Biografia

Krishnamurti: a biography.

Jayakar, Pupul, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harper Row, (1986). 1st ed. G in G DJ ex-library. Major biographical interpretation of one of the greatest spiritual teachers of our times. DJ edge wear, library markings.

A Perfect World: words and paintings from over 50 of America's most powerful people.

Trione, Debra, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

Kansas City, Andrews McMeel Pub, (2002). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. 50 powerful leaders describe their ideal world.

Lupus Novice: toward self-healing.

Chester, Laura, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Barrytown, NY, Station Hill Press, (1987). VG in VG DJ. A poet/novelist's moving account of her own struggle and personal breakthrough with SLE (stemic lupus erythematosus) . She begins with with conventional medicine and then a range of alternative approaches and comes to new...

Kate Douglas Wiggin as her sister knew her.

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

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1925. VG. 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 every sum...

Vietnam What a Soldier Gives.

Hartline, David L., · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Summervile, GA, Espy Pub Co, (1984). 2nd ptg. G PB. A southern farmboy's experience in the rice paddies of Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, plainly but graphically. recalled, first hand saga from the steamy jungles and ramshackle bordellos of Saigon to coming home to a d...

Never Underestimate...: the life and career of Margaret Chase Smith through the eyes of the political cartoonist.

Viens, Margaret F., Asst. Director of the Margaret Chase Smith Library, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Waterville, ME, Northwood University, (1993). VG lg sz PB. From her humble beginnings to her career as Senator from Maine. Binding rubbed.

The Days Grow Short: the life and music of Kurt Weill.

Sanders, Ronald, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, (1980). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The musical genius behind Threepenny Opera, Touch of Venus, Lady in the Dark, Knickerbocker Holiday. Few spots on back endpaper, DJ edge wear.

Life in a Day.

Grumbach, Doris, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Beacon, (1996). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. An exploration of 24 hours of ordinariness. The common day is more representative of the contents of most of our lives;. disastrous ones are rare. I am beginning the 7th years of residence at the end of a peninsula in down east Mai...

The Jester and the Kings: a political autobiography.

Halter, Marek, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Arcade, (1989). 1st English ed. VG in VG DJ. Halter was born in the Warsaw Ghetto on the eve of WWII. When the Germans arrived, he & his family fled to Russia by using. underground sewers and living in a freight car. Halter has worked steadfastly for peace in the Middle Ea...

Plant Dreaming Deep.

Sarton, May, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Norton, (1983). G PB. Sarton's years in Nelson, NH. in an 18th century house. Brooks Atkinson, "Love is the genius of this small, but tender and. often poignant book by a woman of many insights." Granville Hicks, "Tenderly poetic though not sentimental.not merely a book ab...

New Hampshire Notables presenting biographical sketches of men & women who have helped shape the character of the granite state.

Brereton, Charles, · 1955 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Portsmouth, NH Historical Soc./Randall, (1955). VG. Green binding, gilt lettering. Few scratches back cover.

Narrative of the Life and Sufferings of William B. Lighton containing an interesting and faithful account of his early life.

Lighton, William B(eebey), · 1846 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Troy, J. C. Kneeland & Co, 1846. Fair. Author was a British army deserter who escaped to Landaff, NH. He had enlisted into the British Army but escaped from his. regiment, was captured, imprisoned, tried and condemned to death but escaped from captivity and settled in the U.S....

A Brook of Our Own: a few notes from the files of a mountain real estate office.

Harkness, Marjory, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, 1945. VG in G DJ. Harkness hung a real estate shingle because of her friends who coveted a brook of their own with a view of an old elm-shaded. farmhouse. A delightful book about the New England way where author sounds as if she is talking right to you. DJ edge chip...

New Hampshire Notables presenting biographical sketches of men & women who have helped shape the character of the granite state.

Brereton, Charles, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

Portsmouth, NH Historical Soc./Randall, (1987). VG.

Yankee Storekeeper.

Gould, R. E., · 1946 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Whittlesey House/McGraw Hill, (1946). 1st ptg. VG.a store can sell only as much as the customers can pay for; so before the business can expand much the storekeeper must. think up ways for his customers to get money." Bookplate, binding has few spots on back cover.

Jonathan Fisher Maine Parson 1768-1847.

Chase, Mary Ellen, · 1948 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Macmillan, 1948. 1st ptg. VG. Based almost entirely on the "Common Journals" or diaries of Fisher which he kept daily for 45 years, upon his many notebooks. and upon his countless letters and sermons. Red binding, paper title labels on ft cover & spine. Owner names ft endp...

Dance of a Fallen Monk: the twists and turns of a spiritual life.

Fowler, George, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A former Trappist monk under an oath of silence for 17 years who went on to preach for the next 20 against organized religion. Shadow of a price sticker on ft endpaper.

Presences: a bishop's life in the city.

Moore, Paul, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1997). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. While making his first confession as a student at St. Paul's in NH, Moore was overcome by God's presence. His life as a bishop. demonstrates how deep faith & strong social commitments can influence each other. Re...

Fighting Angel: portrait of a soul.

Buck, Pearl, · 1936 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, John Day/Reynal & Hitchcock, (1936). VG. Buck's parents, missionaries to China, and their ill-mated, rocky marriage. Rust colored binding, gilt lettering on spine.

A New Democracy: a Democratic vision for the 1980's and beyond.

Hart, Gary, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Quill, 1983. 5th ptg. G PB. Time called him one of America's 50 new leaders, Esquire, one of the politicians for the post-industrial age. Elected by the. independent electorate of Colorado to the U.S. Senate twice. Here he sets forth new approaches to undoing the mistakes ...