Biografia

Come Hell on High Water: a really sullen memoir.

Jaynes, Gregory, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, North Point Press, (1997). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. After 20 yrs as a national correspondent, foreign corespondent & columnist for Time, Life and The New York Times, Jaynes is. burned out. He fears the creak underfoot is not necesarily the stair and there are snarly things in ...

Our Paris: sketches from memory.

White, Edmund, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 1995. VG in VG DJ. Lighthearted gently satiric portrait of White & Sorin's favorite people & places in & around their neighborhood Chatelet. Foibles & eccentricities of these sometimes outrageous, always memorable individuals are brought to life with unfailing wit &...

Coming into the End Zone.

Grumbach, Doris, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Norton, (1991). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. On the brink of her 70th birthday, distinguished novelist & critic Grumbach began to keep a notebook full of daily events. in her life & her private ruminations, hoping to find a positive value to living so long, some glory to s...

Gertrude Stein Remembered.

Simon, Linda, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Lincoln, Univ of Nebraska Press, (1994). VG in VG DJ. One of the best known yet most elusive writers, an uncompromising innovaator, feminist, friend to countless. experimental artists & writers, an opponent of cultural & social convention.

Family Circle.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, · 1948 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Houghton Mifflin/Riverside, 1948. VG. Tan binding, black & red lettering, owner stamp back endpaper, owner name pencil ft endpaper.

Vera Brittain & Winifred Holtby.

Kennard, Jean E., · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Hanover, Univ Press of New England, (1989). 1st ptg. VG PB. Concern for the relations of war and gender, their parallel analyses of the relations between sexual and race oppression,. their attention to the conflicts etween gender role & ambition for modern women. The friendshi...

Into Woods.

Roorbach, Bill, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Notre Dame, IN, Univ of Notre Dame Press, (2002). VG in VG DJ. Nature, love, family & place beginning with a honeymoon in France's Loire Valley to a daughter's birth. First two pages. clipped at top, owner notation title page.

Yankee Storekeeper.

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

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NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1946). Reprint. VG in G DJ. Full of Yankee wisdom & wry humor, a foxy old storekeeper sits back & tells of his 4 decades runing a general store in Somerset. County, Maine. Gould got his first taste of trading on his father's farm, where his days were spe...

Many a Watchful Night.

Brown, John Mason (Lt., USNR), · 1944 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Whittlesey House, (1944). VG in VG DJ. A deeply sympathetic & illuminating picture of the Normandy invasion as well as in the Sicilian, a saga of a heart & mind. in action. From waiting on the Augusta for the Invasion to begin, south coast at Devon, London by moonlight, Ge...

Double Discovery.

West, Jessamyn, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harcourt Brace & Co., (1980). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. At the age of 26 West departs for England for travel and a month long summer session of literary lectures at Oxford. Contans extracts from family letters & private journals written in summer of 1929 interwoven with comment...

The Woman Said Yes: encounters with life and death.

West, Jessamyn, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1978). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Twice West was told she was beyond medical help and twice she survived. Intimate, intense writing reflecting the comic as. well as the tragic. DJ edge wear.

Men in Motion.

Taylor, Henry J., · 1943 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday Doran, 1943. G. Owner name ft endpaper, word biography written on ft cover.

Three Titans: Michael Angelo, Rembrandt, Beethoven.

Ludwig, Emil, · 1938 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Modern Age Books Inc., (1938). VG PB in G DJ. Inside DJ has list of publisher Seal Books. DJ edge wear, bottom outer corner of DJ & first two pages have tears.

The Private Life of George Washington.

Bellamy, Francis Rufus, · 1951 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Crowell, (1951). G. Blue binding, spine lettering rubbed, binding edges tanned, name erased ft endpaper, spine bottom end crimped.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Guide Book.

Hubbard, Elbert, · 1926 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Wise, (1926). VG. Beige embossed binding with Hubbard on cover, black lettering on spine. Name blacked out on ft endpaper. Guide to 14 volumes of Elbert Hubbard's Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great.

The True George Washington.

Ford, Paul Leicester, · 1898 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1898. 6th ed. G. Cream binding wtih black lettering, black/gilt crestlike decoration Owner name ft endpaper, binding sl soiled.

Uncensored Celebrities.

Raymond, E. T., · 1919 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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London, T. Fisher Unwin, (1919). 2nd imp. VG. Rust-colored binding with darker rust lettering, owner bookplate, tanning to endpapers.

The Glass of Fashion: some social reflections.

A Gentleman with a Duster (Harold Begbie), · 1921 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Putnm, 1921. 1st Amer ed. VG. Green binding, gilt spine lettering (rubbed), owner name ft endpaper, crease ft cover (publisher's fault), edge wear. Begbie was an English journalist and author of novels, largely didactic, & biographies.

A George Washington Treasury.

Nordham, George Washington, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Chicago, Adams Press, (1983). Ltd ptg (250). VG PB. Signed limited edition with signed card from author. Pictorial cover with Washington medallion.

Contemporary American Biography.

Beckwith, John A. & Geoffrey Coope, edited by, · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harper, (1941). 1st ed. VG. Owner notations & name.