Sunday, December 12, 2021

Merry Widow by Grace Nies Fletcher


Hardcover. Wm Morrow, 1970. In good condition, DJ wear. Widowed at 60, Mrs. Fletcher refused to sit on the shelf. This is her light-hearted account of the global adventures that ensued.

Title: Merry Widow

Author Name: Grace Nies Fletcher

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Type: Book

Categories: Biographies - General

Seller ID: 005425

Price: $8.00

Saturday, December 11, 2021

...And a Credit to His Race by Gerald Astor


Hardcover, ex-library. E P Dutton, first, 1974. In good condition, usual library markings. The hard life and times of Joseph Louis Barrow, a.k.a. Joe Louis.

Title: ...And a Credit to His Race

Author Name: Gerald Astor

Edition: First Edition.

ISBN Number: 0841503478

ISBN-13: 9780841503472

Location Published: Saturday Review Press: 1974

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Type: Book

Categories: Biographies - General

Seller ID: 001740

Keywords: fighterfights;joelouis;

Price: $8.00

Friday, December 10, 2021

After Long Silence : A Memoir by Helen Fremont


Trade paperback. Delta, 2000, first. In near fine condition. Helen was raised as a Roman Catholic. It wasn't until she was an adult practicing law in Boston that she discovered her parents were Jewish.

Title: After Long Silence : A Memoir

Author Name: Fremont, Helen

ISBN Number: 0385333706

ISBN-13: 9780385333702

Location Published: New York, NY, U.S.A., Delacorte Press: 2000

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Categories: Biographies - General

Seller ID: 001007

Keywords: 19391945childrenhistoryholocaustjewishnarrativespersonalsurvivors

Price: $8.00

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Home at Last : How Two Young Women with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Achieved Their Own Home by Fitton, Pat; O'Brien, Carol; Wilson, Jean


Trade paperback, ex-library. Jessica Kingsley, 1995. In very good condition, usual library markings. How two young women with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities achieved their own home.

Title: Home at Last: How Two Young Women with Profound Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities Achieved Their Own Home

Author Name: Fitton, Pat; O'Brien, Carol; Wilson, Jean

ISBN Number: 1853022543

ISBN-13: 9781853022548

Location Published: London, United Kingdom, Jessica Kingsley Publishers: 1995

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Very Good

Type: Book

Categories: Biographies - General

Seller ID: 005413

Keywords: britainhandicappedhousingsciencesocialstudieswomen

Price: $20.00

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

Long Time, No See by Beth Finke


Hardcover, review copy. University of Illinois Press, 2003, first. In very good+ condition, review information glued to front fly leaf, bottom of the book stamped "Complimentary Copy, Not For Resale." Juvenile diabetes, blindness, and her tragedies and triumps.

Title: Long Time, No See

Author Name: Finke, Beth

ISBN Number: 0252028279

ISBN-13: 9780252028274

Location Published: Champaign, IL, U.S.A., University of Illinois Press: 2003

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Good

Type: Book

Categories: Biographies - General

Seller ID: 007559

Keywords: diabetesendocrinologymedicalmetabolism

Price: $12.00

Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Epitaph to 'Nickle Eck': Childhood Mischief in Wartime Birmingham by Eric Yates


Trade paperback. Upper left corner is bruised from shipping. Interior is clean and bright. During the second world war, there ordinary families living in poverty, playing children's games and there was black market profiteering.

Title: Epitaph to 'Nickle Eck': Childhood Mischief in Wartime Birmingham

Author Name: Eric Yates

ISBN Number: 1505435420

ISBN-13: 9781505435429

Location Published: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform: 2014

Binding: Soft cover

Book Condition: Good

Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Type: Book

Categories: Biographies - General

Seller ID: 022151

Price: $8.00

Monday, December 6, 2021

The Boy at the Gate: A Memoir by Danny Ellis


Hardcover. He'd left the past behind and moved on. But one night his memories betray him and he returns to the past.

 Title: The Boy at the Gate: A Memoir

Author Name: Danny Ellis

Edition: 1st Edition.

ISBN Number: 1611458927

ISBN-13: 9781611458923

Location Published: Arcade Publishing: 2013

Binding: Hardcover

Book Condition: Near Fine

Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Type: Book

Categories: Biographies - General

Seller ID: 022155

Price: $15.00