Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Lexington and Concord: a camera impression.

Chamberlain, Samuel, · 1939

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Hastings House, (1939). G. Spared the unlovely intrusion of factories by their inland sites, these calm townships have kept their rural beauties. Purple binding, white spine and lettering, edge wear, owner name.

Selected Poems.

Coffin, Robert P., · 1955

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Macmillan, 1955. 2nd ptg. G. Blue binding, silver lettering and design on front cover. Edge wear, some fading toward spine, owner name front endpaper.

Amanda's Cove: a Maine coastal tale.

Fairfield, Roy P., · 1989

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Saco, ME, Bastille Books, (1989). G PB. Dan and Amanda traveled up from slavery in Virginia via the Underground Railroad to settle on a Maine coastal farm where. during the Civil War they battled nature's raw elements, the strange customs of a different land and a farmer's lus...

Greater Portland Celebration 350: a commemorative edition.

Barnes, Albert F., compiled and edited by, · 1984

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Portland, ME, Gannett, (1984). VG. Endpapers show Greater Portland as seen from a satellite orbiting 570 miles in space. Red binding, gilt lettering.

Portrait of a Woman Down East: selected writings.

Bolte, Mary, edited by Charles G. Bolte, · 1983

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Camden, ME, Down East Books, (1983). 1st ptg. G PB ex-library. Bolte saw herself as a storyteller and her evocative stories of childhood and Christmases of seafaring families and Yankee. farmers were balanced by somber tales of haunts and vengeance and grim epitaphs. Library m...

Mostly Maine: short stories and other writings.

Holmes, Edward M., · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Orono, ME, Univ of Maine at Orono, (1977). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB. Owner inscription front endpaper, some tanning.

The Road to Home: Maine lakes.

Phoenix, Jessie, · 0

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

np, Self published, nd. VG PB. Includes the poem, "Give me a frozen Maine winter.".

White Pine and Blue Water: a state of Maine reader.

Beston, Henry, edited by, · 1950

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Camden, ME, Down East Magazine, (1950). G PB. "Maine enjoys being Maine.a positive enjoyment of adventure, character and circumstance.Here one still thinks of life. as life and not as existence." Here Beston has collected the best of three centuries of Maine fact and fiction. ...

Winslow Homer: a portrait.

Gould, Jean, · 1962

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1962). VG PB. Perceptive study of a great American individualist, best known today for his paintings of the sea, a man who chose to walk. alone in his search for truth in artistic expression. The story from his boyhood days in a Boston lithograper's shop to his...

The New England Galaxy vol. XIII no 2 Fall 1971.

Various: Sarah Orne Jewett, Oliver W. Holmes, · 1971

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Sturbridge, MA, Old Sturbridge Inc., (1971). VG PB. Various articles about New England including shipbuilders, George Washington's diary, Stray Cats of Saugus, Casey Jones.

Along the Coast of Essex County.

introduction by, · 1984

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, Jr League of Boston, (1984). 4th ptg. VG PB. Area from the mouth of the Merrimac to Marblehead had as its first map maker Samuel de Champlain, its first land promoter was. Captain John Smith who came here in 1614 and on his return to England published a glowing description...

Obsessed with Hollywood: test your knowledge of the silver screen.

Rausch, Andrew J., · 2007

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

San Francisco, Chronicle, (2007). 1st ptg. VG. Hardback book with a small screen at the lower right where there are 2500 questions for one or two players to answer. From classic films to quotes and dialogue, Academy Awards, directors, name that film, the characters, contempora...

Patons a Story of Handknitting.

Harvey, Michael, · 1985

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Berkshire, England, Springwood Books, (1985). 1st ed thus. G in G DJ ex-library. The craft of handknitting can be traced back for 2000 years to the its birth in the Middle East to its growth in medieval and. later Europe as a masculine preserve to its world-wide leisure pursui...

Read Aloud Bedtime Stories.

Weigle, Oscar, compiled by, · 1959

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Wonder Books, (1959). G PB. Includes The Lion Who Liked Peanute Butter, The Four Seasons, The Little Land, Cheeky Red Tail, Mr. Wrinkle the Toad,. Mr. Sly Eyes the Fox; Dainty the Otter; Brock, the Badger; Fleet-foot the Hare; Azim the Weasel; Mr. Flitter the Bat; Flumen t...

The Native Air.

Woodhouse, Sarah, · 1991

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, St. Martin's Press, (1991). 1st U.S. ed. VG in G DJ. In the vanished rural England of Jane Austen in 1803, Dr. French has decided to leave England and set sail for a new life. in India. Before he embarks for Bombay, he returns to Norfolk to bid farewell to his friends incl...

The Sealed Letter.

Donoghue, Emma, · 2008

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Mariner, (2008). G PB. Based on a scandalous divorce case that gripped England in 1864, a riveting, provocative novel of friends, lovers, and. divorce Victorian-style. Miss Emily, a woman of business and a spinster pioneer in the British women's movement, independent of mi...

Noonmark Spring '69.

Trueheart, Charles, editor, · 1969

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Exeter, NH, Phillips Exeter Academy, (1969). VG lg sz PB. Magazine for the creative arts in secondary schools published twice yearly. Soil on binding.

The Transparent Hero.

Forte, James, · 1993

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Arlington, MA, Wildflower Publishers, (1993). VG PB.

Script and Cursive Alphabets: 100 complete fonts from the Solotype Typographers Catalog.

Solo, Dan X., selected and arranged by, · 1987

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Dover, (1987). G lg sz PB. Treasury of script and cursive fonts offers graphic artists a broad range of type styles that richly convey the elegant. intricacies of hand lettering. Edge wear.

Love Poems, selected with foreword by Louis Untermeyer.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, · 1994

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Barnes & Noble, (1994). VG in VG DJ. One of the unlikeliest love stories of literature. She was 39 and an invalid when he stormed his way into her life over the. protests of her tyrannical father. She was introverted, he was extremely extroverted. Owner inscription front e...