Search Results: Memoir from Great Northern Books

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Edited by Jean Hersholt and Waldemar Westergaard; introduction by Jean Hersholt and an essay by Helge Topsöe-Jensen; notes and translations by Waldemar Westergaard. Includes two full page portraits, bibliographical references, and index. A clean, unmarked copy lacking a dustjacket.

New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2000. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Translated from the original Arabic manuscript by Philip K. Hitti, with a new introduction by Richard W. Bulliet. Includes a black and white illustration, map, bibliographical references, and index. A clean, unmarked copy.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001. Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Near Fine in Wraps . Publisher's publicity card loosely laid in. A memoir by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Flatiron Books, 2018:June. First Flatiron Books edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Includes black & white photographs. Made into a movie by Spike Lee and Jordan Peele. A timely book. A clean, unmarked copy.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper. "I intend this book primarily to furnish specific data about the music I composed from 1950 to 2002... " [from the preface] Argento won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1975. A clean unmarked copy.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. First Paperback Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. First printing. Includes photographic frontis, chronology, and index. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Viking Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. With eight full page lithographs and illustrated endpapers by Ruth Gannett, Caldecott-winning illustrator of the "My Father's Dragon" books. Also includes color pastedown image of the Cream Hill house on front cover panel. Ex-library copy lacking a dustjacket, still a very presentable copy.

Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle. Company , 1975. Seventh printing. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Portrait frontispiece by Ichiro Hori. Introduction by Christopher Morley. A clean, unmarked copy in price clipped dustjacket.

London: Hutchinson, 1993. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Illustrations by Lucy Willis. "The New Yorker has called William Trevor probably the greatest living writer of short stories in the English language." Here are his memoirs of his childhood in south Ireland. A clean unmarked copy ships from the USA.

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good. First printing. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. Small mark on front free endpaper, small marker mark on bottom of textblock.

Hartford: American Publishing Company , 1897. First edition (Subscription ed. - no priority) . Hardcover. Good. First Edition with signature mark "11" on page 161, single publisher listed and no mention of New York on title page; top edge gilt. Photogravure portrait frontispiece with tissue guard, and numerous full-page and in-text illustrations throughout, by Frank Berkeley Smith, Frederick Dielman, Peter Newell, et al. . This was the last of the subscription books Twain published and his last book to be published by the American Publishing Company. "The subscription book was sold originally by publisher's agents direct to the reader...and could be ordered in extra-bindings, that is the bindings aside from the usual cloth, were in sheep, half morocco, and full morocco. It was assumed that all states of the binding were simultaneous, none having first-edition priority over the other." [Johnson, Bibliography of the Works of Mark Twain, p.153] Leather binding with chipping and edgewear to spine with… Read More

New York: Penguin Books, 1987. Paperback Original. Trade Paperback. Very Good in Wraps . Sequel to "The Basketball Diaries." REVIEW COPY with publisher's notice loosely laid in. Slight shelfwear to edges of cover, else a clean unmarked copy.

New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. INSCRIBED, "For...-Your turn for more stories with fond admiration. Trish June 1999 Iowa CIty (yep!)" and SIGNED by the author on the title page. A "memoir" by the author of "A Romantic Education."

New York: North Point Press, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. Norman is author of "The Bird Artist" and "The Northern Lights," finalists for the National Book Award.

New York: North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Uncorrected Proof. Trade Paperback. Very Good +. Memoir of sorts by the author of "The Bird Artist." A clean, unmarked copy of the uncorrected proof.

Santa Barbara: Capra Press, 1979. First Paperback edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. Illustrated with Miller's drawings. A clean unmarked copy.

New York: Doubleday Page and Co., 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library. First printing. Includes frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, fifteen full page plates of portraits, facsimiles, and photographs. Also includes an index. Cover has title in gilt on spine and a color coat of arms in a gilt frame on the front cover. Top edge gilt with untrimmed pages. Ex-library with minimal markings, lacking a dustjacket.

Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 1940. Hardcover. Ex-Library. Memoir of the daughter of a Vassar College president, published in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Vassar. Cloth spine, flower pattern decorative paper covered boards with paper label on front cover. Includes 3 full page black & white illustrations. Ex-library with minimal markings.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux/North Point Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. First printing. "A remarkable, probing evocation of an American life that has been tried and tempered by two very different societies." [from publisher] Includes bibliographical references and numerous black & white illustrations. Slight edgewear to dustjacket, else a clean unmarked copy.

New York: George Braziller, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. First printing. The author's second book. "The present book is the author's attempt to answer people's questions about composers and music. " [from the jacket]. Dust jacket is chipped and rubbed. Musical notes written on rear free endpaper, else a clean, unmarked copy. .