Biografia

The Life of Alice Freeman Palmer.

Palmer, George Herbert, · 1908 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1908). 55,000th. G library. A husband writes about his wife's charm and inscrutability. Green binding, gilt lettering. Binding rubbed, library markings.

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.

Some of Me.

Rossellini, Isabella, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (1997). 1st ed 2nd ptg. Fine in Fine DJ. Fascinating, quirky and personal look at herself and her life.

Bokotola.

Fuller, Millard, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Association Press, (1977). VG PB. Beginnings of Habitat for Humannity. A man turns his back on a fortune to launch a housing project in the Third World. Owner inscription ft endpaper, back cover rubbed.

Naked to Mine Enemies: volume 1 only: The Life of Cardinal Wolsey.

Ferguson, Charles W., new introduction by A. L. Rowse, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

NY, Time, (1965). VG PB. In his own day, Thomas Wolsey was not a well-like man, yet his talents were vast and his impress on history enormous. Son of a small town English butcher, he rose to become a Cardinal of his Church, Lord Chancellor of his nation, and mentor to his mona...

The Life of Mary Baker Eddy.

Wilbur, Sibyl, · 1923 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Boston, MA, Christian Science Pub Soc, (1923). VG. Life of Eddy plus illus of her birthplace in Bow NH, Cong. Church in Tilton, NH, original mother church edifice. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering, embossing of top of mother church. Edge wear, owner name ft endpaper.

Angel Unaware.

Rogers, Dale Evans. Introduction by Norman Vincent Peale., · 1953 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Los Angeles, CA, Revell Co., 1953. G. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans' "special" child. Binding soiled.

We Knew Mary Baker Eddy: Second Series.

Clara Know McGee, · 1950 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, MA, Christian Science Pub. Soc., (1950). VG. Various people's remembrances of Eddy. Tan binding, brown spine and title block, gilt lettering.

The Best of Barnes: the selected articles and photographs of Jack Barnes.

Barnes, Jack, foreword by Ernie Hebert, edited by Susan C. Conley, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Troy, ME, Nightshade Press, (1996). 1st ed. VG PB inscribed. Inscribed by author. A biographical survey of Northern New England poets, writers and storytellers.

Green Wood and Chloroform: how a young English doctor settled in rural Maine.

Betts, Anthony, M.D., · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Camden, ME, Down East Books, (1998). 1st ptg. G PB ex-library. Moving to rural Maine in deepest January, Betts and his wife learned practical lessons about snow tires, long johns, dry gas,. and the distinction between green and white firewood. He shared an office with Dr. Jack...

Sir Harry Vane: his life and times 1613-1662.

Adamson, J. H. & H. F. Folland, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Gambit, 1973. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Vane served Charles the First and was one of the leaders of the parliamentary rebellion that led to the kind's execution and the. establishment of the Protectorate. Vane himself was executed in 1662, clearly the victim of judicial mu...

Fiddler's Moll: life with Yehudi.

Menuhin, Diana, foreword by Yehudi Menuhin, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, St. Martins, (1984). 1st US ed 1ptg. VG in VG DJ. Daughter of an Irish diplomat and an English mother, Diana Menuhin was brought up in London, attended ballet school and. went on to dance with Nijinska and Balanchine in Paris. Her marriage to Menuhim began a life chock ful...

Reconciliation: a half life.

Orvetti, Peter, · 2009 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Denver, CO, Outskirts Press Inc., (2009). VG PB. "I was God-bothered from an early age, though there was nothing in my genes that should have made it so." A quirky quest. through the sacred and the profane. Before he turned 30, Orvetti had jumped from socially conservative Chr...

Wednesday's Child.

Robbins, Rhea Cote, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Brewer, ME, Rheta Press, (2001). 2nd ed 2nd ptg. VG PB. A defiant and poignant memoir that transcends the personal, and gives a glilmpse of literary source material in Franco-American. lives, fragility and survival. The female self and her formation through the many individual...

Afterglow: a Maine narrative of Penobscot Bay Islanders.

Goss, Leroy E., · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Portland, ME, House of Falmouth, Inc., (1966). G ex-library. Goss lives in the glow of his memories of his own family set in the Maine scene. Library markings.

Next to Nothing: a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with an eating disorder.

Arnold, Carrie with B. Timothy Walsh, M.D., · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. 1st ptg. VG PB. Humor and stark honesty are Arnold's trademarks. She pares down eating disorders to up-to-date and accessible science.

Big Russ & Me: father and son: lessons of life.

Russert, Tim, · 1950 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Hyperion, nd. 3rd ptg. VG PB. A fond look back to the 1950s Buffalo neighborhood of Russert's youth, a WWII veteran who worked two jobs for 30 years.

Monochrome Days: a firsthand account of one teenager's experience with depression.

Irwin, Cati, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Oxford, Oxford Univ Press, (2007). VG PB. Irwin was diagnoed with major depression at 14 and nearly lost her battle with the illness before she received treatment.

Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire.

Foreman, Amanda, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Modern Library, (1998). 1st ptg. VG PB. Passionate, political, addicted to gambling and drunk on life, Georgiana bursts from the pages of this dazzling biography like. the force of nature she undoubtedly was. Great-great-great-great aunt of Diana Princess of Wales, a fasci...

The Quotable Einstein.

Freeman Dyson, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Princeton, NJ, Princeton Univ Press, (1996). VG in VG DJ. "I'm so sorry that Roosevelt is president - otherwise I would visit him more often.".