Biografia

Care Packages: letters to Christopher Reeve from strangers and other friends.

Reeve, Dana, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Random, (1998). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Dana Reeve's thank you to all the people who wrote to her husband Christopher after his riding accident in 1995.

Sir Winston Churchill, memorial addresses & tributes in eulogy of, soldier, statesman, author, orator, leader.

Congress, 89th, 1st session, house document 209, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

Washington, US Govt Ptg Office, 1965. Fine. Black binding, gilt lettering & decoration.

As Always, Jack: a wartime love story.

Sweeney, Emma, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

Boston, Little Brown, (2002). 1st ptg. VG PB. The discovery of a cache of letter written just after WWII by a young Navy pilot to the California girl he loved becomes a. grown daughter's introduction to the man who died before she was born. Back cover top corner creased.

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed: the loves and love poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Epstein, Daniel Mark, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Holt, (2001). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of the most seductive and free thinking women of her generation, Millay's story is one of dedication to art and love.

Now I Can Tell: the story of a Christian bishop under communist persecution.

Huang, Quentin K. Y., Bishop of Yunkwei, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Morehouse-Gorham, 1954. 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. What Huang witnessed & experienced during 3-1/2 months in custody of the Communists. DJ chipped, faded, damp stained at spine.

The Life and Times of Chaucer.

Gardner, John, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, 1977. 4th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Wise, gentle, much-loved, busy with the world & at peace with it, shrewd about it, in thrall to it, writing poetry freed of. courtly trappings, working at the customshouse, in Parliament, for the king, his family, his religious devotions....

Memoirs.

Solti, Sir Georg, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, A Cappella, (1997). Reprint. VG PB. Splendid volume of reminiscences confirms Solti's status as one of the preeminent conductors of his century. He studied in. Budapest, was exiled to Zurich during WWII, worked as music director of the Bavarian State Opera in postwar Munic...

A Golden String.

Newman, Daisy, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harper Row, (1986). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Newman now in her 80s reflects on what to do next and what she can quit worrying about, and the real people behind her. fictional characters are revealed. Owner inscription.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed.

Alda, Alan, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Random, (2005). 3rd ptg. VG.

Mischling, Second Degree: my childhood in Nazi Germany.

Koehn, Ilse, foreword by Harrison E. Salisbury, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Greenwillow, (1977). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. In 1935 the Nuremberg Laws defined a person with one Jewish grandparent as a Mischling, second degree. Ilse had a Jewish. grandmother. Her family were free-thinkers & anti-Nazis. She spent her war years as a member of Hitler Youth ...

Abraham Lincoln memorabilia: (facsimile) poster of Lincoln's Union Nomination for president, 3 photo reprints of Lincoln.

Various, · 1857 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

np, np, nd. G. plus reprint poster of Booth drawing gun on Lincoln from The Death of Lincoln by LeRoy Hayman. Photos are of Lincoln as a. young man in 1857 runnig for president, second of him reading with his son Tad in 1864, and third taken 4 days before his assassination. Sc...

A Little Original Sin: the life and work of Jane Bowles.

Dillon, Millicent, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, (1982). 1st ptg thus. VG lg sz PB. Bowles always attracted attention, from the Long Island Jewish suburb where she was born to the Spanish convent where she died. Perhaps the last great Bohemian in her outrageously public lesbian proclivities balance...

Cross Creek.

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, · 1942 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Scribner, 1942. VG. Rawlings adventures in Florida as she tries to make a life for herself. Green cloth tanned at edges, spine rubbed, owner name.

Celine Dion Tour de Force.

Germain, Georges-Hebert, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Lincolnwood, IL, Publications International, (1998). 1st ptg. VG. Dion's early life, her romance & marriage with Rene, and her tour.

The Incurable Romantic.

Peattie, Roderick, · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Macmillan, 1941. 1st ptg. G. Owner name ft endpaper, endpapers tanned, edge wear.

Cross Creek.

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, · 1942 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Scribner, 1942. 1st ed. G. Green cloth binding, silver decoration ft cover & title box on spine. Spine faded. Illus endpapers, owner names ft endpaper.

Citizen Newhouse: portrait of a media merchant.

Felsenthal, Carol, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Seven Stories Press, (1998). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Expose of the inner workings of a media empire from early days of the Staten Island Advance to shakeups at the New Yorker. Intriguing picture of Si Newhouse and his family dynasty, how Si's quirky behavior as a shy ...

Anne Morow Lindbergh: a gift for life.

Herrmann, Dorothy, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1992. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Wife of Charles Lindbergh & a pioneer aviatrix, she wrote one of the most beloved works of our century, A Gift from the Sea. A sheltered & privileged upbringing, married to the foremost hero of her generation, the tauma of thei...

The Brooke Ellison Story: one mother, one daughter, one journey.

Ellison, Brooke & Jean, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Hyperion, (2001). VG PB. Directed by Christopher Reeve. On her first day of 7th grade a car struck Brooke & left her paralyzed from the neck down &. dependent on a respirator. She recently completed her master's degree in Public Policy at Harvard & is pursuing a Ph.D. Sl e...

A Fortune-Teller Told Me: earthbound travels in the Far East.

Terzani, Tiziano, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harmony, (1997). 1st Am ed 1ptg. VG in VG DJ. Marked for death, instead he was reborn as Terzani takes his first step into an unknown world. Owner inscription.