Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - A Best Book of 2021: Entertainment Weekly, Good Morning America, Wall Street Journal, and more From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares the title of.....
Ecco, June 2015. Trade Paperback. 249 pages. A memoir. A fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Inscribed by the author to a previous owner on the title page. A poignant, hilarious, and inspiring memoir from the first Latino and openly gay inaugural poet, which explores his coming-of-age as the child of.....
Knowles, Anthony & Co., Printers, 1867. First Edition. Trade Paperback. 15 pages. Lemuel Grosvenor Perry apparently died of an injury received playing baseball: 'It was only a slight hurt which he had received on the ball-ground; he would keep his bed for a few days, and would then be well.'.....
Floricanto Press, August 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Brown Buffalo, as he was known in the barrios of Los Angeles among street people, at the height of the riots in in the late 1960's and 70's, was the epitome.....
Little, Brown and Company, October 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. There's no right way to keep a diary, but if there's an entertaining way, David Sedaris seems to have masÂtered it. If it's navel-gazing you're after, you've come to the wrong place; ditto treacly self-examination. Rather, his observations turn outward.....
Alfred A. Knopf, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. The famed humorist tackles motherhood, family ties, and the nature of being Southern and funny in this bittersweet memoir unlike any other. First edition (first printing). A fine, unread copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.....
Dey Street Books, October 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities (It's a piece of cake! Just do 4 hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover.....
Back Bay Books, September 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Genius... It is miraculous to read these pieces... You must read The Best of Me." --Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A CNN and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of.....
The Viking Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. 313 pages. Solomon was a young American 'scarcely eighteen years old when she and another young Spaniard named Paco Benet pulled off a daring rescue of political prisoners from one of Franco's concentration camps in the late 1940s' -- from the front flap.....
Paragon House, October 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). Fading to the edges thus near fine in a dust jacket with light edge wear else fine. Publisher's review letter laid in. A biography of the American writer discusses Mailer's major works, from The Naked and the Dead to.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her poet-warrior road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals.....
Holt Paperbacks, September 2002. Trade Paperback. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). This is the story of a rare sort of American genius, who grew up in grinding poverty in Camden, Maine. Nothing could save the sensitive child but her talent for words, music, and drama, and an inexorable.....
Ecco, September 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life.....
Atheneum, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 160 pages. A memoir. First edition (first printing). Light wear to the bottom edge else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by the author on the title page.
University of California Press, March 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (first printing). A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Quincy Troupe's candid account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It.....
W. W. Norton & Company, September 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. Joy Harjo, the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate, invites us to travel along the heartaches, losses, and humble realizations of her poet-warrior road. A musical, kaleidoscopic, and wise follow-up to Crazy Brave, Poet Warrior reveals.....
Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. Trade Paperback. Uncorrected proof of the fourth of Harrison's five memoirs. By the author of Legends of the Fall. A near fine copy in pictorial wrappers (paperback). Corner crease to rear cover.
Flatiron Books, September 2016. Trade Paperback. #1 New York Times Bestseller In Furiously Happy, a humor memoir tinged with just enough tragedy and pathos to make it worthwhile, Jenny Lawson examines her own experience with severe depression and a host of other conditions, and explains how it has led her.....
D. Appleton and Company, 1925. Hardcover. 336 pages. Andre Maurois (1885-1967) was born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog. Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Later printing. A very good copy in green cloth with gilt lettering. Mild edge and corner wear. No dust jacket.
Ballantine Books, November 1992. Mass Market Paperback. A new copy. Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum.....
Cash Money Content, May 2011. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "[In Pimp], Iceberg Slim breaks down some of the coldest, capitalist concepts I've ever heard in my life." --Dave Chappelle, from his Netflix special The Bird Revelation An immersive experience unlike anything before it, Pimp is the classic hustler's tale.....
Arthur Munson Coon, 1938. Trade Paperback. 352 loose photocopied sheets in manila folder, printed recto only. 'A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.' First edition (first printing). Very good copy. Manila folder with taped bookmark of 'The.....
Simon and Schuster, 1973. Trade Paperback. 316 pages. Uncorrected proofs of Levin's autobiographical account of his quest to bring his his play based on the diary of Anne Frank to Broadway. Very good in soiled wappers (paperback); spotting to page block. Former seller's small price sticker inside rear cover. Inscribed.....
Andre Deutsch, 1968. Hardcover. 296 pages. Biography of Kim Philby, with an introduction by John le Carre. Illustrated from black-and-white photographs. Second printing. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Spotting to the page block; closed tear to the spine affecting text. Inscribed by Leitch on the.....
University of Texas Press, September 2018. Hardcover. A very good copy; no dust jacket. One of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is renowned for.....