Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Beachcomber's Handbook of Seafood Cookery.

Zachary, Hugh, · 1972

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Winston-Salem, NC, Blair, (1972). 2nd ptg. VG. When and where to look for seafood and how to collect it, what to do with it. Methods of preparing all types of fish. Index.

The Maine Collection: a cookbook.

Portland Museum of Art, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Falmouth, ME, Portland Museum of Art Guild, (1993). 2nd ptg. VG hardback spiral bound. A celebration of Maine's culinary heritage with recipes as varied as the state, traditional foods and contemporary. adaptations.

Vampyre: found the terrifying journal of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing.

Van Helsing, Dr. Cornelius and Gustav de Wolff, his trusted companion, · 2007

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, HarperCollins, (2007). 1st ed. VG. Personal account of Dr. Van Helsing's terrifying journey to Transylvania with wolff where the intrepid duo hunt for the. deepest, darkest evil - the undead known as vampyre.

Louisa May Alcott: a personal biography.

Cheever, Susan, · 2010

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2010). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Alcott never intended to write Little Women. But out of necessity to support her family, the book had an astounding. success that changed her life. Cheever returned to Concord, Mass., to explore the life of one of its most ic...

Pot on the Fire: further exploits of a renegade cook.

Thorne, John with Matt Lewis Thorne, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, North Point Press, (2000). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Latest collection from the most enticingly serendipitous voice on the culinary front since Elizabeth David & M.F.K. Fisher. It celebrates in classic Thorne style a lifelong engagement with the elements of cooking from cioppin...

Aubrey Beardsley: a biography.

Sturgis, Matthew, · 1999

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Woodstock, NY, Overlook Press, (1999). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Though only 26 when he died, Beardsley's short life came to be one of the defining figures of the fin de siecle, a precocious. line artist who redefined the limits of black-and-white art. His erotic decadent illustra...

Charlotte's Web (DVD) feature film voiced by famous stars.

White, E.B., · 1975

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

np, Paramount, (1975). VG in VG plastic box with colorul picture on cover. Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte, Paul Lynde as Templeton the Rat, Agnes Moorehead as the Stutttering Goose and Henry Gibson as. Wilbur the Pig who is a friend of Charlotte the barn spider and the little gi...

Patooie.

Peck, Robert Newton, · 1977

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Knopf, (1977). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Willettsburg where the barber chair doubles as a dentist chair and everyone is somebody's 3rd cousin. But the big contest is. is a problem becuase the Champ can't spit. Remainder mark on bottom edge.

Oriental Rugs: an illustrated guide.

Haack, Hermann, edited & translated by George & Cornelia Wingfield Digby, · 1960

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

London, Faber & Faber, (1960). 4th imp. VG in Fair DJ. Begins with a historical review of materials and manufacture of rugs, general info about weaving centers. Color frontis. Special sections on characteristic design and dyes. Sound counsel on care and a bibliography and usef...

Sills of Bowdoin: the life of Kenneth Charles Morton Sills, 1879-1954.

Brown, Herbert Ross, · 1964

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Columbia Univ Press, 1964. VG in G DJ. A former Latin instructor famed for his fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching),"Casey" Sills. mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy ex-scholar, famed for his love of Dante, or eating (so goes the legend) 11...

Two Centuries of Costume in America: two volumes in one.

Earle, Alice Morse, · 1910

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Macmillan, (1910). Fair ex-library. Green binding, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, taped spine and joints, library markings, edge wear, all pages appear intact. but pages loosening from spine.

Walden.

Thoreau, Henry David, introduction by Basil Willey, · 1951

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Bramhall House, (1951). 11th ptg. VG. Thoreau's classic. Rust-colored binding with black lettering on spine. Spot on front endpaper, white mark on back cover. near spine, edge wear.

Young Men in Spats: 12 short stories.

Wodehouse, P. G., · 1937

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Sun Dial, (1937). Fair in fair DJ ex-library. Wodehouse exposed American love next situation; USA swept by gales of laughter. Edge wear to binding and DJ.

Eskimo Legends.

Snell, Roy J., · 1926

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Boston, Little Brown, 1926. 2nd ptg. G ex-library. Color frontis, b/w illustrations. Presentation of Eskimo tales as supplementary reading for schools in belief they will enjoy. the adventures of Obok and Ootinna, of the fishbooy and the hunter, and of their companions, the li...

Mushrooms & Toadstools: a study of the activities of fungi: the New Naturalist.

Ramsbottom, John,, · 1963

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

London, Collins, (1963). 4th imp. VG. Amazing photos, esp a 4 part series showing a toadstool with toad at its base and then climbing up it to sit on top. Index and bibliography, Dedicated to former colleagues British Museum (Natural History) 1910-1950 in friendship. Owner nam...

Extracts from Adam's Diary translated from original MS..

Twain, Mark, · 1904

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harper, 1904. (c1893,1901). G ex-library. Red pictorial binding white lettering, Adam carving a grave stone with two monkies watching. Library markings. edge wear.

Maine Forts.

Dunnack, Henry E., State Librarian, · 1924

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

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

Wonder Book.

Hawthorne, Nathaniel, · 1928

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

NY, J. H. Sears Company, (1928). G ex-library. Retelling of classic Greek mythology by esteemed author Nathaniel Hawthorne, all pages illustrated on edges by Chuse. Other Sears illustrated juveniles listed on last page. Endpapers show country cottage with children reading on b...

The Little Fireman.

Brown, Margaret Wise, · 1938

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

NY, William R. Scott, (1938) revised. Advence prepub. G PB ex-library. Larger format with illustrations in bright, poster colors. Final copy will be issued March 15, 1946. Edges worn away on. cover corners. Front cover show a fire truck pulled up to a burning house with a fire...

Pennsylvania German Bookplates: a study.

Borneman, Henry S., · 1953

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania German Society, 1953. G ex-library. Pennsylvania Dutch design on front cover, tanning to edges of endpapers, library check-out page on front endpaper.