Philadelphia: Jordan Bros. [May], 1891. Unpaginated preliminaries, 337p., publisher's ad leaf, fourth edition with a special preface, original decorated wraps over a textblock secured with hefty staples, one of which is showing. Front cover image is a wood-engraved portrait of author in wimple, back wrap more ads. An intact copy... More
Cat.No: 162665
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
Cat.No: 95472
Santa Rosa: Santa Rosa Junior College, 1996. [vi]98p., 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
Cat.No: 180353
Hong Kong: Jin yi bu duo mei ti you xian gong si, 2014. 233p., new in original shrinkwrap, with original warning label ("This article contains material which may offend..." etc). Text in Chinese. Oral histories of gay elders from Hong Kong. More
Cat.No: 207973
London: Routledge, 1993. Paperback. xi, 196p., small grease-stain to lower edge, a good first edition trade paperback in wraps. More
Cat.No: 40809
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
Cat.No: 177648
Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1987. 279p., slightly worn wraps. More
Cat.No: 23671
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
Cat.No: 193458
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
Cat.No: 184815
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
Cat.No: 196952
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Hardcover. xvii, 333p. + 24p. photographs, first edition, dj. More
Cat.No: 16787
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. Hardcover. xii, 271p., introduction, afterword, appendix, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 81716
Boulder: Lynne Reiner Publishers, 2002. Paperback. xiii, 221p., introduction, selected bibliography, notes, illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Minor gay and AIDS content. More
Cat.No: 143782
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Hardcover. xviii, 511p., very good hardcover in like dj. More
Cat.No: 19943
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
Cat.No: 226438
New York: Coward-McCann, 1969. Hardcover. 219p., very good first US edition, illustrated with photos, black cloth and gilt, unclipped dj with sunned spine Young 9*. More
Cat.No: 13811
London: The Bodley Head, 1968. Hardcover. 219p., fronits-portrait and 8 plates, light foxing to edges, good first UK edition in boards and unclipped, shelfworn dj. Young 9*. More
Cat.No: 84203
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
Cat.No: 14006
New York: Writers Alliance, 1976. Paperback. 149p., softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps (the decorations being two photoportraits of our hero), perfectbound but so far so good. Cover has a sun-line across the front and a spot of soil to back, and a private library accession numeral on titlepage. Sound... More
Cat.No: 229104
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1985. Hardcover. 135p., fine first US edition in cloth-backed boards and unclipped dj, review copy with slip. Ackland was the companion of Sylvia Townsend Warner for more than 40 years. More
Cat.No: 19305
San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books, 1972. Paperback. 199p., illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Also published in cloth. More
Cat.No: 114667
San Francisco: New Glide Publications, 1978. Hardcover. xii, 337p., prologue, interviews, Nancy's story, selected bibliography, illustrated with b&w photos and film stills, very good first edition in half-cloth boards and edgeworn, unclipped dj with closed tears. Based on the documentary film. More
Cat.No: 9148
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
Cat.No: 66370
New York: Stonehill, 1975. Hardcover. 640p., later printing grey papered boards spine-titled dayglow scarlet, in dust jacket; the casing is slightly edgeworn, textblock's top edge is dust-soiled with mild foxing, jacket (which is intact without price-clip) is also somewhat edgeworn, rubbed, toned. A very presentable copy, clean, sound and unmarked... More
Cat.No: 149358
Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. Hardcover. xxi, 179p., very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped lightly-worn dj. Chilean American author. More
Cat.No: 83794
![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.](/pictures/thumb/177648.jpg?v=1484086357)
![For Sylvia: an honest account [Sylvia Townsend Warner]. Valentine Ackland, Bea Howe.](/pictures/thumb/19305.jpg?v=1484080210)
