First Edition. 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.....

First Edition. One of a series of memoirs, in the form of short vignettes, that McMurtry wrote in his later years. This one mostly provides anecdotes about his books, with bits about filmmakers and booksellers tossed in for seasoning. 175 pages. First edition (first printing); Three Dog Books issue, limited.....

First Edition. The biography of one of the leading dancers with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. 294 pages. First edition (stated). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket but for REMAINDER spray on the bottom edge. This copy is inscribed by Jamison to the collector Oliver.....

Uncorrected Proof. An advance copy, preceding the first edition, of this memoir by Raymond Carver's first wife. Advance reading copy (ARC), labeled Advance Uncorrected Proofs. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Signed by Maryann Burk Carver on the title page; scarce signed.

First Edition. Autobiographical prose pieces about Rexroth's life from the late 1920s into the 1940s. 61 pages. Limited to 350 signed and numbered copies. First edition. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by Rexroth on the front free endpaper. Copy 329 of 350.

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. 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.....