Crabtree's Collection Old Books

Scorpius.

Gardner, John, · 1988

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Maine, Thorndike, (1988). VG large print. A routine investigation into a girl's death as she's hauled out from Thames, nasty but well within Scotland Yard's capabilities. The religious cult to which the girl had belonged was led by Father Valentine.

Wreck of the Isabella.

Miller, David, · 0

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Anapolis, MD, Naval Institute, 1st U.S. ptg. VG in G DJ. Absolutely true this tells the tale of a group of ordinary people who felt themselves involved in an extraordinary episode. When one ship was wrecked on the remoe and totally deserted Falkland Islands due to the incompet...

The Road Unseen.

Jenkins, Peter and Barbara, · 1985

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Carmel, NY, Guideposts, (1985). VG in VG DJ. Author of "A Walk across America" Peter Jenkins met his future wife Barbara in New Orleans after finding the answers to his. inner search when he became a Christian. Owner name on front endpaper.

In the Days of McKinley.

Leech, Margaret, · 1959

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, (1959). VG in G DJ. Author Leech presents a great body of new facts. Beautiful dark red binding with gilt lettering on black spine. She has acute , independent and courageous set of judgements on him,Hanna, the currency and tariff struggles, the Spanish War, and ov...

When the Cheering Stopped: the last years of Woodrow Wilson.

Smith, Gene, introduction by Allan Nevins, · 1964

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Morrow, (1964). BCE. VG in VG DJ. A courageous and telling book about the last years of President Wilson after a paralytic stroke, the "War President".

African Healing Dance.

Africa and the diaspora, · 1997

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Boulder, CO, Sounds True, (1997). VG DVD in illus box. Step by step course on the healing tradition & expressive movements for personal growth and development.

Natural Magick: the essential witch's grimoire.

Dubats, Sally, · 2002

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Citadel, (2002). 1st ptg. VG PB. Where earth's natural materials become instruments for healing, with love and wealth, divining the past, present, and future. Complete guide to Wiccan practices and principles with types of tools and elements used by modern witches in their...

Thinking through Cultures: expeditions in cultural psychology.

Shweder, Richard, · 1991

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univ. Press, (1991). VG PB. We hve to understand the way persons, cultures, and natures make each other up, its goal is to seek the mind indissociably. embedder in the meanings and resonances that are both its product and its components. Shweder, an anth...

Baptism of Desire Poems.

Erdrich, Louise, · 1989

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

NY, Harper & Row, (1989). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Baptism by blood, water or desire is necessary to salvation in Roman Catholic tradition, and baptism of desire is the term for. the leaf of trust by which a sincere believer can experience spiritual regeneration. Erdrich's...

Porrait of Utah.

Muench, David, text by Znn Zwinger, · 1999

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Portland, OR, Graphic Arts Center Pub., (1999). VG lg sz PB. Photographer David Muench has followed the rhythms of the seasons in the dramatic diversity of landforms in Utah, a. magical place. "Wilderness dictates it own trade-offs. It rearranges mind-sets and ways of reading ...

Jane Austen: a life.

Tomalin, Claire, · 2000

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Penguin, (2000). Revised. VG PB. As nearly a perfect a life of Austen as we are likely to get: intelligent, feeling, suggestive. A remarkably clever,. sensitive, but unsentimental.and a woman with the devil of a genius in her. Carmen Callil, Daily Telegraph. Owner name bac...

Disturbing the Peace.

Havel, Vaclav, a conversation with Karel Hvizdala, · 1990

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Vintage/Random, (1990). 3rd ptg. VG PB. 13 years after being a quizzical absurdist playwright, Vaclav Havel became his country's president and its conscience.

Salem KIttredge and other stories.

Perry, Bliss (personal note by author Perry on front endpaper), · 1894

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Scribner, 1894. G. Yellow binding, black lettering, green design around title. Note from author perry "For the Parsonage Center Table! B.P. May 1894. Binding tanned, especially spine darkly tanned.

The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the genius of American life.

Siegel, Fred, · 2005

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,874)

San Francisco, Encounter, (2005). VG in VG DJ. Author shows how Mayor Giuliani restored law and order in New York by cutting taxes and radically reducing welfare rolls.

The Best Steamer Cookbook Ever.

Poore, Marge, · 1996

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

NY, Harper, (1996). VG hardback spiral bound. Steam food cooks simply, sealing in flavor and juices, without any need for added butter or oil and works best with nuturally. lean foods. with one pot to clean. Book lies flat when opened.

Cookbook.

Reformed Church in Kinnelon, · 1966

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Kinnelon, Reformed Church Kinnelon, (1966). G PB spiral bound.

River Birds: bird life from mountain stream to estuary.

Lovegrove, Roger & Philip Snow, foreword by Tony Soper, · 1984

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

London, Columbus Books, (1984). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Bird life changes with the seasons of the year. Beautiful book! DJ slight edge wear.

Pirates an illustrated history.

Cawthorne, Nigel, · 2007

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,832)

Edison, NJ, Chartwell, (2007). VG in VG DJ. Piracy has existed since menfirst took to the seas to trade yet their careers were rarely the swashbuckling epics seen in the. movies.

Relaxing on the Porch.

Fulweiler, Megan, · 2000

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

NY, Barnes & Noble, (2000). 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Imagine sharing a sumptuous alfresco meal with friends, gently swinging on a soothing hammock with a good book in hand. Stargazing while listening to the chirp of crickets on a balmy summer evening. Picture the pressures of the ...

The Golden Age and Dream Days: The Penguin Kenneth Grahame.

Grahame, Kenneth, · 1983

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Penguin, (1983). VG PB. Grahame's exquisite evocations of childhood can be read in many ways or as early studies in child psychology or a nostalgic. picture of a time long past.