Confessions of a Barbarian.
Little, Brown & Co., 1994. First edition, first printing. Signed by the editor, David Petersen, "David Petersen (for E.A.)"
Biography/Memoir
Confessions of a Barbarian.
Little, Brown & Co., 1994. First edition, first printing.
Downstream From Trout Fishing in America.
Capra Press, 1989. First edition, first printing. Signed by the Abbott on the title page.
Places and Names : On War, Revolution, and Returning.
Penguin Press, 2019. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page. National Book Award finalist.
The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. Unexpurgated Edition. Translated from the Russian by Kyril Fitzlyon.
A Gathering of Heroes : Reflections on Rage and Responsibility, A Memoir of the Los Angeles Riots.
Academy Chicago, 1994. First edition, first printing.
Hell and Other Destinations.
HarperCollins, 2020. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author to publisher's tipped in signature page.
Schlesinger the Imperial HIstorian.
W. W. Norton, 2017. First edition, first printing.
Law without Values : The Life, Work, and Legacy of Justice Holmes.
U. of Chicago, 2000. First edition, first printing.
All the Way to Heaven : An American Boyhood in the Himalayas.
Henry Holt, 1998. First edition, first printing.
The Mystery of the Duchess of Malfi.
Sutton, 2002. First edition, first printing.
The Heart of a Woman.
Random House, 1981. First edition, first printing.
Speak, Silence : In Search of W.G. Sebald.
Bloomsbury, 2021. First edition, first printing.
Hollywood's Eve : Eve Babitz and the Secret History of L.A.
Scribner, 2019. First edition, first printing.
Mother Angelica : The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles.
Doubleday, 2005. Later printing.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : His Life, His Works, His Frienships.
Lee and Shepard, 1883. First edition, first printing. Rebound in full brown leather, with six-panneled spine, stamped blind with gilt portrait of Longfellow. Painted end papers, all edges gilt.
Cronies, A Burlesque : Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassady, The Merry Pranksters, and the Grateful Dead.
Tsunami Press, 2021. First edition, first printing.
To Rescue the Republic: Ulysses S. Grant, The Fragile Union, and the Crisis of 1876.
Custom House, 2021. First edition, first printing.
Black, White, and the Grey : The Story of an Unexpected Friendship and a Beloved Restaurant.
Lorena Jones/Ten Speed, 2021. First edition, first printing. Signed by both authors on the title page.
Emerson Among the Eccentrics.
Viking, 1996. First edition, first printing.
The Justice From Beacon Hill : The Life and Times of Oliver Wendell Holmes.
HarperCollins, 1991. First edition, first printing.
The Artful Dodger
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000. First edition first printing.
Julia's Cats: Julia Child's Life in the Company of Cats.
Abrams Image, 2013. Later printing.
The Brontes : A Life in Letters.
Overlook, 1998. First edition, first printing.
The Man in the Red Coat.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2020. First edition, first printing.