First hardcover edition. A memoir of Plymell's years on the road in the 1950s, where he met Ginsberg, Neal Cassady, and others. This is one of an unspecified number of signed copies. This is the second edition; the memoir was first published in paperback by City Lights in 1971. Dust.....

Second Edition. The author's memoir of growing up in Harlem and coming into her own in her 20s in the 1950s. The narrative doubles as a philosophical meditation race and sexual orientation and it has become an enduring feminist classic. The book was first published in 1982 by a small.....

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. The book, an "illustrated novel", is an autobiographical account of a Christian boy who grows.....

First Edition. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on a laid in bookplate. With an information card from the Parnassus Books Signed First Editions Club laid in. A flyer printing a note from the.....

First Edition. A memoir of growing up in a Massachusetts mill town. This is the Powell's Indiespensable version of the signed first edition, in a special slipcase printing a small booklet with an interview with Thompson. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in.....

First Edition. 303 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Houston on a page tipped in at the front of the book.

First Edition. 160 pages. A memoir. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by Doig on the front free endpaper.

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. 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).....

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.....