Biografia

Fallen Founder: the life of Aaron Burr.

Isenberg, Nancy, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Viking, (2007). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Author Isenberg went back to the archives and found real Aaron Burr who turns out to be far more interesting than a rakish. traitor his opponents and their biographers painted.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

Ralston, Aron, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

NY, Atria, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of the most extraordinary survival story ever told, Ralston's searing account of his 6 days trapped in one of the. most remote spots in America. It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands when a 27 yr old mountai...

Heroes and Greathearts and their animal friends.

Dale, John T., · 1911 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Boston, D. C. Heath & Co, (1911). G. Maroon binding, lettering and decoration on front cover, Xmas gift on 1913 front endpaper, few pages slightly warped. Daniel Webster's brother Zeke once brought home a woodchuck intending to kill it. When Daniel saw the animals bright black...

Speak, Memory.

Nabokov, Vladimir, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Vintage, (1989). G PB. First published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then revised in 1966 is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and. times. One of the 20th century's master prose stylists, Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. In 1940 he moved to th...

Strange Glory: a life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Marsh, Charles, · 2015 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Vintage, (2015). 1st ptg. VG PB. German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one the most widely read and inspiring Christian. thinkers of our time. He searched for the goodness in his religion against the backdrop of a steadily darkening Europe. He ...

The Souls of Black Folk.

Elbert, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Penguin, (1996). VG PB. Born in Great Barrington, MA, in 1868, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois attended public schools there prior to attending Fisk. University where he received his BA in 1888 and attended the University of Berlin as well. A sociologist, historian, poet ...

Magda Goebbels.

Klabunde, Anja, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

London, Timewarner, (2003). VG PB. The extraordinary story of the unofficial First Lady of the Third Reich. The most contradictory and intriquing of the. women who lived alongside the top-ranking Nazis, bautiful, intelligent, she went from being deeply in love with Zionist lea...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by herself, now with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs by her brother.

Jacobs, Harriet A., edited with a introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin, · 1861 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1861, 2002). Enlarged ed. VG lg sz PB. Yellin who discovered the long lost document, supplies annotation and authentication, has brought her introduction. up to date. Jacobs details in great and painful detail the sexual exploitation that da...

Bogart: a life in Hollywood.

Meyers, Jeffrey, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1997). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Complete, discerning, authoritative life of Humphrey Bogart.

A Companion for Owls, being the commonplace book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, etc..

Manning, Maurice, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harcourt, (2004). VG in VG DJ ex-library. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life led in the war and the wilderness and see the birthing of a new nation.

Sheridan: the life and wars of General Phil Sheridan.

Morris, Roy, Jr., · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Crown, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Sheridan was a short, quick-tempered, blunt man who made few efforts to charm but generally got his way through sheer dogged. will and determination. Like Ulysses Grant he rocket out of obscurity in the darkest days of the Civil ...

My Life in Three Acts.

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

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NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1990). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ ex-library. At 90 Helen Hayes looks back at her life and her career. Some delightful anecdotes of Ethel Barrymore, John Ford, Al Capone. Library markings.

Bringing Elizabeth Home: a journey of faith and hope.

Smart, Ed & Lois with Laura Morton, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Doubleday, (2003). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and imprisonment June 5, 2002, are set against the joy her family has in bringing her home.

The Diary of Petr Ginz 1941-1942.

Pressburger, Chava, edited by, introduction by Jonathan Safran Foer, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, (2007). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Not since Anne Frank's Diary of a Young Girl has there been such an intimately candid deeply affecting account of a childhood. Ginz dutifully kept a diary that captured the increasingly precaious texture of daily...

Mastermind: the many faces of the 9/11 architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.

Miniter, Richard, · 2011 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Sentinel, (2011). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Heartpounding read aboaut KSM and his terrorists plots & politics surrounding them. Bibliographic references and index. Khalid delights in manipulaating the media, the courts, even President Obama himself. He twice tried to kill Pres...

Goering: the rise and fall of the notorious Nazi leader.

Manvell, Roger and Heinrich Fraenkel, · 2011 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

London, NY, Frontline/Skyhorse Pub, 2011. 5th ptg. VG PB. Life and death of one of the most decorated Nazi leaders: monster who called for the torture and extermination of millions.

Hitler's Last Days: the death of the Naxi regime and the world's most notorious dictator.

O'Reilly, Bill, · 2015 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Holt, (2015). 1st edition. VG in VG DJ. Nazi Radio announced Hitler Dead 1889-1945 fell in command post, Adm. Doenitz named head of Reich, Army.

Franklin and Winston: an intimate portrait of an epic friendship.

Meacham, Jon, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Random, (2004). 8th ptg. VG PB. As two of history's most towering leaders, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill shared a close friendship, instrumental. in defeating tyranny and piloting the free world to victory in WWII. Few creases to bottom corner edges.

Highest Duty: my search for what really matters.

Sullenberger, Capt. Chesley "Sully" with Jeffrey Zaslow, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, 2010. 1st PB ptg. VG PB. The hero on the Hudson, Sully Sullenberger landed U.S. Airways flight 1549 safely with all 155 passengers aboard now searches. for what really matters in life.

General James Longstreet: the confederacy's most controversial soldier.

Wert, Jeffry D., · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1993). VG lg sz PB. Gen. Longstreet fought in nearly everycampaign of the Civil War from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam,. Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet he was largely hel...