Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Sandpiper the life and letters of Celia Thaxter amd her home on the Isles of Shoals her family, friends & favorite poems.

Thaxter, Rosamond, granddaughter written and compiled by., · 1999

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Peter E. Randall, (1999). 5th printing. VG PB. Photo of Celia on cover. "Celia Thaxter graced the literary world of the last century as a rose graces a garden. This is an intimate and authentic view of Celia's life and times, and in the telling refle...

Book of Blues.

Kerouac, Jack, introduction by Robert Creeeley, · 1995

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Penguin Poets, (1995). 1ST PRINTING. VG PB. eight extended poems, "the form of blues choruses is lilmited by breastpocket notebook in which they are written, like the. form of a set number of bars in a jazz blues chorus and so sometimes the word-meaning can carry from onec...

Carrying Water as a Way of Life; a homesteader's history.

Tatelbaum, Linda (Inscribed by author), · 1997

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Appleton, Maine, About Time Press, (1997). VG PB. Inscribed by author on title page "To Jack Barnes - Your patience in remembering me all these years awaiting "the book" m. to me. I look forward to meeting you and talking books, rasberries, and other thorny topics! Yours Linda...

Ninety Years of Shoals.

Leighton, Oscar, · 1971

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Boston MA, Star Island Corp, (1971). reprint. VG PB. Being the only one left of the Leighton family I have been urged by the many visitors here every summer. to write what I can remember of my life covering ninety years on those islands. the only merit to my my modest yarn is ...

Poems.

Thaxter, Celia, · 1887

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1887. Fifteenth ed. VG Hardback. A New and Enlarged edition rust brown binding gilt-edged pages. Appledore Leighton Brothers half page at beginning of book. Owner name and date on front flyleaf. Appledore Press Mason took the southern half andjoined i...

An Island Garden.

Thaxter, Celia, new introduction by John M. Kingsbury, · 1978

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Bowie, MD, Heritage Books, 1978. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Reprint of the 1894 edition published by Houghton Mifflin, with new introduction. Includes flyer for the Aug 1983 newsletter. of Northern NE Bird Fanciers Association. Celia Thaxter (1815-1894) spent her early childhood on W...

The Isles of Shoals in Lore and Legend.

NH, introduction by Edward R. Knowlton, · 1965

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Barre, Massachusetts, Barre Publishers, 1965. 1st ed. VG in G DJ edge wear, owner blind stamp title page. Owner blind stamp on title page from Jack Barnes library. The Isles of Shoals nine small islands off the N.Hampshire coast whos. area barely reaches 205 acres. This histor...

Celia Thaxter: selected writings from original 19th century texts.

Older, Julia, edited and introduced by, · 1997

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Hancock, NH, Appledore books, (1997). First Edition. VG PB. Here for the first time in one volume are samples from major works by one of the 19th century's most talented writers. "CeliaThaxter died a century ago but her writings may well be immortal." William Rotch, editor The...

Gentle Julia.

Tarkington, Booth, · 1922

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Garden City, Doubleday , Page & Co., 1922. First Edition. G Hardback. Owner name front endpaper 1922, some tanning on endpapers, brown cloth binding some edge wear. Color frontis, b/w drawings. spot along fore-edge.

Poet on Demand: The Life, Letters and Works of Celia Thaxter.

niversity of New Hampshire, Durham, N.H., · 1982

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Camden, Maine, Down East Books, (1982). G PB. List of poems, List of illustrations, Chronology of Thaxter's life and publications. Some underlining. Sticker on front cover. Owner name fep.

The Heavenly Guest and other unpublished writings with reprints of essays by friends and contemporaries.

the granddaughter's possession, · 1935

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Amherst, Mass., Smith & Couits Co. Printers, (1935). G HB. "I remember, long ago, Rev. James De Normandie gave a lecture on Celia Thaxter in the Music Room of the Appledore House. He. said Celia Thaxter stands alone pre-eminent, among the gifted singers of New England, for the...

A Stern and Lovely Scene: a visual history of the Isles of Shoals, Exhibition at the University of New Hampshire, Durham.

University of New Hampshire, Alice Downey, · 1978

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Durham, NH, University Art Galleries, (1978). VG Large Size pb. Curator, Peter Bermingham/ Scenes frp, the Isles with description of the Illustrations.

The White Mountain Murders.

Sherman, Steve, · 1989

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Walker and Company, (1989). 1st printing. VG in VG dj. Hugh Quint- beautiful as the place is he doesn't want to be there. He had hardly killed the car engine then when he has a. dead lawyer and a missing girl to deal with.

Among the Isles of Shoals.

Thaxter, Celia (1835-1894), · 2003

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hanover, NH, University Press New England, (2003). 1st prntg. VG PB. Charles Dickens called Thaxter's essays admirable and Horace Greeley called them "best prose writing I have seen for a long. time. Her pen pictures are wonderfullly well done." The shoals are a group of nine ...

The White Mountaiin Murders.

Sherman, Steve, · 0

$5.00 (€4.54 | £3.78 | ¥798)

VG in VG DJ.

Dime-store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell.

Simic, Charles, · 1992

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Hopewell, NJ, Ecco Press, (1992). First edition. VG in VG DJ. A book of illumination and tribute. Includes publisher's press release. Author Simic was born in Beogard Yugslavia in 1938. The church of Divine Metaphysics, headquartered in a Bowery storefrontt advertising funeral...

The Tribe of Tiger: cats and their culture.

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, · 1994

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Simon and Schuster, (1994). 1st prntg. VG in G DJ (crease to front inside edge of AJ). Cats and tigers repreesent two extreme of one family. Cats are meat eaters first and foremost but they are not solitary. as a lot of people believe. Cats are homebodies. They communicate...

A Scott Nearing Reader: the Good Life in Bad Times.

Helen K. Nearing, · 1989

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Menchen, NJ, Scarerow Press, 1989. VG in VG DJ. Scott Nearing focused on the future, a reason his writing are fresh and applicable today (from the introduction.). A collection of maverick thought and an inspiriing manual for the future (from the introcduction).

Basic Yankee.

Sherman, Steve (Inscribed by author), · 1984

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Arco Publishing Inc., (1984). First printing. VG in G DJ (wear to DJ edges). A collection of reviews of New Englanders who talk about how they earn their livings and how they lead their lives. Inscribed by author on fep "To Jack, Interview of the interviews, Steve Sherman ...

The Animal Wife: a novel by the author of Reindeer Moon.

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall (inscribed by author), · 1990

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1990. 1st prntg. VG in VG DJ. Her first book Reindeer Moon won a Hemingway Award Citation. The late Joseph Campbell deserves a place of distinction also. Thomas' greatest talent is to identify with, no become" as a great hunter does. The greatest adve...