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When the Game Was Simple...and the Song Was Sweet: a newspaperman's story remembered.

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

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Portsmouth, NH, Peter E. Randall Pub, 2002. VG lg sz PB. Letter from author laid in and inscribed by author on ft endpaper. One of NH's legendary newspapermen, Hilliard's. career spanned 50 years as he interviewed and wrote about some of the best known athletes and sports pers...

A Brook of Our Own: a few notes from the files of a mountain real estate office.

Harkness, Marjory, · 1965 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Peterborough, NH, Noone House, (1965). Revised2nd ptg. VG in G DJ. Harkness hung a real estate shingle because of her friends who coveted a brook of their own with a view of an old elm-shaded. farmhouse. A delightful book about the New England way where author sounds as if she...

Reminiscences of a Yankee Jurist: an autobiography.

Morris, George F., · 1953 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Littleton, NH, Courier Printing, 1953. VG. Maroon binding, gilt lettering and outlining on spine.

Strictly Personal.

Maugham, Somerset, · 1941 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.17 | ¥3,831)

NY, Doubleday, Doran, 1941. 1st ed. VG in G DJ. Maugham's description of the crumbling of the French spirit during WWII and his prophecy of post-war England. DJ edge tears. Black binding, gilt decoration and lettering on spine.

A Mind That Found Itself: an autobiography.

Beers, Clifford W., · 1960 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,235)

NY, Doubleday, (1960). Revised. VG in G DJ. First significant and important volume on insanity and mental hygiene to be published for the layman. Beers' harrowing tale. of his stay as a patient in various mental institutions and the frequently brutal and inhuman treatment he s...

Out of Africa.

Dinesen, Isak, · 1983 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Modern Library, (1983). VG in VG DJ. Managing a coffee plantation in Kenya from 1914 to 1931, her adventures on safaris, expeditions to Nairobi, doctor to her. neighbors, hostess to strange guests. A sublime copy.

T. S. Eliot.

Raine, Craig, · 2006 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Oxford, NY, Oxford Univ Press, 2006. 1st ed. Fine in Fine DJ. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the 20th century's most famous poet and its most influential literary arbiter. Long thought of as an obscure and difficult poet, Raine reveals Eliot's work to be a unified a...

A Voyager Out: the life of Mary Kingsley.

Frank, Katherine, · 1986 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

Boston, Houghton Mifflin, (1986). VG lg sz PB. Most engaging, unselfconscious heroine of surprise of the late Victorian world. She saved herself and her sanity, a model. too complex and original for us to follow yet too vital and important to be forgotten.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl.

Quinn, John, edited by, foreword by Seamus Heaney, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Methuen, (1987). 1st PB ptg. G PB. Early lives of Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Polly Devlin Jennifer Johnston, Molly Kean, Mary Lavin, Joan Lingard,. Dervla Murphy & Edna O'Brien, and their early photos. Edge wear.

Roses in December.

Grenfell, Clarine Coffin, · 1984 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Orland, ME, Grenfell Reading Center, (1984). G ex-library. Inscribed by author. Poems and prose about her life. Library markings.

Above the Circle.

Basch, Marty, · 1997 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Intervale, NH, Top of the World Com., (1997). 1st ptg. VG PB. Inscribed. Basch pedals among the reindeer near the top of the world, a travelogue about people met and challenges overcome.

Joan Collins: portraits of a star.

Sanderson, Eddie, introduction by Joan Collins, · 1987 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Fireside, (1987). 1st ptg. VG lg sz PB. Glamorous and casual photos of the British actress famous for her role on "Dynasty".

Molly Child Number 583.

Keenan, Mary, · 2000 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Burnstown, Ontario, Canada, General Store Pub House, (2000). VG PB. Throughout her life Molly is obsessed with the need to find her mother. An inspiring story of perseverance and courage.

Last of the Robbers Roost Outlaws: Moab's Bill Tibbets.

McCourt, Tom, · 2010 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Moab, UT, Canyonlands, (2010). 1st imp. VG lg sz PB signed. Inscribed by author. Long after Butch and Sundance left the country in 1901, outlaws rode on. SE Utah remained their refuge. Some became wanted while others freely operated under the guise of respectability. Tibbetts ...

Jesse James Was His Name, or fact and fiction concerning the careers of the notorious James brothers of Missouri.

Settle, William A. Jr., · 1977 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

Lincoln, Univ of Nebraska/Bison, (1977). VG lg sz PB. Carl Sandburg said Jesse James is the only American bandit who is classical. Author Settle agrees if the James brothers had. not existed, they would have been invented.

Bowdoinham Was My Home Town.

Ames, John Wallace, · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

Kennebunk, Star Press, 1975. G PB ex-library. A Bowdoinham resident recounts his life. Library markings.

From Kansas to the Matchless: a Tabor story 1857-1880.

Williamson, Ruby G., · 1975 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,873)

Gunnison, CO, Privately published, (1975). VG PB. Signed by author. Striking it rich in Leadville, CO, by two New England people, from a Vermont and Maine, stone cutters and. farmers. Sketches by Pedro Romero. Bibliography included.

Houseboat on the Seine.

Wharton, William, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

NY, Newmarket, (1996). 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. What a romantic notion, living on a houseboat in Paris! To appease his wife, Wharton makes a bid on a houseboat. It's a. ridicullous, insultingly low bid but it is accepted.

MacArthur: his rendezvous with history.

Whitney, Courtney, Major General, · 1964 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.33 | ¥1,756)

NY, Knopf, 1964. G in G DJ. Account of our rapidly increasing involvement in the Far East since 1941 from MacArthur's perspective. Owner stamp,. DJ edge wear, book slightly cocked.

The Life of Lorena Hickok: E.R.'s friend.

Faber, Doris, · 1980 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Morrow, (1980). 1st ed 1st ptg. VG in VG DJ. A child of the prairie states, Hick, as she was known to her friends, was born into an emotionally and economically deprived. family. Through her talent and determination she became one of the most eminent women journalists of t...