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New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, 1999. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0684872153. The enormously popular memoir of the Irish immigrant. McCourt's terrible childhood is created here with a remarkable lack of sentiment. Spine is creased. Slight rubbing on some outside edges, and top & bottom of the spine..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, 1999. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0684874350. The enormously popular memoir of the Irish immigrant. McCourt's terrible childhood is created here with a remarkable lack of sentiment. Spine is creased and top & bottom front corners of spine are slightly rubbed..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Owl Books, 1999. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Irish Times columnist O'Faolain seeks to understand the events of her life by baring her soul to the world in a memoir of her experiences with love and loneliness and her journey of self-discovery. This autobiography is unlike most others in that O'Faolain's frank and open examination speaks to both American and European audiences. Transcending her rural Irish childhood (one of nine children, an alcoholic mother, and a philandering father), she tries to find purpose through reading, education, and a career rather than the traditional life of wife and mother. 215 pages. Bottom of spine is bumped. 4 outside corner tips are slightly rubbed..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, 2001. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. All the ugliness, danger, and misery of life as a big-city cop, told with perception, humor, and apparently without fear of reprisals by a 16-year veteran on the Chicago police force. Gallo joined up in 1982 because she needed a secure job to support her two children. Already a trained psychologist, she thought she'd be working as a therapist in the department's counseling center. She was wrong. After six months at the police academy, where brutality and humiliation were freely employed as teaching techniques and the most important law to be learned was "Cover Your Ass," and after six more months as a recruit (during which time she killed a man in a shootout), she was assigned to a beat. It was a tough West Side district replete with rundown housing projects, gangs, drug dealers, whores, and hustlers. Appalling domestic violence, heinous child and… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Ballantine Books, 1988. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. With its first great victory in the landmark Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954, the Civil Rights movement gained the powerful momentum it needed to sweep forward into its crucial decade, the 1960s. As voices of protest and change rose above the din of history and false promises, one sounded more urgently, more passionately than the rest. Malcolm X - once called the most dangerous man in America - challenged the world to listen and learn the truth as he experienced it. And his enduring message is as relevant today as when he first delivered it. This is the first hardcover edition of this classic autobiography since it was originally published in 1964. In its searing pages, Malcolm X the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement to veteran writer and… Read More

Hyperion, 1994. Hard Cover. As New/As New. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0786861304. 2nd printing, DJ features head shot of Burt on front and Reynolds in a football uniform on back panel. You'll read about his rise to fame, and his times on Gunsmoke, as Dan August, in Deliverance and Smokey and the Bandit. and headline making romances. many of which failed. A great book for any Burt Reynolds fan..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Incorporated, 1989. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. "Being a starlet is a complicated life.especially when you are four years old." Shirley Temple was a curlytopped moppet with a saucey grin that lit up the screen and an irrepressible spirit that won America's heart. But what was life really like for this extraordinary child growing up on the back lots and sound stages of Hollywood? Here, for the first time, Shirley Temple Black takes you behind the magic of movie-making to reveal the ups and downs of fame at the grand age of four. From a world where scripts served as bedtime stories and kidnap threats were all too common, to the scenes of her mischievous pranks on the press, to her legendary performances with such Hollywood greats as Carole Lombard, Gary Cooper, and Bill Robinson, here is the funny, poignant, heartwarming chronicle of Shirley's journey to the pinnacle of stardom - and… Read More

Carbondale, IL, U.S.A.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dr. George T. Mitchell of Marshall, Illinois, shares with humor and compassion stories and reflections about his medical practice of fifty years, a period spanning several generations of life in the Midwest, from horse-and-buggy days to the space age. 359 pages. This is an excellent book for anyone interested in what it has been like to be a country doctor for the last century. Dr. Mitchell's father was a country doc in the same town. I would recommend this book for anyone interested in medicine as a career..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Doubleday Publishing, 1990. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4th Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Father Hesburgh ( The Hesburgh Papers: Higher Values in Higher Education , LJ 6/15/79) should be on almost everyone's list of the most influential figures in American higher education over the past few decades. In these fascinating memoirs, he chronicles the transformation of Notre Dame from a somewhat mediocre mid western university into a major national teaching and research institution. As president of Notre Dame for 35 years, he used that position as a platform to argue the truly critical issues not only within the academy, but outside as well. The chapters on his involvement with the Civil Rights movement (he was a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission) and criticism of early Vatican policy on academic freedom at Catholic universities are most compelling. Recommended for all readers, especially in these days of seeming cynicism and doubt. - From Library… Read More

Toronto, ON, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1992. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. ISBN:0451172302. The Good Times begins where Russell Baker's wondrous memoir, Growing Up, left off. It is the story of how a very raw youth, supported by an extraordinary mother's love, and prodded by her dauntless desire for him to succeed, somehow actually did. His odyssey from a lowly police reporter's beat in Baltimor e to the journalistic heights of reporting on the Queen of England and the great folk in Washington, D.C.and from the homespun truths of his upbringing to the mirrors and masks he learned to see thro ugh in the grown-up world.is deliciously funny, movingly heartfelt, and unsparingly revealing. It is Russell Baker at his best. The book is in nice shape. The spine has a few creases down it. The bot tom from outside corner has a light rubbed spot. Some yellowing on edges of pages from age on book, but does not interfer with the… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Warner Books, Incorporated, 1990. Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Human rights activist and Jewish emigration movement leader Nudel chronicles her 16-year struggle to leave the Soviet Union in order to join her family in Israel. "A moving personal story," said PW. "Her courage and indomitable spirit shine through in this memoir." - Publishers Weekly. Nudel's earliest memories are of World War II: her father fighting in the Soviet army, the notification of his death, and being uprooted from her Moscow home with her mother and sister. Her later life was that of a typical educated Soviet with little interest in politics until she acquired a radio and began to listen to the Voice of Israel broadcasts. Realizing a drive to live in Israel, Nudel and her family applied for exit visas, but she was refused. The KGB harassed her, once imprisoning.. - School Library Journal. 314 pages. Dust jacket is slightly… Read More

Wilsonville, OR, U.S.A.: BookPartners, Incorporated, 2001. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Small-town doctor Thomas Stern built a practice filled with memorable characters in rural Oregon. Then he moved to Southern California to work as technical advisor on the beloved TV series, Marcus Welby, M.D. His life story is filled with episodes that are thought provoking, heart-warming, and even rib tickling. Dr. Thomas Stern's book "House Calls" is a stimulating story of rural medical practice in the 1950's and urban practice in the 1960's. It begins with excerpts from his personal story which are touching and inspiring. He went from being an orphan teenager on his own to a well respected physician. He began his practice in rural Oregon where he had many great adventures. The descriptions of his travails are funny and to the point. He cared for a wide variety of patients and acquired a great insight into the human condition. He describes… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0316341002. In this book O. J. Simpson speaks out for the first time since his arrest for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown S impson and Ronald Goldman in June or 1994. I Want To Tell You is an emotional and factual self-portrait of O. J.`s mind at this critical time. (208 Pgs.) Many photographs (some in full color). This i s O.J.'s response to letters, messages and questions from the general public..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1995. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0316341002. In this book O. J. Simpson speaks out for the first time since his arrest for the deaths of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman in June or 1994. I Want To Tell You is an emotional and factual self-portrait of O. J.`s mind at this critical time. (208 Pgs.) Many photographs (some in full color). This is O.J.'s response to letters, messages and questions from the general public..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster, 1994. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Celebrated actor Jones, writing with Niven, has produced a compelling memoir. Raised by his hardworking grandfather and storytelling grandmother, six-year-old James began to stutter when the family moved from Mississippi, where he was born in 1931, to Michigan. Virtually mute for the next eight years, he recaptured speech by reciting poetry and prose. Jones reconnected with his estranged actor father during his journeyman years in Manhattan theater; in the 1950s he blossomed in the "democracy of the frontier" that was off-Broadway. He offers lively and nuanced reflections on his great and sometimes controversial parts, which include, on stage, Paul Robeson, and on film: the title role in Othello , Lennie in Of Mice and Men , Jack Jefferson in The Great White Hope and Troy Maxson in Fences. While Jones concentrates more on his professional than on his… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Summit Books, 1986. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. The famous dog trainer tells the story of her life. Photos. 189 pp. In this utterly enchanting memoir, Barbara Woodhouse, the woman who catapulted to international fame as the world's most beloved animal trainer, tells the remarkable story of her life. "Even at an early age I preferred animals," writes Mrs. Woodhouse about her childhood near Dublin, where she grew up under the supervision of a series of governesses. Birds flew about the nursery, the children had two wonderful dogs (a large, rough Collie and a little black Pomeranian), and by her fourth birthday, Barbara rode her first pony. Two years later she broke in a donkey. At the Swiss boarding school from which she would flee, Barbara was only happy when she was riding.A black mark dot in on the bottom edge of book..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Plume, 1987. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8 pages of B&W photos. Mark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa's most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with the courage of his family and a hard-won education, raised himself up from the squalor and humiliation to win a scholarship to an American university. This extraordinary memoir of life under apartheid is a triumph of the human spirit over hatred and unspeakable degradation. For Mark Mathabane did what no physically and psychologically battered "Kaffir" from the rat-infested alleys of Alexandra was supposed to do -- he escaped to tell about it. 354 pages. Some rubbing on top & bottom & edges of spine.… Read More

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Soho Press, Incorporated, 1999. Trade Paperback. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A permanent addition to autobiography.A gem of memoir writing, evocative, serene, laconic and altogether as revealing clue to the making of one of the best writers in the English language. War correspondent Alan Moorehead eloquently recounts his early years as an unsuccessful Australian schoolboy, his flight at age 26 to the expatriate scene in Europe between the wars, and his work as a journalist throughout the years of WWII. 226 pages..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0399142053. 1st printing. This is the autobiography of one of America?s most beloved stars. Discovered after her death in 1989, this is the story of the ingenue from New York destined for Broadway and Hollywood, and tells of her marriage to, and divorce from, Desi Arnaz. A showbusiness classic. Jacket is slightly bumped on top of spi ne. Otherwise as new..

New York, NY, U.S.A.: Simon & Schuster Trade, 1996. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ISBN:0684835819. The Duchess of York writes about what it was like to be a member of the most famous and most scrutinized family in the world: Britain's Royal Family. It is an insiders tale, written with remarkable frankness. She tells us about her life before and after her marriage to Prince Andrew, the two princesses and her charit y work..