Crabtree's Collection Old Books

France the Beautiful Cookbook.

Pudlowski, Gilles, recipes The Scotto Sisters, · 1999

$27.00 (€24.50 | £20.44 | ¥4,310)

San Francisco, HarperCollins, (1999). 4th ptg. VG in G DJ. This loveliest of all French cookbooks with more than 240 recipes from the regions of France reveal the rich and varied. produce of the world's renowned center of gastronomy gives a rare insight into the less publicize...

The History of England from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st (with few dates).

Le Faye, · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, 1993. 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. With a keen eye, 16 yr old Jane observed the English monarchs with an already keen eye and unmistakable wit. Lovely copy. An irreverent look at a subject usually treated with deadly seriousness, full of very huma...

Letters of a German American Farmer: Jurnhakob Swehn travels to America.

Gillhoff, Johannes, translated by Richard Lorenz August Trost, · 2000

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Iowa City, Univ of Iowa Press, (2000). VG PB. Archetypal character Swehn, the upright honest mensch who personified the German public. This farmer hero planting and. harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during the snowy winters, building a church with his own h...

The Peel Trait.

Lincoln, Joseph C., · 1934

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, Appleton-Century, 1934. 1st ed. VG. Royal blue binding, 1st ed (1 on final page of text), gilt lettering, slight edge wear. Life in the fictional Cape Cod. town of Wapatomac where sea captains lives. Pictorial endpapers showing map of town. Small old-timey book store label...

At the North of Bearcamp Water: chronicle of a stroller in New England from July to December.

Bolles, Frank, · 1917

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,108)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1917). VG. Nice copy, beautiful pictorial of blue sky & lake, meadow & mountains on green binding. Few corner creases, edge wear. Blank bookplate on front endpaper.

U.S. First Day Covers 1987 and Special Covers.

Postal Commemorative Society, · 1987

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

USPS, (1987). VG leather like three ring binding. Pennsylvania Statehood, Bicentennial U.S. Constitution, New Jersey Statehood, Signing the Constitution, Certified Public. Accountants, Locomotives, Christmas 1987. Very good condition, former owner's name.

Season's Belle: a Labrador Retriever's first year.

Butz, Bob, · 2002

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Camden, ME, Countrysport Press, (2002). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. The arrangement in the field between hunter and dog, this partnership, is stronger than most friendships or even some. family ties. "Teaching dogs to do our bidding is one thing,but getting inside their heads is ano...

Early American Inns and Taverns.

Lathrop, Elise, · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Arno Press, 1977. 2nd ptg. G in G DJ. Wearied by grueling hours or horse or stagecoach travel, our forefathers found food and shelter at both commercial and social. centers where there was carefully planned proximity of the inn or tavern and the church in hundreds of Colon...

Under the Wide and Starry Sky.

Horan, Nancy, · 2013

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Ballantine, (2013). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Much anticipated second novel of the passionate love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempertuous. American wife Fanny.

The Bells of Rome.

Stenius, Goran, translated by Isabel and Florence McHugh, · 1961

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

NY, P. J. Kenndy & Sons, 1961. VG in G DJ. In the form of a novel one man's discovery of God, a modern legend illustrating the real presence of God in the Blessed. Sacrament, progress of a religious temperament from faith sought to faith triumphant. Blue binding has some fadin...

The Sunny Side of the Street.

Wilder, Marshall P., · 1905

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Funk & Wagnalls, 1905. G. Vaudeville comedian Wilder's humorous travel tales, anecdotes, observations with alphabetical listing of people portrayed. Text illustrations by Bart Haley, paste down pictorial of New York's Madison Square as well as Wilder's picture, cover decor...

The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the rise of the environmental movement.

Lytle, Mark Hamilton, · 2007

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Oxford Univ. Press, 2007. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Carson believed that the arrogance of humankind created a deadly irony: in their determination to control nature they. posed a growing threat to all life on earth, including their own. She had a profound anger at the senseles...

The Compleat Strawberry.

Whiteaker, Stafford, · 1985

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Crown, (1985). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ ex-library. From holy hymbol to needlewoman's inspiratiaon to gardener's delight, traces the history of the strawberry from early herbals. and Elizabethan tapestries to Wedgwood china and popular decorations. More than 70 delicious r...

Cookies: food writers' favorites.

Gibbs, Barbara, and Jane Baker edited by, · 1991

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

np, Dial Pub, (1991). VG PB. Each recipe has a brief introduction about the cookie.

Awaken the Spirit Within: ten steps to ignite your life & fulfill your divine purpose.

Rosen, Rebecca, · 2013

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harmony, (2013). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Helps us wake up and start living our lives with divine intention and purpose.

Small Fruit Culture: publication no. 17 January 1968.

Anderson, J. F. and W. J. Lord, · 1968

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Amherst, MA, Cooperative Extension/USDA, (1968). G PB. Pamphlet on Fertilizing Home Fruits by same authors laid in.

Sandbox Camp Tales from a Maine Storyteller (signed by author).

Randall, Randy, · 2008

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

Topsham, ME, Just Write Books, (2008). VG PB. Inscribed by author. Randall is a native Mainer who lives on the banks of the Saco River, co-owner of Marston's Marina. Especially readable, memorable, enjoyable, and sometimes funny.

The Road to My Farm.

Seton, Nora Janssen, · 1993

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Viking, (1993). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. The daughter of a psychoanalyst father and novelist mother, Nora Seton graduated from Harvard with a degree in classics and. art history and decided to become a farmer. How she prepared for that dream is just the bare bones of...

Notes from the Century before: a journal from British Columbia.

Hoagland, Edward, · 1982

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

San Francisco, North Point Press, 1982. VG PB. An extensive vivid picture of place and people, as remarkable as the landscape and people it describes, full of freshness and. life.

Telephone Directory, Western Districts (section no. 5).

New South Wales, Australia, · 1951

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

New South Wales, Commonwealth of Australia, (1951). Fair. Covers detached, back cover only bottom half present.