Biografi

My Little Journey.

Strong, June, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Washington, D.C., Review & Herald Pub Assn, (1984). VG PB. Why would a middle-aged mother of 6 leave home & walk up a coastal highway all alone? Determined to unpeel accumulated. layers of conventional religion to see if there was anything underneath. Ft cover creased at botto...

Helen Steiner Rice: ambassador of sunshine.

Pollitt, Ronald & Virginia Wiltse, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Carmel, NY, Guideposts, (1994). VG in G DJ. Using the poet's voluminous corerspondence & recollections of those who knew her, tells of a popular teenager & young. suffragette who planned to go to law school but her plans changed abruptly when her father died and she provided f...

Voice of the River: an autobiography.

Douglas, Marjory Stoneman with John Rothchild, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Sarasota, FL, Pineapple Press, (1990). 3rd ptg. VG lg sz PB. First lady of conservation because of her lifelong commitment to saving the Everglades. Rothchild edited 200 hours of taped. memoirs to prodcue this account of a full & inspiring life.

Sarah Orne Jewett: her world and her work: Radcliffe biography series.

Blanchard, Paula, · 1995 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Reading, MA, Addison-Wesley, (1995). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. Best known for her masterpiece The Country of the Pointed Firs Jewett (1849-1909) is a writer with enormous resonance for our. time. Place, traditional values & our yearning for a rural utopia all find fulfillment in Jewe...

John Wilkes Booth Himself.

Gutman, Richad J. S. & Kellie O., · 1979 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$750.00 (€680.46 | £567.69 | ¥119,727)

Dover, MA, Hired Hand Press, 1979. VG. First complete study of photos of Booth, actor & assassin of Abraham Lincoln & pictures of him at Lincoln's 2nd inauguration. Brown paste down pictorial cover with gilt outline & gilt lettering.

Selected to Live.

Dobschiner, Johanna-Ruth, foreword by Corrie ten Boom, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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Old Tappan, NJ, Revell, (1973). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Dobschiner's childhood as a persecuted Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland. When soldiers came for her family, she was left behind. Edge wear, owner sticker & notations endpaper, few spots along edge.

To Collect in Earnest: the life and work of Electra Havemeyer Webb.

Hewes, Lauren B. & Celia Y. Oliver, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

Shelburne, VT, Shelburne Museum, (1997). VB PB. Development of Shelburne Museum. Edge wear.

N. C. Wyeth: a biography.

Michaelis, David, · 1999 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

NY, Knopf, 1999. 5th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Painting dynasty family through 4 generations. Owner name.

Reverend Abiel Abbot of Peterborough, New Hampshire.

Harrer, John A., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Boston, Thomas Todd Co, 1978. VG. Abbot left a clear imprint on Peterborough, NH, where he lived and worked from 1827 to 1853.

No Ordinary Lives: one man's surprising journey into the heart of America.

Johnson, David, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Warner, (2002). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Hundreds of Americans who illuminate & embody values of home, family, work, love & spirituality.

Guinevere.

Phelan, Laurel, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Pocket, (1996). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. A 21-yr old Vancouver bookkeeper/secretary beset by violent nightmares finds by hypnotherapy & past life regression that her. dreams began nearly 1,500 years ago, the Dark Age of Britain. She travels back to her past life to m...

Harrison Ford Imperfect Hero.

Jenkins, Garry, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NJ, Birch Lane, (1998). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Ford laid bare with all his compelling complexities from more than 100 interviews with family, friends, colleagues etc.

Lady GI: a woman's war in the South Pacific: the memoir of Irene Brion.

Brion, Irene, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Novato, CA, Presidio, (1997). VG in VG DJ. Brion enlisted as a recruit in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corps, forerunner of WACs, from her small town of Friendship, NY. at the beginning of WWII. She traveled to Fort Devens, MA, where she learned how to be a soldier, and then to ...

The Pope & the Heretic: the true story of Giordano Bruno, the man who dared to defy the Roman Inquisition.

White, Michael, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Morrow, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of history's most intriguing yet little known natural philosophers, a 16th century Dominican priet whose radical. theories influenced some of the greatest thinkers in Western culture & the world's first martyr to science.

Dog Days: the autobiography of a man and his dog friends through four decades of changing America.

White, Stewart Edward, · 1933 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

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NY, Doubleday Doran, 1933. G ex-library. Library markings, corners bumped, edge wear.

Fugitive Spring: a memoir.

Digges, Deborah, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, 1992. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ.

Anne Boleyn.

Lofts, Norah, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Coward McCann & Geoghegan, (1980). Reprint. VG in VG DJ. Henry VIII's second queen & mother of Elizabeth I, beheaded on charges of incest & adultery, many thought her a witch. Lofts. brings her to life. She so captivated the King that he defied the Pope to marry her & 3 ye...

Play-Times in a Busy Life: sketches and meditations.

Trevor, William, · 1909 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Oldham, W. E. Clegg, 1909. VG. Sl soil binding, light foxing beginning pages.

The Right Man: the surprise presidency of George W. Bush.

Frum, David, · 2003 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Random, (2003). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Bush's first year in the White House by the presidential speechwriter credited with the phrase axis of evil. DJ sl. edge wear.

The Last Great American Hobo.

Maharidge, Dale, · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Rocklin, CA, Prima Pub, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Blackie started riding the rails as a boy briefly before the Depression but continued in 1930 when hobos were generally seen. as victims. He later resumed when the country was at the peak of its wealth but then cities began...