Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Paper Crane.

Bang, Molly (signed), · 1985

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

London, Julia MacRae Books/Watts, (1985). G. A restaurant owner serves a meal to a poor many who pays with an origami crane that comes alive and brings customers in. Signed by author, owner inscription, scribbles on back of back endpaper.

Ardent Spirits: leaving home, coming back.

Price, Reynolds, · 2009

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, NY, (2009). 1st ptg thus. G in G DJ ex-library. Third volume of his memoir, Price explores six crucial years of his life - his departure from home in 1953 to spend three years. as a student at Oxford University, then his return to N. Caroline to begin his long career as a ...

Delia Smith's Winter Collection.

Smith, Delis, · 1995

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, BBC Books, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A joyful celebration of the season, rich with autumn fruit and winter vegetables, fish and fame, soups, roasts, casseroles. Owner inscription.

Redefining Beauty.

Jackson, Victoria with Paddy Calistro, · 1993

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Warner, (1993). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Honest beauty, no-makeup makeup to brighten the essence of natual, inner beauty, 7 myths of beauty, 5 myths of makeup.

Art of Low-Calorie Cooking.

Schneider, Sally, · 0

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

G in G DJ ex-library.

Thirty (30) Minutes or Less Cookbook.

Sunset, · 1997

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Menlo Park, CA, Sunset Books, (1997). 1st ptg. VG. Quick meals with fabulous taste.

Most Beautiful Villges of Provence.

Jacobs, Michael, · 1994

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Thames and Hudson, (1994). G in G DJ ex-library. Provence is a land apart, a territory of outstanding beuaty and distinction that has fascinated outsiders since earliest times.

At Home in the World.

Jackson, Michael, · 1995

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Durham, Duke University Press, 1995. VG in VG DJ. Jackson ponders our century of uprootedness with fewer and fewer people living out their lives where they are born. What. does it mean to be "at home". Over a period of three years, the author intermittently lived, worked, and ...

African Safari Journal.

Nolting, Mark W., · 2000

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Africa Adventure Company, (2000). VG PB. A blank journal to write down your experiences when you go on your safari.

Jonathan's Journey: a mystery (signed by author).

UnGnome Author, · 2005

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Lowell, MA, IBEA Pub/Adibooks, (2005). VG PB. An inventor of a large Los Angeles corporation bangs his head during an earthquake and has memories of life in a Victorian. house at the turn of the century. Questions start to plague him; why is he dreaming of a woman named Lizzie...

A Conspiracy So Immense: the world of Joe McCarthy.

Oshinsky, David M., · 2005

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Oxford, Oxford Univ Press, (2005). VG lg sz PB.

The Next Big Story: my journey through the land of possibilities.

Marie Arce, · 2010

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Calebra, (2010). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. How American opportunity, optimism and generosity thrive even in the face of enormous tragedy and challenges as she draws upon. her biggest reporting moments. DJ slight edge wear.

Duck Hunting.

Pound, Blake, · 2013

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Minneapolis, MN, Bellwether Media, (2013). VG ex-library.

Immaculate Midnight: a Jane Lawless mystery.

Hart, Ellen, · 2002

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, St. Martins/Minotaur, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. "Jane Lawless and her trusty sidekick Cordelia Thorn are the most refreshing, entertaining, and cerebelling stimulating. duo since Rex Stout's unbeatable combo of Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin." Baltimore Alternati...

Jackson Pollock: maning and significance.

Cernuschi, Claude, · 1992

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

NY, Harper Collins/Icon, (1992). 1st ed. VG. Survey of Pollock's life and work and an understanding of his paintings - their origins, meanings, and influence. Broadly interpretive with discussion and explanation of his concerns and meanings. A survey of his work with particula...

Passagae to Mutiny: a Richard Bolitho.

Kent, Alexander, · 1985

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Jove/Putnam, (1985). 4th ptg. G PB. The year is 1793 and war clouds thunder over Europe when Richard Bolitho steers the Tempest into the perilous waters of. the Great South Ses. His mission: to protect English shipping lines from her seagoing enemies. But the greatest dang...

Entering the Stone: on caves and feeling through the dark.

Hurd, Barbara, · 2003

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2003. 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Ranges from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. Natural history of some of the most unusual places on earth.

Hellhound on His Trail: the stalking of Martin Luther Kind Jr. and the international hunt for his assssin.

Sides, Hampton, · 2010

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Doubleday, (2010). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Exhausted by constant death threats and the toll of his punishing schedule, the Nobel Laureate was at the bottom of. his career, beset on the left by the Black Power movement and vicoiously harassed by J. Edgar Hoover who con...

Different Strokes: the lives and teachings of the games wisest women.

Vold, Mona, · 1999

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1999). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

Don't Eat This Book: fast food and the supersizing of America.

Spurlock, Morgan, · 2005

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Putnam, (2005). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Can a man life on fast food alone? The author tried to do that for 30 days he ate nothing but McDonald's as part of an. investigation into the effects of fast food on American health. But there is more to this than McSickness. He exami...