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The Safari Companion: a guide to watching African mammals.

Estes, Richard D., · 1993 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,714)

White River Jct, VT, Chelsea Gree, (1993). VG lg sz PB. First guide to watching and understanding the behavior of African mammals, an indispensable tool for safari travelers. Owner name front endpaper.

Images of a University: a photographic history of the University of New Hampshire.

Bardwell, John D. and Ronald P. Bergeron, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

Durham, NH, UNH, 1984. VG in G DJ. The story of an institution and of its people with an outstanding collection of photos barely saved from deterioration. DJ edge wear.

Marching in Proud Company: Civil War recollections.

Howard, Oliver Otis class of 1850, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,376)

Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College, (1984). VG PB. Insert from Bowdoin College to "Members of the Donor Recognition Clubs" sent in recognition of donations from the. and friends as eloquent testimony to its strength as an outstanding leader in education, dated 1/16/1984. Pictor...

Breach of Faith: the fall of Richard Nixon.

White, Theodore H., · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,428)

NY, Atheneum, 1975. 1st edition. VG in VG DJ. The Nixon crisis of 1973-1974 threatened as the nation realized the myth of their President as a man of law had been betrayedl. DJ edge wear.

The Immigration Peril: what the aliens are doing to us: the march of events.

World's Work Dec. 1923, · 1923 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page, 1923. Fair. Article on "The Immigration Peril" II: New Mexico an Example by Gino Speranza. Many ads: Victrola; Tiffany; Western Electric;. Yellow Strand Wire Rope; Encyclopaedia Britannica; Rollin Lynde Hartt; My Rhineland Journal by General He...

The Death of Woman Wang.

Spence, Jonathan D., · 1978 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

NY, Viking, (1978). VG in G DJ. The small towns and village of rural China were the home of more than 100 million people by the 17th century. Ordinary. people in a far-off time and place might have thought totally inaccessible. Private anger and misery, loneliness, sensuality,...

Kosovo Crossing: the reality of American intervention in the Balkans.

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

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1999). G. Fromkin examines clash between Americans ideals and Balkan reality on Kosovo battlefields. Some underlining and jottings.

The Serbs: history, myth & the destruction of Yugoslavia.

Judah, Tim, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

New Haven, Yale Univ. Press, (2000). 2nd ed. VG PB. A history of the war in the former Yugoslavia, a history of the Serbs from medieval times to the present. Slight edge wear.

Kosovo: a short history.

Malcolm, Noel, · 1998 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Washington Square, NY, New York Univ. Press, (1998). VG in G DJ. Kosovo, the Albanian region of the former Yugoslavia, is potentially the most explosive of the danger-zones of Europe. First ever complete history of Kosovo, Malcolm sifts facts from fiction and lays to rest many...

The Return: fathers, sons and the land in between.

Matar, Hisham, · 2017 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Random, (2017). VG PB. 22 years after the fall of Quaddafi, his son hopes to see him again & searches for the truth behind his father's disappearance.

Generations: the history of the Palmer Spring Company.

Anderson, Alice Hellstrom, signed by author, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Portland, ME, Power Publications, (2006). VG PB (rubbing on corver near spine). America's oldest family-run spring business. Listing of Palmer Spring Company employees on back page.

Appeasement: a study in political decline, 1933-39.

Rowse, A. L., · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Norton, (1963). Reprint. G PB. How can men who are good, upright, intelligent, and trained to public service make such fantastically bad mistakes of judgment. and of conduct. Rowse brings it all back - the sense of rushing into the abyss, the desperate feeling feeling that...

The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History in two volumes: Later Roman Empire to 12th century.

Orton, C. W. Previte, · 1953 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

University, Cambridge, (1953). Revised. VG in VG DJs in G slipcase. 8 large volumes here distilled into two by one of the original editors. Slipcase edge wear and cracked, DJs clipped plus. Dr. S.H. Steinberg who personally selected the 300 pictures. Very nice set.

Maine Forts.

Dunnack, Henry E., State Librarian, · 1924 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

Augusta, ME, Charles E. Nash & Son, 1924. G ex-library. Dark brown pebble binding with gilt fort decoration & lettering. Edge wear, library markings,.

British Invasion from the North: the campaigns of Generals Carleton and Burgoyne from Canada 1776-1777.

William Digby of the 53rd, or Shropshire Regiment of Foot, · 1887 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$1,500.00 (€1,360.92 | £1,135.38 | ¥239,455)

Albany, NY, Joel Munsell's Sons, 1887. Fair ex-library. Author Baxter's bookplate and gift inscription 1893. Marbled binding, black spine, library binding, top of spine split at top. damp stains on few beginning and ending pages.

Vanished Hero: the life, war, and mysterious disappearance of America's World War II strafing king.

Stout, Jay A., · 2016 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

Philadelphia, Casemate, (2016). VG in VG DJ. A hell-bent-for-leather fighter pilot, Elwyn G. Righetti remains one of the most elusive commanders of WWII. Arriving. late in the war he led the England-based 55 Fighter Group against the Nazis during the closeing months of the fig...

New Hampshire: Part I (only) Physical Geography: a report comprising results of explorations ordered by the legislature.

Assistant, · 1874 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$145.00 (€131.56 | £109.75 | ¥23,147)

Concord, Edson C. Eastman, 1874. Original ptg. VG. In preface author Hitchcock says he found it impossible to put metamorphism, elevation of mountains, and earthquakes within. the limits of this volume as originally contemplated but provision has been made for printing another...

The Living Past of America: a pictorial treasury of our historic houses & villages that have been preserved & restored.

Vanderbilt, Cornelius, Jr., · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Crown, (1967). 13th ptg. VG brown binding, yellow binding. Author Vanderbilt tells about his father taking him all over the country to historic places and tell about their happenings. Owner name in pencil front endpaper.

Presidents of Our United States.

Esler, L. A., · 1935 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, Rand McNally, (1935). Fair, edge wear. From Washington to Franklin Roosevelt, important facts about the presidents.

The Civil War.

Ward, Geoffrey with Ric Burns & Ken Burns, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Vintage Civil War Library, (1990). 2nd ptg. VG PB. "The Civil War defined us as what we are and opened us to being what we became, good and bad things." Shelby Foote. Abraham Lincoln wrote, "At what point shall we expect the approach of danger?.If destruction is to be our ...