Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Jewish Writer.

Krementz, Jill, · 1998

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, Holt, (1998). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The Jews have been called "The People of the Book" for their love of reading and writing. This new collection spanning three. decades brings together in photos and text many and varied Jewish voices, novelists, playwrights, poets,...

The Country House Book.

Phillips, Barty, · 1988

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

Topsfield, MA, Salem House Pubs, (1988). 1st imp. VG in VG DJ. This mammoth project is devoted exclusively to worldwide country style from America to Scandinavia, the Mediterranean to. Tuscany with the inspiration needed to choose a desired country look and then practical and ...

Homes and Habits of Wild Animals: North American mammals.

Schmidt, Karl Patterson, · 1934

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Chicago, Donohue, (1934). Fair. Large 10x12 color illustrations by Weber of mammals in their habitat plus smaller action drawings of animals with description. of their actions. Pictorial cover of deer with brown spine, edge wear,.

Snipp, Snapp, Snurr, and the Red Shoes.

Lindman, Maj, · 1938

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co, 1938. 5th ptg. Fair. This story of three little Swedish boys has been a favorite with American children for a number of years but up to the. present time there has been no adaptation in English. Once these picture story books have been read to a g...

Buggy Seat...Bare Feet (signed by author).

Heiberger, Rose, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Gordonville, PA, Gordonville, PA Print Shop, 1993. 2nd ptg. VG. Photo on front cover shows children riding on the back of a buggy seat. Signed by author. Author's experience with Amish.

The Johnstown Flood of 1889: the tragedy of the Conemaugh.

Degen, Paul & Carl, · 1984

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

np, Eastern Acorn Press, (1984). VG PB. Neglect of a dam on the Conemaugh River caused hundreds of people to lose their lives in the city of Johnstown. Slight edge wear.

A Visit to Stratford and The Story of the Lees.

Dill, Alonzo T. and Mary Tyler Cheek, · 1986

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Stratford, VA, Stratford Hall Plantation, 1986. VG PB. From its completion in the 1730s, Stratford was a teeming complex of farm and plantation history, a very nearly self-. sufficient community. But the market that powered its economy was in England, and the Potomac River was...

The Gold Cell.

Olds, Sharon, · 1989

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Knopf, 1989. 6th ptg. VG PB. "Her best work exhibits a lyrical acuity which is both purifying and redemptive. She sees description as a means to. catharsis, and the result is impossible to forget.Sharon Olds is enormously self-aware, her poetry is remarkable for its candor...

People on a Bridge.

Szymborska, Wislawa, · 1996

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Boston, MA, Forest Books, (1996). 2nd ptg. G PB. One of the most distinguished poets in Poland, alongside Rozewicz, Milosz, and Herbert, Wislawa's poems have been in many. anthologies. The range and originality of themes, an ironic wit, and the directness and vividness of expr...

Fighting Yankees And Other Yarns.

Crane, J. R., · 1967

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Freeport, ME, Bond Wheelwright, (1967). VG in G DJ. Many of these pieces originate from Maine; all have the flavor of New England in them. DJ price clipped, edge wear. Crane's grandmother used to spin sea yarns once a week in a little one-room schoolhouse. Her collection was t...

Maine Maple Beyond Pancakes.

Hodgkins, Elizabeth G., · 2007

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Skowhegan, ME, Maine Maple Producers Assn, (2007). VG PB spiral bound. 179 favored maple recipes from Maine cooks and chefs. Hodgkins grew up on a dairy farm in Augusta, Maine. She and her husband. raise Christmas trees and produce purse Maine Maple syrup in Yarmouth, ME.

Favorite Seafood Recipes from the coast of Maine.

Daniels, Gloria, · 2013

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Maine, Privately published, (2013). VG PB. Daniels is a lifelong resident of Maine and has a passion for Maine seafood excellently prepared.

Don't Blame the Puffins.

Hogner, Dorothy Childs, · 1940

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Oxford Univ Press, (1940). Fair ex-library. Bold color illus of fishermen. Yellow binding, blue lettering, illustrated endpaper with map of St. Lawrence River. Fishermen area worried because they haven't been catching fish and they think the puffin bird is the reason. Bind...

Beacon Street Review: vol. 9, no. 1.

Suzanne S. Herel, editor, · 1996

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Holbrook, MA, Emerson College, (1996). G PB. Contains interview with Tobias Wolff by Rob Goodman (author of This Boy's Life), plus fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Edge wear.

Mauled Illusionist.

Monahan, Jean, · 2006

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Washington, Orchises Press, 2006. G PB. ".tension between glittering surface and depth. Monahan's eye is fearless, wildly playful and inventive, but the questions. that prompt her are bedrock: how do we survive each other, how do we survive ourselves?" D. Nurkse First poem is ...

The Fugitive Poets: modern southern poetry in perspective: an anthology of the finest Southern poetry.

Pratt, William, edited and with introduction by William Pratt, · 1965

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dutton, (1965). G PB. The first issue of The Fugitive magaine appeared in Nashville, TN, in 1922, and with it the major period of modern Southern. narrative began. A modest beginning for a school of poets and critics that has since led the way in many of the important deve...

The Mathematical Recreations of Lewis Carroll: Pillow Problems and a Tangle Tale (both books bound as one).

Carroll, Lewis, · 0

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Dover, (c1958). 4th ptg. VG PB. Written by the 19th century mathematician who gave us Alice in Wonderland, they contain an unusual combination of wit and. mathematical intricacy that will test your ingenuity. Pillow Problems is one of the rarest of Carroll's works containi...

Hopalong-Freud and Other Parodies.

Wallach, Ira, · 1966

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Dover, (1966). G PB. Compilation of best sketches from Ira Wallach's two collections, "Hopalong-Freud and Other Modern Literary. Characters" and "Hopalong-Freud Freud Rides Again". Some tanning to binding edges, plastic coating separating from covers, fading along edges.

Pitcairn's Island: third of Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy.

Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall, · 1961

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Cardinal, (1961). 3rd ptg. VG PB (original 35 cent PB edition). From Mutiny on the Bounty, one of the greatest sea stories of all time, a complete and separate novel and the last one. The mutineers sailed the Bounty back to Tahiti after setting Captain Bligh and his loyal ...

God's Country Next Exit: how to survive in the New Maine.

Hughes, George and Charles McAleer, · 1986

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Augusta, ME, Lance Tapley, (1986). VG PB. Are you native-born without knowing it? Find out if your parents told you everything with the self-scoring Maine aptitude. test. A compendium of Maine country lore, trivia, advice and outright falsehoods. Telling the different social c...