Biografia

Good Night, Sweet Prince.

Fowler, Gene, · 1947 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, Pocket Book, (1947). G PB. "To Read Good Night, Sweet Prince is to know the rare and magic many that was John Barrymore." Saturday Review of Literature. First two pages creased at bottom corner, edge wear.

The Private Diaries of Stendhal.

Sage. Robert, translated and edited by, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Norton, (1962). G PB. Stendhal was born Msrie-Henri Boyle in Grenoble in 1783. He spent much of his life in Italy and in 1802 he returned to. Paris to study and eventually secured a place in the Commissariat where he served as an officer in Napoleon's armies in Italy where...

The Living Jefferson.

Adams, James Truslow, · 1936 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

NY, Scribner, 1936. 1st ed. G. Red binding, gilt lettering, owner inscription on front endpaper. Damp spots to spine edges, darkening to cover edges. Tanning to front endpaper. Jefferson's life and politics and its reflection on contemporary politics.

My Time Is Your Time: the story of Rudy Vallee.

Valley, Rudy, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Ivan Obolensky, (1962). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Do you remember the Maine-Stein Song, did you ever own a racoon coat, or ride in a rumble seat, or date Betty Co-ed,. or listen to a tenor saxophone tell you that my time is your time? Born in a small town in Vermont, ...

Louisa May Alcott.

Stern, Madeleine B., · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Norman, Univ of Oklahoma Press, (1971). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Pictorial pink drawing on cover shows Alcott at her desk writing. Alcott encompassed in her own family all the. relationships of life and who was therefore able to touch the pulse of humanity in her writings. This succe...

Salinger.

Shields, David and Shane Salerno, · 2013 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2013). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. The boy who became a rebel, then a soldier, and an icon. The icon who disappeared. Raised in Park Avenue privilege,. Salinger sought out combat, surviving the bloody battles of WWII, and out of the crucible he created a novel,...

To Be Young Was Very Heaven.

Peabody, Marian Lawrence, · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1967). VG in VG DJ. Childhood in Cambridge and Boston of New England's glorious Indian summer, coming in the 90s, memories of the great of. many worlds and countries, growing up with the world on a silver platter, and helping others as well as hersel...

Soldier's Heart.

Samet, Elizabeth D., · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Farrar Straus, (2007). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Samet attended graduate school where nothing prepared her for teaching literature those training to fight a war. This book. chronicles the tensions in this life and the various ways war has transformed her relationship to litera...

My Booky Wook: a memoir of sex, drugs and stand-up.

Brand, Russell, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, itbooks, (2010). 10th ptg. VG PB. Brand exudes a Jagger-esque rock star charisma. NY Times "I laughed out loud at least a dozen times.To my shame, I'll. admit I sort of like My Booky Wook." A comedian, journalist, TV and radio host, and actor. He has won numerous awards in...

An Arrow through the Heart.

drawing), · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Free Press, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One woman's story of life, love and surviving a near fatal heart attack. Signed by author on back endpaper. Previous. owner sticker on back endpaper. It happened without warning. She was thin and fit, ate all her vegetables, never ...

I Never Played the Game.

Cosell, Howard with Peter Bonventre, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Morrow, (1985). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Cosell describes his 33 years in broadcasting, the great and not-so-great sports figures he has known and changes he has seen. his involvement and disillusionment with the world of spectator sports.

Her Serene Highness Princess Grace of Monaco.

Hall, Trevor, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Barcelona, Spain, Greenwich House, (1982). VG in VG DJ. Nothing remotely artificial, or merely diplomatic about the tide of sorrow and condolence that flooded her tiny principality. on her death in 1982. Owner inscription front endpaper.

Myself When Young: the shaping of a writer.

duMaurier, Daphne, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Doubleday, (1977). BCE. VG in G DJ. Daphne recreates her first 22 years, her London childhood among the brilliant duMauriers, her adolescent years in Paris, and. her discovery of life and love on the rugged Cornwall coast where she is to meet and marry Freddy Browning.

Private Peat.

Peat, Harold R., ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1917). G. Life in the trenches and behind the lines, how things looked to him over there, what he saw and what he did. Binding tan,. white lettering & decoration. Owner's inscription fep.

American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Rubin, Nancy, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Villard, (1995). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Her father was C. W. Post, the breakfast-food magnate. Her four husbands included the broker E. E. Hutton and Joseph Davies. U.S. Ambassasdor to Stalin's Soviet Union. Her circle of friends ran the gamut from Florenz Ziegfeld a...

The Ernie Kovacs Phile.

Walley, David G., · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Fireside/Simon & Schuster, (1987). 1st PB ed. VG PB. "Every idea I ever had is based on the fact that it's 2:30 and there's a production meeting at 3:00." A legend in TV history. 25 years after his untimely death at 42 Kovacs' influence continues to be seen in the work of ...

Royal Chldhood.

Reynolds, Anna and Lucy Peter, · 2014 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Royal Collection Trust, (2014). VG in VG DJ. British royalty and the childhoods of Queen Eliabeth and Princess Margaret.

Laura Bridgman: the story of an opened door.

author of "The Normal Mind"., · 1928 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Appleton, 1928. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. The story of Laura Bridgman illustrated an educational event of the first importance showing that two master senses may be cut. off with little or any apparent decrease of intelligence by the special education of defectives stimulated by...

Something More to Say: a personal recording.

Inchfawn, Fay, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

London, Lutterworth Press, (1966). 2nd imp. VG in G DJ. Who would want to miss Inchfawn's story of her Pretty Auntie who contested possession of a parasol with a polar bear?. DJ tanning on edges, slight fading on spine.

After Egypt: Isadora Duncan & Mary Cassatt: a dual biography.

Dillon, Millicent, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

NY, Dutton, (1990). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Together but apart these two women are the subjects of this remarkable exploration, not only of their lives but of their art. News release from Dutton Publishing about comparative lives of Duncan and Cassatt after their separate experi...