Collector's Editions: Biography, Non-fiction

Adler, Laure : : Marguerite Duras : : Biography of a writer who was continually staging her autobiography. Won the Prix Femina Essai for 1998. 13 pp. of pictures   6 x 9.5 631 pp. Biography Gallimard Paris 1994 perfectbound As New $ 18

Barnard, Emily, ed. : : Remember Me to Harlem : : The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten"" with haltone illustrations and appendix. Stress to bottom corner board. 6.75 x 9.5 335 pp. Biography Alfred A. Knopf New York 2001 Sewn-cloth Fine $ 20

Bowles, Paul : : Days / : Tangier Journal:1987 - 1989 : : Candid journal of the prose stylist living out his life in northern Africa. 12 halftones included, author photo on plush, black cover by Suomi La Valle. Index to named personages 5 x 8 109 pp. Biography The Ecco Press Hopewell NJ 1991 perfectbound As New $ 20

Chotzinoff, Samuel : : Toscanini: An Intimate Portrait : : First edition, Borzoi Book from Knopf New York. Elegant board covers lack dustjacket. One leaf has a tear but text is complete and clean 6.5 x 9.5 149 pp. Biography Alfred A. Knopf New York 1956 Cloth Good $ 20

Dick, Oliver Lawson, editor : : Aubrey's Brief Lives : : Selection from the over 47 volumes of Aubrey's records of those who died young. Originally published in 1949. Empty chairs on gruesome green for cover. Foxed faces 5 x 7.75 388 pp. Biography Peregrine - Penguin Hammondsworth 1962 perfectbound Good $ 16

Dickey, James : : The Starry Place Between the Antlers : : "Collector's Edition, signed by the author, #456 out of 500 subtitled, ""Why I Live in South Carolina". Matte fold-in covers and all else pristine 7 x 10.25 16 pp. Biography Bruccoli Clark Bloomfield Hills MI 1981 glued wrappers As New $ 21

Francis, Richard : : Ann the Word : : The story of Ann Lee, "Mother of the Shakers" who founded her utopian community in upstate New York just before the American Revolution. Grease-marked   5.5 x 7.75 388 pp. Biography Arcade Publishing New York 2000 Sewn-cloth Good $ 17

Frazier, Adrian : : George Moore, 1852 - 1933 : : Irish writer and failed Parisian painter here chronicled. 132 pages of scholalrly notes and index. + 11 full colour illustrations"               6.5 x 9.5 132 pp. Biography Yale University Press New Haven CT 2000 Sewn-cloth As New $ 20

Herring, Phillip : : Djuna: The Life and Works of Djuna Barnes : : Comprehensive life and works of the woman who called herself, "the most famous unknown of the century". 6 vellum pages of photos Foxing only on the insdie covers 5.5 x 8.5 386 pp. Biography Penguin New York 1996 perfectbound Fine $ 15

Irving, John : : Trying to Save Piggy Sneed : : Three memoirs, some stories then several reviews. First U.S. edition in unique clothbound format.Jacket, text and binding all as new  4.5 x 8 432 pp. Biography Arcade Publishing New York 1996 Cloth As New $ 17

Layman, Richard and Julie M. Rivett, ed. : : Selected Letters of Dashiell Hammet, 1921 - 1960 : : Letters from the inventor of "The Thin Man", wonderfully leaded in a very stout volume. 10 pages of photos on vellum. Even the dustjacket is superbly designed and mint 6.5 x 9.5 650 pp. Biography Counterpoint Washington DC 2001 Sewn-cloth Mint $ 35

Levesque, René : : Attendez que je me rapelle : : Dans un styl très personnel, Levesqu raconte les evenements de sa vie politique intense. The architect of Francophone separatism in Canada. Texte entire en français. 6 x 9 525 pp. Biography Editions Québec/Amérique Toronto 1996 perfectbound Fine $ 21

O'Brien, Edna : : James Joyce : : First American edition, in the 'Penguin Lives' series. One great Irish writer bringing a fresh sense of scutiny to another. Cameo photo of her subject appears through the jacket 5.25 x 8 179 pp. Biography Penguin New York 1999 sewn cloth As New $ 22

Sarraute, Natalie : : Childhood : : Her autobiography, reading like a novel's interior monologue. Crimson gloss covers with text in golden type shows some wear 5 x 8 246 pp. Biography George Braziller, Inc. New York 1984 perfectbound fine $ 18

Shakur, Assata : : ASSATA: An Autobiography : : Born JoAnne Chesimard, the Black Panther who was incarcerated for 4 years before her conviction as an accomplice to murder. Escaped to Cuba 2 years later. Tupac was her son." 6 x 9 174 pp. Biography Lawrence Hill & Co Westport CT 1987 perfectbound Fine $ 30

Venclova, Tomas : : Aleksande Wat: Life and Art of an Iconoclast : : Study of the Polish-Jewish intellectual by a fellow-countryman following the poet's texts trhough Futurism, Communism and emanciapation from Stalinism. Poet-photo by his son 6.5 x 9.5 369 pp. Biography Yale University Press New Haven CT 1996 Sewn-cloth As New $ 26