This Boy's Life a Memoir

The Atlantic Monthly Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Fine, square, tight with NO notes or ANY markings. DJ with a scrape at spine base where sticker removed (see image) else FINE, not clipped ($18.95); 288 pages .

NY: THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS. unsigned bookplate to ffep, top edge remainder mark. . VG. Hardcover. FIRST PRINTING. 1989.

London: Bloomsbury, 1985. First UK edition, 1985. Hardback. 243pp. Blue boards with gold design to front and gold titles to spine. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. This is Tobias Wolff's captivating re-creation of his youth, so true in its every particular that, whatever our own experience, we cannot help but recognise ourselves in him. With humour, force and… Read more about this item

New York, NY.: The Atlantic Monthly Press. Very Good. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. This book is hard-bound in green paper covered boards with a brown cloth spine with white stamping, in a dust jacket with light edge-wear. There is a small stain to the outer edge of the upper cover, and a small… Read more about this item

ONTARIO, CANADA: THE MERCURY PRESS. INSCRIBED BY AUTHJOR TO TITLE PAGE: "FOR EVELYN & HOWARD, LOVE, VERONICA." . VG+. PAPERBACK. 1ST. 1996.

New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989. 1st Printing . Boards & Cloth with Dustjacket. Well received memoir that was made into a film about a decade ago with Robert DeNiro and a young then unknown Leonardo DiCaprio. Jacket blurbs by Harry Crews, Frederick Exley, Richard Ford and others. Attractive dustjacket design. Fine/fine.

Grove Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. Good.

First published in 1989, this scarifying memoir has become a classic of the genre, as notable for its artful structure and finely wrought prose as for the events it describes. The book essentially launched the memoir craze that has been going strong ever since. It was made into a movie in 1993. The story is pretty grim: teen-aged Wolff moves with… Read more about this item