Autobiography, Memoir
Ladies Almanack: van hun sterrebeelden; hun manen; hun stonden en standen; verduisteringen, hun jaargetijden; alsmede een gedetailleerd relaas van hun turbulenties bij dag en bij nacht
Amsterdam: Furie, 1990. Paperback. 103p., text in Dutch, illustrations by the author, fine first Dutch edition thus trade paperback in decorative wraps. More
Cat.No: 217868
They weep on my doorstep
Beaverton, OR: Halo Publishing, 1969. [4], iii, [2], v-viii, [2], 140, [4]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. Very Good. Barnett’s memoir, focusing on her work as an abortion provider out of Portland, Oregon, which operated until her clinic came under increased scrutiny in the post-war years. "After fifty years and..... More
Cat.No: 44876
The First Person
London: Freedom Press, 1963. 37p., wraps, 5.25x8 inches, small stain on front wrap else very good condition. Memoirs of the British anarchist who died in 1917. The uncredited editor and author of the preface was the individualist anarchist Sidney E. Parker. More
Cat.No: 257268
Anticlimax Leviathan
npl: Anomie Press, 2018. Paperback. 403p., wraps, second edition, revised; in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 313689
Witnesses for freedom; Negro Americans in autobiography
Oakdale, NY: Dowling College Press, 1977. Paperback. xiii, 294p., wraps, in very good condition. Reprint of the 1946 edition, with the Alain Locke foreword. More
Cat.No: 85430
Witnesses for freedom; Negro Americans in autobiography, foreword by Alain Locke
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948. Hardcover. xiii, 294p., first edition, dj with 1.5 inch closed tears at rear gutter and rear fold. More
Cat.No: 155453
Anabolic outlaw
Columbus, OH: Muscle Missions, 2001. Paperback. viii, 56p., second printing, 5.5x8 inch wraps; in very good condition. "I was a drug dealing, pot smoking, cocaine snorting, pill popping, acid dropping, whiskey drinking, steroid shooting bodybuilder!" More
Cat.No: 313133
The Gentleman from Maryland: the conscience of a gay conservative
New York: Arbor House, 1986. Hardcover. xii, 276p., very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 16174
The seventh child; a lucky life, edited by Gloria Bley Miller
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999. Hardcover. x, 223p., frontis portrait of family, first edition boards in a photoportrait dj; clean and sound, a very good copy. Autobiography by the female African American jazz musician. More
Cat.No: 70148
Don Baylor; nothing but the truth: a baseball life
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989. Hardcover. xxvii, 305p. + 16p. photos, first edition, dj. Bio of the African American baseball star, cowritten with one of the few full-time black women baseball reporters. A very good copy. More
Cat.No: 35629
Proletarian journey; New England, Gastonia, Moscow
New York: Da Capo Press, 1971. Hardcover. 352p., front., illus., reprint of 1937 edition, very good condition. Civil liberties in American history. More
Cat.No: 31396
Going the Other Way: lessons from a life in and out of major-league baseball
New York: Marlowe & Company, 2003. Hardcover. xii, 256p. + 8p. photos, very good first edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. Autobiography by an openly gay baseball player. More
Cat.No: 100870
The rejected American; a motley collection of rejected essays, unanswered love letters, ignored job applications, spurned offers of friendship and unpublished letters to the editor
Irvington, NJ: Morton Books, 1999. Trade Paperback. 133p., review sheet laid in, wraps, very good condition. Autobiographical essays by the former Crisis editor who founded Black Creation magazine. More
Cat.No: 86542
Aus meinem Leben, von August Bebel. Erster Teil, Zweite, burchgesebene Auflage [1911] -[and]- Dritter Teil, herausgegeben von Karl Kautsky [1914]. (Two parts in separate matched bindings, complete.)
Stuttgart: Verlag von J.H.W. Dietz Nachts, 1911, 1914. Hardcover. viii, 236, viii, 270p., plus a single ad leaf, illustrated with tissue-guarded plates (birthplace, v.I, portrait in colors, v.II), presswork in smallpoint blackletter on acidic paperstock, hardbound in 7.5x5 inch papered boards with half-cloth backstrip and corner-tips, spine-titled gilt on red..... More
Cat.No: 299533
An Underground Life: the memoirs of a gay Jew in Nazi Berlin
Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1999. Paperback. ix, 165p., foreword, prologue, map, photos, very good reprint trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Living Out series: Gay & Lesbian Autobiographies, Joan Larkin & David Bergman, editors. More
Cat.No: 83353
The Gulley: a place apart
no city, Vermont: Privately printed by Norman and Frances Lear, Christmas 1984. 136p., b&w and sepia illustrations (one in color) carefully reproduced; oblong 8x9 inch decorated wraps. Spine panel slightly wrenched at the head, several dings and general light edgewear, a good copy. Celebrates farmland and homestead owned by a...... More
Cat.No: 169678
I claim this life, or, looking back at the Seven Bar
npl: Self-published by the author, 1977. Hardcover. ix, 134p., blue cloth boards in dust jacket; in very good condition in like dust jacket. Signed and inscribed by the author's daughter in 2001. "He moved with his parents by covered wagon to New Mexico in 1915, where they lived on the..... More
Cat.No: 312695
Road to purpose
Alexandria: VSP Books, 2004. x, 234p., preface, appendixes, illustrated with two sections of glossy plates from color photos, maps, very good first edition in boards and dj. Memoir of a Depression-era Wisconsin resident who came to be a successful Forbes 400 businessman and philanthropist who travels the world for his..... More
Cat.No: 127311
The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell - Tales of a 6'4", African-American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian.
New York: Dutton, 2017. Hardcover. viii, 340p., no photos except for the jacket (ditto'd opposite titlepage), hardbound first edition in 9.5x6.5 inch red & white boards titled black, and enclosed in the embossed dust jacket. Signed exuberantly on his frontispiece image ("to ____, be outlandish!"); a great copy with no..... More
Cat.No: 306165
Just around the corner: a highly selective history of the thirties
New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1967. Hardcover. 268p., first edition, boards frayed at corners, else very good condition in an unclipped, shelfworn dj. Includes an account of his nine months on the editorial board of the New Masses. More
Cat.No: 56607
The Persian Yankee
New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Hardcover. 114p. hardcover in edgeworn dust jacket, inscribed by the author as a wedding gift. The Iranian immigrant author became a Presbyterian minister, residing in Pasadena. More
Cat.No: 318769
Battered But Blessed [signed]
San Francisco: Self-published by the author, 1994. Paperback. 154p., shakey signature "Norma" with a scrawl above Dp [?] 138, very good first edition trade paperback original in pictotorial wraps. Self-published autobiography by a Christian Assyrian/Iranian American immigrant living in San Francisco. More
Cat.No: 287371
An Impatient Life: a political memoir
London: Verso, 2013. Hardcover. xxvi, 358p., foreword, note from publisher, author's notes, footnotes, photos, very good first UK English-language edition in boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 222103