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THE UNSEEN ENEMY.
Edition: Hardcover
Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1938.) dj. Hardcover - A mystery for older girls, A first or early printing. 250 pp.
Condition: Good in a good dust jacket (usual rather severe toning to the pages, several tears and edgewear to the dj, missing approx 1 inch from the bottom of the spine).
Book ID: 62573More details Price: $15.00 -
THE THREE SIDES OF PARADISE GREEN.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Very good in tan cloth with black lettering and a green, orange and black illustration on the front cover and spine (previous owner's name dated 1934, slight spine slant, overall a sturdy and attractive copy with exceptionally clean and bright covers.)
Book ID: 29377More details Price: $115.00 -
THE MISSING HALF.
Edition: Early reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, nd. (c 1941.) dj. Hardcover - A family (mother, grandfather, and 3 children) come to live in an old neglected brick mansion on the edge of the Delaware River and discover many mysteries. Set i Bordentown, New Jersey, a town rich in Revolutionary War history. Illustrated by Manning de V Lee with a frontispiece, 3 plates on plain paper and many smaller vignettes. 245 pp.
Condition: Very good condition in bright blue cloth in a good dustjacket (loss of about 1 inch at bottom of dj spine, other edgewear, but front illustration bright and attractive.) Uncommon in dustjacket.
Book ID: 32935More details Price: $125.00 -
THE THREE SIDES OF PARADISE GREEN.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Very good in tan cloth with black lettering and green, red and black illustration on front cover and spine (foxing on some pages, mostly affecting the margins, overall tight and clean,minimal wear to covers.)
Book ID: 37504More details Price: $135.00 -
THE THREE SIDES OF PARADISE GREEN.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Very good in tan cloth with black lettering and green, red and black illustration on front cover and spine (bookplate and owner's name on front endpaper dated in 1922 with the comment "Is this a good book? Ask me and I'll say yes")
Book ID: 69538More details Price: $125.00 -
THE THREE SIDES OF PARADISE GREEN.
Edition: Early printing.
Condition: Very good in tan cloth with black lettering and a green, orange and black illustration on the front cover and spine (bookplate on front pastedown, overall a sturdy and attractive copy with exceptionally clean and bright covers.)
Book ID: 70248More details Price: $125.00 -
THE VANISHING OCTANT MYSTERY.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1949. dj. Hardcover first edition - Seaman's hard-to-find last book, a mystery inspired by a navigator's octant, bearing the inscription 'Tower Hill, London, April 1778' which she found washed up on the beach after a storm. Illustrated with black and white drawings by Ursula Koering. 206 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket. Minor edgewear to the dustjacket, but overall an exceptionally attractive copy of a rather scarce book.
Book ID: 76830More details Price: $250.00 -
BEHIND THE GREEN DOOR: A Penny Parker Mystery, #4.
Edition: First or early printing.
New York: Cupples & Leon, (1940.). Hardcover - A Penny Parker mystery story, set at a ski resort. A girls' mystery story written under her own name by the author of the original Nancy Drew series. Glossy frontispiece, last title listed in book (with notation 'other titles in preparation.') 211 pp.
Condition: Good only in red boards (usual toning to the pages, prev owner's name, spine cocked, shelfwear to edges of boards.)
Book ID: 54375More details Price: $16.50