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 printing of Blunk's biography of the acclaimed American poet.
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 collection of short biographies of prominent Black people, as well as a brief summary of Maryland history with a focus on the state's Black population, written by a formerly enslaved man – inscribed to Black suffragist Addie Hunton.
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 of the autobiography of the (in)famous evolutionary biologist and giant of the modern atheist movement, reflecting on his career and the fame brought about by his best-selling books.
First printing in book form of Doyle's episodic memoirs, originally published in THE STRAND and covering his life from early childhood and medical training through to his literary career and embarkation on "The Psychic Quest," a Shaw 100 title.
Signed first edition of this moving memoir by the important and influential film critic.
Signed first printing of this darkly humorous memoir of a turning point in poet Nick Flynn's life, in which he encounters his estranged father in a homeless shelter.
First edition of this dictated memoir, actually written by Teichmann but with source material from 200 hours of tape recordings of Henry Fonda speaking about his life.
Inscribed first printing of Fossey's landmark scientific memoir.
Signed uncorrected proof of this acclaimed poetic memoir.
Signed first printing, on Gilbert's reflections on her decision to remarry, written after the success of her memoir EAT, PRAY, LOVE.
Warmly inscribed first printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir of the trailblazing publisher of the WASHINGTON POST during the tumultuous period that saw the stories of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate — with signed letter from Donald Graham.
Review copy of Hall's personally gathered "literary gossip" about Ezra Pound, Dylan Thomas, T.S. Eliot, and Robert Frost.
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.
Signed first printing of the memoir of the journalist and critic, signed at his last event before the cancer diagnosis that would kill him a year and a half later.
First printing of the definitive biography of the iconic co-founder of Apple, published only days after his death.
Late Georgian edition of Johnson's landmark collection of essays on 52 poets, a major work in English canon formation.
Inscribed second printing of Kearns's biography of the famed German artist.
Inscribed second printing of this collection of autobiographical stories from this frequent contributor to NPR's All Things Considered.
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.
First edition of the first installment of this long-running cultural institution, containing the biographies of 8,602 prominent 19th-century Americans.