Norton, 1983. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the limitation page. Clean and bright; full cloth cover bears only gentle shelfwear at corners and spine ends, dust jacket only some scattered pressure marks across the rear, a nearly invisible short tear... More about The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Engineer, 1874-1914
W. W. Norton & Co., 1988. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. First printing of the first edition, from the limited run of 2,000 copies made as presentation copies by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association. This one is unusual in that there is no inscription or named recipient, and there is... More about The Life of Herbert Hoover: The Humanitarian, 1914-1917
India: Vikas Publishing House Pvt. Ltd., 1986. Hardcover. Pages clean except for a gift label affixed to the front endpaper and another label attached to the half-title page, repeated at the final (blank) page. Binding is square and tight; full cloth cover shows some rubbed spots and flaws in the... More about The Legacy of Nehru
Oxford University Press, 1989. Paperback. No owners' marks; pages are clean, if gently age-toned around the edges; spine shows reading creases, but binding remains secure; the soft cover bears spots of rubbing and pinpoint chips on the surfaces, creasing at the bottom front right, and wear at the spine ends... More about Jawaharlal Nehru: An Autobiography (Centenary Edition
Cedar Rapids, Iowa: The Torch Press, 1935. Hardcover. Signed and dated by the author below the frontispiece portrait, with no named recipient. Pages crisp and clean except for a prior owner's name on the front free endpaper and gentle toning in the margins throughout; binding square and secure, full red... More about How A Dane Became an American; or Hits and Misses of My Life
The Lilliput Press Ltd, 1987. Hardcover. Pages crisp and clean except for some foxing along the head edge and modest age-toning in the margins; no owners' marks; square, tight binding; hard cover has a light bump at the spine heel causing some short wrinkles up the sides of the spine... More about The Village of Longing
Little, Brown and Company, 1972. Sixth Printing. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to a named individual at the half-title page by Dave Powers; signed with a different inscription to the same named person by the same author at the title page. Pages crisp and clean except for a small, gray smudge... More about Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Simon & Schuster, 2002. First Printing. Hard Cover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date, inscription, or named recipient. Crisp and clean except for a remainder mark on the bottom edge of the book, a little shelf rubbing at the spine ends, and shallow wrinkling at... More about No Heroes: A Memoir of Coming Home
Simon & Schuster, 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the title page with no date, inscription, or named recipient. Pages clean except for vertical ripples through pp.11-26 and light foxing on the head edges; hard cover bears modest softening and fading at the spine heel, and dust... More about The Same River Twice: A Memoir
Dusseldorf: Joseph Melzer Verlag, 1964. Hard Cover. Language: German. Pages crisp and clean except for two small, brown spots in the preliminaries and light dust staining at the head edge; binding square and tight, hard cover mildly rubbed at corners and turned very slightly inward at the top right front... More about Erlebtes, Erstrebtes, Erreichtes Lebenserinnerungen
New York: Henry Holt & Co, 1925. Hardcover. Pages crisp and clean except for a prior owner's bookplate, an old Irish postage stamp, and a neatly penned owner's name at the front free endpaper; a little light toning around the page margins, otherwise lovely interior. Binding square and tight, hard... More about Stories of Old Ireland and Myself
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1877. Cloth Hardcover. Two volumes bound as one (398 + 362pp.) Pages clean except for a prior owner's name penciled on the first blank leaf, small factual annotations added occasionally in pencil, mild toning around the margins, foxing verso the frontis, a tea spot in... More about Thomas de Quincey: His Life and Writings
University of South Carolina Press, 2014. Hard Cover. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; except for gentle rubbing at the spine ends of the hard cover and a small pressure mark near the spine heel on the dust jacket, excellent. More about Song of My Life: A Memoir
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1979. First U. K. Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author, without date or inscription, at the title page. Crisp, clean pages except for a tidy bookplate at the front endpaper and a pair of light creases across the front free endpaper; secure binding, hard cover showing... More about The Way the Future Was: A Memoir
Librería Bosch, 2008. Soft Cover. Language: Catalan. A few small marks in the margins, otherwise clean; one small wrinkle at the spine head; otherwise excellent. More about Trossos de ma vida : Memòries d'un il-lús (Primera Part
University of Iowa, 2007. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page with no date or inscription. Crisp and clean except for a few short, light creases at the spine heel and at the top free corners of the dustjacket; otherwise excellent, nearly as new. More about Oppenheimer is Watching Me: A Memoir
University of Georgia Press, 2006. Paperback. No owners' marks; pages are clean, bright and crisp; binding is tight and uncreased; the soft cover bears some wrinkling and pressure marks along the bottom front edge and some shelf-rubbing at the free edges, as well as tiny wrinkles at the spine tips;... More about Shared Histories: Transatlantic Letters Between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and Her Daughter,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Soft Cover. New. No remainder marks. More about The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography
New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1982. Hardcover. Crisp, clean pages except for foxing along the head edges; square, secure binding; full cloth cover is softened at spine ends, gently faded at spine head, and mildly rubbed at spine ends and corners; dust jacket bears a few spots of foxing on the... More about Pound / Ford: The Story of a Literary Friendship
University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. Querry, Elaine. First Printing. Soft Cover. Signed and inscribed by the author to two named individuals on the title page. No owners' marks; pages are clean and crisp; binding is square and tight; except for some delicate wear at the front soft cover's right edge... More about I See by My Get-Up
Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 2003. Soft Cover. Clean and bright, with no owners' marks; except for a little light shelf rubbing at the corners of the soft cover, as new. More about A Woman's Wit and Whimsy : The 1833 Diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy
Borderland Books, 2014. Hard Cover. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; except for tiny scratches at the spine ends of the hard cover, excellent, nearly as new. More about This World of Dreams
W. W. Norton & Company, 2016. First Printing. Hardcover. Signed by the author at the title page, with no date or inscription. Crisp and clean; modest softening and rubbing at the spine ends and a small, closed surface tear at one corner of the hard cover; jacket has a gentle... More about Vessels: A Love Story
Manak Publications, 1991. First Edition. Hard Cover. Pages are clean and bright; binding is tight. Small tap at rear cover bottom free corner of the hard cover; another small tap at the spine heel; faint rubbing at top free corners. Dust jacket has rubbing and chipping at spine ends, but... More about Chandra Shekhar : The Survivor
Wesleyan University Press, 1987. Soft Cover. Except for almost unnoticeable rubbing at the lower corners of the soft cover, excellent, clean and crisp. More about Three American Originals : John Ford, William Faulkner and Charles Ives
