Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O.

Silverstein, Shel, · 1981

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

np, Harper & Row, (1981). VG in VG DJ. "The missing piece sat alone waiting for someone to come along and take it somewhere." The different ones it encounters -. and what it encounters in its helplessness - are portrayed with simplicity and compassion in the words and drawings...

Hopalong-Freud and Other Parodies.

Wallach, Ira, · 1966

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Dover, (1966). G PB. Compilation of best sketches from Ira Wallach's two collections, "Hopalong-Freud and Other Modern Literary. Characters" and "Hopalong-Freud Freud Rides Again". Some tanning to binding edges, plastic coating separating from covers, fading along edges.

God's Country Next Exit: how to survive in the New Maine.

Hughes, George and Charles McAleer, · 1986

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Augusta, ME, Lance Tapley, (1986). VG PB. Are you native-born without knowing it? Find out if your parents told you everything with the self-scoring Maine aptitude. test. A compendium of Maine country lore, trivia, advice and outright falsehoods. Telling the different social c...

America (the book); a citizen's guide to democracy inaction.

Stewart, Jon, Ben Karlin and David Javerbaum, foreword by Thomas Jefferson, · 2004

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Warner, (2004). VG. Includes fold-out poster of John Kerry and George W. Bush in boxing shorts and gloves. A Bridget Jones Diary for the comedic. nonfiction government textbook set. Cover show Stewart in the oval office sitting next to an eagle (attractive color cover).

Postcards from Maine: stories and drawings; and Saturday Night at Moody's Diner and other stories.

Sample, Tim, · 1985

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Gardiner, ME, Tilbury House & Harpswell, 1985; 1988. 2 VG PBs including postcard with color photo of Moody's Diner. Robert McCloskey "I've been reading Saturday Night at Moody's Diner and I'm grinning like a dog eating bumblebees.". Owner inscriptions and slight edge wear.

Tong Li Comics.

Various, · 0

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.55 | ¥12,775)

10 G - VG PBs. Pretty covers. Looks like a series. Probably in Chinese.

Folks Is Folks.

Bartlett, John Henry, · 1927

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, Donohue, (1927). Fair. Vignettes of country folks. Owner names crossed out, spine ends split, edge wear, fore-edge inked, front endpaper missing.

The Awdrey Gore Legacy.

Gorey, Edward, · 1987

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

NY, Beaufort Books, (1987). 1st Beaufort. VG in VG DJ. A Mobius Mystery containing portents, fragments, and significant objects all contributing to a baffling tangle. Owner inscription front endpaper, DJ price cut. Gorey's animated drawwings introduc PBS TV's Mystery series.

I Am America (and so can you!).

Colbert, Stephen, · 2007

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Grand Central Pub, (2007). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Colbert's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, religion, Sex, Sports, why Hollywood is destroying. American by inches, why evolution is a fraud.

A Tilloss Scandal.

Barrie, J. M., · 1890

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Lovell, Coryell & Co, nd (ca 1890). VG ex-library. Unauthorized collection of stories and articles that had appeared in periodicals from 1887 to 1892. Blue binding, gilt. lettering on spine, edge wear, library markings.

The King of Vermont.

Morris, Stephen, · 1989

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Morrow, (1989). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Fictional Vermont village of Upper Granville to take another look at the "Chucks", native Vermonters, and the "Flatlanders". invading Yuppie refugees from the cities and suburbia. Upper Granville discovers a hidden camera a the ...

The "Bab" Ballads with sound and little sense.

Gilbert, W. S., · 0

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, nd. Second edition. G ex-library. Green binding, gilt binding with gilt facsimile signature of author. Delightful illus, library markings including front. endpaper cut at top, all edges gilt, beveled edges.

I Didn't Come Here to Argue from the woman who wrote the "I Hate to Cook Cookbook".

Bracken, Peg, · 1970

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Greenwich, CT, Fawcett, (1970). VG PB. Valuable if only for the 108 sins: leaving a mess behind you; pretending to know what you do not know; automatically voting. a straight ticket, putting fruit centers in chocolates; accepting praise for something you didn't do; giving peop...

Give Us a Smile, Beetle Bailey and Shape Up or Ship Out, Beetle Bailey.

Walker, Mort, · 1974

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Tempo and Grosset & Dunlap, (1974) & (1979). 2 G PBs. Generally good condition for both.

A Light in the Attic.

Silverstein, Shel, · 1981

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper & Row, (1981). G. All the humorous ideas such as mailordering new parents if the old ones make you eat your lima beans and always sprinkle pepper. in your hair in case you are kidnapped by a Wild Barbazzoop. Owner inscription front endpaper, slight fading toward spine.

The Sunny Side of the Street.

Wilder, Marshall P., · 1905

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Funk & Wagnalls, 1905. G. Vaudeville comedian Wilder's humorous travel tales, anecdotes, observations with alphabetical listing of people portrayed. Text illustrations by Bart Haley, paste down pictorial of New York's Madison Square as well as Wilder's picture, cover decor...

Lights a Few Candles.

Botts, Ellick, and Lawrence E. Smith, · 1947

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Oklahoma, Cities Service Co, (1947). VG PB (cardboard type covers). Ellick Botts, consulting pumper of Gray Horse, Oklahoma, an oil paragon, a refinement in American folklore, has a plan for. postwar prosperity. Tanning to cover edges showing Botts in a Christmas theme of ligh...

As Time Goes By: complete series 4.

Larbey, Bob, written by, Judi Dench, Geoffrey Palmer starring, · 1995

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

BBC video, 1995 (2002). G videos (2 DVD set). Lionel is surrounded by women in Jean's house and wonders if he has made a mistake. A secretary is helping but not without. Jean being jealous. Lionel's script is being rewritten and pain ensues. Cover has edge wear.

What the Old-Timer said and then some! to the feller from down country and even to his neighbor (when he had it coming).

Foley, Allen R., Professor Emeritus of American History, Dartmouth College, · 1983

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, (1983). VG PB. More snappers, whoppers, japes, and drolleries, as the old-timer talks.

Up Front.

Mauldin, Bill, · 1945

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Holt, (1945). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Greatest cartoonist of World War II talks about what he saw "over there". Owner sticker, edge wear, slight soil.