Biografia

Thursday's Child.

Poole, Victoria, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Boston, Little Brown, (1980). First edition. VG in G DJ. True story of how a large and close-knit New England family responded to an extraordinary crisis. How Poole's 14 family. members supported her 17-year old son during his desperate sickness and recovery and how he fought ...

The Story of Cheerio by Himself.

Cheerio (signed), · 1936 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Garden City Pub Co, (1936). 2nd sub ed. Fair. Signed by Cheerio on flyleaf. One of an exclusive authographed edition for the radio friends of Cheerio. Tanning and damp stain. Cheerio was born in Vermont and moved to live in California. Authored by Charles Kellogg Field. Ed...

Citizen Perot: his life & times.

Posner, Gerald, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Random, (1996). 1st edition. VG in G DJ. Ross Perot remains an enigma in spit4e of all that has been written about him. Has he been a businessman who risked his. life to rescue two kidnapped workers from revolutionary Iran or a callous executive who ran roughshed over his ...

Mabel Bell: Alexander's silent partner.

Toward, Lilias M., introduction by Hugh MacLennan, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Methuen, (1984). VG in VG DJ. Deaf since five from scarlet, Mabel was extraordinarily resourceful and energetic person and an extre,e;u actove. Commnity organizer and helped fund the local public library and solely responsible for the management of Benn Breagh, the Bell fa...

Travels with Myself and Another (Hemingway).

Gellhorn, Martha: foreword by Bill Buford, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Tarcher, (1975). 4th ptg. G PB. One of America's most important war correspondents and 3rd wife of Ernest Hemingway. She covered conflicts from the Spanish. Civil War to WWII to Vietnam. Few jottings on front endpapers.

Louisa May Alcott: a personal biography.

Cheever, Susan, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2010). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Alcott never intended to write Little Women. But out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding. success that changed her life. Cheever returned to Concord, Mass., to explore the life of one of its most ic...

Aubrey Beardsley: a biography.

Sturgis, Matthew, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, (1999). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Though only 26 when he died, Beardsley's short life came to be one of the defining figures of the fin de siecle, a precocious. line artist who redefined the limits of black-and-white art. His erotic decadent illustra...

Sills of Bowdoin: the life of Kenneth Charles Morton Sills, 1879-1954.

Brown, Herbert Ross, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Columbia Univ Press, 1964. VG in G DJ. A former Latin instructor famed for his fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching),"Casey" Sills. mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy ex-scholar, famed for his love of Dante, or eating (so goes the legend) 11...

Life, Letters, and Journals.

Alcott, Louisa May, edited by Ednah D. Cheney, · 1911 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Boston, Little Brown, 1911 (1889). G ex-library. Alcott is universally recognized as the greatest and most popular storyteller for children in her generation. She has. known the way to the hearts of young people, not only in her own class, or even country, but in every conditi...

Stepping Westward.

Richards, Laura E., · 1931 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Appleton, 1931. G ex-library. "Have I any story to tell? I ought to have one; cradled, as it were, in poetry, romance, philanthropy; daughter of a great and. true of all mankind, a leader and teacher of the blind, the deaf, and all who are in "sorrow, need, sickness, or an...

Wyeth People: a portrait of Andrew Wyeth as he is seen b his friends and neighbors.

Logsdon, Gene, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Doubleday, 1971. 2nd ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Logsdon takes a journey among the land and people that Wyeth has known recording his encounters with the scenes, men and. women Wyeth has apinted. With informal conversations with farmers, handymen, and artists, Logsdon ganed...

This Trifling Distinction: reminiscences from Down East.

Gould, John, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little Brown, (1978). 1st ed. G in G DJ ex-library. A uuproaring account of what it has been, and is, to be a Maine author. Photo of author on back cover of DJ, library markings.

Twenty Days with Julian & Little Bunny by Papa.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, introduction by Paul Auster, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, New York Review Books, (2004). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. The story of how Nathaniel Hawthorne got along with his son after his wife and daughters left to visit relatives near Boston.

Where Spaniels Spring.

Roebuck, Kenneth C., foreword by John Heminway, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

np, Amwell Press, 1993. VG in VG slipcase. Brown binding, gilt decoration and lettering on binding, slipcase had a paste down pictorial color photo of Roebuck with. his two Cardenwood spaniels. Hunting with dogs.

The Trafalgar Captains: their lives and memorials.

White, Colin and the 1805 Club, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Annapolis, MD, Naval Institute Press, (2005). VG PB. Brief biographies of of the 38 officers with descriptions and photos of their graves and monuments with transcripts of their. epigraphs and clear directions to enable readers to find and visit them.

The Peabody Sisters: three women who ignited American romanticism.

Marshall, Megan, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Houghlin Mifflin, (2005). VG in VG DJ ex-library. Supported by the Gugghenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Elizabeth, Mary, and Sophia were. in many ways our American Brontes. Three remarkable women who had a central role in shaping the thinki...

Last Full Measure: Lincoln the President.

Randall, J. C. and Richard S. Currest, · 1955 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

NY, Dodd Mead, 1955. 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. On finishing this book, it will seem to the reader that the whole life of Lincoln is distilled and summed up in his. magnificent last years. Here is a man at the height of his powers - working, thinking, living, with the deep maturity...

Sun Chief: the autobiography of a Hopi Indian.

Simmons, Leo W., edited by, foreword by Robert V. Hine, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, (1966). 6th ptg. Fair PB. Don C. Talayesva of Oroibi, Arizona, the Sun Chief was reared until he was ten as a Hopi Indian, and then trained until 20. to be an Arizona citizen. Although torn between two worlds he returned to Hopiland, renounced Chri...

My Life in Three Acts.

Hayes, Hayes with Katherine Hayes, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Touchstone, (1990). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Her book deftly captures the actress's unassuming and straight forward approach to life with amusing stories about all.

The Politician: an insider's account of John Edward's pursuit of the presidency and the scandal that brought him down.

Young, Andrew, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, St. Martins, 2010. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Underside of American politics - raw ambition, manipulation, and deception. Riveting account of a presidential hopeful's. meteoric rise and scandalous fall. A truly disturbing, even shocking, perspective of risks taken and tactics e...