Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: complete edition.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, · 1882

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1882. G. Green binding, gilt author block, heavy edge wear.

Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant.

Bryant, William Cullen, · 1884

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Appleton, 1884. G. Brick-colored binding with gilt author box with author. Slight edge wear, owner name front endpaper, owner notations back and. front endpapers.

The German: how to give it, how to lead it, how to dance it.

Two Amateur Leaders, · 1888

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Chicago, McClurg, (1888). VG. To the many pretty girls and graceful dancers of America in memory of the many pleasant Germans enjoyed with them. All manner of directions for dancing the German, how to entertain, cost of refreshments, music, floor covering, salad, oysters, favo...

The Forest: or, Rambles in the Woodland.

Taylor, Jefferys, · 1857

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Y, Carlton & Porter, 1857. Fair ex-library. Brown embossed binding, gilt lettering on spine, library markings, edge wear. Damp stain at book bottom on beginning. and ending pages. Descriptions of various plants and trees in conversations.

Hope Campbell, or, Know Thyself.

Cousin Kate, · 1850

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Anson D. F. Randolph & Co., nd (ca 1850). G. Rose-colored embossed binding, gilt lettering on spine. Some smudging and tanning.

Glorious Apollo (Lord Byron, George Gordon).

Barrington, E. (Eliza Louisa Moresby Beck), · 1925

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Dodd Mead, 1925. Limited ed 350. VG. Beck attempts to touch biography with imagination and to present the essential truth as she sees it, clothing the. historic record with speech and action. The author says she has never knowngly departed from historic truth and has consu...

Mortimer Moonman's Moose Mucker Manual.

Tivey, Richard Herbert, · 1994

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

N. Barnstead, NH, Tivey Associates, (1994). Enlarged ed. VG PB. One of the most thrilling sights in many parts of the great outdoors of the N. American continent is that of the moose. They are the biggest and least social of the deer family with up to a height of 9 feet, a bod...

W. B. Yeats: the Augustan Books of English Poetry (second series).

W. B. Yeats, edited by Humbert Wolfe, · 1931

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

np, np, (1931). 3rd imp. VG PB. Awarded the Nobel Prize, deserved almost as much to the inspiration he has been to others, as for his own beautiful. achievement. Yeats is a mystic and this mysticism is an integral part of his rhythm of his actual words and of his mind. Beauty ...

Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822: The Augustan Books of English Poetry.

Percy Bysshe Shelley, edited by Ernest Thompson, · 0

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Stokes, nd. VG PB.

Elinor Wylie: the Pamphlet Poets.

Elinor Wylie, edited by Laurence Jordan, · 1923

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Simon & Schuster, nd. VG PB. Here are the poems of a vigorously subtle mnd, a clear-eyed, firm imagination. There is blood and vitality in them. Nets to Catch the Wind was Wylie's first book of poems. It attracted the attendion of such critics as Amy Lowell and was so wide...

Walt Whitman: The Pamphlet Poets.

Walt Whitman, edited by Louis Untermeyer, · 1819

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

np, Simon & Schuster, nd. VG PB. Whitman was born May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Long Island. When he was a child his father left the farm and the family moved. to Brooklyn. After a fitful schooling, young Whitman became a printer's apprentice. For 20 years he earned his living ...

The Moving Finger; Murder at the Vicarage; Nemesis; They Do It with Mirrors; Sleeping Murder.

Christie, Agatha, · 1985

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, BBC: collection 2, (1985). VG boxed set of 5 VHS tapes. Five of Christie's most exciting mysteries starring Joan Hickson as Marple.

The World of Upstairs, Downstairs.

Hardwick, Mollie, · 1976

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Holt Rinehart and Winston, (1976). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. An illustrated social history from the turn of the century to the Great Depression. A closer, more detailed view of this. period on which the TV series "Upstairs, Downstairs" was based. Hardwick weaves the stor...

Wellesley College.

Wellesley College Book Store, · 1930

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Wellesley, Mass, Wellesley College Book Store, nd (ca 1930). VG PB (19 cards in all - 2 in color ("Phostint"). Book of postcards of Wellesley College also containing some postcards of college sent to owner (a Wellesley attendee). Also includes nearby scenic points such as Long...

Poems and Ballads.

Stevenson, Robert Louis, · 1904

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Scribner, 1904. G ex-library. Ex-library, heavy edge wear, library markings.

The Heart of Emerson's Essays: selection from his complete works.

Perry, Bliss, edited with an introduction and notes by, · 1933

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1933. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Perry, Professor Emeritus of English Literature at Harvard University has compiled this selection of 21 representative. essays with an illuminating introduction, including a brief biographical sketch. Perry has also written "...

Hope: a loss survived.

Meryman, Richard, · 1980

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, (1980). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Unforgettable & true story of a man and his lovely but doomed wife, whose death he is determined to battle with all his heart. and strength, and to survive as a whole man. Remarkable account of hard, pratical measures he learne...

Fallingwater.

(Wright, Frank Lloyd), · 1988

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Mill Run, PA, Western Pennsylvania Cons., (1988). VG PB. "Fallingwater is perhaps Frank Lloyd Wright's most widely acclaimed work. It has been called 'the best American building. of the last 125 years,' and 'unquestionably the most famous private residence ever guilt." At the ...

Great People - Great Americans.

Gibson, James B., · 1959

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Comet Press, (1959). G in G DJ. Boiled down biographies of the ten greatest Americans who not only changed the face of America but widened out and wrought. universal changes which have greatly contributed to the modern world and the American eay of life. Tanning on some ed...

Reading the Old Testament: an introduction to the Hebrew Bible.

Bandstra, Barry L., · 1995

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Pub, (1995). 1st ptg. VG. Bandstra taught beginning religion at Hope College in Michigan. Slight edge wear, owner's jottings and highlights. Map on front endpaper, history on back endpaper. Few scratches on back cover.