Search Results: AUTOBIOGRAPHY from Quill & Brush

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996. First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED, "For Pamela/ Thank you for being part of this book's birth! Peace/ James Carroll/ June 5, 1996." Winner of the 1996 National Book Award for non-fiction.

London: The Cresset Press, (1948). First of this edition. Originally published in 1860 and still considered one of the best autobiographies written. Edited and with an introduction and notes by J. E. Morpurgo. Fine in dust jacket.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc, (1993). First edition. SIGNED by the author, who for seven long years was in darkness and chains, not knowing when, if ever, he would be free. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Random House, (1969). Later printing, INSCRIBED to Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman. Randall was a bookseller, head of rare books at Scribner's, and then head librarian at Indiana University where he helped put together the Lilly Collection. Near fine with light foxing in like dust jacket. From the collection of sports writer Paul "Dr. Z" Zimmerman with his penciled notations on rear endpaper. INSCRIBED TO DR. Z

(New York): Warner Books, (1995). First edition. INSCRIBED WITH A DRAWING, "To Mike Baby -- Man did we have some fun / Wolfman Jack." Touch of faint soiling to page top edge, still bright and fine in fine dust jacket. Scarce signed.

New York: Putnam Sons, (1981). First edition. Autobiography of the jazz singer. INSCRIBED BY O'DAY on plain bookplate, "To Bill Beverly/ Thanks for the kind words. Love, Anita O'Day 3/4/82." In her early 20's, O'Day was one of the brightest stars on the music scene but just ten years later she was battling drug addiction, broke, and in jail in California. Fine in fine dust jacket with the barest wear. A relatively scarce inscription. INSCRIBED BY O'DAY

New York & Toronto: McGraw - Hill, (1948). First edition. Photo illustrated. Menjou's autobiography, with a foreword by Clark Gable. INSCRIBED and/or SIGNED on front endpaper by MENJOU and Hollywood luminaries such as FRED ASTAIRE, GINGER ROGERS, RANDOLPH SCOTT, HOAGY CARMICHAEL, REGINALD OWEN, M. M. Musselman, George Folsey, et al. Dust jacket caricature of Menjou is by Xavier Cugat. An obviously well-loved books with covers worn--good at best, in like dust jacket which is nonetheless intact. A very nice piece of Hollywood memorabilia. HOLLYWOOD MEMORABILIA

New York: Delacorte Press, (1976). First edition, INSCRIBED on half title page in year of publication "For - - Long live theatre. Joshua Logan Tysons Corner 10.13.76." Very good to fine in like dust jacket.

New York: Crown Publishers, (1950). First edition. SIGNED BY VAN WYCK BROOKS and dated "1950" in pencil on front pastedown. An autobiography of sorts of the older brother of Gertrude Stein edited by Edmund Fuller. Small 4to red cloth with gilt-stamped spine blocked in black; red top edge stain; 331 pages, including index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs including frontis, "Leo Stein in 1937" by Carl Van Vechten. Very good to near fine with red at spine mellowed and endpapers a little darkened; in about very good dust jacket with rubbed area at base of spine, light soiling, shallow chipping and few tears.

New York: Random House, (2002). First edition. Uncorrected proof. INSCRIBED "To a Fellow Texan" and SIGNED by Justice O'Connor. Filled with family photos of the Days on the ranch. Tentative publishing date of February 2002. Fine in publisher's logo-printed paperwraps.

Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1965. First edition. "...from her 'debut' at the old Cotton Club in New York to her resounding triumphs on TV .... includes a candid discussion of her own responses to the issues of civil rights....and some marvelous anecdotes concerning the many celebrities she has known and worked with." -- dust jacket flap. Near fine with some staining to bottom page edges not extending to pages; in near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Relatively scarce book.

London: Oxford University Press/ Humphrey Milford, 1928. First edition. Wortley (1892 - 1926) was a British WWI flying ace and Military Cross-recipient credited with six aerial victories. A fictionalized account of his own experiences which Wortley, an aviation journalist, wrote to encourage "air-minded" youth towards military service. Three-quarter red cloth with black paper boards and spine lettered in gilt; frontispiece tissue-protected portrait of Wortley by Lafayette Photography. Scattered foxing to page fore edge otherwise fine in near fine gilt-lettered black dust jacket with spine lettering faded but no chips or tears. Hard to find a nicer copy.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951. First edition. Essay collection broken into four sections, two of which are autobiographical. The rest deal with his views on fellow novelists and on poets and artists. Near fine with foxing to top edge of cloth and subtle reflection of dust jacket design on spine; in near fine dust jacket with few small stains to rear panel.

Santa Barbara: Capricorn Press, 1971. First edition. One of 200 copies of this four page excerpt from an autobiography that doesn't appear to have ever been published. (No copies in OCLC). Rust colored, handsewn paperwraps with compliments card from press laid in. Fine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition. Very good with faint foxing and some wear along the edges, most noticeably at the spine ends. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and soiling, and small chips at the spine ends and corners.

New York: St. Martin's Press, (2000). First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "For --- remembering the old times - Richard Conroy." Page fore edges slightly soiled, otherwise fine in dust jacket. Illustrated with photographs by the author. Memoir of the author's time in the Foreign Service.

Detroit / Chicago: Broadside Press / Third World Press, (1972 / 1996). First edition of each volume. The first one, "REPORT FROM PART ONE," IS INSCRIBED on the half-title page, "For Richard and Joan, Warm regards!/ Sincerely,/ Gwendolyn Brooks"; and the second one, "REPORT FROM PART TWO," IS SIGNED TWICE in green ink (on title and half-title pages). Collectively these two autobiographical volumes are filled with memories, musings, interviews, letters, poetry, and pictures covering her life, work, family, friends, et al. An important record of a lifetime of family, community and poetry from the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and our nation's first Black Poet Laureate. First volume: 8vo gilt-stamped dark-blue cloth boards; illustrated with photographs; 215 pages; issued without a dust jacket; near fine with page edges faintly foxed and small light stain to upper edge rear blank. Second volume: 8vo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards; 170 pages; fine with just a touch of scattered spotting in fine dust jacket.… Read More

London: Eveleigh Nash, 1912. First edition. Published in the U.S. later the same month as A PERSONAL RECORD. Conrad's autobiography "with a fictional slant." 8vo gilt-stamped blue cloth boards. Very good with front hinge just starting at first blank, flattened crease in front pastedown, covers lightly rubbed,and corners and spine ends a bit bumped.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. His time in the Senate. INSCRIBED "For Lisa I hope you enjoy the book -- Bill Bradley." Fine in dust jacket.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First edition. His time in the Senate. SIGNED on title page. Fine in dust jacket.