Biografia

Brief Biographies Maine: a biographical dictionary of Who's Who in Maine: vol. 1 1926-1927.

Hodgkins, Theodore Roosevelt, edited and compiled by, · 1927 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Lewiston, ME, Lewiston Journal Co, nd (1927). VG. Red binding, gilt lettering, 8 pages of school ads at back, spotting on fore-edge.

Colette: a taste for life.

Mitchell, Yvonne, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harcourt Brace, (1975). 1st ptg. G lg sz PB ex-library. Colette's essence was her sensuous love of the earth and its mysteries, to explain was to destroy. Filled with pictures. Library markings.

Hawthorne's Country.

Clarke, Helen Archibald, · 1913 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday Page, 1913. G ex-library. Dark blue sturdy library binding, library markings.

Kate Douglas Wiggin as her sister knew her.

Smith, Nora Archibald, · 1925 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1925. G ex-library. Color frontis of Kate. "Her notebooks were many, all carefully arranged and made over occasionally, as the ideas, suggestions,. and quotations were used or felt to be no long of value. They travelled with her from New York to Maine...

It's Different at Dartmouth: a memoir.

Kemeny, Jean Alexander, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, (1979). G in G DJ ex-library. A laughing, loving and sometimes irreverent look at what it's like to be the wife of a college president - "terrifying". A job ill-defined and barely understood. Library markings.

Harriet Beecher Stowe: a life.

Hedrick, Joan D., · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1994. 2nd ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. A novel about slavery that some say started the Civil War. Library markings, donation bookplate.

Picasso.

Stein, Gertrude, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dover, (1984). VG PB. An intimate and revealing biography that offers insights into the 20th century painter. Darkened corner on back endpaper. Cover shows Picasso's painting of Stein.

Faith Is a Song.

Dragonette, Jessica, · 1951 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, David McKay, (1951). VG in G DJ. Born in India, orphaned at an early age, Jessica was nurtured & educated by devoted nuns in a convent. She made her radio debut. when NBC was a month old. Soon she had an audience of 66 million people. Here she gives an intimate picture of ...

My Family Right or Wrong.

Sousa, John Philip, III, · 1943 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday Doran, 1943. VG in G DJ. Written by the grandson of the March King who grew up in an outrageous family that functioned like a three ring circus. Pop wanted to run everything, an honarary deputy who attended all fires usually arriving before the fire dept. His mot...

From the Top of the Stairs.

Finletter, Gretchen, · 1946 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1946. VG in G DJ. The daughter of Walter Damrosch tells of her early encounters and conflicts with pianos, performers, politics and parties. In the Damosch quarters, three pianos were usually going at once, while a celebrity rehearsed or indulged his temp...

Leonard Bernstein: the man, his work, and his world.

Briggs, John, · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, World, (1961). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Bernstein's meteoric rise at the age of 25 to the conductorship of the NY Philarmonic is a musical Horatio Alger story. He made musical history in almost every phase of serious and popular music, including as a pianist and composer. He w...

J. S. Bach (vol. 2 only).

Schweitzer, Albert, translated by Ernest Newman, Preface by C. M. Widor, · 1950 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Macmillan, (1950). Reprint. VG. Dark green binding, gilt lettering on spine, owner notations back endpaper.

Twenty Years A-Growing: rendered from the original Irish.

Thomson, introductory note by E. M. Forster, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Oxford, Oxford Univ Press, 1978. Reprint. G in VG DJ ex-library. O'Sullivan was born and reared on a remote island off the Atlantic coast of Ireland and here he tells the story of his. childhood. His sense of style is derived from folk tales heard at the fireside from his gran...

Nicholas Copernicus: a tribute of nations.

Mizwa, Stephen P., edited by, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Koschiuszko Foundation, 1945. G ex-library. Inscribed by author Mizwa 4/2/45. Summary of worldwide tributes to Copernicus on 400th anniversary of his death.Library markings.

The Know-It-All: one man's humble quet to become the smartest person in the world.

Jacobs, A. J., · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Simon and Schuster, (2004). 7th ptg. VG PB. NPR's contributor Jacobs' hilarious quest to read the Encyclopedia Britannica from A to Z, all 32 volumes, and then. relates the comically disruptive effects it has on every part of his life and stumbles on some of the strangest,...

God and Mr. Gomex.

Smith, Jack, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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LA, Los Angeles Times, (1997). VG PB. When Jack and I embarked on our joint adventure on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Baja, CA, we had no inkling. we would be entering into a phase of our lives that would capture the fancy of readers throughout the U.S. A charming ...

Mrs. President.

Fridriksson, Gudjon and Gunnar Elisson, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Reykjavik, Orn & Orlygur, (1980). VG. In 1980 Icelanders first chose a woman for President, the first time in the world that a woman is democrataically elected to. such an office. Pictorial cover.

Peter O'Toole: a biography.

Wapshott, Nicholas, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Beaufort Books, (1983). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The star of "Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 established him instantly at the age of 30 as one of the world's most sought-. after actors with its 10 Academy Award nominations. But drinking and fines for his drunkenness became a fixe...

Senator Joe McCarthy.

Rovere, Richard H., · 1959 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harcourt Brace, (1959). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Sen. McCarthy provided a spectacle in American politics. He insulted presidents, humiliated generals and put himself above. the authority of the U.S. Senate. Yet such was his hold on public opinion that even as he overrode the Co...

Ring: a biography of Ring Lardner.

Yardley, Jonathan, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (1977). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG.