Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Sledgehammer.

Wager, Walter, · 1970

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Macmillan, (1970). VG in VG DJ. Here was the body that could briing down the house crime built, with the bizarre, slick and brilliant twist of Sledgehammer,. four self-styled vigilantes who take on a gang of the toughest thugs in America. Slight edge wear.

In Search of the Dark Ages.

Wood, Michael, · 1987

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Facts on File Pubs, (1987). VG ex-library. Modern British are a nation of immigrants. Here is a thousand years of their history and gradual transformation of the. Mainland under the impact of various invaing peoles. The original inhabitants are the Celtic-speaking Britons,...

Matthew Looney's Voyage to the Earth.

Beatty, Jerome, Jr., · 1972

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Camelot/Avon, (1972). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Matthew Looney earns his chance to go as cabin boy on the first trp from the moon to outer spece, the earth. Commander Lockhard. chooses the South Pole as his landing place, where moon people might feel more at home. They explore but f...

Lost Country Life.

Hartley, Dorothy, · 1979

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Pantheon, (1979). G in G DJ ex-library. How English country folk lived, worked, threshed, thatched, rolled fleece, miller corn, brewed mead, etc. Library markiings.

Lovers All Untrue.

Lofts, Norah, · 1971

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Greenwich, CT, Fawcett, (1971). VG PB. A macabre tale of vengeance of love, hate, silent terror.

Brazen Chariots.

Crisp, Robert, Major, · 1968

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Ballantine, (1968). 3rd ptg. G PB. Fighting Rommel's crack Afrika Korps, the Allied side of the desert war.

Trixie Belden and Mystery in Arizona #6.

Campbell, Julie, · 1970

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Racine, WI, Whitman, (1970). VG. Sl edge wear.

The Irrational Season: Crosswick's Journal Book 3.

L'Engle, Madeleine, · 1977

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Cambridge, Harper & Row, (1977). 1st ptg. G PB ex-library. Exploration of L'Engle's life as a professional woman, wife, mother and grandmother. She maintains a farmhouse of charming. confusion called "Crosswicks". Ex-library, first blank page removed.

Confessions of a Stockbroker.

Lanyi, Andrew A., · 1992

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Prentice Hall, (1992). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Card enclosed saying "Compliments of Andrew A. Lanyi" with phone number. You too can find tomorrow's blue chips before. "Wall Street finds them." by America's best-known broker/analyst.

Days of Grace.

Hall, Catherine, · 2010

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Viking, (2010). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A secret from time spent in war time England may now be revealed after 50 years. A beautiful meditation on love,. friendship, and family, a stunning debut that brings a tumuluous era to life.

Dear Will.

Ackerman, Karl (signed), · 2000

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Scribner, (2000). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Will receives in the mail fan letters and requests but now comes one sayins he may be her biological father. Slight edge. wear to DJ.

Schooling.

McGowan, Heather, · 2001

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Doubleday, (2001). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A 13-year is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. A coming of age novel.

The Good Husband of Zebra Drive.

Smith, Alexander McCall, · 2007

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Pantheon, (2007). VG in VG DJ. The new novel in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency Series. Staffing difficulties, a case of an errant. husband, then a minor falling out with an assistant, an unexplained series of deaths at the hospital, and missing office supplies at a loca...

Far from the Madding Crowd.

Hardy, Thomas, introduction by Margaret Drabble, · 2001

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Modern Library, (2001). VG PB. First of Hardy's great novels and the first to sound the tragic note for which his fiction is best remembered from Drabble's. introduction.

Discover Your Scottish Ancestry: internet and traditional resources.

Holton, Graham S. & Jack Winch, · 2004

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Roberts Rinehart, (2004). VG PB. The perfect guide to tracing your Scottish ancestors by combining the traditional methods with new methods offered by. information technology and the Internet. Examples of family history research, lists of useful websites, and names and add...

Man and Boy.

Parsons, Tony, · 2001

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Naperville, IL, Sourcebooks Landmark, (2001). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Harry has it all: a beautiful wife, a wonderful son, a great job in the media - but in one night he throws it all away. Parsons' firsts novel. Born to a blue-collar famly in the East End of London, Parsons bec...

Big Five-Oh! Facing and fearing and fighting fifty.

Geist, Bill, · 1997

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Morrow, (1997). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Geist's personal struggle with the aging process from the trauma of receiving an AARP application to the realization he. can't really see the menu, near the waiter, or remember the specials. Wear along bottom edge of DJ near spine.

The Last Fish Tale: the fate of the Atlantic and survival in Gloucester, America's oldest fishing port & most original town.

Kurlansky, Mark, · 2008

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Ballantine Books, (2008). VG in VG DJ. "A fisherman is not a successful man he is not a famous man he is not a man of power, these are the damned by God.". Charles Olson, "Maximus to Gloucester", Sunday, July 19, 1960 A disappearing way of life, fishing, how it has thrived...

Bumblebee Economics.

Heinrich, Bernd, · 1979

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

Cambridge, MA, harvard Univ Press, (1979). VG in G DJ. A brilliant introduction to insect and plant ecology. Survival for the bumblebee depends on its ability to regulate body. temperature through a complex energy exchange around which Heinrich centers his discussion. Yellow D...

Official White House China: 1789 to the present (with added essays by White House curators to enrich the original text).

Klapthor, Margaret Brown, · 1999

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

NY, Barra Foundation, (1999). 2nd ed. VG in VG DJ. Evoking distinguished gatherings of royalty, diplomats, politicians and celebrities at the nation's First Table. The records left by the ceramic art have furnished keys to many a secret which would otherwise remain locked. The...