Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916.

Horn, Alistair, · 1993

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, PENGUIN, (1993). Fair PB. The Battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at leat 700,000 men fell along a front of 15 miles. It was less to defeat the enegmy than to bleed him to death.

The Secret Garden.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson, · 1987

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Harper Trophy, (1987). 1st Harper ed. VG PB. ItT was the sweetest, most mysterious looking place any one could imagine. The high walls that shut it in were covered with. stems of roses so thick that they matted together. No wonder it is still Mary whispered. I am the first...

This Book of more perfectly useless information.

Symons, Mitchell, · 2005

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Harper Entertaiinment, (2005). 1st US edition. VG Hardback in VG DJ. "A smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing." Charles Dickens.

The Midwife's Tale.

Laskas, Gretchen Moran, · 2003

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Piatkus.co.UK, (2003). 1st Dial Press. Fair PB. Author Laskas is en 8th generation West Virginian. She lives in Virginia with her husband and son. This is her first novel. For generations the women in Elizabeth's life have brought life to their commmunity heeding a des...

Death on the Ice: the Great Newfoundland Sealing Disaster of 1914.

Brown, Cassie with Harold Horwood, · 1972

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Canada, Anchor Canada, (1972). 1st prntg. VG PB. Each year for generations, poor ill-clad Newfoundland fisherman sailed out to the ice to hunt seals in the hope of a. pennies in wages from the prosperous merchants of St. John's. The year 1914 witnesses the worst in the long li...

T. E. Lawrence: a new biography.

Stewart, Desmond, · 1977

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper & Row, (1977). 1ST U.S. Ed. VG Hardback in G DJ. Refreshingly honest in both its new research and its judgments, and of absorbing interest not only as biography but a study of. that fascinating area where fact and fiction mix, the genesis of a modern myth." John Kno...

It's our Turn to Eat: the story of a Knyan Whistle-Blower.

Wrong, Michela, · 2009

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harper Collins, (2009). 1ST U.S. ED. VG Hardback in VG dj. In January 2003 Kenya seen as the most stable country in Africa. It was hailed as a model of democracy after the peaceful. election of a new president, Mwai Kihaki. By appointing respeced longtime reformer John Gha...

A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Hosseini, Khaled, · 2007

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Riverhead Books, (2007). 14th Printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ. Events of Afghanistan's last thirty years, from the Soviet invasion to. the reign of the Taliban to post Taliban rebuilding, that puts the violence, fear hope and faith of this country in intimate human form. A ...

Self-Portrait U.S.A.: THE National Conventions - Chicago and Miami Beach.

Duncan, David Douglas, · 1960

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

NY, Harry Abrams, (1960). VG Hardback in G DJ. Conventions for political office in 1960 in the U.S. by Norman Rockwell.

Norman Rockwell.

Montgomery, Elizabeth Miles, · 1998

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Greenwich CT, Brompton, (1998). VG om VG DJ.

The Harvard Lampoon Centennial Celebration 1876-1973.

Kaplan, Martin, edited by, foreword by John Updike, · 1973

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Boston, Atlantic Monthly Press, (1973). 1st Edition. VG Hardback in Fair dj (edge wear).

The Best of James Herriot - The Favorite Stories of One of the Most Beloved Writers of our Time.

Herriot, James, · 1982

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, St. Martin's Press, (1982). 1st US edition. VG Hardback in Fair DJ (EDGE WEAR). Owner inscription front endpaper.

Robert Kennedy in His Own Words: the unpublished recollections of the Kennedy Years.

O. Guthman and Jeffrey Shulman, · 1988

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Bantam, (1988). 1st Printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ. "The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellowman. alike, timid and fearful in the face of new ideas an bold projecs, Rather, it will belong to those who...

Songbirds in Your Garden.

Terres, John K., introduction by Edwin Way Taale, · 1968

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Thomas Y Crowell Co., (1968). Expanded Ed. VG Hardback in Fair DJ (edges faded, worn). Handsome new format with pen-and-ink drawings by a superb animal illustrator and entirely new chapter on how to build a. bluebird trail. Price clipped on dj.

The Norman Rockwell Album.

Rockwell, Norman (inscribed by Rockwell), · 1961

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

Garden City, NY, Doubleday Publishing, 1961. 1st edition. VG with fragments of dustjacket. Includes Rockwell illlustrated calendars from 2001 and 2002, and pages from Look magazine of Joseph McCarthy, Ronald Reagon,. Barry Goldwater, and Hubert Humphrey. Inscribed by Rockwell ...

America's Heroes: inspiring stories of courage sacrifice and patriotism.

Bannon, Peter L., · 2001

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Peter I. Bannon, (2001). VG in VG DJ. On Septmber 11, 2001, ordinary heroes weere transformed from ordinary to extraorinary.

Solzhenitsyn.

Burg, Davis an George Feirer, · 1972

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Stein and Day, (1972). 3RD Printing. VG Hardback in G DJ (edge wear). Since "A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovicfh" was first published a Soviet writer declared that we simply cannot go on. Since 1966 publication of the Nobel prize winning writer's work it has been forbidd...

Step-by-step Cookbook.

Betty Crocker, · 1988

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Prentice-hall Press, (1988). 1st edition. VG Hardback. 375 delicious recipes with more than 1,000 colorful how-to-photos.

A Room of Her Own: women's personal spaces.

Madden, Chris Casson, · 1997

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Clarkson Potter Publisher, (1997). 7th prntg. VG Hardback in VG DJ. What is it that women want? A quiet place for myself. Women long for their own personal spaces to relax and regroup. indulging their thoughts, talents, and daydreams.

Jerusalem: Song of Songs.

Uris, Jill and Leon, · 1981

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Garden Ciy, NY, Doubleday, 1981. First Ediion. VG Hardback in VG dj. A unique husband and wife have created a landmark work in Jerusalem where they probe deeper. In its long history Jerusalem. no city on earth has been more veneratd or more bloodied than Jerusalem. Price clipp...