Biografia

Henry Clay Frick: the man.

Harvey, George, · 1936 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

Privately printed, 1936. VG in VG DJ. Index.

Emma Hamilton.

Lofts, Norah, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Coward McCann, (1978). 1st Amer ed ss. VG in VG DJ. Beautifully illustrated. From blacksmith's daughter with no education or reputation, she became the toast of Europe.

The Brownings: a Victorian idyll: the Katharine Cornell edition.

Loth, David, preface by Katharine Cornell, · 1931 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Brentano, 1931. VG in VG DJ. Revised edition sparked by Cornell's impersonation of Elizabeth Barrett in "The Barretts of Wimpole Street". DJ browned at edges.

Kenneth Clark: a biography.

Secrest, Meryle, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Holt Rinehart, (1984). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. Clarke did more than any individual in our time to educate the public about the meaning & value of art.

Cleopatra's Barge: the Crowninshield story.

Ferguson, David L., · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little Brown, (1976). 1st ed ss. VG in G DJ. Index, bibliography. DJ edge wear, rubbed, browned at edges.

Open Windows.

Bowen, Louise deKoven, · 1946 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Chicago, Ralph Fletcher Seymour, 1946. VG. Sl edge wear.

George S. Kaufman: an intimate portrait.

Teichmann, Howard, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Atheneum, 1972. 4th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Wit, playwright, stage director, newspaperman, performer who dominated comedy in the American theater for 40 years.

With Brendan Behan: a personal memoir.

Arthurs, Peter, foreword by Arthur C. Clarke, · 1981 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, St. Martins, (1981). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Confidant & bodyguard Arthurs tells of the last years of the boozing, brawling literary rebel, ex-IRA gun runner playwright. DJ edge wear.

Letters of a Woman Homesteader.

Stewart, Elinore Pruitt, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1982). VG PB. A widowed mother of 2 takes up homesteading in Burn Fork, WY, in 1909 to prove a woman could ranch, on film as "Heartland".

William Penn.

Holland, Rupert S., · 1925 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Macmillan, 1925. G ex-library. Stamp fep, pocket back ep. Blue binding embossed with illustration of Penn, gilt lettering.

Autobiography and Miscellanea.

Wight, John G., · 1912 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,179)

Utica, NY, L. C. Childs & Son, 1912. VG. Contains inscribed card "With love "Gram" Wight. Few page edges creased. Green binding, gilt title box ft cover.

A Trail of Memories: quotations of Louis Amour.

L'Amour, Louis, compiled by Angelique L'Amour, foreword by Louis L'Amour, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Bantam, (1988). BCE. VG in G DJ. DJ edge wear. Some of richest of L'Amour lode, collected from his works by his daughter.

Capote: a biography.

Clarke, Gerald, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

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

Our Best Years.

Hayes, Helen, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Doubleday, 1984. 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ.

Roseanne: my life as a woman.

Barr, Roseanne, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Harper & Row, (1989). 1st ed 6th ptg. VG in VG DJ.

Rock Hudson: his story.

Hudson, Rock and Sara Davidson, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Morrow, (1986). BCE. VG in VG DJ. For 36 years Hudson protected his image, now he wanted the public to know the story of his life, only authorized biography.

One Singular Sensation: the Michael Bennett story.

Kelly, Kevin, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday, (1990). 1st ed ss. VG PB. Scrape from price label removed on back cover, first blank page may have been removed.

The Letters of Virginia Woolf: two volumes v1 1888-1912 v2 1912-1922.

Woolf, Virginia, edited by Nigel Nicolson & Joanne Trautmann, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1976). 1st Amer ed ss. G in VG DJ. v2 bottom damp stained. Owner inscription v1 fep.

That Kelly Family.

McCallum, John, · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Barnes, (1957). VG.

Stay of Execution: a sort of memoir.

Alsop, Stewart, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1973). BCE. VG in VG DJ. DJ edge wear. What it means to live with a terminal disease & daily face the prospect of one's own death.