from Turtleman Books

Little wear. Signed by the author on the title page. Owner's name inside front cover. Kirkpatrick's story of her and her husband's effort to build a life in the rural wilds of Central Oregon.

Trade paperback. Little wear. Spine uncreased, pages clean, tight and unmarked. Sticker residue upper right front and lower right rear. Hemingway's last novel, this is a semi-autobiographical detailing of his last safari. Written in 1953, but not published until 1999. Edited by Hemingway's son, Patrick, who was also on the safari.

Trade paperback. Little wear. File folder sticker near the lower edge, wrapped around the spine. Spine has no creases and the pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's name inside front cover. As you may have noted, the back cover is actually another front cover. The main work is 437 pages long, and then… Read more

For its age, this book is well preserved. A fancy paperback with red-dyed page edges and deep red endpapers. Creases on the front cover and on the spine. Some chips along the edges of the spine and elsewhere. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. A vintage paperback, my search has found no others on the… Read more

Trade paperback. Very little wear. Spine has no creases, pages are clean, tight and intact. Autobiography of a former President of Egypt.

Trade paperback. Very little wear. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked, spine is without creases. Owner's name inside front cover. The story of a young girl's life growing up on an Australian sheep farm to her departure for America.

A memoir of a young woman who had the hard job as a child of dealing with cancer and the even harder job of dealing with people after her cancer was removed, along with a big part of her jaw. Very little wear. Owner's name inside front cover.

Trade paperback. A memoir about modern-day homesteaders, living the "simple life", albeit a simple life with cars and a plane. Owner's name inside front cover and a small sticker on the lower part of the spine. Pages are clean, tight and bright, and the spine lacks creases.

Very little wear. Pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's name inside front cover. Contains fourteen excerpts from longer autobiographical works by women writers.

Minor wear, consisting of small chips on the edges and at the corners. Trade paperback.

Very little wear to book or jacket. Barnes and Noble reprint, originally published in 1845.

The writer presents her memoir about teaching Western literature to girls in Revolutionary Iran, at no small risk to herself or her students. This is about a lot more than just reading books. While the book has no spine creases and the pages are clean and tight, there is an area at the rear that shows some… Read more

Trade paperback. Some wear, including a few spine creases and a bent corner or two. Pages remain clean and unmarked. The autobiography of a reporter from his birth in 1915, to the end of the Kennedy "Camelot" in 1963. Although the writer mentions the upcoming Presidential campaign of 1975, he left his story in 1963, with… Read more

Very little wear to the book or jacket. Owner's name on endpaper inside the front cover, but you can barely see it as the endpapers are a very dark green. The writer's tale of growing up impoverished in Ireland. Pulitzer Prize winning memoir.

Very little wear, no spine creases. Pages are clean, tight and bright.

Little exterior wear. The spine has one crease, right where the section of photographs is included, and, in a related event, one page of the photograph section pages has come loose, as shown in photo #4. Otherwise, all the pages appear clean, tight and intact. At the time of publication, the sisters were 103 and 105 years… Read more

Very little wear. 448 pages are clean, tight and only slightly yellowed. Originally published in 1872, this is Twian's memoir of his time travelling with his brother through Nevada, California and the Sandwich Islands (now Hawai'i).

Some mild wear, mainly at the edges and corners. Trade paperback, 320 pages. A humorous accounting of poet Mary Karr's childhood years in East Texas.

Trade paperback, 340 pages. Some minor wear at the corners and edges. No spine creases. Pages appear to be clean, tight and intact. Now a movie, with Tom Hanks.

Little wear. 260 pages, all clean and tight. The autobiography of one of America's premier western storytellers.