Biografia

Saint Genet: actor and martyr.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, translated from French by Bernard Frechtman, · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Braziller, 1963. 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. DJ browned on edges, edge wear. Born in a foundling home & raised in & out of reformatories, Genet spent the first 30 years. of his life as a vagrant, thief & jailbird. In jail he wrote his first book, Our Lady of the Flowers, "a flagr...

How Did I Get Here So Fast?.

Roberts, Chalmers M., · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Time Warner, (1991). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Rhetorical questions & available answers from a long & happy life. Combining personal reminiscences with entertaining. anecdotes.

The Survival of Charles Darwin: a biography of a man and an idea.

Clark, Ronald W., · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Random, (1984). BCE. VG in VG DJ.

Jane Fonda: heroine for our time.

Kiernan, Thomas, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Delilah, (1982). VG lg sz PB. Remainder mark.

Maugham.

Morgan, Ted, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Simon & Schuster, (1980). VG. Fading near spine.

Diary of a Novel: the story of writing Magaret's Story.

Price, Eugenia, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

NY, Lippincott & Crowell, (1980). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. "Writing a novel is the hardest work I ever do, but I am restless, jittery, never really quite at home unless I am at. work on one." Price's intimate account of the months she spent sorting through historical resar...

Shcharansky: hero of our time.

Gilbert, Martin, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Viking, (1986). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. Young Soviet Jewish activist and "refusenik", a fearless young man who risked his life to help others. Remainder mark. Few scrapes on fep where price sticker removed.

Lonesome Traveler.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Grove, (1970). 4th ptg. VG PB. The years when he was writing, restless years of wandering, working on the CA railroad, on a tramp steamer sailing the. coasts of America, fire lookout on the peaks of the Cascade Mountains, author of 18 books, the "life lived by an independe...

Jack's Book: an oral biography of Jack Kerouac.

Gifford, Barry & Lawrence Lee, · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Penguin, (1979). VG PB. In the voice of his friends & lovers, the story of Jack Kerouac, "King of the Beats". Sl edge wear.

Celine Dion: tour de force.

Germain, Georges-Hebert, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Lincolnwood, IL, Publications International, (1998). 1st ptg. VG.

Joy Shtick: or what is the existential vacuum and does it come with attachments.

Behar, Joy, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Hyperion, (1999). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

A Victorian Son: an autobiography 1897-1922.

Cloete, Stuart, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

NY, John Day, (1973). 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Author of Turning Wheels, Rags of Glory & How Young They Died. Born in Paris, grew up during WWI. DJ rubbed, edge wear. with a Boer heritage, his great-grandfather Chief Justice of the Cape & later High Commissioner of Natal.

Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Eckermann, editor of Goethe's collected works, · 1949 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Tudor, (1949). Reprint. VG. Owner name & date stamp fep, name bottom fore-edge, few white marks back cover.

The Fourth Musketeer: the life of Alexander Dumas.

Dubreton, J. Lucas, translated from French by Maida Castelhun Darnton, · 1928 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Coward-McCann, 1928. VG.

The Young George du Maurier: a selection of his letters, 1860-67.

Pepys Whiteley, · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, (1969). G. Book does not lay completely flat.

The Last Romantic: a life of Max Eastman.

O'Neill, William L., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1978. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Owner notations, DJ edge wear & rubbed.

After the Good Gay Times: Asheville - Summer of '35, a season with F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Buttitta, Tony, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Viking, (1974). VG in G DJ. Owner notations & underlining. Laid in newspaper review of book from 1974. DJ price clipped. In 1935 author opened a. bookstore in Thomas Wolfe's home town of Asheville, NC, and one night Fitzgerald knocked on his door. DJ edge wear.

Anatole France Himself: a Boswellian record.

Brousson, Jean Jacques, his secretary, translated by John Pollock, · 1925 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1925. Reprint. G. Paste down title label on ft cover & spine (browned). Edge wear.

The Innocent Eye.

Read, Herbert, · 1947 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Holt, (1947). 1st ptg. VG. Biogrpahy of noted English poet. Owner notations in text.

Pictures and Conversations: chapters of an autobiography with other collected writiings.

Bowen, Elizabeth, foreword by Spencer Curtis Brown, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 1975. 2nd ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Library book plate. Bowen's last book.