Biografia

How to Be Lovely: the Audrey Hepburn way of life.

Hellstern, Melissa, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Dutton, (2004). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The author spent 6 years researching the life and words of Audrey Hepburn, "Life is life tearing through a museum. Not. until later do you really start absorbing what you saw.because you can't take it in all at once." AH.

Diana Unseen Archives.

Gauntlett, Alison, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Barnes & Noble, (2004). VG lg sz PB. Diana in all her splendor with all the mishaps along the way.

Diana the Portrait.

McCorquodale, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Pub, (2004). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Mandela writes that when he heard about Diana's death he was "devastated". "However privileged and famous she was, she had. time for the most humble people - and made them feel special." Nelson Mandela. Very large s...

Memoir of Rev. Philip Wieting: a pastor forty years in the same field.

Dox, Rev. H. L., · 1870 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,068)

Philadelphia, Lutheran Pub Society, 1870. 1st ed. G. Wieting was born in Minden, Montgomery County, NY, 9/23/1800. His father was a native of Brandenburg, Germany, and was. pressed into British service under Burgoyne and fought for England against the colonies. After the death...

It Ain't All about the Cookin'.

Deen, Paula with Sherry Suib Cohen, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2007). 1st ptg. VG PB. Before all the bad stuff happened, Deen at her peak. Remainder mark.

Mark Twain and His World.

Kaplan, Justin, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1974). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Mark Twain is more imposing than the sum of his work. In addition to writing he tried his hand at piloting riverboats. on the Mississippi, printing, gold mining, journalism, lecturing, publishing and high finance. His 75 years...

My Life: rememberances and recollections of growing up as me.

Sanborn, Kermit Avery, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

np, Privately printed, (2005). G PB. Life in Denmark, Maine. Damp stain to top.

The Murder of Helen Jewett: the life and death of a prostitute in 19th century New York.

Cohen, Patricia Cline, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Knopf, 1998. VG in VG DJ ex-library. In 1836 the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in NYC & around the country inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism. in news reporting that haunts us today. Behind the headlines to reconstruct the story of the mysterious vic...

Edgar Rice Burroughs: the man who created Tarzan.

Porges, Irwin, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Provo, UT, Brigham Young Univ Press, (1975). G in G DJ ex-library. Porges was an author, historian, musician and world traveler. Burroughs was convinced the real Burroughs had not been touched. because of the warehouse in Tarzana, California, packed with ERB memorabilia. Libra...

Frank Lloyd Wright: an interpretative biography and My Father, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Twombly, Robert C. and John Lloyd Wright, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Harper & Dover, (1974 & 1992). 1st ptg & 2nd. 1 VG PB and 1 G PB. Two paperback biographies abaout Wright. The Twombly has edge wear, underlining and tanning to endpapers. Wright designed some. 800 buildings and left an indelible imprint on modern architectural theory and ...

Loving Frank.

Horan, Nancy, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Ballantine, (2007). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. The clandestine love affair between Mamah Borthwick Cheney and Frank Lloyd Wright while he was designing a home for her and her. husband. In time each married with children embarked on a course that would shock Chicago society and f...

Deer in the Headlights: my life in Sarah Palin's crosshairs.

Johnston, Levi, · 2011 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2011). VG in VG DJ. Behind the scenes look at the Palin household while she was running for vice president with John McCain.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan.

Morier, James, foreword by Christopher Morley, · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Random, 1937. G. Pictorial binding, beautifully illustrated. Endpapers missing, spine tanned.

Trader Horn being the life & works of Alfred Aloysius Horn:n the works written by himself at 73.

Galsworthy, · 1927 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Simon & Schuster, 1927. 12th ptg. VG. Attractive green book with red lines and animals, gilt lettering. Edge wear.

Essential Einstein.

Bisbort, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

San Francisco, Progressive Artbooks, (1995). 1st ed. VG lg sz PB. Biography and clips from his words on a variety of subjects.

My Father's House: a memoir of incest and of healing.

Fraser, Sylvia, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Ticknor & Fields, (1987). BCE. VG in G DJ. Fraser led the perfect 1950s life and married the perfect boy unaware that she did so only by creating a second self who. endured what her father did to her. In the front ranks of Canadian authors, Fraser wrote Pandora, The Candy ...

Writing Places: the life journey of a writer and teacher.

Zinsser, William, · 2009 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper Collins, (2009). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. His first job at the New York Herald Tribune in the post-war years, 11 years of freelance writing for magazines mainly for. Life during the 1960s, a decade as master at Branford College for Yale University, and his nonfi...

If You Can't Be Free, Be a Mystery: in search of Billie Holiday.

Griffin, Farah Jasmine, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, The Free Press, (2001). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ signed by author. One of most famous jazz vocalists of all time but her image is not just of an insatiable appetite.Owner sticker front endpaper. Griffin liberates Lady Day from the tragic songtress myth and investigates her wor...

Robert Frost: the years of triumph, 1915-1938.

Thompson, Lawrance, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1970). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. The story of Robert Frost during the phase of his life when he was rising from Nowhere up to Somewhere. DJ edge wear, owner. name.

Private Peat.

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

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.82 | ¥4,391)

New York, Grosset and Dunlap, (1917). VG in Fair DJ. Light green cloth cover with printed title in light brown, slight wear to edges and corners but clean tight copy. DJ is ta. tattered and pieces missing from front and spine. Owner's gift inscription fep in pencil.