Biografia

A Star Rose in the West (signed).

Sottek, James J., · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Toledo, OH, Toledo Foundation, (1977). 3rd ptg. G PB. Short account of the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales from 1943 to 1977. How a handful pioneers blazed a trail for a whole. Province of Oblates. Signed by author. Few spots on back cover.

The Worn Doorstep (signed).

Sherwood, Margaret, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Boston, Little Brown, 1917. VG. Strip with author's signature glued to ft endpaper. Brown colored binding, gilt lettering. Slight edge wear, few markings. by owner.

The Dark Invader: wartime reminiscences of a German naval intelligence officer.

E. W. Mason, · 1938 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$225.00 (€204.15 | £170.32 | ¥35,930)

London, Peter Davies, (1938). Reprint. G in Fair DJ (signed). Signed by von Rintelen 1940. At the outbreak of the war, von Rintelen was on the Naval War Staff in Berlin. In 1915 he went. to the U.S. on a secret mission to prevent by sabotage, by fomenting strikes, by using exp...

Eccentric Lives and Peculiar Notions.

Michell, John, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1984). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. Extraordinary characters with wholehearted enthusiams for various causes and outrageous notions. DJ price clipped.

I Kid You Not.

Paar, Jack, · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Pocket, (1960). G PB. TV host Paar said there must be a better way to earn a living and quit but six weeks later he returned & said he couldn't. think of any. Corner creases, owner name ft endpaper, edge wear.

The Place He Made.

Clark, Edie, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Villard, 1995. 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. Book slightly skewed. New England writer Clark's marriage was failing when Paul a local carpenter arrived at her door.

From the Back of the Bus.

Gregory, Dick, edited by Bob Orben, introduction by Hugh M. Hefner, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Avon, (1962). VG PB. Comedian, social satirist, pioneer tells the truth about segregation so that it brings smiles instead of hurt and. insight even to the insensitive. Tanning toward edges.

Passion.

Rand, Ayn, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

np, Showtime, nd. VG in G slipcase. Based on a biopgraphy of Rand about her bizarre love life. She convinces her husband and her protege's wife to allow her to. have a long term 15 year love affair with her protege. Plastic slipcase edge wear, library markings.

Never Learn to Type: woman at the United Nations.

Anstee, Margaret Joan, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

W. Sussex, England, Wiley, (2004). VG PB. As a young girl growing up in rural Essex in the 1930s and 40s, Anstee dreamed of traveling to faraway places and refused to. accept the confines imposed upon her class and sex. After college and a stint at the Foreign Office, she bega...

J. R. R. Tolkien: author of the century.

Shippey, Tom, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (2002). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. Explores The Lord of the Rings as a linguistic and cultural map and a response to the meaning of myth.

The Ladies of Castine from the minutes of the Castine, Maine, Woman's Club.

Bourne, Miriam Anne, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Arbor House, (1986). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Reproduces minutes of the Woman's Club meetings from the eve of WWI to the ever of WWII, plus letters, poetry, town reports and. newspaper articles, as well as colorful observations by old time Castiners. DJ edge wear, ow...

Samuel Johnson.

Krutch, Joseph Wood, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Holt, 1945. 1st ed 3rd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Krutch brings to robust life the Samuel Johnson who summed up much of the quality and flavor of the 18th century and who. "stode astride his time like a colossus". DJ edge wear.

Reminiscences: war in the South Pacific and duty in Japan.

Knight, Ernest Harmon, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

Portland, ME, Self-published, (2005). VG PB signed. Signed by author. Pictorial ft cover shows Japanese kamikaze aircraft attacking the American invasion fleet in Philipines. Reveals the dedication of many unheralded men and women during the dark days of war.

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.

Baden-Powell: the two lives of a hero.

Hillcourt, William, with Olave, Lady Baden-Powell, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

NY, Gilwellian Press, (1992). VG. Pictorial cover shows Powell in his Boy Scout uniform. The 7th son of an Ocford professor who lived two very different. experiences - the first in the British Army, the second in service to the youth of the world. Nice copy, slight edge wear.

Plaisir d'Amour: an erotic memoir of Paris in the 1920s.

Villefranche, Anne-Marie, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Carrll & Graf, (1982). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Villefranche's erotic excursion in Paris in the 1920s and the sexual escapades of her friends & acquaintances. Owner name.

Illinois' Lincoln Letters.

Walton, Clyde C., Illinois State Historian, · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Springfield, IL, Illinois State Hist. Library, 1967. VG PB. Part of the collection of the Illinois Historical Society's collection in the original handwriting of Abraham Lincoln.

Life of Charles Sumner: w/choice specimens of his eloquence, a delineation of his oratorical character & great speech on Kansas.

Harsha, D. A., · 1856 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Dayton and Burdick, 1856. VG. Brown embossed binding, gilt lettering on spine (rubbed), edge wear to spine ends. Some tanning spots to few pages. Sumner's Kansas speech against slaveholders brought on a vicous physical attack on him on the floor of the Senate by Preston Br...

The Perfect Tribute.

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, · 1926 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Scribner, 1926. VG. Brown binding with dark brown lettering and pictorial of Lincoln. Frontis show Lincoln on deathbed with Lincoln shadow. over him. Tissue guard. Owner name ft endpaper & tanning, sl edge wear. Laid in news clippings from Syracuse, NY, about the death of ...

Stephen A. Douglas: Riverside Biographical Series.

Brown, W. G., · 1902 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1902). 1st ed. VG. Maroon binding, gilt lettering and title square, top edge gilt. Bottom corners sl bumped, owner name stamp ft endpaper.