Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Same Ax Twice: restoration and renewal in a throwaway age.

Mansfield, Howard, · 2000

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Hanover, NH, University Press of New Eng, (2000). 1st printing. VG Hardbacl om VG DJ. The powerful impulse to preserve and retore; the myriad ways in which we attempt to reconnect with and recover the past. Includes press release from publisher.

In the Memory House.

Mansfield. Howard, · 1993

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Golden, CO, Fulcrum Publishing, (1993). First printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ. Mansfield meanders through New England's small historical museums, peers into town meetings, In those days before the. Great War it had not yet becomes a matter of indifference whether a man lived or...

On the Road.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1977

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Penguin books, (1977). Poor PB. includes a newspaper clipping about Kerous not dated. take the Boulderado Hotel where Kerouac's illegitimate daughter Jan. ootbag they'd accused me of holdingin railroad 191 here I am in Mexico City, rainy Aturday night. mysteries, old dream...

Tristessa.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1978

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, McGraw Hill, (19786). First edition. VG PB. It begins with, "I'm riding along with Tristessa in the cab, drunk with big bottle of Juarez Bourbon whiskey in the till-bag.

Jack Kerouac: a biography.

Charters, Ann, foreword by Allen Ginsberg, · 1973

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

San Francisco, Straight Arrow Books, (1973). 1st prntg. VG Hardback, DJ poor. In Ginsberg foreword Author Charters loved Kerouac's art, did his first bibliography with him while alive, cherished his. scripture and literary soul-might, researched with difnity the interior of hi...

Lonesome Traveler.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1977

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Grove Press, (1977). 7th prtg. VG PB. "Jack Kerouac, new Buggha of American prose who spit forth intelligence creating a spontaneous bop prosody and original. classic literature>" Allen Ginsberg Father of the beat generation, one of the msot acclaimed (and criticized writ3...

Jack Kerouac: a biography.

Charters, Ann, foreword by Allen Ginsberg, · 1973

$95.00 (€86.19 | £71.91 | ¥15,170)

author self published, (1973). VG Hardback, DJ poor. In Ginsberg foreword Author Charters loved Kerouac's art, did his first bibliography with him while alige, cherished his. scripture and literary soul-might, researched with difnity the interior of his novels and family, spok...

Pomes All Sizes - Pocket Poets series #48.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1992

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

San Francisco, CA, City Lights Books, (1992). VG PB. The original manuscript of this book written betweeen 1954 and 1965 has been in the safekeeping of City Lights since his death. in 1960. Here are poems about Mexico and Tangier, Berkeley and the Bowery. Mid -fifties road poe...

Dharma Bums.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1977

$1,016.00 (€921.81 | £769.03 | ¥162,242)

NY, Penguin Books, (1977). Fair PB. This novel appeared just a year after the author's explosive On the Road put the Beat Generation on the literary map and Kerouac. on the best-seller lists. The same expansiveness, humor, and contagious zest for life that sparked the earlier ...

Poems of Sidney Lanier - edited by his wife.

Lanier, Sidney with a memorial by William Hayes Ward, · 1897

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, Scribner, 1897. VG Hardback with gold detailing and decoration. "Because I believe that Sidney Lanier was much more than a clever artisan in rhyme and metre. Because he will , I think take his final rank with the first princes of American song in his "Memorial" by Ward.

Scarlet Sister Mary (Pulitzer Prize winner).

Peterkin, Julia, · 1941

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Indianopolis, IN, Triangle Books, (1941). Reprint. G Hardback slight edge wear. 2nd copy 56539B second copy published by Triangle Books Nrcj 1941. red bomdomg. VG hardack some tanning to pages 346 pages $10.00.

Good Blonde & Others.

Kerouac, Jack, edited by Donald Allen, preface by Robert Creeley, · 1993

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

San Francisco, City Lights/Grey Fox, (1993). VG PB. Jack Kerouac's Lowell was about 15 miles from my own initial America, small farm town, Wst Acton, Massachuseetts, Lowell. to the northeast was the city where my fami;y sometimes wemt for annual Easter clothese at the Bon Marc...

Scattered Poems, including some Western Haikus.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1980

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

San Francisco, CA, City Lights books, (1980). 6th priinting. VG PB. some marginal comments and underlining.

Visions of Cody.

Kerouac, Jack. Introduction by Allen Ginsberg, · 1974

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, McGraw Hill Book Company, (1974). 3rd printing. G PB wear to edges. Kerouac's novel first published in 1963. Kerouac recaptures the scenes and sensations of earliest childhood, the first 4. years of his alert ego, Ti Jean Duluoz, as they unfold in this short traffic happy ...

Jack Kerouac: a chicken-essay.

Beaulieu, Victor-Levy, translated by Sheila Fischman, · 1976

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Toronto, Coach House Press, (1976). 2nd priinting. G PB edge wear. Kerouac often wrote on occasion in French or joual, Chapter XXIX an imaginary dialogue between Kerouac and Memere in French. Kerouac speaks of Cardinals as silk stocking full of mud of American congresssmen who...

Good Blonde & Others.

Kerouac, Jack, edited by Donald Allen, preface by Robert Creeley, · 1994

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

San Francisco, City Lights/Grey Fox, (1994). VG PB. Jack Kerouac's Lowell was about 15 miles from ny own initial America, small farm town, Wst Acton, Massachuseetts, Lowell. to the northeast was the city where my fami;y sometimes wemt for annual Easter clothese at the Bon Marc...

My Turn.

Reagan, Nancy (photo on front cover), · 1989

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, Random Hous, (1989). 1st ed 2 prntg. VG iN VG DJ. Memoirs of one of he most fascintating and strikingly candid controversial on her lifelong love affair with her husband. dj price clipped.

As the Earth Turns.

Carroll, Gladys Hasty, · 1995

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Nobleboro, Maine, Blackberry Books, (1995). Reprint. VG PB some tanning to edges. Rural life in Maine in the 1920s uncertainties and tensions of our modern world through the children of the family. It celebrat. the spirit of those who survive. Some are lured away from the farm...

Nature Trails captured in color.

Calvert, Mary, · 1982

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Lewiston, ME, Twin City Printery, (1982). VG iN VG DJ. The true colors of Maine.

The Road Grows Strange.

Carroll, Gladys Hasty (signed on title page by author), · 1965

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Little Brown, (1965). First Edition. G Hardback in G DJ (ex-library). What happens to a world that everybody only wants to get away from. The kids in this town are living in an east coast town. in the summmer or 1965. several ex library stamps fep and rep, Tamp - Hillsboro...