Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Golden Hind: an anthology of Elizabethan prose & poetry.

Lamson, Roy & Hallett Smith, selected & edited by, · 1942

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Norton, (1942). VG. Corners bumped. Blue binding, gilt & red lettering & decoration.

The Apology, Phaedo & Crito; the Golden Sayings; the Meditations.

Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, · 1968

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Collier, (1968). 61st ptg. VG. Owner bookplate & date fep.

The Key to "The Name of the Rose" including translations of all non-English passges.

Haft, Adele J., Jane G. White, and Robert J. White, · 1999

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Ann Arbor, Univ of Michigan Press, (1999). 8th ptg. VG PB. Demystifying Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.

M.R. Mississippi Review: a Journal of Contemporary Literature M.R. PRIZE 2012, Volume 40 Number 1&2.

M.F., Mississippi, · 2012

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

HAarrisburg, Mossissippi, The Center for Writing, 2012. VG PB. University of Mississippi winners of the M.R. 2012 Prize.

Anthology of Chinese Literature from early times to the 14th century.

Birch, Cyril, compiled and edited by, Associate Editor Donald Keene, · 1967

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Grove Press, (1967). 9TH Printing. G PB, some tanning to edges. First anthhology of chinese literature to draw together the finest of existing translations, Roughly half first time. published. span two-thousand year period from the Chou Dynasty (1122-221B.C. to the Yuan Dy...

The Prentice Hall Good Reading Guide.

McLeish, Kenneth, · 1988

$94.00 (€85.29 | £71.15 | ¥15,011)

NY, Prentice Hall, (1988). 1st prntg. VG larage size PB. Information about more than 300 authors 3,000 novels and short stories and including a cross-referencing system that shows how. one good book leads to another.

French Novel from Gide to Camus.

Bree, · 1957

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Harcourt Brace, 1957. VG PB. Upheavals of two world wars have brought about in France a new kind of fiction. Dissatisfied with traditional values novelists. of this period set out deliberately to create a new image of man and to restate the fundamental problems of existenc...

The Golden Age and Dream Days: The Penguin Kenneth Grahame.

Grahame, Kenneth, · 1983

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Penguin, (1983). VG PB. Grahame's exquisite evocations of childhood can be read in many ways or as early studies in child psychology or a nostalgic. picture of a time long past.

The Quotable Lewis.

Martindale, Wayne and Jerry Root, editors, · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Wheaton, IL, Tyndale House Pubs, (1990). VG. Includes 18 page index plus listing of bibliographies.

Steinbeck" A Life in Letters.

Steinbeck, Elaine and Robert Wallsten, edtied by, · 1975

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, Viking, (1975). VG. In 1962 John Steinbeck wrote, "In sixty years I've left a lot of tracks." This is a record of some of those tracks, books. writtem amd read, journeys made, places visited, people met and loved and hated, as well as some projects never realized, works be...

Tales from Shakespeare.

Lamb, Charles and Mary, · 1924

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Philadelphia, Winston, (1924). G. Green binding, paste down pictorial cover gilt-outlined, shows characters in costume with two children at foreground reading. Illustrated endpapers in green on cream background, frontis in color by Godwin showing scene from "Twelfth Night." An...

The Portable Voltaire.

Redman, Ben Ray, edited by and introduction, · 1979

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Penguin, (1979). G PB. Candide and Zadig complete; two tales Micromegas; Story of a Good Brahmin; over 70 articles from the Philosophical Dictionary. cross section of letters; selections from The English Letters and from the Essay on Manners and Spirit of Nations; the long...

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter.

Wilde, Oscar, translation ascribed to, · 1934

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Book Collectors Assn, (1934). VG in Fair DJ. Depicts the degeneracy of Roman life under Nero, a consummate tale of roguery, an essentially moral commentary on evil &. hypocrisy. The present translation is by far the most readable of the many efforts that have been made to ...

The Maine Review Journal 3, Number 1.

Various (Margot Anne Kelley, editor), · 2016

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Port Clyde, Maine, The Maine Review, (2016). VG lg sz PB. Various writings by many authors. "Wedding at the Retirement Village" by Margot Wizanski Pretend you aren't dying To see the moon tonight.Marry the man you called out for before your voice runs out. Let him carry you in...

Essays and Poems.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo, introduction and notes byPeter Norberg, · 2004

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Barnes & Noble Classics, (2004). VG in VG DJ. "More than a poet, more than an essayist, and more than a philosopher, Emerson was an American presence.During his. prolific career.he achieved an almost guru-like status among the literati and youth of 19th century America." D...

Garrulities of an Octogenarian Editor with other essays somewhat biographical and autobiographical.

Holt, Henry, · 1923

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1923. 1st ed. VG. Dark blue binding, gilt lettering & decoration on front cover. Edge wear. Owner names. What is a Democrat? Not necessarily a horse-thief, but inevitably the party associate of all the horse-thieves.

Axel's Castle: a study in the imaginative literature of 1870-1930.

Wilson, Edmund, · 1969

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Scribner, (1969). G PB. The literary history of our time is to a great extent that of the development of Symbolism and of its fusion or conflict with. Naturalism. Wilson's classic study of six modern writers: Yeats, Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Proust, and Paul Valery traces the...

Sandy River Review Summer 2016 Volume 36, Issue 2.

Wilson, Konner, editor, · 2016

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Farmington, ME, Univ of Maine, (2016). VG PB. Laura Bonazzoli, Shannon Brarndon, Hannah Calkin, Matthew Campbell, Rachel E. Chiong, Brian Czyzyk, Michelle M. Faith,. Peter Fariani, Duncan Gamble, Richard L. Gegick, Audrey Gidman, Tennessee Hill, Amy Joseph, Kate Joseph, Rachel...

James Joyce: a critical introduction.

Levin, Harry (revised and augmented edition), · 1960

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, New Directions, (1960). 4th ptg. G PB. One of the first books to sum up the contribution of Joyce, an essential guide to the works of a great innovator of modern. literature. Levin leads the reader easily into the delights in Joyce, from the comparatively simple prose of D...

History of French Literature: vol. II only: from the classical renaissance until the end of Louis XIV.

Van Laun, Henri, · 1877

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Putnm, 1877. VG ex-library. Sturdy binding, library markings. Classical drama, Corneille, D'Aubigne, Courtier-Historians, Brantome, DeMornay, De l'Etoile. Pascal and post-Royalists, The Fronde, Hotel de Rambouillet, Mademoiselle de Scudery, Satirists, Richelieu, Descartes,...