Biografia

Stories of Authors' Loves: vol. I only.

Laughlin, Clara E., · 1902 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1902. VG. Green decorated binding with gilt flowers and decorative edging top edge gilt, gilt lettering & decoration on spine. Beautiful book, some tanning on edges at beginning of book, ft hinge cracked.

Everything Happened around the Switchboard.

Hathaway, Michael R., · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Conway, NH, Reflections Pubs, (1996). VG lg sz PB. Signed & inscribed by author. A remarkable memoir of Hathaway's family's 30 yr involvement with the Bryant Telephone Company. infused with unforgettable humor, delightful stories, and significant historical details. Eventually...

Elinor Wylie: a life apart: a biography.

Olson, Stanley, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dial, (1979). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. When she ran away with Horace Wylie in 1910 leaving behind her husband and infant son, it made headline news. She had. made what was considered a brilliant marriage with Philip Hichborn but he was deranged and eventually committed suicid...

My School Books from the unpublished autobiography of Hendrik Willem van Loon.

van Loon, Hendrik Willem, · 1939 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.78 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

New York World's Fair, E. I. DuPont de Nemours & Co, 1939. VG. With compliments of Du Pont Co, New York World's Fair, 1939. Gray binding with blue square pictorial and four different blue. stripes, gilt lettering for title.

Clear Springs: a memoir.

Mason, Bobbie Ann, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Random, (1999). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Bestselling author of In Country tells her own story and the story of a Kentucky farm family and takes us back in time to. recapture a way of life that has almost disappeared, a country culture rooted deeply in work, food and fa...

Carry On: letters in Wartime.

his father W. J. Dawson, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, John Lane Co, (1917). G. Reveals the heart of a young man who at the call of an imperative sacrifice renounces his career to go to dug-outs on. the Somme battlefront as Canadian field artillery in the intervals of incessant artillery fire. It breathes the very spirit of he...

Carry On: letters in Wartime.

his father W. J. Dawson, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, John Lane Co, (1917). VG in G DJ. Reveals the heart of a young man who at the call of an imperative sacrifice renounces his career to go to dug-outs on. the Somme battlefront as Canadian field artillery in the intervals of incessant artillery fire. It breathes the very spi...

Laura Bush: an intimate portrait of the First Lady.

Kessler, Ronald, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Doubleday, (2006). Large print. VG in VG DJ large print. A compelling look at the private world of Laura Bush through conversations with Washington insiders and Texas friends. Beliefs and struggles, what she says in private about Hillary Clinton, how she reacts to media at...

American Heroines: the spirited women who shaped our country.

Hutchison, Kay Bailey (Senator), · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Morrow, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Female pioneers in government, business, education and health care, who overcame the resistance and prejudice of their times.

DIG: a journey from Biddeford to Beijing: an introduction to the legend of Adam Chase and Douglas Nelson.

Stephan, Aaron T., · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Portland, ME, Published by author, (2006). 1st ed. VG PB. In the early 1990-s, Stephan discovered the diary of Adam Chase written in 1917. Here he shares the diary in its entirety. along with the author's commentary and a brief history of two cities tied together in this incre...

With Reckless Abandon: memoirs of a boat-obsessed life.

Sharp, Capt. Jim, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Marblehead, MA, Devereux Books, (2007). VG PB. Intriguing story of a man who overcame childhood polio to live an adventure-filled life as captain of Maine's most famous. windjammer, the schooner Adventure, now a National Historic Landmark in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Capt. Ji...

Empty Without You: the intimate letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok.

Streitmatter, Rodger, editor, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Da Capo Press, (2000). 1st ptg. G PB. In 1978, more than 2,500 letters written over a 30 year friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and reporter. Lorena Hickok were discovered by archivists. The find was electrifying to create a controversy over the nature of the...

Daring Venture: the life story of William H. Danforth.

Philpott, Gordon M., · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Random, (1960). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Founder and builder of the Ralston Purina Company, Danforth revoutionized the feeding of livestock and poultry and helped. to make America the best-fed nation in the world. Co-founder of the American Youth Foundation and author of I Dar...

Fanny Crosby the hymn writer.

Ruffin, Bernard, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,118)

Uhrichsville, OH, Barbour, (1995). VG PB. Incompetent medical treatment scrarred her eyes and made her blind for life yet she wrote 2,000 beloved hymns. Owner. inscription.

Maine Memories.

Coatsworth, Elizabeth, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Woodstock, VT, Countryman Press, (1991). Reprint. VG PB. "Reading over these chapters, I am filled with a nostalgia for those years of our early middle age.What writing we both. did in those mornings at our desks! What picnics we had at noon by ourselves, or sometimes with oth...

The Search for Jimmy Carter.

Collins, Tom, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Waco, TX, Word Books, (1976). VG lg sz PB. Collins calls Carter a shrewd, hard-working politician, probably the most brilliant of our era, a man of profound human. compassion and concern. Ruminations on the man, his complexity, and his potential for presidential greatness. Edg...

To Love a Child.

Reagan, Nancy, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, (1982). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Foster Grandparent Program celebrated by the give and take of life, a story of inspiration.

Exile: the unquiet oblivion of Richard M. Nixon.

Anson, Robert Sam, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, (1984). VG lg sz PB. "Of his essential blamelessness he remained convinced." Nixon's private anguish, his legal and financial struggles, his loyal. family, the behind-the-scenes of Ford's pardon, the catharsis of his interviews with David Frost...

Breakfast Table Autocrat: the life story of Henry Parsons Crowell.

Day, Richard Ellsworth, · 1947 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Chicago, Moody Press, (1947). 2nd ptg. VG ex-library. The man who changed the breakfast habits of the world, an autocrat clad in velvet. Library markings. Red binding, gilt lettering. Library markings, edge wear.

Acres of Hope: the miraculous story of one family's gift of love for children without hope.

Anglin, Patty with Joe Musser, foreword by Joni Eareckson Tada, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Uhrichsville, OH, Promise Press/Barbour Ptg, (1999). VG in VG DJ. Patty and Harold Anglin have taken in 8 special needs children - the abused, seriously ill, physically handicapped and God has. faithfully provided all their needs. They live on a beautiful 200 acre Wisconsin fa...