Biografia

Family Portrait.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Atlantic Monthly/Little Brwn, (1970). VG. Bowen's Philadelphia family. Bottom corner bumped.

Lucretia Borgia according to original documents and correspondence of her day.

Leslie Garner, · 1903 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.89 | ¥3,354)

NY, Appleton, 1903. G. spot on back cover, owner book plate ft endpaper. Index, top. edge gilt, 6 pages publisher ads at back of book.

The Life of Langston Hughes: volume 1: 1902-1941: I, too, sing America.

Rampersad, Arnold, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1986. 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Poet, playwright, novelist, a grand figure in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Traces his life from birth in. Missouri in 1902 to the winter of 1941, a driven man who strove to give the appearance of a happy wande...

A Trial by Jury.

Burnett, D. Graham, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 2001. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. A young historian is called to jury duty and as he performs this familiar civic duty he is challenged in many ways he never. thought possible and it becomes one of the most consuming experiences of his life. Bottom corner bumped.

Naturalist.

Wilson, Edward O., · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

Washington, D.C., Shearwater/Island Press, (1994). VG lg sz PB. An extraordinary self-analysis of a scientist and what makes up his emotional and intellectual psyche, passionate, honest &. beautifully written.

The Father of All Things: a Marine, his son, and the legacy of Vietnam.

Bissell, Tom, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Pantheon, (2007). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB advance reader's edition. 40 years after Lt John Bissell arrived in Vietnam, he and his son return to a country that profoundly shaped his life. A vivid recounting of the Vietnam War from the perspective of the generation that ...

Presidential Portraits.

J. Benjamin Townsend, · 1968 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Washington, Smithsonian Inst. Press, 1968. VG PB. Portraits of the presidents next to their biography from Washington to LBJ.

A Season for Justice: the life and times of civil rights lawyer Morris Dees.

Dees, Morris with Steve Fiffer, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, (1991). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ signed by author. Signed on bookplate by author plus a letter laid in from The Southern Poverty Law Center thanking for being supporter of. Partners for the Future. Death threats from the Klan, his law offices set a...

Wings of Man: an informal biography of Captain H. T. "Dick" Merrill.

King, Jack L., · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Glendale, CA, Aviation Book Co, (1981). VG in G DJ. Merrill had a colorful life and his flight records are legend. 45,000 hour flight career which included flying night air mail,. delivered aircraft for rescue of Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth at the South Pole, pioneered first ro...

George Washington and the Temptations of Political Life.

Musto, David F., Yale University, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution, 1982. VG PB. Address delivered on the 250th anniversary of birth of Washington at the Smithsonian 1982. Blue binding, seal.

George Washington: a concise biography.

Nordham, George Washington, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Parsons, WV, McClain Ptg Co, 1982. VG PB. "George Washington was the number one public leader for twenty- five years.On the private side.first and foremost a farmer". Spot on ft cover.

Washington Commander in Chief.

Frothingham, Thomas G., Captain, U.S.R., · 1930 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Riverside, 1930. VG in Fair DJ. Author contends Washington biographers have not approached from the military point of view, with the account of the actual. military operations. Royal blue binding, DJ chipped, owner name in pencil ft endpaper.

Jerry Brown: the man on the white horse.

Lorenz, J. D., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1978. 1st ptg. VG. "finest political sleight-of-hand artist of his generation" by Jerry's former research asst. Few ink marks top of ft cover,. price sticker shadow ft endpaper.

De Gaulle.

Crozier, Brian, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Scribner, (1973). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Whole range of De Gaulle's extraordinary & controversial career & places his achievement in the context of world history.

Legend: the secret world of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Epstein, Edward Jay, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, McGraw-Hill, (1978). VG.

The Kennedy Imprisonment: a meditation on power.

Wills, Garry, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown/Atlantic Mnthly, (1982). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Influence that certain notions of toughness, masculinity and success have had on the public careers of the Kennedy family &. on the histsory of the last 25 years.

Sir Vidia's Shadow: a friendship across five continents.

Theroux, Paul, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1998. VG in VG DJ. Theroux met Vidia (V. S. Naipaul) one year before he published his first book. For 30 yrs both remained in close touch. How a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing li...

Munby: man of two worlds: the life and diaries of Arthur J. Munby 1828-1920.

Hudson, Derek, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Cambridge, England, Gambit, (1972). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. One of strangest stories of the Victorian age as recorded in one of the most remarkable private diaries of the 19th century. Munby had a lifelong obsession with the whole subworld of female manual workers, colliery women...

The Six Wives of King Henry VIII.

Rival, Paul, translated from French by Una Lady Troutbridge, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Heinemann, (1971). 2nd ed. vg. Green binding, gilt lettering on spine.

John Strachey.

Thomas, Hugh, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harper & Row, (1973). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Strachey's life sweeps through much of the intellectual & political life of England in the '30s, '40s & '50s as a leading. spokesman for the Left. DJ sl tanning & wear at edges.