Biografia

Heartbreak and Roses: real life stories of troubled love.

Bode, Janet and Stan Mack, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Danbury, CT, Watts, (2000). 1st ptg. VG PB. Teenagers look at romance and how it affects their life.

Please Don't Feed the Children!.

Jenni, Barbara Love, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Bridgton, ME, Appenzeller Press, (1995). VG PB. Amusing tales of an old hotel in Maine and they guests who thought they owned it.

The Fool Errant being the memoirs of Francis-Antony Strelley, Esq., citizen of Lucca.

Hewlett, Maurice, edited by, · 1905 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Macmillan, 1905. 1st ed. VG. Dark green binding, gilt lettering & decoration. Nice bookplate with U.S. Navy insignia. Edge wear. Seven pages of ads at back of other books by Maurice Hewlett.

Walking with Garbo.

Daum, Raymond, edited and annotated by Vance Muse, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

San Francisco, HarperCollins, (1991). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Astonishing luminous beauty, transcendent self-possession, and ineffable grace have left audiences rapt and more than a little. awestruck in her personal life, her fiercely guarded privacy, her evasion of unrel...

Moses: Egyptian prince, nomad sheikh, lawgiver.

Flight, John W., · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Boston, Beacon Press, (1958). 7th ptg. VG in G DJ ex-church library. Authentic information but not dry and academic. DJ edge wear, church stamp endpapers.

It's Well to Remember: a memoir of Mother Xavier Fitzgerald.

McKiernan, Justin (Mother), · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

New Rochelle, NY, College of New Rochelle, nd. VG in VG DJ. Photo frontis of Mother Xavier, laid in prayer card from St. Angela and folder from Saint Paul's Retreat House & Cursillo. Center in Augusta, Maine, from 1965. Some DJ tanning and edge wear.

Gertrude and Alice.

Souhami, Diana, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

San Francisco, Pandora/HarperCollins, (1991). 1st PB ptg. VG lg sz PB. Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, an exemplary biography, scrupulous respect and affection for her subjects.

Over the Top by an American soldier who went together with Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches.

Empey, Arthur Guy, machine gunner serving in France, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Putnam, 1917. 23rd imp. G. Red binding, gilt lettering. Owner inscription fep, binding edges sl darkened, edge wear, tear in tissue guard for frontis.

T. Thorndyke Attorney-at-Law: the romance of a young lawyer.

Goss, Herbert I., · 1907 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

Boston, MA, C. M. Clark Pub Co, 1907. VG. Red binding with gilt deocration of Old Man of the Mountain on ft cover w/gilt lettering and bands, top edge gilt, owner name. Photos of many lawyers and their young romances. Corners bumped, tanning on one page from bookmark.

Hector Berlioz: selections from his letters and aesthetic, humorous, & satirical writings, preceded by biographical sketch.

Apthorp, William F., translated by (Hector Berlioz), · 1879 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

NY, Holt, 1879. G. Royal blue binding with gilt decoration on ft cover and gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Edge wear, owner inscription.

Ernie: Hemingway's sister "Sunny" remembers.

Miller, Madelaine Hemingway, preface by Robert Traver, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Crown, (1971). VG in G DJ. Ernest Hemingway's sister writes candidly about her brother. DJ edge wear and fading toward spine, corners bumped.

Sketches from the Ranch: a Montana memoir.

Aadland, Dan, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Howell Book House, (1998). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. In 1892 a Danish immigrant cowboy named Magnus Jensen rode into south-central Montana up a valley recently vacated by the Crow. Indians and staked his future on the ranch he would carve there. The Aadland live on that ranch ...

Teaching for the Summit.

Sawyer, Margaret Merry, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Gardiner, ME, Steele Pub Co, (1992). VG in Fair DJ. Inscribed by author. Given the number 1 in Bridgton, Maine's, marthon, Sawyer has climbed Mt. Washington. DJ torn on front. Laid in newspaper clipping from Sun-Journal "Waterford Woman Completes Book".

Cowboys Don't Walk: a tale of two.

Charter, Anne Goddard, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Billings, MT, Western Organization, (1999). VG PB. Privileged city girl meets rough-edged cowboy, Boyd and Anne struggle with the land, animals, weather, wildfires, politicians. and each other for a uniquely American chronicle ".shows us that individuals willing to work hard, ...

Solzhenitsyn: a pictorial autobiography.

Solzhenitsyn, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Noonday Press, (1974). 1st ptg. G lg sz PB. Solzhenitsyn's own writing that explains his life and what he has dealt with. Rumpling and curling toward edges.

Private Peat.

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

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

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.

When the Game Was Simple...and the Song Was Sweet: a newspaperman's story remembered.

Hilliard, Bob, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Portsmouth, NH, Peter E. Randall Pub, 2002. VG lg sz PB. Letter from author laid in and inscribed by author on ft endpaper. One of NH's legendary newspapermen, Hilliard's. career spanned 50 years as he interviewed and wrote about some of the best known athletes and sports pers...

A Brook of Our Own: a few notes from the files of a mountain real estate office.

Harkness, Marjory, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Peterborough, NH, Noone House, (1965). Revised2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Harkness hung a real estate shingle because of her friends who coveted a brook of their own with a view of an old elm-shaded. farmhouse. A delightful book about the New England way where author sounds as if she...

Reminiscences of a Yankee Jurist: an autobiography.

Morris, George F., · 1953 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Littleton, NH, Courier Printing, 1953. VG. Maroon binding, gilt lettering and outlining on spine.

Strictly Personal.

Maugham, Somerset, · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1941. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Maugham's description of the crumbling of the French spirit during WWII and his prophecy of post-war England. DJ edge tears. Black binding, gilt decoration and lettering on spine.