Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Universalism in America: a history: volume I only 1636-1800.

Eddy, Richard, D.D., · 1886

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Boston, Universalist Pub. House, 1886. Second edition. VG. Brown binding, gilt lettering on spine. Slight edge wear.

The History of Sweetser-Children's Home: a century and a half of service to Maine children.

Barry, William David, signed by author and Frances W. Peabody, · 1988

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Portland, ME, Amthoensen Press, (1988). VG in VG DJ. Barry's meticulous research and grasp of the subject have produced a work of lasting value. How a humane child care. facility gradually evolved in Maine from the early method of "farming out" to the "extended family" concept.

Slowness.

Kundera Milan, translated from the French by Linda Asher, · 1995

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, HarperCollins, (1995). VG PB. Where have all the amblers of the past gone, why has the pleasure of slowness disappeared, where have they gone the. amblers of yesterday? These loafing heroes of folk song, these vagadonds who roam from one mill to another and bed down under ...

Glancing Fires: an investigation into Women's creativity.

Saunders, Lesley, editor, · 1987

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

London, England, Women's Press, (1987). VG PB. Ground-breaking work on the meaning and production of feminist artistic expression and places these explorations within a. wide political context which addresses the questions of sexuality, class and race. Blank price sticker on b...

Fossils and Flies: the life of a compleat scientist Samuel Wendell Williston (1851-1918).

Shor, Elizabeth Noble, · 1971

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Norman, OK, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, (1971). 1st edition. VG in VG DJ ex-library. Williston achieved world-wide fame in two scientific fields as wiedly apart as vertegrate paleontology and assistant to Yale's. noted paleontologist O. C. Marsh, known for his reconstructions of ...

Tenants of the House.

Miller, Heather Ross, · 1966

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harcourt Brace & World, (1966). G hardback. Some wear to bottom right corner but not serious.

Prom.

Anderson, Laurie Halse, · 2005

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Viking, (2005). VG. 18-year old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend Nat needs her help. it transforms her life.

It Takes a Village and other lessons children teach us.

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, · 1996

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Simon & Schuster, (1996). 5th printing. VG in VG DJ. Clinton's long experience has strengthened her conviction that how children devlop and what they need to succeed are linked. with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and indi...

Cross Creek.

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan, · 1942

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,715)

NY, Scribner, 1942. 1st ed (A). VG. Pictorial endpapers, edge wear and slight fading on binding.

Hunter Seat Equitation.

Morris, George H., · 1979

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

NY, Doubleday, (1979). Revised. VG in VG DJ. Since 1971 this book has established itself as the definitive work on hunter seat equitatiaon. Now revised and improved. Bump to top of back corner.

Lee the last years.

Flood, Charles Bracelen, · 1981

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1981). VG lg sz PB. Lee "on the day but one" when Lee returned to his rented house in Richmond, Matthew Brady asked Lee to pose for him. He told. Brady it was utterly impossible" with the eyes of the world upon me as they are today. But after a frien...

Source and Inspiration: a continuing tradition.

Hirschl & Adler Gallery, · 0

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Meridian Prionting. VG lg sz PB.

River Guide Maine.

Appalachian Mountain Club, · 1991

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Boston, Appalachian Mountain Club, (1991). 2nd ed 3rd ptg. VG PB. Completely revised and uupdated version of the AMC's classic guide to canoeing and kayaking in Maine, most recent information. on 3,700 Maine rivers, detailed river descriptions and easy to use format to make ri...

Stewardship Handbook & Guidebook 2002.

Maine Island Trail Association, · 2002

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Rockland, ME, Maine Island Trail Assn, (2002). 15th edition. VG lg sz PB. Contains Fragile Islands: a guide to low-impact techniques Boulder, CO.

Letters from Maine: new poems.

Sarton, May, · 1984

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Norton, (1984). 3rd ptg. VG PB. Then meet me in the silence if you can, The long silence of winter when I shall Make oems out of nothing, out of loss,. And at times hear your healing laughter." It has been 4 years since a volume of Sarton's verse has appeared regularly to ...

Different Waterfronts: a wooden boat reader.

Spectre, Peter H., · 1989

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

Gardiner, ME, Tilbury House, (1989). VG PB. You see them everyonce in a while - handsome small craft, exquisite little things that sometimes are called traditional. and other times called classic and at all times are so beautifully proportioned and finished that you would have...

Staying Alice: how to act fast and survive deadly encounters.

Dorn, Michael (inscribed by author), · 2014

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,110)

Hauppauge, NY, Safe Havens, (2014). 1st ptg. VG PB. An honest look at the myths and truths surroundin mass casualty events strategies for survivin violent accidents safety concepts. Successful strategies used by experts to avert school shooting, bombings, and other deadly even...

My Life and Times in Medicine.

Thompson, Dr. Philip, · 0

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

np, np, nd. Fine. Burgundy binding, gilt lettering.

An Insider's Guide to Maine Politics 1946-1996.

Potholm, Christian P., · 1998

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,471)

Lanham, MD, Madison Books, (1998). VG lg sz PB. Potholm shaped the political scene in Maine for three decades and "no one knows politics better or has a keener appreciation. for the humor and humanity in the process." Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen Author Potholm was pr...

Grouse Foolish & Other Stories.

Vanderweide, Harry, · 1979

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Yarmouth, ME, Delorme Pub Co, (1979). Apparent 1st. VG in VG DJ. 31 stories about Old Bill and other attractions of the sportsman's life. Bud Leavitt of the Bangor Daily News writes. that Harry Vanderweide has done it with class and since the grouse if the classiest of game bi...