Search Results: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Memoir from Rainy Day Paperback Exchange

Boston, MA: W.A. Butterfield, 1916. (3rd printing, July 29). Hardbound. GOOD. Tight, light age tanning to pages, clean except for light foxing to page edges and some finger smudges on frontispiece and title page, square. No dust jacket. Includes business card size printed note. "This little book…is published for the benefit of the American Fund for the French Wounded..."

nrf / Gallimard, 2001. Paperback. VERY GOOD-. As new except for slight tilt, owner's name erased on first free page, and web site stamp inside front cover.. In plastic cover with "Prix Gens de Gascogne et de Guyenne" banner between plastic and cover. No markings in text. "C'etait Malagar. Nous y sommes arrivés en 1929, j'avais deux ans et Lulu quatre, et j'allais vivre dans ce lieu paradisiaque les plus belles années, les plus douloureuses aussi, de ma vie." Text in French. ISBN: 2070761622.

Taipei, Taiwan: China Post, 1973. (2nd edition). Trade Paperback. GOOD+. Tight, bright, clean interior, soiled exterior, faint curl. Covers are rubbed and stained, with wear to spine ends and a reading crease on spine. "recounts years of a Chinese diplomat who lives through a period of rapid transition in war-torn China. His career has its ample share of trials and tribulations. The narration of a rather complicated life is lightened and lighted by subtle wit and delicate humor...". 187 pages

NY: Atheneum, 1967. Hardbound. VERY GOOD+. Book is tight, bright, clean and square with slight softening of spine ends and a single spot on to top exterior page edges. Grey cloth with gilt lettering and red end papers. Unclipped dust jacket is intact with both a price and "A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection" - light age soil and tanned edges with seriously sunned spine. 511 indexed, annotated pages with 10 black and white photos. Member of Parliament "scholar, diplomat and writer..a British gentleman who looks of quality in all things and finds his greatest courage when affairs are going badly...Scattered among the entries is a remarkable series of letters, mostly between Nicholson and his wife, Vita, known to many readers as V. Sackville-West...)