Search Results: Biography & Memoirs from Village Lights Bookstore, ABAA/ILAB

Hill & Wang, New York, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 246 pp. Near Fine/Very Good-. Original grey cloth on boards. Rust-colored lettering on spine. Jacket design by Leo Manso. Frontispiece of photos. Inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper. Slight wear to lower edges of case and small bump to upper tip of rear board. Very slight soiling to text block edges, with a scattering of foxing to fore-edge. Interior pristine. Dog-ear corner crease to leaf 193/194. Unclipped dust jacket shows edgewear, rubbing, several closed tears, and chipping, primarily at head and tail of spine. Dust jacket now in archival protective sleeve. The harrowing story of the author's six-year ordeal, from her prosperous middle-class family home in Poland, through her enslavement by the Nazis regime, to her liberation by American troops.

Sheffield, England: Tomahawk Press, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 10 x 7 inches. 568 pp. Fine / Fine. Dust jacket intact, showing no price. Light green cloth over boards. Stamped metallic gold lettering to front board and spine. Barely perceptible bump to rear corner tail of spine, else Fine. Text block clean, tight, unmarked, crisp; appears unread. Dust jacket has very slight creasing along top edge of front flap, else Fine. Now in archival protective cover.

Yellow Springs, OH: Oyo Press, 1989. First Edition. First Printing. Softcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.5 inches. 340 pp. Fine. Softcover in burgundy illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with woodblock prints and sketches by Harlan Hubbard and photos from the collection of Anna and Harlan Hubbard. Includes Hubbard bibliography. Slight curl to tips of bottom wrap, else Fine.

New York: Macmillan, 1965. First Edition, Seventh Printing (stated). Hardcover. Octavo. 8.5 x 5.75 inches. 415 pp. Near Fine / Good+. Unclipped first state dust jacket showing original price of $5.95. Red buckram over board, spine lettered in gilt and black. Fore edge deckled, top edge stained red. Publisher's number "51732" black stamped at lower right of back cover with same on dust jacket back panel. Dust jacket front and back panels feature b/w Harlem street scenes by photographer Leroy McLucas, with title and author's name in red script on front panel. Very slight rubbing at tips and spine ends. Text block tight and square, pages clean and unmarked. Dust jacket mildly sunned with spine faded; some chipping at spine ends, as well as at top leading corners top, front and back; slight edge creasing; three quarter inch closed tear on front panel near head of spine, as well as half inch closed tear at top leading corner. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover.

New York: Doubleday, 1988. First Edition (stated). First Printing. Hardcover. Small quarto. 9.25 x 6.25 inches. 283 pp. Fine / Fine. Quarter bound with black cloth spine over red paper backed boards, gilt spine titles and facsimile author signature stamped in gilt on front board. Intact dust jacket shows price of $15.95 on front flap. Pictorial endpapers. Printed self portrait drawing of author on pre-title page and printed autograph on title page. Illustrated with halftones throughout and three groupings of color plates. Text block clean, tight, unmarked, crisp. Appears unread. Note printing defect: middle grouping of color plates (pages 130-131) trimmed short at head and uncut. Dust jacket now in archival protective cover. Autobiography of one of the most popular singers of the 20th Century.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1974. First Softcover Edition, First Printing with complete number line. Signed. Softcover. Sextodecimo. 7 x 5.25 inches. 167 pp. Very Good. Small softcover in pictorial wraps. Flat signed and dated by the author on front flyleaf: "Harlan Hubbard, Payne Hollow, Ky., April 1980." Hand illustrations by the author throughout. Text block square and tight. Minor edgewear to wraps. Light foxing to text block edges and front and rear illustrated flyleaves. Previous owner's name and year inked on inside of front wrap, else interior free of markings. Extremely scarce softcover issued concurrently with first hardcover printing.