Crabtree's Collection Old Books

SS-Leibstandarte: the history of the first SS Division 1833-45``.

Butler, Rupert, · 2001

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

St. Paul, MN, MBI Pub Co, (2001). 1st ptg. VG in VG DK. "I swear to thee, Adolf Hitler, as Fuhrer and Chancellor of the German Reich, loyalty and bravery. I vow to thee, and to the. superiors whom thous shalt apoint, obedience unto death, so help me, God." SS oath of loyalty. ...

Flight from the Reich: refugee Jews 1933-1946.

Dwork, Deborah & Robert Jan Van Pelt, · 2009

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Norton, (2009). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Using scholarly sources, personal interviews, diaries and other documents the authors chronicle painful separations that allowed. some members of a family to survive while others perished, as well as telling the story of reunions that ...

Swastika over Paris: the fate of the Jews in France.

Josephs, Jeremy, foreword by Serge Klarsfeld, · 1989

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Arcade/Little Brown, (1989). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Alois Brunner, the most important Nazi war criminal still at large, may be on the point of being discreetly expelled from. Syria, according to French Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld.Bruner is accused of the deportation of 150,...

Sentinel in the Saddle.

Jones, Eloyd and Juanita, · 1952

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Philadelphia, PA, Jr Lit Guild & Westminster, (1952). G ex-library. Dedicated "To the Steadfast Men of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and especially to Government Hunters Louis E. Miller. and Marsh Williams who can read their own sign in this story, thia book is respectfu...

My Father, the Captain: my life with Jacques Cousteau.

Cousteau, Jean-Michel with Daniel Paisner, · 2010

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Washington, D.C., National Geographic, (2010). VG ex-lib. "Every legend leavs a legacy but few can boast of one as rich as Jacques-Yves Cousteau. An undersea explorer of bottomless. vitality, unbounded curiosity, and matter-of-fact courage, he possessed a bold spirit that surv...

War Stories II: heroism in the Pacific.

North, Oliver (signed by author) with Joe Musser, · 2004

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Washington, D.C., Regnery Pub, (2004). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Acclaimed television series Fox News channel.

Hitler's Last Days: the death of the Naxi regime and the world's most notorious dictator.

O'Reilly, Bill, · 2015

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Holt, (2015). 1st edition. VG in VG DJ. Nazi Radio announced Hitler Dead 1889-1945 fell in command post, Adm. Doenitz named head of Reich, Army.

January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the month that changed America forever.

Robenalt, James, foreword by John W. Dean, · 2015

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Chicago, Chicago Review Press, (2015). 1st ptg. Fine. Under the surface ominous forces were churning. The trial of the Watergate burglars was scheduled to being the 2nd week of. January 1974 Judge John Sirica would be on the cover of Time as the "Man of hte Year" and Richard N...

Blackbeard and Other Pirates of the Atlantic Coast.

Roberts, Nancy, · 2002

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Winston-Salem, NC, Blair, (2002). 7th ptg. VG in VG DJ. They were bold, arrogant, brutal. They strode the rolling deck of a ship, they were wealthy, some beyond the wildest dreams of. the governors and kings who first supported, then pursued them. Pirates of the 17th & 18th ce...

The Book of Merlyn.

White, T. H., prologue by Sylvia Townsend Warner, · 1977

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Austin, Univ of Texas, (1977). 2nd ptg. VG. Previously unpublished conclusion to The Once and Future King. Gray binding, black title bar with gilt lettering on spine. How Arthur, Guenever and Lancelot came to their ends.

The Mighty Eighth: the air war in Europe as told by the men who fought it.

Astor, Gerald, · 1997

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Berkley Caliber, (1997). G lg sized PB. The men of the mightiest air force ever guilt tell their story in their own words. Some edge wear. When America entered WWII, it was woefully nprepared for a fight though Europe was already years into the battle. Soon though America'...

Franklin and Winston: an intimate portrait of an epic friendship.

Meacham, Jon, · 2004

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Random, (2004). 8th ptg. VG PB. As two of history's most towering leaders, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill shared a close friendship, instrumental. in defeating tyranny and piloting the free world to victory in WWII. Few creases to bottom corner edges.

The Devil's Rooming House: the true story of America's deadliest female serial killer.

Phelps, M. William, · 2011

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Guilford, CT, Lyons, (2011). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Victorian Amy Archer-Gilligan dispatched two husbands and possibly as many as 66 others in fascinating detail. primarily in Archer's Home for Elderly People and Chronic Invalids, the inspiration for the play Arsenic and Old Lace. ...

Plug Uglies: a scrapbook of Boston Organized Crime.

Carr, Howie, · 2014

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

np, Frandel, LLC, (2014). VG PB. Carr tells a number of previously untold stories about the FBI bugging of the Boston Mafia's robbery. Private lives of Mob. serial killer Jimmy "The Bear" Flemmi and one of Johnny Martorano's long-forgotten victims.

Great Speeches by Native Americans.

Blaisdell, Bob, edited by, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Mineola, NY, Dover, (2000). G ex-library. 82 coompelling speeches encompassing 5 centuries of Indian encounters with nonindigenous peoples beginning with a 1540. refusal by a Timucua chief to parley with Hernando de Soto ("With such a people I want no peace") to the 20th centu...

Highest Duty: my search for what really matters.

Sullenberger, Capt. Chesley "Sully" with Jeffrey Zaslow, · 2010

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, 2010. 1st PB ptg. VG PB. The hero on the Hudson, Sully Sullenberger landed U.S. Airways flight 1549 safely with all 155 passengers aboard now searches. for what really matters in life.

Chasing Lincoln's Killer.

Swandon, James L., · 2010

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Scholastic, (2010). 1st PB ptg. VG PB. This story is true. All the characters are real and were alive during the great manhunt of April 1865. What happened in. Washington, D.C., that spring, and in the swamps and rivers, forests and fields of Maryland and Virginia during t...

General James Longstreet: the confederacy's most controversial soldier.

Wert, Jeffry D., · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1993). VG lg sz PB. Gen. Longstreet fought in nearly everycampaign of the Civil War from Manassas (the first battle of Bull Run) to Antietam,. Fredericksburg, Chickamauga, Gettysburg, and was present at the surrender at Appomattox. Yet he was largely hel...

The Vermonter October 1899.

Forbes Publisher, · 1899

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

St. Albans, VT, Forbes, 1899. G. Cover detached but all in good condition. Some jottings.

Boston Maine Courier: April, May, June, July, August 1898.

Various, · 0

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Boston, Boston Maine Courier pub, 5 magazines. 24 pages each. G pb. Maine of more than 100 years ago. Some edge wear but clear and bright. April shows two men fishing from a canoe and landing. first "big one". Many ads from long ago.