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Washington, DC: American Hellenic Institute Foundation, 2002. Signed (first name only) and inscribed by author on fep. 8vo size navy blue clothbound hardcover with bright gilt titles under dust jacket; 313 pages plus section of black and white photographs on glossy stock. From jacket: "(This book) is a powerful autobiography set in the turbulent decade of 1940s Greece... Leaving his idyllic western Macedonian village as a teenager to begin university studies in Solonika in the fall of 1940, the author experienced the patriotic fervor that brought rare unity to the Greeks and the euphoria that swept the Hellenic nation to resounding victories against Mussolini's invading army." Jacket has light wear and edgewear to jacket. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over… Leer más

New York: Doubleday, 2013. Stated First Edition with full numberline 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 353 pages From dust jacket: "(The author's) appetite's run deep; in her own worlds, she spent much of her life as 'a hungry, lonely, wild animal looking for happiness and stability.' (This book) is a narrative in which food - eating it, cooking it, reflecting on it - becomes the vehicle for unpacking a life. (The author) explores her history of hunger - not just for food but for love and confidence and a sense of belonging." Lightly bumped head and heel of spine and corners, light wear to jacket. . First. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Basic Books, 1998. In almost new condition except for some soil to outside pages and some wear to corners. 333 bright, white pages including index. Two sections of black and white photographs. From back: "Jorge Luis Borges stands as one of the seminal figures in twentieth century literature, impacting postwar fiction and philosophy ranging from Garcia Marquez to Fuentes, Updike to Eco, Barth to Foucault. Born at the turn of the century in Argentina, Borges grew up with cosmopolitan parents who fostered his love of literature..." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Johnson, David. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

SITE Publishing, 2015. 8vo size trade paperback; 87 pages From back: "(The author) touches hearts with this raw and genuine look at how she turns tragedy into triumph. She shares her emotional experience of having a stroke and all the challenges she faces through her journey... She instantly draws the reader in with the gripping tale of the day she had a stroke... She shares invaluable lessons she learns along the way..." Moderate wear and edgewear to covers. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Beacon Press, 2003. Rare signed copy. Signed by author on fep. From flap: "This book is a song of thanksgiving. Thanksgiving for the people whose courageous witness has transfigured this community - and this pastor." 284 pages. Impression marks on three pages from staples; tiny spot on outside pages; we note penciled underlining or marginalia on at least 16 pages and inside back cover. Moderate wear to jacket including a half inch tear at bottom spine. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New Bedford, Massachusetts: Spinner Publications, 2000. First Edition Signed and inscribed by author on half title page. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 269 pages. From back: "Brick by Brick is not just a book about (master bricklayer Lynn Donohue); it's an exploration of one woman's life journey. A journey that parallels many in her generation - from her tumultuous childhood to her hippies days living in an urban commune...from being trapped in a dead-end job to building a professional career. Her true-grit story brings a fresh perspective to growing up in small city (New Bedford, Massachusetts) America. There is no magic here. Lynn Donohue builds her life brick by brick, and that's what makes this story so compelling." In great condition with only light wear to jacket. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and… Leer más

Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1998. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 207 pages plus postscript. From jacket: "Since his marriage to an Iowan...Richard, Lord Acton has divided his time between England and Iowa. Much of his American life is spent writing the historical studies and whimsical observations of the worlds around him that have endeared him to Iowans. This collection of the Acton's essays reflects the rich diversity of the author's interests and experiences." "Richard Acton is...a fascinating tour guide to topics about which most Iowans know little...but he also points out perspectives on the familiar, on Iowa scenes or customs so commonplace to us that we are astounded when anyone finds them worthy... -Thomas J. Morain." Richard Gerald Lyon-Dalberg-Acton (1941-2010) was the 4th Baron Acton and 11th Baronet of Aldenham, writer, politician and barrister. A hereditary peer, Lord Acton campaigned for reform which ended the inherited right to… Leer más

New York: New American Library, 1966. From jacket: "He was naked as the day he was born and covered with blood from the top of his head to his toes.' Thus ran the testimony of hte police officer who arrested John Balt at the scene of the crime." 240 creamy pages. Stated First Printing. Wear and significant edgewear to jacket; tanned jacket spine; wrinkle inside front cover. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. First. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1972. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 230 bright, white pages. From jacket: " (A) memoir of (the author's) life as a conscientious objector during the Second World War... While the war thunders about him, he works on the land among strangers of many religious and political complexions. The seasons come and go; the jobs change, but are always hard to learn and boring; there are new companions and old companions - but there is always the land and always there is the weather. This is a work of great beauty, with many remembered moments of joy among the days and months of slogging misery." British author Edward Bishen (1920 - 1996) wrote more than a dozen book during his career. He was also a broadcaster for the BBC. This volume is one of four autobiographies. Light wear to jacket with crease to inside jacket flap and two light marks on bottom of book. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and… Leer más

Boston: Little Brown, 2009. 8vo size trade paperback; 348 pages with a section of black and white photographs. Covers are unique to proof with front cover saying "Coming in September" and back cover stating both "Advance Reading Copy" and "Uncorrected Proof." Back cover also includes marketing and promotion information. From back: "The author's family is nothing if not illustrious: his father was president of Swarthmore College, and at Smith his mother came in second to Sylvia Plath in a poetry contest judged by W.H. Auden. For centuries, WASPs like his ancestors dominated American life. But then in the '60s, their fortunes began to fall. (The author's) identity had been shaped by the family's age-old traditions and expectation, but how much had it also been shaped by a family tree that, for all its glories, was full of alcoholics, depressives, and reckless eccentrics?" Edgewear, wear and creasing to covers. . Uncorrected Proof. Trade… Leer más

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1942. First Edition 8vo size blue clothbound hardcover with gilt titles on spine; 482 toned pages. Arthur Garfield Hayes (1881–1954) was a prominent American lawyer who headlined many notable cases. He maintained both a private practice and served as general counsel of the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) from 1920 until his death. Among the notable cases or clients with which he was involved are: Dionne Quintuplets Sacco and Vanzetti Scopes Monkey Trial Scottsboro Case Hays Commission investigation of the Ponce, Puerto Rico massacre Ex-library with typical treatments. We suspect this book was professionally rebound in 1942 for library use and the heavy binding has held up well with only edgewear. Sunned spine, small spot on spine just above the title and some adhesive residue on front cover where barcode was removed. . First. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Epicenter Press, 2000. First Edition will full numberline Signed by author and subject on title page 8vo size hardcover with photo illustrated dust jacket; 192 pages with black and From jacket: "In the beginning there was only one practical way for outsiders to penetrate Alaska's wild interior. Passage was the Yukon River and its tributaries, which had been under control of the Athabascan Indians since earliest memory. High profile among these people was a family later to know as the Harpers. When European and American fortune-hunters settle among them, handsome Athabascan women found it convenient to make romantic alliances wit the foreigners. This book is an inspirational story of cultural assimilation told from an insiders perspective. (The author) offers a fascinating saga of her people and their transition from the wild waterways, which they had ruled with deference to its many spirits, to fast-track modern American life." There are several pages with soil in the far… Leer más

London: Werner Shaw Ltd., 1986. First Edition 8vo size brown clothbound hardcover; 224 page with index. From jacket: "After three years of sharing a house in London's St. John's Wood with a moody, elderly Russian who was translating Tchekhov. Barbara Kaye and her husband Percy Muir moved in 1938 to a Tudor cottage in north-west Essex, in joyful anticipation of at last having a home to themselves. Whilst she coped with a young daughter, domestic crises, garden and chickens - and tried to write a novel - he commuted to London to carry on his antiquarian book business in Duke Street." Percy Muir (1894 - 1979) was a prominent antiquarian bookseller with the Elkins Matthews firm and author of several books related to book collecting. Barbara Kaye Muir (1908 - 1998) was an English novelist. She and Percy Muir married in 1937. Kaye was also involved in Elkins Matthews. She also wrote several memoirs, including this one. Jacket covered by mylar (not ex-library.) Booksellers… Leer más

London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1960. No. 859 in Everyman's Library with dust jacket. Volume One only. Introduction by R. Niklaus. From jacket: "the most personal and intimate of this challenging author's works." Lightly sunned spine, edgewear and some minor chipping and light soil to jacket. Quotes and photographs are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning. . Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Horizon Press, 1963. 8vo size clothbound hardcover with dust jacket; 356 pages From jacket: "Sir Herbert Read has here woven the two major parts of Annals of Innocence and Experience together with an equal amount of material which has never been published before... The volume is divided into four parts: The Innocent Eye... A War Diary... The Falcon and the Dove... A Dearth of Wild Flowers... Sir Herbert Read's life has been a full and varied one. Any personal record from a man who has played such an important part in the world of art and letters is bound to be of great interest...the author speaks also as a representative of the generation whose life has been fractured into three parts by two world wars, one which has seen greater and more violent change during its lifetime that any previous one had known, and a longer history of change than any younger generation yet knows." Some light soil and wear to dust jacket, small abrasion on fep where sticker was removed. Thanks… Leer más

Plon, 2001. 8vo size trade paperback with photo illustrated covers; 228 pages plus a section of black and white photographs on glossy stock From back cover: Quand on est la femme de Jacques Chirac on ne peut pas rester trop effacee! Ou alors on court le risque d'etre ecrasee...Que voulez-vous, je n'aime pas etre ecrasee. Je ne m'attendais pas du tout a ce qu'il fasse de la politique. Comme disait mon pere: La politque, vraiment, n'etait pas dans le contrat de mariage..." "When you're Jacques Chirac's wife, you can't remain too unobtrusive! Or else we run the risk of being crushed... What do you want, I don't like being crushed. I did not expect him to do politics at all. As my father used to say: Politics, really, was not in the marriage contract..." Edgewear, fingermark on outside page, light crease on spine. . Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cohasset, Massachusetts: Hot House Press, 2002. 295 bright, white pages. Small wrinkle to back of dust jacket and several bumped pages at the back of book. Illustrated with black and white ads, illustrations and photographs. "Copywriter chronicles an advertising man's journey from Young Turk to scarred veteran - with pit stops and side trips along the way...Ray Welch mixes two parts outrageous humor with a healthy spalsh of self-deprecation." Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1956. Foreword by A.L. Rouse Stated First Edition (actually this is a First Thus, or First American Edition; the first edition having been published in Britain the year before.) E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc; New York; 1956 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 192 pages From jacket: "This is a true story, the autobiography of a young Cornish girl whose earliest memories are those of lonely, miserable years spent in and out of the workhouse, and of the searing consciousness of inferiority branded upon her by the stigma of illegitimacy and the constant feeling of not being wanted... Emma Smith was only five years old when she was "handed over" by her mother to a brutish itinerant organ grinder and his wife... Emma tells how, when she was 12, she at last escaped from the evil influence of the Fagin-like hurdy gurdy man...to find refuge with the walls of a Convent-penitentiary... After many more vividly recorded adventures, Emma at least found happiness and… Leer más

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1994. Signed by authors on inside cover. 8vo size trade paperback; 182 pages plus a section of black and white photographs on glossy stock From back: "In this ground breaking volume, Mitchell Levitz (then age 22) and Jason Kingsley (then age 19) share their innermost thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams, their lifelong friendship - and their experience growing up with Down syndrome." A Reading Copy with wear and creasing to covers, curled page corners at the front of the book; name on fep; autographed copy sticker on front cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Signed by Author. Trade Paperback. Reading Copy/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Excelsior Publishers, 1958. Signed and inscribed by author on fep to the Jewish Labor Committee. Stated First Edition. 8vo size red clothbound hardcover with black titles on spine and front cover; 262 toned pages including index. Memoir of Rosa Pesotta, (1896 - 1965) a Jewish immigrant from the Ukraine who became a labor organizer in the United States. Pesotta immigrated to avoid an arranged marriage and found work as a seamstress in a shirtwaist factory. Shortly thereafter she joined the ILGWU where she became very active in organizing new chapters/members in the United States and Canada. She became a vice president for the ILGWU, but ultimately split with them as the male-lead woman's organization failed to recognize the value of her work. Business library stamp crossed out and withdrawn written on inside front cover, library pocket inside back cover. Dusty top and some fingermarks on fep. Sunned spine bumped at head and heel. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your… Leer más