First Edition. A particularly nice signed copy of this "short autobiographical account of Willeford's hemorrhoid operation." Self-published (the contact address printed in the book was Willeford's condo in Miami) in an edition of 1000 copies. 32 pages. [Quote from Don Herron's bibliography in Everybody's Metamorphosis.]. First edition (first printing). Minor.....
Price: $600
First Edition. A signed copy of this "short autobiographical account of Willeford's hemorrhoid operation." Self-published (the contact address printed in the book was Willeford's condo in Miami) in an edition of 1000 copies. 32 pages. [Quote from Don Herron's bibliography in Everybody's Metamorphosis.]. First edition (first printing). Very good in.....
Price: $500
First Edition. A signed first of Willeford's account of his "first hitches in the peacetime Army in the Philippines and California, from age 16, when he lied about his age and joined, to age 20"—quoted from Don Herron's bibliography in Everybody's Metamorphosis. Willeford ultimately spent twenty years in the military.....
Price: $200
First Edition. The author, best remembered for his documentary films about daily life in Poland, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany in the 1930s, here presents his memoirs of being a teen-aged American volunteer ambulance driver during the First World War. This copy has a long inscription to a friend.....
Price: $300
First Edition. The often-overlooked first edition, published in a reported 500 copies for sale at comics conventions in July 2003, with a different cover design than the trade edition released to bookstores in late August. In August 2023, Blankets was among the first 13 titles banned from all Utah public.....
Price: $600
A very good, price-clipped signed first edition of the first book of one of the most acclaimed biographies of our time. This volume of Caro's life of LBJ, a projected five volumes that has taken Caro almost as long to write as it took the former president to live, traces.....
Price: $650
First Edition. A signed first edition of the first book of one of the most acclaimed biographies of our time. This volume of Caro's life of LBJ, a projected five volumes that has taken Caro almost as long to write as it took the former president to live, traces Johnson's.....
Price: $850
First Edition. The text of the Naumburg Memorial Lecture, about writing biographical novels, by one of the best practitioners of the genre as the author of Lust for Life (Vincent Van Gogh), Sailor on Horseback (Jack London), and The Origin (Charles Darwin). 17 pages. First edition (first printing). A fine.....
Price: $75
Third printing. A biography of Frederick Douglass by the longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute (now University). Washington frames Douglass as an inspiring figure from the past, part of an era of "destruction and liberation" focused on slavery and its immediate aftermath. Washington implies that the more difficult task of.....
Price: $6,000
First Edition. Accounts of Edward, Prince of Wales; Empress Maria-Feodorowna, Sophie of Albania, Michael of Rumania, Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith of England, and other European royalty written by a Romanian princess. This is one of Bibesco's scarcer books. First edition (first printing, with a 1 on the last text page—the.....
Price: $100
First Edition. "A biography of Major Kobayashi Masasuke, an early Issei pioneer who arrived in America in 1902 and who established Japanese units of the Salvation Army beginning in 1919. Includes reprints of his sermons and lectures and reminiscences of his friends and associates."—A Buried Past, 837. Masasuka "landed in the.....
Price: $350
First edition. The author's memoirs, inscribed to a well-known bookstore owner. First edition (stated). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to Glenn Goldman, the late owner of the independent bookstore Book Soup in Los Angeles. "For: Glenn with appreciation & best always, sincerely Gay.....
Price: $40
First US edition. The second volume of Gorky's autobiography. Translated from the Russion by Gertrude M. Foakes. Gorky was a pioneer of Russian realist prose, and one of the most well-known Russian writers in the West during the early decades of the 20th century. His three-volume autobiography, of which this is.....
Price: $200
