Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Conscience of a Northern Man: the story of Amos Tuck: a lesson in New Hampshire history.

Wallace, R. Stuart, Amos Tuck Society, · 1998

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Exeter, NH, Amos Tuck Society, (1998). VG lg sz PB and VHS tape. To advance awareness of Amos Tuck and his significant role in the abolition of slavery, the founding of the Republican Party. and the election of Abraham Lincoln to the American Presidency. Large cassette contain...

A Cigarette-Maker's Romance.

Crawford, F. Marion, · 1901

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, International Association, 1901. G. Bookplate on front cover "Cottage Library, Pendexter Mansion, 1915 please return to shelves.", blue binding with decorative. binding, owner names.

With Lee in Virginia: a story of the American Civil War.

Henty, G. A., · 1906

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Burt, nd (ca 1906). Good. Pictorial cover showing boy shooting at other side and insert of sailors rowing in boat with explosions near them. Although. no publisher date included but a long mother's inscription on front endpaper wishes him a Merry Christmas and asks him to ...

With Trumpet and Drum.

Field, Eugene, · 1901

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Scribner, 1901. G ex-library. "So come little child, cuddle closer to me, In your dainty white nightcap and gown, and I'll rock you away to that. Sugar-Plum Tree in the garden of Shut-Eye Town." Half white half blue binding with blue decoration with drum, trumpet, and bird...

Thomas Hamlin Hubbard, Bvt. Brigadier General U.S. Vols..

Burrage, Henry S., Bvt. Major U.S. Vols., State Historian, · 1923

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

np, Maine, 1923. G. Commander-in-Chief of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the U.S. Bookplate of Fryeburg Woman's Club Library.

Little Chldren in the Church of Christ.

Roads, Rev. Charles, President of the Pennsylvania C. E. Union, · 1893

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

Boston, Lothrop, 1893. G. Pale blue binding, guilt pictorial of Christ with children on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. Owner inscription front. endpaper. Different instructions on a Christian life: Don't Be a Sponge, Be a Water Lily; Companionship in Home or Saloon; Bui...

The Seven Little Sisters who live on the round ball that floats in the air.

Boston Public Schools, · 1893

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Ginn, 1893. G ex-library. Children on different parts of the globe. Deep red binding, embossed front title, gilt lettering on spine, wear. Quaint illustrations of children. Edge wear, library markings, front endpaper cut down to hold library card, stamps.

Boss.

Tyler, Odette, · 1897

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Continental Pub Co, 1897. G ex-library. Taken from the memory of members of the household and witnesses of the events described, the sacrifices they made on the altar. of their divinity. Virginia life by an actress in her only book. Brick red binding, gilt lettering and ed...

The "Bab" Ballads with sound and little sense.

Gilbert, W. S., · 0

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, nd. Second edition. G ex-library. Green binding, gilt binding with gilt facsimile signature of author. Delightful illus, library markings including front. endpaper cut at top, all edges gilt, beveled edges.

I Didn't Come Here to Argue from the woman who wrote the "I Hate to Cook Cookbook".

Bracken, Peg, · 1970

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

Greenwich, CT, Fawcett, (1970). VG PB. Valuable if only for the 108 sins: leaving a mess behind you; pretending to know what you do not know; automatically voting. a straight ticket, putting fruit centers in chocolates; accepting praise for something you didn't do; giving peop...

The Practical Garden-book containing the simplest directions for the growing of the commonest things about the house & garden.

Bailey, L. H., · 1906

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1906. 5th ed. G ex-library. Tan binding with brown outline on front cover. Macmillan's Standard Library, library markings.

A Good Samaritan.

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, · 1909

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

np, Doubleday Page, (1909). G. Green pictorial binding showing two men standing near street light with third man near them apparently injured. A young seminary student keeps failing to appear for an appointment with a judge. Back end paper worn away at hinge.

Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-Hand: little novels by favourite authors.

Atherton, Gertrude, · 1903

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Macmillan, 1903. G ex-library. Tan binding with red/green decorations. Two other illustrations where man tells woman I don't know what really possessed you to. indulge in such a freak as to engage yourself to four men at once, slipping the ring on her finger.and now you ar...

The Lily among Flowers.

Hervey, Rev. N., · 1859

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Salem, D. B. Brooks, 1859. 3rd ed. G ex-library. Red embossed binding, gilt design and lettering on spine. Edge wear, corners bumped, library markings, few tanning spots. Author preface states that the design of the writer is to lead the young into the works of nature, and fro...

The Second Mrs. Jim.

Conrad, Stephen, · 1904

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Page, (1904). 1st ed. VG ex-library. Color pictorial cover showing woman in long apron and blue dress standing on road outside a house, gilt lettering. Frontis shows two women, one sitting with hat, other standing cutting trim from pie crust. Four back pages ads for Pa...

A Memorial to Benjamin F. Butler from the City of Boston.

Greenhalge, Frederick T. (Eulogy by), · 1893

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Boston, City Council, 1893. Discound (no covers). Major general in the Army during the Civil War and leader of the Republican Party whose record of beastliness, fraud. double-dealing, dishonestry, corruption, and betrayal of trust" is reocrded by Marcus Mills Pomeroy in his bi...

The Late Mrs. Null.

Stockton, Frank R., · 1886

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Scribner, 1886. VG ex-library. The Philadelphia Record says "It bubbles over with merriment .all the breezy charm of a pastoral.". Yellow binding with design embossed on it, gilt lettering on spine. Six pages of Scribner ads at back of book. Corners bumped, front endpaper ...

The Captured Dream and other stories.

Thanet, Octave, · 1899

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Harper, (1899). G ex-library. Teal colored binding, silver lettering and border lines. Page at back of book listing other "Little Books by Famous Writers", o. Wear along fore-edge esp near top edge, library stamps.

That Little Smith Girl.

Perry, Nora, · 1899

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, (1899). G. Paste down pictorial yellow cover of girl leaning on a rocking chair, gilt lettering,. Dellightful pictorial ads at back of book showing girl playing ukele for another girl on a listing of other Nora Perry books for girls: A Rosebud Garden of G...

The Kinship of Souls: a narrative.

Thomas, Reuen, · 1899

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Boston, Little Brown, 1899. 1st ed. VG. Quote from Tennyson on title page "Leolin would often, in his walks with Edith, claim a distant kinship to the gracious blood. that shook the heart of Edith hearing him." Green binding, cover decorated with flowers and gilt lettering, to...