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SEASHORE LIFE.
Edition: First edition.
San Francisco: Harr Wagner Publishing Co, (1937.). Hardcover first edition - Book written for use in elementary schools. A title in the Western Nature Science Series. Contains 9 units: Sea Shells & Their Owners; Strange Mollusks; The Starfishes & Their Relatives; The Crusty Animals; Sea Flowers, Rafts & Jellyfishes; Worms, Corals, & Sponges; Shore Birds; Sea Lions, Tidepool Fishes, & Other Chordates; and, The Seaweeds. Illustrated throughout with photographs and drawings. List of other books, Index of text and illustrations. xxiv, 271 pp.
Condition: Near fine in illustrated green cloth (a few neat marginal notations in pencil, otherwise almost like new) Uncommon in the first ediiton.
Book ID: 66348More details Price: $21.50 -
CHERRY AMES, CHIEF NURSE (# 4).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1955, c 1944.) dj. Hardcover - Cherry is sent to the South Pacific to deliver a new serum for tropical fever and finds herself appointed chief nurse of the Army hospital. A story of bravery on the battlefield during World War II. Frontispiece. Bound in burgundy boards, light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting to top edge. 213 pp. Yellow spine dust jacket lists through #9, book lists thru 18.
Condition: Good condition in a fair only dust jacket with several tears , chipping at ends of spine (now protected by an archival cover)
Book ID: 62794More details Price: $16.50 -
CHERRY AMES, SENIOR NURSE (# 2).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c. 1944. dj. Hardcover - Frontispiece. Early1950's printing, bound in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards.
Condition: Good only in a good dustjacket (prev owner's name, dated in 1954, edgewear to dj, fading to spine, several short tears.)
Book ID: 21335More details Price: $15.00 -
CHERRY AMES, ISLAND NURSE, #24.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1964.). Hardcover first edition - Frontispiece. In matte finished pictorial covers, green spine, illustrated endpapers. Lists to #24 on back with the 1959 Cherry Ames Book of First Aid and Home Nursing below that. 178 pp
Condition: Good overall in illustrated boards. Some rubbing to the covers, a few pages creased, soiling to fore-edge of text block. Previous owner's name dated 1964 on title page. .
Book ID: 79134More details Price: $16.50 -
VICKI FINDS THE ANSWER The Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess Series #2.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1954, c 1947.) dj. Hardcover - The second book in this popular series, by the author of the Cherry Ames series - a blend of mystery, adventure and romance. "Charming, alert and capable, [Vicki Barr's] career as an air stewardess brings her glamorous friends, loyal roommates and thrilling adventures." In this book, she travels to Mexico and into the heart of a mystery that takes all of her courage and ingenuity to solve. Frontispiece. Green and while illustrated control tower endpapers. Front flap of dust jacket and list at front of book goes to #10 in series. 211 pp.
Condition: Very good in blue tweed covers in a fair only dust jacket (chips, creasing, edgewear, long tear along fold of front flap.)
Book ID: 81120More details Price: $16.50 -
CHERRY AMES, PRIVATE DUTY NURSE (# 7).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1950, c 1946.) dj. Hardcover - 1960's printing in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards. 216 pp.
Condition: Very good in a poor dust jacket (prev owner's name - dust jacket is essentially complete, but has several long tears, chipping, creasing, now protected by an archival cover.)
Book ID: 39554More details Price: $16.00 -
CHERRY AMES, ARMY NURSE (#3).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1950, c 1944) dj. Hardcover - Lists to #11 inside the book. Bound in red boards with plain gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting on top edge of text block. Frontispiece, 214 pp. Yellow spine on dust jacket.
Condition: Very good in a poor dust jacket. (missing front flap, overall edgewear to the dj, chip at top of spine.)
Book ID: 44577More details Price: $16.00 -
CHERRY AMES, VISITING NURSE (# 8).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1947). Hardcover - Bound in dark red cloth covered boards, light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting to the top edge. Frontispiece. 216 pp.
Condition: Good+ condition, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 44582More details Price: $12.50 -
CHERRY AMES, DEPARTMENT STORE NURSE (#18).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1956.) dj. Hardcover - Frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards. Lists to #20 at beginning of book. 212 pp.
Condition: Very good in a poor dust jacket (prev owner's name, overall edgewear and chipping to the dj, missing the front flap.)
Book ID: 44584More details Price: $17.00 -
CHERRY AMES, SENIOR NURSE (# 2).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1960, c. 1944.) dj. Hardcover - Frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards with light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting on top edge. 217 pp. Yellow spine on dust jacket.
Condition: Very good only in a fair only dustjacket (overall edgewear to dj, long tear on front flap, several short tears.)
Book ID: 44585More details Price: $16.00 -
THE HIDDEN VALLEY MYSTERY: The Vicki Barr Flight Stewardess Series #3
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1954, c 1948.) dj. Hardcover - The third book in this popular series, by the author of the Cherry Ames series - a blend of mystery, adventure and romance. "Charming, alert and capable, [Vicki Barr's] career as an air stewardess brings her glamorous friends, loyal roommates and thrilling adventures." In this book, she travels to Mexico and into the heart of a mystery that takes all of her courage and ingenuity to solve. Frontispiece. Green and while illustrated control tower endpapers. Front flap of dust jacket lists to#4 in this series, back cover to #10. 218 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (edgewear to the dj, and some loss at the bottom edge of the front cover, tear along fold of front flap.)
Book ID: 45704More details Price: $21.50 -
CHERRY AMES, ARMY NURSE (#3).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1960, c 1944). Hardcover - Frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards with light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting on top edge. 214 pp.
Condition: Very good (gift inscription in pencil), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 45897More details Price: $12.50 -
CHERRY AMES, PRIVATE DUTY NURSE (# 7).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1950, c 1946.) dj. Hardcover - Lists to #11 on the back cover of the dust jacket, bound in burgundy cloth covered boards, light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting to the top edge. Frontispiece. 216 pp. Yellow spine on dustjacket.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (price-clipped, overall edgewear to dj, but still quite attractive.)
Book ID: 44581More details Price: $24.00 -
CHERRY AMES, SENIOR NURSE (# 2).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1960, c. 1944.) dj. Hardcover - Frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards with light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting on top edge. 217 pp. Yellow spine on dust jacket.
Condition: Very good only in a good dustjacket (name stamp,some edgewear to dj.)
Book ID: 71074More details Price: $17.50 -
CHERRY AMES, VETERANS' NURSE (# 6).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1946). Hardcover - At the end of World War II, soldiers are returning injured and in need of care. Plain frontispiece. In the 1950s dusty rose tweed binding with plain gray endpapers. 216 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket with yellow spine (small neat stamp on front endpaper, some edgewear to dj, especially at ends of spine)
Book ID: 71133More details Price: $21.50 -
CHERRY AMES, VISITING NURSE (# 8).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1947) dj. Hardcover - Cherry and her friends from Spencer decide to share an apartment in New York City and work for the Visitng Nurses. Bound in dusty rose tweed covered boards, light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting to the top edge. Frontispiece. 216 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 71136More details Price: $21.50 -
CHERRY AMES, PRIVATE DUTY NURSE (# 7).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1959, c 1946.) dj. Hardcover - Cherry is back in her hometown to 'rest' after her experiences as an Army nurse. Plain frontispiece. 1950s printing in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards. 216 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (neat stamp on front endpaper, some overall edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 71159More details Price: $21.00 -
CHERRY AMES, CHIEF NURSE (# 4).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1959, c 1944.) dj. Hardcover - Cherry is sent to the South Pacific to deliver a new serum for tropical fever and finds herself appointed chief nurse of the Army hospital. A story of bravery on the battlefield during World War II. Frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed boards, light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting to top edge. Frontispiece. 213 pp. Yellow spine dust jacket and front of book lists through #20.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (neat stamp on front endpaper, some overall edgewear to dj)
Book ID: 71160More details Price: $21.00 -
CHERRY AMES, ARMY NURSE (#3 in series).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1959, c 1944) dj. Hardcover - Set during World War II. Cherry has just received her R.N. and she, and her entire nursing school class, sign up for the Army Nurse Corps. Plain frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards with light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting on top edge. 214 pp.
Condition: Very good in a fair only dust jacket (corners slightly bumped, overall edgewear to dj, tear along fold of flap).
Book ID: 71161More details Price: $15.00 -
CHERRY AMES, ARMY NURSE (#3).
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1960, c 1944) dj. Hardcover - Frontispiece. Bound in dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards with light gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting on top edge. 214 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a fair only dust jacket (large chip to front cover, chipping and tears to ends of spine, overall edgewear).
Book ID: 69907More details Price: $16.50 -
CHERRY AMES, CAMP NURSE (#19).
Edition: First or early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1957). Hardcover - Illustrated. Lists to self at front of book. 182 pp.
Condition: Good overall in rust-colored tweed boards - some foxing and spotting to edges of textblock, and some pages, crease to corner of one page, but a tight and straight copy.
Book ID: 66965More details Price: $12.50 -
CHERRY AMES, CRUISE NURSE (#9).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1948.) dj. Hardcover - Cherry is on a working vacation on a cruise ship, and gets involved in a search for rare jewels. Plain frontispiece. The first of eight titles actually written by Julie (Campbell) Tatham, the originator of the Trixie Belden and Ginny Gordon series (she took over the series after the dust jacket had been designed so Helen Wells name remained on the cover) In 1950s binding of dusty rose tweed cloth covered boards. 216 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a very good dustjacket with a yellow spine (minor edgewear to dj.).
Book ID: 62586More details Price: $24.50 -
CHERRY AMES AT SPENCER (#10).
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1946) dj. Hardcover - One of eight titles in this series which was started (and finished) by Helen Wells, but which were written by Julie (Campbell) Tatham, the originator of the Trixie Belden and Ginny Gordon series, when Wells took a break from the series. Lists to i#21 Bound in dusty rose-colored tweed boards with plain gray endpapers, charcoal gray tinting on top edge of text block. Frontispiece, 213 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (price-clippped with a store price sticker, overall edgewear and loss of about 1 cm at the top of the spine).
Book ID: 79151More details Price: $21.50 -
THE H. G. WELLS SCRAPBOOK.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (price-clipped.)
Book ID: 34892More details Price: $35.00 -
2 PIECES of WORLD WAR I SHEET MUSIC: "Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You" & "He Sleeps Beneath The Soil Of France"
Condition: Fair condition with several edge tears, and some separation at the fold.
Book ID: 81646More details Price: $30.00 -
I HAVE BERKELEY.
Edition: First printing, a slim chapbook,
Albuquerque. NM: Hawkeye Press, (1979). SIGNED first edition - INSCRIBED "for Elizabeth" (poet Elizabeth Harrod) and dated in the year of publication. Unpaginated.
Condition: Near fine copy in stapled white illustrated wraps.
Book ID: 83406More details Price: $21.50 -
BEEN IN BERKELEY TOO LONG.
Edition: First printing, a slim paperback original.
Albuquerque. NM: Hawkeye Press, (1980). First edition - A collaborative work by these four former residents of Berkeley - includes poetry by Judy Wells, prose poems by Carla Kandinsky and a short story by Ralph Dranow, illustrated with drawings by Donna Duguay.
Condition: Near fine copy in stapled yellow illustrated wraps.
Book ID: 78984More details Price: $20.00 -
DADDY ISLAND.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Barefoot Books. (2001) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first children's book by the "Fire Poet" - a celebration of father and son, with, "language as lyrical as a song." Illustrated with watercolor and ink paintings by Niki Daly. 22 pp. ISBN: 1-841481971.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 54510More details Price: $15.00 -
LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: HarperPerennial, 1996. The author's first book, winner of the Western States Book Award (the jurors cited this book as a 'hilariously sad immersion into the Walker family of Thornton, Lousiana.') Precedes her incredibly popular book - about the same Louisiana families - Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. ISBN: 0-06-0976845.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 15867More details Price: $11.50 -
LITTLE ALTARS EVERYWHERE.
Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.
Seattle: Broken Moon Press, (1992). First edition - The author's first book, winner of the Western States Book Award (the jurors cited this book as a 'hilariously sad immersion into the Walker family of Thornton, Lousiana.') Precedes her incredibly popular book - about the same Louisiana families - Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. 224 pp. ISBN: 0913089257.
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 84342More details Price: $21.50