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The Spider King.
Schoonover, Lawrence, · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)
NY, Macmillan, 1954. BCE. VG in Fair DJ. Biographical fiction of Louis XI of France who was forced to struggle odds that would have broken an ordinary man. DJ edge wear, photo of author on back edge. Lawence Schoonover's novels range from the 13th to the 20th and in space from E…
The Wrong Man: a true story.
F. Kennedy award, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)
NY, Avon, (1996). G PB. John Purvis was considered the local "freak", a 42 year old mental patient and when the body of a beautiful young woman. raped and murdered and her baby left to die, they were certain Purvis was responsible. He was coerced into confessing to a murder he d…
Strange Glory: a life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Marsh, Charles, · 2015 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)
NY, Vintage, (2015). 1st ptg. VG PB. German pastor, theologian, and anti-Hitler conspirator, has become one the most widely read and inspiring Christian. thinkers of our time. He searched for the goodness in his religion against the backdrop of a steadily darkening Europe. He vo…
Eagle Scout a Bronc Burnett Story.
McCormick, Wilfred, · 1952 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)
NY, Grosset & Dunlap, (1952). VG. 16 year old Bronc in his bedroll on the dirt floor heart pounding as he hears something crawl alongside his body and now. he knew what it was, a horned toad, a broad, flat, scaly lizard, with hornlike scales on his head. Despite its ferocious ap…
Uncle Fred in the Springtime.
Wodehouse, P. G., · 1940 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)
NY, Sun Dial Press, (1940). VG. Green binding, brown design and title block on spine. Uncle Fred has a big job on his hands, he must journey to Blandings. Castle to steal the Empress before the ill-tempered, egg-throwing Duke of Dunstable can claim her. Disguised as a nerve spec…
Fighting Yankees And Other Yarns.
Crane, J. R., · 1967 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)
Freeport, ME, Bond Wheelwright, (1967). VG in G DJ. Many of these pieces originate from Maine; all have the flavor of New England in them. DJ price clipped, edge wear. Crane's grandmother used to spin sea yarns once a week in a little one-room schoolhouse. Her collection was tur…
Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children.
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin, edited by, · 1919 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)
NY, Scribner, 1919. 5th ptg. G. Most of the letters were written by Roosevelt to his children during a period of more than a dozen years when he was separated. from them by the Spanish War, a hunting trips, ore because they were at school. He sent these messages of constant thou…
Grave Imports.
Stone, Eric, · 2007 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
Madison, WI, Bleak House, (2007). 1st ptg. G in G DJ ex-library. Second Ray Sharp novel. Tempting women locked away in crates, the heaven's dancing girls carved into stone. Library markings. Ray Sharp's life has been a little muddy lately. He needs a chance to collect his though…
Little Toot.
Gramatky, Hardie, · 1939 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
NY, Putnam, (1939). 15th imp. Fair. Little Toot is a tugboat that just wanted to play and make figure 8's in the quiet waters up river, and thread-the-needle. around the docks, and play tag with the big liners that came and went on the tides. He finally received his due when he …
The Glass Castle: a memoir.
Walls, Jeannette, · 2005 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
NY, Scribner, (2005). 22nd ptg. VG PB. When sober, Jeannette's father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace. life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who hated domesticity…
The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: close encounters with strangers.
Hansen, Eric, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)
NY, Vintage, (2004). 2nd ptg. VG PB. Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava. in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring and plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies…
Is There a Life after Birth?.
King, Alexander, · 1963 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$34.00 (€30.85 | £25.74 | ¥5,428)
NY, Simon & Schuster, 1963. 1st ptg. VG in G DJ. Autobiography of last unself-conscious nonconformist. Exuberant flow of wit, matchless storytelling as King recalls. his first love, how he smuggled chorus girls out of a Boston hotel, memories of Alexander woollcott, Frank Crowni…
The Voyage of American Promise.
Morgan, Dodge, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1989. 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Dodge started a small electronics company in a garage, built it into a multi-million dollar business which he sold to finance. the boat that would carry him around the world. Promise was almost wrecked in a hurricane before g…
Where to Go, What to Do, When You Are Bern Potter: a personal biography.
Schevill, James, · 1992 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)
Gardiner, ME, Tilbury House, (1992). 1st ptg. G PB ex-library. In 1945 when the U.S. dropped an atom bomb on Hiroshima, Bern learned what he and his fellow scientists had been building. It turned him away from military applications of science toward art and culture. In the late …
The Patient Has the Floor.
Cooke, Alistair, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
NY, Knopf, 1986. 1st trade ed. VG in VG DJ. Cooke delivered the annual Convocation Address at the Mayo Clinic in 1966 where he spoke about medicine from the layman's. point of view. The famous lecture brought him invitations from medical groups as well as every other professiona…
Death at the Priory: love, sex, and murder in Victorian England.
Ruddick, James, · 2001 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)
NY, Grove Press, (2001). 1st ptg thus. G PB. In 1875 the beautiful widow Florence married a handsome and successful young attorney. One night he suddenly collapsed and. three days later died an agonizing death. His doctors determined he had been poisoned but no murderer could be…
The High-Ball and the Iron Horse.
Clarkin, Harold E., · 1954 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,554)
np, Fall River Historical Soc., 1954. VG PB. The exciting days when the railroads first came to Fall River to the passing of the Fall River Line and the men who financed,. built and operated them. Laid in printed letter from Clarkin in which he explains he first delivered the st…
FBI Girl: how I learned to crack my father's code.
Conlon-McIvor, Maura, · 2004 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
NY, Warner, (2004). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. Eager to penetrate secret world of her father, FBI agent Joe Condon, Maura is drawn to the bureau drawer where he puts his. badge every night. He mother, is a homemaker who slips out of the house for assertiveness training. Using clues f…
If Winter Comes.
Hutchinson, A. S. M., · 1921 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)
Boston, Little Brown, 1921. Reprint. G. Green binding, gilt title box on spine. Edge wear, owner name & small bio glued to ft endpaper. Hutchinson was born in Gorakpur, India, in 1879, the son of Lt Gen. H. D. Hutchinson of the British army. Educated at St. Lawrence colle in Tha…
In the Teeth of the Northeaster: a solo voyage on Lake Superior.
Bree, Marlin, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
NY, Clarkson Potter, (1988). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. For 3 months Bree sailed along on Lake Superior in the Persistence, 1 20-ft wood sailboat he built in his backyard. He set out to discover the lake's massive inland coast and tojourney to its remote harbors and ports, fro…