Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Halcyon Time.

Kennedy, Hugh (inscribed and signed by author), · 1991

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Durham, NH, Oyster River Press, (1991). G PB. Signed by author on title page. Inscribed by author on fep "For Jack Barnes with best wishes Hugh Kennedy 5/17/94". We are out on this Breezy Sunny Sunday To get some air Suck up sun Fly kites with the kids. Includes press release ...

Whisper My Name.

Hebert, Ernest (signed by author), · 1985

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Viking Penguin, (1985). G PB. A conglomerate wants to open a mall in small town New Hampshire. Signed by author on title page.

The Dogs of March.

Hebert, Ernest (inscribed by author), · 1980

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Penguin Books, (1980). 3rd prntg. VG PB. A man whose landscape is as disordered as his front yard where native New Hampshire birches mingle with a bullet riddled. washer, abandoned bathroom fixtures and several junk cars, his battle against encroaching change symbolizes th...

The Old American.

Hevert, Ernest, · 2000

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Hanover, NH, University Press New England, (2000). 1st ptg. Fine in Fine DJ. Nathan Blake the first frame House builder in Keene, NH was abducted by Algonquins and held in Canada as a slave.

Live Free or Die.

Hyman, Erneest, · 1999

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

NY, Viking, (19990. 1st prntg. Fine in Fine DJ. 5th and final book in a series about the town of Darby, NH Includes publisher's press release.

Seven Days to Petrograd.

Hyman, Tom (inscribed by author), · 1988

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Viking, (1988). 1st Printing. VG in VG DJ. March 1917, afer thrre years of grim bloodletting and facing the threat of America's entry into the Great War, the German. government conceives a bold plan to knock Russia out of the conflict with the help of a clever Danish entre...

Jupiter's Daughter.

Hyman, Tom, · 1994

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Viking, (1994). 1st prntg. Fine in Fine DJ. Mothers and daughters, genetic engineering. An unforgettalbe young hero. The first human whose entire genetic character is. mapped. THe night she is born her creator dies and his laboratory is destroyed. Her Mother Ann is both en...

Small Town Tales: A Brookline Boyhood.

Hall, Sidney Jr (inscribed by author), · 1997

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Brookline, NH, Hobblebush Books, (1997). First printing. VG PB. Vivid sketches of home town life in another era and of poet Sidney Hall, Jr.'s eccentric wonderful family collected. from his newspaper colmn, A Brooikline Boyhood. Inscribed by author on title page "11-11-97, to ...

The Kinship (Two novels from the Darby Series - A Little more than Kin, the Passion of Estelle Jorda, and an essay).

Hebert, Ernest (Inscribed by Author), · 1993

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Hanover, NH, University Presss, (1993). 1st prntg. VG PB. Vividly engrosing Literary landscape where those consigned in the rural underclass, the shack people, struggle in a rapidly. changing society. Inscribed by author on title page "God Bless you, Jack (if there is owl) Ern...

Lonesome Standard Time.

Jennings, Dana Andrew, · 1995

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

NY, Harcourt Brace, (1995). 1st ed, 1st pr. VG in VG dj. Hunt'S Station is an isolated mountain hamlet just off the haunted whispering turnpike , a suicide road lined with. crosses.

The Education of a Yankee - An American Memoir.

Hale, Judson, · 1987

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Harper and Row, (1987). 1st ed ss. VG in G DJ (tannned at edges). A larger than life American family, author Hale was born into Boston's very proper Brahmin world son of a wealthy father who. love sailing and horseback riding, and a beautiful and talented mother who loved ...

Life in the Rainbow.

Horan, Richard, · 1996

$54.00 (€48.99 | £40.87 | ¥8,623)

South Royalton, VT, Steerforth Press, (1996). 1st prntg. VG hb in VG DJ. First book by Horan as he sruggles with being a nurse's aide wipe hia son's ass and respond to his call like a mother goose. while his wife is a jazz vocalist. Includes card with release about Steerforth ...

The Dogs of March.

Hebert, Ernest, · 1995

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Hanover NH, University Press of NE, (1995). 1st prntg. VG PB. A man whose landscape is as disordered as his front yard where native New Hampshire birches mingle with a bullet riddled. washer, abandoned bathroom fixtures and several junk cars, his battle against encroaching cha...

Live Free or Die.

Hebert, Ernest, · 1995

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hanover, NH, University Press of NE, (1995). 1st prntg. VG PB. As they embark on their ill-fated love affair Hebert's Darb series as Freddy Leman, son of a town trash collector.

Stone Work: reflections on serious play & other aspects of country life.

Jerome, John, · 1996

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Hanover, NH, University Press, (1996). 1st prntg. VG PB. With style grace, and a self-deprecating wit, Jerome describes the back-breaking but soul-mending task of building a stone wall. Includes press release from publisher.

Trying to Save Piggy Sneed.

Irving, John, · 1996

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Arcade Publishing, (1996). 1st ed, 1st pr. Fine in Fine DJ. A dozen short works by John Irving beginning with three memoirs including an account of his dinner with President Ronald Reagan. and "The Imaginary Girlfriend. Also fiction in 28 years he has written 8 novels amd ...

Their Ancient Glittering Eyes Remembering Poets and More Poets.

Hall, Donald, · 1992

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Ticknor & Fields, (1992). 1st printing. VG PB. There is a minor tradition in literature, or at the edges of literature that occasionally finds room for a book like this one. If we admire the poet< it is natural to be curoious about the poet. This curiosity endured New Crit...

Search for Sanity.

Assimakopoulos,Pat, · 1985

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.90 | ¥3,353)

NY, Ballantine, (1985). 1st ed ss. VG PB. Brutal foster homes, a rejecting alcoholic mother, abandonment and sexual molestation, death of her child, drug dependency,. and alcoholism. Even a wealthy marriage didn't assure her security and happinese. Then she forged a new life o...

Comic Relief: the life and laughter of Artemus Ward 1834-1867.

Pullen John J., · 1983

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1983. VG in VG dj. Lincoln's favorite funny man and Mark Twain's mentor the man who first gave the world a taste of the humor that characteized the. American people. This full length biography conveys Ward's humor in many well-chosen examples and expa...

Cordelia Underwood or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath League.

Reid, Van, · 1998

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Viking, (1998). 1st printing. Fine in Fine DJ. In the summer of 1896 Cordelia Underwood found in the newly discovered sea chest of her late uncle, the deed to a large. parcel of land. Returning to Portland after years of travel is Tobias Walton. She and her family soon sus...