Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Farmer Boy (The Little House books).

Wilder, Laura Ingalls, · 1971

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Harper Trophy, (1971). Revised ed. VG PB. The story of a boy named Almanzo Wilder. who with his brother lives on a big farm in New York State where they do chores. from dawn to dinner most days no matter what the weather. There is still time for fun though especially with ...

Leah, New Hampshire: the collected stories of Thomas Williams.

Williams, Thomas, an amazing introduction by John Irving, · 1992

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

NY, William Morrow and Company, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG Hardback in G DJ (some wear to edges). Born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1926, at age ten he went to New York city and later to New Hampshire where he died of cancer in. 1991. Very much a New Hampshire man, Williams except...

The Carey Girl (a novel).

Yates, Elizabeth (signed on author), · 1956

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Coward McCann, (1956). VG Hardback in G DJ (edges tanned). In a moment of bitter disappointment Kity Carey took a slow-working poison. And ends up at a clinic where a famous. doctor is summoned from the country to tend her. Soon the doctor with his wife's approval brings h...

Children's Hearts: stories by.

Weesner, Theodore (inscribed and signed by author), · 1992

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Summit Books, (1992). 1st printing. VG in VG DJ. Weesner writes of young people, of the intense challenges, pain and exhilaration of growiingup and of the tremendous bonds that. link parent and child. " Weesner knows the huaman heart & writes with clarity and beauty about ...

The Hidden Life of Dogs.

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall, · 1993

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1993). 2nd prntg. VG in VG DJ. I have always wanted to enter into the consciousness of a nonhuman creature. I would like ot know what the world look. like to a dog, or sounds like or smells like. I would like to visit a dog's mind to have another dog...

Vermont River.

Wetherell, W. D. (Inscribed by author), · 1989

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1989). 1st ed 1prntg. VG PB. Love letter to a river,a region the sport of fly fishing and its wondrous objective - the trout. A year in the life of a. writer and fisherman. Inscribed by author on title page "For Chuck and Diana, who may know a special pl...

Wherever that Great Heart May Be.

Wetherell, W. D., · 1996

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hanover, NH, University Press of NE, (1996). First printing. VG om G DJ. Compelling situations and powerful metaphors. Reading these stories is not unlike watching the movements of a skater.

The Harmless People.

Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall (Inscribed by author), · 1959

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Vintage, (1959). G PB (slight wear). A groundbreaking work of anthropology. A study of primitive people. Thomas was one of the first Westerners to live with the. bushmen of the Kalahari desert in Botswana amd South-West Africa. Her account of thees nomadic hunter gartherer...

Winning the City.

Weesner, Theodore (Inscribed by author), · 1990

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Summit Books, (1990). First Printing. VG iN VG DJ. So full of life you can reach out and touch it yet written with eloquent simplicity, 16 year old Dale Wheeler dreams. of winning the city basketball title, a poignant tale of coming of age Author Weesner grew up in Flint, ...

Hyannis Boat and other stories.

Wetherell, W. D. (inscribedd by author), · 1989

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

Boston, Little Brown & Co, (1989). 1st ed 1prtng. VG in G DJ (back dj flap creased at bottom). A rich range of voices, textures and invention set in the last moments of World War II a uniquely Americaan vision of our times. Inscribed by author on title page "Lynn Center 1989 -...

Chekhov's Sister.

Wetherell, W. D., · 1990

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Boston, Little Brow, (1990). 1st ed 1prntg. VG in VG DJ. Maria Chekhov sister of the great Russian writer and dramatist, Anton, renounces her independence to becomes a domestic for him.

Novemberfest.

Weesner, Theodore (inscribed by author), · 1994

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Knopf, 1994. 1st ed ss. VG in VG DJ. In Germany in 1953 a 17-year old American soldier serving in the occupation falls in love for the first time with the. beautiful, war-torn country and with a sophisticated (and married) woman. Inscribed by author on title page "To Jack,...

The Wisest man in America..

Wetherell, W.D., · 1995

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Hanover, NH, University of New England, (1995). 1st prntg. VG Hardback in G DJ (some DJ edge creases). It's 1996 and once again a native New Englander is once agains about to predict the winner of the New Hampshire primary. He's. beem right in every election since 1952. Illust...

The Wisest man in America..

Wetherell, W.D., · 1996

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Hanover, NH, University of New England, (1996). 1st pb ed. VG PB. It's 1996 and once again a native New Englander is once again about to predict the winner of the New Hampshire primary. He's. beem right in every election since 1952. Illustsration on front cover of White Mounta...

Portraits of Life.

Warner, James A., · 0

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Forest Hill, MD, James A Warner, nd. VG PB slight tanning & edge wear. Made up from the author's collection of originals from his latest pictorial essays. He explains what motivated his. portraits. You will travel with him and meet his gentle people. and their sacred lives.

North of Monadnock.

Tolman, Newton F., · 1978

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Dublin, New Hampshire, William L. Bauhan, (1978). 1st pb ed. VG PB. Wryly humorous shrewdly observed life in the New England uplands, as it was and as is today. Author Tolman enlivens his. narrative with a fund of humorous stories about a progression of colorful characters, bo...

Port of Dover: Two centuries of shippiing on the Cochecho.

Whitehouse, Robert A. and Cathleen C. Beaudoin (signed by Whitehouse), · 1988

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Portsmouth, NH, Peter E. Randall, (1988). VG HB in VG DJ. Photos of shipping on the Cochecho. Imagine a schooner 144 feet long 34 feet wide unloading 1,200,000 pounds of coal in Dover,. a daily occurrence 100 years ago.Few people realize this was a common occurrence where inla...

By a Departing Light.

Flaccus, Louis W., · 1984

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Missoula, Montana, Mountain Press Pub. Co., 1984. 1st ed. VG hb. The inspiration of his poetry and the strong impulse which came late Her strength came not from denying the bad but from. affirming the good.

The Museum of Clear Ideas: New Poems.

Hall. Donald.Poet Laureaate of New Hampshire, · 1993

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1993. 2nd printing. G PB. Donald Hall is one of our foremost men of letters, author of 13 books of verse, 19 books of prose and anthologies, and editor. oF numerous publications. He lives in his New Hampshire farm. This is Donald Hall's most advanced work...

If the Tiger.

Farish, Terry, · 1995

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

S. Royalton, Vermont, Steerforth Press, 1995. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Laurel and Chanty meet in a small New Hampshire town. Chanty a child slave from Cambodia and Laurel daughter of an AF man. who flew bombing missions over Cambodian territory. East and West come together as could...