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Endgame: a journal of the seventy ninth year.

Sarton, May, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Norton, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Fiction & poetry writer Sarton recounts what she thought would be a potent harvest but instead became a painful health battle.

My Aunt Louisa and Woodrow Wilson.

Elliott, Margaret Axson, · 1944 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Chapel Hill, Univ of N. Carolina, (1944). G ex-library. Wilson seen through the eyes of his young sister-in-law. Library markings.

Lucky.

Sebold, Alice, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Boston, Back Bay/Little Brown, (1999). 6th ptg. VG PB. The author of The Lovely Bones reveals how as an 18 yr old college freshman she was brutally raped & beaten near campus. & it transformed her life. She illuminates the experience of trauma victims & imparts wisdom hard-won...

The Lobster Chronicles: life on a very small island.

Greenlaw, Linda, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Hyperion, (2002). 1st PB ed 1ptg. VG PB. Greenlaw takes a break from being a swordfish captain and feels the need to return home to a tiny island 7 miles off the Maine. coast with a population of 70 year-round residents, 30 of whom are her relatives. Her fellow islanders d...

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: an African childhood.

Fuller, Alexandraa, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Random, (2001). 9th ptg. VG PB with Reading Group Guide. Fuller remebers her African childhood, an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, with laughter. She stares down. disaster & looks back with rage & love at the live of an extraordinary family in an extraordinary ...

Staying Tuned: a life in journalism.

Schorr, Daniel, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Pocket, (2001). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Last of Edward R. Murrow news team still active in journalism, after 6 decades still fully engaged in world-watching. He opened the CBS bureau in Moscow in 1955, arranged an unprecedent TV interview with Khrushchev, may be one o...

The Georgetown Ladies' Social Club: power, passion and politics in the nation's capital.

Heymann, C. David, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Atria, (2003). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Dinner parties, correspondence, intersections & overlappings of most powerful women behind American politics.

From Ashes to Glory: conflicts and victories on and beyond the football field.

McCartney, Bill, head football coach, Univ. of Colorado with Dave Diles, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Nashville, Nelson, (1990). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Heartbreaks that forged new bonds in his family & among his team members. Owner stamp.

Outlaws on Horseback: the history of the organized bands of bank and train robbers who terrorized the prairie towns....

Drago, Harry Sinclair, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1964). G. Endpaper drawing by Lorence F. Bjorklund. Damp spots at top of ft cover, fore-edge & beginning pages, edge wear.

The Life, Times & Treacherous Death of Jesse James: Legends of the West.

Triplett, Frank, introduction & notes by Joseph Snell, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Stamford, CT, Longmeadow Press, (1992). 3rd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Reprint of suppressed 1882 edition. Owner inscription ft endpaper.

Jesse James Was His Name: or, fact & fiction concerning the careers of the notorious James brothers of Missouri.

Settle, William A., Jr., · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Columbia, MO, Univ of Missouri Press, (1967). 2nd ptg. G ex-library. Notes, bibliography, index. Library markings, corners bumped, smudges, underlining, ft hinge cracked.

Burt Lancaster: an American Life.

Buford, Kate, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Knopf, 2000. 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Lancaster authorized no biography in his lifetime and his widow's cooperation was won by Buford. Wrinkle on ft endpaper. publisher's flaw.

On the Way to My Funeral.

Delano, Sarah, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

San Jose, Writers Club Press, (2001). VG PB. Rape on the high seas, war in Middle East, living the future before it happens, past life experiences, near death events. Edge of ft endpaper rumpled.

Katherine Anne Porter: a life.

Givner, Joan, · 1982 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

NY, Touchstone, (1982). 1st PB ptg. VG lg sz PB. Judicious, fair, thorough, respectful with being adulatory. Owner blind stamp, remainder mark, fading toward spine.

From Gloucester to Philadelphia in 1790: observations, anecdotes and thoughts from 18th century letters of Murray.

Murray, Judith Sargent & Bonnie Hurd Smith, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,470)

Cambridge, MA, Judith S. Murray Society, 1999. VG PB. Excerpts from forthcoming book The Letters of Judith Sargent Murray, with a biographical introduction. Tipped in addendum. In 1765 ath the age of 14, Murray began keeping copies of hundreds of letters she wrote to family, f...

Yes.

Kiemel, Ann (Anderson), · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Wheaton, IL, Tyndale House, (1979). 3rd ptg. VG. Kiemel tells how she has answered yes to God's questions. DJ clipped & edge wear.

I Can't Stay Long.

Lee, Laurie, · 1976 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Atheneum, 1976. 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Lee recaptures his Gloucestershire childhood. DJ price clipped & edge wear, owner inscription & drawing flyleaf.

The Correspondence of Arthur Hugh Clough: vol 2 only.

Mulhauser, Frederick L., edited by, · 1957 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1957. G ex-library. English poet (1819-1861) secretary in commission for study of military education abroad. Dark blue binding, gilt lettering. Subject of Matthew Arnold's elegy Thyrsis. Author of a pastoral in hexameters, The Bothie of Toper-na-Fuosic...

Castles Burning: a child's life in war.

Denes, Magda, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Norton, (1997). BCE. VG in VG DJ. An odyssey through wreckage & homelessness of wartime Budapest by a precocious child who descends into suffering & loss.

Life and Work of Theodore Roosevelt, typical American, patriot, orator, historian, sportsman, soldier, statesman & president.

Major-General Leonard Wood, · 1920 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

np, L. H. Walter, np (ca 1920). Memorial Ed. VG. Also special articles & tributes of respect by many leaders in public life, intimate friends & political associates. Royal blue binding with gilt lettering & black decoration. Crossed out stamps ft endpaper, corners bumped.