Literature from Crabtree's Collection Old Books

NY: Grove Press. G PB, some tanning to edges. (1967). 9TH Printing. First anthhology of chinese literature to draw together the finest of existing translations, Roughly half first time . published. span two-thousand year period from the Chou Dynasty (1122-221B.C. to the Yuan Dynasty 1280-1367 A.D.) .

NY: Prentice Hall. VG larage size PB. (1988). 1st prntg. Information about more than 300 authors 3,000 novels and short stories and including a cross-referencing system that shows how . one good book leads to another. .

NY: Harcourt Brace. VG PB. 1957. Upheavals of two world wars have brought about in France a new kind of fiction. Dissatisfied with traditional values novelists . of this period set out deliberately to create a new image of man and to restate the fundamental problems of existence. The result has been an immensely rich and varied novel lit… Read more about this item

NY: Penguin. VG PB. (1983). 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. .

Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Pubs. VG. (1990). Includes 18 page index plus listing of bibliographies. .

NY: Viking. VG. (1975). In 1962 John Steinbeck wrote, "In sixty years I've left a lot of tracks." This is a record of some of those tracks, books . writtem amd read, journeys made, places visited, people met and loved and hated, as well as some projects never realized, works begun and abandoned, ideas conceived in multitudes and dying as… Read more about this item

NY: Pantheon Books. VG in G DJ with profile of Dante on front. 1948. One of the greatest narrative poems of world literature, Dante's imaginary journey through the realm of the dead is . accessible to the English reader in a direct, simple, and accurate version. The swift pace of the narrative is nowhere impeded by archaisms and tortuous… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Winston. G. (1924). Green binding, paste down pictorial cover gilt-outlined, shows characters in costume with two children at foreground reading. . Illustrated endpapers in green on cream background, frontis in color by Godwin showing scene from "Twelfth Night." An introduction to the study of Shakespeare for young readers. Edge wear, owner name front flyleaf. .

NY: Book Collectors Assn. VG in Fair DJ. (1934). Depicts the degeneracy of Roman life under Nero, a consummate tale of roguery, an essentially moral commentary on evil & . hypocrisy. The present translation is by far the most readable of the many efforts that have been made to render the art and wisdom of the original. Book… Read more about this item

NY: Penguin. G PB. (1979). Candide and Zadig complete; two tales Micromegas; Story of a Good Brahmin; over 70 articles from the Philosophical Dictionary . cross section of letters; selections from The English Letters and from the Essay on Manners and Spirit of Nations; the long poem "The Lisbon Earthquake. Owner jottings front endpaper, creaes bottom corner of cover. .… Read more about this item

NY: Barnes & Noble Classics. VG in VG DJ. (2004). "More than a poet, more than an essayist, and more than a philosopher, Emerson was an American presence....During his . prolific career....he achieved an almost guru-like status among the literati and youth of 19th century America...." DJ price clipped. .

Port Clyde, Maine: The Maine Review. VG lg sz PB. (2016). Various writings by many authors. . "Wedding at the Retirement Village" by Margot Wizanski Pretend you aren't dying To see the moon tonight. ...Marry the man you called out for before your voice runs out. Let him carry you into darkness, the two of you still believing in… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin. VG. 1923. 1st ed. Dark blue binding, gilt lettering & decoration on front cover. Edge wear. . Owner names. What is a Democrat? Not necessarily a horse-thief, but inevitably the party associate of all the horse-thieves. .

Farmington, ME: Univ of Maine. VG PB. (2016). Laura Bonazzoli, Shannon Brarndon, Hannah Calkin, Matthew Campbell, Rachel E. Chiong, Brian Czyzyk, Michelle M. Faith, . Peter Fariani, Duncan Gamble, Richard L. Gegick, Audrey Gidman, Tennessee Hill, Amy Joseph, Kate Joseph, Rachel McKenny, Annie Moloney, Sophia Nadler, Jack Percy, Kim Reed, Christina Sun, Edinson Shane Tolley, April Vazquez, Sarah Winchenbach, Gerald… Read more about this item

NY: Scribner. G PB. (1969). The literary history of our time is to a great extent that of the development of Symbolism and of its fusion or conflict with . Naturalism. Wilson's classic study of six modern writers: Yeats, Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Proust, and Paul Valery traces the origiin of the Symbolist movement and its development in these six… Read more about this item

NY: New Directions. G PB. (1960). 4th ptg. One of the first books to sum up the contribution of Joyce, an essential guide to the works of a great innovator of modern . literature. Levin leads the reader easily into the delights in Joyce, from the comparatively simple prose of Dubliners, through Ulysses, and into the complexities of Finnegans… Read more about this item

NY: Putnm. VG ex-library. 1877. Sturdy binding, library markings. Classical drama, Corneille, D'Aubigne, Courtier-Historians, Brantome, DeMornay, De l'Etoile . Pascal and post-Royalists, The Fronde, Hotel de Rambouillet, Mademoiselle de Scudery, Satirists, Richelieu, Descartes, etc. .

NY: Harper & Row. VG in G DJ. (1981). 1st ed 1st ptg. "Whoever sets pen to paper writes of himself, whether knowingly or not." wrote White. Witty, wise and pensive, a rare delight . a book to be treasured and savored at your leisure. Green binding, told endpaper, green and white DJ with edge wear. .

NY: Holt. VG in VG DJ. (1998). 1st ed 1st ptg. The Jews have been called "The People of the Book" for their love of reading and writing. This new collection spanning three . decades brings together in photos and text many and varied Jewish voices, novelists, playwrights, poets, essayists, and scholars that have enriched 20th century literature. Krementz… Read more about this item

Holbrook, MA: Emerson College. G PB. (1996). Contains interview with Tobias Wolff by Rob Goodman (author of This Boy's Life), plus fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. . Edge wear. .