Crabtree's Collection Old Books

My American Journey.

Powell, Colin with Joseph E Persico, · 1995

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

NY, Random House, 1995. First Edition. VG Hardback in VG DJ. 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.

Black Ice.

Cary, Lorene, · 1991

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

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

Hellas: a Portrait of Greece.

Gage, Nicholas, · 1987

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

NY, Villad Books, 1987. 1ST Ed 2nd Ptg. VG Hardback in VG DJ. 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 childr...

Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy Years.

O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman, · 1988

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

NY, Bantam, (1988). 1st Printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ. "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...

A Son of the Middle Border.

Garland, Hamlin, (1860-1940) edited with introduction by Joseph McCullough, · 1995

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Penguin Books, (1995). 1st Printing. G PB (some edge wear). 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. Drawin...

Shaking the Family tree: A Remembrance.

Turco, Lewis (Inscribed by author), · 1998

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

W Lafayette, IN, Bordighera, (1998). VG PB. 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 Baptis...

My Several Worlds: a Personal Record.

Buck, Pearl S., · 1954

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, John Day Company, (1954). 3rd impression. G Hardback. 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.

On the Road.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1977

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Penguin books, (1977). Poor PB. 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...

As Ever...: a selection of letters from the voluminous correspondence of Jane Weinberger 1970-1990.

Weinberger), · 1991

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

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

I, Scheherazade, memoirs of a Siamese cat.

Parkhirst, Douglass, as told to, · 1963

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

NY, Bonanza, (1963). (A). VG in G DJ. 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 f...

Lessons from a Golfer: a daughter's story of opening the heart (Inscribed).

Young, Susan Lebel, · 2006

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Topsham, ME, Just Write Books, (2006). VG PB. 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.

The Seven Storey Mountain.

Merton, Thomas, · 1948

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

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

The Seven Storey Mountain.

Merton, Thomas, · 1948

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

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

Run to the Mountain: the journals of Thomas Merton volume one 1939-1941.

Merton, Thomas, edited by Patrick Hart, · 1995

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

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

Windhorse Woman: a marriage of spirit.

Andrews, Lynn V., · 1989

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

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

The Seven Storey Mountain.

Merton, Thomas, · 1951

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

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