Biografia

The Life of Dwight L. Moody: official authorized edition.

Moody, William R., his son, · 1900 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

NY, Revell, 1900. VG. Few spots cover, edge wear. Laid in publisher's pamphlet Story of His Life and Work: D. L. Moody by Rev. Charles F. Goss, D.D. Owner stamp fep, hinges cracked.

Prison Letters.

ten Boom, Corrie, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Carmel, Ny, Guideposts, (1975). VG PB. Corrie's family joined the Dutch resistance & helped Jews escape Nazi death camps until they were betrayed & imprisoned. Few spots ft cover.

Mrs. Simpson.

Garrett, Richard, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, St. Martins, (1979). VG in G DJ. A king renounced his throne for her. 1st blank page removed, DJ ft flap creased, owner notation fep. Only child of a leading but poor Baltimore family, Wallis was intelligent & on her own admission spoiled. A new look at this fascinating wo...

Out of My Later Years: the scientist, philosophy and man portrayed through his own words.

Einstein, Albert, · 1956 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NJ, Citadel, (1956). Reprint. VG PB. Covers 15 year period from 1934 to 1950 drawn from his articles, addresses, letters and assorted papers. Einstein discusses urgent problems of modern society: social, religious, educatinal & racial relationships.

A Thread in the Tapestry.

Churchill, Sarah, · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1967). VG in VG DJ. As she travels in his funeral procession, Sarah remembers what it was to be Winston Churchill's daughter. DJ browned edges.

Love on Trial: an American scandal in black and white.

Lewis, Earl & Heidi Ardizzone, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Norton, (2001). VG in VG DJ. When she married socialite Leonard Rhinelander, Alice Jones, a former nanny, hoped to live quietly. But questions about her. race precluded that. Their marriage & annulment trial opened the lives of two vastly different families to the public.

Pearl's Secret: a black man's search for his white family.

Henry, Neil, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Berkeley, CA, Univ of Calif Press, (2001). VG in VG DJ. A black professor sets out to piece together the murky details of his family's racial past. His search for the white branch. of his family becomes a deeply personal odyssey. Henry reflects on the part racism & racial igno...

Watch Me Fly: what I learned on the way to becoming the woman I was mean to be.

Evers-Williams, Myrlie with Melinda Blau, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little Brown, (1999). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ.

Lift Up Thy Voice: the Grimke family's journey from slaveholders to civil rights leaders.

Perry, Mark, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Viking, (2001). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Story of race consciousness & politics in America told throughout the lives of one extraordinary family. In 1868 when. Angelina & Sarah discovered that their now deceased brother had had children with one of his slaves, they invited th...

Veteran's Day: a Viet Nam memoir.

Kane, Rod, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Orion, (1990). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A combat medic in Viet Nam, Kane found war intensely cruel & suffered frustration, futility & despair. Owner name fep, DJ. price clipped.

Time Out of Mind: the diaries of Leonard Michaels.

Michaels, Leonard, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Riverhead Books, 1999. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Raw musings of a man who has difficulty reconciling himself to the world in which he finds a beauty & strangeness. Remainder mark top fore-edge, scrape to back price label & few small dents.

Celia, a Slave.

McLaurin, Melton A., · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Avon, (1993). 1st ptg. VG PB. In 1855, after repeated molestations by her abusive master, Celia finds herself on trial for his murder in a landmark case.

And a Voice to Sing with.

Baez, Joan, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, New American Library, (1988). 1st ptg. G PB. Not only an autobiography but an inside view of recent turbulent history. Corner wear.

Whose Little Boy Are You?: a memoir of the Broun family.

Broun, Heywood Hale, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, St. Martin's, (1983). 1st ed 1PB ptg. Horrors of having rich, famous & progressive parents, father a towering newspaper columnist, mother a militant feminist.

Pasquale's Nose.

Rips, Michael, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Little Brown, (2001). 1st ptg. VG PB uncorrected advance proof. Author quits his life as a trial lawyer and goes with his family to a tiny Etruscan village where they find home in the. weirdest place imaginable.

The Secrets of Mariko.

Bumiller, Elisabeth, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Vintage, (1995). 1st ptg thus. VG PB. Mariko illuminates not only her protagonist but the entire fabric of Japanese society.

Balm in Gilead: journey of a healer.

Lightfoot, Sara Lawrence, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, (1989). 1st PB ptg. VG PB.

Over the Top by an American soldier who went.

Empey, Arthur Guy, machine gunner serving in France, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Putnam, 1917. 32nd ptg. G. Red binding, gilt lettering. Owner inscription fep, heavy edge wear.

This Side of Peace: a personal account.

Ashrawi, Hanan, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. As spokesperson for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, Ashrawi became the most articulate voice of their struggle. Now in a revealing & important account, Ashrawi tells of her own struggles as a Christian Arab woman in...

Norma: my secret life with Marilyn Monroe.

Jordan, Ted, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Morrow, (1989). BCE. VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear & damp stained near spine.