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.....

First Edition. An essay memoir, slightly revised from The New Yorker. This is one of 250 numbered copies, signed by the author (there were also 50 deluxe copies). 43 pages. First edition. A fine copy, no. 19 of 250, signed by Updike on the first page.

First Edition. A memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the Frank Bascombe novels. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 1). Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "For my dear Rule. [?]ectly remembered. Affectionately Richard."

First Edition. 257 pages. First trade edition (stated; preceded by an Easton Press edition). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Updike on the first blank.

First Edition. A biography of the author's parents, published simultaneously in this hardcover version and a trade paperback. Roddy Doyle was born in Dublin; he won the Booker Prize for Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha. First US edition (with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust.....

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.....

First Edition. Aldrin's memoir, written soon after returning from the Moon. 338 pages, illustrated from black-and-white photographs. First edition (stated, with a numberline ending in 2, which is Random House's method of denoting first printings). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The jacket is chipped at the.....

First Edition. Hellman's memoir about the Joseph McCarthy era, when she was brought before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). "One of a special edition reserved for the friends of the author and Little, Brown and Company." 155 pages. With a 32-page introduction by Garry Wills. First edition (first printing). Spine.....

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.....

First Edition. 434 pages. Burgess, who died in 1993, "was the victim of what was generally regarded as a loathsome biography by Roger Lewis, who presented him as a pompous, psychologically damaged second-rater. Lewis’s biography was no fun to read, but it was interesting for what it revealed about responses.....

First Edition. 146 pages. McMurtry's account of his decades of working with, but seldom in, Hollywood, starting with Hud, the Paul Newman film based on his first novel. "I will always be grateful to Hollywood for...well...it's essentially financed my fiction, my rare book business, and to a huge degree, my adult.....