Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Wind Birds.

Matthiessen, Peter, · 1973

$83.00 (€75.31 | £62.82 | ¥13,254)

NY, Viking Studio Books, (1973). 1st ed thus. VG in VG DJ. The restlessness of the shorebirds, their kinship with the distance and swift seasons, the wistful signal of their voices. down the long coastlines of the world make them the most affecting of wild creatures. An excess...

History of the University of New Hampshire 1866-1941.

University of New Hampshire, · 1941

$42.00 (€38.11 | £31.79 | ¥6,707)

Durham, Univ of NH, 1941. Good. Land grant college, formative period, College in Hanover, Benjamin Thompson's Bequest, War Years, becomes a Univeristy. Dark blue cloth binding, UNH seal on front cover, few spots.

From Then Till Now: a chronology.

Small, Ken, · 1954

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

np, np, nd (ca 1954). G PB signed by author. Signed by author. Remniscences of South Chatham, New Hampshire. Photo on cover of author with old car in background. Tanned at edges.

Class of 1939 45th reunion 1984.

Simmons College, · 1984

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

np, np, (1984). G PB. Laid in June 2, 1984, Alumnae Hall class dinner bulletin with reminiscences by Kay Zottoli's. Class of 1939 was before the. pill, television, penicillin, polio shots, antibiotics, and Frisbee, before frozen foods, nylons, dacron, xerox, and Kinsey. Before...

Annual Report of the officers of the Town of Conway, New Hampshire 1945.

Conway, New Hampshire, · 1945

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

N. Conway, NH, Reporter Press, (1945). VG PB. Pictorial cover. Few smudges.

Some Folk-Lore Stories And Songs with Englsh translation and notes.

Rattray, R. Sutherland, preface by Rev. Alexander Hetherwick, D.D., · 1969

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Negro Universities Press, (1969)(1907). 2nd ed. VG. The author has been for some years located among the Nyanja speaking tribes of British Central Africa at Blantyre and. afterwards in Central Angoniland. Sturdy book, tanning at internal center of endpapers.

Breezes from Persimmon Holler.

Mirandy from the Ozarks., · 1943

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Hollywood, CA, Oxford Press, (1943). VG PB. Read for the National Farm and Home Hour on the radio during the war years. Dark green pictorial cover.

Katahdin Skylines.

Leavitt, H. Walter, · 1970

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Orono, ME, Univ of Maine Studies, (1970). G PB. Leavitt was Professor of Highway Engineering at the Univeristy of Maine in the College of Technology. He was an authority on. the Katahdin Mountain area and furnished much valuable information which has been published in this boo...

Appetite for Nostalgia: a Maine community's cooks and characters.

Friends of the Norway Memorial Library, · 2001

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Norway, Maine, Norway Library, (2001). VG PB spiral bound. Cover photo shows Mellie and Gram Dunham at home as she pours him a cup of coffee. Many people shared personal family stories. and photos, provided encouragement, supplied recipes, and labored to complete this cookbook...

The Haunted Tea-Cosy: a dispirited and distasteful diversion for Christmas.

Gorey, Edward, · 1997

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1997). 1st ptg. VG. Many of Edward Gorey's most fervent devotees think he's English & dead. "Actually he has never so much as visited either place. But his work has imprinted itself on the American consciousness as something from long ago and far away." Th...

The Bobbsey Twins on a Houseboat.

Hope, Laura Lee, · 1943

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1943). VG. Green tweed triangular binding design with boy, girl and dog on front cover, endpapers have toys. Some edgewear.

Two Countries, Two Women (signed by author).

Single, Irene Cote, · 2014

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Bloomington, IN, Inspiring Voices, (2014). VG lg sz PB. Odile Jalbert never dreamed at age 15 that her father would arrange a marriage for her and that her life would hold so many. changes and challenges. As her family grows so does her faith and strength as she embrarks on he...

Amedeo's Continental Magic.

Garcia, Frank and George Schindler, · 1974

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

NY, Million Dollar Productions, (1974). 1st ed. VG hardback spiral bound. A tribute to the great vaudeville artist and a living legend in magic, Amedeo Vacca, a world famous magician for over 65 years. Amedeo performed in more than 23 countries playing nightclubs and theatres....

The Life and Times of Hannibal Hamlin.

Hamlin, Charles Eugene, his grandson, · 1899

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Cambridge, Riverside, (1899). Facsimile. VG lg sz PB. Grandson Charles notes in his preface that he received valuable assistance from his father General Charles Hamlin, his. grandfather's right-hand man for many years. The chief feature of Hamlin's career is his anti-slavery r...

Mary Engelbreit: the art and the artist.

Regan, Patrick with Mary Engelbreit, · 1996

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Kansas City, Andrews and McMeel, (1996). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. From the greeting cards, books and home accessories so popular at her local drugstore, Mary's signature greeting cards are. popular but not everyone realizes Mary is a real person and is much like her work: whimsica...

Cosmopolitan Magazine: vol. LIV, December 1912, no.1, January, 1913, no.2; February no.3; March 1913, no.4 April 1913 May 1913.

Charles G. D. Roberts, Alfred Henry Lewis, Frank P. Stockbridge, · 0

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Lewis: Wolfville; Are You Useful or Useless? by Elbert Hubbard; My Story of Fredericksburg by General Joshua L. Chamberlain;. Articles by Robert W. Chambers: The Streets of Ascalon; E. Phillips Oppenheim: Grace Burton and Stephen Pryde; Henry Tyrrell: Julia of Avon; Acton Davi...

The Adventures of Bobby Coon: #17 Burgess Bedtime Story Books.

Burgess, Thornton W., · 1946

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1946). G. Pink-colored pictorial binding with raccoon with stick, animals on endpapers. White and brown lettering, edge wear.

The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City.

Hope, Laura Lee, · 1917

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1917). VG. Lime green binding, darker green lettering and circle pictorial on front cover showing children with book. Dark orange. endpapers, owner name.

Eye of the Storm: a Civil War odyssey.

Nelson D. Lankford, · 2000

$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,429)

NY, Free Press, (2000). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. One of the most important Civil War documents to be published since Grant's Personal Memoirs. From four tattered scrapbooks. found in a Connecticut book vault in 1994 by Union private and mapmaker Sneder.

Mother Goose: Classic Volland Edition.

Grover, Eulalie Osgood, re-arranged and edited in this form by, · 1972

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Northbrook, IL, Hubbard Press/Donohue, (1972). VG. Lovely old-fashioned full page color illustrations. Volland creed.books for children sould contain nothing to cause fright. suggest fear, glorify mischief, extenuate malice or condone cruelty. That is why they area called "boo...