Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Japanese Love Poems.

Bennett, Jean, edited by, · 1976

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Doubleday, 1976. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Nearly 200 love poems from Japan's classic poets, ancient and modern, are ncluded in this magnificent collection. Ancient. Japanese poetry was the poetry of the court which enjoyed two kinds of love: marital and illicit. Most marriages ...

The Butterfly Tree: an anthoogy of black writing from the upper midwest.

Balfour, Conrad, edited by, · 1985

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

St. Paul, MN, New Rivers Press, (1985). 1st ed ltd. VG PB. Second in an ongoing series of ethnic anthologies as part of Many Minnesotas Project. Biographical notes on writers.

Ain't No Where We can Run: handbook for women on the nuclear mentality.

Koen, Susan, Nina Swaim and Friends, · 1982

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Warner, NH, Women Against Nuclear Dev., (1982). 3rd ptg. VG PB. "An excellent analysis of the political and emotional costs of the US nuclear industry, as it has been shaped by male-defined. power." The Book Stacks, Burlington, VT Photo of Women's Pentagon Action, 1982, march....

Sin: poems.

Ai, · 1986

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1986). 2nd ptg. G PB. ".portraits of human souls: Gothic, expressionistic portraits with emphatic, haunted strokes." Robert Pinsky. Some sticker remnants.

Jane Austen in Winchester.

Bussby, Frederick, Canon Residentiary. Winchester, · 1979

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

The Close, Winchester, Friends Winchester Cathedral, 1979. 3rd ed. VG PB. In this house Jane Austen lived her last days and died July 1817 reads the oval plaque in grey slate with white lettering. She stayed at Mrs. David's in College Street in the house now belonging to Winch...

A Stern and Lovely Scene: a visual history of the Isles of Shoals.

University Art Galleries, · 1978

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Durham, NH, Univ of NH, (1978). 1st ed. VG lg sz PB. Title from a quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne, American Notebooks, 1852. Writing about Shoals by various writers. Fading toward edges of back cover.

Hiram Hitchcock's Legacy: the history of the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital School of Nursing.

Land, Loretta Churney, R.N., · 1980

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Canaan, NH, Phoenix Pub, (1980). VG in VG DJ ex-library. "There is scarcely a house in the village that has not had the help and comfort of their ministrations." Library markings.

Victorian Pubs.

Girouard, Mark, · 1990

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

New Haven, Yale Univ Press, (1990). VG lg sz PB. Victorian public houses have been much and rightly admired but they have tended to be treated as folk-art and taken for granted. This book attempts to treat them as buildings built or altered at identificable dates by identifiab...

The Civil War at Charleston.

Wilcox, Arthur M. and Warren Ripley, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Charleston, SC, News & Courier/Everning Post, (1993). 17th ed. VG lg sz PB. Pictorial cover shows attack on Fort Sumter when the fighting begins April 12, 1861, 4:30 a.m. Back cover shows Federals. occupy Fort Sumter, the fighting ends, February 18, 1865.

Congress Shall Make No Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes, the First Amendment, and Judicial Decision Making.

Cohen, Jeremy, foreword by Everette E. Dennis, · 1989

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Ames, IA, Iowa State University, (1989). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. Explains the judicial process that shapes the applicatiaon of the First Amendment. Some fading to DJ edges, literacy sticker.

Sarah.

Pomerleau, Sandra Jewett, · 1974

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Westbrook, ME, Cobb Printing Co, (1974). VG PB. Haunting tale of a young Maine woman cursed with second sight. "I always remember my first day of school as it coincided with. my first realization that I was somehow different from other children." Sarah knew that something bad ...

Robinetta.

Wiggin, Kate Douglas, · 1911

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Burt, (1911). G. Lady in sailor dress and summer hat in frontis, green binding, front cover show cottage nestled in trees. Edge wear, back. cover has streak of fading and some fading to bottom. A nice sturdy book.

Escape from Siberian Exile.

Jacques, John Godfrey, in collaboration with Adelaide D. Wellman, · 1921

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Mountain View, CA, Pacific Press Pub Assn, (1921). G. The hero of this story is a young Russian evangelist of a Protestant sect. At the outbreak of the war, priests of the. Greek church, under cover of insuring greater security to the state, took occasion to wreak vengeance on...

Japan or Germany: the inside story of the struggle in Siberia.

Coleman, Frederic, F.R.G.S., · 1918

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Doran, (1918). G. Preface: Should Japan go to Siberia? What will the sending of the Japanese army to the Northland mean toward the development. of the Far Eastern question and the struggle for the Mastery of the Pacific? How will Japan emerge from the World War? What effec...

As New Englanders Played.

Sandler, Martin W., · 1979

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chester, CT, Globe Pequot Press, (1979). 1st ed. G lg sz PB. From their stern puritan beginnings it took a while for New Englanders to lear to play but with the industrial revolution. came "play" in a big way. Here from original glass negatives is the story of how they learned...

Stories on Rocks.

Booth, Zilpha M., · 1994

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Mt. Desert, ME, Windswept Pubs, (1994). VG PB. Color photos at end of cave drawings. The San people have lived in the southern part of Africa for thousands of years. The Bushmen were nomadic hunter gathers living in family groups of 15 to 25 people.

Making Love with Light: contemplating nature with words and photographs.

Loori, John Daido, · 2000

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Mt. Tremper, NY, Dharma, (2000). 1st ed. VG lg sz PB. Arises from the premise that unless we love nature we will not work to save it from exploitation and eventual destruction.

J. K. Rowling: the wizard behind Harry Potter (an unauthorized biography).

Shapiro, Marc, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, St. Martin's Griffin, (2000). 3rd ptg. G PB ex-library. Heartwarming story behind Rowling's rise to fame and the answer to Harry Potter's fans' most burning questions. One of her regular stops was the Nicolson Cafe where she would write away at a corner table. She was quit...

Beasley's Christmas Party.

Tarkington, Booth, · 1909

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, 1909. 1st ed. G ex-library. Red binding, gilt lettering front cover. Colorful illustrations at corners of pages.

The Greatest Man in Cedar Hole.

Doyon, Stephanie, · 2005

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (2005). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ ex-library. "For years Cedar Hole has been the armpit of Gilford County, a town full of pathetic underachievers trapped by a defunct. railroad, distrust of the outside world, and their own lack of imagination" Doyon's first ad...