Biografi

Journal I (1945-1955).

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

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

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 | ¥2,395)

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.

Black Boy: a record of childhood and youth.

Wright, Richard, · 1945 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Harper, (1945). G. Edgewear, some fading and spotting near spine. Wright's classic.

The Woman Warrior: memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts.

Kingston, Maxine Hong, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Vintage, (1989). VG PB. Growing up female and Chinese-American in California. "Anti-nostalgic; it burns the fat right out of the mind.".

The War.

Duras, Marguerite, translated from the French by Barbara Bray, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Pantheon, (1986). VG.

Buy Jupiter and other stories.

Asimov, Isaac, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Doubleday, (1975). BCE. VG in VG DJ. DJ chipped. Behind the scenes biographical commentary on 24 little anthologized stories which form a unique autobiography.

A Question of Character: a life of John F. Kennedy.

Reeves, Thomas C., · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Free Press, (1991). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Slight edge wear. DJ sl chipped.

Letters of Daniel Webster.

Webster, Daniel, edited by C. H. Van Tyne, · 1902 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

NY, McClure Phillips, 1902. 1st ed. VG-. Owner names endpapers. Spine, edge and corner wear, corners bumped. Covers rubbed. Several leaves pressed between pages. 769 pp, brown cloth with gilt emb spine.

Happy Talk: confessions of a TV newsman.

Graham, Fred, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Norton, (1990). 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. CBS news' Supreme Ct reporter discusses decline of network news & uphill struggle of local stations to inform the public. Spine bumped. DJ slightly soiled on back.

Star Woman: we are made from stars and to the stars we must return.

Andrews, Lynn V., · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Warner, (1986). 1st ptg ss. VG in VG DJ. DJ edge wear. Walk into the wilderness with Andrews and seek selfhood in your heart as she does.

Christabel.

Biellenberg, Christabel, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Penguin, (1989). 1st U.S. ed. VG PB. In 1934 Christabel married a German law student who went on to plot to assassinate Hitler in 1944. Masterpiece Theatre pres.

The Same River Twice: honoring the difficult, a meditation on life, spirit, art, and the making of the Color Purple.

Walker, Alice, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Scribner, (1996). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Walker's period of transition from recluse to public figure and a contemplation of the true significance of extraordinary gifts. Remainder dot on bottom edge.

This Is Living: how I found health and happiness.

Redgrave, Lynn, · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Dutton, (1991). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Remainder mark, DJ chipped, sl torn.

Fear of Fifty: a midlife memoir.

Jong, Erica, · 1994 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Harper Collins, (1994). 2d printing. VG in VG DJ. Flap of front DJ creased, damp stain bot of DJ near front ctr, remainder mark. A controversial author looks back & forward.

How I Became Hettie Jones.

Jones, Hettie, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

NY, Dutton, (1990). 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. One corner of DJ scraped. What it was really like in NY's 50's bohemian jazz, literary & art center.

Robert Bacon: life and letters.

Marshal Earl Haig, · 1923 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Doubleday Page, 1923. 1st edition. G+. Front cover bowed, water wrinkled. Sl cocked. Sl corner and spine wear.

Khrushchev: a political portrait.

Kellen, Konrad, · 1962 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Praeger, (1962). 2d ptg. VG ex library. School stamp on ep and title page. Typical library markings.

Tributes to Honorable Gerald R. Ford, president of the United States, to commemorate him for his years of service to nation.

House of Representatives, · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Washington, D.C., U.S. Govt Ptg Office, 1977. VG. Sl blemish in lower right corner of front cover.

Nina.

van Pallandt, Nina, · 1973 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Walker & Co., (1973). 1st printing. VG in VG DJ. DJ sl chipped, small tear at top.

Samuel Train Dutton: a biography.

Levermore, Charles Herbert, · 1922 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

NY, Macmillan, 1922. 1st ed. G. Foxing on eps, damp stain top of some pages, sl bowingm, back hinge partially cracked. Dutton born in Hillsborough, NH.