Item 2596Born Free
New York: Pantheon Books, 1960. hardcover. 8vo 220pp. story of a lion cub raised as a pet and then trained to re enter the wild. #02661.
autobiography & memoir
Item 2940Born Free
New York: Pantheon Books, 1960. hardcover. 8vo 220pp. story of a lion cub raised as a pet and then trained to re enter the wild. #03005.
Item 3437We, Too, Must Love
Fawcett Publications, 1958. first edition. mass market paperback. 16mo 188pp. stated first printing January 1958. see pictures for synopsis. #03503.
Item 3920Stay of Execution
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1973. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 312pp. from front flap: "I have quite often wondered what it would be like to be told that I had an inoperable and lethal cancer," Stewart Alsop writes. He found out on July 6, 1971, when he was told that he.....
Item 4742Twenty-Six World Travel Adventures
JOSKR Press, 1998. softcover. 8vo. 186pp. see pictures for synopsis. Inscribed by author on title page: "To Glo and Bill enjoy the adventure Kitty Baker" #04825.
Item 3095American Chronicle
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. hardcover. 8vo 531pp. second of two autobiographies written by American journalist and muckraker. #03160.
Item 1032The Education of a Broadcaster
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1965. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 351pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Harry Bannister's gossipy, funny, nostalgic memoir re-creates the palmy days when Amos 'n' Andy, Rudy Vallee and the A & P Gypsies held millions of Americans glued to their radio sets--and continues right.....
Item 888The Journal of a Young Artist 1860-1884
Cassell and Company, 1889. first US edition. hardcover. 8vo 434pp. + illustrations. from Author's Preface: "Of what use were pretense or affectation? Yes, it is evident that I have the desire, if not the hope, of living upon this earth by any means in my power. If I do not.....
Item 952Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and Late Victorian
George Allen and Unwin, 1918. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 283pp. from Preface: "The following chapters were written at intervals during the year 1916. They were taken in hand on the suggestion of two well-known London publishers, who assured me that autobiographical notes, reminiscences, and reflexions were, barring fiction and travels.....
Item 3773Trick Baby
Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1969. mass market paperback. 16mo. 312pp. Holloway House BH416. see pictures for synopsis. scarce copy. #03839.
Item 646Portrait of Max
Random House, 1960. first edition. hardcover. 8vo. 317pp. Stated first printing. Biography of English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist by his friend--fellow playwright, screenwriter, and humorist S.N. Behrman. #00729.
Item 1537No Steady Job for Papa
New York: Vanguard Press, 1966. hardcover. 8vo 243pp. third printing. from front flap: "It is not that Papa is lazy--he is just not temperamentally equipped for work. His natural ebullience rebels at routine, yearns for the singing breeze of spring. The riches he came from Italy to seek he finds.....
Item 1898A Life of Love and Music
London: Folio Society, 1987. hardcover. 8vo 466pp. colorful, biased memoir of the 19th century French composer, published the year after his death. #01960.
Item 3420The Past is Myself
Dublin: Ward River Press, 1982. softcover. 8vo 284pp. see pictures for synopsis. #03486.
Item 710I'll Tell Them I Remember You
WW Norton & Company, 1973. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 173pp. Stated first edition. from front flap: "'This is a happy book. It is maple tree laughter in orange October. It is apple-sweet rain after wonderful news. It is red balloons and sunlit hugs on morning beaches brimming gold. Oh, yes.....
Item 57Napoleon's Letters
Dent, 1954. Everyman's Library. hardcover. first edition crown octavo size of Everyman Library no. 995 Napoleon's Letters. #00053.
Item 2986Journey Into a Picture
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1947. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 196pp. +B/W photographs. first published February 1947. #03051.
Item 2455Boswell's Journal of A Tour to the Hebrides
New York: The Literary Guild, 1936. hardcover. 8vo 435pp. #02520.
Item 716Biography
Little Brown and Company, 1969. first edition, presentation copy. hardcover. 8vo 174pp. from front flap: "In this freshly written text Catherine Drinker Bowen has drawn upon the technical experiences involved in the writing of her seven biographies, as well as on the methods and the testimony of other writers whose.....
Item 81South From Granada
Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1957. first. hardcover. First edition. From rear dustjacket: "Mr. Brenan's account of his years in Yegen, where he lived as one of the people, and found time to understand Spain through understanding the peasants. The London Times says: "His book is thus like the hills among.....
Item 765Shoeleather and Printers' Ink
Quadrangle, 1974. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 370pp. from front flap: "The Silurian Society of veteran newspaper men--and now, to be sure, women also--celebrating its half century of sociability and reminiscence, presents this collection of stories about newspapers and what goes into producing them. The stories were told for the writers'.....
8vo 439pp. first edition, presumed later printing: six burly men notice printed not tipped in, no quotes or printing notice at bottom of copyright page. 1927 listed on title and copyright page. Memoir in which the author named President Warren G. Harding as the father of her illegitimate child Elizabeth.....
Item 2501Out of the Earth
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1950. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 305pp. + b/w photographs. stated first edition. from Foreword: "This book has been written largely at the request of the thousands of practical farmers who visit us every year at Malabar. It is, however, not written for the practical farmer.....
Item 2603Pleasant Valley
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945. Kate Lord. eighth edition. hardcover. 8vo 300pp. from front flap: "Pleasant Valley is largely the story of one man's lifelong experience with the good earth and in particular the story of his life on a big farm in the hill country of Ohio. When.....
Item 504Suez to Singapore:
New York: Random House, 1942. hardcover. 8vo 545pp. Stated third printing. from front flap: "Cecil Brown's story of the sinking of the Repulse and the Prince of Wales and his broadcasts from doomed Singapore have made him world famous. His book has the same breathless quality of excitement, honesty and.....