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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 -
HANGED FOR A SHEEP; BATS FLY AT DUSK; CUE FOR MURDER.
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).
Book ID: 87014More details Price: $30.00 -
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 -
THE LITTLE BROWN BEAR.
Edition: Early reprint.
Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Company, (c. 1920.) dj. Hardcover - A charming little book about a hungry bear and his friends the farm animals, written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle (author of the Raggedy Ann stories) both in full color and in black and white drawings. Small format, measuring just 6 inches wide by 7 1/2 inches tall, unpaginated.
Condition: Very good in red-orange boards with black lettering and illustrations in a fair dustjacket (a few spots to the covers, and edgetears to a couple of pages, but otherwise a clean copy, the fragile and rather uncommon dust jacket is quite chipped and edgeworn with some loss at the ends of the spine and all corners, but it still bright and appealing.)
Book ID: 40870More details Price: $60.00 -
A FLOWER OF MONTEREY: A Romance of the Californias.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: The Page Company, 1921. Hardcover first edition - Novel set on the coast of California in the days of the missions, when the Spanish still ruled. Illustrated with two color plates by Jessie Gillespie and Edmund H Garrett. Tissue guard at frontispiece. 341 pp. plus 18 pp of publisher's ads. Illustrated endpapers. Small promotional order brochure for 'The Princess Naida' laid in.
Condition: Near fine in a dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations (some rubbing to the spine, but title is still legible), no dustjacket.
Book ID: 86444More details Price: $24.50 -
MAJOR AND THE KITTEN.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Henry Holt, (1941) dj. Hardcover first edition - Charming story of Major, an elderly Saint Bernard, who was accustomed to ruling the house until a small bedraggled kitten is brought by the delivery boy. The kitten doesn't seem to know her place and so Major decides it is up to him to do something about it. Illustrated throughout with duotone and black and white drawings by the Canadian artist Diana Thorne. Endpapers decorated with pictures of Saint Bernard dog & kitten. Large format, in illustrated boards. Illustrated endpapers. Rather uncommon in the true first edition published by Holt, especially in dust jacket. 36 pp. plus final drawing.
Condition: Very near fine in illustrated cream boards in a fair only dust jacket with a large chip on front cover, overall edgewear, original price of $2.00 still present.
Book ID: 86323More details Price: $50.00 -
THE DAVIDIAN REPORT.
Edition: Book club edition.
New York & Boston: Duell, Sloan & Pearce / Little, Brown, (1952) dj. Hardcover - An espionage thriller this Edgar Award-winning writer, featuring Steve Wintress, as one of several people, ranging from Soviet agents to the FBI, chasing after the Davidian Report, smuggled out of Berlin and now for sale to the highest bidder. 213 pp.
Condition: Very good in gray boards in a fair only dust jacket. (some toning to the pages, edgewear and rubbing to the dust jacket.
Book ID: 80999More details Price: $12.50 -
AUDREY.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1902. Hardcover first edition - Romantic historical novel set in the early years of the colony of Virginia. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 lightly tinted glossy plates by F.C. Yohn. Basis of a 1916 silent film. 418 pp.
Condition: Very good in olive green cloth with gilt border and lettering. .
Book ID: 35113More details Price: $17.50 -
WHEN I WAS A BOY IN BELGIUM: Children of Other Lands #6.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Near fine in orange boards illustrated in red, blue and black (note on front endpaper presenting this "for perfect attendance" dated in 1915)
Book ID: 88051More details Price: $100.00 -
THE CONGO and Other Poems.
Edition: 4th printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1916 (c 1914). Hardcover - Introduction by Harriet Monroe, founder of Poetry Magazine, in which she comments that William Butler Yeats asked Lindsay 'What are we going to do to restore the primitive singing of poetry?' and that this book is Lindsay's response. The first section of this volume contains poems to be read aloud, including the long title poem. Other sections are on the Christmas tree, moon poems, including some for children, and - on a more somber note - it ends with a section titled "War - 1914." xv, 159 pp. plus 5 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Near fine in mustard yellow cloth boards, with gilt lettering and red and navy decorations on front cover and spine (some toning to pages and endpapers, cover is bright and attractive)
Book ID: 88892More details Price: $20.00 -
HANGED FOR A SHEEP; BATS FLY AT DUSK; CUE FOR MURDER.
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).
Book ID: 86585More details Price: $28.50 -
FLOWER-DE-LUCE.
Edition: First edition.
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. Hardcover first edition - A collection of thirteen poems, including the title poem, illustrated with 5 steel engravings, each with tissue guards. In the rather uncommon embossed brown leather binding, with gilt title on spine, gilt decoraations to the edges and the turn down, marble endpapers, all edges gilt. 72 pp.
Condition: Good overall - some rubbing and wear to the leather, especially at the corners, scattered foxing.
Book ID: 88073More details Price: $40.00 -
WHO IS THIS MAN?
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Good overall in orange boards with green lettering (some soiling to the covers, but a tight and sturdy copy), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 78465More details Price: $28.50 -
ARCO IRIS: Texto De Lectura Corriente. Septima Edicion.
Edition: Later printing.
Buenos Aires: Angel Estrada. 1938 (c 1928). Hardcover - This is an old Spanish Reader, for Spanish children just learning to read. The text is entirely in Spanish (en espanol.) Has interesting duo-tone pictures on every page to go with the short readings, a very unique find. The selections gradually increase in difficulty as one progresses through the book. 107 pp, index.
Condition: Good in stiff boards with a full-color illustration pasted on the front cover (of a family looking at the rainbow -arco iris) Toning to pages, some wear to the corners and ends of the black cloth spine, but an uncommon and very interesting older book.
Book ID: 28494More details Price: $40.00 -
MRS. CRADDOCK.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1928)]. Hardcover - The first sentence sums up this early novel by Maugham: "this book might also be called the triumph of love." And at the end, the comment is made that Bertha "read as fancy prompted her, without a plan, because she wanted to and not because she ought. . . The writers who appealed to their age and not to posterity have by contrast a subtle charm" which certainly sums up Maugham's lesser known works. Both the English and US 1920s editions had some "offensive parts" removed from the original manuscript. 324 pp.
Condition: Good overall in green cloth with small illustration on front cover (corners somewhat bumped, but a tight and clean copy) , no dust jacket.
Book ID: 80136More details Price: $17.50 -
THE LONG VIEW.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Putnam, (1937) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, based on the life of a Quaker, who as a boy was just too young to fight at Antietam, but who lives to see his family fortunes wiped out in the stock market crash of 1929. Settings range from the small Quaker village in New Jersey where Asher was born and grew up, upstate New York where he established a business, and Dune, Michigan where his children lived with their families. SIGNED on the front endpaper, and uncommon thus. 366 pp. Dustjacket by Syd Browne.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (some foxing to endpapers, discoloration from binder's glue, overall edgewear to dj, but orignal price of $2.50 still present.)
Book ID: 76513More details Price: $40.00 -
BLAME THE BARON.
Edition: First printing.
London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, (1948) dj. Hardcover first edition - True first edition (preceding the US edition by 3 years) of this novel, one of many in the series featuring the Baron and written by John Creasey under this pseudonym. A famous collection of jewels has been stolen, a notorious thief is found dead, and John Mannering, the owner of the shop is suspected as being partner to the crimes. 250 pp.
Condition: Very good in light green cloth in a good only dust jacket (several edge tears to the dj, original price of 8s, 6d still present).
Book ID: 72119More details Price: $35.00 -
THE MAGIC WISH and Other Johnny and Jane Stories.
Edition: Early printing.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1949. Hardcover - Eleven stories featuring Johnny and Jane, "real" children who romp through many adventures, with color illustrations by Corinne Malvern. The second title in the "Golden Story Book" series. (10 titles listed on back cover) 128 pp.
Condition: Good overall - some peeling to the spine cover,usual toning to the pages, but overall sturdy and attractive.
Book ID: 83287More details Price: $12.50 -
MURDER OF A NYMPH.
Edition: First US printing.
Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., 1950. dj. Hardcover first edition - An early crime novel by these two Australian sisters who were first known for their short stories, plays and humorous novels, before they began writing a series of murder mysteries, featuring Inspector Grogan and Detective Sergeant Manning. Set in the small community of Come-hither Bend, the victim - the nymph of the title - is Enone McGrath who was a particularly unloved character, leaving a large number of suspects for Grogan to untangle. 223 pp.
Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (severe toning to the pages, due to the poor quality of post-war paper, offsetting to gutters of endpapers, edgewear and some chipping to the dj, partially separated along the fold of the rear flap)
Book ID: 87397More details Price: $21.50 -
MYSTERY HOUSE.
Edition: Special edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. dj. Hardcover - A novel of romantic suspense by this prolific author - a young woman accepts a position as companion to a queer old lady in a legendary mansion on the wild California coast and becomes involved in a series of strange circumstances. Originally published in serial form in Cosmopolitan Magazine, and the illustrations are from Cosmopolitan. Glossy frontispiece. Although the copyright page states First Edition, the title page states "Special Edition" 305 pp.
Condition: Good only in a good dust jacket - a straight and clean copy but missing the front endpaper, Wraparound dust jacket has some overall edgewear and chipping, but retains its vintage appeal.
Book ID: 71799More details Price: $15.00 -
WHERE THE YOUNG CHILD WAS and Also The Spirit of the House, The Youngest Officer, Linden Gose Home, The Little Brown House, That Makes the World Go Round (and Other Christmas Stories.)
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Century Co., 1921. Hardcover first edition - Six short stories with Christmas themes, illustrated with a frontispiece and six inserted plates by George Avison. 242 pp.
Condition: Near fine in decorated blue cloth stamped in yellow (gift inscription dated Christmas 1922, lacking the dust jacket.)
Book ID: 46885More details Price: $20.00 -
GORDON KEITH.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903. Hardcover first edition - A novel by this prolific "literary spokesman for the glories of the Old South." This begins in the South soon after the Civil War. Gordon Keith is the son of General Keith, an old-time gentleman, whose large fortune has been swept away during the war, and whose family estate, "Elphinestone, " has been purchased by a rich New Yorker with a wicked and unprincipled son. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and seven internal glossy plates by George Wright. Bound in an attractive Margaret Armstrong binding of dark blue cloth with gilt lettering and light blue decorative stamping. ix, 548 pp.
Condition: Very good (previous owner's name, minor wear to the ends of the spine)
Book ID: 75239More details Price: $30.00 -
A TRIP AROUND CAPE COD: Our Summer Land and Memories of My Childhood.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Good overalll in blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover, and beveled edges - some rubbing and wear to the ends of the spine, the corners, and even the lower edges of the boards, front hinge cracking, and title page almost detached, but still holding. Despite the flaws this is an appealing vintage book in the uncommon blue binding.
Book ID: 85206More details Price: $75.00 -
THE FOURTH NORWOOD.
Edition: Hardcover.
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co., (1925.). Hardcover - A story of the fur trade set in the remote Northwest frontier on the Drowning River of Canada. 351 pp.
Condition: Very good+ in green cloth with darker green lettering and a small illustration of pine branches on the front cover (prev owner's name.)
Book ID: 35679More details Price: $18.00 -
THE ROAD TO UNDERSTANDING.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1917). Hardcover - A romantic novel by this very popular author, who is now best-known for her Pollyanna books; this title was fourth on the bestseller list in 1917. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and one internal color plate by Mary Greene Blumenschein. 373 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in red boards with black lettering and decorations (slight spine slant), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 83904More details Price: $16.50