Biografia

Nora S. Unwin, Artist and Wood Engraver.

(inscribed by author), · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Dublin, NH, William L. Bauhan, (1990). VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by author. Unwin was one of a small group of dedicated artists and craftsmen identified with renaissance of. wood engraving earlir in the century. She came to the U.S. in 1946 to live in Peterborough, NH, near her f...

The Shadow President: Ted Kennedy in opposition.

Hersh, Burton (Inscribed by the author), · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

South Royalton, VT, Steerforth Press, (1997). 1st ed ss. VG in G DJ. Inscription on title page "For Jack and Diana Barnes, With thanks for an exhilerating morning - Best always, Burton Hersh". Inside front flap of dj creased. Includes post card by Steeforth Press. Some minor u...

Small Town Tales: A Brookline Boyhood.

Hall, Sidney Jr (inscribed by author), · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Brookline, NH, Hobblebush Books, (1997). First printing. VG PB. Vivid sketches of home town life in another era and of poet Sidney Hall, Jr.'s eccentric wonderful family collected. from his newspaper colmn, A Brooikline Boyhood. Inscribed by author on title page "11-11-97, to ...

Search for Sanity.

Assimakopoulos,Pat, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

NY, Ballantine, (1985). 1st ed ss. VG PB. Brutal foster homes, a rejecting alcoholic mother, abandonment and sexual molestation, death of her child, drug dependency,. and alcoholism. Even a wealthy marriage didn't assure her security and happinese. Then she forged a new life o...

Comic Relief: the life and laughter of Artemus Ward 1834-1867.

Pullen John J., · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1983. VG in VG dj. Lincoln's favorite funny man and Mark Twain's mentor the man who first gave the world a taste of the humor that characteized the. American people. This full length biography conveys Ward's humor in many well-chosen examples and expa...

Sylvia Plath" her life amd work.

Aird, Eileen, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Perennial Library Harper, (1975). 1st ed. Fair PB. Traditionally Plath's work never received recognition until after her death. Owner name on fore-edge, book store stamp. on introduction page Individual study of a poet whose whose reputation has contineud to grow since her...

The Years of the Life of Samuel Lane 1718-1806: A New Hampshire Man and His World.

Brown, Jerald E.edited and introduced by Donna Belle Garvin, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$42.00 (€38.11 | £31.79 | ¥6,707)

Hanover, NH, University Press of NE, (2000). 1st prntg. VG PB. Remarkable re-creation of life and world of an 18th century shoemake and tanner, surveyor and clerk, trader and farmer. Truly a "Renaissance man" Civic business, and personal concerns fill the pages of the diary he...

Keep Moving and other tips and truths about Aging.

Van Dyke, Dic (with Todd Gold), · 2015 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Weinstein, (2015). 1st ed 1st prn. Fine in Fine DJ. Show -business legend Dick Van Dyke is living proof that life does get better the longer you live it. Who better off to. give advice and humor than someone who enering his ninth decade with a jaunty two-step? In keep Movi...

Spirit Gun of the West - the story of Doc W. F. Carver Plainsman trapper, buffalo hunter, medicine Chief of the Santee.

Thorp, Raymond W., · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$95.00 (€86.20 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

Glendale, CA, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1957. First edition. G in G DJ. World's champion marksman and originator of the American Wild West Show. Owner name stamp front endpaper, tape marks on DJ. DJ two repaired top edges for small tears.

Horry and the Waccamaw.

Burroughs, Franklin, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Norton, (1992). 1st ed 1 prntg. Fine in Fine DJ. Burroughs' six day canoe voyage down the Waccamaw River from its source in North Carolina through his ancestral homeland. birthplace, Horry County, Burroughs meets a local artisan who specializes in wood carving and boat bui...

Horry and the Waccamaw.

Burroughs, Franklin, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Norton, (1992). 1st ed 1st prn. Fine in Fine DJ. Burroughs' six day canoe voyage down the Waccamaw River from its source in North Carolina through his ancestral homeland. birthplace, Horry County, Burroughs meets a local artisan who specializes in wood carving and boat bui...

A Portrait of Rajiv Gandhi.

Verma, Shrikant, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

East Glastonbury, CT, Arnold Heinemann, (1985). First edition. VG HB IN VG DJ. An intimate portrait of Rajiv who hails from an illustrious family, his grandfather was Jawaharial Nehru andhis mother Indir. gandhi. Yet he deliberately chose to shun the limlelight until recently;...

Khrushchev - A Career.

Crankshaw, Edward, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

ny, Viking, (1966). VG hb in VG dj. One of foremost Western authorities on Societ Russia, Crankshaw's first biogarphy of Krushchev to cover all his. political career from its humble beginning to his sudden eclipse. Some tanning of DJ EDGES.

Daniel Boone.

Barnes, Bertha, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Jefferson City, MO, Modern Litho-print Co., 1974. 4th prntg. VG PB. Pictorial cover of statue of Boone holding a rifle. Price sticker on top right corner of cover.

December Days.

Morozova, Vera, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Moscow, USSR, Raduga Publishers Moscow, (1986). Eng transl. VG Hardback. My father was a workers' patrol member. He fought at the barricades at PRESNYA the days of the 1905 Russian revolution. His comradesat arms would gather at our house, Revolutinary songs would resound. Man...

Upon the Head of the Goat: a childhood in Hungary 1939-1944.

Siegal, Aranka, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1981). 1st prntg. VG in VG hardback. A childhood in Hungary 1939-1944. 9 year old Piri often visited her grandmother's farm in the Ukraine but a 1939 war broke out. out along the border and she could not return home to Beregszasz, Hungary. A year lat...

Why I left Jihad: the root of terrorism and return of radical Islam by an ex-muslim terrorist.

Shoebat, Walid, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

USA, Top Executive Media, (2005). VG HB in VG DJ. "This book was a work of love. After living with hate for so many years, I dedicated my life to bringing truth and love to. all who offer hope for peace.

The Book of Lech Walesa, a collective portrait by Solidarity members and friends.

Walesa, Lech, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Simon and Schuster, (1982). 1st prntg. VG in VG DJ. Introduction by Neal Ascherson.

Imperial Twilight: the story of Karl and Zila of Hungary.

Harding, Bertita, · 1939 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Indianapolis, NY, Bobbs Merrill Co, (1939). VG HB in G DJ. Dual biographies of the house of Hapsburg, a long eventful reign. She flew criss cross over the Continent so as to be. able to descibe its face from the air. Her interest had been captured before as a young girl in his...

Bin Laden: the man who declared war on America.

Bodansky, Yossef, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Forum/Random, (1999). 1st ed ss. VG PB. Inside the campaign to terrorize America. Linked to a number of incidents that have cost Americans their lives including the. bombing of the USSCole in 2000 and the destruction of the American embasies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1908 a...