Biografia

Pirandello: a biography.

Giudice, Gaspare, translated by Alastair Hamilton, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Lonodon, Oxford Univ Press, (1975). VG in VG DJ. Pirandello's plays have had a profound influence on modern drama with alienation, a madman's delusions & multiple self. Blind stamp, owner name, sl DJ edge wear.

The Facts: a novelist's autobiography.

Roth, Philip, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Vintage, (1988). 3rd ptg. VG PB. The origins of Roth's writing which has reshaped our ideas of fiction and revealed the interplay between life and art. Stamp & blind stamp.

The Two Carlyles.

Burdett, Osbert, · 1931 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Riverside, 1931. VG. Brick red binding, green title boxes on spine.

Pauline.

Gray, Paula, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Venice, CA, Paradise Press, (1979). VG PB. Excerpts from the life of Pauline Gray by her daughter Paula. Sweet remembrances.

Time Out of Mind.

Lapotaire, Jane, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

London, Virago Press, (2003). VG PB. After suffering cerebral hemorrhage, Jane lives intelligently and well again. Owner stamp & name. What happens when the "you" you've known all your life is no longer quite the same.

Parting with Illusions.

Pozner, Vladimir, introduction by Brian Kahn, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, (1990). 4th ptg. VG in VG DJ. A political commentator & TV celebrity of international status. Intensely personal and controversial book by Pozner, one of the. Soviet Union's leading interpreters of glasnost and perestroika, he examines the Soviet Un...

Tea with Demons: a true story.

Allen, Carol, with Herbert S. Lustig, M.D., · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Morrow, (1985). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Perfect wife, mother, daughter, professor. She could do it all until she went mad trying.

String Too Short To Be Saved: recollections of summers on a New England farm.

Hall, Donald, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Nonpareil Books, (1983). 3rd ptg. VG PB.

The Darwin Awards.

Northcutt, Wnedy, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Dutton, (2000). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Commemoration those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it by showing how uncommon common sense is. DJ price clipped. DJ.

Naturalist in Two Worlds: random recollections of a university professor (1929-1951).

Ruthven, Alexander G., · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Ann Arbor, Univ of Michigan Press, (1963). VG in VG DJ. Ruthven guided UM at Ann Arbor through the troubled decade of the Great Depression and the world that followed. Here he writes. of his childhood and undergraduate experiences in Iowa, his graduate career at Michigan, and ...

King Spider: some aspects of Louis XI of France and his companions.

Lewis, D. B. Wyndham, · 1929 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Coward-McCann, 1929. Reprint. VG. Brown embossed binding, gilt lettering. Edge wear, owner name ft endpaper.

Albert the Good.

Bolitho, Hector, · 1932 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. G. Contains the famous frontis of the new variety of pear the Nonpareil with flap that lifts to show Albert & Victoria (pair). Green cloth binding, gilt lettering. Foxing to tissue guard of frontis, owner name ft endpaper, owner notations, corne...

Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain.

Irwin, Margaret, · 1953 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1953). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. Early years of Elizabeth's young womanhood & her relationship w/Philip of Spain, her older half-sister's Queen Mary's husband. DJ price clipped & sl edge wear, owner name ft endpaper.

Catherine de' Medici and the Lost Revolution.

Roeder, Ralph, · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Viking, 1937. 1st ptg. G. Cream binding, red decoration & lettering. Slight soil on binding, sl tanning endpapers, few pinholes ft hinge.

Imperial Twilight: the story of Karl and Zita of Hungary.

Harding, Bertita, · 1939 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1939). G. Red binding, gilt decoration (rubbed) ft cover. Spine faded, hinges cracked.

King Edward VIII: an intimate biography.

Bolitho, Hector, · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Literary Guild, 1937. 4th imp. G. Red binding, gilt lettering & decoration. Bottom corners bumped, wrinkle ft cover, endpapers tanned, owner name.

The Baroness and the General.

Tharp, Louise Hall, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, (1962). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Wife of the German general who commanded Britain's mercenary troops in the American Revolution. DJ faded at spine & sl edge. wear, owner name ft endpaper.

Queen Victoria.

Strachey, Lytton, · 1929 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1929). 18th ptg. G. Strachey's classic biography of the queen. Navy blue binding, edge wear, owner name ft endpaper. Laid in NY Times Book Review (4/25/1971) of "Carrington" (by David Garnett) who lived with Strachey for 16 years and was part of the Blooms...

Mother of the Queen: the life story of Her Majesty the Queen Mother Elizabeth.

Duff, David, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Hawthorn, (1966). 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother's life both public and private including her childhood years. DJ price clipped, owner. name ft endpaper, DJ chipped.

Things I Shouldn't Tell.

Uncensored Recollections" author, · 1925 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1925. G. Anonymous tells tales on people of his day. Navy blue binding, gilt lettering. Extremity wear.