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Crabtree's Collection Old Books: Biography
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Nora S. Unwin, Artist and Wood Engraver.
Dublin, NH, William L. Bauhan, (1990). VG in VG DJ. Inscribed by author. Unwin was one of a small group of dedicated artists and craftsmen identified with renaissance of. wood engraving earlir in the century. She came to the U.S. in 1946 to live in Peterborough, NH, near her friends and the well-known author Elizabeth Yates for whom she illlustrated several books and her husband William McGreal.The New England setting gave fresh impetus to her creataive development. fep inscription by author reads "november 9, 1990 - To Jack and Diana Barnes, With gratitude for your interest in this book and this special artist. Good luck! Linda Clark McGoldrick, Littleton, NH" Includes transmittal sheet for review copy from publisher.
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Catalogue: Biography
Sketches from the Ranch: a Montana memoir.
NY, Howell Book House, (1998). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. In 1892 a Danish immigrant cowboy named Magnus Jensen rode into south-central Montana up a valley recently vacated by the Crow. Indians and staked his future on the ranch he would carve there. The Aadland live on that ranch today where her grandfather first lived.
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Catalogue: Biography
The Inman Diary: a public and private confession: two volumes.
Cambridge, Harvard Univ Press, 1985. 2nd ptg. VG in VG slipcase. Navy binding, ribbon bookmarks. Slipcase edge wear, vol. 1 title box on spine rubbed.
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USD 35,00 ≈ [Appr.: EURO 30.5 | £UK 26.75 | JP¥ 5397]
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Desert Solitaire: a season in the wilderness.
NY, Simon & Schuster, (1990). 8th printing. VG PB. Date on fep. Abbey's three seasons as a park ranger in s.e. Utah. He challenges the growing exploitation of the wilderness.
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Being Little in Cambridge when everone else was big.
NY, Appleton-Century, 1936. G. Flowered orange/green/yellow cloth binding, blue title square, spine faded, owner name ft endpaper.
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Being Little in Cambridge when everone else was big.
NY, Appleton-Century, 1936. G ex-library. Flowered orange/green/yellow cloth binding, green title square, spine faded, tanned toward edges, library markings.
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Catalogue: Biography
Impressions of Theodore Roosevelt.
NY, Doubleday Page, 1919. VG. Abbott's impressions from 22 year friendship with Roosevelt. Includes list of TR's chief writings & a chronology of his life. Burgundy binding, gilt lettering. Owner name ft endpaper.
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Nietzsche: Great Lives.
NY, Macmillan, 1933. G ex-library. Tolstoy considered Nietzsche a madman. Red binding, gilt lettering on spine. Binding rubbed, library markings, owner. name ft endpaper.
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Nixon vs. Nixon: an emotional tragedy.
NY, New American Library, (1978). 1st ptg thus. G PB. An eminent psychologist brings insight into Nixon's character & actions. Edge wear, scrape ft cover, few marks on back cover.
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United States Achievement Academy 1986 National Awards volume 33.
Lexington, KY, U.S. National Leadership, (1986). Fair. Joints and hinges cracked.
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Fragments of My Fleece.
NY, Norton, (1971). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. DJ clipped, sl chipped. A gathering of short pieces, speeches, article and papers.
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My Father and Myself.
NY, New York Review Books, (1999). Reprint. VG PB. Ackerley's father was the Banana King, a successful importer of fruit and a bluff, hearty fellow, little appreciated by his. refined & literary son. On his death the father left a letter revealing that his life of respectable prosperity had been a facade. Ackerley began a quest to comprehend a father always just beyond his reach. A pathbreakingly honest redering of a gay man's life and desires.
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Swift (Jonathan).
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st ptg. (1947). G. Wrote Gulliver's Travels, a keen satire on cant & sham in courts, parties, statesmen, the only work for which he received. payment. Green binding, gilt lettering, wear to spine edge.
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Unhooked: dramatic stories of persons who became addicted to drugs but came back.
Grand Rapids, MI, Baker Book House, (1971). G ex-school library. School library stamp fep, library markings.
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The Adams Family.
Boston, Little Brown, 1930. 1st ed. VG. Suddenly passing from village obscurity into international fame in the latter part of the 18th century, due neither to great. wealth or a hereditary title but to character and sheer intellectual ability. A biography of a family thrown against the changing background of its times for a 150 years. Maroon binding, gilt lettering. Sl edge wear.
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