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A GIRL OF TO-DAY.
Edition: Reprint.
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.
Condition: Very good in illustrated tan cloth (previous owner's name)
Book ID: 78779More details Price: $15.00 -
WANTED: A Husband.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in light green cloth with darker lettering in a fair only white illustrated dust jacket with several tears and some small chips. Dust jacket now protected by an archival cover.
Book ID: 72734More details Price: $40.00 -
THE LILIES OF THE FIELD
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Popular Library, 1963. #PC1027, cover price 40c - movie edition with announcement of release starring Sidney Poitier.
Condition: Very good - a bit of wear to ends of spine, light crease to lower corner of front cover, prev owner's name in pencil inside front cover.
Book ID: 10062More details Price: $8.50 -
THE BIG STEAL.
Edition: First paperback printing.
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.
Condition: Good only (spine slant), but the cover art - a great exampleof the 'good girl' art - is bright and attractive.
Book ID: 30553More details Price: $8.50 -
THE NE'ER-DO-WELL
Edition: Early reprint.
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.
Condition: Very good blue cloth in a good dj (some foxing to edge of text block, and overall rubbing and wear to dj, but the illustration on the front cover - repeating that on the dj - is remarkably bright and attractive.)
Book ID: 78337More details Price: $15.00 -
JUDY'S MAN.
Edition: First edition.
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.
Condition: Good overall in brown boards with black lettering, no dust jacket (previous owner's name in pencil on front endpapers)
Book ID: 77720More details Price: $15.00 -
SATUILA oder vom Zauber der Sudsee
Edition: First edition.
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.
Condition: Near fine (bookplate) in a near fine stapled cardboard slipcase.
Book ID: 82456More details Price: $45.00 -
THE SHIPBUILDERS.
Edition: First thus- a paperback.
Paris: The Albatross, 1947. dj. First edition - Number 5210 in the Modern Continental Library series.
Condition: Very good+ in printed yellow wrappers, in a slightly worn, but overall very good outer yellow dustjacket.
Book ID: 16146More details Price: $20.00 -
MARY CARY ÒFREQUENTLY MARTHAÓ.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, (1910.). Hardcover - Color frontispiece by Frances Rogers. 168 pgs.
Condition: Very good in khaki green cloth with illustrated front cover (lettering rubbed on spine.)
Book ID: 17681More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LAST MEETING: A Story.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: International Association of Newspapers and Authors (IANA), 1901. Hardcover - Rather uncommon novel by this very prolific writer, originally published in 1885.
Condition: Very good in decorated dark green cloth with black lettering (small format.)
Book ID: 23832More details Price: $12.00 -
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JERSEY STREET AND JERSEY LANE: Urban and Suburban Sketches.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very good (gift inscription dated Christmas 1898, some fraying to the top of the spine)
Book ID: 75106More details Price: $30.00 -
ROXANA.
Edition: First paperback edition.
New York: Pocket Books, 1956. Vintage paperback - a Cardinal edition #C-277. Cover illustration by Charles Binger.
Condition: Near fine - appears unread.
Book ID: 3769More details Price: $9.00 -
THE FIRING LINE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Appleton, 1908. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with 8 plates.
Condition: Very good in red cloth covered boards with white lettering on cover. White on spine mostly rubbed off, lower corner of text block has some creasing.
Book ID: 8021More details Price: $18.00 -
IOLE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Appleton, 1905. Hardcover first edition - A romantic novel by the writer perhaps best known for his early supernatural fiction "The King in Yellow." Lovecraft described Chambers as "equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them" but these later novels did give him one of the most successful literary careers of the period. A handsomely produced book with four full page color illustrations, two each by J.C. Leyendecker and Karl Anderson and numerous art noveau textural illustrations by Arthur C. Becker. xii, 142 pp. Publisher's green patterened cloth with color illustration on front cover. A very nice copy of a very handsome book. 142 p
Condition: Very good in light green ribbed cloth with a pasted on illustration on the front cover, lettering in gilt (cocked spine, bookplate.)
Book ID: 57597More details Price: $25.00 -
AT BERTRAMÕS HOTEL
Edition: First US paperback printing.
New York: Pocket Books, 1967. #50452. 50c cover price. A Jane Marple murder mystery.
Condition: Very good (crease to lower corner, rear cover.)
Book ID: 12333More details Price: $8.50 -
THE VERMONT PRIMARY HISTORICAL READER and LESSONS ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF VERMONT with NOTES ON CIVIL GOVERNMENT (in Two Parts).
Edition: 2nd edition.
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.
Condition: Good condition overall - town/school bookplate on endpapers, rather severe rubbing and soiling to covers, contents very good, binding tight. Interesting and rather uncommon.
Book ID: 22827More details Price: $25.00 -
SARA OF UPPER DAM.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Very good+ in beige cloth with dark brown lettering and decorations on the front cover and spine. Uncommon.
Book ID: 28838More details Price: $40.00 -
A CIGARETTE-MAKER'S ROMANCE & KHALED
Edition: Later printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1908. A handsome volume bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering and design on front and spine. Top edge gilt.
Condition: Very good condition.
Book ID: 8316More details Price: $15.00 -
POLICEMAN'S DREAD.
Edition: 1st paperback printing.
New York: Berkley, 1966. A Roger West mystery. #f1202, 50c cover price.
Condition: Some creasing and wear to covers, otherwise good. Note: vintage paperbacks are very fragile and should be handled with care.
Book ID: 12343More details Price: $7.50 -
THE SAINT OF THE SPEEDWAY.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Good in orange cloth with black lettering - a sturdy copy, with some soiling to the covers and the previous owner's name repeated at the head of each chapter (an interesting practice... did it mean that he had read that chapter?)
Book ID: 35111More details Price: $12.00 -
THE WHITE MICE.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Near fine (previous owner's name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 75105More details Price: $25.00 -
TRUTH UNADORNED: A Romance of Realism.
Edition: First printing.
[San Francisco]: Overland Monthly Publishing, 1916. Hardcover first edition - An unabashedly romantic novel by this Texas-born author. Color frontispiece by J. C. Terry, 326 pp.
Condition: Good only in blue cloth with gilt lettering (binding cracked at title page, some of the lettering on the cover rubbed, corners bumped.) Still quite uncommon in the original edition.
Book ID: 49198More details Price: $25.00 -
THE AWAKENING OF HELENA RICHIE
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper Brothers, 1906. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Old Chester, Pennsylvania - and featuring, as many of her novels did -
a woman facing a crisis, but also a woman with intelligence, a subtle strength and independence in judgments. First issue without the box around the dedication. Illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark.Condition: Only good in red cloth with an embossed designed, gold lettering. Front hinge is cracked, rear hinge starting, wear to cloth especially at the spine.
Book ID: 7712More details Price: $18.00 -
THE LONG ESCAPE.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Dell, (c 1948). An early novel by the author best known for "To Catch a Thief." The first mystery featuring Dodge's second series character, Al Colby, a norteamericano working as a private investigator in Latin America. Colby is a tough-guy adventurer who travels throughout Central and South America tracking down missing persons from Mexico City to Chile. Dell #405, Map back cover. 192 pp. Cover by Robert Stanley.
Condition: Near fine - unusually good condition. NOTE: all vintage paperbacks are very fragile and need to be handled with care.
Book ID: 80880More details Price: $21.50 -
TANGLED PATHS.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: D. & J. Sadlier, (1885). Hardcover - A novel by this author, a convert to Catholicism, who was considered a pioneer of Catholic fiction in the U.S. Her stories were written for a non-Catholic audience, and the plots were often melodramatic involving - as this one does - mistaken identity and false accusations. 465 pp.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated gold cloth - a bit of foxing, corners bumped, previous owner's name dated in 1895.
Book ID: 73328More details Price: $18.00 -
DAVIE AND ELISABETH: Wonderful Adventures
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Hardcover first edition - A simple tale of a devoted old couple. Frontispiece with tissue guard, red and green lettering and decorations on the title page. 131 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark green boards with yellow and silver illustration on front cover, gilt lettering on the spine (short tear at side of spine. previous owner's name dated 1910).
Book ID: 64318More details Price: $30.00 -
ASSIGNMENT MADELEINE.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Fawcett - Gold Medal Books, (c. 1958.). One of a series of spy thrillers featuring CIA agent Sam Durrell, published as paperback originals.. Great 'good girl' cover art. Gold Medal Book #K1481, cover price 40 c.
Condition: Very near fine - a tight and bright copy which appears unread.
Book ID: 32630More details Price: $8.00 -
ASSIGNMENT - BURMA GIRL.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Fawcett - Gold Medal Books, (c. 1961.). One of a series of spy thrillers featuring CIA agent Sam Durrell, published as paperback originals.. Great 'good girl' cover art. Gold Medal Book #D1612, cover price 50 c.
Condition: Very near fine - a tight and bright copy which appears unread.
Book ID: 32631More details Price: $8.00 -
THE BLACK GOLD MURDERS.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Pocket Books, (1960). First edition - "Missing: Oil maps worth more then $100,000,000" so Victor Grant is called in. Pocket Books #6013.Cover price 35c. 149 pp.
Condition: Near fine (usual toning to the pages) Note: vintage paperbacks are very fragile and need to be handled carefully.
Book ID: 76963More details Price: $11.50 -
MISS BONES.
Edition: 1st paperback printing.
New York: Ballantine, 1968. Murder in the shop of a London art dealer. #U5074, 60c cover price.
Condition: Good only.
Book ID: 12341More details Price: $7.50
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