Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Only Fifty Years Ago.

Carroll, Gladys Hasty (signed by author on title page), · 1962

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Little Brown, (1962). first Edition. VG Hardback in G DJ. How to live 50 years ago how life was in the early 1900s for those who knew how to live it right and were determined to do so.

Joel Chandler Harris (Uncle Remus) Plantation storyteller.

Chandler Harris, Collection, Emory University, · 1957

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Julian Messer, (1957). 8th prntg. G Hardback ex-library markings. Harris was a great man, and his life was both happy and useful, Bonney Eagle High School Library stamp fep and rep.

Flood - A romance of Our Time.

Warren, Robert Penn, · 1964

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Randon House, (1964). VG Hardback in G DJ. Two towns face extinction above a river. Memorable people of a town whom flood portends a complete upooting. DJ price clipped. dj edge wear.

Yankee Communes: Another American Way.

Morse, Flo, · 1971

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1971). 2nd prntg. VG Hardback in VG dj. The promise of another way of a better way of living just as it has throughout the centuries. Moving acccount of four American. communities. some underlining and marginal notes.

The Wary Fugitives - Four Poets and the South (John Crowe Ransome; Allen Tate ; Robeet Penn Warren; Donald Davidson).

Rubin, Louis D., Jr., · 1978

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana University Press, (1978). G PB (edge wear). Each poet began his career as one of the coterie of southern poets centered at Vanderbilt University, who attracted national. attention with their celebrated essays in I'll Take My Stand. They were concerne...

The Shaker Quarterly.

United Society, · 1987

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Poland Spring, ME, United Society, (1987). Vol. xv, no 1. VG PB. Begins production for the first time since 1974. An early Shaker visit to the German community of Buffalo, NY.

The Canterbury Shakers: an excerpt from History of Canterbury written in 1912;.

Lyford, James Otis, · 1974

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Canterbury, NH, Canterbury Shakers, (1974). VG softcover also"Mary Whitcher's Sharer House Keeper"PB. The movement began in 1790 when when those of the Shaker Faith were brought together as a society. Includes additional items. Includes separate pamphlet "Marh Whitcher's Shake...

Visions of Gerard.

Kerouac, Jack, introduction by Allen Ginsberg, · 1976

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, McGraw Hill Book Company, (1976). 1st pg ed. G PB (edge wear) (writing on blank pages). This novel written in 1951-1952 was for many years an underground legend but was not published until 1972.

The Scripture of the Golden Eternity.

Kerouac, Jack, introduction by Eric Mottram, · 1970

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Totem, Corinth Book, 1970. Poor PB disbound. Jack Kerouac died suddenly in 1969 at the age of 47. This new edition of The Scripture is dedicated to him. Much writing in. and highlighting in text.

Scarlet Sister Mary (Pulitzer Prize winner).

Peterkin, Julia, · 1928

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Indianopolis, IN, Bobbs Merrill, (1928). G Hardback slight edge wear. Owner name front endpaper. 2nd copy 56539B second copy published by Triangle Books Nrcj 1941. red bomdomg. VG hardack some tanning to pages 346 pages $10.00.

Beating the Bushes: Selected Essays 1941-1970.

Ransom, John Crowe, · 1972

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, A New Directions Books, (1972). VG PB. Central to Crowe's pursuit of the poetic image itself the verbal icon and his elucidation in these essays leads him to. consider both Positivist and Naturalist aesthetics.

Poems of Sidney Lanier - edited by his wife.

Lanier, Sidney with a memorial by William Hayes Ward, · 1901

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Scribner, 1901. new edition. VG Hardback with gold detailing and decoration. Owner name on front endpaper. "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 ...

The Sojourner: a novel by the author of The Yearling..

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, · 1953

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Scribner, (1953). G Hardback in G dj (ex library copy). The story of a good man and the influence of his steady, quiet strength on others especially his immediate family. DJ has. edge wear, front endpaper has piece clipped from top outer corner. His life has been a search ...

George W. Cable.

Turner, Arlin, · 1966

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University, (1966). VG PB. Cable was a crusader for a dangerously unpopular cause. He was a local colorist of Creole days in New Orleans.

Poem Outlines.

Lanier, Sidney, · 1908

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Scribner, (1908). 1st ed. VG Hardback exlibrary. Owner writing on title page, Owner gift stamp on back inner cover. Library markings.

Scattered Poems, including some Western Haikus.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1973

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

San Francisco, CA, City Lights books, (1973). 4th priinting. Fair PB. front and back cover separated from book, underlining and marginal comments.

The Subterraneans.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1977

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Grove Press, 1st black cat, (1977). 6th prntg. Fair PB Edge wear, pages tanned, writing inside. List of characters on front endpaper. Story of a self-confident man with nervous intelligence about eveything. Handwriting on front cover back liting characters in the book Shrp...

On the Road.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1957

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

NY, Signet Classics, (1957). 22 prntg. Fair PB edge wear tanned and cover wear,. some water stains to beginning pages, and writing on inside cover listing Jack's friends and their pen names. Saga of a youth adrift in America traveling the highways exploring the midnight street...

Doctor Sax - Faust Part Three.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1959

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Grove Press & Evergreen, (1959). Fair PB highlighting some underlining. A dark friendly entity hallmarked by his black cape black slouch hat, and eerie laughter. He used Kerouac's stream -of-. consciousness writing sstyle or "spontaneous prose" that he attempted to inser i...

Book of Dreams.

Kerouac, Jack, · 1976

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

San Francisco, CA, City Lights Books, (1976). 8th printing. G PB used. The book of dreams is what Jack Kerouac sees in his sleep, not day-dreams or day reveries. It's his prive dream-record, all. his nights strung together. It's hispoetic raw material of the Kerouac saga, the ...