Search Results: Autobiography from Great Northern Books

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. Edited by Harriet Elinor Smith. Twain photograph frontis. Also includes bibliographical references and index. Slight edgewear to dustjacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Selected and edited by Christina Hopkinson Baker. Includes portrait frontis, portraits, facsimiles, illustrations, index, chronology, and bibliographical references. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket, still a very decent copy. Repair

London: Andre Deutsch, 1984. First UK edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First printing. Contains two essays: "Prologue to Autobiography" -- "Crocodiles of Yamoussoukro." Naipaul won the Booker Award and the Nobel Prize in Literature. Faint sticker shadow on front pastedown, dustjacket spine sunned, else a clean, unmarked copy. Ships from USA.

New York: Random House, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. "Rushdie tells for the first time the story of his crucial battle for freedom of speech." [from publisher] A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Random House, 2012. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. "Rushdie tells for the first time the story of his crucial battle for freedom of speech." [from publisher] A clean unmarked copy.

Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1871. First edition thus. Near Fine. First appearance of the 49 page introduction by John Greenleaf Whittier. The journal of an 18th Century Anti-Slavery Quaker. Original green publisher's cloth with beveled edges and gilt decorations, top edge gilt. One only 2000 copies printed. [BAL 21891] [Howes II, W669] Two former owner's signatures, one dated 1871, else a near fine copy of this clasic abolitionist book.

London and New York: J.M. Dent & Co. and E.P. Dutton & Co., 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Translated from Italian, with an introduction, by Anne Macdonell. Includes two photogravure frontispieces, five full page illustrations reproduced from photographs by Alinari, bibliography, and index. Gilt letters and design on spine and front covers with top edges gilt and deckle edges. Complete in two volumes. Ex-library with minimal markings.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1993. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. The follow up to "North Toward Home," covering his New York years as the youngest-ever editor-in-chief of "Harper's," recounting how his dealings with Woody Allen, Truman Capote, and Robert Kennedy. A clean, unmarked copy with a price clipped dustjacket.

New York: Macmillan, 1944. First American edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Stern's third autobiographical volume. Stern was the author of "The Ugly Dachshund," made into a movie by Disney. Ex-library no external markings, with a bright dustjacket. A good reading copy.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Contents the following three works: "Will's Boy," an account of his early-twentieth-century Nebraska childhood; "An American Dreamer in Europe, 1933-34," tells the tale of a provincial, 23-year-old tramp abroad, hungry and penniless, riding the rails across the continent; and "A Cloak of Light," the writer's meditation on the relation between art and life his own art, his own life. [from a review] Slight soiling to white cover, else a clean, unmarked copy.