Autobiography from Berthoff Books

Scribner, 2004. Soft cover. Very Good. 567 pages, with index. First Scribner trade paperback of book published 2003. "With a new afterword". Illustrated with more than 130 b&w photos on plates. Hilary Clinton's autobiography up through Bill Clinton's second term. Eighteen-point "Reading Group Guide" at the end. Large trade paperback (9-1/8" x 6-1/8"), slight curl to wraps, 1/4"… Read more about this item

St. Martin's Press, 1999. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 282 pages. Illustrated with b&w photos on eight double-sided plates. Combined autobiography and analysis of American mafia. Gray paper over boards with silver gilt lettering on spine, photographically decorated end papers, very slight wear along bottom of boards. Unclipped DJ has a little edge wear, small crease… Read more about this item

Faber and Faber, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 253 pages, with index, chronology. Thirty b&w illustrations on plates, chiefly photographic portraits. Wells's account of relations with his wife and numerous other women, edited by his son, published posthumously. 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine, extremities a bit sunned, in unclipped dust jacket with… Read more about this item

Tyndale Momentum, 2018. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 236 pages. Color illustrations on four double-sided plates. Introduction by coach Frank Reich. Written by the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, and seminary student, in the aftermath of winning the Super Bowl. 8vo, black cloth with silver gilt lettering, practically no visible wear, dust jacket has light shelf wear, pages bright and unmarked.… Read more about this item

Independently published (Berthoff Books), 2024. 1st Edition . Soft cover. New. 241 pages. Memoir by Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (1924-2022), who taught writing at U. Mass-Boston. "This is a memoir of places lived in and loved, stayed at length in, visited briefly, places dreamed about. . . The places here remembered have, mostly, disappeared. . . In these… Read more about this item

Gateway (Henry Regnery Company), 1951. Soft cover. Good. 373 pages, with Note by translator and editor Phyllis Penn Kohler, Introduction by Walter Bedell Smith. The French aristocrat's memoir of his journey to Russia in 1839. Mass-market paperback, shelf wear and soil to wraps, text block quite brown with age, a few accidentally dog-eared pages. No marks observed within.… Read more about this item

Anchor Books (Doubleday), 1962. Soft cover. Good. 338 pages plus xviii front-matter pages including Preface and Introduction by the editor. Memoirs by the Russian aristocrat, geographer and anarchist, originally written in English during his long exile, after 1874, in western Europe and England. Mass-market paperback, wraps age-tanned, wear includes horizontal scratch on front cover, original price blacked out… Read more about this item

Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, 1949. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 328 pages plus xxiv front matter pages including Foreword by Lang and von Schenck, Dramatis personae, six-page chronology. Written during the Nuremberg Tribunal on Nazi war crimes, Rosenberg's memoirs were edited by Swiss journalists Lang and Schenck, whose notes are interspersed in the text. This is the first American… Read more about this item

Claymont Communications, 1983. Soft cover. Good. 383 pages. New American edition of autobiography of the British intelligence operative and associate of Gurdjieff, first published 1961. Trade paperback, minor edgewear, edges have splotchy brown stains as from liquid (but pages not wavy). Name of former owner written on inside front cover, old price in pencil on half-title, interior pages… Read more about this item

Serra e Riva Editori, 1988. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 287 pagine, Postfazione di Marisa Bulgheroni. Traduzione di Chiara Spallino Rocca. Italian translation of American novelist Evelyn Scott's 1923 autobiographical Escapade, an account of her running away to Brazil with her husband. 8vo, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, extremities… Read more about this item

Impress, 2018. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Near Fine. 169 pages, illustrated with many color and b&w photos on plates. The author recounts travel, solo and with her husband, the literary critic and professor of English at Amherst William H. Pritchard, over 60 years. Excerpts from each of their journals create a "he said, she said" (the title… Read more about this item

Graywolf Press, 1995. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. 197 pages. Autobiography of critic and English literature teacher at Amherst. 8vo, black paper over boards, silver gilt lettering, scant wear, some foxing to fore-edge and end papers, touch of dust soil to top edge, folded spot in top edge of one page. Unclipped dust jacket has wear to… Read more about this item

2017. Soft cover. Good. 182 pages. Illustrated with photos on 14 plates, some in color. Autobiography by Fran Morris, whose family (descended in part from a branch of the Mendelssohn family) left Germany as refugees from Nazism in 1938 and came to the USA via England and Switzerland. Morris attended Bennington College and became a pianist and music… Read more about this item

McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1965. Hardcover. Good/Good. 453 pages plus 58 Roman-numeralled pages of front matter, including list of the 44 b&w photo illustrations, Introduction by Mgr Loris Capovilla, Meditation by Fr Giulio Bevilacqua, bibliographical note, and chronology. Translated from Italian by Dorothy White. The book has six sections: I John's journal from 1895 to 1962; II Four Letters;… Read more about this item

University of California Press, 1968. Soft cover. Good. 434 pages plus 20 front matter and editor's preface, with Index and List of Illustrations, which include dozens of drawings by Paul Klee and eight double-sided plates of b&w photos. There are four Diaries, edited by Paul's son Felix Klee; PK's "A Brief Autobiography" illustrated with ms. facsimile; Genealogical Chart;… Read more about this item

W W Norton & Company Inc, 1969. Soft cover. Good. 468 pages, with index, notes, and list of correspondents. Translated by Jane Bannard Greene and M.D. Herter Norton. Illustrated with five b&w photos and one ms. facsimile. First Norton Library edition of collection published 1948. Includes selected Wartime Letters. Trade paperback, wraps a bit curled, with light wear… Read more about this item

Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1958. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 309 pages. Translated with an Introduction by David Magarshack and an Essay on Turgenev by Edmund Wilson. The Intro is 34 pages long; Wilson's "Turgenev and the Life-Giving Drop" is 61 pages. 8vo, teal cloth sunned to brown on spine and along edges of boards, with silver… Read more about this item

Pantheon Books, Inc., 1959. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 192 pages. Translated with a Preface and Notes by David Magarshack, with an essay on Translating Shakespeare translated by Manya Harari. The Notes provide brief biographical information on persons, chiefly artists and writers, mentioned in the text. Illustrated with b&w photos and artwork (by Leonid Pasternak) on plates,… Read more about this item

The Viking Press, 1973. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 490 pages plus 21 of front matter, with index. Selected and edited by Avrahm Yarmolinsky, who wrote a Foreword. Translated by Lynn Solotaroff, Bernard Guilbert Guerney and the editor. Explanatory same-page footnotes throughout. Medium 8vo (6-3/8" x 9-1/2"), red cloth with black cloth quarter, silver lettering on spine,… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1958. 2nd Edition . Soft cover. Good. 286 pages plus 12 pages front matter. First published 1949, reissued with a new introduction by Babette Deutsch, in the wake of Pasternak's receiving the Nobel Prize in literature. Three short stories are included: "Aerial Ways", "Letters from Tula", "The Childhood of Luvers", as well as poems. Mass-market paperback,… Read more about this item