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.

New York: Ballantine, 1968. Murder in the shop of a London art dealer. #U5074, 60c cover price.

New York: Avon, 1951. Contains 9 short stories with originally appeared in the Post between 1946 and 1950. Striking 'good girl' cover art. NOTE: vintage paperbacks are very fragile and need to be handled with care.

Boston: D. C. Heath & Co., 1938. Hardcover - Designed to introduce older children to ways of telling time throughout the ages, by interweaving, in a chronological order, a girl's and a boy's experiences as they learn about time-telling devices of different periods. Illustrated in black and white. Index. 234 pp.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1903. Hardcover - A novel by this California-born author focusing on the battle for survival in the wilderness - as caribou bulls compete with one another, and they all have to evade the hunters. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard by C. Rungills and 19 glossy internal plates, most depicting animals. 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. 318 pp.

New York: Pocket Books, (1968.). A Perry Mason mystery. #55878, cover price 60c, cover photograph.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1910). Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories, written between 1887-1889, a companion to 'Main-Travelled Roads', inspired by Garland's return to the West of his youth - Iowa, Dakota, & Wisconsin. Bound in tan cloth with gilt titling a gilt Art Nouveau corn motif decoration. viii, 350 pp.

New York: DAW Books, 1972. First edition - DAW #6. Cover painting and illustrations by George Barr.

New York: George W. Dillingham, Publishers, nd (c 1891.). Hardcover - A gently satiric picture of high society during the gilded age - an era Edith Wharton depicted so well - by an author who was a friend of Wharton. Originally published as a serial in Robert Bonner's Sons, Publishers "New York Ledger" (a contemporary advertisement for the NY Ledger called it "Robert Grant's brilliant society novel") and in paperback by Bonner in 1891, this hardcover edition was probably issued around 1900 after the success of his novel "Unleavened Bread." Although almost unknown, this is, even to our modern tastes, a rather appealing and enjoyable novel. Extremely uncommon in any edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 inserted plates. 240 pp.

New York: Popular Library, (1956). First edition - "Shocking Story of Teen-Age Harlem Hoods. . Dusty was a vicious teen-ager who lived by the ruthless laws of Harlem's dead-end streets. He took girls by force & went mugging for a fast buck. His weapons were sheer guts, fists, switchblades & pistols." Popular Books # 776, cover price 25c, GGA cover art by Ray Johnson. 143 pp plus 1 pp publishers ad.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1909. Hardcover first edition - Subtitled: 'Being the Story of a Little Truly-Girl, Who Grew Up; Her Mysterious Companion; Her Crabbed Old Uncle; The Whish-Whish Woods; A Very Civil Engineer, and Mr. Billy Sanders the Sage of Shady Dale.' An appealing story by the author who is best known for his Uncle Remus stories. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 interior plates by Charlotte Harding. 184 pp.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1913. Hardcover first edition - A novel, illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and three glossy plates by Raymond M. Crosby. 509 pp plus 4 pp publisher's advertisements.

New York: John Wurtele Lovell, 1880. An attractive edition, typical of the late 19th century, of this popular poet's work - bound in royal blue cloth with black embossed vining flower design on the front cover, gilt panels for the title on front and the spine, all edges gilt. Illustrated with several black and white plates, all pages bordered in red. Prefatory notice by W. M. Rossetti. 557 pgs.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1945, c 1936) dj. Hardcover - After the death of their father, a brother and sister discover that all of his savings have been swept away also, but undaunted they move to a tiny house in an obscure section of the city. 308 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover first edition - Novel of adventure and intrigue by prolific English novelist and playwright, now best remembered for The Prisoner of Zenda. "The heroine, a high spirited, penniless English girl, goes to Kravonia to seek her fortune. She has the good luck to save the life of the Prince, who falls in love with her. The story of her career becomes a galloping romance, in which adventures, court intrigues, and hair breadth escapes follow one another in quick succession." Basis for a 1920 silent film. Tinted frontispiece with tissue guard. 332 pp.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Hardcover first edition - Novel of adventure and intrigue by prolific English novelist and playwright, now best remembered for The Prisoner of Zenda. "The heroine, a high spirited, penniless English girl, goes to Kravonia to seek her fortune. She has the good luck to save the life of the Prince, who falls in love with her. The story of her career becomes a galloping romance, in which adventures, court intrigues, and hair breadth escapes follow one another in quick succession." Basis for a 1920 silent film. Tinted frontispiece. 332 pp.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, (1905). Hardcover first edition - A novel about the love of acting by this prolific British writer, best known for his adventure novel "The Prisoner of Zenda." Illustrated by Harold Percival with a glossy frontispiece and three internal glossy plates. 362 pp.

Springfield, MA: Milton Bradley, 1907. Hardcover - Includes original stories, and re-written or adapted stories for very young children (from the preface, 'to simplify, shorten and remove objectionable elements' - like the cruel stepmother in Cinderella.) 119 pages.

Boston: Little Brown, 1925. Hardcover first edition - The story of three brothers, in the years after the Great War - "the hard, wealthy, and unsympathetic Andrew, tbe warped and crabby Charles, and Simon, otherwise Sim, who went through the war, and subsequently resigned his commission and an apparently brilliant military career because he had the intuition that he was destined for something greater." While not quite the phenomenal success of his 1921 novel, "If Winter Comes" this was still the 10th best selling book in the US in 1925, and was also the basis of a film of the same name. 448 pp plus a 1 p list of his other novels.

New York: Lancer, 1968. A science fiction novel of a world where sadists are allowed to fulfill their urges, and where suffering and torture are essential to the maintenance of civilization.

New York: Triangle Books, (1942.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about one of the most dangerous jobs in the world - that of putting out oil well fires - or, as stated on the great vintage dustjacket "a blistering tale of two oil-well fighters, a redhead with a sporting proposition and a blonde with money in her stocking." 248 pp.

New York: Dell, [1954, c 1952.]. Dell 749. Hardboiled private eye mystery novel featuring Johnny Liddell who "runs afoul of gamblers, goons and girls." Good girl cover art by Carl Bobertz, cover price 25c. 191 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1904). Hardcover - Illustrated by W. D. Stevens with a frontispiece and 14 internal illustrations (7 leaves, printed on both sides). 352 pp plus 14 pp of publisher's ads.

New York: Ace Books, (1969). Legal thriller set in Kentucky. "A young black leader challenges segregation in a Southern tavern, and is battered into the street by its redneck owner. Hours later, the owner is shot dead. And the town - its raging blacks and whites, its police, its only black lawyer - do battle over issues too large to be ducked." (Allen Hubin) ACE 06610 cover price 75c. 221 pp.

Boston: Educational Publishing Co. 1911. Hardcover first edition - Uncommon early primer described as the one on the market with the smallest vocabulary, but written to be interesting to children. The preface states that 'The matter in this Primer is based on home environment in order to present to beginners but one difficulty, i.e., that of learning to recognize the printed forms of words which are familiar to the ear. Thus the difficulty of learning the meaning of unfamiliar words is not added to the great difficulty of learning visible forms of words. Illustrated with engravings and line drawings. Vocabulary list. 122 pages.

New York: Cosmopolitan, 1928. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the California Gold Rush of 1848, 1849. Interesting illustrations, including one 2-page spread, by W. Smithson Broadhead.

New York: Lion, 1954. The cover proclaims 'satyrs from outer space on a lusty earthbound spree.' Cover price 35c. LL7. Great cover illustration.