Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Serpent's Coil: an incredible story of hurricane-battered ships and the heroic men who fought to save them.

Mowat, Farley, · 2001

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

NY, Lyons Press, (2001). VG PB (advance uncorrected proof). The New York Times calls this book an almost physical experience because of this unique episode in annals of the sea. Serpent's coil is the symbol for cyclone. It recounts the amazing story of the Liberty ship Leicest...

Eastern Front: unpublished photographs 1941-1945.

Fowler, Will, · 2001

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

St. Paul, MN, MBI, (2001). VG in VG DJ. Most photos from Ukrainian State Archive. The war on the Eastern Front was the most bloody campaign of WWII drawing on. previously unpublished photos from a from Soviet archive. A visually stunning account of one of history's most feroci...

Fateful Lightning: an American saga of love and war and survival against the odds.

Eaton, George Ryder (inscribed), · 2004

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Waterford, VA, Stivers Pub, (2004). VG lg sz PB. Heroic efforts of young calvalryman Jim Branch to save the remnant of his close comrades who came through the Civil War. with him in the Second U.S. Cavalry, as well as the love of his life during a yet another terrible conflict...

The Abacus Made Easy: simplified manual for teaching the Cranmer Abacus.

for the Blind, Philadelphia, PA 19151, · 1967

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Louisville, KY, Amer. Printing House Blind, (1967). Large print. VG lg sz PB. Dr. Davidow has been a teacher at Overbrook since 1935 when she came after having lost her sight at 10. While at Overbrook. she was instrumental in establishing the use of the Cranmer Abacus as a par...

Along Route 66.

Scott, Quinta, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma, (2000). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. "It was the way out. Invented on the cusp of the Great Depression route 66 was the way out of the mines, off the farm,. away from troubled Main Street. It was the road to opportunity." Large sized photos on ever...

The Music School: short stories.

Updike, John, · 1966

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Knopf, 1966. 1st ed. G. All 20 of these stories first appeared in The New Yorker and written in the same order they have here. Fading to spine.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl written by herself, now with "A True Tale of Slavery" by John S. Jacobs by her brother.

Jacobs, Harriet A., edited with a introduction by Jean Fagan Yellin, · 1861

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1861, 2002). Enlarged ed. VG lg sz PB. Yellin who discovered the long lost document, supplies annotation and authentication, has brought her introduction. up to date. Jacobs details in great and painful detail the sexual exploitation that da...

How to Live with Statistics.

Huff, Darrell, · 1954

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Norton, (1954). G PB. Owner name front endpaper.

Vanished Fleets: sea stories from Old Van Diemens Land.

Villiers, Alan, · 1974

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

NY, Scribner, (1974). VG in VG DJ. Men who built a faraway colony. Maritime history of colorful land known as Tasmania. Slight tanning to page fore-edges,. Colony for the British Crown - girl ships which carried free females from Britain to the Colony. The first shipload was w...

Druid Magic: the practice of Celtic Wisdom.

Sutton, Maya Magee and Nicholas K. Mann, · 2001

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

St. Paul, MN, Llewellyn Pubs, (2001). 2nd ed revised. VG lg sz PB. How Druidry can act as a well-spring of spiritual energy and direction to follow a path of great depth and beauty.

The Portrait of a Lady.

James, Henry, · 1996

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Book of the Month Club, (1996). VG in VG DJ. James was born in NYC 1843 into an intellectual and wealthy family: his father was a writer and theologist, and his siblings. were a philosopher William James and a diarist Alice James. In 1869 James traveled in Europe where he ...

Bogart: a life in Hollywood.

Meyers, Jeffrey, · 1997

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1997). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Complete, discerning, authoritative life of Humphrey Bogart.

A Companion for Owls, being the commonplace book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, etc..

Manning, Maurice, · 2004

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harcourt, (2004). VG in VG DJ ex-library. We follow the progression of Daniel Boone's life led in the war and the wilderness and see the birthing of a new nation.

Palestisne Peace Not Apartheid.

Carter, Jimmy, · 2006

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2006). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Carter's book that stirred furor among Jews with its view of Israelis' 'Apartheid'. Carter was trailed by protesters during. his book signings when he asserted that pro-Israel lobbyists have stifled debate in the U.S. over th...

Sheridan: the life and wars of General Phil Sheridan.

Morris, Roy, Jr., · 1992

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Crown, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Sheridan was a short, quick-tempered, blunt man who made few efforts to charm but generally got his way through sheer dogged. will and determination. Like Ulysses Grant he rocket out of obscurity in the darkest days of the Civil ...

My Life in Three Acts.

Hayes, Helen with Katherine Hatch, · 1990

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1990). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ ex-library. At 90 Helen Hayes looks back at her life and her career. Some delightful anecdotes of Ethel Barrymore, John Ford, Al Capone. Library markings.

Lonely Vigil: coastwatchers of the Solomons.

Lord, Walter, · 1977

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Viking, (1977). 1st ed. VG in Fair DJ. First complete account of the Coastwatchers of the Solomons when individuals helped in the war effort deep behind Japanese. lines living by their wits and with the help of friendly natives, who gave us our best intelligence, rescued o...

The World of the Druids.

Green, Miranda J., · 1997

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Thames & Hudson, (1997). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. True and fascinating history of the Druids, ancient and modern. DJ flap clipped, edge wear, name on endpaper cover by white. sticker.

Pictorial Record The War against Germany and Italy: Mediterranean And Adjacent Areas.

Ward, USA, Chief of Military History, · 1975

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Washington, D.C., Chief Military History Army, (1975). Reprint. VG. Green binding, army seal in gilt on front cover, gilt lettering and green title box on spine, few marks on fore-edge and verso.

Kelly: a father & son, an American Quest.

Boyne, Daniel J. (signed by author on title page), · 2008

$74.00 (€67.14 | £56.01 | ¥11,817)

Mystic River, Mystic Seaport, (2008). VG in VG DJ. Signed by the author. To addressee name covered by white label "someone who can appreciate a good rowing story!". Most of Boyne's writing has concerned itself with the interplay between sport and society and he has often focus...