Biografi

My Life in Three Acts.

Hayes, Hayes with Katherine Hayes, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Touchstone, (1990). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Her book deftly captures the actress's unassuming and straight forward approach to life with amusing stories about all.

The Politician: an insider's account of John Edward's pursuit of the presidency and the scandal that brought him down.

Young, Andrew, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,714)

NY, St. Martins, 2010. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Underside of American politics - raw ambition, manipulation, and deception. Riveting account of a presidential hopeful's. meteoric rise and scandalous fall. A truly disturbing, even shocking, perspective of risks taken and tactics e...

Hirohito Emperor of Japan.

Mosley, Leonard, · 1966 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

NY, Prentice-Hall, (1966). BOMC. VG in G DJ. Hirohito knew that Pearl Harbor was going to be attacked and facts showed him the war was lost only months after it began. DJ tanned on top edge.

Private Peat.

Peat, Harold R., ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1917). G. Life in the trenches and behind the lines, how things looked to him over there, what he saw and what he did. Binding tan,. white lettering & decoration.

Mighty Stonewall.

Vandiver, Frank E., · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

NY, McGraw-Hill, (1957). 2nd ptg. VG in Fair DJ (quite worn). Brings brilliantly to life one of the most remarkable men America has produced - Thomas Jonathan Jackson. As a military. genius he has been compared to Napoleon, and his deep religious faith to Cromwell. A legend in...

Morning Was Starlight: my Maine boyhood.

Dodge, Ernest, introduction by James Russell Wiggins, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Chester, CT, Globe Pequot Press, (1980). 1st ed. VG PB. Internationally known museum curator and marine historian recollects his youth on the Maine coast during the last days of. the coasting schooner and self-sufficient family. Following the change of seasons he tells of the ...

Obama from Promise to Power.

Mendell, David, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Amistad, (2007). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ ex-library. From a journalist who has been covering Obama and his career since his successful run for U.S. Senate, the biography. of America's hottest political superstar, Barack Obema. Library markings, crease on front DJ flap ...

Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery of Alameis.

Montgomery, Bernard, · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Da Capo, (1958). VG PB. Beautiful copy, unabridged.

Roosevelt: the soldier of freedom.

Burns, James MacGregor, · 1970 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1970). VG in VG DJ. Proposition of this stunning sequel to celebrated Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox is that FDR as a war leader was deeply. divided between the man of principle of ideals, of faith and the man of prudence, of narrow, manageable...

The Vision.

Brown, Tom Jr., · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Berkley Books, (1988). 1st ptg. VG PB. One man's search for enlightenment. America's most acclaimed outdoorsman presents an adventure of the spirit. Some tanning to page edges.

Caspar Hauser.

Wassermann, Jacob, translated by Caroline Newton, · 1985 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Carroll & Graf Pubs, (1985). VG PB. When a 17-year old boy suppenly appeared in Nuremberg without apparent origin or self-knowledge and with the vocabulary and. mentality of a child, research after his death revealed he was a legitimate prince of the House of Baden. The au...

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave.

Douglass, Frederick, edited and with introduction by David W. Blight, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

Boston, Bedford, (1995). VG PB. Bedford Series in History and Culture. Blight strikes a balance between engaging the reader & presenting the complexity. important work and multifaceted text. ".most useful version available." Slight edge wear.

Lincoln Master of Men.

Rothschild, Alonzo, · 1906 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1906). 18th imp. G ex-library. Analysis of Lincoln's character, photos of people important in his life, bibliography, notes, index. Library markings and jottings.

The Billion Dollar Spy.

Hoffman, David E., · 2015 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Doubleday, (2015). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. A true story of Cold War espionage and betrayal.

Stalin: the first in-depth biography based on explosive documents from Russia's secret archives.

Radzinsky, Edvard, translated by H. T. Willetts, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Doubleday, (1996). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. This picture of the Soviet strongman is more calculating, ruthless, and blood-crazed than has ever been described or. imagined. Stalin deliberately shrouded the details of his life in tremendous secrecy, eliminatinig old coll...

Janette Oke: a heart for the prairie.

Logan, Laurel Oke, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Bloomington, MN, Bethany House, (2001). 2nd ed. VG PB. The story of one of the most beloved novelists of our time. Now updated for a new generation of readers.

Never the Last Journey.

Zandman, Felix, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,470)

NY, Schocken, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. As a teenager Zandman spent 18 months in Nazi-occupied Poland. His grandmother taught him that the only measure of wealth is. what you give away. He lost his only home in 1943 when his entire world, the ghetto in his native city of G...

Napoleon Bonaparte.

Schom, Alan, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, HarperCollins, (1997). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Pictorial cover of Bonaparte. One of the giants of world history who has been subject of more than two hundred thousand. books. But author Schom discovered there had not been a comprehensive one-volume biography covering all aspe...

His Excellency George Washington.

Ellis, Joseph J., · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Knopf, 2004. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. A landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in. American history, George Washington. A new standard for biography. 8 photos.

The Best of James Herriot: favorite memories of a country vet.

Herriot, James, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Pleasantville, NY, St. Martins Press, (1982). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG. Herriot's own selection from his original books with additional material.