Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Collected Poems 1912-1944.

H.D., (Hilda Doolittle), edited by Louis L. Martz, · 1986

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, New Directions, (1986). G PB. Brings together all the shorter poems and poetical sequences written before 1945 divided into four parts. Of special. significance is the Uncollected and Unpublished poems 1912-1943 written mainly in her fallow period but were a great deal of ...

The Virgin Suicides.

Eugenides, Jeffrey, · 2000

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Warner, (2000). G. Elm-lined streets of suburbia in the 70s provoke love and terror, sex and suicide, memory and imagination. Remainder mark. bottom fore-edge.

The Cabin: inspiration for the classic American getaway.

Mulfinger, Dale and Susan E. Davis, · 2003

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Newport, CT, Taunton Press, (2003). VG lg sz PB. L.L. Bean belies in the spiritual and recreational values of the outdoors and a cabin is a good place to start.

Modern Dance Forms in relation to other modern arts.

Horst, Louis and Carroll Russell, · 1973

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Dance Horizons, (1973). 4th ptg. Fair PB ex-library. Photos of Agnes Graham, Daniel Nagrin, Valerie Bettis, Mary Wigman, Jose Limon, Arlene Laub, Cover shows wear, spots. Dance as modern art.

The Slow Grinding Mills.

Van Coover, A. J., · 1903

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Abbey Press, (1903). G. By the author of "At Whose Door?" Green binding, white lettering. Edge wear.

The Adventures of Grandfather Frog: The Bedtime Story-Books.

Burgess, Thornton, · 1918

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little Brown, 1918. Fair. Illustrated cover shows frog crying and wiping tears from his eyes sitting on a plank with wall around him and hat in water. Blank back page removed, white smudge on bottom of back cover. Round blue flower seal at top of front endpaper.

The Portable Curmudgeon: irreverent notes, quotes, and anecdotes on dismal destinations, excess baggage etc..

Winokur, Jon, compiled & edited by, · 2003

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Seattle, Sasquatch Books, (2003). 1st ptg. VG. Yellow biding showing traveler with suitcases on top of elephant.

Route 66: ghost towns and roadside relics.

Wexler, Bruce, · 2016

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Chartwell Books, (2016). VG in VG DJ. Large size book with views of the famous Route 66 for 2,451 miles through the history and culture of America, named the. "Mother Road" by John Steinbeck, it drew a nation together and helped put the economy back on its feet after the G...

Myself When Young: the shaping of a writer.

duMaurier, Daphne, · 1977

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Doubleday, (1977). BCE. VG in G DJ. Daphne recreates her first 22 years, her London childhood among the brilliant duMauriers, her adolescent years in Paris, and. her discovery of life and love on the rugged Cornwall coast where she is to meet and marry Freddy Browning.

Private Peat.

Peat, Harold R., ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1917). G. Life in the trenches and behind the lines, how things looked to him over there, what he saw and what he did. Binding tan,. white lettering & decoration. Owner's inscription fep.

The Encyclopedia of Bad Taste.

Stern, Jane and Michael, · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, HarperCollins, (1990). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. From America's foremost authorities on pop culture, the Sterns give us the first complete guide to the world of the tacky,. outre, and outlandish. A witty and comprehensive tribute to the classic and fabled examples of American k...

Bitter Almonds: recollections and recipes from a Sicilian girlhood.

Grammatico, Maria & Mary Taylor Simeti, · 1994

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Morrow, (1994). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. True stories of a woman's extraordinary courage, and a gift rom the past of an almost-lost tradition. At the heart of the book. are 46 recipes of unique Sicilian specialities, written down for the first time.

See You in the Morning.

Patchen, Kenneth, · 1947

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.44 | ¥10,220)

NY, Padell, (1947). VG in Fair DJ. Passionate, masculine tenderness for which the poety Kenneth Patchen is so justly famous has reached new heights of power and. richness in this his long-awaited first novel. Patchen was called the most talented young writer now using English ...

The Answering Voice: love lyrics by women (50 recent poems added).

Teasdale, Sara, selected by, · 1928

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Macmillan, 1928. New edition. VG. Rose-colored binding & endpages, gilt lettering.

Mortician Diaries: the dead honest truth from a life spent with death.

Nadle, June Knights, · 2006

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Maui, Inner Ocean, (2006). 1st ptg. VG PB. Fascinating account of life spent with death, mortician June Nadle shares riveting, bizarre, and inspiring stories from her. 50-year career.

American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post.

Rubin, Nancy, · 1995

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Villard, (1995). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Her father was C. W. Post, the breakfast-food magnate. Her four husbands included the broker E. E. Hutton and Joseph Davies. U.S. Ambassasdor to Stalin's Soviet Union. Her circle of friends ran the gamut from Florenz Ziegfeld a...

The Legend of Olivia Cosmos Montevideo.

Warloe, Constance (signed), · 1994

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, (1994). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Try to see me the way I see myself-an Indian woman wrapped in her blanket by the fire, telling you a story she has to tell. But I am a red-headed gringo woman living in Santa Fe under an assumed name. Inscribed b...

The Ernie Kovacs Phile.

Walley, David G., · 1987

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Fireside/Simon & Schuster, (1987). 1st PB ed. VG PB. "Every idea I ever had is based on the fact that it's 2:30 and there's a production meeting at 3:00." A legend in TV history. 25 years after his untimely death at 42 Kovacs' influence continues to be seen in the work of ...

Old-Time Schools and School-Books.

Johnson, Clifton, · 1904

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Macmillan, 1904. G. Green decorated binding showing moutains in box above title flower decorated with gilt title, some edge wear. Frontis shows school-mastering instructing his class.

The Splendid Little War.

Freidel, Frank, · 1958

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Bramhall House, (1958). G ex-library. The Spanish American War was over in barely four months, but splendid it was not. Not for the men who fought in it, all. during that hot and terrible summer, it was as bloody, dirty, and heroic a war as any in history. This is their st...