Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Morceaux Choisis (in French).

Claudel, Paul, · 1925

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Paris, Librairie Gallimard, (1925). G. Half leather with ribbed spine sl split, gilt lettering, blue boards and endpapers marbled, ribbon bookmark, edge wear. Facsimile autograph of author on his frontis. Inscription on title page.

Heroes and Greathearts and their animal friends.

Dale, John T., · 1911

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Boston, D. C. Heath & Co, (1911). G. Maroon binding, lettering and decoration on front cover, Xmas gift on 1913 front endpaper, few pages slightly warped. Daniel Webster's brother Zeke once brought home a woodchuck intending to kill it. When Daniel saw the animals bright black...

Editha's Burglar: a story for children.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, · 1899

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Boston, Jordan Marsh, 1899. G. A burglar is charmed by a young child. Green binding cover shows young girl on stairs, gilt lettering. Owner name ft. endpaper.

Culbertson for Morons: a bridge primer.

Lynch, Warren J., · 1931

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, The Bridge World, 1931. 2nd ptg. G. Makes a whimsical gift for slow learner. Owner name front endpaper, some light soiling.

Goldsmith's The Deserted Village and other poems together with She Stoops to Conquer and The Good-Natured Man.

Oliver Goldsmith, · 1923

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Macmillan, 1923. VG. Goldsmith is best revealed to us by the medium of that charming personality which everywhere pervades his writings. From the. moment when Goldsmith appears before us as a dancing urchin with poouting, pock-marked face, into which we wish more of his mi...

Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

Introduction about author Samuel Taylor Coleridge, · 1910

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

NY, American Book Co, (1910). VG. If you wish to know Coleridge well you must read what some of his contempories of his life have said about him: Wordsworth,. Lamb, Hazlitt, De Quincey. He was a wonderful boy from childhood. His father was a clergyman living in Devonshire and ...

Poems Worth Knowing: a collection of poems worthy of lifelong remembrance.

Faxon, Grace B., compiled by, · 0

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Dansville, NY, F. A. Owen, nd. G PB. Tan softcover with burgundy lettering and ribbon decoration. Wear to edges, owner name first page.

Poems of Peace and War.

Beecher, W. J., compiled by, · 0

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Ddansville, NY, Alta R. Owen, nd. G PB. Tan softcover with burgundy lettering and ribbon decoration. Wear to edges.

Frank on the Prairie books for boys: the Gunboat Series.

Castlemon, Harry, · 1865

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Philadelphia, PA, Porter & Coates, (1865). Poor. Quite worn copy of this classic. Green binding with illus. of gunboat on front cover, spine gilt title boxes but repaired. with tape, endpapers torn away. Presentation copy for scholarsip.

Schwartz, the Apostle to India.

Gohdes, C. B., Litt.D., · 0

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Columbus, OH, Lutheran Book Concern, nd. VG. "The Baptism of the Holy Spirit", the achievements of Schwartz are of apostolic fervor, power, fruitage. Luthern Sunday School. stamp front endpaper, blue binding, dark blue decoration, red lettering. Edge wear, fading toward spine....

A Bord La Junon (in French).

Lemay, Gaston, · 1879

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Paris, Charpentier, 1879. G. French blue binding, decorated boards (edge wear), marbled endpapers, general edge wear.

The New McGuffey Second Reader.

McGuffey, · 1901

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Cincinnati, American Book Company, (1901). Kentucky ser. VG. "Tis the finest wheat that ever did grow! And it is for Alice's supper - ho ho." Light green attractive decorated binding,.

Gefangbuch fur Gemeinden des Evang. Lutherifschen Befenntniffes.

Wilgemeinen Evangelifch Lutherifchen Synode, · 0

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Columbus, Ohio, Lutherifche Derlagshandlung. G. Black binding, spine split in two places, front cover embossed.

Der Werwolf Daterlandifcher Roman (in German).

Alexis, Willibald, · 1848

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Berlin, Halle, (1848). G. Owner name front flyleaf, edge wear.

Tablas de Logaritmos Trigonometricas y de Constantes Usuales version del Aleman for Rafael Hernandez Ingeniero.

Schlomilch, O., · 1954

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Barcelona, Editorial Gustavo Gill, 1954. Revis from1852. G. Edge wear.

Histoire of Gil Blas de Santillane.

Par Lesage, · 0

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, nd. G. Half leather, ribbed spine, gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt. Edge wear.

Les Confessions (in French).

Rousseau, J. J., · 0

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Paris, Librairie de Firmin-Didot, nd. G. Half leather, ribbed spine, gilt lettering on spine, marbled boards, top edge gilt. Edge wear.

Blues People: the Negro experience in white America and the music that developed from it.

Jones, LeRoi, · 1963

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Morrow Quill, (1963). 16th ptg. VG PB. ".first book on jazz by a Negro writer with provocative conclusions bolstered by history and sociology."Langston Hughes. ".a fresh, incisively instructive reinterpretation of Negro music in America.crucially relevant to Negro-white re...

The Late Mrs. Fonsell.

Johnston, Velda, · 1972

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1972). BC Ed. VG in VG DJ. Gothic horror and romance set in a historic whaling village and on a colorful Caribbean island, and a murder from the past.

Speak, Memory.

Nabokov, Vladimir, · 1989

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Vintage, (1989). G PB. First published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then revised in 1966 is an elegant and rich evocation of Nabokov's life and. times. One of the 20th century's master prose stylists, Nabokov was born in St. Petersburg in 1899. In 1940 he moved to th...