Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Let Go, My Love.

Hellman, Dorothy Gurkin, · 1979

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Bloch Pub Co, (1979). VG in G DJ. Sensitive erotic prose as the author struggles to overcome the irreparable loss of the one she loved. At times despair, at. other times her spirit rose to combat the desolation and loneliness. The process of restructuring both herself and ...

The Sea Eagles: a story of the American Navy during the Revolution; of the men who fought and the ships they sailed....

Jennings, John, · 1950

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Doubleday, (1950). 1st ed. G.and the women who stood behind them. Author Jennings writes this book is primarily to entertain and of other things that. are timeless. "The records of the American Navy and Merchant Marine during the course of the American Revolution are woefu...

The Running of the Tide.

Forbes, Esther, · 1948

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1948. BC ed. G in Fair DJ. Report (4 pgs) by John P. Marquand on The Running of the Tide by Forbes two months after he read her uncorrected proofs. Report (4 pgs) by Dale Warren on Esther Forbes "Specialist in Yankee Lore". DJ has been folded and has edge...

The Complete Live-Aboard Book.

Burke, Katy, N.A., · 1982

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

Newport, R.I., Seven Seas Press, (1982). VG in G DJ. Katy Burke took five years to write the book she wanted to be able to buy for her friends aboard, a step-by-step investigation. into self-sufficiency and self-reliance while living aboard a sailboat or powerboat. A time and ...

Maine Speaks: an anthology of Maine literature.

Fischer, Jeff, Director, · 1989

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Brunswick, ME, Maine Writers and Publishers, (1989). 1st ed. VG hardback. Includes poem Renascence by Edna St. Vincent Millay. "Nowhere is a culture more truly reflected than in the mirror of its. enduring literature. Maine is blessed with a literary tradition unsurpassed in t...

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: modern liberalism and American decline.

Bork, Robert H., · 1997

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Regan Books, (1997). 1st PB ed 7ptg. VG PB. A nation's moral life is the foundation of its culture. A prophetic and unprecedented view of a culture in decline, a. nation is such serious moral trouble that its very foundation is crumbling a nation that slouches not towards ...

The Tempting of America.

Bork, Robert H. (author of Slouchng Towards Gomorrah), · 1991

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Touchstone, (1991`. 1st ptg thus. VG PB. Bork received undergraduate and law degrees from the Univ. of Chicago and served in the U.S. Marine Corps, taught constitutional law at the Yale Law School, was Solicitor General and Acting Attorney General of the U.S. and as Circui...

Tales from Shakespeare.

Lamb, Charles and Mary, · 1924

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Philadelphia, Winston, (1924). G. Green binding, paste down pictorial cover gilt-outlined, shows characters in costume with two children at foreground reading. Illustrated endpapers in green on cream background, frontis in color by Godwin showing scene from "Twelfth Night." An...

Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant second volume.

Shaw, Bernard, · 1918

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Brentano's, (1918). G. "Four pleasant plays." Edge wear.

The Day the Rabbi Resigned.

Kemelman, Harry, · 1992

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Fawcett Columbine, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. V in G DJ ex-library. Best loved and most unorthodox rabbi ever seen wants to leave and teach but instead he is enlisted by the police chief to. examine a drunk driving accident that looks like murder. Library markings.

Secrets (10) My Dog Taught Me: life's lessons from a man's best friend.

de Vito, Carlo, · 0

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, MJF Books, 1st ptg. VG. Red binding, beautiful condition. "Yes, there is such a thing as love at first sight.".

The Unforgiven: reading for men plus 4 book excerpts:The Little Black Book; Money of Their Own; Foreign Correspondent; Treasure.

John, and N. B. Stirling, · 0

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

VG in Fair DJ. under the Sea. Le May's historical novel of American Frontier Life - The Unforgiven. DJ shows woman with a shotgun in a lowcut dress aiming it at an Indian hiding behind furniture. Le May has succeeded in recreating vividly the dangerous lonely life of a determi...

The Story of the white House and Its Home Life.

Whipple, Wayne, completed by Allice Roosevelt Longworth, · 1917

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, MA, Dwinell-Wright Co, 1917. 1st ed. Fair. Color illustrations of first families, b/w illus of presidents. Child's scribbling on pages.

The Plan: eliminate the surprising "healthy" foods that are making you fat and lose weight fast.

Recitas, Lyn-Genet, · 2013

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Grand Central Life & Style, (2013). 5th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Unlocking the weight gain mystery. Revolutionary book cutting edge nutrition expert Recitas reveals the truth behind what. acutally makes people pack on the pounds. Carbs and portion sizes are not the problem. Turke...

The White House Remembered volume 1.

M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter & Ronald Reagan), · 2005

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

np, White House Historical Assn., (2005). VG lg sz PB. The White House has been the home and office of the U.S. President for more than 200 years. Hugh Sidey covered the last. ten of the 41 men.

Ann-Margret.

Ann-Margret with Todd Gold, · 1995

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Berkley Books, (1995). VG PB. "A beautiful and compelling superstar tells thirty years of secrets in a revealing new memoir." Larry King. Crease at top outer corner.

The Past Masters: politics and politicians 1906-1939.

Macmillan, Harold, · 1976

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

London, Macmillan, (1976). 3rd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Macmillan's recollections and assessments of the giants of the generation before his own. He describes his father's political. friends and the "honourable ambition" which led him to go into public life. He gives highly personal ...

Aldous Huxley: a biography (volumes 1 1894-1939 & 2 1939-1961).

Bedford, Sybille, · 1973

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

London, Chatto & Windux, (1973). VG in VG DJ. One of the outstanding English men of letters of his time, an inquiring mind and acute intelligence, he peered beyond the. the present frontiers of our self-knofledge that led him beyond. DJs slight edge wear.

The Lowland.

Lahiri, Jhumpa, · 2012

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Knopf, 2012. 1st ed 5th ptg. VG. Set in both India and America, two brothers from Calcutta, a country torn by revolution, and a brilliant woman. Nice copy, dark green binding, author's initials stamped in burgundy.

Bernat Handicrafter Book no. 103.

Bernat, · 0

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Jamaica Plain, MA, Emile Bernat Sons, nd. VG spiral bound paperback. Wonderful pictures of the way kids used to look and how to make the outfits.