- Keyword = vintage books
-
A DEBT OF HONOR: The Story of Gerald Lane's Success in the Far West.
Edition: Early printing of the original edition.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1900). Hardcover - A rather uncommon Alger title. Illustrated with a frontispiece and four internal black and white plates by J. Watson Davis. 292 pp. plus 6 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in illustratedl blue cloth printed in red, orange and black, gilt spine lettering (gift inscription, front hinge cracking, some foxing in the margins of a few pages, but overall a sturdy and attractive copy)
Book ID: 86172More details Price: $35.00 -
BED TIME STORY HOUR.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York & Newark, NJ: Charles E. Graham & Co., n.d. (ca 1915.). Hardcover first edition - A title in the Story Hour Series. Illustrated with a striking full color lithographic frontispiece of 'The Dream Man' and small black and white drawings throughout. Includes 'The Dream Man,' 'The Cat Cinderella,' 'How the Little Boy Learned to Climb' and 'The Piggy Story.' Unpaginated, approx 7 1/2 inches wide by 10 inches tall. Illustrated endpapers.
Condition: Good overall in an illustrated front board with a blue cloth spine. Some rubbing to the covers, edgewear, and previous owner's name. Uncommon.
Book ID: 47540More details Price: $30.00 -
CATCH-AS-CATCH-CAN.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1952) dj. Hardcover - A story of a race against time, in which the life of a young woman hangs in the balance. 219 pp.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (minor edgewear to dj).
Book ID: 76206More details Price: $15.00 -
THE CHARLOTTE ARMSTRONG TREASURY.
Edition: Book club edition - first thus.
New York: Coward-McCann, (1972) dj. Hardcover - An omnibus edition, containing three novels of suspense - Mischief, The Dream Walker: The Witch's House - originally published between 1955 and 1963. Preface by Alice Cromie. 473 pp. Code of N17 indicating that this was printed in April 1972. ISBN: 0-69810420X.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (chip to top of dj spine).
Book ID: 78922More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BLOCKADERS and Other Stories.
Edition: Later printing (code D-Y indicating 1924)
New York: Harper & Brothers, (c 1905). Hardcover - The title story is an account of the blockade of the Confederacy's ports during the Civil War. Other stories are set among the Anasazi ruins, in the Congo in Africa and elsewhere. Glossy frontispiece. (there are no internal plates) 244 pp.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated tan cloth.
Book ID: 68344More details Price: $15.00 -
THE BARRIER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. Hardcover first edition - Author's third novel, set in Alaska during the time of the Klondike gold rush. Illustrated with a tinted frontispiece with a tissue guard and 5 inserted tinted plates by Denman Fink. Basis for three silent films - the first starring Mabel Scott and Russell Simpson, directed by Edgar Lewis in 1913 and the last in 1926 with Lionel Barrymore. 310 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated brown cloth (missing final illustration, name on front endpaper)
Book ID: 76553More details Price: $16.50 -
MURDER IN THE BASEMENT.
Edition: First US printing.
Condition: Good only in black cloth with red title panels - rubbing and wear to the covers, soiling to rear endpaper, light tidemarks to outer margins of last several pages - but overall a tight and sturdy copy of a rather hard to find first edition.
Book ID: 86678More details Price: $125.00 -
THE CHINESE PARROT
Edition: Paperback.
New York: Pyramind Books, (1969). A vintage paperback edition of this Charlie Chan mystery, originally published in 1926. T-1970, cover price 75c. 222 pp plus 2 pp ads.
Condition: Good overall - usual tanning to pages,
Book ID: 78929More details Price: $8.50 -
FROM THIS DEATH FORWARD.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: A Crime Club Selection / Doubleday, 1952. dj. Hardcover first edition - Vintage crime novel set in Southern California. "A Cinderella slopement turns into ashes when widowed Connie, to protect her son's future, marries wealthy, dipsomaniac Merrill -- and discovers the dead body of the caretaker of the Malibu beach house after her lonely wedding night. Merrill is suspect, threatened by his brother; Connie hires a private detective to learn the truth of her first husband's death; the roadside dinner where she had worked yields another victim before Merrill's death, from a heart attack, starts the puzzle unravelling. An innocent heroine who learns courage turns a rather distasteful story into a forceful one." (Kirkus Reviews) 190 pp.
Condition: Good in good dust jacket (rather severe toning to pages, slight spine slant, edgewear to dj, especially at ends of spine)
Book ID: 83609More details Price: $21.50 -
THE FLYING U STRIKES.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Triangle Books, (1942, c.1933. dj. Hardcover - Western novel set in the ranch country of Montana. 304 pp.
Condition: Good overall in pale orange boards (usual rather severe toning to the pages) in a poor dust jacket, missing the bottom half of the rear cover)
Book ID: 76895More details Price: $12.00 -
THE INNOCENT ADVENTURESS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1921. Hardcover first edition - An uncommon first edition of this early and unabashedly romantic novel by this prolific writer and traveler. Without enough money to cover two dowries, a family sends their beautiful and very sheltered young daughter to stay with relatives in New York, in the hopes that she will find a rich man to marry. As an interesting sidenote, Bradley was the mother of Alice Sheldon - best known as the science fiction writer James Tiptree, Jr. 245 pp.
Condition: Good condition in pale blue cloth with dark blue lettering and decorations.
Book ID: 74844More details Price: $30.00 -
OLD TIME AND YOUNG TOM.
Edition: First edition.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1912). Hardcover first edition - A collection of essays and speeches by this American newspaperman, humorist and later a clergyman who became well-known through his paragraphs in Iowa's 'The Burlington Hawkeye' which he joined in 1872. Includes his most famous lecture, "The Rise and Fall of the Mustache" - in the foreword, he claims to have given this speech more than 5000 times. Laid in is a newspaper article from shortly after his death and tipped onto the rear endpaper is a picture of his final home in California. Top edge gilt. 325 pp.
Condition: Good overall in burnt sienna cloth with gilt lettering, embossed design on front cover - missing front endpaper, some shelfwear to the edges of the boards and offsetting to the rear endpapers from the newspaper laid in, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 85792More details Price: $21.50 -
HOLD FAST BY YOUR SUNDAYS.
Edition: New edition.
London: Home Words Office. (ca 1889). Hardcover - Frontisplate with tissue guard and illustrations at the heading of each chapter. 123 pp plus 13 pp publisher's advertisements.
Condition: Very good in dark blue pictorial cloth with gilt title to cover and spine on bevelled boards (previous owner's name, offsetting to front endpaper)
Book ID: 69289More details Price: $15.00 -
PAST ALL DISHONOR & THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York: Fiction Book Club (Knopf), (c 1946 & 1934). Hardcover - Two classic novels by Cain in one volume, with separate pagination and with separate title pages indicating Alfred A, Knopf, 1946 on each. 231, 140 pp.
Condition: Very good in reddish brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 70575More details Price: $12.00 -
THE TEACHER OF CASTING, MODELING, SCULPTURING, WOOD CARVING, POTTERY.
Edition: Trade paperback.
Chicago: D. M. Campana Art Co., 1943. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Includes advertisements for Campana art classes and other books. Index. 128 pp.
Condition: Good overall in stiff illustrated orange wrappers.
Book ID: 80675More details Price: $15.00 -
ONE MAN MUST DIE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Dutton, 1946. Hardcover first edition - Novel featuring Sheriff Jess Roden. When a soldier is reported dead during World War II, his wife remarries but when he returns to his Kentucky home, expecting to pick up his business and his ilfe as he left them, then one husband must go. 223 pp.
Condition: Good overall in beige cloth with blue panels on the spine.
Book ID: 80216More details Price: $15.00 -
ARROW POINTING NOWHERE, THE HORNET'S NEST, THE DEATHS OF LORA KAREN.
Edition: Original book club edition.
Condition: Very good+ in tan cloth in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some discoloration from the binding process on endpapers, a faint "old book" musty odor in a dustjacket with a few chips, some toning to the spine). These vintage book club editions are becoming hard-to-find in dustjacket.
Book ID: 85309More details Price: $50.00 -
WELCOME DEATH.
Edition: 4th impression (just 3 months after the first)
London: Gollancz, 1954. dj. Hardcover - One of the most hated men in the small Welsh town of Llanddewi is murdered on the evening when the town is hosting a 'Welcome Home' event for the young men who had served in World War II - and it is up to Sir Richard Cherrington - an amateur sleuth and an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist who is the Vice-President of Fisher College (a character based on the author) - to unravel the clues. 231 pp.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (some toning to both the pages and the dj, a few spots of foxing on the edges of the textblock)
Book ID: 83637More details Price: $21.50 -
HE WOULDN'T KILL PATIENCE; YOU ONLY HANG ONCE; FIRE WILL FREEZE.
Edition: Original book club edition.
Condition: Very good+ in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some discoloration from the binding process on endpapers, with a faint "old book" musty odor, in a dustjacket with a few chips, some toning to the spine). A very hard to find vintage book club edition, especially in dust jacket.
Book ID: 85748More details Price: $75.00 -
DONALD AND DOROTHY.
Edition: Early reprint (originally published in 1883.).
New York: The Century Co., 1901. Hardcover - A story surrounding the mystery of the true identity of a brother and sister, twins, orphaned as infants in Europe, and brought up by their uncle, by the writer best as the author of 'Hans Brinker' who was for many years the editor of the St. Nicholas Frontispiece, full page and smaller en texte Illustrations by Frank Merrill, A. Temple and others. 335 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in an attractive very dark green binding with gilt lettering and gilt and silver decorations, top edge gilt. (lower corner of frontispiece clipped, not affecting the illustration.)
Book ID: 36594More details Price: $25.00 -
SIR NIGEL.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1906. Hardcover first edition - An historical novel set at the beginning of the Hundred Years' War, from 1350 to 1356. Sir Nigel is a knight in the service of King Edward III. Illustrated by The Kinneys with a frontispiece with tissue guard and five internal plates on glossy stock. Introduction by Arthur Conan Doyle, vii, 346 p
Condition: Good overall in decorated pale blue-green cloth - some toning to the spine, fraying at the top end, scattered foxing in the margins, previous owner's name dated 1906 - but a sturdy tight copy.
Book ID: 84639More details Price: $25.00 -
THE MASTER OF WARLOCK. A Virginia War Story.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Lothrup Publishing Company, 1903. Hardcover first edition - Romantic novel set in the years before, during and after the Civil War. Although he was born in Indiana, Eggleston served as a Confederate soldier. Illustrated with a frontispiece with a tissue guard and five internal glossy plates by C. D. Williams 433 pp plus 2pp ads.
Condition: Good overall in burgundy cloth with gilt lettering and decorations and a small illustration inset on the front cover - previous owner's name dated 1903, spine slant and rubbing and wear to the covers, a few scattered spots of foxing.
Book ID: 84664More details Price: $20.00 -
QUOTH THE RAVEN / GREAT BLACK KANBA.
Edition: First thus.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1945. dj. Hardcover first edition - A title in the Doubleday Crime Library. Two vintage mysteries, originally published in 1944 here in a one volume combined edition. Each novel has its own title page, synopsis and is paginated separately. The Fischer novel is set in New York City, while that of the Little sisters involves a trip by a young woman with amnesia on the Trans-Australian Express. 207, 188 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket. (gift inscription dated Christmas 1945, some chipping and edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 78187More details Price: $20.00 -
TREASURE OF SOUTH LAKE FARM or A New England Boy's Struggle for Fortune
Edition: First edition.
Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, (1902). Hardcover first edition - Uncommon novel published under his own name by this prolific writer - whose works ranged from dime novels to westerns to juvenile series. (including many written under Stratemeyer syndicate house names) When Sandy's father dies when he is only 17, he is determined to keep the farm - 400 beautiful but steep and rocky acres surrounding a small lake - and make it profitable enough to handle the mortgage. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and two internal plates. 244 pp.
Condition: Very good in red cloth with white lettering on front cover, black on spine and small illustrations on front and spine (hinges cracking, but binding is still sturdy)
Book ID: 84551More details Price: $75.00 -
THE UNCONSCIOUS WITNESS; DEATH ON THE AISLE; LADY KILLER.
Edition: Original book club edition.
Condition: Very good+ in beige cloth in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some discoloration from the binding process on endpapers, with a faint "old book" musty odor, in a dustjacket with a few chips, some toning to the spine). A very hard to find vintage book club edition, especially in dust jacket.
Book ID: 85312More details Price: $100.00 -
THE CAMPFIRE GIRLS DO THEIR BIT or Over the Top with the Winnebagos, #8 in the series.
Edition: First or very early edition.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1919). Hardcover first edition - The 8th book in one of the longer running Campfire Girls series. Glossy frontispiece. Lists to self at the beginning of the book. 242 pp plus 10 pp of publishers' advertisements.
Condition: Good overall condition in beige illustrated covers -missing free front endpaper, previous owner's name on front pastedown - covers clean and bright.
Book ID: 73112More details Price: $16.50 -
THE CASE OF THE BURIED CLOCK; HEADLONG FOR MURDER; TO CATCH A THIEF.
Edition: Original book club edition.
Condition: Very good+ in tan cloth in a very good dust jacket (bookplate on front pastedown, some discoloration from the binding process on endpapers, a faint "old book" musty odor in a dustjacket with a few chips, some toning to the spine). These vintage book club editions are becoming hard-to-find in dustjacket.
Book ID: 85308More details Price: $50.00 -
GUINEVERE'S LOVER.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1913. Hardcover first edition - This story of a woman, married to a much older man as a young girl, who finds love with her neighbor later in life is, in many ways typical of her somewhat scandalous romantic novels of the time - but this one is distinguished by a rather open racism. The wife of her lover (and the lover to her son) is depicted as a beautiful savage of uncertain descent, despite being the daughter of a Lord - and Guinevere's more worldly sister describes her at one point as a "nigger out for a holiday." Frontispiece portrait. Rather uncommon in the first edition, 357 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Very good in red boards with cream lettering on spine and front cover (some spine slant, sunning and fading to spine) , no dust jacket.
Book ID: 79297More details Price: $50.00 -
THE HOBBLEDEHOY:The Story of One Betwixt Boy and Man.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Lothrup Publishing Company, 1895. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this New England author best known for her humorous sketches. It begins with a mother returning to Boston from a nine-month long trip in California to find that her 15 year old son has grown both physically and mentally and is now balanced between boyhood and being a man. This was presumably based on her own experiences, since she made an extended tour to the west coast in 1887-88. Illustrated with full page glossy plates and en-texte drawings by C. Chase Emerson. Tissue guard at frontispiece. While Green was a very popular author in her lifetime she is almost unknown now, with none of her books available. 262 pp.
Condition: Very good in with gilt title, black lettering and decorations (some soiling to the covers, but a tight and straight copy)
Book ID: 86469More details Price: $45.00 -
THE TWO TRAVELERS.
Edition: Vintage edition.
New York: Maxton Publishers, 1948. Hardcover - Classic Grimm Brothers' tale in a rather uncommon edition - adapted and illustrated in both full color and with black and white drawings by Harriet. Maxton Books for Little People #10 (back cover lists 18 titles in this series) Unpaginated (32 pp)
Condition: Good overall in illustrated boards with a dark green spine (rubbing and wear to the covers, spine covering beginning to split)
Book ID: 81911More details Price: $15.00