Crabtree's Collection Old Books

The Outermost House.

Beston, Henry, · 1976

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Penguin Books, (1976). 11th ptg. VG PB. A modern classic about a year of life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod.

Green Wood and Chloroform - How a Young English Doctor Settled in Rural Maine.

Betts, Anthony MD, · 1998

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Berlin, VT, Down East Books, (1998). 1st prntg. VG PB. Includes press release from DownEast Books.

The White Mountains: Images of America.

Bennett, Randall H., compiled by, · 1995

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Dover, NH, Acadia publishing, (1995). reprint. Vg lg sz PB. BEAUTIFUL COPY. With its lofty granite capped peaks, steep-sided notches and sweeping valleys. As early as 1520. when high mountains were sigted off the New England Coast by Verrazano and Darby Field's pioneeriing asc...

Selves: New Poems.

Booth, Philip, · 1990

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, NY, Viking, (1990). 1st Printing. VG Hardback. It is terrible if life goes on somewhere behind the scenes I am afraid to look at windows for there is nohing that pains me. more than the spectacle of a happy family sitting at table".

Angel Country: Angelic Encounters True Stories from Maine.

Biley, Ria, · 1996

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Rockland, Maine, Angelis Press, (1996). 3rd printing. VG PB. The stories are all true, they come from all over Maine, from ordinary peole whose lives have been touched in exraodinary ways.

It's All Relative: How to create Your Own Personal Family Trivia Game.

Bnosey, Lynn and Lorna Healey (signed by both authors), · 1988

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, (1988). G PB edge wear. Quesstions, suggestions and ideas, they flow from the hearts of the sister authors and inspire readers to turn their own. unique facts of life from today and yesterday into game playing pleasure for generations to come. ...

Pairs, new poems.

Booth, Philip, author of Selves, · 1994

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Penguin, (1994). 1st prntg. VG PB. Born in New Hampshire in 1925, educated at Dartmough where Robert Frost was one of his freshman year teachers and Columbia. Booth lives and writes in the house where he grew up. He taught at Wellesley and at Syracuse University where he w...

Immanent Green.

Blair, Farnham, · 1991

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Orono, ME, Puckbush Press, (1991). VG PB. Includes signed letter from Sandy Phippen about the author to Jack Barnes, author in Hiram ME. A Simple Green Green cannot afford to be shifted in fvor of yellow as it begins to look sickly, excremental Green annot afford to be light i...

The Blue Line: Essays on Landscape and Narrative.

Blair, Farnham, · 1989

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Orono, Maine, Puckerbrush Press, (1989). VG LG SZ PB. Blue binding faded on edges, Blair writes that color and shape attracted him as a child and adult. Includes copy of newspaper. review by Sandy Pippin of the book. Two unbreakable rules from a teacher at St. Albans School "y...

Night Work: poems.

Bovie, Verne, · 1991

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Sanford, Maine, Wilson's Printers, (1991). VG LARGE SIZE PB. "This book is for Evelyn my wife, my fried, my love , and the best traveling companion, with love and thanks." printed inscr. GRAY BOFT BINDINGS with black background to title and author writing. Last page thanks two...

Miracle at Augusta.

Patterson, James and Peter de Jonge, · 2015

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Little, Brown and Co, (2015). 1st ed ss. Fine in Fine DJ. Includes 19 pages of prequel teaser from "Miracle on the 17th Green" and 7 pages of information on Patterson and his works.

Wit's End.

Blanchard, Amy E., · 1909

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Burt, (1909). G. Book cover illustration shows woman standing on a river bank holding onto the branch ofa tree with the wind blowing her skirt. Slight soil. Front shows a man and a woman on a river bank with caption reading, "He went down to observe her more closely." Blan...

Poland's Holocaust: Ethnic Strife, Collaboration with Occupying Forces and Genocide in the Second Republic 1918-1947.

Piotrowski, Tadeusz, · 1998

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Jefferson, N. Carolina, McFarland, (1998). VG hardback. Two inserts from publisher with information about this book. and information about the subject Poland's Holocaust and other. titles about this subject.

Seven Days of Freedom: the Hungarian Uprising 1956.

Barber, Noel, · 1974

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

NY, Stein and Day, (1974). VG HB IN G DJ. October 23, 1956 - the uprising was perhaps the first in history to be instigated by writers and fought largely by teen. agers and children. Wear to edges of the dust jacket, remains of bookseller's sticker to front of dust jacket. Cle...

The Peasant Prince - Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution.

Storozynski, Alex, · 2009

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

NY, Thomas Dunne Books, (2009). First ediion. VG hardback in VG DJ. Kosczeko was a Finnish Lithusanian born in 1646, Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence when he dared court a woman. above his station. Kosciuszko was an important figure in the American Revolution. Thoma...

Target Ploesti: View from a Bombsight.

Newby, Leroy W., · 1983

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Novato, CA, Presidio, (1983). 1st prtng. VG Hardback in G dj. The Ploesti oil fields in Rumania were a vital source of supply for Hitler's army. The Allied determination to destroy them. was met by an equal effortt to protect, rebuild and retaliate. Lt. Newby was at the heart ...

A Concise History of Ireland.

O'Brien, Maire and Conor Cruise, · 0

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

German Democratic Republc, Thames and Hudson, (2875). 3rd ed REVISED. VG pb. From the first Protestent settlements in Elizabeth times to the barricades of the bogside, a story of hatred versus hatred.

The Armada.

Mattingly, Garrett, · 1959

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1959. First Printing. VG hb in G dj. A climactic event in the birth of modern Europe her climactic story told in vivid detail from original sources as a part. of the larger drama of diplomacy in this age of Elizabeth. The curtain rises on the executio...

Khrushchev - A Career.

Crankshaw, Edward, · 1966

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

ny, Viking, (1966). VG hb in VG dj. One of foremost Western authorities on Societ Russia, Crankshaw's first biogarphy of Krushchev to cover all his. political career from its humble beginning to his sudden eclipse. Some tanning of DJ EDGES.

ChInese Lanterns.

Seton, Grace Thompson, · 1924

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

NY, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1924. 2nd prntg. VG. Grace Seton jouneys to China in 1923 documents the political urmoil following. the fall of the empire and women's changing role in the country. Lanterns are a symbol of the emerging modernization Bright yellow decorated front co...