Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Tales of Hearsay: collection of four short stories.

Conrad, Joseph, preface by R. B. Cunninghame Grahame, · 1925

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Doubleday Page, 1925. 1st Amer ed. G. Posthumous collection of short stories. Navy blue cover with gilt title box and decoration. Edge wear, owner stamp & name,. some flaking on binding, slight soil on two pages. First and latest of Conrad's work.

The Golden Bough: a study in magic and religion.

Frazer, James George (Sir), · 1951

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Macmillan, 1951. VG in G DJ (one volume edition of over 800 pages). Based upon the author's personal research during many years of exploration in the farthest and most obscure corners of world. The gradual evolution of human thought from savagery to civilization. Roots of ...

WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato).

Keillor, Garrison, · 1991

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Viking, (1991). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. When Wingo Beals and the Shoe Shore Boys played 'Pat Him on the Popo' and the Norwegian Nightingale sangs to his Tina and Leo. told the one about the bed with a canopy. Back then the WLT signal was received all the way to the ...

Hands Around the World: 365 creative ways to build cultual awareness & global respect.

Milford, Susan, · 1999

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Milwaukee, Gareth Stevens Pub, (1999). 1st ptg. What is it like growing up in other countries and cultures. An interesting perspective on the amazing things kids can do if. they are given the resources and opportunities. In the city or country, indoors or out, young readers wi...

Apples.

Yepsen, Roger, · 1994

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Norton, (1994). 1st ed. VG PB. Yepsen explores the world of apples throughout history to the present. Each featured apple is remarkable distinctive in taste. texture, aroma and appearance, from the unusual like the Knobbed Russet and Hubbardston Nonesuch to the more famili...

Early Vows: a collection of Poems.

Reash, Janice M., · 1985

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Westlake, OH, Piedmont Press, 1985. VG spiral bound PB. Drawing of frightened deer on front cover.

Looking for The Gulf Motel.

Blanco, Richard, · 2012

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Pittsburgh, PA, Univ of Pittsburgh Press, (2012). VG. Blanco invites the reader in with its search for home, his lyrics open doors onto his Cuban immigrant family, his father's. early death, and his own migration from Florida to a life in Maine.

The Spirit Level: poems.

Heaney, Seamus, · 1999

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1999). 4th ptg. VG PB. ".speaks above and beyond a generation.poems that would ring like armour if you dropped them." Daily Telegraph. ".both buoyant and somber, cryptic and forthright" Times London.

And Yet, I Still Loved France: memoir of a European childhood.

Silver, Renee Kann and Connie Colker Steiner, · 2012

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Rego Park, NY, Marble House, (2012). VG PB. Account of Silver's childhood in the Saarland, Alsace-Lorraine, and on the run in France before and during WWII. Beautiful color illustrated cover of letters and photos.

Life in the Castle in Medieval England.

Burke, John, · 1978

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, British Heritage, (1978). VG in VG DJ. Castles have a powerful influence on our imagination, walls echo our footsteps of long past laughter, revelry, clatter of. horses' hooves. Lavishly illustrated.

Swiss Country Inns & Chalets.

Brown. Karen and Clare Brown, · 1984

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

San Mateo, CA, Travel Press, (1984). VG lg sz PBs. A travel guide to Switzerland including 5 itineraries and descriptions of over 75 atmospheric hotels.

Postcards from the Basque Country: a journey of enchantment and imagination.

Nelson, Beth, · 1999

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Stewart, Tasoki & Chang, (1999). VG. Green pictorial cover with map illustrations and photo, green spine. Artist and writer Beth Nelson upong arriving in the. Basque Country foir the season began a journal recording her visual impressions and gathering her experiences. Eac...

Wildlife Notes.

Fergus, Churck, · 0

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Harrisburg, PA, Pennsylvanis Game Commission, nd. VG lg sz PB.

The Good Good Pig: the extraordinary life of Christopher Hogwood.

Montgomery, Sy, · 2006

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Ballantine, (2006). VG in VG DJ. Christopher Hogwood came home on my lap in a shoebox, a creature who would prove to be more human than I am. From inauspicious infancy to hog heaven in rural New Hampshire where his boundless zest for life and large loving heart made him ab...

The Island of Lost Maps: a true story of cartographic crime.

Harvey, Miles, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Random, (2000). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. A Curious crime spree where scores of centuries old maps from some of the most priminent research libraries in the US & Canada. The perpetrator was the Al Capone of cartography named Gilbert Bland, an enigmatic antiques dealer f...

Selected Poems.

Williams, William Carlos, edited by Charles Tomlinson, · 1985

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, New Directions, (1985). 7th ptg. VG PB. Ezra Pound first seized on the essential elements in Williams' poetry in 1913.

Selected Poems.

Dove, Rita, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Vintage, (1993). 1st ed thus. VG PB. First black Poet Laureate of the United States as well as the youngest. Includes Pulitzer Prize-winning Thomas and Beulah. Dove was born and raised in Akron, Ohio, and lives in Charlottesville.

Reasons for Moving (signed).

Strand, Mark, · 1968

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

NY, Atheneum, 1968. 2nd ptg. G PB. Inscribed by Strand on half title page. Strand's conjugation of absence and presence, "wherever I am, I am what is missing,".

The Poetry of Maya Angelou.

Angelou, Maya, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Quality Paperback, (1993). VG PB. For the first time Angelou's complete poetic works, twenty years after "I know why the caged bird sings" first appeared. Owner stamp front endpaper.

Around the World in 21 Plays: theatre for young audiences.

Swortzell, Lowell, edited by, · 1997

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Applause, (1997). VG in VG DJ. Plays by contemporary playwrights for young audiences as well as plays from the past for performance today.