Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Exhibiting Poultry for Pleasure and Profit.

Stromberg, Loyl (signed by author), · 1978

$107.00 (€97.08 | £80.99 | ¥17,087)

Pine River, Minnesota, Stromber Publishing, (1978). G PB. Signed by author, how to get a chicken out of his pen. Small holes in front cover where a pin has been attached.

Raising Your Own Turkeys.

Mercia, Leonard S., · 1992

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Pownal Vermont, Storey Communicatiions, (1992). 13 prntg. VG PB. Clean, bright and tight copy.

Raising Sheep The Modern Way.

Simmons, Paula, · 1980

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Charlotte, Vermont, Garden Way Publishing, (1980). 6th prntg. G PB. How to help with a sheep delivery, Laming Loop, Birth Help. Clean, tight and bright book. Opwe-fced sheep has been found ot be moe fertile and productive than muffle faced ewe.

Poetry of the Orient-An Anthology of the Classic Secular Poetry of the Major Eastern Nations.

Tietjens, Eunice, editor, · 1934

$23.00 (€20.87 | £17.41 | ¥3,673)

NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1934. 2md prntg. G hb. A presentation of the great work of the eastern poets simply and coherently. Owner's name and address in pencil fep. Poem sent to Li Po as a gift, by Chinese Poet TU FU AUTUMN COMES, WE MEET EACH OTHER, YOU STILL WHIRL ABOUT AS A THIS...

Arena: the story of the Colosseum.

Pearson, John, · 1973

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

NY, McGraw Hill, (1973). VG Hardback in Fair DJ. In the year ad80 the Coliseum opened with revelry and carnage built to epitomize majesty & power of Roman Emperor. Owner name front endpaper, small tears and wear at DJ edges. Author Pearson's vivid account of the erection of th...

The Ciano Diaries 1929-1943 The complete unabridged diaries of Count Caleazzo Ciano Ital. Minister for Froeign Affairs 1936-43.

Gibson, Hugh, editor. Introducion by Sumner Welles, · 1946

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co, 1946. G hardback ex-library. Water wrinkling to fep, library bookplate fep, "withdrawn" stamp title page, library markings on spine, spine faded.

Unfree Labor: American Slavery and Russian Serfdom.

Kolchin, Peter, · 1987

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,783)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Belknap Press of Harvard, (1987). 2nd printing. VG PB. "A learned and sophisticated book of comparative history in the tradition of high scholarship." Author is Professor of History. at the University of Delaware, the author of "First Freedom: the Res...

Byzantium: Greatness and Decline.

Diehl, Charles, translation from the French by Naomi Walford, · 1957

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

New Brunswick, NJ, Rutgers Univ. Press, 1957. 1st ed. VG hb in Fair dj. Owner's name fep, underlining, DJ edge wear and tears.

The Struggles for Poland.

Ascherson, Neal, · 1987

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Random House, (1987). 1st Amer ed. VG in VG DJ. Throughout the 20th century, Poland has been at the center of turbulent events in Europe, a nation in nearly constant crisis. Most recently the rise and repression of the trade union Solidarity in the early 1980s mersmerized ...

The Saratoga Campaign.

Ellis, David, · 1969

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, McGraw Hill, (1969). 1st prntg. G HB. Owner name inside front cover. Underlining and marginal notes in red ink.

Warsaw Rising, Ballantine's illustrated History of the Violent Century.

Deschner, Gunther, · 1972

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Ballantine Books, (1972). 1st prntg. G PB. In August 1944 as Russian forces approached Warsaw, the Poles rose with enhusiasm to liberate their capital city. from German oppression, with the arrival of Russian foces near by. They were confronted by a force of SS thugs and c...

Oil for the Lamps of China.

Hobart, Alice Tisdale, · 1933

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Grosset & Dunlap, (1933). G in Fair DJ. DJ is torn and worn.

Plays.

Chekhov, Anton, · 1935

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Illustrated Editions Co., (1935). G hb. Eight plays by Chekhov. Owner bookplate inside front cover, owner's name fep. some browning of fep and rep.

Poultry Science and Practice. Lippincott Agricultural Science Series.

Winter, A. R. and E. M. Funk, edited by R. W. Gregory, · 1941

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Chicago, Phila, NY, J. B. Lippincott, (1941). G Hardback. Poultry science was one of the newest agricultural sciencess at the tune but had been studied on more than 85 percent of U.S. farms. Blue buckhram cover with white lettering, corners bumped, spine wear.

20 Plays of the NO Theatre.

Keene, Donald, editor, · 1970

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Columbia University Press, (1970). 3rd printing. VG PB. Edge wear. illustrated with drawings by Fukami Tanro and from the Hosho Texts. Number LXXXV of the Records of Civilization.

Gallipoli.

Moorehead, Alan, · 1956

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,757)

NY, Ballantine, (1956). G PB. The Allied campaign against Gallipoli began in 1915 when the Turks joined WWi on Germany's side. Winston Churchill. conceived the plan of smashing through the Dardenelles with a fleet of old battleships ropening the sraits to Russ Shipping. For ye...

Tutankhamun:tThe Untold Story.

Hoving, Thomas, · 1978

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1978). 7th prntg. VG in VG DJ. The uncovering of the Tomb of Tutanhamun on November 26, 1927, was the most important and splendid discovey in the History of. modern archaeoloy, the find reaveled four burial chambers filled with priceless objets of gold, ...

Art in Egypt.

Maspero, G, · 1912

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

NY, Scribner, 1912. 1st ed. G HB. Art in Egypt like all the rest of its civilization is the production of the African soil. It is no longer the. economic domain of a privileged few. Blind at first to its merit, artists painters, sculptors, architects have come in later years t...

Welcome to Waterloo Ontario in celebration of its 125th anniversary 1857-1982.

Rowell, Marg, Ed Devitt, Pat McKegney (signed by three authors), · 1982

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Waterloo, Ontario, Waterloo Printing Company, (1982). 1st ed ss. VG large size PB. The forest and cedar swamp that could some day be the thriving Villlage of Waterloo was the first settled by th Mennonites. from Pennsylvania. The settlement grew vey slowly until the mid-1850s ...

The Early History of Jakobstetteis - An account of the people and land in and around St. Jacobs Ontario.

Martin, Virgil Emerson, · 1979

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

St. Jacobs Ontario, St Jacobs Printery, (1979). VG oblong PB . A century ago three-quarters of Canada's population was rural today three quarters is urban Too small to be important St. Jacobs at its roots. Three mini-centers area are strongholds of the distinctive character of...