DOUBLE FEATURE
Inscribed first edition of Stamp's third volume of memoirs, covering the '60s — the decade in which the actor worked with Pasolini and Fellini and consorted with fellow legends Jean Shrimpton, Julie Christie, and Michael Caine.
Inscribed first edition of Stamp's third volume of memoirs, covering the '60s — the decade in which the actor worked with Pasolini and Fellini and consorted with fellow legends Jean Shrimpton, Julie Christie, and Michael Caine.
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.
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 this classic memoir of Soyinka's childhood in Nigeria, winner of the Anisfield-Wolf Award and one of Africa's 100 Best Books of the 20th Century as selected by a panel of judges at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair.
First edition of the third book Maya Angelou's series of literary autobiographies, covering her first marriage and the beginning of her stage career.
Advance uncorrected proofs of the first edition of Givner's biography, in an early state with inserted revisions — an uncommon format.
First printing of Feynman's first volume of highly entertaining memoirs
Scarce uncorrected advance proof copy of this biography of the American leftist writer and journalist.
Incsribed first edition of this biography of the famed civil rights leader and attorney.
First edition, review copy, of this first biography of the American leftist writer and journalist.
First edition of this sleaze exposé of polygamous Mormon prophet Jesse James Strang, his beautiful cross-dressing wife Elvira, and his leadership of the Strangites as Revelator and King of Michigan's Beaver Island.
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, 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 edition of Huxley's second memoir of her early life in Kenya under British rule, a continuation of her previous THE FLAME OF THIKA.
Uncorrected proof of this stream-of-consciousness memoir of the influential multimedia artist and AIDS activist, published only a year before his death.
Scarce first edition of the memoir of advertising legend Draper Daniels, real-life inspiration for MAD MEN's Donald Draper.
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.
Beautiful first US edition, review copy with publisher's slip, of this evocative memoir of the author's experiences in Kenya.
First printing and first state of this collection of Sedaris's best Xmas stories, including "Santaland Diaries" — the piece that made him famous.
Uncorrected proofs of the first US edition of Symons's 1979 biography, an introduction to Doyle published in celebration of the Sherlock Holmes Centennial.
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.
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 first printing of this oral history following the life of the late, great Stephen Sondheim, reflecting on his work from his first high school production to the state of Broadway and his career in the 1970s.
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.