Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Smoke: the disappearing novel.

Westlake, Donald E., · 1995

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Mysterious, (1995). G in G DJ ex-library. A burglar discovers he is invisible after he breaks into a tobacco research lab that is trying to prove smoking is good. for you. Library markings.

Dear and Glorious Physician.

Caldwell, Taylor, · 1959

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

NY, Doubleday, 1959. VG. Owner inscription in pencil back endpaper. Green binding, black spine, edge wear. Historical novel about St. Luke who. was a Greek named Lucano who wrote the third book of the New Testament and studied medicine.

Falling Apart: the rise and fall of urban civilization.

Morgan, Elaine, · 1977

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

NY, Stein & Day, (1977). VG in G DJ. The state of our great cities is examined by Morgan, a non-city dwelling. She reinterprets urban living and upends some long. accepted tenets held as fact. An indignant new view of the city as the exploiter of the rest of the world, the cau...

The Old Story of Salvation.

Fahs, Sophia Lyon, · 1955

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Boston, Starr King Press, (1955). VG in G DJ. Draws together all the strands and parts to make a complete drama in the narrative verse of the King James version and. the dramatic framework of the Seven Great Ages of Time, the pattern used by St. Augustine in the firth century....

A Souvenir Album of Faberge from the Royal Collection exhibition 1985.

Queen Elizabeth, · 1985

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Buckingham Palace, Queen's Gallery, 1985 catalog. VG PB. First page clipped at top corner.

Vicious Circles (two fictions & after the facts) plus L'Aret Death and de Mort Sentence translated by Lydia Davis).

Blanchot, Maurice, translated by Paul Auster, · 1987

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Barrytown, NY, Station Hill, (1987) (1978). 2 VG PBs. Both books the subject of a religion class in 1987 and owned by a student then. Both books contain underlining and markings by. owner plus name on both. The early parables of death by Blanchot illuminate with hallucinatory ...

Geneve Geneva (in French and English) 105 Photographies en Couleurs Texte Francais-Anglais.

Pierre Jaeger & Fils, · 0

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Geneva, Editions Coloris, nd. G lg sz PB. Front hinge cracked.

The Sign of the Book: a Cliff Janeway novel.

Dunning, John, · 2005

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Scribner, (2005). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Back to his first love of book selling, Cliff Janeway is joined by his partner Erin D'Angelo but then Erin asks for his help. for her girlfriend accused of killing her husband Bobby, an ex-boyfriend of Erin. Library markings.

Fingerprinting merit badge series.

Boy Scouts of America, · 2002

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Irving, TX, BSA, (2002). VG PB. There are 8 basic fiingerprint patterns. The total number of records on file at the FBI ID division stood at 176 million in. 1982.

Fingerprints: the origins of crime detection and the murder case that launched forensic science.

Beavan, Colin, · 2001

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

NY, Hyperion, (2001). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. It is almost impossible to imagine that prior to the 20th century there no reliable way to distinguish between the guilty. and the innocent. All that changed in 1905 when the bloody bodies of an elderly couple were discovered ...

Oliver Wiswell.

Roberts, Kenneth, · 1940

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

NY, Doubleday Doran, (1940). G. The American Revolution from a Loyalist's point of view. Blue binding, moderate edge wear, owner inscription title page. top fore-edge partial stain.

Portsmouth Unabridged: new poems for an Old City.

Tirabassi, Maren C., edited by, The Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program, · 2002

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Portsmouth, NH, Peter E. Randall, 2002. VG. Portsmouth, which is on the map, is made true by the poet's eye. "In this reading tour of Portsmouth what we thought was. familiar becomes wonderfully strange." Donald M. Murray, poet, Boston Globe columnist. Thos who have contribute...

One Destiny: an epistle to the Christians.

Asch, Sholem, translated by Milton Hindus, · 1945

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Putnam, (1945). VG in G DJ. Profoundly moving and eloquent, Sholem Asch, speaks "as a Jew, whose every move is bound up with the God of Israel," talks. plainly to his Christian brethen. His spiritual faith is built on the interdependence of Jew and Christian, on the belief...

Kittery Gateway to Maine.

Rice Library, · 2006

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Kittery, ME, Rice Public Library, (2006). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Kittery at your fingertips, history galore, reomantic bygone days of.practical and fun things to do, scenic driving tour.

Freedom in the Western World: from the Dark Ages to the rise of democracy.

Muller, Herbert J., · 1963

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harper & Row, (1963). 1st ed. VG in Fair DJ. Synthesis of the various major developments that have affected Western civilization from the dark ages to the rise of democracy. Creativity in art, gradual evolovement of ideas that promoted belief in man's dignity and fitness f...

Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings: Text, listing of his art, paintings, drawings.

Van Gogh, Vincent, · 1966

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, (1966). G PB. Exhibition catalog. Van Gogh made about 800 drawings and 800 paintings during his ten years between 27 and 37 years of age. when he died. The first two years he drew only, then he started to paint. Through painting he liberated his mi...

Legends of Prince Edward Island.

MacArthur, F. H., · 1974

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

P.E.I., H. M. Simpson, (1974). 6th ptg. G PB. Long-isolated from their fellow countrymen by the Strait of Northumberland, the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island. developed personal characteristics and a way of life peculiarly their own. These 58 stories set against the backgr...

Gift from the Sea.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, · 1955

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Pantheon, (1955). BCE. VG in G DJ. Reflections on a woman's life matured in active years of family living and conversations. DJ slight tanning edge wear.

The Lotus and the Robot.

Koestler, Arthur, · 1961

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

NY, Macmillan, 1961. 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Record of the author's recent pilgrimage to the East, where he hoped to find a cure for the moral and spiritual ailments. affecting the Western world. Koestler began his career as a student of science in Vienna where he had been a fore...

A World Alice: the natural wonders of a New England valley.

Milne, Lorus and Margery Milne, · 1991

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Camden, ME, Yankee Books, (1991). 1st ptg. VG PB. Inscribed by author Margery Milne 6/18/1991 to "an enthusiastic naturalist of long standing may you long continue to enjoy. nature's wonders. Margery Milne. Slight edge wear.