Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Shikasta: re: Colonised Planet 5.

Lessing, Doris, · 1981

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Vintage, (1981). 1st ed thus. G PB. Personal psychological historical documents relating to visit by Johor (George Sherban), Emissary (Grade 9), 87th of the. period of the last days.

The Blind Corral.

Beer, Ralph, · 1987

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Penguin, (1987). VG PB. When Jackson Heckethorn, bruised and broken, returns home from the army to his family ranch in Montana, he finds the place has. changed, Helicopters now patrol the air over the range the way cowboys used to ride across. Big real-estate developers ar...

Rocky Mountain Warden.

Calkins, Frank, · 1970

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Knopf, (1970). 1st ed. G. Author Calkins joined the Utah warden service and after five years became an editor of Utah Fish and Game newsletter, later a. freelance writer. Sticker on front endpaper, edge wear.

The Lantern Network.

Allbeury, Ted, · 1978

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Mysterious Press, (1978). BCE. VG in G DJ. How human loyalties can be stretched and broken, with unstoppable suspense. DJ sl edge wear. From a Branch Commander checking up on a London businessman who's been observed making use of a KGB letterdrop in Paris to a shocking sui...

Scenes from the Homefront.

Vogan, Ara, · 1989

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Bantam, (1989). 1st ptg. VG PB. Razor sharp realislm with surrealistic narratives to illuminate the lives of a varied cast - a former beauty queen afraid to. drive her gift Buick, a woman terrified of being eaten alive by a crane while she sleeps, and a family with a grand...

James Herriot's Dog Stories.

Herriot, James, · 1986

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, St. Martin's Press, (1986). 1st US ed 1ptg. VG in VG DJ. Here the world's most famous vet has collected into one volume all his own stories of the animal he care for most - the dog. Perhaps the most beloved storyteller of our time with warm and joyful memoirs of his life a...

The Maine Reader: the Down East experience 1614 to the present.

Shain, Charles and Samuella, edited by, · 1991

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1991. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

Rogue State: how a nuclear North Korea threatens America.

Triplett, Willialm C. II, · 2004

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Washington, D.C., Regnery Pub Inc, (2004). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Veteran national security specialist William Triplett exposes just how dangerous the mad regime of North Korea has become. A rogue state dedicated not just to developing nuclear weapons but to proliferating them....

Gertrude and Alice.

Souhami, Diana, · 1992

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

San Francisco, CA, Pandora, (1992). 2nd ptg. G ex-library. Toklas and Stein first met on Sunday Sept 8 1907 and were together until Gertrude's death on Saturday 27 July 1946.

Picasso Lithographs.

Picasso, · 1980

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Dover, (1980). VG lg sz PB. His achievement in wash on zinc and lithopaper. Picasso came late to lithography (aged 58) and had no prolonged lithographic. period until age 65 but mastered the new medium on his own terms and left a richer, more varied craft behind him.

Windonian 1987 Yearbook (Maine).

Windham High School, · 1987

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Windham, ME, Windham, (1987). G ex-library. Maroon cover with white seal, front joint taped, top of spine repaired, library markings.

The Alamo Long Barrack Museum.

Daughters of the Republic of Texas, · 1986

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Dallas, TX, Taylor Pub Co, (1986). VG lg sz PB. ".they preferred to die a thousand times than to live under the yoke of a tyrant." Colonel Juan N. Seguin from the burial. address of the Alamo, San Antonio Feburary 25, 1837. Laid in leaflet on The Alamo.

More Boston Post Canes: the Pine Tree State And Litle Rhody.

Staples, Barbara, · 2002

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Lynn, MA, Flemming Press, 2002. VG PB ex-library. A biography of the Boston Post publisher Edwin Atkins Grozier & details of some of his other turn-of-the-century schemes. A chapter on each of Maine's 16 counties and each town's Post cane and profiles many of first recipients ...

Ballad of the Beantowne Bosox.

Bates, Daniel W., · 2005

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Gardiner, ME, Privately printed, (2005). VG PB. Signed by author. Red binding, gilt lettering.

Forty Years Too Late.

Huff, Avis M., · 1958

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Portland, ME, House of Falmouth, (1958). G. In Sept of 1949 Avis and her husband in their 6th decade decide to move to a Maine farm miles from town. This is the story of. their struggle with many obstacles. Signed by author. Library bookplate,.

Neither Hay Nor Grass.

Gould, John, · 1951

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Morrow, 1951. G ex-library. Gould's dry unstrained humor is a pleasure - the dry, Yankee kind that makes you laugh in retrospect. Library markings.

So Long, Scout and Other Stories: more outdoor stories of Maine.

Lewis, Gerald E., · 1988

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Hancock Point, ME, HatCroft Pub Co, (1988). VG PB. A native of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, Lewis has taught English, worked as a tree surgeon, plumber, clam and worm digger, hunter. and trapper, registered Maine guide, deck hand, potato-picker, and camp counselor. He and his wife ...

Camp Talk.

Baehr, Russ, · 1977

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Bend. OR, Maverick Publications, (1977). G PB. "Tales told while sitting around a sputtering fire or hiking a wind-swept ridge back to camp.". "The Big Country" Sprawling, brawling, skyline mauling Spread out cuntry of the West. Roiling, boiling, rivers coiling thread their wa...

The Nutmeg of Consolation.

O'Brian, Patrick, · 2003

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Great Britain, Harper, (2003). VG PB. Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin begin stranded on an uninhabited island in the Dutch East Indies, attacked by. ferocious Malay pirates. They contrive their escape but are caught up in a night chase in fiercely tidal waters and then embroil...

The Last Fairy.

Hancock, F. E., · 1983

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Isle of Man, England, Fantasy Pubs Ltd, (1983). 1st ed. VG. A strange journey to an enchanted land. Sticker on front endpaper.