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               The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon
               Audubon, John James

 University of Oklahoma Press First Thus 1967                                     
Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Top edge stained light blue with some fading of this.  Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with slight edge wear and one tiny closed tear; in a clear protective cover.
From the original in the collection of Henry Bradley Martin. Transcribed and with an introduction and notes by Alice Ford. Extending from April 26,1826, to December 31,1826, this journal covers the most fateful months of Audubon's poignant career - his journey to England and Scotland in connection with the publication of The Birds of America. Well illustrated.
BIRDS,BIRDS OF AMERICA,ORNITHOLOGY,CONSERVATION,AUDUBON, ENVIRONMENTALISM, NATURE, NATURALISTS,ZOOLOGY,SCIENCE                                                                                                                                                                               Book# 2688 		US$42.50


               Yankee on the Prairie: Howard R. Barnard of Kansas - Pioneer Educator
               Miller, Allan R.

 Sunflower University Press 1995                                       
Near Fine Oversized Trade Paperback. Presentation label on reverse on front wrap. Corner creasing of three leaves. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. SIGNED by the author.
Foreword by Joanna L. Stratton. Illustrated.
EDUCATION,HISTORY,KANSAS                                                                                 Book# 4262 		US$22.50


               A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures
               Bradlee, Ben

 Simon & Schuster Second Printing 1995                   ISBN  0684808943
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
This is the witty, candid story of a daring young man who made his way to the heights of American journalism and public life, of the great adventure that took him at only twenty years old straight from Harvard to almost four years in the shooting war in the South Pacific, and back, from a maverick New Hampshire weekly to an apprenticeship for Newsweek in postwar Paris, then to the Washington Bureau chief's desk, and finally to the apex of his career at The Washington Post. Illustrated.
MEMOIRS,NEWSPAPERS,NEWSPAPER EDITING,NEWSPAPER JOURNALISM, PRINT JOURNALISM,WASHINGTON POST,WASHINGTON D.C.                   Book# 4889 		US$14.50


               A Woman’s Education
               Conway, Jill Ker
 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 2001   ISBN: 0679421009
 Very Good Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Corner creasing of a few leaves and tiny spots of several pages.
 Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ price-clipped: in a clear protective cover.
 The third book in her continuing memoir - following The Road from Coorain and True North - deals with her years
 as the first woman president of Smith College.                     
 SMITH COLLEGE,ACADEMICIANS       Book #7240		  
US$6.00
    
         

               The Road from Coorain
               Conway, Jill Ker

 Vintage 1990                                      ISBN  0679724362
Very Good Trade Paperback. Gentle creasing of back wrap. One sentence underlined on a latter page. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
A woman's exquisitely clear-sighted memoir of growing up Australian. Jill Ker Conway is a noted historian, specializing in the experience of women in America, and was the first woman president of Smith College.
WOMEN'S STUDIES,SMITH COLLEGE,COLLEGE PRESIDENTS,AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALIAN WOMEN,PROFESSIONAL WOMEN,HISTORIANS                   Book# 4809 		US$5.95


               True North: A Memoir
               Conway, Jill Ker

 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 1994                           ISBN  0679420991
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
With all the openness to life, all the largeness of spirit, that made her girlhood memoir, The Road from Coorain, an acclaimed - and beloved - bestseller, Jill Ker Conway continues her story.
AUSTRALIA,CANADA,TORONTO,HARVARD,SMITH COLLEGE,WOMEN'S STUDIES                                                                                                                                                      Book# 5469 		US$14.00


               A Reporter's Life
               Cronkite, Walter

 Alfred A. Knopf First Edition 1996                            ISBN  0394578791
Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with a small, closed corner tear - else Fine; now nicely held in a clear protective cover.
The personal and professional odyssey of the original "anchorman". Illustrated.
NEWS,JOURNALISM,TELEVISION NEWS,BROADCAST JOURNALISM,
TWENTIETH CENTURY,U.S.HISTORY,AMERICAN HISTORY,AMERICAN SOCIETY                                                                                                                                                       Book# 3899 		US$12.50


               Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen: A Memoir
               Daniel, Clifton

 Arbor House First Edition 1984                                 ISBN  0877955980
Near Fine Hardcover in Near Fine Dustjacket. Book has very slight edge spotting - else Fine. It is tight and bright. DJ has slight corner wear with one tiny closed tear; in a clear protective cover.
 The memoirs of the distinguished foreign correspondent and later managing editor of The New York Times. Married Margaret Truman. Illustrated.
MODERN HISTORY,TWENTIETH CENTURY,NEW YORK TIMES,NEWSPAPERS, PRINT JOURNALISM,MEMOIRS                                                                                Book# 2113 		US$12.50
 

               Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America
               Elders, Dr. Joycelyn and David Chanoff

 William Morrow First Edition 1996                                       ISBN
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Tiny corner creasing of two leaves. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
Joycelyn Elders, M.D. is that rare find: a book that is not just a political memoir chock-full of inside information about the Clinton administration, but one that shares in poignant detail the triumphant rise of a role model and a truly inspirational African-American woman. Illustrated.
GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,SURGEON GENERAL,PUBLIC HEALTH,
BILL CLINTON,ARKANSAS,MEDICINE,PEDIATRICS                                       Book# 6097 		US$12.00


               In Code: A Mathematical Journey
               Flannery, Sarah with David Flannery

 Workman 2001                                       ISBN  0761123849
New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
"A memoir with mathematics, In Code tells how the girl next door moved from the simple math puzzles that were the staple of dinnertime conversation to number theory, the Sieve of Eratosthenes, and Fermat's Little Theorem - finally culminating in a passion for cryptography, and the creative breakthroughs that led to her own discoveries." Illustrated with photographs.
BIOGRAPHY,MATHEMATICS,MATHEMATICIANS,PRODIGY,CRYPTOGRAPHY,
CODES,NUMBER THEORY,IRELAND                                                                      Book# 6052 		US$14.00


               Buckminster Fuller, At Home In The Universe
               Hatch, Alden

Dell 1976                                      ISBN  0440044081
Good Trade Paperback. Mild wear and creasing of wraps and mild bottom edge spotting. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
A biography of the scientist, humanist, engineer, and inventory of the geodesic dome. Illustrated.
ARCHITECTURE,GEODESIC DOME,PHILOSOPHY                                          Book# 6140 		US$8.50


               A Life in Our Times: Memoirs
               Galbraith, John Kenneth

 Houghton Mifflin First Edition 1981                                       
Near Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Buckram binding with gilt lettering. Book has very slight, very faint, fore-edge spotting - else Fine. It is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with edge wear and several tiny closed tears; in a clear protective cover.
The world famous economist, author of The Affluent Society, ambassador, and holder of various other high government posts presents his fascinating memoirs.
GREAT DEPRESSION,HARVARD,WORLD WAR II,ECONOMICS,INDIA,NAZI GERMANY,ADLAI STEVENSON,ALBERT SPEER,U.S.HISTORY, WASHINGTON, GOVERNMENT,TWENTIETH CENTURY                                                                Book# 2641 		US$15.00

     
               Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
               Goodwin, Doris Kearns

 Simon & Schuster 1997                                      
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author writes about growing up in New York. Illustrated.
NEW YORK,CATHOLICISM,BASEBALL,BROOKLYN DODGERS,HISTORIANS                                                                                                                                                                  Book# 3272 		US$14.00


               Wait Till Next Year: A Memoir
               Goodwin, Doris Kearns
 Simon & Schuster 1998   ISBN: 0684847957
 Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author writes about growing up in New York. Illustrated.                     
 NEW YORK,CATHOLICISM,BASEBALL,BROOKLYN DODGERS,HISTORIANS        Book #7238		  
US$7.50 
   
         

               Personal History
               Graham, Katharine

 Vintage 1998                                                     ISBN  0375701044
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the crises of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story... Illustrated with many photographs.
MEMOIRS,WASHINGTON POST,PUBLISHERS,NEWSPAPERS,PRINT JOURNALISM, WASHINGTON,POLITICS,GOVERNMENT                                                             Book# 6065 		US$9.00


               Greenspan: The Man Behind Money
               Martin, Justin

 Perseus Third Printing 2000                                  ISBN  0738205249
New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
This first-ever biography of Greenspan presents the celebrated Fed chairman as few know him - a man whose exceptional power is matched only by the mystery that surrounds him. Illustrated.
FEDERAL RESERVE,FINANCE,ECONOMICS,STOCK MARKET,WALL STREET, GOVERNMENT,POLITICS,WASHINGTON                                                             Book# 3996 		US$14.25


               Saddam's Bombmaker: The Daring Escape of the Man Who Built Iraq's Secret Weapon
               Hamza, Khidhir with Jeff Stein

 Simon & Schuster  2001                                      ISBN  0743211359
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
 In a white-knuckle thriller, Khidhir Hamza, who spent twenty years developing Iraq's atomic weapon, recounts his life in Saddam Hussein's inner circle and his daring flight to the West.
MEMOIRS,IRAQ,SADDAM HUSSEIN,NUCLEAR WEAPONS,NUCLEAR PHYSICISTS, WMD                                                                                                                                       Book# 6233 		US$9.00


               Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs, and Declarations of Independence
               Hockenberry, John

 Hyperion Second Printing 1995                                   ISBN  0786860782
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
John Hockenberry's Moving Violations is one of the most entertaining, provocative, unexpected, outspoken, and occassionally outrageous books in recent memory. It is a story of obstacles - physical, emotional, and psychic - overcome again, and again, and again.
REPORTERS,JOURNALISTS,BROADCAST JOURNALISM,WAR CORRESPONDENTS, NPR,ABC                                                                                                                                Book# 5541 		US$12.50


               C. L. R. James: A Life
               Dhondy, Farrukh

 Pantheon First American Edition 2002                    ISBN  0375421009
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
A critical appreciation of the West Indian historian and political activist who played a towering role in the cause of Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century.
POLITICAL ACTIVISTS,HISTORIANS,MARXISTS,MARXISM,COMMUNISM, PAN-AFRICANISM,WEST INDIES                                                                               Book# 6698 		US$12.50


               Knight: A Publisher in the Tumultuous Century
               Whited, Charles

 E.P. Dutton First Edition 1988                               ISBN  0525247238
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
When John Knight died in 1981, he left behind a newspaper empire. Over the course of fifty years, he had parlayed ownership of the debt-ridden Akron Beacon Journal into the nationwide chain Knight-Ridder Newspapers, with a daily circulation of 3.2 million readers in thirty-three cities.
NEWSPAPERS,PRINT MEDIA,PRINT JOURNALISM,ENTREPRENEURISM, COMMUNICATIONS,COMMUNICATION INDUSTRY                                         Book# 3214 		US$18.50


               My Country Versus Me
               Lee, Wen Ho with Helen Zia

 Hyperion  First Edition 2001                                      ISBN  0786868031
New Unread Hardcover in New Dustjacket. Unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
The Los Alamos defense scientist, falsely accused of espionage in 1999, tells his story. Illustrated.
SCIENTISTS,NATIONAL LABORATORY,LOS ALAMOS,ESPIONAGE,TRIALS                                                                                                                                                                     Book# 6414 		US$12.00


               Christ Stopped at Eboli
               Levi, Carlo
 Time-Life 1982   ISBN: 080943749X
 Near Fine Trade Paperback in stiff paper wraps. Slight tanning of pages - else Fine.
 Spine is uncreased. Book is tight and unmarked.
 A masterful account of a year spent in political exile, in a backward southern Italian village in 1935, for opposing
 the Mussolini dictatorship.                      
 ITALY,MUSSOLINI,DICTATORS,FASCISTS,TWENTIETH CENTURY,POLITICAL EXILE       Book #7158		  
US$7.00
     
         

               A Grief Observed
               Lewis, C. S.

 Walker LARGE PRINT Edition                                 ISBN  0802724701
Fine Trade Paperback. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
Writing with love, humility and faith, the celebrated author C.S. Lewis submits an intensely personal account of the meaning of his wife's death.
RELIGION,CHRISTIANITY,SPIRITUALITY,GRIEF,BEREAVEMENT,DEATH,
MEMOIRS                                                                                                                            Book# 3526 		US$10.00


               C. S. Lewis Through the Shadowlands
               Sibley, Brian

 Fleming H. Revell Fourth Printing 1994                   ISBN  0800755340
Very Good Trade Paperback. Very mild damp-wrinkling of corners of a few later leaves - else Fine. Spine is uncreased. Book is tight, bright and unmarked.
The true story behind the movie, Shadowlands - C.S. Lewis' life with Joy Davidman.
CHRISTIANITY,ENGLAND,BRITISH WRITERS,MARRIAGE,DEATH,GRIEF, MOURNING                                                                                                                         Book# 4981 		US$4.95


               Clare Booth Luce
               Sheed, Wilfrid

 E.P. Dutton First Edition 1982                                       ISBN  0525030557
Fine Hardcover in Fair Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with several small, closed tears; now well held in a clear protective cover.
 In a rich and penetrating portrait that is part memoir, part biography, Wilfrid Sheed has produced a highly engaging meditation on an extraordinary woman.
MEMOIRS,HENRY LUCE,PUBLISHING,MAGAZINES,TIME/LIFE,VANITY FAIR                                                                 Book# 6077 		US$9.00


               Henry and Clare: An Intimate Portrait of the Luces
               Martin, Ralph G.

G.P. Putnam's Sons First Edition 1991                      ISBN  0399136525
Very Good Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. A small area on front endpaper where a written name has been scribbled out and a small, neat signature on title page. Book is tight, bright and otherwise unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
PUBLISHING                                                                                                                       Book# 1571 		US$8.50


              'Tis: A Memoir
               McCourt, Frank

 Scribner Eighth Printing 1999                                    ISBN  0684848783
Fine Hardcover in Fine Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ in a clear protective cover.
By the author of Angela’s Ashes. The story of his journey from impoverished immigrant to brilliant teacher and raconteur.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY,TEACHERS,WRITERS,IRELAND,EIRE,IRISH,IMMIGRANTS,
NEW YORK CITY                                                                                                              Book# 6490 		US$12.00


               The Home: A Memoir of Growing Up in an Orphanage
               McKenzie, Richard

 BasicBooks First Edition 1996                                    ISBN  0465030688
Fine Hardcover in Very Good Dustjacket. Book is tight, bright and unmarked. DJ with mild edge wear; in a clear protective cover.
The author, a professor and author of many books on economics, was the son of alcoholic and abusive parents. Placed at the age of ten in a home for children in North Carolina, he was given a chance to make a new beginning. This poignant memoir, written with heartfelt immediacy, tells the story of his life there more than four decades ago.
MEMOIRS,ORPHANS,ORPHANAGES,CHILD ABUSE,CHILDHOOD,ADOLESCENCE, COMING OF AGE                                                                                                              Book# 5671 		US$11.75

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