BIOGRAPHY from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: St. Martin's, 1995. Fine paperback copy of uncorrected proofs of See's study of her Chinese American family. Subtitle from cover: "The one-hundred-year odyssey of a Chinese-American family." 394 pages including "Sources," chapter notes. . Uncorrected Proof. Soft Cover.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. Second printing ("B" on copyright page). Very good- book (worst defect is musty smell; some light foxing on page edges; text clean) in fair dust jacket (glossy coating has pulled away from paper backing in several places; heavy edgewear at spine; fully intact). Well researched. Many photographs. 697 pages including index.. Hard Cover. Illus.… Read more about this item

New York: Knopf, 1992. Uncorrected proof of the first edition. Paperback. 371 pages. Fine condition. The author is known primarily for his writing about rock music. This book focuses on a memorable walk up Broadway in NYC. The author tells us that he had originally planned to walk around the world. Good gift for someone who collects his books or… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown, 197. Very good (foxing on the page edges) in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, light edgewear, sunned spine, some light soil, one scratch across the back panel). A wonderful memoir, especially her insight into her mother and father.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

San Francisco: McSweeney's, 2006. SIGNED by Deng. Near fine (some small smudges on the paper wrapper on the back cover) without a regular dust jacket, just the wrapper around the back cover. This is the fifth printing and has a lighter orange brown cover compared to the first state. This is sometimes called a "nonfiction novel," and the title page… Read more about this item

New York: Viking, 1974. Very good (trace of foxing on page edges) in very good- dust jacket (price-clipped, edgeworn especially along top edge). A Viking Studio Book, large format (about 8 x 10 inches) with many illustrations. 276 pages including index.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Santa Ynez Press, 1990. Very good (scratches on front cover) soft cover pamphlet with stapled covers. Typescript print face. 59 pages. Biography of Will Rogers with good photographs. Much of the focus is on the Will Rogers Ranch in Pacific Palisades, California.. Soft Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

San Francisco: Strawberry Hill Press, 1985. Very good/Near fine (very light edgewear on the paperback covers). Paperback original, with the "American Book Award - Winner 1985" sticker on the cover. INSCRIBED by author on title page.. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Soft Cover.

New York: William Morrow, 1996. Fine in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, one tiny scrape on front cover, otherwise fine). 426 pages of obituaries, sometimes humorous, sometimes inspiring including a foreword by Russell Baker and an introduction by the editor. As Baker says in his introduction, "Oases of calm in a world gone mad. Stimulants to sweet memories of… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Near fine (a light sprinkling of very faint foxing on top page edges) in fine dust jacket. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

London: Rubert Hart-Davis, 1957. 3rd printing. SIGNED and INSCRIBED ("Fair Winds") by the author--although it looks like that inscription has been written over by another hand in black ink; the author's signature in green ink is untouched). Very good (soiled covers--especially the back cover; front looks good) in very good dust jacket (sunned spine and spotted rear panel, price-clipped).… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Chilton Books, 1966. Very good (a few spots on page edges, and a little tear on the first free endpaper) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear, a couple of closed tears, and one quarter-inch missing chip along the top edge; price-clipped). The revised version of Moore's 1933 biography of the famous writer of children's stories. . 1st Edition… Read more about this item

London: Ernest Benn, 1933. Very good (slight edgewear, especially at top and bottom of spine and corners) without dust jacket. Nesbit was an important writer of children's fiction and also married to one of the members of the Fabian Society and moved easily in Edwardian England. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Knopf, 1981. Fine in very good- dust jacket (four closed tears along the top edge and the front flap fold, and one closed tear by the spine, but fully intact). 328 pages including index, extensive notes, and an afterword by Clara Winston, the author's wife.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1979. Very good (a few light foxing spots on page edges and on the last free endpaper; otherwise the pages are completely clean, and the book is in near fine condition) in heavy stock covers with picture of the skipper's wife on the front cover. Paperback book. Journal kept in part on board a Maine… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1967. Fine in very good dust jacket (price-clipped, sunned spine, moderate edgewear). Memoir of her beginnings as a teacher.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Knopf, 1978. Very good (some edgewear, light foxing on page edges, interior clean) in very good dust jacket (light edgewear). Publicity photograph of Bowen laid in (glossy still, 3/4 length, like the back panel of the dust jacket). 331 pages including index.. 1st American edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.

New York: Wm. H. Wise & Co., 1926. Very good (near fine interior--pages somewhat browned--but the covers have some edgewear and spots with one slightly bumped corner; the silk place-marker is present but loose; giver's inscription on first free endpaper) without dust jacket. Fascinating book about the founder and leading light of the Roycrofters. Profusely illustrated with cartoons, craftsman-style decorations… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1997. Very good + (one small white spot on the back cover on the black backstrip) without dust jacket. 588 pages including notes and index. One distinguished man of letters writes about another, whom Blotner describes, in his Preface, thus: "America's preeminent man of letters, master of genres, prodigiously creative, heavy with awards and prizes honoring… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2002. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fun to see McEnroe's opinion of his tennis contemporaries while also dealing with his reputation as a brat. 342 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Illus. by Photographs.