Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Spotted Sphinx.

Adamson, Joy, · 1969

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Harcourt Brace & World, (1969). 1st Amer ed ss. VG. Spine faded.

New Fish Cookery.

Beard, James, · 1976

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, (1976). Rev ed. VG in G DJ. Edge wear, spine split at top, dj badly chipped. Owner's name fep.

Silent Witness.

Patterson, Richard North, · 1997

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, 1997. 1st ed ss. Fine in Fine DJ.

Act of Betrayal.

Buchanan, Edna, · 1996

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Hyperion, (1996). VG in VG DJ. Sl edge and corner wear. Buchanan, a Miami reporter, writes about a Miami reporter working on a bomb case for the Miami News. DJ chipped.

London.

Dark, Sidney, · 1936

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Macmillan, 1936. VG. Edges of eps browned.

The Napoleon of Crime: the life and times of Adam Worth, master thief.

MacIntyre, Ben, · 1997

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, (1997). 1st ed thus. VG in VG DJ. Model for Doyle's Professor Moriarity, a master of disguise. He stole Gainsborough's portrait of Duchess of Devonshire. DJ clipped, very slight edge wear.

Great Gardens of America.

Calkins, Carooll C. - General editor, · 1969

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Coward-McCann, (1969). VG in G DJ. DJ chipped, sl torn. Sticker fep. Survey of 38 of America's finest gardens and their impressive diversity.

The Great Ring of Canada 1867-1967.

Pollard, Donald - artist, · 0

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

np, np, ca1967. G PB. Front cover soiled at edges. In Canada's centennial year, a gift from the U.S. to Canada. Symbols of all the provinces.

Anna Akhmatova: poet and prophet.

Reeder, Roberta, · 1994

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, St. Martins, (1994). 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. Gift inscription on fep. Tragic story of one of our century's greatest poets, born in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Gates of Fear: great exploits of the world's bullrings.

Conrad, Barnaby, · 1957

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Bonanza Books, (1957). VG in G DJ. DJ chipped, worn. Flyleaf missing. Behind the scenes firsthand accounts of the great matadors.

Retreat from Glory.

Lockhart, R. H. Bruce, · 1934

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Putnam, 1934. 1st ed ss. G+. Covers rubbed, bottom edge bumped and worn, corner bumped. Front hinge cracked. Owner's name fep.

Emily Dickinson: a bibliography 1850-1966.

Clendenning, Sheila T., · 1968

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Kent State Univ. Press, (1968). 1st ed ss. Fine.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Fausset, Hugh l'Anson, · 0

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

NY, Harcourt Brace, nd. VG. Cloth and boards. Paste on label on spine. Owner's name front ep. Spine, corner and edge wear.

Robert Frost and John Bartlett: the record of a friendship.

Anderson, Margaret Bartlett, · 1963

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Holt Rinehart & Winston, (1963). 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. While a teacher at Pinkerton Academy in NH, Frost met Bartlett and corresponded with him later in life.

Emily Dickinson: a bibliography 1850-1966.

Clendenning, Sheila T., · 1968

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Kent State Univ. Press, (1968). 1st ed ss. Fine.

Newdick's Season of Frost: an interrupted biography of Robert Frost.

Sutton, William A. - Editor, · 1976

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Albany, NY, State Univ. of NY, 1976. 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. DJ chipped. Although Newdick died before he could publish his biography of Frost, Sutton finishes and adds to the task.

No Arch, No Triumph: new poems.

Brinnin, John Malcolm, · 1945

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Knopf, 1945. 1st ed ss. VG in VG- DJ. Inscribed by author. DJ has small spots and chips with some browning.

The Last Harvest.

Burroughs, John, · 1922

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1922). 2d impr. VG. Owner's name front ep, foxing beginning pages. Spine sunned. Sl edge and corner wear.

Robert Frost: the aim was song.

Gould, Jean, · 1964

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1964). 5th printing. VG in G DJ. DJ chipped, torn. Spine, corner wear. Gould began her writing a year before Frost's death and often sat before his fire.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, a memoir by his son. Two Volumes.

Tennyson, Alfred, · 1899

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, Macmillan, 1899. VG. is inscr to owner as gift edition. Tissue guards on frontis.