Biografia

Recollections of a Life.

Hiss, Alger, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Arcade Pub/Little Brown, (1988). 1st pb ed. VG PB. A moving autobiography that will make a new generation question whether Hiss could have been guilty of spying.

If Memory Serves.

Guitry, Sacha, translated from French by Lewis Galantiere, · 1936 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Doubleday Doran, 1936. VG in G DJ. Remains owner's sticker & date on fep. DJ chipped, soiled. An actor-manager of French stage whose comedies are modern classics.

A. Woollcott: his life and his world.

Adams, Samuel Hopkins, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Reynal & Hitchcock, (1945). VG. Binding soiled. American journalist and writer, dramatic critic, radio broadcaster, member of the Round Table.

My Sister Roseanne: the true story of Roseanne Barr Arnold.

Barr, Geraldine with Ted Schwarz, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Birch Lane/Carol Pub, (1994). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. A bittersweet memoir of growing up Jewish in Mormon Utah, discovering feminism, lesbianism, & power of community.

Sam Walton: made in America, my story.

Walton, Sam with John Huey, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday, (1992). 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. The founder of Walmart talks about his life and his work.

Right in Her Soul: the life of Anna Louise Strong.

Strong, Tracy B. and Helen Keyssar, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Random, (1983). 1st ed 2d ptg. VG in VG DJ. The American journalist whose circle included Trotsky, Stalin, Borodin, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mao Tse-tung, Chou En-lai. Remainder. mark lower edge. Corner bumped. DJ chipped.

The Story of My Life: with her letters (1887-1901), additional chapter and a supplementary account on her education.

Keller, Helen, · 1905 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

NY, Doubleday Page, 1905. Special ed. VG. Back cover has some discoloration. Owner name fep. Paste down pictorial cover of Keller. Spine sunned, spine and edges sl worn.

Henrietta Szold: life and letters.

Lowenthal, Marvin, · 1942 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Viking Press, 1942. 1st edition. G. Ft flylf removed damaging fep & hinge, remains of bookplate. Compiled from 5,000 letters of this Jewish Zionist leader.

Melanie Klein: her world and her work.

Grosskurth, Phyllis, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Knopf, 1986. 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. DJ chipped, torn. "X" mark on DJ top left, flap & fep. 1920s on leading figure in psychoanalytic circles, parent of the object-. relations theory.

Childhood.

Cosby, Bill, introduction by Alvin F. Poussaint, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Putnam, (1991). 5th printing. VG in VG DJ. Cosby holds forth with marvelous stories about his day as a crossing guard, the trials of bedtime, the Loch Ness monsters. .

A Boy in that Situation: an autobiography.

Hannam, Charles, · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper & Row, (1978). 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. ".one of the most exact accounts of early adolescence yet written.", ".realizing both our individuality" & humanity. Dj sl chipped.

Austin and Mabel: the Amherst affair and love letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd.

Longsworth, Polly, preface by Richard B. Sewall, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1984). 1st ed 2d ptg. VG in VG DJ.

Allen Ginsberg in America.

Kramer, Jane, · 1969 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Random, (1969). 1st ptg ss. G ex-library. Usual lib. stamps, labels, & pocket. Being with Ginsberg in the '60s.

The Comeback: the life and career of Bill Clinton.

Allen, Charles F. and Jonathan Portis, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Birch Lane, 1992. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ.

Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait.

Brooks, Van Wyck, · 1956 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Dutton, 1956. BCE. VG in VG DJ. DJ chipped, sl torn. Brooks' most intense impression of Keller was that in comparison most other people seemed handicapped.

Mary Queen of Scots.

Fraser, Antonia, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Delacorte Press, (1970). 8th ptg. VG in Fair DJ. DJ chipped, with tears and tape repair across front. Mary seen as an intensely feminine, regal yet tragic figure.

Churchill: the life triumphant.

Dwight Eisenhower, biographical essay by Henry A. Grunwald, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, American Heritage Pub Co, (1965). VG in G DJ. Owner inscript fep. Damp stain back bot edge dj & book. DJ clipped, torn, chipped.

Benjamin Franklin: investor, statesman, and patriot.

Stein, R. Conrad, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Chicago, Rand McNally, (1972). VG. Front right edge of cover dented. Map on endpapers. Wonderful historic paintings reproduced in color to illustrate Franklin's. life and accomplishments.

Journal I (1945-1955).

Eliade, Mircea, translated from Romanian by Mac Linscott Ricketts, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Chicago, Univ of Chicago Press, 1990. 1st edition. G in G DJ ex-library. A story of renewal when in 1945 Eliade becomes an expatriate to Paris empty handed after Soviet takeover of Romania. Usual lib. markings and stamps.

Washington through a Purple Veil: memoirs of a southern woman.

Boggs, Lindy with Katherine Hatch, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1994). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Hale Boggs' wife served in Congress for 18 years after the disappearance of her husband in a small plane over Alaska. Remainder mark on bottom edge.