nd (ca 1915). Hardcover - Vintage children's board book - 12 illustrated panels on heavy card stock, each with one nursery rhyme, folded accordion style. Rubbing and wear, and some fraying to cloth holding boards together, but still bright and attractive. No publication information, but cover illustration has Russell's name in the lower corner. 8 3/4 by 11 1/4 inches.

London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1903. Hardcover first edition - The story of a little girl, a privileged city child, who goes to spend several months with her grandmother in a country cottage. Gaye, a rather prolific author, is best known for her books on nature, and much of this book is an account of the "little Cockney" learning about the wonders around her. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and half title page. The title page only indicates S. G. as the author, but Selina Gaye appears in full on the spine. 187 pp plus 4 pp publisher's ads.

New York: Harper & Brothers, (1948.) dj. Hardcover - A novel of suspense - a psychological study of 'the events leading up to the crime.' 274 pp.

Chicago: Wilcox & Follet, (1945). Hardcover first edition - Two appealing children's stories, illustrated throughout in full color bound back to back in a spiral binding. Illustrated boards on the outside and also in between the two stories. A tall thin book - measuring approx 12 inches tall, 5 inches wide. Unpaginated.

London: Fontana / Collins, (1966.). A Nero Wolfe novel, set in the Civil Rights era, where a young black man, the son of an anthropology professor who had aided Wolfe in an earlier novel, is suspected in the murder of his white fiancee. 192 pp.

Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co., n.d. (ca 1920). Hardcover first edition - A collection of short stories and poems - featuring children, as in the title story - or animals like Whiskers, the field mouse, or Merrilegs, the pony. Illustrated with black and white drawings. 77 pp.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1913. Hardcover first edition - Loosely based on Stratton-Porter's own childhood, Laddie is both a classic poor boy, rich girl romance as well as the story of "Little Sister," a child of nature who is allowed to freely roam the woods. Basis for the 1935 film of the same name. Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer with a frontispiece and three internal plates in color. Pale green screened illustrations on the endpapers and all of the preliminary pages. Frontispiece protected by tissue guard. 602 pp.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. Hardcover - Classic novel of English country life, featuring a very appealing woman in Mrs. Brandon. 358 pp.

New York: Edward J. Clode, (1923.). Hardcover first edition - Vintage spy thriller, set just after the Great War, involving a stolen identity and Scotland Yard. 313 pp.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1932. dj. Hardcover - A story of high adventure in the Balkans. Novel of international intrigue and romance, set into motion when a dying king decides that his American granddaughter should take over the throne. 302 pp

New York: Dagger House. (1947). First edition - Suspense novel about a man sent to rid a town of corruption who finds himself framed for the murder of a powerful newspaper publisher (a "slightly condensed" edition). Dagger House Mystery #26. cover price 25c. 120 pp. Cover art by Levine

New York: Cupples & Leon Company, (1921.). Hardcover - Fourth book in the series featuring fifteen year old Beatrice 'Billie' Bradley, her brother Chet and their friends. They live in a small town in New York, just 40 miles from Manhattan. In this title, she and her friends are at boarding school. Glossy frontispiece. 204 pp. plus 8 pp of publisher's ads.

New York & London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1941) dj. Hardcover first edition - A thriller, originally published in the UK in 1933, which creates an atmosphere of growing terror and suspense. A young girl, who has not been able to speak since childhood, has taken a position as a "lady help" in a remote mansion and finds herself threatened by a killer who has a penchant for strangling handicapped young women. Basis for several films including the classic 1946 RKO suspense movie, THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE, starring Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, and Elsa Lanchester. 319 pp.

New York: John Lane Company, 1912. Hardcover first edition - While many of Wyllarde's popular novels were romantic and set in exotic locations, this is an ironically titled story of a very young girl whose beauty was her curse. 368 pp. plus 6 pp of publisher's advertisements.