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Thursday's Child.

Poole, Victoria, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

Boston, Little Brown, (1980). First edition. VG in G DJ. True story of how a large and close-knit New England family responded to an extraordinary crisis. How Poole's 14 family. members supported her 17-year old son during his desperate sickness and recovery and how he fought of…

U.F.O.s: the sightings of alien people and spacecraft from the earliest centuries to the present day.

Jackson, Robert, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

NY, Smithmark, (1992). VG in VG DJ. It began with Kenneth Arnold who was the first person to witness the phenomenon nowadays called an Unidentified Flying. Object or UFO. On Tuesday, June 24th, 1947, Arnold, a businessman from Boise, Idaho, was flying from Chehalis to Yakima in …

Sheridan: the life and wars of General Phil Sheridan.

Morris, Roy, Jr., · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

NY, Crown, (1992). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Sheridan was a short, quick-tempered, blunt man who made few efforts to charm but generally got his way through sheer dogged. will and determination. Like Ulysses Grant he rocket out of obscurity in the darkest days of the Civil Wa…

The Self Beyond Yourself.

Gregg, Richard B., · 1956 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

Philadelphia, Lippincott, (1956). G. Man does not live by bread alone. He has an infinite and insistent hunger for understanding for a meaning in and to his. life, a faith by which he may live. He must know something much greater than himself and feel himself in significant rela…

Amedeo's Continental Magic.

Garcia, Frank and George Schindler, · 1974 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.41 | ¥9,582)

NY, Million Dollar Productions, (1974). 1st ed. VG hardback spiral bound. A tribute to the great vaudeville artist and a living legend in magic, Amedeo Vacca, a world famous magician for over 65 years. Amedeo performed in more than 23 countries playing nightclubs and theatres. H…

George Bellows: painter of America.

Morgan, Charles H., · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

NY, Reynal, 1965. G in G DJ. Morgan art department head at Amherst College has written this first full length biography of the great modern American realist. painter. Born in the Midwest in 1882, Bellows came to immediate prominence in NY and was featured among Americans at the …

The Perfect Tribute.

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman, · 1926 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Scribner, 1926. VG. Brown binding with dark brown lettering and pictorial of Lincoln. Frontis show Lincoln on deathbed with Lincoln shadow. over him. Tissue guard. Owner name ft endpaper & tanning, sl edge wear. Laid in news clippings from Syracuse, NY, about the death of au…

Private Peat: his own soldier story.

Peat, Harold R., Ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1917). VG. From how Private Peat enlisted to the moment he "got his". Nice clean copy, minor corner wear, corner bumping. The call to arms, camp life in Canada, England and France, life in the trenches and behind the lines, rations and equpment, the…

Private Peat: his own soldier story.

Peat, Harold R., Ex-Third Battalion First Canadian Contingent, · 1917 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,514)

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1917). G. From how Private Peat enlisted to the moment he "got his". Top corners bumped, edge wear, DJ tattered edges. The call to arms, camp life in Canada, England and France, life in the trenches and behind the lines, rations and equpment, the ne…

The Other Room.

Abbott, Lyman, · 1937 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Macmillan, 1937. Reprint. VG. "My father was the head of a school in Boston.after opening exercise he would often go out of the school-room, leaving the. hundred girls without teacher or monitor.he would test the girls and see wht kind they were, that he might make true girl…

The Happy Isles of Oceania: paddling the Pacific.

Theroux, Paul, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Putnam, (1992). 2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Theroux compares the vast Pacific to the universe. His travels begin in New Zealand where he walks the mountain trails of. Fiordland wilderness to Australia where he hikes the red ranges around Alice Springs, and camps among crocodiles & …

When I Was a Young Man: a memoir.

Kerrey, Bob, · 2002 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Harcourt, (2002). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Kerrey came from a family of soldiers so when the Vietnam draft loomed, he volunteered for the elite Navy SEALs but soon came to. face the brutal reality of the war. In his first firefight, women & children died. His second enco…

Poet in America: Winfield Townley Scott.

Donaldson, Scott, · 1972 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Austin, TX, University of Texas Press, (1972). G in G DJ ex-library. Back ep partially removed. Biography of Scott (1910-1968) which describes the predicament of the artist in contemporary. American society. Scott suffered deeply from what he considered to be a lamentable lack o…

Still Standing

CROSS, PERRY · 2005 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£8.35 (€10.01 | $11.03 | ¥1,762)

Random House Australia. 2005. (ISBN: 9781741660678). Paperback. Paperback internally good but cover creased. Aged nineteen Perry Cross broke his neck in a football accident and was left a quadriplegic. Most people in this situation never leave the hospital but Perry made a decis…

Blades

GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON · 1928 · Marion Pitman Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

London, John Lane Bodley Head. 1928, Reprint same year as first edition. Red Cloth. Book, By author of Brewster's Millions. Curious novel about a man who leaves the fleshpots of New York when he inherits his uncle's house in the remote, strict religious community of New Scrooby,…

The Defence of Democracy.

MURRY, JOHN MIDDLETON. · 1939 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London: Jonathan Cape, 1939. 1st edition. "Asserting that communism, just as much as fascism, is incompatible with democracy, he[Murry] conducts a critical examination of the theories of Karl Marx, and although he evidently finds Marx worthy of the respect due to 'a Hebrew proph…

The Albert N&Apos;Yanza and the Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia

Samuel W. Baker · 1883 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Macmillan & Co. 1883. Cloth. - A fascinating two volume set.The new editions of the works.In their original decorative green cloth bindings. Including:The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran ArabsIllustrated with a coloured map frontispiece…

An Account of the Manner and Customs of the Modern Egyptians

Edward William Lane · 1842 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Henry Frowde, 1842. Cloth. The third edition of Lane's illustrated study of the 'Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians&apos. A fascinating study into the lives of Egyptians, illustrated throughout. A smart copy of the two volume third edition of Edward Wi…

Annotationes in Libros Evangeliorum

Hugo Groitus · 1641 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

Amsterdam, Apud & Cornelium, 1641. Leather. A fascinating study of the Bible, looking through a critical philological lens by Hugh Grotius. In Latin.Hugh Grotius' 'Annotations', in which he applies philological criticism to the text of the Bible whilst contemporan…

The Little Mountaineers of Auvergne or, the Adventures of James and Georgette Translated from the French

F. G. Ducray-Duminil · 1801 · Rooke Books

£459.99 (€551.45 | $607.81 | ¥97,071)

London, R and L Peacock, 1801. Leather. A bright copy of the scarce The Little Mountaineers of Auvergne in English, translated from the French. Bound in leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Scarce English edition. Translated from the French, Petit-Jacques et Georgette, ou…