Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Chimney Pond Tales: yarns told by Leroy Dudley.

Elizabeth Hall Harmon, · 1994

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Cumberland Center, ME, Pamola Press, (1994). 3rd ptg. G PB ex-library. Guide and spinner of tales at Chimney Pond on Maine's Mount Katahdin, Leroy Dudley, enchanted with tales about Pamola,. the Penobscot Indian god of thunder who protected the mountain for the first half of t...

More than Petticoats: remarkable Maine women.

Kennedy, Kate, · 2005

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Guilford, CT, Twodot, (2005). G PB ex-library. 13 strong & determined women who broke through social, cultural or political barriers. Library markings.

Cowboys of the Sky: the story of Alaska's bush pilots.

Levi, Steven C., · 1996

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Walker & Co, (1996). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ.

A Journal.

Potter, Beatrix, · 2006

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,470)

NY, Warne, (2006). VG lg sz HB. Beautiful copy large cushioned illus covers, Potter's own privately printed edition of "The Tale of Peter Rabbit".

The White House Cook Book: a comprehensive cyclopedia of information for the houme.

Gillette, F. L. and Hugo Ziemann, Stewart of the White House, · 1999

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

np, Media Solutions, (1999). VG. Royal blue binding, gilt lettering and all fore-edges.

Martha Stewart Living Cookbook.

Stewart, Martha, · 2000

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,151)

NY, Oxmoor, (2000). VG in VG DJ. Compilation of 1,200 recipes from the first decade of Martha Stewart Living magazine. DJ slight edge wear.

Maine History vol 34 no 1 Summer 1994, vol 35 nos 1&2 Summer- Fall 1995; vol 35 nos 3-4; vol 37 nos 1-2; vol 36 nos 1-4.

Various, · 1994

$46.00 (€41.73 | £34.82 | ¥7,343)

Orono, ME, University of Maine, (1994-1997). 6 VG PBs. Indian female stereotypes; Eastern Abenaki automny & French autonomy; Franco-American identity politics; fine arts after. the Civil War; Washburn Memorial Library Humanities Conference Livermore 1995; Abraham Lincoln at ho...

Maine Folks & Maine Ways.

Van Waes, Robert, · 2004

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Damariscotta, ME, Lincoln County Pub Co, (2004). VG ex-library. Van Waes was born and raised in Kewanee, Illinois, during the Great Depression and sesrved as an enlisted man in the U.S. Navy. during WWII. He studied and taught history in various colleges and retired to Maine i...

Education before Verdun.

Zweig, Arnold, translated from German by Eric Sutton, · 1936

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Viking, (1936). VG in G DJ. Anti-war activist Zweig describes the Western front during WWI, Bits of DJ top back adhered to binding.

The Victorian Home: the grandeur and comforts of the Victorian era in households past and present.

Plante, Ellen M., · 1995

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Philadelphia, Courage, (1995). VG in VG DJ. The Victorian parlor, the design masterpiece of the 19th century home, conveyed social standing and an appreciation of. culture. In the dining room the paper should be rich and warm in tne, without staring patterns, and the cornice a...

Famous and Historic Trees.

Randall, Charles Edgar and Henry Clepper, · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Washington, D.C., American Forestry Assn, (1977). 3rd ptg. VG lg sz PB. Much of the history of the U.S. is revealed in trees. Living or dead many are immortalized here.

Murder of the Lawyer's Clerk.

Fletcher, J. S., · 1933

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

NY, Knopf, 1933. 1st Amer ed. G. Green binding, dark brown lettering and bands. Spine tanned, edge wear, small bookseller's label bottom front endpaper. (Dartmouth Bookstall Inc. Boston), side fore-edge some spotting. Alfred Snowe who lived alone in Little Straightway was foun...

Reynard the Fox.

Masefield, John, · 1920

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,108)

NY, Macmillan, 1920. New illus ed. G. New illustrated edition with eight colored plates and many illustrations by Carton Moorepark, illus endpaper showing dogs. From Masefield's introduction: "My own interest in fox hunting began at an early age. I was born in good hunting cou...

Knots of Straw and Other Verses (signed by author).

Coughlin, Anna E., · 1926

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,108)

Portland, ME, Mosher Press, (1926). 1st Ltd 300. G. Light green binding, darker green decoration and lettering on front cover and spine. Hinges split.

Manny a Criminal-Addict's Story.

Rettig, Richard P., Manual J. Torres, and Gerald R. Garrett, · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1977). Fair HB. Life history of Manny Torres from being a young Puerto Rican boy in NYC to his involvements in delinquent gang activities. and to those in the rackets and the underworld. His desperate years as a heroin addict, as a criminal, as a pri...

A Photographic Guide to Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei and Kalimantan.

Davison, G. W. H. and Chew Yen Fook, · 1996

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

London, New Holland, (1996). 4th ptg. VG PB. 252 species in Borneo plus distinctive thumbnail color tabs outlining each family group, ideal pocket-size, plus key. identification features. Owner names.

Throwim Way Leg: tree-kangaroos, possums and penis gourds.

Flannery, Tim, · 1998

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Grove, (1998). 1st ptg. VG PB. "A gripping tale about the most remote areas of New Guinea .(a) wild and adventurous literary ride." Christian Science. Monitor. The first stsep of a long journey (throwim way leg), Flannery searches for species that science has yet to discov...

The White House Staff: inside the West Wing and beyond (uncorrected page proofs).

Patterson, Bradley H., Jr. (signed by author), · 2000

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press, (2000). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Signed by author. There are 125 separately identifiable offices in the ttal White House staff community above and beyond. the Executive Office employing nearly 5,700 men and women. Why has the staff b...

I Am America (and so can you!).

Colbert, Stephen, · 2007

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Grand Central Pub, (2007). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Colbert's most deeply held knee-jerk beliefs on The American Family, Race, religion, Sex, Sports, why Hollywood is destroying. American by inches, why evolution is a fraud.

A Century of the Scottish People 1830-1950.

Smout, T. C., · 1986

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Tontana, (1986). G PB. Smout was appointed professor of Scottish History at the University of St. Andrews in 1980 where he published various. articles in learned journals. Deeply enjoyable, lively as Macaulay or Trevelyan, packed with interesting detail, illuminating a...