Biografia

The Courage of Strangers: coming of age with the Human Rights movement.

Laber, Jeri, foreword by Vaclav Havel, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Public Affairs, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Beautifully told memoir of a woman who helped create Human Rights Watch and bring about the fall of Communism.

The Kinta Years: an Oklahoma childhood.

Giles, Janice Holt, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1973. Family Bkshelf. G in G DJ. Author of many stories about Kentucky and the American frontier. DJ taped, edges of DJ tanned.

Where to Go, What to Do, When You Are Bern Potter: a personal biography.

Schevill, James, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Gardiner, ME, Tilbury House, (1992). 1st ptg. G. In 1945 when the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, Bern learned what he and his fellow scientists had been building. It turned him away from military applications of science toward art and culture. In the late 1960s he ret...

Where to Go, What to Do, When You Are Bern Potter: a personal biography.

Schevill, James, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Gardiner, ME, Tilbury House, (1992). 1st ptg. G PB ex-library. In 1945 when the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, Bern learned what he and his fellow scientists had been building. It turned him away from military applications of science toward art and culture. In the lat...

Augustus Merrill of Caribou, Maine: a story of a Civil War hero.

Watson, Allan R., · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Augusta, ME, Privately printed, (2002). VG lg sz PB spiral bound. Signed by author. Pictorial cover showing medal, author sticker ft endpaper.

Narcotics Anonymous.

Unknown, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Van Nuys, CA, World Service Office, (1988). 5th ed 30 ptg. VG in VG DJ. Addicts tell their stories.

Grace & Cal: a Vermont love story.

Stoddard, Gloria May, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Shelburne, VT, New England Press, (1989). G PB. Grace's love transformed Cal into a confident successful man, mayor of Northampton, then governor of Massachusetts, and. finally 30th president. Grace improved education for deaf children, became known as the "First Lady of Baseb...

One Life.

Barnard, Christiaan and Curtis Bill Pepper, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Macmillan, (1970). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. First human heart transplant doctor speaks for himself revealing his agonizing personal decisions, conflicts, mistakes,. and hopes. DJ edge wear & tanning.

Last Wish.

Rollin, Betty, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Linden Press/Simon &Schuster, 1985. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Two hours before my mother killed herself, I noticed she had put on makeup.my mother liked to look her best.just as it. was her way to die as she did - not when death summoned her but when she summoned death." Remai...

Martha Inc.: the incredible story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

Byron, Christopher, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Wiley & Sons, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Unauthorized biography by writer and columnist Byron who traces Martha's journey from the troubled world of a working class. family in New Jersey to the pinnacle of fame and power as head of a billion dollar business. Byron shows...

On Safari: the story of my life.

Denis, Armand, · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Eau Claire, WI, E. M. Hale & Co, (1963). G ex-library. True story of American citizen born in 'Belgium and living in Nairobi who spent his life in search of adventure. Once a. novice monk, photographer and inventor, Denis writes of interesting thing he has done all over the wo...

The Story of San Michele.

Munthe, Axel, special preface by the author for the American edition, · 1948 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Dutton, (1948). 115th ptg. VG in G DJ. Laden with choice anecdotes from the author's colorful career, with gruesome almost unbelievable stories from his practice. Dr. Munthe posessed a strange power over animals and men and women, a magic gift, granted to few. DJ edge wear...

The Soul of a Cop: the story of one of America's most decorated cops.

Ragonese, Paul & Berry Stainback, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, St. Martins, (1991). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB uncorrected proof. From foot patrol to bomb squad. The commitment of law enforcement officers.

My Father's House: an Oneida boyhood.

Noyes, Pierrepont, · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.41 | £21.20 | ¥4,471)

NY, Farrar & Rinehart, (1937). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. 300 people, under the leadershp of Humphrey Noyes established a community of Christian communists at Oneida, NY, where they. lived for more than 30 years in one building. Pierrepont was born in 1870, 10 years before the Oneida...

Letters and Memoir of Joseph Charles Philpot.

Philpot, Joseph Charles, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Grand Rapids, MI, Baker Book House, (1981). Reprint. VG lg sz PB. Philpot's letters to his friends are like pearls and the narrative the thread upon which the pearls are strung. His letters reveal his trials, times of uncertainty and his feelings in describing the Lord's deali...

Angel Unaware.

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

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NJ, Revell, (1953). VG in G DJ. DJ shows young chld with Roy and Dale looking on. DJ edgewear, chips, owner names.

The Life of William Pinkney.

Pinkney, Rev. William, D.D., his nephew, · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, DaCapo Press, 1969. Reprint. Fine. American lawyer and legislator, born Annapolis, MD, 1764-1823, England as joint commissioner to adjust American claims against. British government for maritime losses (1796-1804), U.S. Atty-Gen, U.S. House of Rep., minister to Russia 1816...

Karen Ann: the Quinlans tell their story.

Quinlan, Joseph & Julia with Phyllis Battelle, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday, 1977. VG in VG DJ. On the night of April 15, 1975, Joseph & Julia Quinlan were awakened by a phone call, notifying them that their daughter. Karen Ann, their oldest daughter, had been rushed to the hospital in a coma, cause undetermined. Story of one family's de...

Rise Up to Life: a biography of Howard Walter Florey who made penicillin.

clinical pathology in the University of Oxford, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Scribner, (1972). VG in VG DJ. Follows Florey's career from his university days through research projects at Oxford, Cambridge & Sheffield, which. culminated in his success with penicillin, to the final years of his life. How he had to fight for money for his research. Tan...

Old McDonald Had a Farm.

McDonald, Angus, · 1942 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1942. VG. About author's father, James Angus McDonald, and how he labored to make a good farm out of a poor one, near Sallisaw, Oklahoma,. from 1912-1922. Rust-colored binding, gilt lettering.