Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Forest Lovers: a romance.

Hewlett, Maurice, · 1905

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1905). VG-. Owner's name on front ep. Decorated cover showing a forest. Some edge wear. Fep tear repaired.

United Nations Bulletin: 1952. Volume XII, Numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 12 for 1/1, 1/15, 2/15, 3/1, 3/15, 4/1, 5/1, 6/15/52.

United Nations, · 1952

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, United Nations, (1952). ex library. VG. Bound copies of 8 issues from 1952. Bookplate from Cardinal Spellman Library.

Think Tanks.

Dickson, Paul, · 1971

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Atheneum, 1971. 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. DJ sl rubbed. The powerful, new and often supersecret industry of idea factories.

The Seduction of Hillary Rodham.

Brock, David, · 1996

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, The Free Press, (1996). 1st ed. Fine in VG DJ. Brock's story of Hillary Clinton's struggle to maintain her personal & political integrity in the fact of seductive forces.

Trekking among Moroccan Tribes.

Haldane, James, · 1948

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London, Pickering & Inglis, 1948. VG in G DJ. DJ has edge wear, sl soil, and one sticker removal spot. 30 years of digging into the deep mine of the Arab heart.

Table Service.

Allen, Lucy G., · 1945

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, 1945. VG in VG DJ. Owner's name on ep and title page. DJ chipped, torn.

Acquired Tastes.

Mayle, Peter, · 1992

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Bantam, 1992. 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. DJ sl soiled. Mayle sets out to sample the very best life has to offer to see if it's worth the money and the trouble.

A Southern Exposure.

Adams, Alice, · 1995

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Knopf, 1995. 1st ed ss. VG in G DJ. DJ has tear at spine. A small southern town during the depression is visited by fugitives from Connecticut.

The Exploration of Space.

Clarke, Arthur C., Chairman, British Interplanetary Society, · 1951

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harper, (1951). BCE. VG-. Owner's inscription on front ep. Endpapers have a diagram of 24 hour radio relay orbit of world. Edge, crnr and spine wear.

Hotel Pastis: a novel of Provence.

Mayle, Peter, · 1993

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Knopf, 1993. 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. An advertising tycoon makes a getaway to southern France and winds up buying a hotel with a woman who is between husbands. DJ price clipped.

From Tangier to Tripoli.

Carpenter, Frank G., · 1924

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Doubleday Page, 1924. Chautauqua Ed. G. Front endpaper map of North Africa is half gone. Sl wear to spine.

Bucking the Sun.

Doig, Ivan, · 1996

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1996). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. To "buck the sun" is to push on against the glare of sunrise or sunset and the Duffs become involved with damming the Missouri.

The Who's Who of Famous Felines: everything you want to know about all the cats you ever loved from books, movies, TV..

Suares, J. C., · 1981

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Bantam Books, (1981). BCE. VG in VG DJ. DJ browned toward spine and edges.

Decorating: a realistic guide.

Gilliatt, Mary, · 1977

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Pantheon, (1977). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. Edges of DJ slightly browned. Gives all the basic info needed to execute an interior design scheme without a professional.

Margaret Boyles' Country Needlework.

Boyles, Margaret, · 1986

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harper & Row, (1986). VG in VG DJ. DJ has edge and corner wear.

Coordinated Crafts for the Home.

Chatterton, Pauline, · 1980

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Richard Marek, (1980). VG in VG DJ. More than 80 complete patterns for rugs, afghans, pillos, wall hangings, and place mats in coordinating designs.

Two-Part Invention: the story of a marriage.

L'Engle, Madeleine, · 1989

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, (1989). 2d ptg. VG in VG DJ. Moving memoir by L'Engle on her 40 year marriage to Hugh Franklin.

Murder in New England: tales of passion, murder and detection.

Sullivan, Eleanor and Chris Dorbandt (editors), · 1989

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Secaucus, NJ, Castle, (1989). Fine in Fine DJ. Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine but all based in New England.

The Burgess Book of Nature Lore: adventures of Tommy, Sue, and Sammy with their friends of meadow, pool and forest.

Burgess, Thornton W., · 1965

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Boston, Little Brown, (1965). 1st ed ss. Fine in VG DJ. DJ has sl corner wear. 26 stories of how an animal or plant makes the most of its environment.

The Great American Ice Cream Book.

Dickson, Paul, · 1972

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, Atheneum, 1972. 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. Owner's name on fep. DJ sl soiled, sl chipped. Red ink underlining in text at several spots.