Biografia

Watch Me: a memoir.

Huston, Anjelica, · 2014 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Scribner, (2014). 1st ptg. VG i VG DJ. Academy Award winning actress and her loves. Remainder mark.

Brick by Brick: a woman's journey (signed by author).

Donohue, Lynn with Pamela Hunt,edited by Marsha L. McCabe, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New Bedford, MA, Spinner Pubs, (2000). VG in VG DJ. "I did not set out to become a bricklayer. I did not set out to become anything at all." A memoir of a woman in her 20s. who comes of age in the 1970s, drops out of school at 15. Eventually she takes a masonry course and emba...

Natalie Wood: a life.

Lambert, Gavin, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Knopf, 2004. VG in VG DJ. She spent her life in the movies. Her childhood is still there to see in Miracle on 34th Street, her adolescence in Rebel. Without a Cause, her Coming of age in Splendor in the Grass and West Side Story. Her debut in 1940 in Tomorrow Is Forever wi...

I Am Malala: the girl who stood up for education and was shot by the Taliban.

Yousafzai, Malala with Christina Lamb, · 2013 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Little Brown, (2013). 25th ptg. VG in VG DJ.

Loving and Leaving the Good Life.

Nearing, Helen, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

White River Jct, VT, Chelsea Green, (1992). 4th ptg. VG PB. Helen and Scott Nearing lived together for 53 years until Scott's death at age 100. This is a memoir of their life. together and an inspiring testimonial to the ideals they stood for: self-sufficiency, simplicity, soc...

She Said Yes: the unlikely martyrdom of Cassie Bernall.

Bernall, Misty, foreword by Madeleine l'Engle, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

N. Farmington, PA, Plough Pub House, (1999). 3rd ptg. G in G DJ. Peer pressue leads to adolescent turmoil, a mother's loss, and redemption from a life cut short. Pages slightly rumpled.

She Said Yes: the unlikely martyrdom of Cassie Bernall.

Bernall, Misty, foreword by Madeleine l'Engle, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

N. Farmington, PA, Plough Pub House, (1999). 3rd ptg. G in G DJ. Peer pressue leads to adolescent turmoil, a mother's loss, and redemption from a life cut short.

The Good Times.

Baker, Russell, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Morrow, (1989). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Funny, moving, exciting, reflective, history haunted, from pressboy to college paper to police reporter, and White House. correspondent. DJ price clipped.

Rocky Mountain Warden.

Calkins, Frank, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, (1970). 1st ed. G. Author Calkins joined the Utah warden service and after five years became an editor of Utah Fish and Game newsletter, later a. freelance writer. Sticker on front endpaper, edge wear.

Gertrude and Alice.

Souhami, Diana, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

San Francisco, CA, Pandora, (1992). 2nd ptg. G ex-library. Toklas and Stein first met on Sunday Sept 8 1907 and were together until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946.

More Boston Post Canes: the Pine Tree State And Litle Rhody.

Staples, Barbara, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Lynn, MA, Flemming Press, 2002. VG PB ex-library. A biography of the Boston Post publisher Edwin Atkins Grozier & details of some of his other turn-of-the-century schemes. A chapter on each of Maine's 16 counties and each town's Post cane and profiles many of first recipients ...

Forty Years Too Late.

Huff, Avis M., · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Portland, ME, House of Falmouth, (1958). G. In Sept of 1949 Avis and her husband in their 6th decade decide to move to a Maine farm miles from town. This is the story of. their struggle with many obstacles. Signed by author. Library bookplate,.

Neither Hay Nor Grass.

Gould, John, · 1951 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Morrow, 1951. G ex-library. Gould's dry unstrained humor is a pleasure - the dry, Yankee kind that makes you laugh in retrospect. Library markings.

Carl Sandburg.

Golden, Harry, · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Cleveland, World, (1961). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Sandburg has been with history, more than most poets, and a part of the vast upheavals in American social and literary. life during the last 50 years and has provided his biographer with with much personal material from these exci...

A Woman of Egypt.

Sadat, Jehan, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1987). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Beautiful, courageous, brilliant, controversial, living in a world wholly dominated by men, Jehan Sadat defied the traditions. of her country and culture. More than a witness to the tumultuous years which saw Egypt gain its f...

Sylvia Plath: a dramatic portrait; The Haunting of Sylvia Plath.

Kyle, Barry and Jacqueline Rose, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY/Cambridge, MA, Perennial,Harvard Univ Press, (1977) & (1991). 2 VG PBs. Kyle's book is conceived and adapted from Plath's writings is a dramatized setting, a selection of her poems and prose writings. as presented in a biographical context that gives an insight into her lif...

And One to Grow On: recollections of a Maine boyhood.

Gould, John, · 1949 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Morrow, (1949). G. Author Gould lives with his wife and son on the Lisbon Ridge farm cleared by Great Grandfather Jacob Gould 200 years ago. Owner name front endpaper, DJ flaps glued to front endpapers (with photo of Gould and his son), binding tanned at edges.

The Good Rat: a true story.

Breslin, Jimmy, · 2009 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Perennial, (2009). 1st ptg PB. VG PB. Breslin was born in Jamaica, Queens, Oct 17, 1930, and began his newspaper career as a copy boy at the Long Island Press in. 1948. He became a columnist for the New York Herald Tribune in 1963, moving on to the New York Post in 1968. H...

George Sand.

Harlan, Elizabeth (signed by author), · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

New Haven, Yale Univ Press, (2004). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. George Sand was the most famous and most scandalous woman in 19th century France. She produced more than 90 novels and. thousands of pages of autobiography and inspired writers as diverse as Flaubert and Proust but she ...

Private Parts.

Stern, Howard, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Pocket Star, (1994). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. Private Parts is sure to offend, a pure embodiment of irreverent adolescent id. Slight edge wear.