Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Lincolnville Memories: vol. III, Part 1.

Watts, Jacqueline (Jackie) June Young, · 1983

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Lincolnville Center, ME, Lincolnville Historical Soc., (1983). VG lg sz PB. Front cover pictorial by .D O'Brien. Many photos of people in the town. Mended tear to bottom of back cover, few smudges.

Cuba Night: poems.

Smith, Dave, · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Quill/William Morrow, (1990). 1st Quill ed. VG PB. Cover painting: The Bedroom by Fernando Botero. "These poems are nothing short of visionary." - Anthony Hecht.

A Bracelet of Lies signed by Nordhaus as well as with signed note by Nordhaus.

Nordhaus, Jean, · 1987

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

Washington, D.C., Washington Writers Pub House, (1987). VG PB. Nordhaus writes in her note to an admirer that "I have seldom been read with such care and deep attention - even by people who. hhold themselves up as 'experts' in this 'field' of poetry - and I feel gratified to b...

Sun under Wood: poems.

Hass, Robert, · 1998

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Ecco, (1998). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Hass's fourth collection - artfully assembled from prose, epigram, conversation, and free verse -proves both meditative. and emotional. Plangent and ecstatic. - The New Yorker Owner jottings on few poems, own poem on back endpaper.

Ice, Mouth, Song: a collection of poems.

Flynn, Rachel Contreni, · 2005

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Dorset, VT, Tupelo Press, (2005). 1st PB ed. VG PB. ".a haunting beauty to it, and an economy of phrasing consonant with its spare landscapes and mindscapes. Flynn will. not pretty up her world, nor will she be defeated by its harshness." Stephen Dunn Owner has written own poe...

Easy: poems.

Flint, Roland, · 1999

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Baton Rouge, Louisiana State Univ Press, 1999. VG PB. "It's a brave man who risks sentimentality and dares to write abaout ease and blessedness and comfort, and that bravery is. what makes 'Easy' such an admirable and pleasing work." - Garrison Keillor.

Looking for Luck: poems.

Kumin, Maxine, · 1992

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Norton, (1992). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Remarkable Women - "Beatrix Porter.and you, Louisa May,. and you Helen Nearing, almost ninety, kneeling to dig potatoes. for a guest's lunch, confessing 'I was twenty-six before I planted so much as a radish. Oh, I was lily-handed." Few smud...

Snowflake.

Nichols, J., · 1989

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Kansas City, MO, Snowflake Press, (1989). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB.

Poems and Sketches.

White, E. B., · 1967

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Harper & Row, (1967). Stated 1st ed. VG in VG DJ. "Whoever sets pen to paper writes of himself, whether knowingly or note." ".on Mars it is the custom to kiss one's beloved. when a star falls.".

Collected Lyrics.

Millay, Edna St. Vincent, · 1943

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Harper, 1943. Stated 1st ed. G. Blue binding, gilt lettering, fading toward spine & damp spot toward spine bottom. "I knew her for a little ghost that in my garden walked;.she paused - then opened and passed through a gate that once was there." "I am not resigned to the sh...

Selected Prose of Robert Frost.

Frost, Robert, edited by Hyde Cox and Connery Lathem, · 1956

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

NY, Holt Rinehart and Winston, (1956). 1st ed. VG in G DJ. More than once in his later life, Frost was urged to published a selection of his prose. The earliest here appeared in 1924. and the most recent in 1950. Includes "The Figure a Poem Makes", introductions to poetry book...

Coffee Shop Cadence: a collection of poems (signed by author).

Hittle, Jodie, · 1990

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

np, Broken Arrow Press, (1990). VG PB. Includes poems "I'm Not Superman"; Sleepwalking at Christmastime"; Skinny; Wake me for Dinner; Why I Don't Do. Crossword Puzzles" and many others.

A Diamond Is Hard But Not Tough (signed by author).

Jonas, Ann Rae, · 1998

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Washington, D.C., Word Works, (1998). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG PB. "There are fresh ideas and intelligence in every of of Ms. Jonas's poems, and more importantly, there is a centered and. moving human voice directing each." - Christopher Buckley.

Art and Poetry.

Maritain, Jacques, translated by E. de P. Matthews, · 1945

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

London, Editions Poetry, (1945). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. An essay on aesthetics, an intermingling human and poetic demands in man. He is concerned with the mysterious nature of. poetry, qualities which he find predominant in all works of art. Owner name ft endpaper, slight fading...

Selected Poems: Gramercy Great Poets series.

Dickinson, Emily, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Gramercy, (1993). 5th ptg. VG in VG DJ. Even today Dickinson's poetry is startlingly original. Her publisher Higginson described it as "poetry torn up by the roots. with rain and dew and earth still clinging to them, giving a freshness and a fragrance not otherwise conveye...

The Collected Poems (1931-1987).

Milosz, Czeslaw, winner of the 1980 Noebel Prize for Literature, · 1988

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Ecco Press, (1988). VG lg sz PB. Born in Lithuania in 1911. He was formed deeply within the troubled world of Poland, lived through the German occupation. and from 1945 to 1950 served in the Polish diplomatic service in Wasington and Paris. He was skeptical at first about ...

Complete Poems of Robert Frost.

Frost, Robert, · 1962

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, (1962). 14th ptg. G. Includes contents of two of his best known books plus more recent volumes A Witness Tree & Steeple Bush, several new poems. and A Masque of Mercy. Owner inscription on front endpaper.

Happy Journeys to Yesterday.

Hastings, George Hastings, · 1933

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Putnam, 1933. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Hastings deftly, sincerely recreates the setting and pleasures of simpler days in the Adirondack foothills of NY state. Laid in newspaper obituary from March 31, 1956. Hastings was formerly an assistant to President Hoover whom he wrote an...

Yankee Whalers in the South Seas.

Whipple, A.B.C., · 1954

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Doubleday, 1954. G in G DJ. Whaling stories of this extraordinary era of ships sunk by rogue wheales, the real-life protogype of Moby Dick, cannibalism. mutiny, and Polynesian marriage. Light gray binding with darker gray whale on front cover, pictorial DJ edge wear, picto...

Wild Women Don't Wear No Blues: black women writers on love, men and sex.

Golden, Marita, edited and with introduction by, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Doubleday, (1993). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Black writers tell what it is like to be a black woman or in some cases to be a black woman but look like a white woman. Judy Dothard Simmons, Dorisjean Austin, Marica Ann Gillespie, Sonia Sanchez, Jewelle Gomez, Ntozake Shan...