Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Links of Memory.

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$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Cupples & Leon Co, nd. Fair. Each page has a short poem by E. Nesbit, Caskoden, Heine, Percival. Beautiful illustrations. white cover with blue flower. Gold-colored cross with lillies cross enclosed with John 14:19 "Because I live, ye shall live also". Edge wear to spine, ...

The Cloister Walk.

Norris, Kathleen, · 1997

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NY, Riverhead, (1997). VG PB. Why would a married woman with a thoroughly Protestant background and often more doubt than faith be drawn to the. ancient practice of monasticism, to a community of celibate men whose days are centered around a rigid schedule of prayer, work, and...

Millay in Greenwich Village.

Cheney, Anne, · 1975

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University, AL, Univ of Alabama Press, (1975). VG in G DJ. Edna St. Vincent Millay captured in verse the freedom, spontaneity, quick wit & beauty of the pre-1920s as no other. poet did. She was a living symbol of the "new woman" who could live, think, and love as freely as she...

Making Vinegar at Home.

covers & illustrations by William Canon, · 1984

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Northampton, MA, Beer and Winemaking Supplies, (1984). VG PB. Nice illustrated cover drawing showing bottles of vinegar.

View with a Grain of Sand: selected poems.

and Clare Cavanagh, · 1995

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harcourt Brace/Harveset, (1995). 1st ed. VG PB. Winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for Literature. In these 100 poems Szymborska portrays a world of astonishing diversity and. richness in whcih nature is wise and prodigal and fate unpredictable, if not mischievous. With acute ...

Cape Cod.

Thoreau, Henry David, introduction by Henry Beston, · 1951

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NY, Bramhall House, (1951). VG in G DJ. Included in this edition is the text of Thoreau's Journal account of his 4th & last visit in June, 1857. Here the perceptive reader may relish a particularly Thoreauvian excursion. DJ edge wear, fore-edge tanning spots.

West Philadlephia: University City to 52nd Street: Images of America.

Skaler, Robert Morris, · 2002

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Charleston, SC, Arcadia Pub, (2002). VG lg sz PB. The many neighborhoods west of the Schuylill River across from William Penn's "Quaker City" were distinctly rural until 1860. when horsecar lines first crossed the river. The area soon became home to wealthy businessmen who bui...

Farm Service Buildings.

Engineering, Cornell University, · 1955

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NY, McGraw-Hill, 1955. 7th ptg. VG. Text for students of a general course in farm structures. Green binding, dark green title box on spine with gilt lettering. Excellent condition.

The Harvard Book 350 Anniversary Edition: selections from three centuries.

Bentinck-Smith, William, edited by, · 1982

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ Press, (1982). 3rd ptg Revisd. VG. Writing by Harvard teachers, students or alumni about Harvard subjects. Maroon binding, gilt design and lettering. Owner name.

Edna St. Vincent Millay: Twayne's United States Authors Series.

Brittin, Norman A., · 1967

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NY, Twayne Pubs, (1967). G in G DJ. Millay triumphs in descriptive poetry with a meticulous rendering of exquisitely exact details. In her love poetry she. she spoke for the emancipated woman of our times. With roots in traditions of American Transcendentalism, she developed a...

Fairy Tales: volume 2 only: translated from the original by R. P. Keigwin.

Andersen Museum, Odense, · 1958

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Odense, Denmark, Flensted, (1958). 4th ptg. VG in G DJ. Blue binding with flower illustration on front cover, title in white lettering on spine. Pretty little book. Andersen was born in Odense on April 2, 1805. From his native Denmark his fairy tales wandered out over the whol...

Report from Ground Zero.

Smith, Dennis, · 2002

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NY, Viking, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Immediately after the 9/11 attacks, author Smith, a retired firefighter who had served 18 years with the NYC Fire Dept. reported to Manhattan's Ladder Co. 16 to volunteer in the rescue effort. Among those missing in the tragedy were 34...

Don't Call Them Ghosts: the spirit children of Fontaine Manse: a true story.

McConnell, Kathleen, · 2004

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St. Paul, MN, Llewelllyn Pubs, (2004). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. In 1971, the author and her family moved into a historic home known as the Fontaine Manse. Two days afterward she and her. husband has an extraordinary experience that left them with no doubt that unseen resid...

Tub in the Nude: stories of Quillifarkeag, Maine.

Wuori, G. K., · 1999

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Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1999. 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Quillifarkeag is a U.S. protectorate tucked like a bug between the buttocks of Quebec and New Brunswick on the other. People there will let you into their lives but not very far, less to do with selfishness than ...

Dark Harbor House.

DeMarco, Tom, · 2001

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Camden, ME, Down East Books, (2001). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. A weird mix of characters in a once-grand Maine island summer cottage over the course of a long, idyllic summer in the late. 1940s, and a simple little love story weaves in tantalizing details of the old mansion's not ...

Blackbird: a childhood lost and found.

Lauck, Jennifer, · 2000

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NY, Pocket, (2000). 4th ptg. VG in VG DJ. The author finds her unshakable will to survive after incredible pain and mistreatment in her childhood.

Thomas Nelson and the Revolution in Virginia.

Edward M. Riley, editor, · 1978

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Williamsburg, VA, Virginia Independence Bicen, (1978). VG lg sz PB. Nelson statue photo on front cover, frontis of Nelson at the age of 16 in 1754.

An Arrow through the Heart (signed).

Heffernan, Deborah Daw, · 2002

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NY, Free Press, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Signed by author. One woman's story of life, love, and surviving a near-fatal heart attack. It happened without. waring. She was thin and fit, ate all her vegetables, never touched a cigarette. There was no family history of heart ...

Public Cowboy no. 1: the life and times of Gene Autry.

George-Warren, Holly, · 2007

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, 2007. 3rd ptg. VG in VG DJ. The only performer to earn 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for radio, recording, motion pictures, television, and live. performance, Gene Autry was the singing cowboy king of American entertainment. Here is the first ser...

For Love & Liberty: the untold Civil War story of Major Sullivan Ballou & his famous love letter.

Young, Robin, · 2006

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NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, (2006). VG in VG DJ. The life of Ballou, Rhode Island lawyer and Civil War soldier whose final letter to his wife written before the first battle. of Manassas/Bull Run was read on Ken Burns Civil War documentary "The Civil War" which depicts not only...