Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Beautiful Maine.

Lewis, Paul M., · 1981

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Beaverton, OR, Beautiful America Pub Co, (1981). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Beautiful color shots of Maine plus descriptions of various areas of the state.

A Guide to Maine's Natural Resources: the Maine Annual volume one.

Maine Education Dept, · 1962

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)

Freeport, ME, Bond Wheelwright, (1962). G lg sz PB. First issue of an annual publication that provides a digest of many bulletins and pamphlets put out every years by various. state agencies of Maine. Slight soil on cover.

Maine: Land of Remembered Vacations.

Maine Development Commission, · 1930

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Augusta, ME, Maine Dev. Commission, nd (ca 1930s). VG lg sz PB. All the pleasures of Maine.

Salt: vol II no 3, Dec 1975, no 4 April 1976; vol V no 1 March 1979.

Various, · 1975

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Kennebunk, ME, Kennebunk High School, (1975,76,79). 3 VG lg sz PB. Making snowshoes, bean hole beans, Perkins Tide-mill, Old Time Christmas; Sam Polk, fisherman wives, stenciling, Senabeh. medicine man of the Penobscot Indians of Maine. Owner name, partial sticker.

At the Foot of the Rainbow.

Stratton-Porter, Gene, · 1916

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1916). VG in Fair DJ. Pictorial DJ shows small house with rainbow and white birches. Story in central Indiana of devoted friendship and tender. self-sacrificing love set in rural area out-of-doors.

The Clothes on Their Backs.

Grant, Linda, · 2008

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Scribner, (2008). 1st ptg. VG PB. What it's like as a Hungarian Jew to come from a country where you aren't wanted to one in which the rules of life are. completely different, but in their own way just as unforgiving. A world of characters that literally spring off the pag...

Eudora Welty: a biography.

Marrs, Suzanne, · 2003

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Orlando, Harvest, (2003). 1st PB ed. VG PB. Welty created some of the finest short fiction ever written. First published in the 1940s, her stories introduced a genuinely. original voice, and by the time of her death in 2001 she had received nearly every literary award possible.

Classic Quilted Vests including pull-out pattern.

Fons, Marianne and Elizabeth Porter, · 1982

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

Atlanta, GA, Yours Truly Inc., (1982). VG lg sz PB ex-library. Informative book about all matters pertaining to quilted vests including fabric suggestions, quilting material, garment pattern.

Sea History: winter 1980-81: official journal of the World Ship Trust.

National Maritime Historical Society, · 1980

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Brooklyn, NY, Natl Maritime Hist Society, (1980-81). G PB. Tanning to edges, back cover soiled, owner sticker back cover.

Penobscot County Maine.

Doucette, Earle, written and compiled by, · 1963

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Portland, ME, Gross & Morris, nd (ca 1963). VG PB. First there was a river, then there was man. Attained county status in 1816. Slight soil on binding, fading toward spine. Promotional booklet put out by the county commissioners. Benefits of living in Ponobscot County.

One in the Infinite.

Savage-Armstrong, George Francis, M.A., D. Lit., · 1891

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

London, Longmans, Green, 1891. VG ex-library. "If I shrink from the Vision of Life, am I worthy to live? . If I quail at the thought of the years in the crowds of the Pure..If I yearn not at all to inherit the Spirit-joys of the Just, What end, what doom do I merit but death w...

Memoirs of Gen. W. T. Sherman (vol. I & II) written by himself with appendix bringing his life down to its closing scenes.

James G. Blaine, · 1891

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,973)

NY, Webster, 1891. 4th ed. VG ex-library. Also a personal tribute and critique of the memoirs by Hon. James Blaine. Both volumes complete in one book revised and. corrected by Sherman himself. Bottom corners bumped, owner's name, library markings.

Popular Life Gen. George A. Custer, Major-Gen. of Volunteers, Brevet Major-General, U.S. Army & Lt Col 7th Cavalry.

Whittaker, Frederick, Brevet Captain Sixth New York Veteran Cavalry, · 1876

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

NY, Sheldon & Co, (1876). G ex-library. "Few men had more enemies than Custer, and no man deserved them less." from the author's Preliminary Remarks. Maroon binding with gilt and decorative bands. Library markings, edge wear. An overall lovely copy of this glowing biography of...

Picture Book of the Lake District in Colour.

Country Life, · 1961

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Country Life Limited, (1961). 1st ptg. G. One of the most beautiful parts of Great BritainPurple binding, gilt lettering. Library markings. Portion of DJ flap taped to front endpaper.

Egypt: architecture, landscape, life of the people.

by Borchardt, Cario, 1929, · 1929

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,909)

Germany, Orbis Terrarum, (1929). G ex-library. Captions to photos illus in Spanish, French, English and German Laid in sepia photo of the "Mamelouks Tombs at Sunset" with. crease and corner missing. Maroon-colored binding, gilt lettering and decoration. Library markings, few s...

Educated Dogs of To-Day: an illustrated record of canine intelligence marking an advance with the movern movement of man.

Sanborn, Kate, · 1916

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

Boston, Privately published, 1916. VG ex-library. From intorduction by author" One does not imagine the presence of a dog in the Garden of Eden for had there been, no doubt he. would have given adequate protection to his mistress and saved her descendants (on the distaff side)...

Bird Neighbors, an introductory acquaintance with 150 birds, commonly found in gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes.

Blanchan, Neltje, introduction by John Burroughs, · 1903

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,108)

NY, Doubleday, Page, 1903. 14th ed. G ex-library. Reliable, written in a vivacious strain by a real bird lover. But you do not want to make out your bird the first time, the. book or your friend must not make the problem too easy for you. You must go again and again, and see a...

The Insect Book: a popular account of the bees, wasps, ants, grasshoppers, flies and other N. American insects....

Howard, Lelend O., Ph.D., Chief of Entomology, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, · 1903

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,747)

NY, Doubleday Page, 1903. Fair ex-library.exclusive of butterflies, moths and beetles, with full life histories, tables and bibliographies. Library markings,. water stained bottom half toward spine.

Birds That Hunt And Are Hunted: life histories of one hundred and seventy birds of prey, game birds and water-fowls.

Blanchan, Neltje, introduction by G. O. Shields (Coquina), · 1904

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

NY, Doubleday Page, 1904. G ex-library. Tissue guards on plates, top edge gilt. Frontis of passenger pigeon. Some soil, library markings.

Up Front.

Mauldin, Bill, · 1945

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Holt, (1945). BCE. VG in VG DJ. Greatest cartoonist of World War II talks about what he saw "over there". Owner sticker, edge wear, slight soil.