Biografia

Disturbing the Peace.

Havel, Vaclav, a conversation with Karel Hvizdala, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Vintage/Random, (1990). 3rd ptg. VG PB. 13 years after being a quizzical absurdist playwright, Vaclav Havel became his country's president and its conscience.

The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the genius of American life.

Siegel, Fred, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

San Francisco, Encounter, (2005). VG in VG DJ. Author shows how Mayor Giuliani restored law and order in New York by cutting taxes and radically reducing welfare rolls.

The History of Betsey Green, a Sunday scholar plus The Evening Walk or The Rainbow by the author of "The Sisters" etc..

Sunday School Union, · 1835 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$125.00 (€113.42 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Philadelphia, American Sunday-School Union, (1835). G hardback. In one of her lectures Betsey receives a lecture on the difference between a butterfly and a honey bee and learns a. lesson after getting a new frock. Edge wear.

Notes on Ingersoll (The American Atheist).

Lambert, Rev. L. A., · 1833 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

London, W. Nicholson, nd. Softcover. Owner name in pencil on title page. Includes obituary clipping of Ingersoll's birth 1833 died 1899. Ingersoll was a Democrat. until the attack on Fort Sumter and a Republican ever after. In 1860 he was nominated for Congress but was defeate...

Born Standing Up: a comic's life.

Martin, Steve, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Scribnr, (2007). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. In the mid-u0s Steve Martin exploded onto the comedy scene. By 1978 he was the biggest concert draw in the history of stand-up. This book is in his own words the story of "why I did standup and why I walked away>" At ten he started hi...

All the Queen's Men: Elizabeth I and her courtiers.

Williams, Noelle, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Macmillan, (1972). 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Elizabeth I's court was both the sovereign's household and the hub of national government. DJ ede wear.

Abraham Lincoln: an illustrated biography.

Eliot, Alexander, · 1955 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, NY, Gallery Books, (1955). 1st ptg. VG. Beautiful cream-colored book with light yellow endpapers, chapters include: The Backwoods Boy; The Hardscrabbler; The Man. in the Stovepipe Hat; the Outsider; The Compassionate Warrior.

They Must Have Seen Me Coming.

Brindley, Louise, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, St. Martins, (1979). BCE. VG in G DJ. ".a warm and exciting book about ordinary people - te kind who exist in every town - old folk who are so easily ignored. and whose problems are submerged in the rush of life.touching and vastly entertaining." James Herriot Brindley alw...

Letters of E. B. White.

White, E. B., compiled and edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Harper Colophon, (1976). 2nd ptg. G PB. His letters the equivalent of a weekend in the country according to Wilfrid Sheed, The New York Times. The reader is. in the presence of a keenlyinterested observer, a friend of men, women, children, dogs, geese, turkeys, sailing craft, ...

Loving Frank (Lloyd Wright).

Horan, Nancy, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Ballantine, (2008). 6th ptg. VG PB. In her diary Hannah Cheney struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

No Ordinary Time: Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt: the home front in World War II.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Touchstone, (1995). 9th ptg. G PB. Compelling chronicle of a nation and its leaders during the period when modern America was created. Edge wear.

Clover Adams: a gilded and heartbreaking life.

Dyksstra, Natalie (signed by author), · 2012 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Houghton Mifflin, (2012). G in G DJ. Henry Adams' autobiography did not mention his wife Clover but here she takes center stage. Includes clipping from NY Times. Book Review about this book,dated March 4th 2012, "The Missing Pages". Almost invisible to Henry after her marr...

The Civil Wars of Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910): a biography.

Showalter, Elaine, · 2016 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Simon and Schuster, (2016). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A beautiful studious New York heiress and aspiring poet when she married Bostonian Dr. Samuel Gridley, a hero of the Greek. war of independence against the Turks and an internationally acclaimed pioneer in the educat...

Journey.

Massie, Robert & Suzanne, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Knopf, (1975). Book Club. VG in G DJ. The Massies' story of their son's battle with hemophilia (a chronic blood disease that could be fatal) and how they take. responsibility, How they worked through their initial shock and took responsibility for their own fates, their fi...

Lincoln's Yarns and Stories: a complete collection of the funny and witty anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln farmous.

McClure, Alexander K., Colonel, edited by with introduction and anecdotes, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, Winston, nd. Fair. America's greatest story teller. Paste-down of Lincoln on front cover. Owner bookplate, pencil name front endpaper, book worn.

The Man Who Killed Lincoln: the story of John Wilkes Booth and his part in the assasination.

Stern, Philip Van Doren, · 1939 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Literary Guild of America, 1939. G. Map on endpapers shows escape route of Booth in his flight from Ford's Theater, Washington, to Garrett's Farm near Port Road,. Virginia, to his death on April 26, 1865. Lit of conspirators, Washington people, in Ford's Theater, Maryland ...

I Know Where I'm Going: Katherine Hepburn, a personal biography.

Chandler, Charlotte, introduction by director George Cukor, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2010). 1st printing. VG in VG DJ. Most intimate & personal biography ever published of Hollywood legend Katherine Hepburn. An actress supremely talented,. professional and confident, who always knew where she was going. Photos of Hepburn on front and bac...

Libertarians on the Prairie: Laura Indalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane, and the Making of the Little House books.

Woodside, Christine (inscribed by author), · 2016 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Arcade Pub, (2016). First edition. VG in VG DJ.

The Life of Andrew Jackson: complete in one volume.

James, Marquis, · 1938 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1938). First complete. VG. Tennessee 1788-1804 front endpaper. Cinnamon red binding, black title block on spine with gilt lettering, spine some fading. Map of United States of the Jackson era on back endpapers.

The House at Sugar Beach: in search of a lost African childhood.

Cooper, Helene, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Simon & SchusterNY, (2008). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Poignant memoir of a Liberian childhood cut brutally short by a bloody coup where her family escapes and survives but 23 years. later she returns to her native country to find her foster sister her family left behind.