Category: Autobiography: E-L

Witness to Injustice

By: David Frost, Jr.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Jackson, Mississippi, University Press of Mississippi : 1995

Seller ID: SCW13746

ISBN-13: 9780878058433

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BI4 - An ex-library trade paperback book SIGNED by Charles Reagan Wilson on the title page in very good condition that has library markings (labels, stamping, cardholder, etc.), some light discoloration and shelf wear. Edited by Louise Westling. With an introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson. A memoir by an African American moonshiner who became a civil-rights activist and self-taught local historian. It tells of the author's life as a black Alabamian in the violent, virulently white supremacist Jim Crow South. He recounts the terrorism of lynching, economic racism, the social reality behind hi...
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Mountain Moonshine to Delta Gumbo

By: Ferguson, W. W. (Bill)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Leland, Mississippi, USA, Mississippi River Publishing Company : 1991

Seller ID: SCW03235

ISBN-13: 9781879034006

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

BC2 - DJ is mylar protected. A hard cover first edition book autographed by the author and the illustrator in very good condition. This book is assumed to be a first edition because no additional printings are indicated. A tight, clean, sound copy in dark green vinyl covered boards with silver lettering on the spine with only very minor overall shelf wear plus a small triangle cut off of the top right corner of the front endpaper. The dust jacket shows some very minor overall shelf wear mainly in the form of very, very light edge wear mostly on the bottom edges. The adventures and escapades of...
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Like Father, Like Son

By: Fulghum, Hunter S.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, G. P. Putnam's Sons : 1996

Seller ID: SCW01008

ISBN-13: 9780399141423

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

BY5 - A hard cover first edition book in near fine condition. An as new, tight, clean, sound copy quarter bound in dark green paper with tan paper covered boards with only some light bumping to the front board at the top right corner. The dust jacket is in near fine condition with some light creasing at the top front and spine edges. A collection of stories on being a man at midlife in America. This collection is about experiencing life, remembering how you lied to your date's dad about your intentions, mailbox vandals and poker, barbecue and ear piercing, the real moments in life. The central...
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Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography

By: Garcia, Mario T.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Austin, Texas, U.S.A., University of Texas Press : 2000

Seller ID: EC10197BB

ISBN-13: 9780292728288

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

BP5 - DJ is mylar protected.
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A Fish Out of Water

By: Gillett, Robin

Price: $39.00

Publisher: Bishop Auckland, County Durham, United Kingdom, Pentland Press Ltd : 2001

Seller ID: SCW13719

ISBN-13: 9781858215259

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

CF2 - A first UK edition hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by author to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. The autobiography of a man who spent seventeen years in the Royal Navey followed by seventeen years workin in the City in London, and then became Lord Mayor of London. 9.5"x6.5", 494 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Anton the Dove Fancier and Other Stories

By: Gotfryd, Bernard

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Pocket Books : 1990

Seller ID: SCW05404

ISBN-13: 9780671691370

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

BX4 - 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 plus the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's withdrawal process plus there are the usual library stamps, labels, and pocket on the spine, top outside paper edges, inside surface of the front cover, title page, and dedication page plus the cover has been laminated in plastic plus there is some light soiling on the outside paper edges. Edited by Jane Rosenman. A collection of extraordinary true stories that illuminat...
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In No Time at All

By: Hamilton, Carl

Price: $1.75

Publisher: Ames, IA, U.S.A., Iowa State University Press : 1974

Seller ID: SCW03702

ISBN-13: 9780813808253

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

CH4 - A hard cover book in very good- condition with no dust jacket. A tight, clean, sound copy in black pictoral printed tan paper covered boards with very minor overall shelf wear plus a casual black marker mark on the front plus the original owner's name on the front endpaper blacked out with black marker. The author's growing up experiences during the 1920s and 1930s on an Iowa farm with all the changes that took place from that time to the beginning of World War II when a whole way of life in rural areas was erased in a twinkling. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs throu...
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In No Time at All

By: Hamilton, Carl

Price: $2.00

Publisher: Ames, Iowa, USA, Iowa State Press : 1974

Seller ID: SCW06745

ISBN-13: 9780813808253

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

CH4 - A hard cover 5th printing book in good+ to very good- condition with a dust jacket in good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in black pictoral printed tan paper covered boards with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is foxing on the top outside paper edges plus there is the original owner's small (about 0.5"x1.75") address label on the front endpaper. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear plus there is right edges, endflaps, and back. The author's growing up experiences during the 1920s and 1930s on an Iowa farm with all the changes that took place from that t...
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A Father's Diary

By: Harrison, Fraser

Price: $2.00

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Pantheon Books : 1985

Seller ID: SCW04373

ISBN-13: 9780394546940

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

CF1 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library stamps and pocket on the front and back endpapers, half title page, and title page plus the dust jacket endflaps are taped down to the outside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows very minor overall shelf wear plus there is some light edge wear on the back endflap top edge plus there is the usual library label on the spine plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus the endflaps are taped down to the boards. Illustrated with woodcuts by Harriet Dell. A diary of the lives of the au...
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The Gambler

By: Hellmann, Matthew J.

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Reno, Nevada, USA, Peavine Publishing : 2001

Seller ID: SCW05512

ISBN-13: 9780971201606

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CF4 - A trade paperback book in very good+ condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in illustrated blue wraps with very minor overall shelf wear. A memoir in the form of a novel. 476p.
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Second Sight

By: Hine, Robert V.

Price: $1.75

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, U.S.A., University of California Press : 1993

Seller ID: SCW06295

ISBN-13: 9780520081956

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

BF1 - A hard cover withdrawn ex-library book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in tan cloth covered boards with metallic green lettering on the spine with very minor overall shelf wear plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, title page, and back endpaper plus the dust jacket endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve plus the endflaps are glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards. A memoir by...
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Compass Points: How I Lived

By: Hoagland, Edward

Price: $3.25

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Pantheon Books : 2001

Seller ID: SCW05353

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CB2 - A first edition advance reading copy (ARC)/advance uncorrected proof first edition book in very good+ condition (trade paperback). An autobiography by a noted American writer. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in tan wraps with only very minor overall shelf wear. The author is a winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship, and has had novels nominated for the National Book Award, the American Book Award, and the National Book Critics circle Award, plus he has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. By the author of "Cat Man," "Walking the Dead Diamo...
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A Lifetime Burning in Every Moment: From the Journals of Alfred Kazin

By: Kazin, Alfred

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, HarperPerennial/Harper Collins Publishers : 1997

Seller ID: SCW08378

ISBN-13: 9780060928322

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BY5 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus there is a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges. A memoir based on the private journals of a distinguished American literary and social critic of over fifty years. 341p.
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Wannabe: A Hollywood Experiment

By: Kennedy, Jamie

Price: $3.50

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp. : 2003

Seller ID: SCW08185

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BH6 - A first edition advance reading copy/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 only very minor overall shelf wear. An outrageous, bizarre, and completely candid memoir recounting the author's fifteen years of escapades as a showbiz outsider in pursuit of the American Dream Hollywood style. 254p.
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A World of Differences: One Woman's Story

By: Kessel, Marie Adler

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, University of Arkansas Press : 1990

Seller ID: SCW12908

ISBN-13: 9781557281197

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

BI6 - A hard cover first edition book in very good+ condition. A sequence of numbers with the "1" present with no additional printings indicated. An unread, tight, clean, sound copy in dark brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with only very, very minor overall shelf wear. The dust jacket shows only very, very minor overall shelf wear. The autobiography of a woman who not only survived the DustBowl era and the Great Depression, but also rejected the stereotyped "Southern Belle" role of her culture to live a life as a farmer, fashion designer...
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A Life on the Road

By: Kuralt, Charles

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, G. P. Putnam's Sons : 1990

Seller ID: SCW05224

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

BY4 - A trade paperback book in very good condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in color wraps with very minor overall shelf wear plus the original owner's name and address stamped in black ink on the front endpaper. The author's story of growing up a southern boy bitten by a wanderlust and who became a rover writing for newspapers, radio, and TV, then went on to become a CBS News correspondent, adventuring around the world from Cuba and Vietnam to the Congo and the North Pole, and finally more than 20 years roaming the back roads in a search for America. Illustrated with black and white photo...
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The Irrational Season

By: L'Engle, Madeleine

Price: $2.25

Publisher: San Francisco, CA, U.S.A., Harper & Row, Publishers : 1977

Seller ID: SCW00744

ISBN-13: 9780866839464

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

CH5 - A trade paperback book in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy with noticable shelf wear including some light creasing of the front cover and some very light, patchy soiling overall. An autobiography, book 3 of "The Crosswicks Journal", of a popular and skilled author. This volume explores L'Engle's life as a professional woman, wife, mother and grandmother. 215p.
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My Boyhood in a Parsonage: Some Brief Sketches of American Life Toward the Close of the Last Century

By: Lamont, Thomas W.

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Harper & Brothers Publishers : 1946

Seller ID: SCW11623

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

BC3 - A hard cover book in good+ condition with no dust jacket. A tight, clean, sound copy in blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering and graphics against black backgrounds on the spine and front board with minor overall shelf wear with some moderate overall soiling of the cloth plus there is some veyr, very light bumping to the right corners of the boards plus there is some light rubbing along the top and bottom spine edges and at the right corners plus there is the original owner's name and a date in ink on the front free endpaper plus there is some light scattered spotting on the clot...
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The Amateur: An Independent Life of Letters

By: Lesser, Wendy

Price: $1.75

Publisher: New York, New York, USA, Pantheon Books : 1999

Seller ID: SCW04494

ISBN-13: 9780375404023

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

BX3 - A hard cover first edition withdrawn ex-library book in good- condition with a dust jacket in very good- condition. A tight, clean, sound copy in cream paper covered boards quarter bound in dark green cloth with gold lettering and a graphic on the spine with minor overall shelf wear plus the usual library label and stamps on the front endpaper, title page, and top outside paper edges plus the dust jacket endflaps have been glued down to the inside surfaces of the boards plus a section (about 2"x4.75") of the front endpaper has been removed as part of the library's removal process...
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Doctor and Soldier in the South Pacific

By: Philip H. Hostetter

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Versailles, Missouri, B-W Graphics, Inc. : 1999

Seller ID: SCW13463

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Near Fine

CE3 - A trade paperback book in near fine condition that has light shelf wear. A history of the experiences of the 24th Infantry Division in the South Pacific during the Second World War. The book includes the author's experiences is battalion surgeon and is notable for the battalion's experiences in the Philippines and Japan. Heavily illustrated with black and white photographs and maps. 11"x8.5", 201 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed.
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Category: Autobiography: E-L