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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, 1999. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0684874350. The enormously popular memoir of the Irish immigrant. McCourt's terrible childhood is created here with a remarkable lack of sentiment. Spine is creased and top & bottom front corners of spine are slightly rubbed..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Soho Press, Incorporated, 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A permanent addition to autobiography.A gem of memoir writing, evocative, serene, laconic and altogether as revealing clue to the making of one of the best writers in the English language. War correspondent Alan Moorehead eloquently recounts his early years as… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Viking Penguin, 1989. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Includes a newspaper clipping from March 26, 1989, telling of the book and the author with a picture of him from 1939. In Wordstruck, Robert MacNeil hauntingly and poignantly re-creates hsi own youth, his own growing love of words, the world… Read more about this item

Hyperion, 1994. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0786861304. 2nd printing, DJ features head shot of Burt on front and Reynolds in a football uniform on back panel. You'll read about his rise to fame, and his times on Gunsmoke, as Dan August, in Deliverance and Smokey and the Bandit. and headline… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1990. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Father Hesburgh ( The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education , LJ 6/15/79) should be on almost everyone's list of the most influential figures in American higher education over the past few decades. In these fascinating memoirs, he chronicles the… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest… Read more about this item

Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1992. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0451172302. The Good Times begins where Russell Baker's wondrous memoir, Growing Up, left off. It is the story of how a very raw youth, supported by an extraordinary mother's love, and prodded by her dauntless desire for him… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0316341002. In this book O. J. Simpson speaks out for the first time since his arrest for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown S impson and Ronald Goldman in June or 1994. I Want To Tell You is… Read more about this item

New York, NY: Scholastic, Inc. 2000. Soft Cover. Fine. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0590546309. "Dear Reader, Most of my life has been spent working in the world of civil rights and human rights. In that world there are many stories of loss, victory and that deal with courage of those who stand up against injustice.… Read more about this item

Simon & Schuster, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0684826720. 1st printing, Slight crease at top & bottom of dust jacket spine, also creased on back bottom of dust jacket near spine. Book is As New except for 2" square sticker on FFEP that says " Rumors A Gift From Your Friends… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, 2000. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Great writing is so rare and unexpected that it can take your breath away. In this slender memoir, J.D. Dolan condenses the pain of decades into tight, terse prose, and we are left shaken and moved. A beautifully… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0399142053. 1st printing. This is the autobiography of one of America?s most beloved stars. Discovered after her death in 1989, this is the story of the ingenue from New York destined for Broadway and Hollywood, and tells… Read more about this item

Salem, N.H.: Salem House Publishers, 1984. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Richard Leakey's first official job as the administrative director of Kenya's National Museum began the very week that he contract a serious kidney disease - one which would affect his life from that moment onwards. Like his father Louis, Richard was born in Kenya… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Incorporated, 1990. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Human rights activist and Jewish emigration movement leader Nudel chronicles her 16-year struggle to leave the Soviet Union in order to join her family in Israel. "A moving personal story," said PW. "Her courage and indomitable spirit shine through… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Touchstone, 2000. Trade Paperback. As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The sequel to Angela's Ashes. This book is the story of Frank's American journey from impoverished immigrant with rotton teeth, infected eyes and no formal education to brilliant raconteur and schoolteacher. Saved first by a straying priest, then by the Democratic… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Scribner, 1999. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0684849216. 320 pages. The latest publication of Papa's material that some say he never intended to publish. It is described a s "A Fictional Memoir." Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, it was written… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Owl Books, 1999. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Irish Times columnist O'Faolain seeks to understand the events of her life by baring her soul to the world in a memoir of her experiences with love and loneliness and her journey of self-discovery. This autobiography is unlike most others in that… Read more about this item

Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0310529107. 1st printing. Top of jacket spine slightly bumped. Top front & back of jacket near spine slightly creased. Bottom of book spine slightly bumped. Jacket along inside top & bottom edges slight yellowing. Sweeping over a century of… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Incorporated, 1989. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. "Being a starlet is a complicated life.especially when you are four years old." Shirley Temple was a curlytopped moppet with a saucey grin that lit up the screen and an irrepressible spirit that won America's heart. But what… Read more about this item

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Plume, 1987. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8 pages of B&W photos. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in… Read more about this item