Edition Biography & Memoirs

Arnold, Bob This Romance Subtitled, "a further notebook on rural life, building, love & a son' and published by Cid Corman for Origin Press. Paper bound first edition of 1992. 6 x 9, 90 pp. in finr condition. $25. Bennett, Alan Writing Home 25 years of the author's life and broadcasting. Paperback edition of 1995. 5 x 8, 417 pp. + 32 pages of b x w plates. Text in fine condition but front bottom corner bunged. Good overall, $20. Bentley, Eric The Brecht Memoir Northwestern University Press paperback edition of 1989. 5.5 x 8.5, 121 pp. with 16 pages of photos. Fine condition, $20. Bornstein, Kate Gender Outlaw First Routledge 1994 edition by a writer who has had a sex change. "Disarming account of life and genders." Cloth boards, dustjacket and text all in mint condition. Signed with dedication, $50. Charters, Ann & Samuel I Love The story of Vladimir Maykovsky and Lili Brink. First printing of the Farrar, Straus, Giroux of 1979. Cloth boards, tears to dustjacket, text As New, so Fine overall condition. 6.5 x 9.25, 328 pp., many dramatic photographs. $35. Chotzinoff, Samuel Toscanini: An Intimate Portrait First edition, Borzoi Book of 1956. Elegant board covers missing dustjaket however. 6.5 x 9.75, 149 pp. One leaf has a tear but it doesn't interrupt the text. Good condition, $30. Collins, Judy Trust Your Heart Her autobiography, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1987. Usual smudges to dustjacket, cloth boards fine, text as new, so fine overall. 6 x 9.5, 275 pp. containing discography and 40 pages of pictures. $35. Crane, Cheryl and Cliff Jahr Detour: A Hollywood Story Author was the 14 year-old daughter of Lana Turner when the latter shot her boyfriend, Johnny Stomporato in 1958. 6 x 9.5, 324 pp. including16 pages of plated photos. Hardcover in As new condition except for tear to back of dustjacket, $30 Didion, Joan Salvador "Terror is the given of the place", the author published in 1983 in this slim hardcover with the black dustjacket. 5.5 x 9.5, 108 pp. As new condition except for the smudges to the dustjacket. $25. Eban, Abba Abba Eban: An Autobiography Scuffed dustjacket, text clear, boards sturdy: fine overall condition. Published in 1977 by Random House New York. 6.75 x 9.75, 684 pp., including an extensive index. $45. Felstiner, John Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew Literary biography of the Romanian-born, German-speaking Jewish poet who took his own life in 1970. Published by Yale University Press New Haven and London in 1995. 6.5 x 10, 344 pp., cloth covers and text as new, nice matte dustjacket has some scratches, $45. .Irving, John Trying to Save Piggy Sneed First U.S. edition (Arcade,1996) in unique cloth-bound format (4.5 x 8). Three memoirs, some stories then some reviews, everything's in As New condition. $45. Lévesque, René Attendez que je me rapelle . Dans un style très personnel, Lévesque raconte les événements de sa vie politique intense. 6 x 9, author photo on full-colour paper covers, perfectbound 525 pp. in fine condition $45. Mallarme, Stephane Villiers de L'Isle-Adam Text and introduction aux francais. 50 page monograph of the poet's account of his dearest friend's life. 6 x 8.25 in dark blue paper covers, perfectbound from the University of Exeter Press, 1991. Edited by Alan Raitt. $50. Mays, John Bentley In the Jaws of the Black Dogs: A Memoir of Depression 6 x 9.25, 234 pp. tells it like it is for a sufferer. Classy board covers dustjacket and text all in As New condition. $35. McCourt, Frank Angela's Ashes Famous Pulitzer Prize winner. Cloth boards and dj in mint shape; the text however, has the warp of humidity damage, an owner's inscription at the front and a green endpaper stain at its end. $25. McCourt, Frank 'Tis This one's in completely mint condition, from dj to back page. 6.5 x 9.5, 367 pp., published in 1999. $40. McKay, Jean Gone to Grass An Ontario woman's account of her gentle and idiosyncratic father's life. 8 x 9, 118 pp., including family photos. Fine paper binding and finr condition throughout. $20. Perry, Roland Lethal Hero: The Mel Gibson Biography An unauthorized account of the actor's life published in Britain in1993. All the 8 full page plates are photos of him and 3 are in full colour. Humidity warp to the pages and fraying of the dj. but the binding is fresh, so it is still in fine overall condition. $30. Sagan, Francoise Dear Sarah Bernhardt Famous French novelist invents an imaginary correspondence with the greatest actress of her time in order to tell her biography. Mint condition, except for the grease mark on the bottom face. 6 x 8.5, 232 pp., translated into English by Sabine Desiree. $25. Shakur, Assata ASSATA: An Autobiography Born JoAnne Chesimard, the Black Panther, Assata was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction as an accomplice to murder but escaped to asylum in Cuba two years after her conviction. Tupac Shakur was her son. This is her own story, first published by Zed Books of London in the Lawrence Hill U.S. paperbound edition of 1987. 6 x 9.25, 174 pp., $50. Trudeau, Pierre Elliot Memoirs 381 pages, 253 photographs, 106 of them in full colour. This is from the second printing of November, 1993. Some blemishes to the dustjacket and one corner of the cloth covers but overall in Fine condition. 7 x 9.5 $45. Yevtushenko, Yevgeny A Precocious Autobiography A Dutton paperback published in a mass market format in 1963. 4.25 x 7, 124 pp. It even has 8 pages of black and white photos! $15.