Biografia

He Heard America Sing: the story of Stephen Foster.

Purdy, Claire Lee, · 1940 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Eau Claire, WI, Hale, (1940). G ex-library. The story of the life of Stephen Foster, pictures by Cooke, and some partial musical scores. Front cover drawing of Foster on. gray binding with red and blue lettering. Library markings on beginning pages.

Beethoven Remembered.

Christopher Hogwood, introduction by Eva Badura-Skoda, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Arlington, VA, Great Ocean Pubs, (1987). VG in G DJ. Reminiscences of Wegler and Ries are an invaluable source of documentary material since its first publication in 1818. This new translation makes the complete text available to the English-speaking reader for the first time,...

Sherlock Bones: tracer of missing pets.

Keane, John, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1979). 1st edition. VG in VG DJ. Account of his private paw work writes with humor and compassions about some of his most intriguing animals and people. he has encountered. Stories funny, far-out, touching, suspenseful, sometimes sad, but always guar...

The Authentic Life of William McKinley, our third martyr President, together with a life sketch of Theodore Roosevelt.

McClure, · 1901 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Washington, Scull, (1901). VG. Photo of McKinley laid in on front cover with flag surronding him, gilt lettering, Frontis of McKinley at his presidential. desk, also memorial tributes by statesmen, ministers, orators and rulers of all countries. Profusely illustated with repro...

Recollections of an Old Fashioned New Englander.

Dallinger, Frederick W., · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, Round Table Press, 1941. VG in G DJ. Judge Dallinger's story of his fight for clean politics in his native city, county, and state of Massachusetts. Dark blue. binding, gilt lettering. Front endpaper and DJ tanned. His attack on the ringleaders of his own Republican party,...

Ann-Margret.

Ann-Margret with Todd Gold, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Berkley Books, (1995). VG PB. "A beautiful and compelling superstar tells thirty years of secrets in a revealing new memoir." Larry King. Crease at top outer corner.

The Past Masters: politics and politicians 1906-1939.

Macmillan, Harold, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

London, Macmillan, (1976). 3rd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Macmillan's recollections and assessments of the giants of the generation before his own. He describes his father's political. friends and the "honourable ambition" which led him to go into public life. He gives highly personal ...

Aldous Huxley: a biography (volumes 1 1894-1939 & 2 1939-1961).

Bedford, Sybille, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

London, Chatto & Windux, (1973). VG in VG DJ. One of the outstanding English men of letters of his time, an inquiring mind and acute intelligence, he peered beyond the. the present frontiers of our self-knofledge that led him beyond. DJs slight edge wear.

Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire.

Wallace, James & Jim Erickson, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, John Wiley & Sons INc., (1992). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. At age 36 Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft, became the most powerful and feared player in the computer industry and the. richest man in the U.S. DJ price clipped.

Prince of the Renaissance: the golden life of Francois I.

Seward, Desmond, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Macmillan, (1973). 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Most creative and radiant in French history where Gothic France and Renaissance Italy come together under Francois' rule. DJ edge wear, edges of binding sl faded.

Noble Red Man: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Matthew King.

Arden, Harvey, editor, co-author and compiler, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Hillsboro, OR, Beyond Words Pub., (1994). VG in VG DJ. The late Matthew King was an eloquent spokesman for the Lakota Nation & gives readers the opportunity to share in the richness. of Lakota history, tradition, and beliefs. He was a respected elder of the Lakota (Sioux) Nati...

The Life and Death of Lenin.

Payne, Robert, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1964). 2nd ptg BC ed. VG in G DJ. Vladimir Ulyanov (1970-1924) leader of Marxist Revolutionary. Author Payne was a noted historian and biographer and. camouflage and armament officer in the British Army. Two page map of Petrograd on front endpapers and o...

The Magic Lantern.

Bergman, Ingmar: his autobiography, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Penguin, (1099). VG PB. Passages about his childhood, impressions about his adult life, his five marriages, affairs, and his artistic triumphs. and his failures, self-portrait of a flawed but brilliant andunusually complex creative mind. Woody Allen says in The New York Ti...

Allie Cole: a Maine pioneer.

Cole, Galen, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Portland, ME, Casco Ptg Co, 1980. VG. Letter 12/14/1981 Galen Cole to Personnel Manager about labor scales. Bright orange pictorial cover, green & white lettering.

The Irrational Season: Crosswick's Journal Book 3.

L'Engle, Madeleine, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Cambridge, Harper & Row, (1977). 1st ptg. G PB ex-library. Exploration of L'Engle's life as a professional woman, wife, mother and grandmother. She maintains a farmhouse of charming. confusion called "Crosswicks". Ex-library, first blank page removed.

The Long Goodbye (biography of Ronald Reagan, her father).

Davis, Patti, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Knopf, 2004. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. His daughter's long good-bye to her father as he suffered from Alzheimer's disease which is stealing his memory. DJ has price intact.

The Lengthening Shadow: the life of Thomas J. Watson founder of IBM.

Belden, Thomas Graham & Marva Robins Belden, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Boston, Little Brown, (1962). VG in VG DJ. IBM is one of the most distinctive companies in America but how did it get that way? Review in the Wall Street Journal 1962. Date of July 1962 on front endpaper. DJ slight edge wear.

Ivan the Terrible: the trial of John Demjanjuk.

Teocholz, Tom, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London, Futura, (1990). VG PB. "Terror permeates every page.in the Bible it is said that man was made in the image of God, men like Demjanjuk make a mockery. of this statement." Simon Wiesenthal Law professor at Harvard Alan Dershowitz says ".this is a book for those who remem...

Mary Queen of Scots.

Linklater, Eric, · 1934 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Hamburg, Albatross, (1934). VG PB. Violet-colored binding, spine tanned, edge wear.

Cosbyology: essays and observations from the Doctor of Comedy.

Cosby, Bill with original illustrations by George Booth, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Hyperion, (2001). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB. Collection of stand-up material touching on everything from childhood and marriage to school, sports, and work. "My mother and father ate oink. They loved it. Fatback. Salt pork. Now my cholesterol id 741." Owner inscription on fron...