Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine burned.

Butler, Joyce, · 1947

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Kennebunkport, Maine, Durrell Publications, nd. 1st ed ss. VG HB in G DJ. In Ocober 1947, Maine experienced the worst fire disaster in its history . Fires feeding on woods, fields, even soils that. that was bone dry as a result of a prolonged drought, got away from firefighter...

Cockatoo.

Carroll, Gladys Hasty (inscirbed by author), · 1929

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Macmillan Co, 1929. 1st ed. G hardback in Fair DJ. "This first book published by the author of his Carroll collection" A mystery tale for girls who love exciement and the. thrill of unraveling a plot. Who Opal really was and where her beautiful white cockatoo came from is ...

Death by Crystal: a Johannahan Wilder Mystery.

Bushell, Agnes, · 1993

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Portland Maine, Astarte Shelf Press, (1993). 1st prntg. VG lg sz PB. A team of unpredictable private eyes perfectly matched by their quirky home state of Maine proide so much interest by themselve. as the mysterious doings they investigate. Insert from publisher listing forthc...

Unless You Die Young.

Carroll, Gladys Hasty (inscribed by the author), · 1977

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Norton, (1977). 3rd prntg. VG in VG DJ. An affirmation of life in all its stages despite all its painful times. Inscribed by author on title page "To Jack and. Diana - who came to Donnybrook to help celebrate my 79th birthday - With my lvoe, Gladys Hasty Carroll June 26, 1...

Cats' Meow - An Anthology of Cat Tales.

Cakouros, Jeanette K. and Ruth K. Flowers, editors, · 1996

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

Woolwich, Maine, Maine Rhode Publishers, (1996). VG PB. Cats - the abused, the abandoned, the absurd and the regally aloof, the fey and mysterious cat, the watch-cat and the bobcat. kitten who crept inside a lady's muff and grew up to be her guardian. They eat gourmet food the...

From Nature.

Carper, Thomas (Inscribed by author), · 1995

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Baltimore, Ma, Johns Hopkins, (1995). 1st ptg. VG in G dj. Few creases to DJ corners. 59 poems from childhood to the more abstracr problem of presenting reality through artistic. expression. Carper aims throughout to achieve a certain imaginative hold on things. Inscribe by au...

Fiddle Lane.

Carper, Thomas (Inscribed by author), · 1991

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Baltimore, MD, John Hopkins University, (1991). VG PB. 65 poems that treat subjects from the creation of the world to the pleasures and triads of growing up. And what people do. for a living that are slightly or greatly out of the ordinary, a dump man with a penchant for neatn...

A Keeper of Sheep.

Carpenter, William, · 1994

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Minneapolis MN, Milkweed Ediions, (1994). 1st ed, 2nd pr. VG in VG dj. Penelope Solsrice better known as Penguin is 20, a radical feminist, and probably the only virgin at Dartmouth College. A very funny and compasionate book about deadly serious issues, a complelling and memo...

Horry and the Waccamaw.

Burroughs, Franklin, · 1992

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

NY, Norton, (1992). 1st ed 1st prn. Fine in Fine DJ. Burroughs' six day canoe voyage down the Waccamaw River from its source in North Carolina through his ancestral homeland. birthplace, Horry County, Burroughs meets a local artisan who specializes in wood carving and boat bui...

Pages from a Journal.

Butler, Joyce, foreword by Alexander B. Brook. (Signed by author), · 1976

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Kennebunkport, Maine, Mercer House Press, (1976). VG in G DJ. Joyce was born and raised Portland, Maine,a graduate of Westbrook College and Boston Universiy, she moved to Kennebunk. in 1962 with her husband Bob and began the long and arduous task of restoring their home on Dur...

Midsummer Passion & Other Tales of Maine Cussedness.

the Atlantic Monthly, edited by Charles G. Waugh, · 1990

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Camden, Maine, Yankee Books, (1990). VG PB. Caldwell is usually thought of as a Southern writer but his first published story "Midsummer Passion" is set in Maine, and. he wrote both Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre while living for 12 years in Mt. Vernon, Maine. New England ...

Dawn over the Kennebec (River).

Calvert, Mary R. (inscribed by author), · 1986

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Lewiston, Maine, Twin City Printery, (1986 revised). First edition. Fine in Fine DJ. Dramatic story of the first white men to set foot on Miane shores, and to sail up the Kennebec River. Inscribed by author. on title page "To Diane and Jack [Barnes] in appreciation of your kin...

Radicals of the Worst Sort: laboring women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912.

Cameron, Ardis (Inscribed by author), · 1993

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Urbana & Chicago Illinois, University of Illinois Press, (1993). 1st prntg. Fine in Fine dj. Focusing on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912, the author examines class and gender formation as drawn from their. experiences in Lawrence, Massachusetts. She explores the ...

The Kennebec Wilderness Awakens.

Calvert, Mary L., · 1986

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Lewiston, Maine, Twin City Printery, (1986). 1st prntg. VG in VG DJ. Traces the history of the upper Kennebec River its source, Moosehead Lake and the surrounding wilderness from the end of. the Revolution to modern times.

A Portrait of Rajiv Gandhi.

Verma, Shrikant, · 1985

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

East Glastonbury, CT, Arnold Heinemann, (1985). First edition. VG HB IN VG DJ. An intimate portrait of Rajiv who hails from an illustrious family, his grandfather was Jawaharial Nehru andhis mother Indir. gandhi. Yet he deliberately chose to shun the limlelight until recently;...

A Respectable Minority: the Democractic party in the Civil War Era 1840-1868.

Silbey, Joel H, · 1977

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Norton, (1977). 1st ed ss. VG PB. The largely overlooked period for Democrats. Pictured as stumblingd, obsolete and anachronistic, if not. flirting with treason. It was, after 1860, a badly divided minority - out of power in the midst of a war in which the Republicans did ...

Sombrero Fallout - A Japanese Novel.

Brautigan, Richard, · 1976

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, Touchstone - Simon Shuster, (1976). 1st prntg. VG PB. A strand of Japanese hair, an ice cold sombrero, and a small-town librarian with no ears.

The Mill.

Tyrwhitt, Janice, · 1976

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

BOSTON, New York Graphic Society, (1976). 1st US ed ss. VG iN VG DJ. The attraction of mills is elemental. They harness the natural forces of wind and water to turn raw maerials into usable form. Produced and Designed by William Fox, Photography by Bill Brooks.

Seasons of the Eskimo: a vanishing way of life.

Bruemmer, Fred text & photography, · 1971

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

TORONTO, McClelland and Stewart, (1971). VG large size pb. A four-season look at the life of the Eskimo in the Arctic. Some tanning to top page edge.

Hieronymus Bosch.

Linfert, Carl., · 0

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

NY, Harry Abrams, nd. VG iN VG DJ. The Library of Great Painters. Contains 48 full-color reproductions of Bosch's work, all tipped in.