BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998. Fine in fine dust jacket. Brand new condition. The author is the youngest of the Lindbergh children. She writes with special love for her mother Anne Morrow Lindbergh and with understanding for her father, Charles who was much the stricter of her parents. She refers to her home life--where her father was the dominant… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Very good (bright top edge gilt and title--see scan--and spine; edgeworn; four small holes in cloth covering on back cover) without dust jacket. 288 pages. Nineteenth-century literary figures of U.S. northeast whom Howells knew. Organized by chapters: "My First Visit to New England," "Roundabout to Boston," "Cambridge Neighbors," etc. Many black and white illustrations,… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1988. Very good (small foxing spots on page edges, otherwise fine) in near fine dust jacket (one ink line drawn through price on dust jacket). The first collection of Gordimer's non-fiction pieces, covering subjects ranging from the beginnings of her career to the inevitable concerns over politics and life in South Africa. Edited and introduced by Stephen… Read more about this item

Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing , 1949. The inspiring, well-written story of John McCormack, the Irish tenor, written by his wife. Contains a 12-page discography at the back of the book very useful to the collector of McCormack's recordings. In spite of the good condition of the text and photographs, this is only a reading copy because of some water damage to… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 1965. The successor to Kazin's "A Walker in the City," this volume covers his coming of age in the 1930s during the Depression. 166 pages. Very good+ (previous owner's name on ffep; small glue stain on bottom edges of pages next to spine from manufacturing, 2 small nicks on inside of the bottom edge of rear… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1970. Fine in very good dust jacket with sunned spine and top, a few closed tears, but fully intact. Index and 8 pages of black and white photographs. The last in the series of autobiographical books from Leonard Woolf, Virginia Woolf's husband and with her the founder of the Hogarth Press. This volume… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1975. Near fine (light remainder spray on bottom edges) in very good dust jacket (rubbed, edgeworn with one short closed tear, price-clipped). Author's first book. A collection of essays spanning a year of her life. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Study of life for coal miners and their families in Yorkshire village (Dinlock itself is "imaginary, in that it is many places I have seen . . . ," from the Author's Note). Author's first book. INSCRIBED by author ("To Alice from Clancy"). Fine in very good dust jacket (edgeworn, rubbed spots on black cover show… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1957. Very good in good dust jacket (sunned, small chips missing at top and bottom of spine, 2 closed tears, worn but bright). Written at a time when the West was still the golden land. Exuberantly written memoir. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1958. Very good+ (worn top and bottom of spine; offsetting--probably from newspaper clipping--at title page) in good+ dust jacket (edgeworn, price-clipped, closed tear at spine, lightly soiled front) with a good picture of Agnes and Eugene from 1927 on the back panel. Agnes Boulton met O'Neill when he was a young, obscure writer. They… Read more about this item

New York: Basic Books, 1959. Near fine (a bit of wear at top of spine, otherwise fine) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear including small hole at rear fold, hidden in protective plastic wrap). Jones was the first non-German in the original circle of physicians working with Freud in the early days of psychoanalysis. Later wrote biography… Read more about this item

New York: William Morrow, 1989. Very good (lightly spotted page edges) in near fine dust jacket (light edgewear along top) in clear protector. A second volume in Baker's autobiography (first was "Growing Up"). Covers the post world war II years and his rise as a journalist from newsboy to columnist. Extremely readable.351 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1963. INSCRIBED by Yevtushenko, dated 1998. Very good- (foxed edges, owner's book plate ffep) otherwise bright, tight copy in good dust jacket (quite edgeworn, spotted, rubbed).. Inscribed and Signed by Author. 1st American edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Seaver Books, 1981. Very good (lightly foxed page edges and endpapers, interior otherwise clean) in very good dust jacket (2 large closed tears on back panel -- partially repaired with scotch tape on inside of jacket, but still visible -- and 1 wrinkle on lower edge of front panel; lightly rubbed; see scans..). INSCRIBED by author. SIGNED program… Read more about this item

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1958. Very good+ (slightly sunned edges, some spotting on side page edges near the glossy photographs) in very good dust jacket (edge browned, one 1/2 inch chip at bottom of spine). Moving account of the writer's last year. 119 pages. Translated by Richard Graves. . 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by… Read more about this item

New York: G.P.Putnam's Sons , 1989. Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by author. A memoir--sometimes hilarious, sometimes moving, always absorbing--of the author's childhood and youth. 272 pages.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Macmillan, 1988. Very good (foxing on page edges, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket. For fans of C.S. Lewis and his Narnia books, here is the warm story of confirmed bachelor Lewis's love for Gresham's mother, their marriage, and his loving care for Gresham and his brother after their mother's death. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.