Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Grandma Spins Down-East Yarns.

Clough, Blanche Cole, · 1951

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Portland, ME, Blanche Cole Clough, (1951). 1st ptg. Fair ex-library. Tales of a New England grandmother who remembers how life used to be. Library markings, spine taped, binding tanned on edges.

Churches of Old New England: their architecture and their architects, their pastors and their people.

Marlowe, George Francis, · 1947

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, Macmillan, 1947. 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. The churches of old New England are part of the priceless heritage of the past. Marlowe writes about the most interesting. of our early New England churches. He writes not only of their architecture but about the architects who built t...

A Presence in the Community: the Warren family legacy.

Weigle, Anastasia S., · 2000

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Westbrook, ME, Westbrook Memorial Fdtn., (2000). G PB ex-library. The pulp and textile industry brought great industrial growth to Westbrook. In 1854 Samuel Dennis Warren, a Boston merchant. of paper and paper making materials, purchased the Day and Lyon mill at Congin Falls f...

Maine's Golden Road.

Gould, John, · 1995

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Norton, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ ex-library. A remarkable memoir of the annual vacation author Gould took for 32 consecutive summers with his daughter's father-in-law. Bill Dornbusch. These sojourns into the depths of the Maine woods have inspired Gould's finest and mo...

Little Joe.

McLaughlin, Andrew Wayte, · 1982

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Richmond, W. VA., West Virginia Press Club, 1982. VG. The story of Joseph and Muma who live in the woods and raise lambs. She is pregnant and tells of her life. Brown binding,. gilt lettering.

Allagash:the story of Maine's legendary wilderness waterway.

Gilpatrick, Gil, · 1995

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Skowhegan, ME, Gil Gilpatrick, (1995). G PB. Gilpatrick skillfully weaves fact and fiction to tell the story of the mighty Allagash and the Bear Clan of the Wabnaki Indians. whose very survival depended on the river. Library markings.

Lake Monster Mysteries: investigating the world's most elusive creatures.

Radford, Benjamin and Joe Nickell, foreword by Loren Coleman, · 2006

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Lexington, KY, Univ Press of Kentucky, (2006). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world have reported sightings of dark mysterious creatures that surface in area lake. only to disappear quickly. This book is the first to examine these widespread myste...

Tower Stories: an autobiography of September 11, 2001.

9/11 Commission, · 2004

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Revolution Printing, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. "No other book written about September 11th displays the compassion, breadth of focus, and the exacting eye for historic. detail that Tower Stories offers on every single page.".

Salinger.

Shields, David and Shane Salerno, · 2013

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2013). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. The boy who became a rebel, then a soldier, and an icon. The icon who disappeared. Raised in Park Avenue privilege,. Salinger sought out combat, surviving the bloody battles of WWII, and out of the crucible he created a novel,...

To Be Young Was Very Heaven.

Peabody, Marian Lawrence, · 1967

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1967). VG in VG DJ. Childhood in Cambridge and Boston of New England's glorious Indian summer, coming in the 90s, memories of the great of. many worlds and countries, growing up with the world on a silver platter, and helping others as well as hersel...

Julia Child & Company.

Child, Julia, · 1978

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Knopf, 1978. 1st ed. VG. All the glorious dishes she cooked for company on her TV series. Detailed recipes for everything. How she plans and markets plus culinary reflections, suggestions and inspirations.

Ice Storm '98: a CMP photographic journal.

Central Maine Power, · 1998

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Portland, ME, CMP, (1998). G lg sz PB ex-library. All over Maine heavy ice felled trees, powerlines & poles, cutting electricity to more than 600,000 people. Gov. Angus King. initiated Neighbors Helping Neighbors, a grassroots effort of Mainers looking out for one another. Lib...

Williamsburg: the finest reproductions of 18th century furnishings.

Williamsburg, · 1989

$42.00 (€38.11 | £31.79 | ¥6,707)

Williamsburg, VA, Colonial Williamsburg, (1989). G ex-library. Edgewesar, library markings.

Labels, Leadville and Lore: 1970's - 1890's History from a tin can.

Rhoades, Douglas H., signed by the author, · 2005

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

np, Rhoades Pub, (2005). 1st ed. VG ex-library. Earliest labels and their history, Leadville History, old photos, cans and other advertising, shards, restored labels,. photos of early travels. Library markings.

Super Songs of the 60's and 70's beginning with a description by Almo of their Rapid Play method.

Almo Rapid Play for Piano, Organ, Guitar and Chord Organ, · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, Almo Publications, (1977). VG lg sz PB. Simple chords for playing the favorite songs of a bygone era.

Ludwig van Beethoven: Bicentennial Edition 1770-1970.

Gorg, Joseph Schmidt and Hans Schmidt, edited by, · 1970

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Hamburg, Germany, Deutsche Grammophon, (1970). VG ex-library. Many illustrations of Beethoven's music sheets, drawings of Beethoven, Baroness Maria Anna Wilhelmine, Johann Reichardt,. Louis Spohr, Countess Guicciardi, Heinrich von Collins, George Handel, etc. Transcriptions of...

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.

Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, · 1994

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, AA, (1994). 25th ptg. G. Small with blue binding & bookmark, gilt lettering, Beginning pages are somewhat rumpled.

Lobster Rolls & Blueberry Pie: three generations of recipes and stories from summers on the Coast of Maine.

Charles, Rebecca of Pearl Oyster Bar and Deborah DiClementi, · 2003

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, Regan Books, (2003). VG in VG DJ. Escape to the Maine seashore, an exquisite summer sanctuary where vacations stretch out forever during long golden days and. food is the stuff from which memories are made. Previous owner name front endpaper.

American Country Furniture: projects from the workshops of David T. Smith.

Engler, Nick & Mary Jane Favorite, · 2009

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

np, Fox Chapel/Amer. Woodworker, (2009). Reprint. G lg sz PB. The Workshops of David T. Smith are a unique business, perhaps the only one like it in America on a farm in Warren County,. Ohio, near the village of Morrow. Price marked off on title page and carried over to front ...

There Was a Young Man from Nantucket:1,001 lewd limericks guaranteed to amuse and offend.

Stanza, Ronald, · 2012

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

(2012), Skyhorse Pub, (2012). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Worlds most hilarious and gasp-inducing limericks in one uproarious collection, naughty nuns, curious schoolboys,. dirty old men, lusty virgins, kinky farmers, and all manner of deviants from London to Calcutta. Limericks thi...