Biografia

Life Notes: personal writing by contemporary black women.

Bell-Scott, Patricia, edited & with introduction by, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Norton, (1994). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ.

Gloria Stuart I Just Kept Hoping.

Stuart, Gloira with Sylvia Thompson, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little Brown, (1999). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Old Rose from Titanic film.

My Story.

Fisher, Amy, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Pocket, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. DJ rubbed. The infamous Amy Fisher tells her side of the Joey Buttafuoco story.

The Kinta Years.

Giles, Janice Holt, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co, 1973. G ex-library. DJ flaps glued to fep, usual library markings. Holt's 6 years in rural Oklahoma where her best friend's grandfather was head. of the Choctaw Nation. There were camping & fishing trips & visits to grandparents, the Confederate Re...

The Year of the Longley.

Johnson, Willis, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Stonington, ME, Penobscot Bay Press, (1978). VG PB. Sl edgewear, owner name fep. Longley shocked everyone when he singlehandedly upset the two political parties. to become governor of Maine and what political writers began calling a prototype for post-Watergate politicians.

Any Given Day: the life & times of Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux: a memoir of 20th century America.

Foveaux, Jessie Lee Brown, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Warner, (1997). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Contains 4 pages of genealogy at beginning of book. She spent her childhood fishing by moonlight & dressing her cats in doll. clothes, but WWI & her marriage to a man she didn't love changed that. As time went on she learned to forgive the...

First Gentleman of the Bedchamber: the life of Louis-Francois-Armand, marechal duc de Richelieu.

Cole, Hubert, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Heinemann, (1965). 1st ptg. G in G DJ. Bottom fore-edge mottled, DJ price clipped & edge wear. Scandalous, promiscuous, Richelieu seduced shopkeepers' wives,. duchesses, prostitutes & royal mistresses. For the first time from intimate correspondence between him & his m...

Bottoms Up!.

Skinner, Cornelia Otis, · 1955 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1955). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Owner notation fep, DJ edge wear. Cornelia takes us along on the streets of Paris, to an annual dinner of obstetricians,. carrot juice at a health bar, early theater days on the road, etc.

Eleanor Roosevelt: vol. I (1884-1933).

Cook, Blanche Wiesen, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Penguin, (1993). 3rd ptg. G PB. Cover creased, edge wear. In her public life she fought racism & injustice & advanced the rights of women; in her private life. she formed long intimate relationships with some of great men & women of her times.

In My Wildest Dreams: autobiography.

Thomas, Leslie, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Arlington Books, (1984). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Early childhood in Wales, child of a roving sailor & a romanticizing mother described with poetic warmth & humor.

Almost Golden: Jessica Savitch and the selling of television news.

Blair, Gwenda, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1988). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

I Knew a Phoenix: sketches for an autobiography.

Sarton, May, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Norton, (1974). 2nd ptg. G PB. Sarton recalls her Belgian childhood, her historian of science father, English mother. Edge wear, top corner of cover creased.

In the Arena: a memoir of victory, defeat & renewal.

Nixon, Richard, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1990). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

Man of the House: the life & political memoirs of Speaker Tip O'Neill.

O'Neill, Speaker Tip, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Random, (1987). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ.

Loyalties: a son's memoir.

Bernstein, Carl, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1989). VG PB.

Rebecca West: a life.

Glendinning, Victoria, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Fawcett Columbine, (1988). 1st PB ptg. VG PB.

Mark Twain's Speeches.

William Dean Howells, · 1923 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

NY, Harper, (1923). G ex-library. Usual library markings.

In Friendly Candor.

Weeks, Edward, · 1959 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Atlantic Monthly, (1959). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. DJ rubbed, price clipped, edge wear. Editor Weeks tells of his adventures as a young editor and friendships with authors but. also examines their craftsmanship. He also tells of holidays on trout streams & salmon rivers of ...

Marion Barry: the politics of race.

Agronsky, Jonathan I. Z., · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Latham, NY, British American Publishing, (1991). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear.

Historic Boys: their endeavors, their achievements and their times.

Brooks, E. S., · 1892 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

NY, Putnam, 1892. G. Frontis with tissue guard, blue binding, gilt/ black decoration & lettering, edge wear, binding rubbed. Louis of Bourbon,. Charles of Sweden & Van Rensselaer of Rensselaerswyck. Owner name fep.