Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Trees of Ohio and of Northeastern North America.

Madison, Harold L., · 1935

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Nat Hist, (1935). 3rd ed. VG in original Pocket. Descriptions of trees plus drawings of their leaves. Wear to top of pocket, tanning on edges.

The Yellow House Mystery.

Warner, Gertrude Chandler, · 1953

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, IL, Albert Whitman & Co, (1953). 1st ed. Fair ex-library. A spooky house on Surprise Island as he four Alden children attempt to locate a missing man. Library markings, yellow and. blue binding faded showing house on a hill. Edge wear, map on front endpaper with owner...

Cold-Weather Cooking.

Chase, Sarah Leah, · 1990

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Workman Pub, (1990). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. "I have always been fascinated by the nuances of temperature .the memory of curlilng up against the warm doors of my. mother's double-decker oven as the evening's meal simmered comes instantly to mind.".

Concert in the Kitchen: a medley of recipes.

Conductor, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Nashville, TN, Favorite Recipes Press, (2000). 1st ptg. VG. Food is rich with sensory stimuli not only of taste but of smell, vision, touch, sound and stirs memories and emotions.

Portland Treasure of Personal Recipes.

Washington Avenue Methodist Church, Evening Guild, Portland, Maine, · 1959

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Kansas City, MO, Bev-Ron Pub Co, (1959). G PB spiral bound. Some recipes written in on blank pages, laid in index card and newspaper clipping of recipes. Covers tanned.

Hush Now, Don't You Cry.

Bowen, Rhys, · 2012

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Minotaur Books, (2012). 1st ed 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Molly and her husband Daniel, a captain in the NYPD, are inved to spend their honeymoon on a Newport, RI, estate of Alderman. Brian Hanna in the spring of 1904, but he's found dead at the base of the cliffs that overlook...

Members' Choice.

South Portland Historical Society, · 2008

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Kearney, NE, Morris Press, (2008). VG PB spiral bound. Established in 1964 The South Portland Historical Society is a story of real people living their lives as we do today.

Cape Cod Cook Book.

Picture Book Press, · 1956

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Cotuit, MA, Picture Book Press, nd (ca 1956). G PB. Cape Codders of old practically lived on cod and clams. They were a sea-faring people who later began to cultivate berries. that grew wild on the sandy hook of land - cranberries, strawberries and blueberries. Here are recipe...

The Silver Palate Good Times Cookbook.

Rosso, Julee & Sheila Lukins with Sarah Leah Chase, · 1985

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Workman Pub Co, (1985). 19th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Graceful gourmet entertaining at home.

Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God.

Coomer, Joe, · 2004

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Touchstone, (2004). 10th ptg. VG PB. 9 weeks after leaving her husband, Charlotte escapes to a motor yacht in NH & then to a local dig for an ancient cemetery. Off the boat, Charlotte, an archaeologist, joins a local excavation to uncover an ancient graveyard. Here she can...

Simply Superb.

Junior League of Elizabeth-Plainfield (New Jersey), · 1980

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

New Jersey, Jr. League, (1980). 2nd ptg. G spiral bound PB. Slight soil to back cover.

North Woods Walkabout: a Maine odyssey.

Waldron, Nan Turner, · 1998

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Exeter, NH, Butterfly & Wheel Pub, (1998). VG PB ex-library.

Southwest Missouri Mining.

Pryor, Jerry (signed by author), · 2000

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,066)

Chicago, IL, Arcadia Pub, (2000). VG PB. The southwest corner of Missouri made fortunes for many early settlers to the area and created an economic boon rivaling the. Gold Rush. Author Pryor creates a pictorial history of the efforts of those who staked everything on the chanc...

At His Side: the last years of Isaac Babel.

Pirozhkova, A. N., translated by Anne Frydman & Robert L. Busch, · 1996

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

S. Royalton, VT, Steerforth Press, (1996). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. When the writer Isaac Babel was arrested by Stalin's secret police May 1949 he said to his wife, they didn't let me finish. Eight months later he was shot by the NKVD although it would be another 50 years before t...

Calendars - Cornell University, Yale University, Dartmouth Univ University of Rochester, Duke University, Princeton University.

University, Pennsylvania State University, Colby College, · 1952

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

Rhode Island, Automobile Mutual Insurance, 1952-1970. 13 VG calendars from 1952-1970 with photos of various buildings. Most are from Beck Engraving Company showing prominent buildings from various colleges - Firestone Library, Princeton. Williamsburg's Governor's Palace. There...

Choice Pages from Early American School Books.

Johnson, Myron, · 1960

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Scotia, NY, Americana Review, (1960). VG PB. Selections from old school texts giving an idea of what school books used to be like: geography, spelling, readers, numbers. Tanned on edges.

Wounded Knee & the Ghost Dance Tragedy.

Utter, Jack, compiled by, · 1991

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Lake Ann, MI, National Woodlands Pub Co, (1991). Memorial Ed. VG PB. Wounded Knee was much more than a brief engagements between a band of Lakotah and U.S. Army troops - it was the losing battle. in the Sioux Ghost Dance War of 1890-1891. It signified the end of a four-century...

The Sea Runners.

Doig, Ivan, · 1982

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Penguin, (1982). VG PB. Based on an actual incident, four men toiling as indentured servants in the farthest outpot of the Czar's empire in 1853. plotted a canoe trip down the treacherous Pacific coast from New Archangel, Alaska, to Astoria, Oregon to freedom. Unrelenting ...

The Birth and Babyhood of the Telephone.

Watson, Thomas A., Assistant to Alexander Graham Bell, · 1938

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Chicago, American Telephone Co, 1938. VG PB. An address delivered before the Third Annual Convention of the Telephone Pioneers of America at Chicago, October 17, 1913. In 1874 Watson obtained employment in the electrical shop of Charles Williams Jr in Boston where he met Bell....

Wagner and His Music-Dramas.

Bagar, Robert, · 1950

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1950). VG ex-library. Prepared primarily for the audience of the Philharmonic- Symphony Society of New York to supply information about Wagner. and his work. Library markings.