Search Results: Autobiography from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Mt. Desert, Maine: Windswept Publishers. VG PB printed by Downeast Garphics, Ellsworth, Maine. (1991). A behind the scene view of Washington through the eyes of a woman who writes with humor and a keen eye for history & detail. .

NY: Vintage/Random. G PB some underlining. 1991. 8th Printing. Probably the most beautifully written and most moving African-American autobiographical narrative since Angelou's . Cage Bird. .

NY: Villad Books. VG Hardback in VG DJ. 1987. 1ST Ed 2nd Ptg. Stamped on front endpaper. Author Gage was born in the northern Greek village of Lia in 1939, escaped with his sister from . war torn Greece. When he was nine his mother was executed for her role in saving her children. in 1977 he returned as a foreign correspondent to learn the details of his mother's life and death. . .

NY: Bonanza. VG in G DJ. (1963). (A). Only authorized, unabridged, and as yet unbanned version of Scheherazade's spicy memoirs which she pours out to Parkhirst. . Born 5 in a litter of 6, "Sherry" recalls wiling away hours listening to her mother's exotic tales about their cat family. Her mother frequently spoke of father's amorous disposition and his unfailing talent for purring the cat's pajamas right off her despite her having been raised in an Episcopalian clergyman's home. Sherry describes her own adventures in a bachelor's aparmtnet, jealous fits over one of her master's female admirers, and her first encounter with a mouse. Many delightful illustrations accompany Sherry's adventures. Parkhirst is a writer and actor and President of the Bedside Network of the Veterans Hospitals' Radio and TV Guild. DJ price clipped, clip to top of front endpaper and chips to bottom edge, plus edge wear. .

NY: Knopf. VG in VG DJ. (1991). 1st ed. An outstanding literary event - begun in the late 1940s and continued through more than three decades - of a great American . writer. Peerless insight into the creation of his novels and stories. His family life, his literary life, his emotional life. Slight edge wear to DJ, owner name, some markings. .

Topsham, ME: Just Write Books. VG PB. (2006). Signed by author. Young weaves the stories of her life with her father an avid golfer. His life lessons came to him from . golf and he imparted these lessons to his children. .

NY: Random House. VG Hardback in VG DJ. 1995. First Edition. Life story of a young boy from the Bronx who grew up to live the American dream with many important roles National Security . Advisor, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Desert Storm .

NY: John Day Company. G Hardback. (1954). 3rd impression. Tanning toward top edges. Buck wakes early and she sees a scene so Chinese that she wasn't sure she was on the other side . "Discard" notation on fep .

NY: Penguin books. Poor PB. (1977). includes a newspaper clipping about Kerous not dated. take the Boulderado Hotel where Kerouac's illegitimate daughter Jan . ootbag they'd accused me of holdingin railroad 191 here I am in Mexico City, rainy Aturday night. mysteries, old dream sidestreets with no names reeling in the little steet where I'd walked through crowds of glo omy Hobo Indians wrapped intragic shawl enough to make you cry and you thou ht you saw knives flashingbeneath the folds lugubrious dreams as tragica st the one of Old Raailroad Night where my father sits big of thighs in smoking car of night, outside's a bakeman with ared light and white light lumbrinin the sadvast mist tracks of life but now I'm up on that way to the ancient dripping stone toilet- Tristessa is high beautiful as ever, going home gayly to go to bed and enjoy her morphine. Night before I'm in a quiet hassel in the rain saw with her darkly at Midnight counters eating bread and soup and drinking… Read More

NY: Bantam. VG Hardback in VG DJ. (1988). 1st Printing. "The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellowman . alike, timid and fearful in the face of new ideas an bold projecs, Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals and great enterprises of American society." Robert Kennedy .

San Francisco: Harper. VG in VG DJ. (1995). 1st ed 1st ptg. Owner inscription fep, DJ price clipped. .

NY: Harcourt Brace. G. (1948). Edge wear, owner inscription ft endpaper, ft hinge starting, binding rubbed, scribbling & spots on back endpaper. .

NY: Harcourt Brace. G. (1948). Edge wear, poem/prayer glued to back endpaper. .

Garden City, NY: Garden City Books. VG in G- DJ. (1951). Sml mark lower ft bd. DJ chipped, stained, torn .

London: Temple Smith. VG in VG DJ. (1976). Autobiographical account of Greave's childhood and youth in India. In his twenties he contracted leprosy, survived and . returned to England in search of a cure. .

W Lafayette, IN: Bordighera. VG PB. (1998). Turco's reminiscences of youth and family offer warmth and insights into a body of work that tracks his coming to ter . a heritage and legacy of varacity. Turco is the poet son of an unlikely couple, a first generation Sicilian Baptist minister and a college educated Nebraska girl. Incribed by author on title page" "This copy of Shaking the Family Tree is for Jack Barnes with the compliments of Lewis Turco" Jack Barnes was a Hiram, ME author. Underlining .

NY: Penguin Books. G PB (some edge wear). (1995). 1st Printing. Frontier and pioneer life set in Northwestern States. Includes Bibliographical references. An epic story of the quest for . new frontiers - and of the gradual heartbreaking failure of Amerian pioneer ideals. Drawing on the history of his own family chronicles of a generation, bittersweet narrataive of growing up on a Wisconsin farm, captures in vivid detail, the thousands of courageous and optimistic Americans who sought new posperous lives on the mid-western frontier- and discovered not only the grandeur but the immense toll Nature demands of those who try to tame the land. William Dean Howells wrote in the New York Times Review of Books, "In all the region of autobiography ...I do not know quite the like ot Mr. Garland's story of his life, and I woul rank it with the very greatest of that kind of literatur." .

NY: Warner. VG in VG DJ. (1989). 1st ptg ss. Andrews continues her odyssey of the spirit with her dream guide. .