Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Masks of God Occidental Mythology: vol. III.

Campbell, Joseph, · 1977

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Penguin, (1977). Reprint. VG PB. A systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western World. Erich Fromm considered this a book of outstanding importance and scholarship, clarity and depth. For the science of m...

Sequil or Things Whitch Aint Finished in the First plus The Real Diary of a Real Boy.

Shute, Henry A., · 1904

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

Boston, Everett Press & Reilly & Lee, 1904 & 1906. Two G hardback books. Light green binding with red and dark green print. Tanning to edges of binding. Ad from Everett Press on last pages. Second book has red binding with black tape over spine, found in father's closet in a f...

Songs of Innocence and of Experience.

Blake, William, introduction by Ruthven Todd, · 1947

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Falcon Press, (1947). Facsimile 1794. G PB. Albion facsimiles. Heavy stock paper, gray and blue wraps, Songs of Innocence in classic English poetry with Blake's. illustrations, part of the Romantic movement. Deckle edges have some wear.

What Your Hands Reveal.

Sheridan, Jo, · 1963

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Bell Pub Co, (1963). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Hands reflect the mind and personality of the individual, a knowledge of this ancient art can help to give you a deeper. understanding and insight into the minds, character, and emotions of the people you meet and mix with, and wil...

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918.

Quiller-Couch, Arthur, Sir, chosen and edited by, · 1940

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 1940. New edition. VG. Quiller-Couch in his preface states he has "tried to range over the whole field of English Verse from the beginning, or from. the Thirteenth Century to the closing year of the Ninteenth, and to choose the best.".

The Mysterious Dude: Timber Trail Riders.

Murray, Michael, · 1964

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Racine, WI, Whitman, (1964). G. Shiny cover with blonde girl on horse with boy chasing after her horse. Plastic over cover peeling away. Illustrated endpapers.

The Girl from Sunset Ranch or Alone in a Great City.

Marlowe, Amy Bell, · 1914

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1914). G.

The Clue of the Riddle.

Cleland, Mabel, · 1933

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Farrar & Rinehart, (1933). 1st colophon. Fair. A story of fun and mystery. During the Christmas holidays a house party gathers at the old Colonial house in Connecticut. When a rainy day keeps the girls indoors from coasting and skating, they roam about the old house in sea...

Hitty: her first hundred years.

Field, Rachel, · 1945

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Macmillan, 1945. G. A doll's life in New England. Some tanning to binding.

Robin Hood and His Merry Outlaws.

McSpadden, J. Walker, introduction by May Lamberton Becker, · 1946

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Cleveland, World Pub Co, (1946). VG. Artistically decorated binding, green spine, illustrated endpapers.

The Light That Failed.

Kipling, Rudyard, · 1924

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Doubleday Page, 1924. G. Green pictorial front cover with ship, gilt lettering, edge wear, back page creased. Kipling insignia and preface that. states this is the story of The Light That Failed as it was originally conceived by the writer (Kipling).

And One to Grow On: recollections of a Maine boyhood.

Gould, John, · 1949

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Morrow, (1949). G. Author Gould lives with his wife and son on the Lisbon Ridge farm cleared by Great Grandfather Jacob Gould 200 years ago. Owner name front endpaper, DJ flaps glued to front endpapers (with photo of Gould and his son), binding tanned at edges.

Bunny Brown And His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony; at Aunt Lu's City Home; at Grandpa's Farm; on an Auto Tour, Big Woods.

Hope, Laura Lee, · 1917

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1917 etc.). 5 G hardbacks. Paste down pictorial cover of boy and girl with sand buckets, minor defects.

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While (2 copies); Playing Circus (1 copy).

Hope, Laura Lee, · 1916

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1916). 3 G hardback books. Paste down pictorial cover shows brother & sister at seashore with pail (rubbed), fore-edges some tanning. Top corner worn down, spine faded.

#34 - The Bobbsey Twins at the Ice Carnival.

Hope, Laura Lee, · 1941

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Grosset and Dunlap, (1941). VG in G DJ. Bright green illus cover with circle showing two girls and two boys, orange endpapers showing four children with dog, some. tanning and edge wear to DJ which shows a girl holding flower, boy in sailor suit. Owner inscription ft endpa...

Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch; of the Red Mill; at Briarwood Hall or Solving the Campus Mystery (owner inscription).

Emerson, Alice B., · 1913

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Cupples & Leon, 1913. 3 VG hardbacks. All have tan binding; Red Mill and Silver Ranch have girl in sailor dress on front cover with red circle behind her.

Ike Glidden in Maine.

McFaul, A. D., · 1903

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, Dickerman Pub Co, (1903). G. Red binding, paste down pictorial on front cover of older woman and girl in horse shay, gilt lettering and decorative design,. tissue guard on frontis. Owner name in pencil, edge wear, few cover spots.

Burglar in the Treetops.

Heinhold, George, · 1952

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Holt, (1952). 1st ed. G. Heinhold has good humor and a wryly observing eye about many common wild animals of the U.S. A trapline for the wily mink,. a snowshoe hare, a red fox evades the pack, the black bear buffoon of the brushlands, a skunk, muskrat, squirrel, deer, porc...

Very Good, Jeeves.

Wodehouse, P. G., · 1930

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Doubleday Doran, 1930. Colophon. G. Orange binding, black lettering, owner name, tanning to front endpaper. Eleven stories. Hole through top of pages 309-340.

Sesqui-Centennial Chronicle.

Town of Sebago, Maine, Meserve, Fred L., compiled by, · 1976

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Sebago, Maine, Town of Sebago, 1976. VG PB. First 100 years of Sebago, Maine, including 50 pages from Fred Meserve's memory.