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 3037In Brightest Africa
Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1923. Memorial Edition. hardcover. 8vo 267pp. from Foreword: "I have written this Foreword, not after reading the manuscript of the volume thoroughly, but after a quarter of a century acquaintance with the experiences, thoughts, and ideals of the author himself. This is.....
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 3053Twenty Letters to a Friend
New York: Harper and Row, 1967. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 246pp. stated first edition. translated by Priscilla Johnson McMillan. from front flap: "...The author has used one of the oldest and most flexible literary forms--the letter to an unidentified friend, who is, essentially, each reader of her book--to relate the.....
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 3095American Chronicle
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1945. hardcover. 8vo 531pp. second of two autobiographies written by American journalist and muckraker. #03160.
Item 837Time and Chance
John Day Company, 1947. Cyrus LeRoy Baldridge. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 432pp. + illustrations. Autobiography of journalist and illustrator, from his work illustrating the front lines of WWI to his travels (often on foot) across Africa, Europe, and Asia with his wife. Profusely and beautifully illustrated. #00919.
Item 2087The Fire Next Time
New York: Dell, 1970. first thus. mass market paperback. 16mo 141pp. Dell 2542 New Dell edition first printing March 1970. #02149.
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 1184A Mind that Found Itself
New York: Doubleday Doran and Company, 1944. hardcover. 8vo 402pp. Autobiography of founder of Mental Hygiene movement, founder of first out patient mental clinic in United States. #01253.
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'.....