New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1913.). Hardcover first edition - Sixth book in the series published under a Stratemeyer Syndicate house names, lists to itself at front of book. Plain frontispiece. 236 pp plus 8 pp of publisher's advertisements at end.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c. 1911.). Hardcover - Fifth book in the series, lists to itself at front of book. Plain frontispiece. 232 pp plus 12 pp of publisher's advertisements at end.

New York: Internation Association of Newspapers, 1901. Hardcover - A rather appealing early reprint of this novel of a San Francisco girl who marries a British aristocrat, a friend of her childhood in San Francisco, before his father inherited the title. Small format. 339 pp.

Chicago: Goldsmith Publishing, (1938.) dj. Hardcover - A mystery for older girls, A first or early printing. 250 pp.

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1901. Hardcover - A story for older girls, illustrated with a frontispiece and three inserted plates by Alice Barber Stephens. Decorative headpieces at each chapters. 243 pp plus 7 pp of publisher's advertisements.

Boston: W. A. Wilde, 1904. Hardcover first edition - "From 1836-1838 a young woman finds a home with her grandfather in the Michigan frontier settlement of Woodstock, located North of Detroit. Illustrated by William F. Stecher with a glossy frontispiece with a tissue guard and four inserted plates. 336 pp plus 4 pp of publisher's ads for other books by Blanchard.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1883. Hardcover first edition - Even 130 years ago, Americans were known for their wasteful ways with food! This vintage cookbook is full of ideas of what to do with leftovers. Small oblong format, bound in color pictorial boards backed with a maroon cloth spine. 102 pp plus 2 pp ads.

New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, (c.1898.). Hardcover - From the author's revised text, edited and with an introduction and notes by Charlotte Porter and Helen A. Clarke. Frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated title page. An appealing small volume measuring just 6 1/4 by 4 inches. 337 pp.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1912.). Hardcover first edition - A classic and early spoof of the lost-race novels - after a shipwreck, Jimmy Smith, an American sales representative of the Eureka Manufacturing Company, brings 'improvements' to the idyllic island kingdom of Isola in the Antarctic. Chester is also the author of the Queen's Quorum title 'Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford.' Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten inserted plates with illustrations by F. Vaux Wilson. 394 pp.

Sydney & London: Angus & Robertson, 1948. Hardcover - Classic children's book by this Australian author. Frontispiece. 209 pp.

Boston: L. C. Page and Company 1902. New edition. Includes a long introductory essay on Persian Poetry by Joseph Jacobs dated 1899. Illustrated with 11 illuminated pages with Persian motifs each with a tissue guard. All of the text pages have intricate red border designs. lil, 196 p. Top edge gilt.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (1935). Hardcover first edition - A collection of literature to be used as a supplementary reader - arranged topically - lyric and narrative poems; long and short stories; legends, myths and folk tales, biographies, essays and more. Authors include Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Francis Parkman, Emily Dickinson, Longfellow, Walter de la Mare, Booth Tarkington, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Thompson Seton and many others. Illustrated Illustrated. Includes definitions, suggestions for learning, questions, etc. xi, 626 pp.

Rahway, NJ: The Mershon Company, (1905, c 1899). Hardcover - Adventure story for older boys which begins with an accident on a coast schooner voyaging from Panama to California in 1868. Glossy frontispiece. 289 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922. Hardcover first edition - Suggestions for how to act at home - from table manners to how to treat guests and be a guest, school, public places and in business. Illustrated with small silhouette drawings by Ethel C. Taylor. Index. 115 pp.

New York: The Mystery League, 1932. Hardcover first edition - A locked-room mystery, introducing criminologist Griffin Scott, owner of a New York advertising agency and connoisseur of antique furniture. 284 pp.

New York: Sully and Kleinteich, 1913. Hardcover first edition - Intrigue and romance in a small Germany dukedom in the years just preceding the firsts World War. Apparently his first and only novel (or maybe just the only one written under this pseudonym) . Illustrated with a frontispiece (with a tissue guard) and three glossy plates by H. Richard Boehm. 306 pp. ISBN: my18.

New York: A. L. Burt, (c 1915.). Hardcover - "Being a record of a singular adventure of that remarkable detective genius, Hamilton Cleek, The Man of Forty Faces, once known to the police as 'The Vanishing Cracksman' " Glossy frontispiece by Gordon Grant. ix, 319 pp. plus 8 pp of advertisements.

New York: Britton Publishing Co., (1916.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel for both young and old by the author of 'The Little Colonel Series.' Although Johnston is closely associated with Kentucky - where she had settled some years before this novel was written - this is set in Provincetown, then a quaint old fishing village, on the tip of Cape Cod in Massachusetts. Illustrated by Ray N. Jackson with a full color frontispiece of 'the real Georgina' and three glossy plates as well as numerous small black and white drawings. 348 pp.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1911.). Hardcover first edition - The author's most popular book, an ante-bellum novel with settings ranging from North Carolina to Tennessee, with romance, suspense and adventure. Illustrated by M. Leone Bracker. 448 pp

Boston & New York: Phillips, Sampson and Company / J. C. Derby, 1855 (c. 1854). Hardcover - Author's first book, a sentimental anti-slavery novel, set mostly in South Carolina, of a young white girl who is kidnapped and sold into slavery. In her brief preface the author states that she hopes this book will "arouse a more intense love of freedom" and inspire a "more firm protest against the extension of that system which alike for master and servant, poisons the springs of life." Upon publication, this book drew comparisons to 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', was championed by Frederick Douglass and sold 60,000 copies in its first two years.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of pyschological suspense - involving a seductive secretary, her boyfriend who likes good food and cigarettes, but not work, and the MP who hired Miss Chalmers - culminating in a dramatic courtroom scene. 211 pp. Dust jacket design by Adolph Hallman.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1919.). Hardcover first edition - The third novel in the Sylvia trilogy, set in Eastern Europe during the first World War. 323 pp

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1895. Hardcover first edition - The first, and most popular, book by this Scottish author and minister, published under the pen name of Maclaren. A collection of stories of Scottish rural life, which combined humor with pathos and a liberal use of Scots dialogue. The title of this book alludes to the Jacobite song ("There grows a bonnie brier bush in our Kailyard") and the term "Kailyard School" (kailyard is a small kale, or cabbage, kitchen garden attached to a cottage) was applied to a group of Scots writers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were considered to be overly sentimental by their critics - or perhaps just too widely popular. 317 pp.

New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1887. Hardcover first edition - An uncommon first edition of this long children's novel by this very prolific - and in her time, very popular - writer from Bristol, England. Illustrated with a frontispiece, and 5 plates. 396 pp.

Chicago/ London: A.C. McClurg/ T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an historical romance set in Italy, and published as a title in Unwin's First Novel Library. Contemporary reviews were very complimentary with The Guardian mentioning Montgomery's great gifts and her promise and Punch stating that "there is no page in this enthralling book but glows with colour and is alive with the stir of adventure." 293 pp.

Boston: Oliver Ditson & Co., (1880.). Hardcover - A massive reference originally published in 1852. 1004 pp plus a 45 pp. appendix with a separate title page: Appendix to Encyclopedia of Music, Containing events and information occurring since the main work was issued. 1875. Includes some scores and musical notations.

New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1906. Hardcover first edition - A lovely copy of this rather uncommon romance novel for adults by a writer best known for her children's books (including the beloved "The Railway Children." Illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 inserted plates (1 plate is missing) by Gilbert Underwood. 356 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1936). Hardcover - Ouida's best known novel originally published in 1867, which tells the story of an English aristocrat, apparently in disgrace, who disappears and joins a French battalion in Algeria, loosely based on the Foreign Legion. This photoplay edition was issued in conjunction with the 4th film based on this book directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Ronald Colman, Claudette Colbert, Victor McLaglen and Rosalind Russell. Text is preceded by four full page photos from the movie, endpapers feature another movie scene. 601 pp.