NOTES ON VIRGINIA'S CHILDHOOD
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.
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."
Collection of almost 230 books from the library of legendary singer and songwriter Amy Winehouse — a narrative of her life and career through her personal reading, from her school days through her rise to fame and career.
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."
First edition of the third book Maya Angelou's series of literary autobiographies, covering her first marriage and the beginning of her stage career.
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.
Signed first printing of the former Secretary of State's examination of the influence of Christianity in American attitudes and political discourse, and its impact in world affairs.
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 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.
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.
First edition of Smith's acclaimed, best-selling, and National Book Award-winning memoir of her intimate friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.
First edition of this biography of the influential abolitionist and advocate for Native American and women's rights.
Scarce inscribed second printing of the autobiography of one of the 20th century's greatest hoteliers.