Biografia

The Norman Rockwell Album.

Rockwell, Norman (inscribed by Rockwell), · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$150.00 (€136.10 | £113.55 | ¥23,953)

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Publishing, 1961. 1st edition. VG with fragments of dustjacket. Includes Rockwell illlustrated calendars from 2001 and 2002, and pages from Look magazine of Joseph McCarthy, Ronald Reagon,. Barry Goldwater, and Hubert Humphrey. Inscribed by Rockwell ...

Solzhenitsyn.

Burg, Davis an George Feirer, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Stein and Day, (1972). 3RD Printing. VG Hardback in G DJ (edge wear). Since "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovicfh" was first published a Soviet writer declared that we simply cannot go on. Since 1966 publication of the Nobel prize winning writer's work it has been forbidd...

Especially Maine - The Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to St. Lawrence.

Coatsworth, Elizabeth selected by and with introductions by, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, (1970). VG Hardback in G DJ. Some tanning TO DJ edges Owner inscription. half title page. The accumulated impact of Henry Beston's of man in relation to. nature. amd his unique farsightedness demonstrated in these observations of earth, s...

Maximilian and Juarez.

Ridley, Jasper, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Ticknor & Fields, (1992). 1st Printing. VG in G DJ. Recounts one of the Tragicomedies of the 19th century. The attemptt by Napoleon III to eetablish Arch Duke Mximmilian of. Austria as the emperor of Mexico. A colorful narrative of this ill-starred undertaking which pitted...

Living Faith.

Carter, Jimmy, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Times Books Random House, (1996). 3RD Printing. VG in VG DJ. For the past three decades, Jimmy Carter has spent part of Sunday morning reading from scripture and sharing his personal. fair with neighbors, friends and visitors at his Baptist Church in Plains Georgia Today h...

Herbert Hoover - a biography.

Lyons, Eugene, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Doubleday, 1964. First Edition. VG Hardback in Fair DJ. Photos on inner pages of all major persons. DJ edge wear, tears.

Soldier of Democracy - a biogrphay of Dwight Eisenhower (maps of the theater of Eisenhower's operataions).

Davis, Kenneth S., · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Doubleday Doran, 1945. 1st edition. VG Hardback in Fair DJ. On June 6 1944, Ike reached reached the climax of his career thus far - the terrible loneliness of an hour of decisive action. The many and long preparations as a soldier of the forces that molded him. There would...

Passionate Sage: the character and legacy of John Adams.

Ellis, Joseph J., · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Norton, (1994). 1st PB Ptg. VG PB. A thoughtful study of Adams, who knew himself as few men do and preserved his knowledge in voluminous correspondence that still. vibrates. bookseller sticker top of rep.

Where the Buck Stops: the personal and private writings of Harry S. Trman.

Truman, Margaret S. , edited by, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Warner, (1989). First printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ. Outspoken sometime outrageous, always full of common sense an uncommon insights, totally frank book brings in the full flavor. an exceptional man who brings us the full flavor of an esceptional man and his ideas with th...

Soul of the Lion - a Biography of General Joshua L. Chamberlain.

Wallace Willard M., · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

Gettysburg, PA, Stan Clark Military Books, (1991). VG PB. His career was one of exceptional gallantry, an officer always in the thick of battle.

With Kennedy.

Salinger, Pierre, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 1966. VG Hardback in G DJ. Salinger was an investigator for the Senate Select Committee of Improper activities in the Labor and Management Field and a. friend of Senator Jack Kennedy of the Senate Labor Relations Committee.

Lincoln, the War President, the Gettysburg lectures.

Boritt, Garbor S., edited by, essays by 7 historians, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Oxford Unit Press, 1992. 1st printing. VG in G DJ. Lloye Garrison dismissed Lincoln as nothing but "a wet rag". Bookseller sticker front cover dj.

Let Us Have Peace : the life of Ulysses S. Grant.

Meyer, Howard, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Collier, (1966). 1st editin thu. VG Hardback in G DJ (crease on back DJ flap.). American guns on the American flag at Fort Sumter. In the back sat an inconspiuous man who was identified as Ulysses. S. Grant. a graduate of West Point amd a hero pf the Mexican War. Less than...

Eva Peron.

Fraser, Nicholas & Marysa Navarro, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Norton, (1980). 5th prntg. G PB some edge wear. Her story begins in a dusty village lost in the Argentine pampas where a girl born out of wedlockstumbles her way to the. capital by the time she is 15 and ends with an embalmed corpse of Eva Peronhidden away by nervous polit...

American Women Poets: pioneers of modern poetry.

Gould, Jean, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1980). 1st edition. VG LG SZ PB.

Memory Babe: a critical biography of Jack Kerouac.

Nicosia Gerald, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Grove Press, (1983). 1st prntg. VG Hardback in Fair DJ. His daughter Jan Kerouac ways" Most comprehansive and accurate biogrpahy of my father I've yet come across." DJ torn at bottom.

Anne Sexton, a biogrpahy.

Diane Wood Middlebrook, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1991). 5th printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ. Anne Sexton, who died at her own hand in 1974, claims she was the only confessional poet and is one of the most widely read. poets. A disturbing collection of essays and stories stained with rage, loneliness...

Dorothy Canfield Fisher: a biography.

Washington, Ida H., · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Shelburne, Vermont, New England Press, (1982). VG in VG DJ. Life and writings of an important 20th century woman author whose novels, short stories and non-fiction have delighted. generations of readers. Sensitive to dangerous trends in American society at the beginning of the...

Jack Kerouac: a biography.

Charters, Ann, foreword by Allen Ginsberg, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, (1973). 1st prntg. VG Hardback, DJ poor. In Ginsberg foreword Author Charters loved Kerouac's art, did his first bibliography with him while alive, cherished his. scripture and literary soul-might, researched with difnity the interior of hi...

Jack Kerouac: a biography.

Charters, Ann, foreword by Allen Ginsberg, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$95.00 (€86.20 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

author self published, (1973). VG Hardback, DJ poor. In Ginsberg foreword Author Charters loved Kerouac's art, did his first bibliography with him while alige, cherished his. scripture and literary soul-might, researched with difnity the interior of his novels and family, spok...