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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 -
HICKORY JACK: The Wild Man of the Woods: Beadle's Frontier Series, #69.
Edition: Digest sized paperback.
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.
Condition: Good only in illustrated covers - some wear to covers, significant toning to pages.
Book ID: 88227More details Price: $21.50 -
OLD ZEKE or the Wild Hunter of the Rocky Mountains : Beadle's Frontier Series, #96.
Edition: Digest sized paperback, later printing.
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.
Condition: Fair condition only in illustrated covers - front cover almost detached. some wear to covers, significant toning to pages.
Book ID: 88231More details Price: $18.50 -
DEADWOOD DICK JR. Or the Sign of the Crimson Crescent: Beadle's Frontier Series, #28.
Edition: Digest sized paperback, later printing.
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.
Condition: Good only in illustrated covers - some wear to covers, significant toning to pages.
Book ID: 88228More details Price: $21.50 -
BIG BRAVE, SCOUT OF THE MOHAWK: A Story of the French-Indian War. : Beadle's Frontier Series, #48.
Edition: Digest sized paperback, later printing.
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.
Condition: Good only in illustrated covers - some wear to covers, significant toning to pages.
Book ID: 88229More details Price: $21.50 -
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: $12.50 -
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 -
THE INVISIBLE HOST.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (slight spine slant, and a short closed tear to the uncommon dust jacket, a bit of overall edgewear. Overall an attractive copy and in better condition than usually found.
Book ID: 87708More details Price: $175.00 -
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: $12.50 -
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 -
NIMBLE-LEGS: A Story for Boys.
Edition: 2nd printing.
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.
Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a red boards with black lettering and illustration on front cover (tear to one page, a few corners dog-earred)
Book ID: 88107More details Price: $18.50 -
DARK BAHAMA.
Edition: First printing.
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.
Condition: Fair condition only in pale gold cloth with some soiling, corners bumped and toning to the pages, no dust jacket.
Book ID: 88891More details Price: $18.50 -
JUST FOR YOU.
Edition: First edition.
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.
Condition: Very good overall - some light soiling to covers, wear to corners of boards, but contents fine.
Book ID: 87996More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
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 -
THE TRESPASSER.
Edition: First edition.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1929). Hardcover first edition - Photoplay edition based on the screenplay and feature movie produced by United Artists, starring Gloria Swanson (her first talking film.) Illustrated with a frontispiece of Swanson and stills from the film. 268 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in blue cloth with gold panels - some rubbing and wear to the covers, scattered foxing, tidemarks to lower corner near the gutter, but still a sturdy and easily readable copy, with a previous owners name dated 1929,
Book ID: 87572More details Price: $17.50 -
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