In My Own Good Time
Boston, MA: Gambit, 1970. First Printing. 22 cm, 321, DJ in plastic sleeve, edges soiled. More
Boston, MA: Gambit, 1970. First Printing. 22 cm, 321, DJ in plastic sleeve, edges soiled. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1999. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 271, [1] pages. Publisher's ephemera and photograph of author laid in. Spike is the critically acclaimed author of eight books and countless magazine articles. Her work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Real Simple, GQ, Esquire, Elle, Smithsonian, National Geographic Traveler, and many other publications. Spike also provides commentary for Austin's NPR affiliate, KUT. She is the President of the Office of Good Deeds, an informal group of Austinites who enjoy performing good deeds for those in need. Spike went to college at the University of South Florida, and spent some time in Knoxville, Tennessee and St. Louis, Missouri before arriving in Austin in 1991. Initially she thought Austin would just be another stop along the way, but before long she realized this was the place she truly belonged. She raised her son Henry Mowgli here and, not at all surprisingly, thanks in large part to being raised in such a creative city, he grew up to be a musician and visual artist. In addition to performing weddings, Spike leads memoir writing workshops and retreats. A frank and moving memoir of a lifetime of failed relationships with men--and the redeeming power of motherhood--from the cyber celebrity who pioneered the on-line confessional. More
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1974. First American Edition. 24 cm, 275, illus., footnotes, pencil erasure on half-title, DJ worn and small tears. More
New York: Cowar, McCann & Geoghegan, 1980. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. 383 p. Map. More
New York: Atheneum, 1983. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 301, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ soiled with some tears. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Public Affairs, 2001. First Edition. First Printing. 25 cm, 241, index, some wear and soiling to DJ, black mark on bottom edge. Foreword by Katharine Graham. Afterwood by Michael Beschloss. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1971. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 365, illus., facsim., endpaper plan, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
New York: Villard, 2004. First Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 399 pages Some cover wear. Sticker residue on front cover. Includes Author's Note; Prologue: Red Star over South Texas. Section One covers Moscow; Section Two covers Beijing; Section Three covers Havana. Inscribed by the author on the half title page. Epilogue: Seeing Red. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index. Inscription reads: For my beautiful Ned, A Rumba Dancin' Queen, without whom these stories could never have been told. You've been my backbone these past 3 years--muchisimes gracias for your incredible support & friendship. All my [heart symbol] and Begos, Stephanie [star symbol]. Stephanie Elizondo Griest (born June 6, 1974) is a Chicana author and activist from South Texas. Her books include Around the Bloc: My Life in Moscow, Beijing, and Havana, 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, and Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines. She has also written for the New York Times, Washington Post, and others. She earned a degree in journalism. Born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas, Griest began speaking about wanting to travel in her high school years. She traveled to Moscow while learning Russian, creating a rulebook for traveling across Russia. She has added to Chicano studies by her form of travel writing, exploring how Mexican culture can be affected in a border region. She has made relevant contributions as she grew up in American culture in Texas, resulting in being heavily influenced by Mexican culture. Specifically, this influence came from family and friends who resisted assimilation of the Mexican culture. Over her career, Griest has explored 29 countries. On one occasion, she spent a year driving 45,000 miles across the United States, documenting its history for a youth-oriented website called The Odyssey. A 2005 Hodder Fellow at Princeton University, she is currently a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute and a Board Member of the National Coalition Against Censorship. She won the 2007 Richard Margolis Award for Social Justice Reporting for her work on Mexico. More
Atlanta, GA: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd., 1979. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xi, [1], 211, [1] p. More
New York: Wynwood Press, c1991. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 319, illus., index. More
New York: Wynwood Press, c1991. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 319, illus., DJ flap creased. More
New York: Wynwood Press, 1991. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. 319, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads To Gladys and Jack With admiration and affection Ruth Gruber 10/12/91. The author describes her youth in Brooklyn, her education at the University of Cologne on the eve of Hitler's reign of terror, and her trips to the Soviet Union during Stalin's dictatorship. Ruth Gruber (September 30, 1911 – November 17, 2016) was an American journalist, photographer, writer, humanitarian, and United States government official. Born in Brooklyn to Russian Jewish immigrants, she was encouraged to pursue her dream of becoming a writer. At age 20, she received a doctorate from the University of Cologne in Germany, which was awarded for her dissertation -- in German -- on Virginia Woolf. In the 1930s, she established herself as a journalist writing about women under fascism and communism, traveling as far as the Soviet Arctic. She also served two years in Alaska as a field representative of the U.S. Department of the Interior. As World War II raged in Europe, she turned her attention to the crisis of Jewish refugees: acting on behalf of the Roosevelt administration, she escorted 1,000 refugees from Italy to the United States and recorded their stories. She witnessed the scene at the Port of Haifa when Holocaust survivors on the ship Exodus 1947 were refused entry to British-controlled Palestine, and she documented their deportation back to Germany. In subsequent years, she covered the evacuation of Ethiopian Jews to Israel. She was a recipient of the Norman Mailer Prize. More
Frankfurt: Europaische Verlagsanstalt, 1955. 84, wraps, illus., notes, DJ foxed, soiled, and small tears. Text is in German. More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966. First Edition. First? Printing. Hardcover. 22 cm, 421 pages. Illus. Inscribed by the author. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. x [2], 301, [5] p. 22 cm. Endpaper map. More
Waco, Tex: WRS Pub. 1995. First Printing. 24 cm, 190, illus. More
New York: Summit Books, c1983. First Edition. 22 cm, 330 pages. Remainder mark, signed typed letter laid in. Signed by the author. More
New York: Avon, 1978. First Avon Printing [stated]. Trade paperback. [10], 260 pages. Wraps. Some cover wear and page discoloration noted. front cover has been repaired with tape, small tear in rear cover and rear flyleaf, pages have darkened, marks on bottom edge). Michael David Herr[1] (April 13, 1940 – June 23, 2016) was an American writer and war correspondent, known as the author of Dispatches (1977), a memoir of his time as a correspondent for Esquire (1967–1969) during the Vietnam War. The book was called the best "to have been written about the Vietnam War" by The New York Times Book Review. Novelist John le Carré called it "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." Herr was credited in the film for writing the narration for Francis Ford Coppola's 1997 film The Rainmaker. He had previously contributed to the narration for Coppola's 1979 film Apocalypse Now. He co-wrote the screenplay for the film Full Metal Jacket (1987) with director Stanley Kubrick and author Gustav Hasford. That film was based on Hasford's novel The Short-Timers and the screenplay was nominated for an Academy Award. Herr collaborated with Richard Stanley in writing the original screenplay for the 1996 film The Island of Dr. Moreau based on the H.G. Wells novel of the same name. Herr wrote a pair of articles for Vanity Fair about Stanley Kubrick, which were later incorporated into the short book Kubrick (2000), a personal biography of the director. More
Washington, DC: Regnery Gateway, c1989. First Printing. 24 cm, 215, Inscribed by Oliver North on the dedication page. More
Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1996. First Edition. First Printing. 209, tables, notes, index, light pencil underlining to text, page & topic reference in pencil on rear endpaper. Inscribed by author. More
Bruxelles: Commission Belge de Bibliographie, 1961. Second Edition, Presumed first printing. Hardcover. [2], 85, [3] pages. Index of Names. Text is in French. Several blank pages at back to support the hardcover binding. Ex-library with usual library markings. Hardcover library binding. Sir Henry Morton Stanley GCB (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American journalist, explorer, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone, whom he later claimed to have greeted with the now-famous line: "Dr Livingstone, I presume?". He is mainly known for his search for the source of the Nile, work he undertook as an agent of King Leopold II of Belgium, which enabled the occupation of the Congo Basin region, and for his command of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition. He was knighted in 1899. In 1867, the emperor of Ethiopia, Tewodros II, held a British envoy and others hostage, and a force was sent to achieve the release of the hostages. Stanley accompanied that force as a special correspondent of the New York Herald. Stanley's report on the Battle of Magdala in 1868 was the first to be published. Subsequently, he was assigned to report on Spain's Glorious Revolution in 1868. Stanley was approached by King Leopold II of Belgium, the ambitious Belgian monarch who had organized a private holding company in 1876 disguised as an international scientific and philanthropic association, which he called the International African Association. Leopold II tried to recruit him. and eventually Stanley gave in. More
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Second printing before publication. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [10], 325, [1] p. Stamp of former owner inside front cover. Inscribed on half-title. Carl Hiaasen (born March 12, 1953) is an American journalist, columnist, and novelist. After becoming an investigative reporter, Hiaasen began writing novels. His first three were co-authored with fellow journalist William Montalbano: Powder Burn (1981), Trap Line (1982), and A Death in China (1984). His first solo novel, Tourist Season (1986), featured a group of eco-warriors who kidnap the Orange Bowl Queen. The book's main character was whimsically memorialized by Jimmy Buffett in "The Ballad of Skip Wiley." In all, eighteen of Hiaasen's novels and nonfiction books have appeared on the New York Times Best Seller lists. His work has been translated into 34 languages. Hiaasen is also noted as the person who helped bring the young adult fantasy novel Eragon to the public. The book, written by Christopher Paolini, was self-published and self-promoted without much attention until it came to the notice of Hiaasen's wife, Fenia, in 2002, during a trip to Montana. Hiaasen immediately recommended the novel to one of his editors at the publishing house Alfred A. Knopf. The book went on to become an astounding success, marking the start of a series that sold over 30 million copies worldwide. More
New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 2005. First U. S. printing [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. viii, 310, [2] p. More
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. First Simon & Schuster Hardcover Edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. xxix, [3], 733, [3] pages. A Note on the Newspapers. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Harold Holzer (born February 5, 1949) is a scholar of Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the American Civil War Era. He serves as director of Hunter College's Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute. Holzer previously spent twenty-three years as senior vice president for public affairs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York before retiring in 2015. Holzer began his career as a newspaper reporter and then editor of The Manhattan Tribune. He then served as press secretary to Congresswoman Bella S. Abzug, press secretary to 1977 mayoral candidate Mario Cuomo, a government speechwriter for New York City Mayor Abraham D. Beame, and for six years as public affairs director for WNET. From 1984 through 1992 Holzer worked in the administration of Governor Mario Cuomo (with whom he co-edited the 1990 book, Lincoln on Democracy). In 1992, Holzer joined The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York as chief communications officer. He was elevated to vice president in 1996 and senior vice president for public affairs in 2005 with responsibilities over government affairs, multi-cultural development, admissions, and visitor services. In his work as a historian Holzer has authored, co-authored, and edited more than 52 books, and contributed more than 550 articles, plus chapters and forewords for 60 additional books. Many of his works have received awards, including the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and four other awards in 2015 for his book Lincoln and the Power of the Press. More
New York: Crown, [1975]. First Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 227, illus., index, DJ somewhat worn, soiled, edge tears, and sticker residue. More