Biografia

Untriangulated Stars: letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson to Harry de Forest Smith 1890-1905.

Robinson, Edwin Arlington, edited by Denham Sutcliffe, · 1947 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Cambridge, Harvard Univ Press, 1947. G ex-library. Owner name fep, library markings & bookplate, spine faded, top edge of binding damp stained, interior very good.

Who Walk Alone.

Burgess, Perry, · 1940 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Holt, (1940). 24th ptg. VG in G DJ. First Prize National Book Awards Booksellers' Discovery 1940. Midwesterner Ned Langford learned that something had happened. to him so terrible that it sent him into lifelong exile on a distant tropical island. DJ edge tears & soiling.

Neighbor to the World: the story of Lillian Wald.

Block, Irvin, · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Crowell, (1969). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Lillian knew that her neighbors in New York lower east side ghettos needed more than medicine. She saw exploitation of. women & child workers & tenement filth & squalor & she fought back, campaigning for public health legisla...

Elizabeth Taylor: the screen greats.

Hutchinson, Tom, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥799)

NY, Exter, (1982). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Edge wear, library gift bookplate fep.

Nixon vs. Nixon: an emotional tragedy.

Abrahamsen, David, M.D., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, New American Library, (1978). 1st ptg thus. G PB. An eminent psychologist brings insight into Nixon's character & actions. Edge wear, scrape ft cover, few marks on back cover.

Elvis and the Colonel.

Mann, May, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Pocket, (1975). G PB. Edge wear, ft cover crease. Mann was "the only reporter ever authorized to interview" Elvis. Contains her talks with the. Colonel, Priscilla, girl friends, the Beatles, school friends, army buddies, etc.

Elvis: a biography.

Hopkins, Jerry, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Warner, (1975). 5th ptg. G PB. Contains a listing of his records, his films and an astrological profile. Edge wear.

Minding Our Own Business.

Paul, Charlotte, · 1955 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (1955). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Paul & her family become proprietors of a country newspaper in Snoqualmie, Washington, with a population of 750. DJ few spots & edge wear.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by herself.

Jacobs, Harriet A., edited & with introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1994). 10th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Born a slave in NC in 1813, Harriet became a fugitive in 1830s & recorded her struggle for freedom pseudonymously in 1861. A remarkable grandmother who hid her from her master for 7 years, a brother who escape &...

The Second Seduction.

Lear, Frances, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 1992. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Alcoholism, parental sexual abuse, manic-depression, loss of personal identity & the possibility of suicide marked Lear's. life before she became a NY fashion executive, mother, activist & finally a magazine journalist. How she prevailed a...

C. T. Studd: cricketer & pioneer.

Grubb, Norman P., · 1948 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Christian Literature Crusade, nd (ca 1948). VG. Owner bookplate & stamp fep, sl edge wear.

Reminiscences.

MacArthur, Douglas, General of the Army, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

NY, McGraw-Hill, (1964). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. MacArthur writings in his own hand & finished only weeks before his death spans more than half a century of modern history.

Into Woods.

Roorbach, Bill, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Notre Dame, IN, Univ of Notre Dame Press, (2002). VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by author. Nature, love, family & place beginning with a honeymoon in France's Loire Valley to a daughter's birth.

Road Song: a memoir.

Kusz, Natalie, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harper, (1990). 2nd ptg. G PB.

Woman in the Mists: the story of Dian Fossey and the mountain gorillas of Africa.

Mowat, Farley, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Warner, (1987). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library.

Bismarck: the story of a fighter.

Ludwig, Emil, translated by Eden & Cedar Paul, · 1930 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Blue Ribbon, (1930). Reprint. VG in G DJ. DJ chipped.

A Punishment for Peace.

Berrigan, Philip, · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Macmillan, (1969). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Berrigan indicts both church & state for not taking immediate steps to end war & racism. urgency of a passionate call to conscience which Philip Berrigan makes to all Christians. He believes the great moral tasks of our time are the...

Emlyn: an early autobiography 1927-1935.

Williams, Emlyn, · 1961 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (1961). BCE. G. Corners bumped, damp stain edges of back cover.

Sixteen Short Novels: an anthology.

Sheed, Wilfrid, selected & with introduction by, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dutton, (1985). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Sheed explains why these stories had to be this length & what part thy played in their authors' careers. Sheed words like his recoveries are healing as he offers a testimony of encouragement & intelligent comfort & good humor.

Me and My Shadows: a family memoir: living with the legacy of Judy Garland.

Luft, Lorna, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Pocket, (1998). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. First insider portrait of one of Hollywood's most celebrated families & an intimate chronicle of an astonishing childhood.