Biografia

Mary Engelbreit: the art and the artist.

Regan, Patrick with Mary Engelbreit, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Kansas City, Andrews and McMeel, (1996). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. From the greeting cards, books and home accessories so popular at her local drugstore, Mary's signature greeting cards are. popular but not everyone realizes Mary is a real person and is much like her work: whimsica...

Jane Austen in Winchester.

Bussby, Frederick, Canon Residentiary. Winchester, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

The Close, Winchester, Friends Winchester Cathedral, 1979. 3rd ed. VG PB. In this house Jane Austen lived her last days and died July 1817 reads the oval plaque in grey slate with white lettering. She stayed at Mrs. David's in College Street in the house now belonging to Winch...

Escape from Siberian Exile.

Jacques, John Godfrey, in collaboration with Adelaide D. Wellman, · 1921 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Mountain View, CA, Pacific Press Pub Assn, (1921). G. The hero of this story is a young Russian evangelist of a Protestant sect. At the outbreak of the war, priests of the. Greek church, under cover of insuring greater security to the state, took occasion to wreak vengeance on...

J. K. Rowling: the wizard behind Harry Potter (an unauthorized biography).

Shapiro, Marc, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, St. Martin's Griffin, (2000). 3rd ptg. G PB ex-library. Heartwarming story behind Rowling's rise to fame and the answer to Harry Potter's fans' most burning questions. One of her regular stops was the Nicolson Cafe where she would write away at a corner table. She was quit...

The Beautiful Life and Illustrious Reign of Queen Victoria: a memorial volume.

Rusk, Rev. John, Ph.D., · 1901 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Boston, MA, James H. Earle, (1901). VG. Paste down pictorial cover, purple binding, gilt lettering & decoration. An accurate and authentic account of the late Queen. of Gret Britain and Ireland and Empress of India, relating the incidents and events of her public and private l...

Georgia O'Keeffe: a life.

Robinson, Roxana, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Harper Row, (1989). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. O'Keeffe's life began on a midwestern farm in the 1890s. As a young painter she lived in NYC at the center of the avant-garde. Later she divided her time between the countryside at Lake George, NY, and her explorations of th...

A Passionate Intensity: the life and work of Dorothy Healy.

Baxter Society, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Portland, ME, Baxter Society, 1992. Ltd 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Honoring Dorothy Healey on her death in 1992. Owner name front endpaper.

Nothing Daunted: the unexpected education of two society girls in the west.

Wickenden, Dorothy, · 2011 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Scribner, (2011). 1st ptg. VG PB advance uncorrected proof. Dorothy and Rosamond grew up together in Auburn, NY, graduated from Smith in 1908 & spent 9 months on a grand tour of Europe. But in the summer of 1916, bored with society luncheons, charity events, and still not ...

Vanished Years.

Everett, Rupert, · 2012 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London, Little Brown, (2012). VG PB. Mischievous, touching and brilliant with stories from childhood to the present. Astonishing encounters, tragedy, and comedy. Vivid portraits of friends and rivals, razor-sharp observations of the celebrity circus from LA to London and beyon...

Lenin.

Stalin, J. V., · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Peking, Foreign Languages Press, (1977). 1st ed. G PB. Lenin as the organizer and leader of the Russian Communist Party, on his death, Lenin - a speech delivered at a Memorial. Meeting of the Kremlin Military School, January 18, 1924; Working Women and Peasant Women; To Rasoch...

The White Gate: adventures in the imagination of a child.

Chase, Mary Ellen, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Norton, (1954). VG. The white gate around which Chase centers its chapters is the symbol to a child of all which life holds of excitement and. wonder. Within its gate are its certainties: an old house in Maine, a country family, a great, warm kitchen with red geraniums in ...

My Soul and I: the inner life of Walt Whitman.

Cavitch, David, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Beacon Press, (1985). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. First critically detailed, comprehensive interpretation of Walt Whitman's poetry to illuminate the deep origins of the poet's. creativity. Cavitch shows Whitman pouring himself into his own molds, continually retelli...

Planck: driven by vision, broken by war.

Brown, Brandon R., Professor of Physics, University of San Francisco, · 2015 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, (2015). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Credited with being the father of quantum theory with his work described by his close friend Albert Einstein as "the basis of. all twentieth-century physics." He was a German physicist working during the first half of the 20...

August Gale: a father and daughter's journey into the storm.

Walsh, Barbara, · 2013 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Guilford, CT, Globe Pequot, (2013). 1st ptg thus. VG PB. Vividly captures the fishermen who fought for their lives in an unforgiving sea. Walsh's quest to redeem and understand her. grandfather is a powerful story that will resonate with father, daughter and sons. A haunting j...

Millay in Greenwich Village.

Cheney, Anne, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

University, AL, Univ of Alabama Press, (1975). VG in G DJ. Edna St. Vincent Millay captured in verse the freedom, spontaneity, quick wit & beauty of the pre-1920s as no other. poet did. She was a living symbol of the "new woman" who could live, think, and love as freely as she...

Blackbird: a childhood lost and found.

Lauck, Jennifer, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Pocket, (2000). 4th ptg. VG in VG DJ. The author finds her unshakable will to survive after incredible pain and mistreatment in her childhood.

Thomas Nelson and the Revolution in Virginia.

Edward M. Riley, editor, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Williamsburg, VA, Virginia Independence Bicen, (1978). VG lg sz PB. Nelson statue photo on front cover, frontis of Nelson at the age of 16 in 1754.

An Arrow through the Heart (signed).

Heffernan, Deborah Daw, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Free Press, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Signed by author. One woman's story of life, love, and surviving a near-fatal heart attack. It happened without. waring. She was thin and fit, ate all her vegetables, never touched a cigarette. There was no family history of heart ...

Public Cowboy no. 1: the life and times of Gene Autry.

George-Warren, Holly, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 2007. 3rd ptg. VG in VG DJ. The only performer to earn 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for radio, recording, motion pictures, television, and live. performance, Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king of American entertainment. Here is the first ser...

The Clinton Tapes: conversations with a president, 1993-2001.

Branch, Taylor, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2010). 1st PB ed 1ptg. G PB. A groundbreaking book about the modern presidency, The Clinton Tapes invites readers into private dialogue with a gifted,. tormented, resilient President of the U.S. Here is what President Clinton thought and felt but could n...