Biografia

The Amazing Mr. Longfellow: little known facts about a well-known poet.

Jones, Herbert G., · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Portland, ME, Longfellow Press, (1957). Limited ed. G ex-library. Laid in letter from author dated March 4, 1962. 150th Longfellow Anniverary Edition limited to 2500 copies. Tan binding, browning toward top edge. owner inscription, library markings.

Postmarked Moscow: an American Ambassador's wife looks at life in Russia today.

Kirk, Lydia, wife of Ambassador to USSR 1949-1952, · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Scribner, 1952. 1st ed. G in G DJ. American woman's view of day-to-day living in U.S.S.R. in the early 1950s. DJ edge wear & browned at edges, library markings.

John Sherman's Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet 2 volumes.

Sherman, John, · 1905 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

Chicago, Werner Co, 1905. G ex-library. Olive green binding, gilt pictorial of man orating with chair behind him, gilt lettering & decorations. Portraits, facsimile. letters, scenes.

Forty Years Too Late.

Huff, Avis M., · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Portland, ME, House of Falmouth, (1958). G in G DJ ex-library. In Sept of 1949 Avis and her husband in their 6th decade decide to move to a Maine farm miles from town. This is the story of. their struggle with their many obstacles. Library bookplate, DJ worn at edges.

A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil.

Pritchett, V. S., · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Modern Library, (1994). Reprint. G PB. Sequel to earlier Cab at the Door. Sl edge wear, corners starting to roll up, plastic separating at ft spine bottom.

The Fly Swatter: how my grandfather made his way in the world.

Dawidoff, Nicholas, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Pantheon, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The most interesting lives are not always the best-known lives. Gerschenkron's great escapes, vivid wit, feuds, flirtations,. & supremely cultured mind are the stuff of legend. He fled the Russian Revolution at 16, settled in ...

John Paul Jones: sailor, hero, father of the American Navy.

Thomas, Evan, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Simon & Schuster, (2003). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Thomas draws on Jones' wide-ranging correspondence with significant figures of the American Revolution - John Adams,. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson - to paint a compelling portrait of a tortured warrior, a self-made man...

Now.

Bacall, Lauren, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 1994. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ.

John Keats (2 volumes).

Lowell, Amy, · 1925 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1925. VG. Poet Lowell's famous biography of fellow poet Keats. Red binding, edge wear, few spots & bumped corners, owner name.

Obsessive Genius: the inner world of Marie Curie: Great Discoveries.

Goldsmith, Barbara, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Norton, (2005). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Goldsmith discovers the woman behind the icon we have come to believe in, an all-too-human woman trying to balance a. scientific career with family obligations, society's prejudice, a constant search for adequate funding & the battle f...

Isak Dinesen - Karen Blixin: the work and the life.

Henriksen, Aage, translated by William Mishler, introduction by Poul Houe, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, St. Martins, (1988). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Henriksenwas a friend of Dinesen's for the last decade of her life & has studied & written about her and her work for 30 yrs. Essays include reminiscences from their friendship & attempts to clarify Dinesen's powerful perso...

Kara Mia: story of sudden loss and slow recovery in a teenager with Long QT syndrome.

Anglim, Maryann & Walter Allan, M.D., foreword by G. Michael Vincent, M.D., · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Bath, ME, Seahorse Press, (1997). VG PB. Signed by both authors on title page. Personal & professional saga when a 14 yr old girl collapses at track practice. Long QT syndrome ia a heart disorder which can cause sudden death in young healthy-appearing people.

One Writer's Beginnings.

Welty, Eudora, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (2001). 18th ptg. VG PB. "Beguiling as autobiography and .profound & priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write serious fiction." LA. Times Book Review. Laid in xeroxed copy of "The Worn Path".

Up in the Park: the diary of the wife of the American Ambassador to Ireland 1977-1981.

Shannon, Elizabeth, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Atheneum, 1983. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ.learn how a bright feminist can use a role like ambassador's wife.to bring the women's movement of Ireland to critical mass. and to help change other women's lives as well. Betty Friedan DJ ft flap creased.

One Way Out: a salary-drawing New Englander emigrates to America.

Carleton, William, · 1913 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1913). Reprint. VG.

Yankee Auctioneer: reminiscences & philosophy of a country auctioneer, well seasoned with yarns about profits & people.

Bean, George H., · 1948 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little Brown, 1948. G in G DJ. Bean tells what it takes to a be a successful auctioneer and tells abaout his 25 yrs behind the auction block. DJ fading, edge wear, price clipped, binding faded at bottom.

The Duke of Deception: memories of my father.

Wolff, Geoffrey, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Penguin, (1986). 1st ed ss. VG PB. A man so full of deceit his only truth was his love for his sons. Wolff's father passed himself off as a Yaleman & an. aeronautical engineer meanwhile moving continually to stay ahead of his creditors.

Prisoner for Polygamy: the memoirs and letters of Rudger Clawson at the Utah Territorial Penitentiary 1884-87.

Larson, Stan, edited by, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Urbana, Univer of Illinois, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Prison memoirs & letters of first Mormon convicted of violating the Edmunds Law, which prohibits polygamy, provides a unique. perspective of Utah history. Clawson (1857-1943) was a prominent member of the Chuch of Latte...

Ten Minutes from Normal.

Hughes, Karen, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Viking, (2004). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Counselor to the President, Hughes left to go back to Texas with her family, but kept in touch by telephone. Partially. removed address sticker ft endpaper.

84, Charing Cross Road.

Hanff, Helene, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Avon, (1974). 10th ptg. VG PB. Hanff's lifelong love affair with books and her letters to a British book dealer led her to write 84, Charing Cross Road. Owner inscription ft endpaper, some tanning on binding.