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The Education of Henry Adams: An Autobiography

By: Adams, Henry

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1918

Seller ID: EC19112BB

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

BA4 - An ex-library hardcover book in fair condition that has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), edgewear, wrinkling, chipping, crease, tears, loose hinge, marked out info, some soiling, stains, discoloration and shelf wear with no dust jacket. 9.75"x7.5", 519 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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The Day Gone By

By: Adams, Richard

Price: $2.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: SCW08775

ISBN: 0679401172

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

CB6 - A tight, clean, sound copy in light green paper covered boards quarter bound in green cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine and gold lettering on the front with very minor overall shelf wear primarily in the form of some very, very light soiling on the bottom outside paper edges plus there are the usual library stamps, marks, and pocket on the front and back free endpapers and title page. The dust jacket shows no visible signs of wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. The memoir of a noted British novelist.
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Beyond the Limits: A Woman's Triumph on Everest

By: Allison, Stacy with Peter Carlin

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Delta Book/Dell Publishing: 1996

Seller ID: SCW07409

ISBN: 0385314035

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

BZ1 - A trade paperback book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor overal sehlf wear mainly in the form of some very, very light edge wear around the covers' edges that is heavier with some light chipping on the spine top edge. A book by the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. The story of the the author's life on and off some of the world's greatest mountains. Illustrated with black and white photographs. 282p.
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Limbo: A Memoir

By: Ansay, A. Manette

Price: $2.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Morrow/Avon: 2001

Seller ID: SCW05691

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BY5 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is a very, very light bump at the front extreme bottom right corner. A memoir by a noted author. I tells how she had trained from childhood to become a concert pianist but how at 19 a mysterious muscle disorder forced her to give this up. By 21 she could not grip a pen or walk across a room and she entered a world of limbo in which no one could explain what...
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Hungry For the World

By: Barnes, Kim

Price: $3.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Villard Books/Random House: 2000

Seller ID: SCW01310

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CH4 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/uncorrected proof book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An as new, unread, tight, clean, sound copy in cream colored wraps with black lettering. A personal narrative by the author of "In the Wilderness." This is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman thirsted for experience of what lay out in the world. She went after it rejecting the patriarchal domination of family and church to find her own way. Then she overcomes the dominance within a relationship and still manages to survi...
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Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom

By: Belkin, Lisa

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Simon & Schuster: 2002

Seller ID: SCW08698

ISBN: 0743225414

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

BY5 - A hard cover first edition book in veyr good condition. A sequence of numbers appears on the copyright page with the "1" present and no additional printings indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in white paper covered boards quarter bound in textured blue paper with metallic copper lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear. A book about a woman journalist's search for balance between life, motherhood, and career. By the author of "First, D...
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Heartwomen: An Urban Feminist's Odyssey Home

By: Boucher, Sandy

Price: $2.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Harper & Row, Publishers: 1983

Seller ID: SCW07333

ISBN: 0062500961

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

CG5 - A trade paperback book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in monochrome illustrated yellow wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus there is some creasing on the spine plus there is some light rubbing overall plus there is some very, very light edge wear around the covers' edges plus there is a bookplate of the original owner on the front endpaper. A book about a California writer's return to her roots in the midwest and her examination of the spirit, strength, and vitality of the women of America's heartland. The discussion includes consideration of the spectru...
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The Scariest Place in the World: A Marine Returns To North Korea

By: Brady, James

Price: $3.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press: 2005

Seller ID: SCW133696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BE5 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/advance uncorrected proofs book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very, very slight overall shelf wear. A memoir of the author's journey to Korea, including North Korea, in 2003. The author commanded a rifle platoon during the Korean war and was awarded the Bronze Star for valor. The author criss-crossed the country and, in the south, interviewed GIs and and officers, revisited the DMZ, and revisited two ridgelines where he fought during the war. ...
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Scenes and Portraits: Memories of Childhood and Youth

By: Brooks, Van Wyck

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1954

Seller ID: SCW04925

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

BE6 - A hard cover first American edition withdrawn ex-library book in good+ condition with no dust jacket. A tight, clean, sound copy in light gray paper covered boards quarter bound in navy cloth with black lettering and graphics on a white label pasted onto the spine with minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library pocket, stamps and markings on the spine, inside surface of the front board, the front endpaper, the title page, the last two pages, and the dedication page plus some very, very light fading and edge wear on the top and bottom edges. The memories of the author covering his bi...
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A Passion for Politics: The Autobiography of Louis Brownlow First Half

By: Brownlow, Louis

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, USA, University of Chicago Press: 1955

Seller ID: SCW06774

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

BD2 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some very light yellowing on the outside paper edges. The dust jacket shows moderate overall wear plus there is some light edge wear along the top and bottom edges heavier with some chipping on the top and bottom spine edges and corners plus there is a piece (about 0.5"x0.75") missing on the back at the bottom left corner plus there are closed tears (about 0.25" to 0.5") on the top edge at each corner plus there is some yellowing on the spine plus there is some very light rubbing overall plus ther...
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Here and Nowhere Else: Late Seasons of a Farm and Its Family

By: Brox, Jane

Price: $1.75

Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Beacon Press: 1998

Seller ID: SCW13392

ISBN: 0807062014

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CG5 - A trade paperback withdrawn ex-library book in good+ to very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with a heavy clear plastic lamination applied to the covers plus there are the usual library stamps and labels on the back cover, the top outside paper edges, the half title page, and the title page. This is a title in the publisher's The Concord Library series. A book about farming anf farm life by a noted writer who also is from a farming family. The author is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. En...
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String of Pearls: On the News Beat in New York and Paris

By: Buckley, Priscilla L.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Saint Martin's Press, LLC: 2001

Seller ID: SCW05514

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BG3 - A trade paperback advance reading copy (ARC)/advance uncorrected proof first edition book in very good+ condition with no dust jacket as issued (trade paperback). An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. A memoir of the author's introduction to journalism in the closing days of World War II and in postwar Paris. The author was managing editor of National Review for 27 years. 183p.
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All My Patients Are under the Bed: Memoirs of a Cat Doctor

By: Camuti, Louis J.

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Fireside Books/Simon & Schuster, Inc.: 1985

Seller ID: SCW08408

ISBN: 0671554506

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

BX2 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is a light bump to the front bottom left corner. Written with Marilyn and Haskel Frankel. A memoir of a cat doctor with sixty years of stories. 222p.
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The Education of Little Tree

By: Carter, Forrest

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, University of New Mexico Press: 1986

Seller ID: SCW12493

ISBN: 0826308791

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CE1 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. With a foreword by Rennard Strickland. A memoir of the author's Cherokee boyhood in the 1930s. 216p.
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Black Ice

By: Cary, Lorene

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Alfred A. Knopf: 1991

Seller ID: SCW00760

ISBN: 0394574656

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BZ2 - A trade paperback book in near fine condition. An as new, unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with the original owner's name in ink at the top right corner of the front endpaper. An epic of the young heard, mind and body meeting life itself. Probably the most beautifully written and the most moving African-American autobiographical narrative since Maya Angelou's celebrated "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings." (Arnold Rampersad) 238p.
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Treetops: A Family Memoir

By: Cheever, Susan

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Bantam Books: 1992

Seller ID: SCW11674

ISBN: 055335132X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BH3 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color photo illustrated white wraps with very minor overall shelf wear with a clip to the top right corner of the front endpaper plus there is some very light soiling and yellowing of the outside paper edges. A book about the author's family focusing on the three men in it who had the greatest influence on her and the other women of the family: Thomas Watson, Milton Winternitzz, and John Cheever. Illustrated with black and white photographs. By the author of "Home Before Dark." 204p.
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The Concubine's Children

By: Chond, Denise

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Viking/Penguin Books: 1994

Seller ID: SCW00665

ISBN: 0670829617

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CB3 - A trade paperback in very good condition. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with minor shelf wear and a light crease to the front bottom right corner. The story of a Chinese family living on two sides of the globe over a period of 60 years. The author's grandmother was brought from China as a young concubine by a Chinese immigrant who came to the US and who left his wife and children in China. 266p.
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True North

By: Conway, Jill Ker (editor)

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Vintage Books: 1995

Seller ID: SCW00302

ISBN: 0679744614

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

BH3 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear plus neat underlining in pencil throughout. A continuation of the autobiography "The Road from Coorain". In 1960 the author reached the limits of provincial society in mid-century Australia and set off for Americs. There she became a renowned historian of American women's studies and the first woman president of Smith College. This is a memoir of intellectual discovery where Conway enters a lively community of women scholars and examines the personal n...
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The Road from Coorain

By: Conway, Jill Ker (editor)

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, NY, U.S.A., Vintage Books/Random House: 1990

Seller ID: SCW01498

ISBN: 0679724362

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BE4 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus some light yellowing of the top and right outside paper edges plus some light creasing on the front cover. This is a well written story of the author's journey from childhood on an isolated sheep-farm in Australia to her departure for America. It is about the despair of an ambitious young woman facing a destiny limited by her gender. The first book in the author's series of autobiographical books. This author eventually became president of Smith College. By the...
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The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's Religion

By: Cox, Harvey

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: 1973

Seller ID: SCW05040

ISBN: 0671217283

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

BF1 - A trade paperback book in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color illustrated tan wraps with minor overall shelf wear plus some very light soiling on the outside paper edges plus some yellowing of the paper edges plus some light creasing on the spine plus some very light fading on the spine. The spiritual autobiography of a noted iconoclastic writer on religion in America. By the author of "God's Revolution and Man's Responsibility," "The Secular City," "On Not Leaving It to the Snake," and "The Feast of Fools." Notes on sources, indexed, 350p...
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Category: Autobiography: A-D