Search Results: Memoir from Auldfarran Books, IOBA

McPhee Gribble/Penguin Books Australia, 1984 reprint. 245pp. illus. paperback: Good [text is age browned; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A memoir portrait of Aboriginal life in 20th century Australia by a woman born in 1923.

New York: The John Day Co.,  1953 1st ed. 190pp. grey cloth 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [touch of age darkening to top edge & endpp; else nrF] A London bus conductor’s memoir of a workingman’s life in the Communist Party, originally published in Britain as "The Communist Technique" in Britain.

London: Macmillan. 1957 1st ed. 318pp. w/folding map. illus. green cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [some age browning of endpp; smudged spot top edge; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy] A memoir by the American diplomat and conservationist Crowe (1908-76) who served as U.S. Ambassador to Ceylon in the early 1950s when Herwald Ramsbotham (1887-1971), the 1st Viscount Soulbury, was the British Governor-General there.

Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2007 reprint. 173pp. green cloth 8vo: Very Good in a Fine dj [top corners very slightly bumped; else VG] A memoir about inheriting wealth that won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction.

Auckland, NZ: Collins, 1965 1st ed. 174pp. illus. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Good dj in Brodart poly cover [a top corner very lightly bumped; else nrF; dj = torn @ spine ends & a corner; thin price-clip; scuffed patch front cover where a sticker was attached; else G] The progress of a year on a sheep farm in the Waikato region of New Zealand by a real farmer.

London: Harrap, 1960 1st ed. 187pp. hardback sm 8vo: near Fine in a near Fine dj. A follow-on to the author’s "Harley Street Hypnotist."

London: Vintage, 2002 1st ed. thus. 227pp. paperback: near Very Good [text is age browned & edges are foxed owing to paper quality; else a nice clean and uncreased copy] Cover praise from Antonia Fraser, et al.

Atlanta: Peachtree, 1986 1st ed. 160pp. illus. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a generally Good dj with some edge tears and loss [some tiny foxing top & fore edges; else a nice crisp copy] Georgia newspaper humorist Lewis Grizzard (1946-94) said of this third wedding (to the author) that he especially enjoyed the individually wrapped Slim Jims at the reception. He also said "This might quite possibly be the best book any of my ex-wives has ever written about me."

New York: Penguin, 1981 reprint. 276pp. paperback: Good [text is age browned with some foxing of edges; else a clean, complete & tight copy] American writer Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) served in France during the First World War and was a member and chronicler of the Lost Generation in Paris during the 1920s. Back cover praise from Wallace Stegner and John Cheever on this work of American literary history.

New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1991 reprint. SIGNED boldly by author on half-title p. 321pp. hardback 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj[light foxing to top & fore edges; else a nice clean and crisp copy] The first book by the author of the best-selling "Walking the Bible." Jacket praise from James Fallows, Stephen Birmingham, et al.

New York: HarperCollins, 1998 1st ed. INSCRIBED boldly on half-title p. by author. 229pp. hardback sm 4to: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover.

New York: Vantage Press, 1999. INSCRIBED on half-title p. by author. 117pp. paperback 8vo: Fine. A memoir by a traveling salesman for Proctor and Gamble in the rural South during the 1950s.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2012 2nd ptg. SIGNED on title p. by author. 291pp. hardback 8vo: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [text is lightly age browned; else a nice crisp copy] A bookstore memoir praised by Andre Dubus III among others.

New York: Simon & Schuster. 1966 1st ed. 128pp. illus. beige pictorial cloth sm 8vo: Very Good+ in a near Very Good dj in Brodart poly cover [dj = few edge nicks & small tears; else nrVG] A personal, typed postcard, signed by the author Bryna Ivens Untermeyer (d. 1985), is tipped to ffep describing Mrs. Untermeyer’s trip to Greece with her husband Louis Untermeyer. Tipped to rfep is a typed letter, signed by the author, describing the Untermeyers' trip from their Connecticut home to Boston for Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) to receive the New England Poetry Society’s Golden Rose for 1966 (for service to poetry). The book is a charming memoir of the Untermeyers' cat, Mrs. Sullavan (with equally charming pencil sketches by Barry Geller). The poet Phyllis McGinley (1905-78) said: "Unlike most books perpetrated by cat lovers, [this book] is neither arch nor affected; rather, affecting. I read it with much pleasure." Included as a bonus with this purchase is a copy of Louis Untermeyer's… Read More

Marlboro, VT: The Marlboro Press. 1990 1st Am. ed. 178pp. paperback 8vo: near Fine [some age foxing to edges; a creased page in text; else a nice crisp copy] "Publisher’s Weekly" called this a "serene, sparkling memoir" (by his wife) of Aron Ettore Schmitz (1861-1928), who wrote under the pseudonym "Italo Svevo" and is best known for his 1923 novel "The Confessions of Zeno."

London: Phoenix Press, 2000 1st ed. thus. 170pp. w/illustrations by the author. paperback 8vo: Very Good+ [text is age browned; else a nice clean and crisp copy] The Irish writer’s memoir of his time as a young Red Cross stretcher-bearer during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. Cary (1888-1957) had been an art student, and his sketches illustrate this book, which was never meant for publication.

London: Michael Joseph, 1964 1st ed. 170pp. illus. black cloth 8vo: near Very Good in a Very Good dj [hint of a top corner bump; some mustiness; else nrVG] The Irish writer’s memoir of his time as a young Red Cross stretcher-bearer during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13. Joyce Arthur Cary (1888-1957) had been an art student, and his sketches illustrate this book, which was never meant for publication.

New York: Crown. 1961 1st Am. ed. 248pp. illus. blue cloth 8vo: Good+ in a torn but generally Good dj [brief gift inscription on front pastedown; blue cover coth is lightly faded near extremities; else a nice clean, complete & tight copy; dj = p-c; small loss @ spine ends; small tears @ corners; else G] A memoir of the life of the author’s father, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George (1863-1945).

privately issued, 1980 1st ed.  INSCRIBED by author. 82pp. illus. paperback tall 8vo: Very Good [bit of age browning; else VG] Life in the parsonage by the wife of a United Methodist Church minister.

New York: Little, Brown, 2006 1st ed. 321pp. hardback sm 4to: near Very Good in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [text is age browned owing to low quality publisher's paper; edges are age foxed; else a clean, complete & tight copy] A humorous memoir of the Alpha Delta Phi house at Dartmouth, 1959-63, where the author got his material for the screenplay for the movie "Animal House."