Biografia

Fannie Hardy Eckstorm: a descriptive bibliography & F. H. Eckstorm: Maine Woods Historian: Northeast Folklore XVI: 1975.

Whitten, Jeanne Patten & Elizabeth Ring, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Orono, ME, Northeast Folklore Society, (1975). VG PB. "There are but two kinds of people in the world, those who strive for what they can get out of it and those who strive to. leave something in it." FHE Eckstorm was an authority on Maine Indians, their language, customs & tr...

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Symonds, John Addington, · 1928 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Modern Library, (1928). VG. Brown binding, gilt lettering. Edge wear, owner name.

Kara Mia: the 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. An inherited insidious & deadly heart disorder which can cause sudden death in young healthy-appearing people.

Onward and Upward: a biography of Katharine S. White.

Davis, Linda H., · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Fromm Intl Pub Corp, (1989). VG lg sz PB. Married to E. B. White, an important literary force in her own right. Owner name fep.

Dr. Frau: a woman doctor among the Amish.

Kaiser, Grace H., · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Intercourse, PA, Good Books, (1986). VG in G DJ. Full of rich detail, Dr. Frau's reminiscences of her life as a baby doctor among the PA Amish reveals a different picture than. the stereotype. Among folk who value children & family, hard work & good food, closeness to God and ...

Rabindranath Tagore: the man and his poetry.

Roy, Basanta Koomar, introduction by Hamilton W. Mabie, · 1915 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dodd Mead, 1915. Later ptg. VG. Blue boards, gilt lettering. Owner name pencil fep, edge wear.

Andre Malraux: tragic humanist.

Blend, Charles D., · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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np, Ohio State Univ Press, (1963). VG In VG DJ. An answer to Malraux's questions, "Is man dead?" DJ sl edge wear, price clipped & rubbed.

An American Idyll: the life of Carleton H. Parker.

Parker, Cornelia Stratton, · 1924 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Boston, Atlantic Monthly, (1924). 10th imp. VG. Labor dispute mediator who because of his reports on migrant camps & labor unions, distrusted by both sides. Written by his wife. Cream boards, black spine & lettering, paper title label spine, owner book plate.

Nietzsche, a biographical introduction.

Lavrin, Janko, · 1971 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Scribner, (1971). G PB. Widely misquoted & minunderstood, Nietzsche broke all rules of philosophy by trampling over Christian-based ethics. He came. to believe that christianity, far from sustaining mankind, had harrowed Europe cruelly for hundreds of years; that man, if h...

Letters of a Woman Homesteader.

Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, foreword by Jessamyn West, · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Lincoln, Univ of Nebraska Press, 1961. 5th ptg. VG PB. "Stewart 'proved up' on more than 160 acres & has passed on to us the deed to a possession.reality of the 'old West'." West. Edge wear, sl soil bottom fore-edge.

Yankee Storekeeper.

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

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NY, Whittlesey House, (1946). 2nd ptg. VG.a store can sell only as much as the customers can pay for;so before the business can expand much the storekeeper must look. up ways for his customers to get money." Edges of binding browned.

The White-Boned Demon: a biography of Madame Mao Zedong based on unique Chinese sources.

Terrill, Ross, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, William Morrow, 1984. G lg sized PB. The "long-hidden layers of personal associations and feuds at the core of Chinese Communist politics". Damp stain bottom outer corner.

R.v.R.: the life of Rembrandt van Rijn.

Van Loon, Hendrik Willem, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Heritage Reprints, (1954). Reprint. VG in G DJ. The great painter as he might have been seen by a devoted contemporary as he was living & dying in poverty. Nick ft hinge. DJ edge wear.

The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci.

Merejcovski, Dmitri, translated from Russian by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Heritage Reprints, (1954). Reprint. VG in G DJ. Reincarnation of one of first minds & most diversified talents of all times & of the teeming life, color, filth of Italy of. the Middle Ages. Pictorial binding. DJ edge wear.

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: how my mother raised 10 kids on 25 words or less.

Ryan, Terry, foreword by Suze Orman, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Simon & Schuster, (2001). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Evelyn Ryan kept poverty at bay during the "contest era" of the 1950s & 1960s by writing jingles & contest entries. Remainder mk.

The Catcher Was a Spy: the mysterious life of Moe Berg.

Dawidoff, Nicholas, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Vintage, (1994). 1st ptg. G PB. One of the strangest episodes in the history of espionage. Moe Berg's baseball card is the only major league baseball player. on display at the CIA. He became an OSS spy in Europe during WWII. Few page corners creased.

A Seafaring Legacy: the photographs, diaries, letters & memorabilia of a Maine sea captain and his wife 1859-1908.

FreeHand, Julianna, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (1981). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Tucked away in musty cartons, packed up & gathering dust in atticks & closets in Yarmouth, Maine, was a treasure: letters,. diaries, photos & assorted memorabilia of Sumner & Alice Drinkwater, a 19th century Yankee sea captain & his wife...

Death Valley Scotty: "the fastest con in the West".

National Park Service, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Corona del Mar, CA, Trans-Anglo Books, (1974). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Stories about "Death Valley Scotty's" exploits are still told. His castle in Grapevine Canyon, a remote corner of Death Valley. National Monument, is now owned by the National Park Service & is open to the publ...

Death Valley Scotty: "the fastest con in the West".

National Park Service, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

Corona del Mar, CA, Trans-Anglo Books, (1974). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Stories about "Death Valley Scotty's" exploits are still told. His castle in Grapevine Canyon, a remote corner of Death Valley. National Monument, is now owned by the National Park Service & is open to the pub...

"Reconciled".

Crouse, Bette Jean, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Portland, ME, House of Falmouth, (1983). VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by Crouse. Unstable marriage, rebelious teens, physical conditions did not deter her from seeking God. DJ two edge tears.