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New York, New York, USA: Penguin Books, 2000. BX1 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black and white photo illustrated white and orange wraps with very minor overall shelf wear. A memoir of life in a Dublin family and their transition through the turbulent 1960s. this book was nominated for the Irish Times Literary Prize for Nonfiction. 278p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 5.25"x8".

New York, New York, USA: Random House, 1997. BX2 - An advance reading copy paperback book in very good condition that has some bumped corners, small crease at the extreme top left corner of the back cover, light discoloration and shelf wear. The prison memoir of an American judge and the manic-depressive illness contributed to the bizarre scandal that put him behind bars. 349 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. . Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

London, East Sussex, United Kingdom: Longmans, Green and Co., 1956. BX6 - A hard cover first UK edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. The words FIRST PUBLISHED and the year appear on the copyright page with no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on the spine with minor overall shelf wear with some glue and paper residue as well as some scattered light surface damage on the front and back fixed endpapers form where the library mylar sleeve endflap was glued to the boards plus there are the usual library marks, stamps, embossing, and labels on the top and bottom outside paper edges, the front and fixed and free endpapers, the title page, and the copyright page plus there is some very light yellowing of the paper plus there is some light staining on the bottom and right outside paper edges plus there is some very, very light water wrinkling on the top and bottom paper edges of about the last ten pages. Edited by… Read More

New York, New York, USA: Little Brown & Company, 1981. BZ2 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in green paper covered boards quarter bound in textured tan paper with metallic green lettering and a graphic on the spine with minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very, very light edge wear along the bottom board edges plus there is some very, very light bumping at the top right corners plus there is some very light soiling on the outside paper edges plus the book is very, very slightly shelf cocked plus there is some tape staining on the outside board surfaces and front and back endpapers from where the dust jacket was taped to the boards plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top and bottom outside paper edges, title page, and back endpaper. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear plus there is a library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. A memoir of a… Read More

New York, New York, USA: George Braziller Incorporated, 2001. BZ3 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). A tight, clean, sound copy in light green wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light creasing on the front cover near the edge at the top left corner plus a very, very slight bump at the bottom right corner. A memoir of the author's childhood and youth in a Polish shetl which ended when he fled from the Polish authorities in 1927. It is a memoir, humorous at times, of grinding poverty and misfortune and evoking sites, characters and mood typical of great Yiddish literature. 238p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 5.5"x8.5". Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

Bishop Auckland, County Durham, United Kingdom: The Pentland Press Limited, 1992. AK4 - A trade paperback book SIGNED by author (first name only) and inscribed by author to previous owner in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, some light stains, light discoloration and shelf wear. Bow Jest is a fascinating autobiography written with unique humour, recounting the 'rags to riches' story of Paul Zetter CBE, Chairman of the famous pools company. 8.25"x5.75", 200 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 1993. CC6 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in tan wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus some scattered dogearing and an occasional wrinkled page plus there is a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges. A medical memoir of a doctor that begins in Depression-era Troy, New York where the author grew up. His parents were both strong-willed and his mother urged her son to become a writer while his father urded his son to become a physician. It is an autobiography that relates his years of work to sort out the persuasive influence of his parents and his gradual development of his own sense of who he was and what he wanted to be, both a writer and a doctor. By the author of "Imagine a Woman and Other Tales," "Taking the World in for Repairs," "Letters to a Young Doctor," Mortal Lessons," "Rituals of Surgery," and "Confessions of a… Read More

North Newton, Kansas, USA: Mennonite Press, Inc., 1985. CF4 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome blue illustrated light gray wraps with minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of some light surface wrinkling on the spine plus there is some very, very light edge wear around the covers' edges. The story of the author's boyhood on the plains of western Kansas in the early 1900s and of his educational and personal experiences as a student, teacher, and school administrator. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 154p.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Houston, Texas, USA: D. Armstrong Co., Inc., 1996. CH5 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in black and white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with some very slight soiling on the outside paper edges plus there is some very, very light creasing on the front cover plus there is some very light overall rubbing of the covers plus there are 2 dogeared pages. A memoir of the author's life during and shortly after World War II. The author's story is notable for her chance encounter with Adolph Hitler as well as her description of her family'sanxieties over the Nazi's behavior. 185p.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Ontario, Canada: Clarence Day Shepard, 1987. CC4 - A hardcover book signed and inscribed by author to previous owner in very good condition in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease and some tears on the edges and corners, some scattered rubbing, scuffing, and wrinkling, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book cocked, some bumped corners and light shelf wear. The life of a Canadian prairie boy from 1914 through 1987. Not a complete autobiography but an episodic story. 9.5"x6.5", 204 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Random House, 1997. BD6 - A trade paperback book SIGNED by author in very good condition that has some bumped corners, wrinkling and crease, light discoloration and shelf wear. A book about coming of age during the sexual and feminist revolutions. It is a history that reveals the problems of access to information on women's bodies and women's desires. 9.25"x6.25", 286 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2001. BG4 - A hard cover first edition book in very good+ condition. A sequence of numbers with the "1" present and with no additional printings indicated on the copyright page. A tight, clean, sound copy in textured orange paper covered boards quarter bound in blue cloth with gold lettering and graphics on the spine and pictoral two-color endpapers with only very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear. A memoir by the survivor of a volcanic disaster on January 14, 1993 that killed nine men, six from a team of scientists and three tourists, examining the crater of Galeras, an Andean volcano in southern Columbia. Bibliography, acknowledgments, indexed, 270p.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, USA: Vantage Press, Inc., 1998. BH5 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome illustrated black, red, and white wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. With a preface by C. N. Yang. The author's autobiography, of a Chinese intellectual, poet, and noted translator, who graduated from a Chinese university noted for his production of scholars and scientists. By the author of "Art of Translation," "On Chinese Verse in English Rhyme," and "On Literary Translation." 132p.. First Trade Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.