Biografia

Possums, Politicians, and People.

McMillen, Wheeler, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Philadelphia, Countryside Press, 1964. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. A sparkling collection of anecdotes from his experience as journalist, speaker, businessman and politician with candid. glimpses of his friends: Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Frank Buck, his strange hobby, collecting whis...

Bismarck: the story of a fighter.

Ludwig, Emil, translated from German by Eden and Cedar Paul, · 1928 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, 1928. 6th ptg. VG. Dark gray binding, gilt lettereing, bottom corners bumped. owner bookplate, edge wear.

Private Peat.

Peat, Harold R., ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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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.

The Lovely Sergeant.

Burges, Alan, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dutton, 1983. 1st ed. VG in G DJ ex-library. True story of Flora Sandes who served heroically as a nurse and front-line soldier in WWI. With the outbreak of war in August,. 1914, Flora, daughter of a village rector jumps at the chance to volunteer for service as anurse in ...

The Peace-President: a brief appreciation.

Archer, William, · 1919 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Holt, 1919. 1st ed. G. Reading copy. Back cover bent at top, damp stain to back endpaper at top, spots on fore-edge.

Herbert Hoover: a reminiscent biography.

Irwin, Will, · 1928 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Century, (1928). Special ed. G. Hoover's adventures outside the presidency. Red binding, black lettering. Spots on cover, edge wear, owner name in pencil.

A Student in Arms.

Spectator, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dutton, (1917). VG in G DJ. Written by a man in the trenches, a "war-book" dealing with the deeper things. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering and decoration,. High spiritual idealism. DJ tears on edges, DJ split at spine.

A Benjamin Franklin Reader.

Goodman, Nathan G., edited by, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Crowell, (1945). G. Ft flyleaf missing, book skewed, some discoloration to binding at top inner edge.

My Dear One: a Victorian courtship with the beginnings of an autobiography: the letters of Agnes Bowers and Arthur Thorndike.

Casson, Sybil Thorndike, edited by Patricia Casson, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Julia MacRae/Watts, (1984). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Daughter-in-law Patricia Casson found the beginnings of an autobiography of Sybil Thorndike and the letters between Sybil's. parents during the three month period of their engagement. These letters give in minute detail a p...

The Fields of Noon.

Burnford, Sheila, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Little Brown/Atlantic Mnthly, (1964). VG. Life for Burnford. Light tan binding, black title box with gilt lettering. Owner bookplate partially removed from ft endpaper. Hobbies, pleasures, animal friends. By author of "The Incredible Journey".

My Life for Beauty.

Rubinstein, Helena, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Simon & Schuster, (1966). 1st ptg. VG. "I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes. into the realm beyond ninety." The woman who created a beauty empire. Light soil to binding.

Savage Beauty: the life of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Milford, Nancy, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (2001). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. A passionate fearless woman who obsessed America even as she tormented herself with reckless love affairs, the New Woman. Owner inscription ft endpaper, DJ back has scratches and DJ edge wear, few corner creases.

Truth & Beauty: a friendship.

Patchett, Ann, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Perennial, (2003). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Author of Bel Canto. A bravura self-portrait and insightful interpretation of an epic friendship. What happens when the. person you promise to love and honor for the rest of your life is not your lover but your friend.

In School from Three to Eighty: pictures of American life 1825-1925.

Hall, Isaac Freeman, · 1927 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Pittsfield, MA, Priv. ptd, Eagle Printing, (1927). VG. A teacher's long career. Green embossed binding, edge wear. Inscribed by author to his granddaughter Margery and dated 1928.

In School from Three to Eighty: pictures of American life 1825-1925.

Hall, Isaac Freeman, · 1927 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Pittsfield, MA, Priv. ptd, Eagle Printing, (1927). VG. A teacher's long career. Green embossed binding, edge wear. Photo paper of unknown woman clipped to ft endpaper, Twin. Mountains, NH, written on back.

Hilaire Belloc: Edwardian radical.

McCarthy, John P., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Indianapolis, Liberty, (1978). G PB. Best remembered today as a poet, literary critic and Catholic apologist, this new intellectual biography shows us another. Belloc, a radical-liberal, a staunch individualist who saw imperialist, protectionist, and collectivist departures fr...

Teilhard: a biography.

Lukas, Mary and Ellen, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, McGraw-Hill, (1981). Annotated ed. VG PB. Preface discounts the Stephen Jay Gould denouncing of Chardin as having known about the Piltdown site in Sussex before the. public did and a co-conspirator with Charles Dawson. de Chardin experienced adventures as few ever have. A ...

Autumn Leaves: reflections of an industrial lieutenant.

Institute of Technology, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Cleveland, OH, Corday & Gross Co, (1945). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Tipped in frontis of Litchfield who was Chairman of the Board, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, graphs on the cycles of life. DJ edge wear.

Mulder, It's Me: the Gilian Anderson files.

Anderson, Gil and Dawn Connolly, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Toronto, Onatario, Canada, FCW Press, (1997). VG lg sz PB. Dana Scully talks about her life on the X-files and beyond.

Roll Call: one year in the United States Senate.

Cohen, Senator William S., · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1981). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Cohen's vivid account of his first year in the Senate as one of GOP's brightest stars. DJ price clipped.