Biografia

The Glass Castle: a memoir.

Walls, Jeannette, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Scribner, (2005). 22nd ptg. VG PB. When sober, Jeannette's father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace. life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated domestici...

The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War.

Morris, Roy, Jr., · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 2000. VG PB. The Civil War saved Walt Whitman personally even as it also saved the Union itself, delivering it from the sin of slavery,. rescuing it from the danger of secession, and preserving it from political destruction. Whitman came like a Santa Cla...

Lost in America: a journey with my father.

Nuland, Sherwin B., · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Knopf, 2003. G in G DJ ex-library. He walks with me through every day of my life in that unsteady, faltering gait that so embarrassed me when I was a boy. Sherwin's father came to American from Russia at the turn of the 20th century when he was 19 to pursue the immigrant's...

To My Son: faith at our house; Let Freedom Ring!; Trials and Triumph; Grandparents Can.

Rogers, Dale Evans (and Roy Rogers), · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Tappan NJ, Revell Co., 1957,75,77,83. 4 VG hardbacks all but Trials in G DJs. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans talk about their family, their faith, and their country. Four books. DJs edge wear.

The Sound of Wings the life of Amelia Earhart.

Lovell, Mary S., · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, St. Martin's Grifin, (1989). 1st ptg. VG ex-library. Daring and determination were her hallmarks and they brought her fame as the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Lost while on a flight in 1937 this is the story of her and her promoter, public relations ag...

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). VG in VG DJ. Peer pressue leads to adolescent turmoil, a mother's loss, and redemption from a life cut short.

Remembering Randall: a memoir of poet, critic, and teacher Randall Jarrell.

Jarrell, Mary von Schrader, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, HarperCollins, (1999). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Written by his widow, Mary offers a distinctive portrait of Jarrell as onlyl she could have known him. She writes about. the wellspring and character of his poetry. Maurice Sendak writes that "working with Randall was the...

After Visiting Friends: a son's story.

Hainey, Michael, · 2013 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Scribner, (2013). 1st ptg. VG PB advanced uncorrected proofs. Card from Wendy Sheanin, Director of Marketing Adult Pub Group of Simon & Schuster, with a signed note by Sheanin. The author had just turned six when there was a knock on his family's back door with tragic news...

Paul and Joanne: a biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

Morella, Joe and Edward Z. Epstein, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Delacorte, (1988). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of Hollywood's superstars married to an enduringly talented actresses in both film and TV, married over 30 years.

Woman of Letters.

Sarton, May, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Durham, NH, New Hampshire Public TV, (1995). VG video 30 minutes. Although she did not start out to be a writer, May Sarton wrote more than 50 books of poetry, fiction and journals. In her last. interviews, she talks about her richly variied life and her pilgrimate inward whil...

Eudora Welty: a biography.

Marrs, Suzanne, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Orlando, Harvest, (2003). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Welty created some of the finest short fiction ever written. First published in the 1940s, her stories introduced a genuinely. original voice, and by the time of her death in 2001 she had received nearly every literary award possible.

Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman (vol. I & II) written by himself with appendix bringing his life down to its closing scenes.

James G. Blaine, · 1891 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Webster, 1891. 4th ed. VG ex-library. Also a personal tribute and critique of the memoirs by Hon. James Blaine. Both volumes complete in one book revised and. corrected by Sherman himself. Bottom corners bumped, owner's name, library markings.

Popular Life Gen. George A. Custer, Major-Gen. of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army & Lt Col 7th Cavalry.

Whittaker, Frederick, Brevet Captain Sixth New York Veteran Cavalry, · 1876 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$125.00 (€113.42 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

NY, Sheldon & Co, (1876). G ex-library. "Few men had more enemies than Custer, and no man deserved them less." from the author's Preliminary Remarks. Maroon binding with gilt and decorative bands. Library markings, edge wear. An overall lovely copy of this glowing biography of...

As I See It.

Miller, Louise Klein, · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Portland, ME, Falmouth Pub House, 1941. VG ex-library. Miller at 86 is keenly intellligenct, with a royal sense of humor, the product of her philosophy of life. An inspiring. personality, she has brought joy and freedom into the lives of many and has woven into the tapestry of...

A Diary from Dixie.

Chesnut, Mary, edited by Isabella D. Martin and Myrta Lockett Avary, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Portland House, (1997). Facimile 1905. VG lg sz PB. Civil War's most celebrated journal, written 1860-1865, by the wife of James Chesnut Jr., an aide to President Jefferson Davis. and a brigadier-general in the Confederate Army. Vivid pictures of the social life that went ...

Behind the Ballots: the personal history of a politician.

Farley, James A., · 1938 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1938). VG. Farley was the New Deal's Postmaster General under FDR. Francis B. Sayre's copy.

Stranger and Traveler: the story of Dorothea Dix, American reformer.

Wilson, Dorothy Clarke, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little Brown, (1975). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. One of America's foremost achievers, she single-handedly paved the way for far-reaching reform in the treatment of the insane.

Just Maine Folks.

Baxter, Kate Douglas Wiggin, Laura E. Richards, · 1924 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Lewiston, ME, Journal Printshop, (1924). 2nd ptg. Fair. Illustrated cover with light house. Hole punched through beginning pages, tape on back endpaper, owner sticker, front. hinge cracked, spine ends worn. "A vision of beauty, with the faint peach bloom on her cheek, a being ...

Only One Icebox to Fill.

Perry, Katy, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Augusta, ME, Steele Pub, (1990). VG PB. A native of Millinocket, Maine, Perry taught school, raised four sons, did radio work, wrote a weekly column for the Maine. Sunday Telegram, worked for state governement, and spent two years in Belize, Central America, in the Peace Corps...

Ninety Years of Living.

Fitch, Edwin Peabody 1840-1931, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Bridgton, ME, Brighton Historical Society, (1997). VG PB. Fitch grew up at the Peabody-Fitch Farm, now known as Narramissic, is a historic site owned and operated by the. Brighton, Maine, Historical Society. He writes of his Civil War days and life on the farm.