Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Tales of Fairy Land.

Hume, Fergus, · 1911

$185.00 (€167.85 | £140.03 | ¥29,542)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1911). 1st ed. VG. Beautiful bright copy. Red pictorial binding shows elf sitting atop a book at desk writing on long curling sheet of paper. All 8 color plates by Kirk are present. Very nice book plate of boy sitting at a table reading with a shelf ...

Russia's Iron Age.

Chamberlin, William Henry, · 1934

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, Little Brown, 1934. 1st ed. G. For 12 yrs Chamberlin was the Russian correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and describes the Soviet policy as. the intensified industrialism, the employment on a huge scale of forced labor under inhuman conditions, the cruel pe...

Three Hundred Years of American Painting.

director of the National Gallery, · 1957

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Time Inc, 1957. Fair - some tanning on pages. Tan binding, maroon spine, gilt decoration and lettering.

Picasso 75th Anniversary Exhibition: May 22- September 3, 1957 MOMA, October 29- December 8 1937, Art Institute of Chicago.

Picasso, edited by Alfred H. Barr, Jr., · 1957

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1957. Fair PB tanning on some pages. Binding tanning toward edges.

Etchings by Matisse.

Matisse, introduction by William S. Liebert, · 1954

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Museum of Modern Art, (1954). Fair PB- some tanning on few paegsw. Soil on binding.

The New American Practical Navigator with an Epitome of Navigation; containing all the tables necessary to be used....

Bowditch, Nathaniel, · 1836

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.31 | ¥35,930)

NY, E & G. W. Blunt, 1836. 8th ed..with the Nautical Almanac in determining the latitutde and the longitude by lunar observations: keeping a complete. reckoning at sea illustrated by proper rules and examples: the whole exemplified in a journal kept from Boston to Madeira in w...

Toasts.

Rhoads, Wm., compiled, · 1904

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Philadelphia, Penn Pub Co, (1904). Fair. Soft brown suede cover, book in shape of beer mug, nice illustrations. Book disbound, edge wear. "May the blush of conscious innocence ever deck the faces of the fair Americans." "May be kiss whom we please, and please whom we kiss.".

Madison New Hampshire: the scenic center of Carroll County.

Madison Men's Club, · 1900

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Madison, NH, Madison Men's Club, nd (early 1900). VG flier. Photos of Silver Lake, Purity Lake, Madison Boulder (largest in N. America). Edge crease. Extols Madision as one of few real. country towns left in NH unspoiled by through traffic.

Souvenir de Malta.

Unknown, · 1900

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Malta, L. S. Malte, nd (ca 1900). G. Views of Malta's scenery including the Isle of Malta, Royal Theatre of the Opera, the Salute Battery, La Valiette, the. Chapel of Bones, S. John Church, the Great Church of Musta, Gozo lace worker, listing of currency and distances, and ste...

Arithmetic, Elements of Algebra, Logarithms, Geometry and Trigonometry: a series of textbooks containing instruction etc..

I.C.S. Reference Library, · 1905

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Scranton, Intl Textbook Co, (1905). Fair. Maroon binding, leather spine. Edges of book worn away at fore-edges near bottom, dampstain top of beginning pages.

Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions.

Anonymous, · 2004

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, (2004). 1st ed 66 ptg. VG in VG DJ. A co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous tells how members recover& how the society functions.

Franz Kafka: a biography.

Brod, Max, · 1960

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Schocken Books, (1960). 2nd enlrgd ed. VG HB. "Stand and face the rain.float in the water that wants to carry you with it, but hold fast all the same, just stand up. straight and wait for the sudden and endless shining of the sun." from Kafka's diaries. Teal binding, gilt ...

Animal Comics: no. 12 Dec. -Jan. 1945.

Dell, · 1944

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Dell, (1944). G. Edge wear.

One Hundred Twenty Eighth Exhibition April 3 - Sunday April 30, 1995.

American Watercolor Society, · 1995

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, AWS, (1995). VG lg sz PB. Pictures of winners plus listing of artists. Bottom outer corner curling.

Jean Sibelius: his life and personality.

Ekman, Karl, foreword by Ernest Newman, · 1938

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Knopf, 1938. 1st Amer ed. VG in G DJ. Sibelius,s an aloof, mysterious figure whose life & personality are little known. He believes a composer should be known by. his work alone. But here he breaks his long silence. DJ edge wear, spots to fore-edge, tanning to DJ interior.

Myths and Marvels of Astronomy.

Proctor, Richard A., · 1893

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

London, Longmans, Green, 1893. G ex-library. Maroon binding, silver lettering spine (rubbed), library markings, spine splitting toward top, edge wear.

How to Live with a Neurotic Dog.

Baker, Stephen, · 1994

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Wings, (1994). Reprint. VG in VG DJ. Squeezing in naps between mealtimes, sharing a house with children & even a cat, anguish of housebreaking, sharing your. mother with a dozen nipping squirming siblings, etc.

Leisure Lines.

Chaffee, Helen, · 1895

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Franklin, OH, Editor Pub Co, 1895. VG. Dark green binding, gilt lettering, edges beveled. Edge wear.

As Sparks Fly Upward: the rationale of the Farm and Wilderness Camps.

Webb, Kenneth, · 1973

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Canaan, NH, Phoenix, (1973). VG in VG DJ. 6 unconventional camps with their different value system provide setting for exploring new trails. DJ price clipped.

"Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?": the full story of Bernard Cornfeld and IOS.

Raw, Charles, Bruce Page & Godfrey Hodgson, · 1971

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Viking, (1971). 2nd ptg. VG in VG DJ. Cornfeld and his partner Edward M. Cowett built up an organization so steeped in financial & intellectual dishonesty. that it was absurd that it was entrusted with so much of other people's money, let alone praised for the brilliance w...