Little Wilson and Big God
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987. Trade Paperback. 448 pages. Uncorrected proof of the Clockwork Orange author's autobiography. A near fine copy in blue wrappers (paperback). Light, uneven fading to cover.
Biography & Memoir
Rush: Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
Crown, September 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE - AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR By the time he was thirty.....
The Opposite of Butterfly Hunting: The Tragedy and The Glory of Growing Up; A Memoir
Ballantine Books, October 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From actress and activist Evanna Lynch comes a raw and compelling memoir about navigating the path between fears and dreams. Evanna Lynch's casting as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films is a tale that grew to almost mythic proportions--a legend.....
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Penguin Books, March 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women.....
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Knopf, April 2021. Hardcover. A new copy. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, one of TIME's Most Influential People of 2022, and author of the viral 2018 New Yorker essay that shares.....
Many Masks: A Life Of Frank Lloyd Wright
Da Capo Press, August 1998. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Genius, egotist, mythomaniac, sexual rebel, master of media manipulation, the legendary Wright comes alive in all his cantankerous complexity. . . . A delight from cover to cover.--Kirkus Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is often described as the greatest.....
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Flatiron Books: An Oprah Book, September 2021. Hardcover. Remainder copy. INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Searing. Powerful. Needed. --Oprah "Sometimes a single story can change the world. Unbound is one of those stories. Tarana's words are a testimony to liberation and love." --Brené Brown From the founder and activist behind.....
Little Weirds
Back Bay Books, November 2020. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Step into Jenny Slate's wild imagination in this "magical" (Mindy Kaling), "delicious" (Amy Sedaris), and "poignant" (John Mulaney) New York Times bestseller about love, heartbreak, and being alive -- "this book is something new and wonderful" (George Saunders). You may.....
A Princess Remembers: The Memoirs of the Maharani of Jaipur
J. B. LippincottCompany, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 335 pages. B/W illustrations First edition (first printing). Near fine copy in a very good dust jacket. Book with slight edge and corner wear. Dust jacket with edge and corner wear, faded spine, small edge chips and edge creases.
My Struggle: Book 1
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2013. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A New York Times bestseller, My Struggle: Book 1 introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly surprising international literary sensation that is the provocative and brilliant six-volume autobiographical novel by Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has.....
Girlhood
Bloomsbury Publishing, May 2022. Trade Paperback. A new copy. National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions.....
Leonardo da Vinci
Simon & Schuster, October 2017. Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it.....
Theodore Rex (Modern Library Paperbacks)
Modern Library, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A shining portrait of a presciently modern political genius maneuvering in a gilded age of wealth, optimism, excess and American global ascension."--San Francisco Chronicle WINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY.....
Bossypants
Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books, January 2012. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL (Sunday Telegraph). Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before.....
A Thousand Naked Strangers: A Paramedic's Wild Ride to the Edge and Back
Scribner, September 2016. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A former paramedic's visceral, poignant, and mordantly funny account of a decade spent on Atlanta's mean streets saving lives and connecting with the drama and occasional beauty that lies inside catastrophe. In the aftermath of 9/11 Kevin Hazzard felt...
King of the Moonshiners: Lewis R. Redmond in Fact and Fiction (Appalachian Echoes)
Univ Tennessee Press, February 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The hillbilly hero is an American archetype. Living a hardscrabble life in the mountains of the South, he turns to making moonshine in a homemade still, hidden from the prying eyes of the revenuers--the federal agents who pursue.....
Things I Didn't Know
Vintage, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Robert Hughes has trained his critical eye on many major subjects, from the city of Barcelona to the history of his native Australia. Now he turns that eye inward, onto himself and the world that formed him. Hughes analyzes his.....
A Life
University of Nebraska Press, June 1980. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Floyd Warner, eighty-two, has driven from California to his childhood home in Nebraska in his antique Maxwell coupe. There he confronts the smoldering remains of this late sister's house and the realization that he is now completely.....
Year of the Monkey
Knopf Publishing Group, September 2019. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. New York Times Best Seller From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of.....
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After
Crown, April 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not--could not--live in that tale." Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in.....
Born to Run
Simon & Schuster, September 2016. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The revelatory and wildly bestselling memoir by legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen: "Glorious...a philosophically rich ramble through a rock 'n roll life...It's the lyric he was born to write" (USA TODAY, 4 out of.....
Strange Big Moon: The Japan and India Journals, 1960-1964
North Atlantic Books, September 2000. Trade Paperback. 281 pages. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Hungry to explore Zen and make the discoveries that would shape a lifetime of poetry, Joanne Kyger left for Japan in her twenties and returned four years later ready to carve out a substantial.....
I Shock Myself: The Autobiography of Beatrice Wood
Chronicle Books, April 1988. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Beatrice Wood's Life has been extraordinary in every way, from earliest childhood, when her dominating Victorian mother realized she "wasn't like the rest of them," to her productive life at ninety-five in California's Ojiai Valley. Rebellious, radical and romantic.....
Selected Letters (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics, September 1997. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A revised selection of Lady Montagu's letters. Besides presenting a vivid picture of manners in a picturesque age, they contain a unique series of impressions from foreign courts seldom visited and nowhere else so intimately described. Lady Mary was.....
Stolen Voices: Young People's War Diaries, from World War I to Iraq
Penguin Books, December 2006. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). From the author of the international bestseller Zlata's Diary comes a haunting testament to how war's brutality affects the lives of young people Zlata Filipovic's diary of her harrowing war experiences in the Balkans, published in 1993, made her.....