Biografia

Diaries.

Theodore Roosevelt's Diaries of Boyhood and Youth, · 1928 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Scribner, 1928. 1st (colophon). Fair. White markings on back cover. Owner name & 1928 date on front endpaper.

The World of C. A. Stephens Commemorative Edition.

Whitney, Ronald G., · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Norway, Maine, Friends of C. A. Stephens, (1976). VG lg sz PB. Stephens was one of America's most beloved storytellers and between the Civil War and the 1920s his name was a household. word to millions. For over 60 years he wrote exclusively for The Youth's Companion. He grew ...

Mark Twain Himself: printer, pilot, soldier, miner. re[prter. ;ectirer. editor, humorist, author, businessman, publisher.

his life, · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Hannibal, MA, Becky Thatcher Book Shop, (1960). G in G DJ plus a separate PB "Mark Twsin's Hannibal". Twain said his life was an unswerving regularity of irregularity. He reached old age by sticking strictly to a. scheme of life which would kill somebody else. That life, one o...

His Proper Post: a biography of Gen. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain.

Maine's greatest heroes, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Kearny, NJ, Belle Grove Pub. Co., 1998. VG lg sz PB. Chamberlain was a Maine Civil War General and later became Governor of Maine and President of Bowdoin College.

A Lady of Lovell: the story of Charlotte Hobbs.

Moore, Pauline W, Lovell, Maine, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Denmark, Maine, Cardinal Printing, (1990). VG PB. When Charlotte Hobbs graduated from Wellesley in 1902 at the age of 23, she came back to Lovell to spend the rest of her life. in the village of her birth. She lived with her mother in the little white frame house halfway betwe...

Ninety Yeras of Living.

Fitch, Edwin Peabody 1840-1931, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Bridgton Historical Society, Evangeline Fitch Moke, (1976, 1997). VG PB. The Peabody-Fitch Farm (now known as "Narramissic") where narrator Fitch grew up is a historic site owned and operated. by the Bridgton (Maine) Historical Society. The house has been restored, largely wit...

Journals of Hezekiah Prince, Jr. 1822-1828.

by Robert Greenhalgh Albion, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Crown, (1965). VG in G DJ. Journals of a well-connected young resident of Thomaston, Maine, in the 1820s with a wealth of anecdotal maaterial gives. a feeling for life in a coastal Maine town, the social history a valuable source for studying attitudes and culture of that ...

Count Rumford: the extraordinary life of a scientic genius.

Brown, G.I., introduction by Susan Greenfield, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Gloucestershire, England, Sutton Pub., (1999). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ clipped, owner name. President Roosevelt rated Count Rumford, along with Benjammin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, as the greatest mind America has. produced and through his inventions, philanthroy, and the fou...

In All His Glory: life and times of William S. Paley and the birth of modern broadcasting.

Smith, Sally Bedell, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Touochstone, (1990). 1st PB edition. VG lg szPB. A sweeping study of the emergence of broadcasting, the American immigrant experience, and the ravenous personal and professional. tastes of Paley as he charmed and clawed his way to the top of society. The author shows us th...

Fossils and Flies: the life of a compleat scientist Samuel Wendell Williston (1851-1918).

Shor, Elizabeth Noble, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Norman, OK, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, (1971). 1st edition. VG in VG DJ ex-library. Williston achieved world-wide fame in two scientific fields as wiedly apart as vertegrate paleontology and assistant to Yale's. noted paleontologist O. C. Marsh, known for his reconstructions of ...

It Takes a Village and other lessons children teach us.

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1996). 5th printing. VG in VG DJ. Clinton's long experience has strengthened her conviction that how children devlop and what they need to succeed are linked. with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and indi...

Lee the last years.

Flood, Charles Bracelen, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1981). VG lg sz PB. Lee "on the day but one" when Lee returned to his rented house in Richmond, Matthew Brady asked Lee to pose for him. He told. Brady it was utterly impossible" with the eyes of the world upon me as they are today. But after a frien...

My Life and Times in Medicine.

Thompson, Dr. Philip, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$50.00 (€45.37 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

np, np, nd. Fine. Burgundy binding, gilt lettering.

Gerard Manley Hopkins: priest and poet.

Pick, John, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Oxford University, (1966). 2nd ed. G ex-library PB. First study to be based on a real understanding of the unity of poet, priest, and Jesuit in Hopkins & detailed exposition of. his poetry. Wear to back cover, jottings.

The Court Years 1939-1975.

Douglas, William O., · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

MU, Ramdom House, (1980). VG in VG DJ. Douglas served on the U.S. Supreme Court for over 36 years, the longest term of any Justice. His tenure was marked by an. unyielding and brilliantly executed determination to "keep the government off the backs of the people". DJ edge wear...

Something Beautiful for God: Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

Muggeridge, Malcolm, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

England, Image, (1977). G PB. Previous owner name front endpaper, few pages creased at edge.

The Wrong Man: a true story.

F. Kennedy award, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Avon, (1996). G PB. John Purvis was considered the local "freak", a 42 year old mental patient and when the body of a beautiful young woman. raped and murdered and her baby left to die, they were certain Purvis was responsible. He was coerced into confessing to a murder he...

John Lothrop Motley: a memoir.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, · 1879 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Boston, Houghton Osgood, 1879. VG ex-library. American diplomat and historian who was appointed to the U.S. legation in St. Petersburg in 1841 and later served as Minister. to Austria and then Great Britain. He published his most famous work "The Rise of the Dutch Republic" in...

When the Cheering Stopped: the last years of Woodrow Wilson.

Smith, Gene, introduction by Allan Nevins, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Morrow, (1964). BCE. VG in VG DJ. A courageous and telling book about the last years of President Wilson after a paralytic stroke, the "War President".

Jane Austen: a life.

Tomalin, Claire, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Penguin, (2000). Revised. VG PB. As nearly a perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive. A remarkably clever,. sensitive, but unsentimental.and a woman with the devil of a genius in her. Carmen Callil, Daily Telegraph. Owner name bac...