Biografia

Moments of Truth.

Carlzon, Jan, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Cambridge, MA, Ballinger, (1987). VG in VG DJ. President & CEO of Scandinavian Airlines, considered one of most remarkable business leaders. How to set a strategy,. restructure an organization so customer needs take priority, how to motivate & communicate with frontline employ...

A Hero and Some Other Folk.

Quayle, William A., · 1900 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Jennings & Pye, (1900). VG. Green binding, gilt lettering & decoration (bright & sharp), top edge gilt. Owner name & notations, edge wear.

George Washington: American Statesmen: vol. II only.

Lodge, Henry Cabot, · 1896 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1896). Fair ex-library. Library markings, spine edges frayed.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great.

Hubbard, Elbert, · 1908 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

E. Aurora, NY, Roycrofters, 1908. Fair. Half leather with ridge spine, leather belt missing, ft cover almost disbound, edge wear.

Distinguished Successful Americans of Our Day containing biographies of prominent Americans now living etc..

Various, edited from standard biographical works and original sources, · 1912 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Chicago, IL, Successful Americans, 1912. G. Brown embossed binding (few spots), gilt lettering, all edges gilt. ".noteworthy as having achieved success in their chosen. avocations in the various civil, military, educational, religious, industrial, commercial, and other lines o...

Let's Roll: ordinary people, extraordinaray courage.

Beamer, Lisa (wife of 9-11 hero Todd Beamer), · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Wheaton, IL, Tyndale House, (2002). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Owner name ft endpaper.

Lifeline Sampler.

Overeaters Anonymous, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Torrance, CA, Overeaters Anonymous Inc., (1985). VG PB. Compulsive overeaters write about their addiction. Few spots on edges.

Civil Warrior: memoirs of a civil rights attorney.

Saperstein, Guy T., · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Berkeley, CA, Berkeley Hills Books, (2003). VG PB.

Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: the letters of Richard P. Feynman.

foreword by Timothy Ferris, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Basic Books, (2005). Preview sample. VG PB sample chapter only. Sample chapter from Feynman's book of his letters. Maverick physicist, Nobel laureate & bestselling author includes on. letter for his wife dead for 2 years.

My Father and Myself.

Ackerley, J. R., introduction by W. H. Auden, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, New York Review Books, (1999). Reprint. VG PB. Ackerley's father was the Banana King, a successful importer of fruit and a bluff, hearty fellow, little appreciated by his. refined & literary son. On his death the father left a letter revealing that his life of respectable ...

Geronimo's Story of His Life.

Barrett, S. M., taken down and edited by, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, (1990). Facsimile 1905. VG PB. Geronimo was capture in the late 1880s and imprisoned at Fort Sill, OK, when Barrett proposed that he tell his life story. the origin of the Apaches, their tribal amusements, manners, and customs, Geronimo's family and ...

The Doyle Diary: the last great Conan Doyle mystery, with a Holmesian investigation into the case of Charles A. Doyle.

Baker, Michael, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

NY, Paddington Press, (1978). VG in VG DJ. Doyle never talked about his father who was in a Scottish insane asylum & kept this strange diary.

In the Company of Strangers.

Meigs, Mary, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Vancouver, Canada, Talonbooks, 1991. VG PB. Meigs' narrative begins as her story then unfolds into a gentle meditation on time, old age, magic & binding.

Georgia O'Keeffe: a life.

Robinson, Roxana, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

NY, Harper Row, (1989). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. O'Keeffe's life began on a midwestern farm in the 1890s. As a young painter she lived in NYC at the center of the avant-garde. Later she divided her time between the countryside at Lake George, NY, and her explorations of th...

Ken & Em: a biography of Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson.

Shuttleworth, Ian, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, St. Martins, (1995). 1stAm ed1stptg. VG in VG DJ. The lives of actors Thompson & Branagh. Owner blind stamp.

Woman of Letters: a life of Virginia Woolf.

Rose, Phyllis, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1978. VG in VG DJ. Woolf's past reverberates in her novels: shadows of a fire that frightened her as a child in the nursery, obsession with her. mother's & sister's deaths when she was an adolescent, her father's tyranny over the household, her exclusion...

Annette von Droste-Hulshoff.

Mare, Margaret, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

London, Methuen, (1965). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Signed notecard by author. Delicate, over-sensitive, unstable, a masculine intellect, poetess Annette flouted convention &. suffered accordingly. Three sections: biography, interpretation of a dozen selected poems, plus her treatme...

Alfred Nobel: dynamite king - achitect of peace.

Pauli, Herta E., · 1942 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

NY, L. B. Fischer, (1942). VG. Blue binding, wonderful condition.

The Weight of It: a story of two sisters.

Wilensky, Amy, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Holt, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

The Early Years of His Royal Highness The Prince Consort, compiled under the direction of her majesty.

Grey, Lieut.-General the Hon. C., · 1867 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, 1867. G ex-library. Green binding with gilt signature of Queen Victoria. Library markings.