Biografia

Buggy Seat...Bare Feet (signed by author).

Heiberger, Rose, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Gordonville, PA, Gordonville, PA Print Shop, 1993. 2nd ptg. VG. Photo on front cover shows children riding on the back of a buggy seat. Signed by author. Author's experience with Amish.

And Yet, I Still Loved France: memoir of a European childhood.

Silver, Renee Kann and Connie Colker Steiner, · 2012 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Rego Park, NY, Marble House, (2012). VG PB. Account of Silver's childhood in the Saarland, Alsace-Lorraine, and on the run in France before and during WWII. Beautiful color illustrated cover of letters and photos.

The Good Good Pig: the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood.

Montgomery, Sy, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Ballantine, (2006). VG in VG DJ. Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox, a creature who would prove to be more human than I am. From inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire where his boundless zest for life and large loving heart made him ab...

I'll Tell Them I Remember You.

Blatty, William Peter (signed by author), · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Norton, (1971). VG in G DJ. Blatty's remembrance of his mother Mary, about The Exorcist, and about life after death. Donated by Bill Sanborn for benefit. of the Denmark Congregational Church. DJ edge wear. Blatty's mother was an immigrant, destitute, who supported five chi...

Prairie Visions: The Life and Times of Solomon Butcher.

Conrad, Pam, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Scholastic, (1992). 1st ptg thus. VG lg sz PB. Solomon Butcher was a man of schemes and big ideas but most of all a man with a vision to record lives of Nebraskan pioneers. during the turn of the century to set their tales on paper and capture their images in photos.

My Private War: liberated body, captive mind: a WWII's POW's journey.

Bussel, Norman, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Pegasus, (2008). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. An introspective teen from Memphis finds himself bailing out of a burning B-17 bomber & touching down in a field outside Berlin. He was immediately seized by farmhands who were in the process of lynching him when a passing Germ...

Within My Horizon.

Bridgman, Helen Bartlett, · 1920 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Small Maynard, (1920). G. Bridgman writes about her old-fashioned chldhood where she began life as a boy since she cared nothing for dolls or clothes. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering, edge wear.

Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children.

Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, edited by, · 1919 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Scribner, 1919. 5th ptg. G. Most of the letters were written by Roosevelt to his children during a period of more than a dozen years when he was separated. from them by the Spanish War, a hunting trips, ore because they were at school. He sent these messages of constant th...

Charles Haddon Spurgeon: the people's preacher.

Anonymous, · 1834 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Kilmarnock, Scotland, John Ritchie Ltd, nd. VG. British Baptist preacher Spurgeon was born in Kelvedon, Essex, UK, in 1834. Yellow binding, black lettering and design. Few owner jottings.

The Roosevelt Book: selections from the writings of Theodore Roosevelt.

Roosevelt, Theodore, introduction by Robert Bridges, · 1914 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Scribner, 1914. New enlarged. VG. Rose-colored binding, black lettering and design on front cover and spine. Owner name front endpaper, edge wear.

Winslow Homer: a portrait.

Gould, Jean, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1962). VG PB. Perceptive study of a great American individualist, best known today for his paintings of the sea, a man who chose to walk. alone in his search for truth in artistic expression. The story from his boyhood days in a Boston lithograper's shop to his...

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.

The Education of a Schoolmaster: my years at St. Paul's School.

Ordonez, Jose A. G. (signed), · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Washington, D.C., Francis Press, (1998). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ signed copy. In 1952 a young Cuban Canadian arrived in Concord, NH, to begin teaching Spanish at St. Paul's, woefully deficient in the skill. of explaining the grammar of his native language unacquainted with the bas...

My Life in France (best selling memoir).

Child, Julia, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Anchor, (2006). 1st ptg. VG PB. Delightfully written it almost jumps off the page, Child's biography about her experiences in introducing French cooking. to Americans. Slight edge wear.

She's Not There: a life in two genders.

Boylan, Jennifer Finney with afterword by Richard Russo, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Broadway Books, (2003). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Story of a person changing genders, bearing and finally revealing a complex secret. Boylan explores the remarkable. territory that lies betwen men and women, examining changing friendships, and rejoices in the redeeming ...

Mandela an Illustrated Autobiography.

Mandela, Nelson, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Boston, Little Brown, (1996). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of the great moral and political leaders of our time, an international hero whose life-long dedication to the fight. against racial oppression in S. Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his co...

Maine & Me: 10 years of Down East adventures.

Peavey, Elizabeth, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Camden, Down East, (2004). 1st ptg. VG PB. "If you don't have the time to drive down all those narrow roads between Fort Kent and Kittery, let Peavey do it for you.".

Beyond Belief: my secret life inside scientology and my harrowing escape.

Hill, Jenna Miscavige with Lisa Pulitzer, · 2013 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Morrow, (2013). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Niece of the Church of Scientology's leader David Miscaviage Hill was raised to obey. She grew up at the center of the. highly controversial and power organization but at 21 she made a daring break taking everything she owned to leave ...

Cycles and Psyche: Henry David Thoreau.

Sperber, Michael, M.D., · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Higganum, CT, Higganum Hill, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB. A new chapter in the understanding of Thoreau. First psychiatric investigation of Thoreau's self-declared insanity.

Governor's Travels: how I left politics and learned to back up a bus, and found America.

King, Angus, former Governor of Maine (now U.S. Senator), · 2011 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

np, Down East, (2011). VG lg sz PB. "I always thought that public service was something you do for a while between stints at real life." After two terms as. governor, King along with his family packed into an RV and set out on a 5-1/2 month odyssey to circumnavigate the U.S. I...