Self-Sacrifice -- 3. The Euphoric Acolyte -- 4. Lessons in Subjugation -- 5. 'Will Dionysus Flee from Ariadne?' -- 6. The Spirit that Begets Tragedy -- 7. Bayreuth Perspectives -- 8. 'Cherchez le Juif' -- 9. A Mortal Insult -- 10. Return to the Underworld.
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Clapham, John
Dvorak
Large red octavo, gilt to spine, 238 pages, b&w illustrations ; 25 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Composers -- Czech Republic -- Biography.
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Dolan, Edward F; Lyttle, Richard B.
Scott May, basketball champion
Blue multicolored octavo in blue DJ, x, 85 pages, approx.12 leaves of plates, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. Scarce, out of print. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Basketball players -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
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Carr, Carolyn Sidley (editor)
A Tale To Be Told : The Early Years of Byron Merwin
Golden yellow octavo, manuscript, hand-sewn, 20 pages. Only 200 copies. || Inscribed and signed by author. || Not found in WorldCat. || Biography.
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Dana, Julian
Sutter of California : a biography by Julian Dana
Teal octavo in black DJ, gilt to spine and front board, deckled edges, xi pages, 1 leaf, 423 pages, b&w frontispiece, plates, portraits, map; 22 cm. Biography, Sutter, John Augustus, 1803-1880. || Sutter emigrated from Switzerland to the United States. For a while he was a trader in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1839, he journeyed to Vancouver, British Columbia, took a ship to Hawaii, and eventually another ship to California. Seeking land away from close Mexican control, he settled by the Sacramento River and established a farm. In 1848 gold was discovered at a mill he was building. His fort became a destination for many of those seeking gold. Eventually the newcomers squatted on his land, and he lost much of it. He moved to Pennsylvania while putting in his claim to the U.S. Government for reimbursement. With an inventory of his purchase of Fort Ross and a list of his descendants.
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Gardiner, Phyllis H.
The Hyatt legacy : the saga of a courageous educator and his family in California
Light brown-cloth octavo in light green DJ, 301 pages; 21 cm. Inscribed and signed (twice) by author. || Biography, Hyatt, Edward, 1858-1919. || DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve.
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Huston, McCready
Salesman from the sidelines : being the business career of Knute Rockne
Blue octavo, gilt to front board, faded gilt to spine, xix, 235 pages, chiefly b&w illustrations ; 21 cm. Business, Biography, Rockne, Knute, 1888-1931.
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Hubbard, Ethel Daniels; Gillespie, Jessie (illustrator)
Ann of Ava
Small dark red octavo, 245 p, [12] leaves of b&w plates, b&w illus, portraits ; 20 cm. No matches for specific edition and date. || Scarce. || Missionaries, Judson, Ann Hasseltine, 1789-1826 -- Burma -- Biography.
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Tabit, Louis R.
When the Going Gets Tough
Dark blue octavo, 191 p, b&w illus. Politics, Biography. Lebanese-American. Immigrant history. Middle East || No records found in WorldCat. Scarce. Self-published.
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Muirhead, James Patrick
The life of James Watt : with selections from his correspondence
Full leather. Light brown octavo, marbled front pastedown, front free endpaper, rear pastedown, and rear free endpaper, marbled edges, raised bands, gilt to spine and boards, gilt crest to front board, xvi, 572 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates, b&w illustrations ; 23 cm. Biography. || Contents: Appendix: No. I. List of the works of Denys Papin. No. II. Historical note on the discovery of the theory of the composition of water. By the Right Hon. Henry Lord Braugham. No. III. Summary of the history of the progress towards the discovery of the composition of water, and of the discovery itself. No. IV. Additional note on the discovery of the composition of water.
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