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Flashback III: 1994

Flashback III: 1994

Santa Rosa: Santa Rosa Junior College, 1994. [iv]105p., 8.5x11 inches, prefatory materials, illustrated with drawings, very good in original glossy pictorial stapled wraps. Third anthology of work from the Junior College's Autobiography 502 Course. More about Flashback III: 1994

Cat.No: 95472

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Remarks upon the Account of the Conduct of a Certain Dutchess. In a Letter from a Member of the...

Remarks upon the Account of the Conduct of a Certain Dutchess. In a Letter from a Member of the last Parliament in the Reign of Queen Anne.To a Young Nobleman. [bound with] A Continuation of the Review of a Late Treatise, Entituled An Account of the Dow--r D---- of M----, &c. In which many misrepresentations are detected, several obscure passages explained, and abundance of false facts set in a true light; expecially such as relate to the reign of her late majesty Q. Anne, of glorious memory. With ample vindications of the Earl of Oxford, General Hill, Mrs. Masham, &c. In a second letter to a person of distinction.

London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1742 [both]. 50, 70p., trimmed to 7.5x4.5 inches, rebound in 19thC quarter morocco marbled boards; the upper board is detached. No original blanks remain; title page of "Remarks" is dust-soiled, flecked, and bears a few obscure marks in old pencilling. Small old stain at foot... More about Remarks upon the Account of the Conduct of a Certain Dutchess. In a Letter from a Member of the...

Cat.No: 177648

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Voices in the afternoon. An anthology of creative writing from the writers' workshop, a senior...

Voices in the afternoon. An anthology of creative writing from the writers' workshop, a senior activities group meeting at Raphael House, San Francisco's only 24-hour emergency family shelter, 1065 Sutter Street. Volume 3.

San Francisco: Raphael House, 1987. 97p., very good in wraps, inscribed on title page by contributor Thomas Warren Powers, with an apparent photocopy of a sketch portrait by Powers on a folded sheet of paper laid in. More about Voices in the afternoon. An anthology of creative writing from the writers' workshop, a senior...

Cat.No: 193458

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Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents...

Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents "Our recollections"

Berkeley: East Bay Japanese for Action, 1986. 335p., very good hardcover in dj with small price sticker scar, text in English and Japanese. Autobiographical pieces by members of the group, including discussions of immigration experiences, internment, work, religion and family life. More about Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents...

Cat.No: 184815

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Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents...

Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents "Our recollections"

Berkeley: East Bay Japanese for Action, 1986. 335p., very good hardcover in dj, text in English and Japanese, inscribed in Japanese by Kato Mizue, the group's instructor. Autobiographical pieces by members of the group, including discussions of immigration experiences, internment, work, religion and family life. More about Watakushitachi no kiroku, Wanto Nikkei Shakai Hoshidan / East Bay Japanese for Action presents...

Cat.No: 196952

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Home and Exile. Chinua Achebe

Home and Exile

New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Hardcover. X, 115p., first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. The cover and dust jacket are lovely but textblock has a faint "wave" along lower edge; not disfiguring, not particularly noticible, but condition freaks may care. At writing Achebe was living in the... More about Home and Exile

Cat.No: 226438

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The Ackerley Letters. J. R. Ackerley, Neville Braybrooke

The Ackerley Letters

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. Hardcover. xxxvi, 354p., very good first US edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. Ackerley was the openly bisexual editor of "The Listener" literary journal and author of severla autobiographical novels in cluding "We Think the World of You" which was filmed with Alabn... More about The Ackerley Letters

Cat.No: 14006

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Dark symphony. Elizabeth Laura Adams

Dark symphony

London: Sheed & Ward, 1942. Hardcover. 194p., first edition, a rather dirty copy in a badly shelfworn dj. Autobiography of a black convert to Catholicism. *Brignano 3. More about Dark symphony

Cat.No: 66370

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Gabriel's fire; a memoir. Luis Gabriel Aguilera

Gabriel's fire; a memoir

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Hardcover. ix, 291p., gift inscription otherwise a very good first edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj. Memoir by a Mexican immigrant who grew up on Chicago's south side, in a Polish neighborhood, and went on to found Full Spectrum, a musical production company. More about Gabriel's fire; a memoir

Cat.No: 186184

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On the tiger's back. Aderogba Ajao

On the tiger's back

Cleveland; New York: World Publishing Co., 1962. 149p., very good hardcover in lightly shelfworn dj, first edition. Nigerian former student in East Germany describes "How the Russians are trying to create dedicated Communist agents from among the newly independent African peoples..." More about On the tiger's back

Cat.No: 193194

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