Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Other Woman.

Lesser, Ellen (signed by author), · 1988

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

nY, Washington Square Press, (1988). 1st prntg. G PB (crease in front cover). Jenifer is quite a modern young woman living alone in her Vermont farmhouse and supporting herself with freelance writing. When she begins an affair with a married man her view of the future is clear...

Shoplifter's Apprentice.

Lesser, Ellen (signed by author), · 1989

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Washington Square Press, (1989). First printing. VG PB. Full of keenly rendered moments, impressive style, well observed and evocative" NY Times Book Review. Signed by author.

No Sign (poems by Sydney Lea).

(Inscribed by author), · 1987

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Atlanta, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, (1987). 1st ptrinting. VG PB. Purest joy and woe flash amid the mundane and beauty knows the full range of nature. Inscribed by author on title page "For. the Barneses, all good wishes Sydney Lea" Jack Barnes was a Hiram ME author.

Prayer for the Little city.

(inscribed by author), · 1990

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Scribner, (1990). 1st printing. VG in G DJ (edge wear). More contemplative than his previous poetry book, more striking is a region incresingly under siege - small towns of upper. New England. Lea's evocative of village life wonderfully suffused with a view of nature that ...

The Floating Candle: Poems by Sydney Lea.

Lea, Sydney (inscribed by author), · 1982

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Urbana,Illinois, Univ. of Illinois Press, (1982). VG PB. The voices in these poems range from the colloquial to the grandly rhetorical and lyric, from youth to age to meditation. Inscribed by author on title page "For Jack and Diana, fondly, Sydney Lea" Jack was Jack Barnes, H...

A Place in Mind.

Lea, Sydney (inscribed by author), · 1969

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Scribner, (1969). First printing. VG in G DJ (some edge wear). A beautifully told tale recollected over the course of time. Author Lea teaches at Middlebury College & lives in New Hampshir. Inscribed by author on title page "For Jack Barnes, with friendship and admiration ...

The Vermont Farm Year in 1890.

Hastings, Scott E.,Jr. and Geraldine S. Ames (inscribed by author), · 1983

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Woodstock, VT, Woodstock Foundation, (1983). G lg oblong PB. Activities by which a farmer supported and sustained himself and his family in East Central Vermont in 1890. Inscribed by. author on fep "To Jack & Diane Barnes with the author's compliments. Scott D Hastings Jr" Jac...

Salty Wisdom:Proverbs of the Sea.

Vermont who lives in Williston, Vermont, · 1990

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Shelburne, VT, New England Press, (1990). First Edition. VG PB. The sea has intrigued people of all continents for centuries. Over 500 proverbs about the sea and seafarer's way of life.

The White Mountains of New Hampshire: annals of the notches.

Lagroe, Guy H., · 1977

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Wolfeboro, NH, Kingswood Press, (1977). VG PB. Within the Whie Mountains of New Hampshie each of the three notches threads its course in singular fashion between the. lofty mounains which border the valley edges.

Northern borders: a novel.

Mosher, Howard Frank, · 1994

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Doubleday, (1994). 2nd printing. VG in VG DJ. Full of warmth, wisdom and wry humor . In the summer of 1948 a 6-year old boy is sent to live with his grandparents whose. marriage is known as the Forty Years' War. quiet beauty and sometimes awesome harshness of rural life it...

Movies in a Small Town: Poems.

Butts W. E., · 1997

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Lewiston, ME, Mellen Poery Press, (1997). VG PB. I am forgetting my lover, sleepless And turneed away in our bed and how When she leaned towad me With her whie hand I was alive Inside her breath.

Natural Wonders of New Hampshire: a Guide to Parks, Preserves & Wild Places.

Casanave, Suki (inscriber by the author), · 1994

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Castine, Maine, Country Roads Press, (1994). First Printing. VG LG SZ PB. Explore the outdoors - fragile ecosystems, wildlife and bird sanctuaries and other "green" places. This guide will lead you. deep into New Hampshire's parks, forests, and reserves to areas most vacatione...

Birds on the Move: a guide to New England's Avian Invaders.

Clark, Neal, · 1988

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Unity, Maine, North Country Press, (1988). VG LG sz pb. Unlike many invaders, the 22 species of birds described in this amiable book have numerous virtues.

The Ultimate Super Bowl Book: a complete reference to the stats, stars, and stories behind football's biggest game.

McGinn, Bob, foreword by Michael Mac Cambridge, · 2012

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Minneapolis, MN, MVP, (2012). 2nd edition. VG Hardback. the best team why. goes beyond the hype and hoopla of football's annual main event to explore every NFL championship game. played since January 1967.

Our Last Backpack: a memoir of a friendship and of a hike through the rugged Mahoosocs.

Doan, Daniel, · 1993

$16.95 (€15.38 | £12.83 | ¥2,707)

Woodstock, VT, Backcountry publications, (1993). 1st prntg. VG PB. Two men both in their early fifties undertook a hike along the fabled Mahoosuc Range of Northern New Hampshire.

Footprints in Time: a walk where New Hampshire began.

Crosby, Howard S. Wendy W. Lull and Richard T. MacIntyre, compiled by, · 1994

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Bath, Alan Sutton Ltd., (1994). 1st ptg. VG PB. Available for the first time Footprints in Time is based on a walking tour popular at Odiorne Point State Park since 1988.

Love Medicine.

Erdrich, Louise, · 1984

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Bantam, (1984). 6th prntg. VG PB. Moving saga of two Native American families. The woman's death in the snow of a North Dakota reservation. A multigenerational. portrait of new truths and secrets whose time has come, of those who left the Indian land and those who stayed b...

The Duval Conspiracy.

Davis, Thomas C. (inscribed by author), · 1995

$16.75 (€15.20 | £12.68 | ¥2,675)

Manchester Center, VT, Marshall Jones Company, (1995). Review copy. VG Hardback in VG DJ. A political king-maker and a pair of very influential Washington power brokers are trying to make the U.S. Senate. into their private club. But then an indiscretion compromises a man's ca...

The Disposable Man.

Mayor, Archer, · 1998

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Mysterious Press - Warner, (1998). 1st prntg. VG hardback in VG DJ. A man lies face down in a deserted soapstone quarry stranged by a piano wire. Gunther smells a mob hit. There's an. abandoned rental car with a bloodstained carpet . Why are the FBI nnd the CIA usddenly sn...

The Beet Queen.

Erdrich, Louise (inscribed by author), · 1989

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Bantam, (1989). 3rd` printing. VG lg PB. A vibrant tale of abandonment and sexual obsession, jealousy and unstiting first love. A 40 year saga brimming with. unforgettable characters. Inscribed by author on title page "To Jack! Best alway, please of meeting you here in Can...