Biografia

Alone Across the Arctic: one woman's epic journey by dog team (signed).

Flowers, Pam with Ann Dixon, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Anchorage, Alaska Northwest Books, (2006). VG PB. Signed by Flowers. A year long adventures with Pam Flowers and her 8 sled dogs across N. America's arctic coast, the first. woman to make that trip solo.

My Book and Heart.

Harris, Corra, · 1924 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1924. VG. "I must always have known more, not of life but of the human heart, than is polite or lawful to know.". My father was a planter. We lived on a cotton plantation in Elbert County, that consisted of two thousand acres.I do not know if my mothe...

Never the Last Journey.

Zandman, Felix with David Chanoff, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Schocken, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. As a teenager Zandman spent a year and a half in Nazi-occupied Poland which gave him the drive, discipline and generosity of. spirit that made his later success possible. Taught by his grandmother that the only measure of wealth is w...

True Myths: the life and times of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Andrews, Nigel, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Edinburgh, Bloomsbury, (2003). New revised ed. VG PB. Arnold's rise from a strict household in Austria to the world of bodybuilding, movie aspirataions, to a carefully crafted. metamorphosis to political powerhouse. The myth-making power of Arnold's own ambitions, twists and t...

I Bit the Silver Spoon (signed).

Duncklee, John, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Las Cruces, NM, Yucca Tree Press, (2006). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by the author on the title page. A narrative of Duncklee's life in the southwest as a cowboy, rancher, wrangler,. environmentalist, reprobate and on of the original voices of Southwestern literature DJ sl...

Parting from Phantoms: selected writings 1990-1994.

Wolf, Christa, translated and annotated by Jan Van Heurck, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, (1997). 1st ptg. VG PB. A window into the soul of the prominent writer of the former German Democratic Republic and its most famous export. These essays, diary entries, and letters document four agonizing years in her personal history and ...

Oscar Wilde: a biography.

Hyde, H. Montgomery, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1975). VG. One of London's most popular playwrights who was imprisoned and had an early death. Green binding, black title box gilt letters.

A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains.

by Nancy G. Gambrill, · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Univ of Oklahoma Press, Western Frontier Library, (1960). Reprint 24th. VG PB as new. During the autumn and early winter of 1873 Bird, a middle-aged English lady traveling alone by horseback was a real phenomenon. in the Rocky Mountain area of Colorado on her way home to Engla...

Harvest Son: planting roots in American Soil.

Masumoto, David Mas, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Norton, (1998). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Planting roots and gleaning harvests of home, the life of a farm and history of a family.

A Measure of My Days: journal of a country doctor.

Loxterkamp, David, M.D., · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Hanover, Univ Press of New England, (1997). 1st ptg. G in VG DJ ex-library. "Unstinting and insightful, a year in the life of a rural. family practitioner in Belfast, Maine." Breadth of focus oin a community rather than a single inhabitant. Library markings.

The True Story of Ah Q.

Hsun, Lu, translated by Yang Hsienp-yi and Gladys Yang, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, Cheng & Tsui Co, 1990. VG PB. Written in 1921 set in China of 1911 during the old democratic revolution. Ah Q, a farm laborer, suffers a lifetime of. humiliation and persecution, dreams of revolution, and winds up on the execution ground. Colorfully reflects the rural cond...

Private Peat.

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

$20.50 (€18.60 | £15.52 | ¥3,274)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merill, (1917). VG. Title on spine and front cover sl faded. Corners sl bumped.

Thomas Jefferson in His Own Words.

Harrison, Maureen & Steve Gilbert, editors, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Barnes & Noble, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Jefferson's democratic writings are still a source of inspiration for people striving for political freedom. A selection from a lifetime of diverse public and private writings to provide clear insight into the essential Jefferson.

Encounters.

Mahoney, Irene, O.S.U., · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Bloomington, IN, Author House, (2010). VG PB. What is the connection between contemplation and the life of the writer? A constant search for meaning, how to be more deeply. and how to express this mystery in words.the cycle of humanity's tales, the saga of human experience, th...

The Girls with the Grandmother Faces: a celebration of life's potential for those over 55.

Weaver, Frances, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Los Angeles, Price Stern sloan, (1987). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Inscribed by author. What can a widow in her 60s do about loneliness and boredom? Weaver's ideas a constant challenge. to us and to herself to live up to what she claims we can be.

Washington Irving: a tribute.

Myers, Andrew, edited by, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Tarrytown, NY, Sleepy Hollow Restorations, 1972. G PB ex-library. Brady's daguerrotype by Matthew Brady, manuscript page of Rip Van Winkle, his home Sunnyside, Americanism in Irving's writings. Library markings.

Knute Rockne: man builder.

horsemen", · 1931 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1931). G. Owner's name label, corners bumped, boards, edge wear, binding sl soiled, few smudges.

Honest Abe: a study in integrity: based on the early life of Abraham Lincoln.

Rothschild, Alonzo, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1917. G ex-library. Blue binding with inset of log cabin. Library markings, bottom of binding reinforced with tape.

Albanian Escape: the true story of U.S. Army Nurses behind enemy lines.

Neidel, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Lexington, KY, Univ Press of Kentucky, (1999). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Nurses and medics sent to help transport wounded soldiers to hospitals further from the front lines in 1943 did not arrive. A violent storm and German Messerschmitts led to a crash landing in a remote part of...

Reading the Mountains of Home.

Elder, John, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1998). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Over the course of a year, Elder takes us on his hikes through the forested uplands between South Mountain and North Mountain,. reflecting on the forces of nature, from the descent of the glaciers to the rush of ...