Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators in The Mystery of the Fiery.

Arthur, Robert, · 1967

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, Random, (1967). VG. Pictorial cover shows Three Investigators digging next to an old large farmhouse. Slight edge wear. 7th book in the. Three Investigators series. Beautiful condition.

Neutral Shores: Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic.

McShane, Mark, · 2012

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

EU, Mercier Press, (2012). VG PB. Battle for the Atlantic affected coastal communities right across Ireland and from September 1939 to the last days of the. war in 1945, Ireland was host to a constant flow of casualties from the longest naval campaign of the Second World War. ...

The Drift Fence.

Grey, Zane, · 1933

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1933). G. Pale blue binding with some light markings, tanning and marks to endpapers, top fore-edge damp stain. Tightly bound.

But for the Grace of God.

Carroll-Abbing, Rt. Rev. J. Patrick, · 1967

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Dell, (1967). 1st Bell PB ed. G PB. True story of the Irish priest who fought as a Resistance leader in Nazi-occupied Italy and after the war became the. founder of the world famous Boys' Towns of Italy. Stirring events before and after the outbreak of WWII and the author'...

The Women: a novel (Frank Lloyd Wright).

Boyle, T. Coraghessan, · 2009

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Penguin, (2009). 1st PB ptg. G PB. T. C. Boyle now turns his fictional sights on Frank Lloyd Wright through the experience of four women who loved him. The Montenegrin beauty Olgivanna Milanoff; passionate Southern belle Maude Miriam Noel; the spirited and tragic Mamah Che...

The Sardonic Humor of Ambrose Bierce.

Bierce, Ambrose, edited by George Barkin, · 1963

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dover, (1963). Reprint. VG PB. "Bitter Bierce" earned his livelihood as the country's most provocative weekly columnist in the unrestrained days of the. early Hearst empire. A genius at enraging people he used his great gifts againt hundreds of individuals, many of whom ar...

Area 51: the graphic history of America's most secret military installation.

Zimmerman, Dwight Jon, · 2014

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Minneapolis, MN, Zenith Press, (2014). 1st ptg. VG PB. Area 51 is one of the worst kept secrets in the United States history. Everyone has heard of it but no one knows anything. about it. A profile of the real history of area 51, secret military installation that the CIA, U.S....

The Disaster Profiteers.

Mutter, John C., · 2015

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, St. Martins, (2015). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. How natural disasters makr the rich richer and the poor even poorer. Disasters don't generally kill a large number of people. It's the aftermath that really matters. When no one is looking, disasters become a means by which...

Vampire Knight volume 1.

Hino, Matsuri, · 2014

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

San Francisco, Shojo Beat VIZ, (2014). 14th ptg. VG PB. Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students, the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilibht when the students of. the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Y...

Lady Macbeth.

King, Susan Frazer, · 2008

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Crown, (2008). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Forced to marry her husband's murderer, a rising warlord named Macbeth. Lady Gruadh called Rue is the last female descendent. of Scotland's main royal line, married to a powerful northern lord, widowed while still carrying his ch...

Bridgton Maine 1768-1968.

Bridgton Historical Society, · 1968

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Augustus, ME, Bridgton Historical Society, (1968). 1st printing. Fair in G DJ. Published on the occasion of the 1968 Bicentennial of the Town. Among the pioneers moving northward to the Province of Maine. in the mid-1700s was Captain Benjamin Kimball who sailed his boat into a...

Eyeless in Gaza.

Huxley, Aldous, · 1936

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, 1936. 7th ed. G. About the root of our universal problem, what is human freedom? Binding slightly worn, tannining to fron endpapers, small chip. to half title page. Most autobiographical novel with his own development from precocious, womanizing intellectural to my...

Crazies to the Left of Me: wimps to the right.

Goldberg, Bernard, · 2007

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, HarperCollins, (2007). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Hard-hitting observations and no-nonsense advice for saving America from the lunatics to the left and the sellouts to right. Remainder mark on bottom fore-edge.

All Afire to Fight: the untold tale of the Civil War's Ninth Texas Cavalry.

Crabb, Martha L., · 2000

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Avon/First Post Road Press, (2000). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ ex-library. In October 1851, the young men of the Confederacy's newly formed North Texas Cavalry forded the Red River between Texas. and what is now eastern Oklahoma. They remained on duty throughout the entire Civil...

Nixon's Ten Commandments of Statecraft (with commentary and lessons from history by James C. Humes).

Humes, James C. (signed by author Humes), · 1997

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Scribner, (1997). 1st ptg signed. VG in VG DJ. On author Hume's 60th birthday, Tricia Nixon Cox presented him with a card containing Nixon's Ten Commandments of Statecraft. Ten cogent rules that the former president believed were essential guidelines for leadership and neg...

Private Peat.

Peat, Harold R., ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1917). G. Life in the trenches and behind the lines, how things looked to him over there, what he saw and what he did. Binding tan,. white lettering & decoration.

Mighty Stonewall.

Vandiver, Frank E., · 1957

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, McGraw-Hill, (1957). 2nd ptg. VG in Fair DJ (quite worn). Brings brilliantly to life one of the most remarkable men America has produced - Thomas Jonathan Jackson. As a military. genius he has been compared to Napoleon, and his deep religious faith to Cromwell. A legend in...

Ludlow Castle, Sheffield, England.

Unknown, · 1977

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Sheffield, England, Guion, (1977). G PB. Located in the central position the Marches, the troubled border area between England and Wales. Tanning to cover edges.

Celebrating the History of 51 Walden Concord, Massachusetts.

FOPAC (Friends of the Performing Arts in Concord), · 2008

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Concord, MA, FOPAC, (2008). VG PB. Nearly 500 people come to the building regularly each week for rehearsals and dances classes, audiences for performances 300.

Humankind.

Farb, Peter, · 1978

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1978. 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. What we know about ourselves, where we came from and where we are headed, why we behave the way we do. DJ spine tears at top. and bading. Stamp at top of front endpaper of Institute of Society Ethics and the Life Sciences. "...