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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur Westbrook Company, (c 1909). One of a series of 100 titles in Beadle's Frontier Series of dime novel paperbacks. Coverful front cover illustration. 100 pp.

Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur Westbrook Company, (c 1909). One of a series of 100 titles in Beadle's Frontier Series of dime novel paperbacks. Coverful front cover illustration. 100 pp.

Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur Westbrook Company, (c 1886). One of a series of 100 titles in Beadle's Frontier Series of dime novel paperbacks. Coverful front cover illustration. 100 pp.

Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur Westbrook Company, (c 1909). One of a series of 100 titles in Beadle's Frontier Series of dime novel paperbacks. Coverful front cover illustration. 100 pp.

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.

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.

New York: Triangle Books, (1942, c.1933. dj. Hardcover - Western novel set in the ranch country of Montana. 304 pp.

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.

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.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. Hardcover first edition - First combined edition of these two works originally published in 1880. Illustrated with a frontispiece and five inserted plates on glossy stock. 249 pp.

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.

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.

Chicago: D. M. Campana Art Co., 1943. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. Includes advertisements for Campana art classes and other books. Index. 128 pp.

New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1928. Hardcover - The story of a 12 year old Italian boy from Palermo in Sicily in 1868, who could run so fast, he was called 'nimble-legs' and entrusted with taking secret messages to General Garibaldi. Illustrated by I.B. Hazelton with a color frontispiece, 4 plates on plain paper and drawings. Translated by Frederic Taber Cooper; introduction by Faith E. Smith. 191 pp.

London: Collins, 1950. Hardcover first edition - The second in a trilogy featuring the private detective Johnny Vallon, a hard-drinking former army officer and head of Chennault Investigations, set in Miami and on a small fictitious island in the Bahamas, where the headstrong daughter of a wealthy family seems to have disappeared. 236 pp.

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1938). Hardcover first edition - The adventures of a little boy made of gumdrops and toothpicks who comes to life, and insists on naming himself. Square format, unpaginated.

Chicago: P.F. Volland, (1918). Hardcover first edition - A collection of short poems by Croll written for young children with lovely full color illustrations by Mary R. Bassett - including 17 full page paintings, smaller illustrations on title page and first page, illustrated endpapers and front cover. A title in the "Sunny Book" series. Unpaginated, small square format.

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.

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.