Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Morning Was Starlight: my Maine boyhood.

Dodge, Ernest, introduction by James Russell Wiggins, · 1980

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Chester, CT, Globe Pequot Press, (1980). 1st ed. VG PB. Internationally known museum curator and marine historian recollects his youth on the Maine coast during the last days of. the coasting schooner and self-sufficient family. Following the change of seasons he tells of the ...

Spike of Swift River: Famous Dog Stories series.

O'Brien, Jack, · 1942

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1942). Fair. Solid book. Binding somewhat mottled,.

The Beast in Me and other animals.

Thurber, James, · 1973

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harvest, (1973). G PB. A collection of pieces and drawings about human beings and less alarming creatures. Edge wear.

Love Is Sternal: a novel of Mary Todd and Abraham Lincoln.

Stone, Irving, · 1954

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Doubleday, 1954. VG in Fair illustrated DJ uncliped. The master of the biographical novel has written the story of Lincoln's marriage. Love Is Eternal is the inscription Lincoln. had engraved in the wedding ring he bought before picking up the preacher and taking him to Ma...

Journal of Creation (32(2) 2018.

Jeristrom, Pierre, Dr., · 2018

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Powder Springs, GA, Creation, (2018). VG lg sz PB.

When You Are Engulfed in Flames.

Sedaris, David, · 2008

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Boston, Back Bay/Little Brown, (2008). 14th ptg. VG PB. "It's not just that Sedaris's crisp prose is humorous. What makes his work a consistent joy to read is his decliously skewed. vision of the world, and his dead-pan delivery.Sedaris is a connoisseur of human nature at its ...

The Homewood Trilogy: Damballah; Hiding Place; Sent for You Yesterday.

Wideman, John Edgar, · 1985

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Avon, (1985). 1st Avon ptg. G PB. In The Homewood Trilogy are the voices that recount, remember and bear witness to Homewood, an American ghetto, and. the generations of an American family, powerful in their endurance. In their talk, dreams, and memories, Wideman uses the ...

The Road to Shalimar.

Wells, Carveth, foreword by Lowell Thomas, · 1952

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Doubleday, 1952. VG. A trip to Kashmir by the entertaining Carveth Wells. In the last few pages he criticizes socialism. Black binding, red. lettering on spine.

Obama from Promise to Power.

Mendell, David, · 2007

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Amistad, (2007). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ ex-library. From a journalist who has been covering Obama and his career since his successful run for U.S. Senate, the biography. of America's hottest political superstar, Barack Obema. Library markings, crease on front DJ flap ...

Voyage of the Damned.

Thomas, Gordon and Max Morgan Witts, · 1974

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Stein and Day, (1974). Book Club Ed. VG in VG DJ. On May 13, 1939, luxury liner St. Louis sailed from Hamburg, one of the last ships to leave Nazi Germany before WWII erupted. Aboard were 937 Jews, some of whom had already been in concentration camps, who believed they had...

History of the SS.

Graber, G. S., · 1978

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, David McKay, (1978). Book Club Ed. VG in Fair DJ. History of the SS - the Nazi party's military arm woven around the life and career of SS chief Heinrich Himmler. Author Graber. reveals aspects of the SS not widely known before now: SS rituals, how SS also functioned as a ...

Grow a Hummingbird Garden.

Gelfand, Dale Evva, · 1997

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Pownal, VT, Storey Country, (1997). VG PB. Practical, hands-on instructions designed to help you master traditional country living skills to the newest techniques.

Amish Friends Cookbook: 200 hearty recipes from Amish country.

Brunstetter, Wanda E. "A cookbook is a volume full of stirring passages.", · 2007

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Uhrichsville, OH, Barbour, (2007). VG dark green spiral-bound color cover kids in Amish dress. Amish sayings along the way, "Mom's layin' over the dough - she's got to get her bakin' caught after.". "A long face and a broad mind are rarely found under the same hat." "If you ha...

Indian Basket Weaving: how to weave pomo, yurok, pima and Navajo baskets.

Newman, Sandra Corrie, · 1974

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Flagstaff, Northland Press, (1974). 1st ed. G PB. In Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and California each tribe produces a basket suited to its social, religious, and geographic. environment. Spine has some chips along edge. Owner initials front endpaper.

Looking at Indian Art of the Northwest Coast.

Stewart, Hilary, · 1979

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Seattle, Univ of Washington Press, (1979). 17th ptg. VG PB. Bold, inventive and highly graphic, the indigenous art of the Northwest Coast is distinguished by its sophistication and. complexity. It is also composed of basically simple elements, guided by a rich mythology, creat...

The Totem Pole Indians of the Northwest.

Beyer, Don E., · 1989

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Watts, 1989. 3rd ptg. VG PB. Describes the life and culture of the totem pole Indians of the Pacific Northwest. Owner name front endpaper.

The Micmac: how their ancestors lives five hundred years ago.

Whitehead, Ruth Holmes and Harold McGee, · 0

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Halifax, N.S., Nimbus Publishing Limited, nd. 4th ptg. VG PB. The Micmac will make a significant difference in the way in which Indian culture is conveyed in the schools. Kenneth. Morrison, UCLA "I truly believe that Micmac students may now gain a more positive image about the...

Brandywine River Museum (owner of N.C. Wyeth's house & studio)..

Lucinda, edited by Catherine E. Hutchins, · 2004

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Chadds Fort, PA, Brandywine Museum, (2004). VG lg sz PB. N. C. Wyeth was profoundly moved by the Brandywine Valley when he arrived her to study with Howard Pyle in 1902. He wrote of. the historic Brandywine countryside, "Never have I appreciated nature as I have in this place....

Reveille in Washington 1860-1865.

Leech, Margaret, · 1941

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, (1941). VG in G DJ. In 1861 Washington was perilously centered in the Atlantic sea board and abruptly transformed into a border town situated. between the warring sections. Washington's greatest ordeal. DJ edge wear and one mended tear.

Memoirs of Field Marshal Montgomery of Alameis.

Montgomery, Bernard, · 1958

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Da Capo, (1958). VG PB. Beautiful copy, unabridged.