CONVERSATIONS WITH NELSON ALGREN
First printing of this series of interviews with National Book Award-winning author Nelson Algren – with postcard from Algren to his friend, publisher William Targ.
First printing of this series of interviews with National Book Award-winning author Nelson Algren – with postcard from Algren to his friend, publisher William Targ.
First edition of the third book Maya Angelou's series of literary autobiographies, covering her first marriage and the beginning of her stage career.
Limited fine press first edition of Bell's brief sketch of her sister's early years, written for the Memoir Club after Woolf's death.
Inscribed first printing of this profile of "the greatest [basketball] player in the history of the Ivy League" (jacket) – who would later become a US Senator – John McPhee's first book.
Inscribed true first edition of the legendary actor's memoir.
First edition of the definitive biography of Truman Capote, and the basis for the 2005 film.
Signed first printing, first state ("failure"), of this best-selling memoir from the former President.
Scarce first edition of the memoir of advertising legend Draper Daniels, real-life inspiration for MAD MEN's Donald Draper.
Uncommon edition of these collected autobiographical fragments from Delacroix's journals, with Baudelaire's 1863 essay on the painter's greatness, both in German translation.
Beautiful first US edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of this evocative memoir of the author's experiences in Kenya.
Signed, slipcased first edition of the acclaimed novelist's memoir of his youth in 1970s Massachussetts, issued as part of the Powell's Books INDIESPENSABLE series.
First printing of the most comprehensive work in English about the career of Vladimir Favorsky, a key reference of the multifaceted artist.
First printing of Feynman's first volume of highly entertaining memoirs
Inscribed first printing of the autobiography of the Negro League great, an exciting story of baseball in the US, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Venezuela, and Canada.
Inscribed first printing of Fossey's landmark scientific memoir.
Early printing, published the same year as the first, of the US edition of the diary of Anne Frank.
First edition of the world-famous "Diary of a Young Girl," a moving monument of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's cataclysmic destruction of individual lives, communities, and cultures.
Signed uncorrected proof of this acclaimed poetic memoir.
Advance uncorrected proofs of the first edition of Givner's biography, in an early state with inserted revisions — an uncommon format.
Signed limited first edition of this intimate reflection on Tony Hillerman's life and writing in the form of an interview with historian Ernie Bulow, featuring illustrations by Navajo artist Ernest Franklin.
Scarce inscribed second printing of the autobiography of one of the 20th century's greatest hoteliers.
Incsribed first edition of this biography of the famed civil rights leader and attorney.
Complete two-volume signed limited-edition set of Biba buyer/model Delisia Howard's impressionistic history of the years when moddish young women swarmed the London boutiques "like kohl-eyed, Jugenstil locusts."
First edition of Huxley's second memoir of her early life in Kenya under British rule, a continuation of her previous THE FLAME OF THIKA.
Scarce first printing of this modern cult classic of sexuality, gender, and obsession — basis for the recent and well-received Amazon series directed by Joey Soloway and starring Kathryn Hahn and Kevin Bacon.