Biografia

Salinger: the official book of the acclaimed documentary film.

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

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2013). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Why did this writer, celebrated by the world, stop publishing? This investigation into Salinger's epic life transports you. from the bloody beaches of Normandy where Salinger landed under fire carrying the first six chapters o...

Swift (Jonathan).

Acworth, Bernard, · 1947 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st ptg. (1947). G. Wrote Gulliver's Travels, a keen satire on cant & sham in courts, parties, statesmen, the only work for which he received. payment. Green binding, gilt lettering, wear to spine edge.

Audubon.

Rourke, Constance, · 1936 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1936). 4th ptg. VG. Twelve colored plates from original Audubon prints plus black and white illustrations by James MacDonald. Royal blue binding, silver lettering. Some edge wear, damp stain to inner top of beginning pages.

Coffee and Conversation with Ruth Bell Graham.

Graham, Ruth Bell with her daughter Gigi Graham Techividjian, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Carmel, NY, Guideposts, (1997). VG in VG DJ. When Ruth Bell Graham writes about life she knows her topic well. A child of missionary parents, wife of evangelist Billy. Graham, mother of five, and world traveler she has lived life to the fullest but talks about the heartbreak o...

Pretty in Plaid.

Lancaster, Jen, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, New American Library, (2010). 1st thus. G PB. A life, a witch, and a wardrobe in the wonder years before the condescencing, egomaniacal self-centered smart-ass phase. Think Lancaster was always like David Sedaris with pearls and a supercute handbag? No she was a badge-hund...

The Uncommon Wisdom of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: a portrait in her own words.

Adler, Bill, edited by, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Secaucus, NJ, Citadel, (1996). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. When Kennedy won the presidency and Jackie began to panic about her official duties, she told a friend: "I'll get pregnant and. stay pregnant. It's the only way out.".

High on Arrival.

Phillips, Mackenzie, · 2009 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Simon Spotlight, (2009). VG in VG DJ. Born into rock and roll royalty, flying in Learjets to the Virgini Islands at five, making pot brownies with her father's. friends at 11, Mackenzie grew up in an all-access kingdom of hippie freedom and heroin cool. A part in American ...

The Education of a Woman: the life of Gloria Steinem.

Heilbrun, Carolyn G., · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Dial, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The life of one of the most controversial women of our time who wrote her own script for her life, Gloria Steinem.

Charles Kingsley: his letters and memories of his life.

Kingsley, Charles, edited by his wife, · 1921 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

London, Macmillan, 1921. G one volume edition. Brown binding, gilt lettering, black decorative lines. 1819- 1875 English clergyman and novelist, born in Devonshire,. Educated King's College, London and Cambridge, identified with Christian Socialism, and in his early novels sho...

William Lawrence: later years of a happy life.

Sherrill, Henry Knox (signed by author), · 1943 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Cambridge, Harvard Univ Press, 1943. VG in G DJ. Written by a grateful and devoted friend, a successor and intimate friend completes the story of Lawrence's life to the. eve of his retirement 15 years after "Memories of a Happy Life". Bishop did more than endure old age, he ma...

The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: the correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson.

Grierson, Alice Kirk, edited and introduction by Shirley Anne Leckie, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Lincoln, Univ of Nebraska Press, (1989). VG PB. Grierson spent most of her life at army outposts on the 19th century western frontier where she faced problems of raising. a large family while fulfilling the duties of a commanding officer's wife. She left a large and extraordin...

Mary Mapes Dodge of St. Nicholas.

Howard, Alice B., · 1943 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Julian Messner, (1943). VG. Dodge was the author of Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates. Frontis is a drawing of Dodge writing at her desk. Laid in and taped obituaries from 1937 of W. F. Clarke who once edited St. Nicholas and gave many famous authors heir first lift in pri...

Blood, Bones & Butter: the inadvertent education of a reluctant chef.

Hamilton, Gabrielle, · 2011 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Random, (2011). 5th ptg. VG in VG DJ. "Magnificent. Simply the best memoir by a chef ever. Ever. " Anthony Bourdain. Before Hamilton opened her acclaimed NY. restaurant Prune, she spent 25 hard-living years trying to find purpose and meaning in her life. An unconventional ...

Larry: thoughts of youth.

Foster, Larry Larrimore, · 1931 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Association Press, (1931). 2nd ed. G. A young boy is tragically killed and remembered for his frank espousal of his ideals. Maroon binding (rubbed), gilt lettering. A few days before he was to return home he posed for the frontis then took a ride to watch a beautiful sunse...

Being Little in Cambridge when everone else was big.

Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell, · 1936 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Appleton-Century, 1936. G ex-library. Flowered orange/green/yellow cloth binding, green title square, spine faded, tanned toward edges, library markings.

Joan of Arc: the life story of the Maid of Orleans.

Professor of European History, Univ of Pennsylvania, · 1930 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Philadelphia, Winston, (1930). VG. Red binding, paste down pictorial cover showing Joan on a white horse outfitted for battle. Illustrated endpapers, 21 illus. Details of background and all statements of historical fact in this book are authentic. The words in this book are th...

Muhammad Ali in Perspective.

Hauser, Thomas with the cooperation of Muhammad Ali, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

San Francisco, CA, Collins/Opus, (1996). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. In Atlanta Ali held the Olympic torch. Just for a moment all the hate and petty prejudices were removed from their heart. Binding rubbed, remainder mark.

Shared Histories: transatlantic letters between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and her daughter, Virginia Potter 1929-1966.

Potter, Angela, edited by, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Athens, Univ of Georgia Press, (2006). VG PB. First known published collection of letters to include correspondence between civilian family members on both sides of. the Atlantic during WWII. Both women were born in Richmond, Virginia, and raised in privileged conditions. This...

Bernard Shaw: collected letters 1898-1910 (volume 2).

Laurence, Dan H., edited by, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1972). VG in G DJ. The richester and most complex part of Shaw's life beginning with 1898 when he retired from journalism, the successful. publication of his earliest plays, and his marriage to the green-eyed Irish milliionairess Charlotte Payne-Townshend, his ...

Conscience of a Northern Man: the story of Amos Tuck: a lesson in New Hampshire history.

Wallace, R. Stuart, Amos Tuck Society, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Exeter, NH, Amos Tuck Society, (1998). VG lg sz PB and VHS tape. To advance awareness of Amos Tuck and his significant role in the abolition of slavery, the founding of the Republican Party. and the election of Abraham Lincoln to the American Presidency. Large cassette contain...