Biografia

Inside the Halo and Beyond: the anatomy of a recovery.

Kumin, Maxine, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Norton, (2000). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Poet Kumin's recovery from a terrible accidnt when her horse bolted at a carriage-driving clinic. Most people don't recover. from such an accident. Kumin's halo was a device that kept her head immobile during the weeks of inte...

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a year of food life.

Kingsolver, Barbara, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Harper Collins, (2007). 7th ptg. VG in VG DJ. With characteristic poetry and pluck, Kingsolver and her family sweep readers along on their journey away from the industrial. food pipeline to a rural life in which they vow to buy only food raised in their own neighborhood, g...

Cradle to Next: Home Nest Chronicles Book 3.

Sturtevant, Arnold & Leda, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Victoria, Canada, Trafford Pub, (2008). VG lg sz PB. The Sturdevants tell their life story from their birth in the 1920s, their marriage in 1957, and a happy family life.

The Reminiscences of Neal Dow: recollections of eighty years.

Dow, Neal (General), · 1898 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$54.00 (€49.00 | £40.88 | ¥8,623)

Portland, ME, Evening Express Pub Co, (1898). Fine. The Neal Dow Memorial, Portland, was the lifelong home of Neal Dow, one of the great men of the reform movement of the 19th. century. The late Federal-style mansion was built in 1829 for Neal and his wife, Maria Cornelia Dura...

Daniel Quorm, and his religious notions: Second Series.

Pearse, Mark Guy, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Hunt & Eaton, nd. VG ex-school library. Light brown binding, gilt pictorial of Quorm in oval, black decoration, gilt lettering.

The Court of the Empress Josephine.

Saint-Amand, Imbert de, · 1898 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Scribner, 1898. VG.

Passionate Crusader: the life of Marie Stopes.

Hall, Ruth, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1977). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. In 1935 a panel of American academics compiled a list of the most influential modern books and among the authors was Dr. Marie C. Stopes. A paleobotanist by training, Stopes wrote Married Love, publishedin 1918, ...

Off to the Side: a memoir (uncorrected proof).

Harrison, Jim, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, (2002). Fine lg sz PB. Harrison writes about his upbringing in Michigan, austerities of life amid the Depression and WWII, his starchy Swedish. forebears, and how a boy from the "heartland" ended up a highly paid Hollywood screenwriter and world-ren...

Hitler and Stalin: parallel lives.

Bullock, Alan, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, (1992). 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Bullock examines the protagonists not in the traditional context of their conflicts with the Western Alliance but against. the background of Berlin-Moscow relations for he sees the cataclysmic history of Europe in the mid-20th centur...

I Am a Soldier, Too: the Jessica Lynch story.

Bragg, Rick, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, (2003). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Lynch was crossing the Iraqui desert with the 507th Maintenance Company when her convoy was ambushed, caught in enemy cross fire. All four soldiers traveling with her died in the attack. She was taken prisoner and held captive in an Iraq...

Shoshanna: memoirs of Shoshana Shoubin Cardin.

I. Hiller, introduction by Rabbi Joel H. Zaiman, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.63 | ¥2,874)

Baltimore, Jewish Museum of Maryland, (2008). VG in VG DJ. A more than 40-year career as a volunteer in the Jewish community and assisting in the drafting of the Maryland state. Constitution, helped women gain access to credit and greater financial security, paved the way for ...

Grace Before Ploughing: fragments of autobiography.

Masefield, John, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Macmillan, (1966). 1st Amer. ptg. VG in VG DJ. A poet's sensitivity to nature and human experience joined with a long view into the past and joyous childhood happiness. Four new poems and boyhood memories of England.

My Word Is My Bond: a memoir.

Moore, Roger, · 2008 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Collins, (2008). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Moore played James Bond longer than any other actor but it was only one of his roles stretching back to Hollywood's studio era. DJ price clipped.

Hackie: cab driving and life.

Pontiac, Jernigan, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Kearney, NE, Morris Pub, (2004). 1st ptg. VG PB. Inscribed by author. A first person perspective into things we can only wonder about. "The one constant has been hacking. I. keep coming back to it. Taxi driving has been my therapy, my Zen retreat, my finishing school. It's whe...

Elinor Glyn.

Glyn, Anthony, · 1956 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

London, Hutchinson, (1956). 4th ptg. VG in G DJ. Elinor's grandson, Anthony, draws on his early memories and on a mass of family papers and diaries that show how her romantic. nature was continually at war with severe tenets of 18th century French aristocracy which she had bee...

Alcatraz from Inside.

Quillen, Jim, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

San Francisco, CA, Golden Gate Natl Park Assn, 1991. VG lg sz PB. Inscribed by author. This inmate's fascinating view of life on The Rock, harsh conditions, futile escape attempts, long years. One man's climb from desperation to redemption.

The Greatest Pages of Charles Dickens: a biographical reader and a chronological selection from Dickens works with commentary.

Leacock, Stephen, · 1934 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Doubleday Doran, 1934. 1st ed. G. Green cloth binding (sunned at edges and spine), black title block with gilt lettering.

Bare Souls.

Bradford, Gamaliel, · 1924 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Harper, (1924). G ex-library. Essays on 8 authors revealing their inner, hidden, mysterious machinery behind their covering of flesh and blood. Paper label on spine (edge wear), library markings, bottom corners bumped, cover mottled.

Stalin: a political biography.

Deutscher, I., · 1949 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1949. VG. Forces that shaped Russian leader and his times. Rust-colored binding, gilt lettering (on spine rubbed). Bottom corners and. spine bottom bumped.

The Letters of Franklin K. Lane: personal and political.

Lane, Franklin K., edited by Anne Wintermute Lane and Louise Herrick Wall, · 1922 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1922). 4th imp. VG. U.S. Secretary of the Interior 1913-20. Blue binding, gilt lettering on spine (darkened and rubbed).