Biografia

Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, Bvt. Brigadier General U.S. Vols..

Burrage, Henry S., Bvt. Major U.S. Vols., State Historian, · 1923 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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np, Maine, 1923. G. Commander-in-Chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S. Bookplate of Fryeburg Woman's Club Library.

A Memorial to Benjamin F. Butler from the City of Boston.

Greenhalge, Frederick T. (Eulogy by), · 1893 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, City Council, 1893. Discound (no covers). Major general in the Army during the Civil War and leader of the Republican Party whose record of beastliness, fraud. double-dealing, dishonestry, corruption, and betrayal of trust" is reocrded by Marcus Mills Pomeroy in his bi...

First Step 2 Foreever: my story.

Bieber, Justin, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harper, 2010. 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. "It's a big, big world It's easy to get lost in it." Bieber's story by himself and the fame he must now deal with. Back of DJ has a photo of Bieber. Top of DJ tear at top of spine.

Yankee Storekeeper.

Gould, R. E., · 1948 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Bantam, (1948). Revised. G PB. Full of Yankee wisdom & wry humor, a foxy old storekeeper sits back & tells of his 4 decades runing a general store in Somerset. County, Maine. Gould got his first taste of trading on his father's farm, where his days were spent trapping, soa...

The Parables of Peter Partout.

Gould, John, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Little Brown, (1964). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Delightful collection of author Gould's peppery Down East humor of three dozen letters to the editor of the Lisbon Falls, Maine,. Enterprise by the story-spinner Peter Partout of Peppermint Corner. Reaers will find out as much ...

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

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

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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.

Allie Cole: a Maine pioneer.

Cole, Galen, Bangor, Maine, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Portland, ME, Casco Printing Co, 1980. VG PB. Allie Cole was born in Lowell, Maine, December 27, 1893. His parents were Sidney and Roxie Spencer Cole. Sidney was a. teamster and hauled bark from nearby Greenfield, Cardville area, as well as Passadumkeag Mountain to the tannery...

Instant Legends from the Rock Pile.

Vincent, Lee, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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np, Self-published, (1973). G signed. highest peak from the transmitter supervisor.

Ten Years on the Rock Pile.

Vincent, Lee, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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np, Self-published, (1973). G signed. What goes on at the top of Mt. Washington, East's highest peak from the transmitter supervisor. Some soil & spots to cover.

Joyce Kilmer: Memoir and Poems: two volumes in one.

Holliday, Robert Cortes, edited with a memoir, · 1949 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday, 1949. VG. Poems from France, at home, early poems, letters, memoir. Owner name front endpaper.

Miss Peggy Lee: an autobiography.

Lee, Peggy, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Fine, (1989). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Written in her own words, winner of a Grammy, Oscar, and Emmy, Peggy Lee writes about her tumultuous life. One page corner. repaired.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl.

Quinn, John, edited by, foreword by Seamus Heaney, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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London, Methuen, (1987). 1st. VG in VG DJ. Early lives of Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Polly Devlin Jennifer Johnston, Molly Kean, Mary Lavin, Joan Lingard,. Dervla Murphy & Edna O'Brien, and their early photos. Edge wear, owner inscription.

Profiles of Maine.

Franklin, Lynn, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Waldoboro, ME, Maine Antique Digest, (1976). 1st ed. Fair lg sz PB. Free lance photographer Franklin from Gorham listened to Maine's working people and then wrote about them. Smudges on. few pages, edge wear and damp stain some pages.

Private Peat.

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

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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. Binding sl discolored, smudges on some pages, edge wear.

Dickens: a biography.

Kaplan, Fred, with new preface by the author, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Univ Press, (1988). 2nd ptg. VG ex-library. From a bitter childhood mired in poverty and hard work to a career as the most acclaimed and best-loved writer in the. English-speaking world, a life as tumultuous as any he created in his teeming novels of l...

Still Life with Chickens: starting over in a house by the sea.

Goldhammer, Catherine, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Hudson Street Press, (2006). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A lovely unconventional memoir the author wakes at midlife to find herself to move from an affluent New England suburb of her. daughter's childhood into a new more rustic life by the sea. Against all logic she begins the t...

Blessings in Disguise.

Guinness, Alec, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Warner Books, (1987). 1st PB ptg. VG lg sz PB. Star-struck and theater-struck Guinness fell in love with acting and hid behind dozens of masks and now steps out of the. shadows and crosses the footlights.

The Wall in My Backyard: East German women in transition.

Dodds, Dinah and Pam Allen-Thompson, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Amherst, MA, Univ of Massachusetts, (1994). VG PB. Candid interviews with 18 East German women about life before and after unification are a fascinating oral history of everyday. life in the former GDR. A crucial forum for East German women to define their own problems in thei...

Happy Journeys to Yesterday.

Hastings, George Hastings, · 1933 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Putnam, 1933. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Hastings deftly, sincerely recreates the setting and pleasures of simpler days in the Adirondack foothills of NY state. Laid in newspaper obituary from March 31, 1956. Hastings was formerly an assistant to President Hoover whom he wrote an...

Benjamin Franklin: a biography.

Clark, Ronald W., · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Edison, NJ, Castle Books, (2004). VG in VG DJ. Fully documented account of the "first American" gives a detailed and lively picture of the writer who invented the. lightning conductor; the politician who spent years as emissary in London trying to prevent the American War of I...