THE CONFESSIONS OF J. LACKINGTON
Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.
Scarce American edition of the bookseller's Confessions, with one of the earliest Brooklyn imprints.
First printing of this early, authorized biography of Doyle, written by an acquaintance sympathetic to his later Spiritualist convictions.
Scarce uncorrected advance proof copy of this biography of the American leftist writer and journalist.
First edition of the first installment of this long-running cultural institution, containing the biographies of 8,602 prominent 19th-century Americans.
Inscribed first edition of this first English-language biography of the great printer and typographer.
First HarperPaperbacks edition of this profile of the legendary NYPD whistleblower, adapted into the Oscar-nominated Al Pacino film — inscribed by subject Frank Serpico.
First printing of this biography of the famed Victorian thief and criminal mastermind Adam Worth, generally believed to have been the model for Doyle's Moriarty.
Uncommon account of the life of a South African ostrich farmer near the turn of the twentieth century.
First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.
Uncommon first edition of this memoir from the ghostwriter of the early Hardy Boys books, the original Franklin W. Dixon — Leslie McFarlane.
First edition of Merwin's memoir of his early life, after graduating from Princeton and before winning the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952.
First edition of Nichols's collected profiles of notable figures of his day, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Ronald Knox, Rose Macaulay, P.G. Wodehouse, Somerset Maugham, and Nellie Melba, whose personal secretary he was and whose autobiography he ghostwrote.
First edition in English of Nordon's biography, originally published in France in 1964 and awarded the Prix Guizot by the Academie Française.
Inscribed first edition of this personal history of the abolitionist movement in New England.
Second printing of this extensive and comprehensive biographical study, with a foreword by ERB's son Hulburt Burroughs and a floridly enthusiastic introduction by fellow legend and Burroughs fan Ray Bradbury.
Scarce advance proof copy of the first book-length biography of the innovative composer and writer.
Association copy first printing of this collection of essays on murderers and others, from the personal library of fellow true-crime pioneer Jonathan Goodman.
Signed later printing of Sandburg's autobiographical account of his childhood in Galesburg, IL, inscribed to two booksellers.
First edition of this memoir by one of the founders of the Black Panthers, with a focus on his trial as one of the "Chicago 8."
First printing and first state of this collection of Sedaris's best Xmas stories, including "Santaland Diaries" — the piece that made him famous.
Modern scholarly edition of Severn's letters and memoirs, published as part of Ashgate's Nineteenth Century Series.
First edition of Smith's acclaimed, best-selling, and National Book Award-winning memoir of her intimate friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
Signed first edition, review copy, of Smith's National Book Award-winning memoir of her intimate friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe — inscribed to the longtime Strand Bookstore rare book room manager Craig Anderson.
Uncorrected proofs of the first US edition of Symons's 1979 biography, an introduction to Doyle published in celebration of the Sherlock Holmes Centennial.
First edition of this controversial biography of Jesse James, "giving full particulars of each and every dark and desperate deed in the career of this most noted outlaw of any time or nation."