Resultados de búsqueda: Memoir from Great Northern Books

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux/North Point Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "A remarkable, probing evocation of an American life that has been tried and tempered by two very different societies." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and numerous black & white illustrations. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean unmarked copy.

New York: George Braziller, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First printing. The author's second book. "The present book is the author's attempt to answer people's questions about composers and music. " [from the jacket]. Dust jacket is chipped and rubbed. Musical notes written on rear free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy. .

New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good /very good. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. The second volume of "memoirs" from the author of "A Million Little Pieces." Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Carroll & Graf, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page to author Sanda Benitez. "On Broken Glass is the story of Thornton's exhilarating and sometimes devastating relationship with the author of Grendel, Nickel Mountain, The Sunlight Dialogues, and the award-winning October Light." [from the publisher] Includes black and white photographs.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. First printing. "Wartime diary kept by Bernard Berenson, the celebrated humanist and art historian, first in his own home and then in his secret retreat near Florence, Italy." [from publisher] Includes index. Ex-library with minimal markings, dustjacket has edgewear and two small spots, still a good reading copy.

New York: Doubleday, 1994. Preview edition. Slipcased Hardcover. Near Fine. Special Booksellers' Preview edition. Gilmore's proposal, published as a promotion for a full length book, later published with the same title. It tells the story of Glimore's brother Gary who was tried for murder, convicted, and executed by firing squad. Hardcover with pictorial covers, housed in a custom black cloth covered slipcase with author and title in gold.

Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. A reminiscence, of sorts, by Fannie Barrett Browning, the daughter-in-law of Robert Barrett Browning. A book published and sold to raise money for "The Browning Settlement," at Walworth, in South East London. Ex-library with minimal markings, no dustjacket, as published?

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. "Chronicles the author's first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders." [from publisher] A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Dutton, 1995:August. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. A short memoir by the author of "Bastard Out of Carolina." Illustrated with black & white photographs. A clean unmarked copy.

Stockholm: Bonnier, 1982. First Swedish edition?. Paperback. Very Good +. Translated by Margaretha Holmqvist. A clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

New York: Harper & Row, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First printing. Edited by Roger Lea MacBride ; Historical settings by Margot Patterson Doss. Illustrated with black & white photographs. "A selection of letters by Laura Ingalls Wilder to her husband in which she describes the highlights of her visit to the west coast in 1915." [from publisher] Gift inscription on front pastedown, slight edgewear to dustjacket.

New York: Liveright Publishing Company, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. New/new. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the half title page. "Here his behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art." [from publisher] Includes 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, and index.