New York: A. L. Burt, n.d. (ca 1930). Hardcover - A novel originally published in England in 1899. "Young Frances Morland founds a society amongst her friends, intended to promote doing good to others. But her ideals are challenged when a most unexpected half-brother appears on the scene." 365 pp plus 9 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1895. Hardcover first edition - Humorous novel illustrated with a frontispiece and 23 plates Black and white drawings by F.T. Richards. 115P + 6p publishers ads.

New York: Popular Library, 1963. #PC1027, cover price 40c - movie edition with announcement of release starring Sidney Poitier.

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896. Hardcover first edition - A novel of manners by this rather prolific writer and San Francisco columnist, set among the too idle upper class along the Northeast coast from Maine to Boston and New York City as well as in England. A story of misunderstanding eventually overcome. Appleton's Town and Country Series # 203. Top edge gilt; deckle edge. 295 pp.

Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1909. Hardcover first edition - A Lost Race tale set in the Andes. A story of romance, mystery, intrigue and adventure which opens in Boston, where Wilson, a former theology student, now homeless and penniless, rescues a young woman from over-officious police officers - and moves from there to a sea voyage and to the remote slopes of the Andes in South America and a search for the famed treasure of El Dorado rumored to have been buried beneath Lake Guadiva. Illustrated with a color frontispiece by Harrison Fisher, with a tissue guard , and three black-and-white plates by Charles M. Relyea. viii, 354 pp,

New York: Signet, (1956.). First edition - The author's first book with a cover blurb by dedicatee Mickey Spillane (who was a 'service buddy' of the author) "The kind of book I go for." Signet 1286. cover price 25 cents.

New York: A. L. BURT, (c 1911) dj. Hardcover - Humorous romance novel set in Panama. Basis for the film of the same name. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and three internal glossy plates on by Howard Chandler Christy, 402 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's ads.

Columbus, Ohio: The Wartburg Press, (1947) dj. Hardcover first edition - A small slim volume - two children left penniless in a city tenement go to their grandfather's farm, and there, surrounded by kindly neighbors and a rich benefactor, they find happiness. 64 pp.

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1926. Hardcover first edition - A romantic novel, a modern retelling of the love of a prince (in this case, the privileged son of a wealthy and influential couple) for a beggar-maid (or the daughter of an impoverished writer and artist, always expecting to make it big), set in Washington DC. Berger also wrote mystery novels under the pseudonym of the The Aresbys. 308 pp.

New York: The Literary Guild, (1933) dj. Hardcover - A humorous novel about a meek American who goes to France and becomes part of an international incident. It begins "For three days I have been a political prisoner in the Sante Prison. All Paris is in uproar. The newspapers denounce me . . . But in spite of everything I cling tenaciously to two facts: I am Henry Jones from Windfall, Georgia, and that I came to France to write a cook book. A two-color frontispiece drawing by the cartoonist Otto Soglow, and three-color cartoon illustrations on the endpapers. 257 pp.

Berlin: Morawe und Scheffelt, 1918. Hardcover first edition - A story in Polynesia by this German poet - laid in is a slip which notes "Dieses Buch wurde als Blockbuch gedruckt, es darf daher an den Seiten nicht ausgeschnitten werden" (This book was printed as a block book, it must therefore not be cut out on the sides.) Small format. 57 pp plus colophon: "Das Buch wurde wahrend des grossen krieges in der druckerei des Deutschen Kommunalverlags in Berlin-Friedenau gedruckt (The book was printed during the great war in the print shop of the German municipal publishing house in Berlin-Friedenau)" Although not one of the numbered 200 copies, this is bound in brown leather with gilt lettering on the spine, narrow gilt bands on cover.

Paris: The Albatross, 1947. dj. First edition - Number 5210 in the Modern Continental Library series.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1910.). Hardcover - Color frontispiece by Frances Rogers. 168 pgs.

New York: International Association of Newspapers and Authors (IANA), 1901. Hardcover - Rather uncommon novel by this very prolific writer, originally published in 1885.

New York: Signet Books / New American Library (1959). First edition - The fifth in the series featuring "torrid blonde private eye" Mavis Seidlitz. Signet 1694. Cover art by Barye Phillips. 128 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1896. Hardcover first edition - Six short pieces, alternating between New York City and the country. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and numerous en texte drawings by A.B. Frost, B. West Clinedinst, Irving R. Wiles and Kenneth Frazier. Bound in very dark blue clothe with art nouveau style decorations by Margaret Armstrong (with her monogram on the front cover) and lettering in gilt. Top edge gilt. xiv, 201 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Robert M. Mcbride & Company, 1926. Hardcover first edition - An illustrated edition of this collection of rather sordid and often casually racist short stories, set in and around the Chinatown, which was then centered on Limehouse in the East End of London, originally published in 1910. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen full page drawings, some bordering on the erotic, as well as head pieces and tail pieces for each story and illustrated endpapers, by the American artist Mahlon Blaine. Large octavo. 277 pp.

Gateshead on Tyne: Northumberland Press, (1947). Hardcover first edition - A collection of "slight tales" of people who lived in the English North, from Thomas Bewick to James and Charles Radcliff and the author's ancestor John Stoddart who was shot and killed by the press gang as he attempted to swim the Tyne to evade them. Illustrated with drawings by the author. 158 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, 1956. Vintage paperback - a Cardinal edition #C-277. Cover illustration by Charles Binger.

New York: Appleton, 1908. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with 8 plates.

New York: Pocket Books, 1967. #50452. 50c cover price. A Jane Marple murder mystery.

Rutland, VT: Tuttle Company / Marble City Press, 1895. Hardcover - Well-illustrated reader (photographs, drawings, maps, decorations), bound in light brown clothwith dark brown titles and decorations and a silver-stamped coats-of-arms on each cover. 227 pages and 5 pgs ads. Both "Parts" are included in this one volume. End-papers are printed in red with a map & state flower on the front, ads on the rear.

New York: George H. Doran, (1924.). Hardcover first edition - A story of a woman, neither young nor attractive, who travels west and finds success, of a sort, in a small mining town - spans the years before and during the first World War. A rather interesting variation on the classic romantic Western novel. Gift inscription on the front endpaper, and laid in is a 2 page letter from the giver of this book, a woman who apparently also left her family in search of a more prosperous life.

New York: Berkley, 1966. A Roger West mystery. #f1202, 50c cover price.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1903. Hardcover - A romantic adventure novel by this Scottish writer, originally published under the title "Little Anna Mark." Although this begins - and ends - in Scotland, most of it is set in the Caribbean, among the pirates, including a search for Morgan's hidden treasure. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven internal plates on glossy stock. A title in the Crowned Masterpieces of Modern Fiction series, bound in marbleized boards with a dark green cloth spine and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt. 443 pp.

New York: George H. Doran, (1924.). Hardcover first edition - Adventure novel involving a huge gold find in Australia, gold mining in Alaska and a derelict ship; The 'Speedway' in the name of a gambling palace in Beacon Glory in in Southern Alaska. 335 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Hardcover first edition - A "story of love and revolution in a South American republic." Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and seven inserted plates by George Gibbs. Bound in beige cloth with red and black lettering, black illustration on front cover. 309 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (1937) dj. Hardcover first edition - A late novel by this prolific and (in his time) a very popular writer. Although his novels sometimes dealt with significant issues, he was not considered a "serious" writer. in this book, where a wealthy widowed author has rented an abandoned signaling tower in the woods so as to have solitude for his writing, he deals with spousal abuse and the question of justifiable homicide, when the wife of his next door neighbor claims she killed her husband in self defense and turns to him for help. 322 pp.