Echoes from Gold Mountain; an Asian American Journal [third issue]
no city [Long Beach]: Asian American Students Association, 1982. 112p., slender paperback, very good, errata slip laid in. More
Cat.No: 175628
Autobiography, Memoir
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
Cat.No: 95472
Flashback V: autobiographical writing 1996
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
Los viajes: historias, imágenes y sonidos de personas que cruzan las fronteras por toda Pachamama, la madre tierra / The journeys: stories, images and sounds from peoples crossing borders all over pacha mama/mother earth
n.p. Poor Press, 2009. Paperback. 180p., texts in Spanish & English, illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 225401
Los viajes: historias, imágenes y sonidos de personas que cruzan las fronteras por toda Pachamama, la madre tierra / The journeys: stories, images and sounds from peoples crossing borders all over pacha mama/mother earth
n.p. Poor Press, 2009. Paperback. 180p., personal inscription signed by an illustrator, Carina Lomeli, texts in Spanish & English, illustrations, very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 243545
Nan nan zheng zhuan: Xianggang nian zhang nan tong zhi kou shu shi
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
Proust, Cole Porter, Michelangelo, Marc Almond and me; writings by gay men on their lives and lifestyles from the archives of the National Lesbian and Gay Survey
London: Routledge, 1993. Paperback. xi, 196p., small grease-stain to lower edge, a good first edition trade paperback in wraps. More
Cat.No: 40809
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
Cat.No: 177648
Remembering the Spanish Civil War; James Wilkinson, Charles Molesworth, Steve Nelson, Rockwell Gray, Stanley G. Payne and Donald L. Miller, in Salmagundi, no. 76-77, fall 1987-winter 1988
Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 1987. 279p., slightly worn wraps. More
Cat.No: 23671
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
Cat.No: 193458
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
Cat.No: 184815
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
Cat.No: 196952
I had a hammer; the Hank Aaron story
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1991. Hardcover. xvii, 333p. + 24p. photographs, first edition, dj. More
Cat.No: 16787
Prayers for Bobby: a mother's coming to terms with the suicide of her gay son
San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995. Hardcover. xii, 271p., introduction, afterword, appendix, very good first edition in cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 81716
The Latino male; a radical redefinition
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
Advocate and activist; memoirs of an American Communist lawyer. With Michael Myerson.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Hardcover. xviii, 511p., very good hardcover in like dj. More
Cat.No: 19943
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
Cat.No: 226438
My Father & Myself
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
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
Cat.No: 14006
Street Man. The CIA Career of Mike Ackerman
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
![For Sylvia: an honest account [Sylvia Townsend Warner]. Valentine Ackland, Bea Howe](/pictures/thumb/19305.jpg?v=1484080210)
For Sylvia: an honest account [Sylvia Townsend Warner]
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
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
Cat.No: 66370
![I Name Me Name. Poetry and Prose [subtitle from cover]. Opal Palmer Adisa](/pictures/thumb/239755.jpg?v=1562204138)
I Name Me Name. Poetry and Prose [subtitle from cover]
Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2008. Paperback. 222p., illustrated with cover-reproduced snapshot images of Adisa at various ages, with a color vignette portrait on the back; softbound, the first edition, an ex library copy with no wear or handling, the sole clue to ex library status being a neat printed... More
Cat.No: 239755
A cross and a star; memoirs of a Jewish girl in Chile
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
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
Cat.No: 186184