BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women from Barbara Bilson Books

New York: W. W. Norton, 1983. Fine in fine dust jacket. (A beautiful inscribed and signed copy of the first edition with only one defect, a 1 inch tear at the bottom of page 302, that does not interfere with text or the facing photograph of Ernest with Pauline Pfeiffer.) 555 pages including extensive notes, bibliography, and very helpful index.… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 2001. Fine book in fine dust jacket. 764 pages with voluminous references, notes, index and a helpful list of existing buildings in Amherst associated with ED; a family genealogical chart which aids in placing the many people that enter Emily's life; and finally a small but quite complete selection of photographs, all of family members or… Read more about this item

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. Very good+ (ripple in front cover from manufacturing; light edgewear and fading on top edge) in very good dust jacket (edgewear along bottom edge, light browning or sunning on inside of jacket). The jacket design comes from one of Valencia's dream images. She tells of her "dreaming" in the sense of dreams as the… Read more about this item

New York: W.W.Norton, 1989. Very good+ (faint foxing on page edges, small holes on cover edges [silverfish, oh condemn and rot 'em]) in fine dust jacket. The first biography of this interesting and complex woman who fascinated and irritated the "Bloomsberries" and others. 342 pages with many photographs including of her art work, an extensive index, and notes.. 1st American… Read more about this item

New York: St. Martin's, 1983. Very good (edgewear at top of spine) in very good+ dust jacket (very light edgewear, one defect in coating that happened during manufacturing--see scan--but barely noticeable). Stunning actress and woman, stunning photographs. 128 pages. Text by Taylor, a film critic. Both text and photographs explore the non-glamorous side of her life and career. . 1st… Read more about this item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2003. Near fine (two pages have been turned down and still have the crease; green remainder stripe on top page edges, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket. Yes, this is the Nevada Barr, author of the Anna Pigeon mystery series, writing here of her personal quest for faith but with the same flair for… Read more about this item

New York: The Macaulay Company, 1930. Very good- (a tight book with lightly tanned pages and covers; sunned spine; owner's bookplate on the front pastedown). No dust jacket. Purports to be a memoir detailing a young American woman's experiences when she was caught up in World War I while living in Belgium and France. Insouciant tone of the retrospective portions,… Read more about this item

New York: Wm H. Wise & Co., 1916. Volume II of the 14-volume series. Although the copyright date on the reverse of the title page is 1916, this is The Anniversary Edition produced by the Roycrofters in East Aurora, NY, and dated 1922, per notice on last page. 308+ pages in very good condition (light edgewear, especially at top and… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1899. Very good (slightly cocked, slight edgewear) without dust jacket. Green cloth covers with gold lettering on front cover and spine, and fully intact top-edge gilt (TEG). 451 pages. Arranged and edited by Mrs. Harry Coghill. Margaret Oliphant, 1828-1897, was a popular Victorian novelist who wrote many novels, contributed many shorter pieces… Read more about this item

New York: Henry Holt, 1988. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. The book advertises itself as "a novel" on the cover, but Kerouac presents it more as a memoir. She is the daughter of that other Kerouac. 210 pages.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, 1975. VG (sticker removal evidence on front pastedown) in Good+ dust jacket (edgeworn especially at top of spine, repaired closed tear; now protected in glassine cover). 317 pages including notes, index, bibliography, and photographs in this study of a notable patron and personage from early 20th century English literary circles. . 1st American… Read more about this item

London: Andre Deutsch , 1980. Very fine in near fine dust jacket (some very light scratches, otherwise fine). Ruth First, the co-author, is famous in her own right. Her experiences fighting apartheid in South Africa were the inspiration for the movie "A World Apart." Schreiner, in her time, had protested against the subjugation of Africans, as in "Trooper Peter Halket."… Read more about this item

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. Beautifully printed text on heavy paper. Illustrated with photographs and drawings (including one sketch by Sargent) . Very Good (sticker removal on back pastedown, slightly faded covers, some uncut pages) in VG dust jacket (lightly soiled and edgeworn). A memoir--with ample quotations from her letters--by Alice Meynell's daughter Viola about this Victorian… Read more about this item

London: Heinemann, 1983. Near fine (some spotting at beginning and end of 12-page section of glossy photographs, one very lightly bumped corner) in very good dust jacket (spine wrinkled and sunned; edgewear mostly at spine; spotting on inside of dj). Margaret Kennedy was a popular English novelist of the 1920s and 30s who resumed publishing in the 1950s. 219… Read more about this item

Santa Fe: The Lightning Tree, 1982. INSCRIBED by author (Eunice Kalloch). Fine (faint impression of newspaper article laid in at first free endpaper). No dust jacket. 160 pages. Interesting accounts of each of New Mexico's first ladies, from the first (1912) to Clara Apodaca (1978). Pictures give insight into the times. Short essay on the official… Read more about this item

New York: Beaufort Books, 1983. Near fine (a few tiny spots on top page edges) in near fine dust jacket (very slight yellowing along top edges). Marguerite Higgins reported from the front lines in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, interviewed dozens of important world figures (U.S. Presidents, etc), broke down barriers to women journalists, and was the first… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1967. This significant 20th century writer shares her experiences of cats, including the two who lived with her at the time in England but also the cats from Africa where she grew up. Considerable biographical insight. Written with Lessing's humorous touch. Fine in very good+ dust jacket (priceclipped, lightly edgeworn and slightly darkened). 121… Read more about this item

New York: Harper Collins, 1994. Very good (light foxing spots) in near fine dust jacket (slightly sunned spine). Lively won the Booker Prize for her novel "Moon Tiger." This is the fascinating and somewhat disturbing story of her unusual childhood in Egypt in the 1930s and 1940s, including the child's experience of the war. Lively was born in… Read more about this item

New York: Taplinger, 1972. Very good+ (light foxing on top page edges and covers, otherwise fine) in fine dust jacket. The fascinating story of a childhood friendship with Katherine Mansfield which developed into a lifelong connection, at times stormy. "LM" is the pseudonym of this friend; her memories of her famous, brilliant friend are annotated and introduced by… Read more about this item

London: Cape , 1983. Fine in near fine dust jacket (slight edgewear along top). Porter, the author of "Ship of Fools," was born in Texas and became one of America's best-known writers, but--as this author points out--her own public personna as the heir of an aristocratic family of the old south was one of her most elaborate fictional works. 572… Read more about this item