Search Results: Autobiography from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

New York: Wm. Morrow. 1991 1st Am. ed. 255pp. hardback sm 4to: Very Good+ in a near Fine dj [rem. stamp top edge; several pp. mid-text have turned corners; fore edge is slightly age foxed; else VG+] The "Blady" of the title was a beautiful Grand Prix show jumping horse discovered plowing a field in Provence who serves as "the symbol of the coherence of seemingly random events" in the life of Sir Laurens Van Der Post (1906-96).

Atlanta: privately issued, 2003 1st ed. INSCRIBED warmly on title p. by author. 538pp. paperback tall 8vo: Very Good [foxing to top & bottom edges; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy]

New York: Pantheon, 2000 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 285pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj. An African-American journalist's memoir.

Chicago: Donnelley & Sons Lakeside Press, 2000 reissue. 459pp. illus. t.e.g. brown cloth 16mo: Fine/no dj. A high quality Lakeside Classics reissue of the Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography (1921) of the rags-to-riches magazine publisher and writer Bok (1863-1930) who gave American English the term "living room."

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007 1st ed. SIGNED "J. Carter" boldly on title p. by author. 272pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. A very nice copy. Unused promotional postcard from the Jonathan Demme film "Man from Plains" is laid in.

New York: ReganBooks, 2004 1st ed. 279pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj. Atlanta writer and NPR commentator Gillespie's autobiographical stories.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1983 1st ed. thus. 230pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A well-received autobiography by the English writer Blishen (1920-96), who became a conscientious objector in 1940 and spent the war as a farm laborer. "Cack-handed" is a Britishism for "inept" or "clumsy" and more literally means "left-handed."

New York: ReganBooks, 2005 1st ed. 260pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [couple pp. mid-text are creased; else F] More of Atlanta writer and NPR commentator Gillespie's autobiographical stories, a sequel to "Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch."

New York: Bantam, 1988 1st ed. 238pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Very Good in a Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [some top & fore edge foxing; small name label remnant on ffep; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy; dj = p-c; else VG] The autobiography of Georgia General Scott (1908-2006), famous for his 1943 World War II memoir "God is My Co-pilot."

New York: Dutton, 1963 1st Am. ed. 217pp. illus. blue cloth 8vo w/gilt spine decoration: Very Good+ in a worn dj now protected in a Brodart poly cover [tiny ink name ffep; top edge is faded & mottled; test is untroubled; else a nice clean and crisp copy] English artist Shepard's (1879-1976) life story from 1890 on, a sequel to Drawn from Memory.

Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1984 reprint. 348pp. paperback: near Very Good [top & fore edges show age foxing; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy. A nice reprint of Hurston's (1891-1960) autobiography, originally published in 1942.

New York: Macmillan. 1936 1st ed. 334pp. decorated cloth 8vo: Good+/no dj [small ink name ffep; endpp. are age browned; else G+] This autobiography charmingly evokes the "Masterpiece Theater" England of the interwar years, trout fishing in icy streams, driving a massive Rolls-Royce over bad roads and learning to fly an aeroplane. The English writer Terence Hanbury White (1906-64) is best known for his marvelous adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's 15th century romance "Morte Darthur" into the four novels called "The Once and Future King."

London: Century, 1987 reprint. 320pp.  illus.  paperback 8vo: Very Good.  The autobiography of the memorable Australian journalist Hughes (1906-84) who interviewed the traitors Burgess and Maclean in Moscow in 1956 exclusively and became a fictional character in the books of John Le Carre and Ian Fleming.

Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2003 1st ed. 295pp. paperback tall 8vo: near Fine [top cover corner and several pp. thereafter are thumbed; else a nice clean and crisp copy]

Stone Mountain, GA: Envision. 1990 1st ed. INSCRIBED on title p. by author. 179pp. paperback 8vo: near Very Good [cover creases; some edge foxing; else nrVG] Dr. Cantwell is an Atlanta cardiologist who has been both an Atlanta Braves team physician and a U.S. Olympic team physician. In addition to many professional accomplishments, he is an adventure traveler and played on Duke’s first ACC basketball championship team.

New York: Longmans, Green, 1959 1st ed. 343pp. red cloth 8vo: Very Good in a worn dj now stabilized in a poly cover [endpp. are age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] The autobiography of the American novelist Hobart (1882-1967), probably most famous for her 1933 bestselling novel, "Oil for the Lamps of China."

Newton, Australia: Neptune Press, 1985 1st ed. 305pp. illus. green cloth 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [long ink gift inscription ffep; else F] An Australian physician's autobiography of an adventurous life, from his service in the British Army in World War II as a malariologist in Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Transjordan, Egypt, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia & the United Arab Emirates.

New York: Doubleday, 1992 1st ed. 115pp. illus. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj [hint of tiny foxing to top edge; else F; dj = p-c; else F] An inside look at best-selling novelist Eugenia Price (1916-96).

London: Collins, 1987 1st ed. SIGNED on title p. by author. 459pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: Very Good+ in a Very Good+ dj in Brodart poly cover [hint of smudging top & fore edges; a small foxed spot ffep; else VG+; dj = short tear @ top rear fold; else VG+] A very nice signed copy of the autobiography of one of the great English explorers and travel writers of the 20th century. Thesiger (1910-2003) was the grandson of Frederic Thesiger, Lord Chelmsford (1827-1905), whose British forces were defeated memorably by Zulu warriors at Isandlwana in the Zulu War of 1879.

Randburg, South Africa: Macdonald Purnell Ltd. 1994 later ptg. SIGNED half-title p. by Nelson Mandela and dated 18-7-95. 630pp. illus. hardback sm 4to: near Fine in a Fine dj in poly cover [red remainder dot on fore edge; some light age darkening of top & fore edges; else nrF] A very nice signature by Nelson Mandela (1918-2013), signed during his administration as South Africa’s first black president.