Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Chimpanzees of Gombe: patterns of behavior.

Goodall, Jane, · 1986

$54.00 (€48.99 | £40.87 | ¥8,623)

Cambridge, MA, Belknap Press of Harvard, 1986. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Research of Gombe, the mind of the Chimpanzee, demographic changes, communication, relationships, feeding, hunting,. aggression, friendly behavior, grooming, dominance, sexual behavior, terroritorality, objec...

Battlefields of the Civil War.

Murfin, James, introducted & edited by L. Edward Purcell, · 1990

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

E. Granby, CT, CLB Publishing, (1990). VG in G DJ. From the dull thud of the first cannon shot at Ft. Sumter to the scratch of Lee's surrender pen at Appomattox, the Civil war. affected Americans and our history forever. DJ tear at top of spine.

Clotheslines: a collection of poetry & art.

Tymorek, Stan, edited by, · 2001

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Abrams, (2001). VG in VG DJ. Chanel, Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy, Walker Evans, Sonia Delauanay, Manuel Alvarez-Bravo, Romare Bearden, Edward Steichen. Murasaki Shikibu, Patt Hill, Paul Colin, Jim Dine, Annie Leibovitz, Diego Rivera, Clarence John Laughlin, John Singer Sarge...

The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe.

Poe, Edgar Allan, introduction by Wilbur S. Scott, · 2002

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Edison, NJ, Castle Books, (2002). VG in VG DJ. Poe's editor Rev. Henry Griswold presented the image of an "irascible, quarrelsome, mercurial, difficult and brooding. figure, a literary genius, yet very uneven in his achievements" in his obituary. The life of American writer Po...

Carving a Totem Pole.

Jensen, Vickie, text and photos by, foreword by Norman Tait, · 1996

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Holt, (1996). 1st Amer ed. G in G DJ ex-library. Totem poles were used to teach us about the past. It was important that children know their ancestors at an early age. because they too would become the history books of our people. (from introduction by Norman Tait, Nisga's...

Audrey Style (Audrey Hepburn).

Keogh, Pamela Clarke, introduction by Hubert de Givenchy, · 1999

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Harper Collins, (1999). 1st ed 8th ptg. G in Fair DJ. One of the most admired and emulated women of the 20th century, She urged women to discover and highlight their own strength. DJ stain near top of back DJ flap, top of back cover damaged with damp stain near top.

Why Read the Classics?.

Calvino, Italo, translated from Italian by Martin McLaughlin, · 1999

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Vintage, (1999). 1st ptg. VG PB. "Manna from a book lover's heaven. A master joyously rediscovers for us books we thought we knew: we are suddenly. shown what is great and loving and thrilling criticism." Michael Ondaatje.

A Positively Final Appearance.

Guinness, Alec, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London, England, Penguin, (2000). VG PB. These journals are a testament to his delicate precision, to the way his energy is continuously replenished by curiosty. He leaves you wanting more.

Goodbye Flicker: poems.

Smith, Carmen Gimenez, · 2012

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Amherst, MA, Univ of Massachusetts Press, (2012). VG PB. Interior life of a girl who has a dead-beat dad and her escape into a fantasy world of language, beauty, and the surreal. Takes on poetry, family, myth, fairy tale, memory, love, history, and plain ordinary human stories...

Heterophobia: sexual harassment and the future of feminism.

Patai, Daphne, · 2000

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, (2000). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. Heterophobia is the fear of and antagonism toward heterosexuals and heterosexuality. First main-stream feminist voice to speak. out in protest against the disastrous impact that the Sexual Harassment Industry has on ...

Courage Is Contagious.

Kasich, John, · 1998

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Doubleday, (1998). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Kasich represents Ohio and conducted in-depth interviews with 20 ordinary people doing extraordinary things to change America. People who bring life and hope to the aged, the homelss, helpless, sick and dying, who do God's wo...

Fallen Founder: the life of Aaron Burr.

Isenberg, Nancy, · 2007

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Viking, (2007). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Author Isenberg went back to the archives and found real Aaron Burr who turns out to be far more interesting than a rakish. traitor his opponents and their biographers painted.

Uncivil War: the controversy over reparations for slavery.

Horowitz, David, · 2002

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

San Francisco, CA, Encounter, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Horowitz carefully analyzes the case for reparations for slavery and concludes that it is "morally questionable and. racially incendiary." Horowitz also reaveals a crisis of free speech on our college campuses.

Between a Rock and a Hard Place.

Ralston, Aron, · 2004

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

NY, Atria, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of the most extraordinary survival story ever told, Ralston's searing account of his 6 days trapped in one of the. most remote spots in America. It started out as a simple hike in the Utah canyonlands when a 27 yr old mountai...

The President's House: a history.

Seale, William, · 1986

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

Washington, D.C., White House Hist. Assn., 1986. 2nd ptg. VG boxed set 2 volumes. Forest green binding, gilt outline of front door of White House on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. A beautiful set. The author states, in these two volumes I have completed a history of the...

The Man Who Lived Alone.

Hall, Donald, · 1984

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Jaffrey, NH, New Books, New Readers, (1984). G PB. He built himself a camp on a side of Ragged Mountain and lived there alone in one big room where he found and kept a collection. of thousands of rusty nails which he found and straightened and saved, pelts from deer that he sh...

The A. B. Frost Book.

Reed, Henry M., · 1993

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Charleston, NC, Wyrick & Co, (1993). G in G DJ ex-library. Famous illustrator and sporting artist, Frost is perhaps best known for his naturalistic hunting and shooting prints, Brer. Rabbit and Uncle Remus. Reed reveals new information on Reed's years as a student at the Penns...

A Moveable Feast.

Hemingway, Ernest, · 1996

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Scribner Classics, (1996). 12th ptg. VG in VG DJ. What it means to be young and poor and writing in Paris during the 1920s. Photos of Hemingway, Hadley, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia. Beach and her bookstore, Ezra Pound's studio, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his daughter Scotty.

The Spice Necklace: my adventures in Caribbean cooking, eating, and island life.

Venderhoof, Ann, · 2010

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Houghton Mifflin, (2010). 1st US ed 1ptg. VG in VG DJ. Sailing around the Caribbean with her husband, Ann set off on a voyage of culinary discovery. Along the way they are befriended. by a collection of unforgettable island characters who share their folklore, history, and...

The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson.

Dickinson, Emily, · 1993

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Barnes & Noble, (1993). VG in VG DJ. Dickinson lived as a recluse most of her life and her poems were on fear, love, death, immortality and man's relation to. nature. Only 7 poems were published in her lifetime but she wrote two thousand in her lifetime.