Crabtree's Collection Old Books

An Adirondack Passage: the cruise of the canoe Sairy Gamp.

Jerome, Christine, · 1994

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Harper, (1994). 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. "I like the idea that a few harried working people will pick up this book, obtain the notion that one can simply take off on a. wacky canoe trip in imitation of an obscure writer/camper extraordinaire from the late 1800s, take the four ...

The Salt Book: lobstering, sea moss pudding, stone walls, rum running, maple syrup, snowshoes, and other Yankee doings.

Wood, Pamela, edited with introduction by, · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Garden City, NY, Anchor Books, 1977. G PB. Edge wear, owner bookplate.

Jessie's Work; or, faithfulness in little things: a story for girls.

Shipley, Mary E., · 0

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.46 | ¥27,936)

Philadelphia, American Sunday School Union, nd. Fair. Reprinted after revision by the Committee of Publication from the London edition. Book ends at page 228 but a page or more. appears to be missing from the end. Brown binding worn, front endpaper cut to allow a library card ...

The High Maples Farm Cookbook.

Berquist, Edna Smith, · 1979

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Macmillan, (1979). G in G DJ ex-library. Favorite recipes and reminiscences from an all but vanished way of life from a farm near Laconia, NH. 275 recipes. Library markings.

Bernard Shaw: collected letters 1898-1910 (volume 2).

Laurence, Dan H., edited by, · 1972

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, Dodd Mead, (1972). VG in G DJ. The richester and most complex part of Shaw's life beginning with 1898 when he retired from journalism, the successful. publication of his earliest plays, and his marriage to the green-eyed Irish milliionairess Charlotte Payne-Townshend, his ...

Painted Birdhouses.

PLAID, · 1999

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Sterling, (1999). 2nd ptg. VG lg sz PB. 29 glorious projects from a painted stone cottage, a Birdie Mansion, and Santa and His Birdhouse to a Grapdes and Moss. Hanging birdhouse, pumpkin birdhouse toa still life lap desk, a birdhouses country crock.

Hemingway High on the Wild.

Arnold, Lloyd R., · 1977

$42.00 (€38.11 | £31.79 | ¥6,705)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1977). 1st ed thus. VG in VG DJ. For over 20 years Hemingway spent vitually every fall and winter at Sun Valley, Idaho, his true home, the wild mountain. crags, the sunny meadows, the meandering streams, where the hunting and fishing were amazingly good....

Dr. North and His Friends.

Mitchell, S. Weir, M.D., LL.D., Harvard and Edinburgh, · 1900

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,714)

NY, Century, 1900. 1st ed. VG. Green binding, gilt lettering, decoration on ft cover and spine. Dedicated to Horace Howard Furness for many years of. friendship.

Apples of Gold: a book of selected verse.

Beatley, Clara Bancroft, · 1903

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Boston, American Unitarian Assn, 1903. VG ex-library. Selected verses. Gray binding with golden apple pictorial, gilt lettering on front covering & spine. Library and owner stamp.

The Complete Poetical Works of Robert Burns.

Burns, Robert, · 1900

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Boston, Houghton Miffling, (1900). Cabinet ed. VG. Green binding with gilt decoration on front cover and gilt border, top edge gilt.

The Long Exile.

McGrath, Melanie, · 2007

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Knopf, 2007. G in G DJ ex-library. In 1952 the Canadian government forcibly relocated three dozen Inuit from the east coast of Hudson Bay to a region of the. High Arctic that was 1,200 miles farther north. The Inuit were taken to Ellesmere Island, an arid and desolate land...

Fairies and Chimneys.

Fyleman, Rose, · 1946

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Doubleday, 1946. G ex-library. Whimsical. "A fairy went a-marketing - she bought a winter gown.she wore it all the afternoon.then gave it to a frog. to keep him warm at night." Wishes "I wished I liked rice pudding, I wish I were a twin, I wish some day a real live fairy w...

The Magnificent Mississippi: legends of our land.

Arpy, Jim, · 1983

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Grinnell, IA, Iowa Heritage Gallery, (1983). VG lg sz PB. The events recorded here are exciting, sometimes improbable, and offer a never-before-provided "behind'the-scenes" look at. the "Gateway to the West" carefully culled from many sources. Beautiful copy.

Raphael Soyer's New York People & Places.

Soyer, Raphael, Patricia Hills, Curator, · 1984

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

NY, Cooper Union, Boston Art, (1984). G PB. When Soyer was 14 years old and a recent immigrant from Russia, he and his brother Nises came down to town with their. portfolios. "We could draw as well as adults". The director of the Cooper Union took a look at the twins' work and...

When Coal Was King: mining Pennsylvania's anthracite.

Poliniak, Louis, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Levanon, PA, Applied Arts Publishers, (1993). 10th ptg. VG lg sz PB. Greenback Colliery was named after a political party that came into being after the Civil War & built between 1870-1878. life. Early coal mining in picture and story in the land of the Mollie Maguires. There ...

The Johnstown Flood July 20, 1977: Memorial edition.

Pisczek, Bernie, Larry Hudson, Jay Harris, Dave Knapp, · 1977

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Lubbock, TX, C. F. Boone, (1977). G lg sz PB. "The Day They Said Couldn't Happen"; True Meanings of Flood Never Found in History Books", what caused it, survivors,. Edge wear.

The Civil War and American Art.

Harvey, Eleanor Jones, · 2012

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Amer. Art Museum, (2012). VG in VG DJ. Spectacular photo filled book about the war's grim realities captures through the new medium of photography.

Living Dreams.

Lindal Cedar Homes, · 0

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Seattle, WA, Lindal Homes, nd. VG. Absolutely beautiful cedar homes with floor plans and multiple photos. Not your grandpa's log cabin!. Certificate for free Cedar Grilling Plank included. Corner wear.

Grand Canyon Country.

Director National Park Service US Dept of Interior, · 1949

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Stanford, CA, Stanford Univ Press, (1949). 9th ptg. VG PB. Cartograph by Ruth Taylor White on back endpaper shows whimsical map of the Grand Canyon Country. Photos show Indians. at work in the canyon. One page edge mended, owner name.

Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow including The Shepherd Lady and other poems.

Ingelow, Jean, · 0

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

NY, John W. Lovell Company, nd. VG ex-library. Decorated and embossed binding, gilt decorated author square, all edges gilt. Front endpaper clipped to hold library card. Back cover wrinkled.