Crooked House Books & Paper
4500 NE Sandy,
Portland,
OR 97213 USA
503.249.0344
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Drawn From New England: Tasha Tudor a Portrait in Words and Pictures $82.00 Description: Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Oblong. Green paper boards backed by cream cloth spine. Very light bump to top rear corner. Boards ever so lightly faded along edges. Mild rubbing and edge wear to dust jacket. Spine sunned. Jacket now in protective mylar cover. 96 pages. Signed by Tasha Tudor and dated 1981 on title page. Bethany Tudor relates the story of her mother's life through a smooth-flowing narrative, old and contemporary photographs and samples of the artist's work. Read More
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$52.00 Description: Very Good Plus in Good jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6; Orange cloth boards with stamped black titles. Boards are clean and square with light wear at extremities. Spine ends shelf worn. Prev. owner's name written on half-title page. Else pages are clean and crisp. Binding straight and tight. Dust jacket rubbed and edge worn with several small edge tears and chipping at extremities. Closed triangular crinkled tear at center of spine, taped from inside. Dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. 312 ... Read More
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$72.00 Description: Near Fine. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Full brown leather embossed in gilt with banded spine. All edges gilt. Moire end papers & ribbon marker. Some very light scuffing to gilt edges. 714 pages. 22 page booklet titled, "Noted from the Edition" laid in. Illustrated by Walt Spitzmiller. Signed by the author on tissue guarded blank page. Explores the United States Senate confirmation of controversial Secretary of State nominee Robert Leffingwell who is a former member of the Communist Party. ... Read More
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$27.00 Description: Very Good Plus in Near Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Quarter bound in blue cloth with tan paper boards. Mild rubbing at tail of spine. Hint of sunning along top edge of boards. Dust jacket in mylar. Bookstore sticker affixed to the mylar inside the front flap. 451 numbered pages. Elle review, NYT review and Vintage Books Reading Group Guide laid in. Review slip between mylar and rear cover. Winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Read More
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Marcus Whitman: Pathfinder and Patriot $37.00 Description: Very Good. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Boards rubbed and edge worn with some spots of scuffing and faint soiling. Beginning to fray at head/heel of spine. Deckle edges with many pages still uncut. Faint toning from age. Binding sound. 349 pages. 22 black and white plates. Whitman was a prominent physician and missionary in Oregon and Washington, and Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington is his namesake. Read More
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Still Wild: Short Fiction of the American West 1950 to the Present $17.00 Description: Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; 414 pages. Short stories. Read More
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$57.00 Description: Near Fine. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Scattered light water spots to top gilt edges and a bit of scuffing to bottom edges. Else fine. Red leather decorated in gilt. Banded spine. All edges gilt. Moire end papers. Ribbon marker. 404 pages. Read More
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Six Little Bunkers at Uncle Fred's $27.00 Description: Good Plus. No Jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7; Gray cloth boards with paste down illustration on front board. Boards are rubbed with heavy edge wear. Fraying at corners and spine ends. Spine darkened and spotted from age. Pages a little toned from age. Binding remains straight and sound. 246 pages plus ads for other series books from publisher. Four black & white illustrated plates. The Six Little Bunkers series was part of the Stratemeyer Syndicate of books which included the series Nancy Drew, ... Read More
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Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making $67.00 Description: Good. No Jacket. Size: 12mo-over 6; Green cloth with red stamped decorations and gilt titles. Boards are heavily rubbed and edge worn with scuffing and fraying at extremities. Red decoration has darkened and faded, along with some of the gilt. Previous owner's name and address written in pencil in front and rear end papers. Pages are toned from age with scattered foxing and spotting throughout. Binding is sound. 300 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white by the author. Comprehensive ... Read More
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