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1948ref. 23438Rinehart & Company 1948. HBDJ 1948 1ST EDITION VG/VG- Blue Black White Dj with Man in Hat on front Chips & Scuff Extremities & top edge DJ Back DJ light brown Stains Dark Blue Cloth lettered & Design in Red on Spine Interior Nice tight Clean light FoX Wear 273 pgs Light Soil DJ 1st edition with the Rinehart logo on the copyright page. Basis for the 1972 Italian film "Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso" though Woolrich and Edgar Wallace whose books were the source material were not listed in the film's credits Octavo. First Edition. Hard Cover. Rinehart & Company hardcover
1985ref. 28180Alfred Knopf 1985. HBDJ1985 1st Edition NF/NF SIGNED and dated by author in year of publication no inscription . Clean fresh copy. Jacket has crease near top of front panel but does not stand out. In mylar. Size: 8vo 301 pgs List of Illustrations Grey cloth Silver gilt titles Lite DJ spine Fade. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by DJ Design Sara Eisenman. Alfred Knopf hardcover
1952ref. 28159MAX PARRISH LONDON 1952. HBDJ 1952 1st Edition VG-/GOODCleantight and uninscribed. Tanned endpapers. Nice jacket but loss to spine ends & Extremities. & Light Soil Back DJ BLUE CLOTH WITH EMBOSSED GOLD GILT TRAIN 36 pgs. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Jean Bailey. MAX PARRISH LONDON hardcover
1927ref. 24950Copp Clark Co Limited Toronto CANADA 1927. HBDJ 1927 1st Canadian Edition with Colophon on copyright page VG/GOOD AS-IS Small chips to light FADE on DJ edges & Extremities YET Titles & Illustration INTACT 1927 1st editon DJ light Rub wear Tiny Chips Tears Edges Spine ends DJ small chips Take out TH in Word The & s in Devils at Top end DJ Back DJ light wear Soil & tiny chips tears edges Interior nice tight clean light FOX Wear 313 pgs NO ADS in Back THICK Red Illustrated Cloth cover Titled in Black on Front & Spine which has light creases DJ IN Clear Protective Mylar . a Man-Hunt over the South Pacific There was Mystery about it Fate Dire Fate in the shape of Devil's Mantle Hung over Peter Blake South Sea Trader & Adventurer. Up & Down the Pacific His Name stood for Villainies of All Degrees Yet His Hands were Clean. Adventure Story Mystery novel set around a man hunt in the South Pacific. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Copp, Clark Co, Limited Toronto CANADA hardcover
1959ref. 10923Random House NY : McCall's 1959 HBDJ stated 1st edition 1959 OP Black boards with beige cloth at spine very light fox spine area DJ light wear rub & small mended tear light small residue back DJ FINE-/NF 241 PGS. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Random House [ NY ]: McCall's hardcover
1941ref. 28086American Artists Group New York GIFT BOOK 1941. Squirrel Family Lived & over all the countryside was snow deep soft snow that had been piling up for days Rusty & Jr. the 2 Little Squirrel Twins scurried Along stopping Often to take a Look into the House 1st thru 1 window & then thru Another what is Jimmy Brown doing alone up there in cold attic What is Jane Brown Hiding Ma Brown is Holding a strange Load & Pa Brown Alone in His Workshop strange very Strange Indeed. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. American Artists Group, New York GIFT BOOK hardcover
1926ref. 280531926. 9.5 x 14 inches approximately. B/W Advertisement has light Wear & tiny tears Extremities This vintage ad is in very good condition. A great piece for framing.ELSIE IS PICTURED IN CENTER OF AD in period publications these are known as vintage print ads ads is the commonly used term for adverts/advertising. Vintage ads are original pieces which have been carefully removed from the original publications they appeared in many of which are now quite scarce and valuable . 1st Edition. Unbound. Very Good/No Jacket. paperback
1980ref. 27911NY Wanderer Books #1 on DJ Spine Simon & Schuster 1980 HBDJ 1980. 1st Edition 1st ptg edition with #1 Intact in Number Line .VG in GOOD DJ. DJ lightly edge chipped & small Mended Tears extremities. Blue cloth with some tiny white spots extremities edges cvr. 127 pgs DJ Protected Clear Mylar 5 1/2 X 8 IN. when her Pet Poodle dripping with blue Paint suddenly tears Across the Stage & Disappears. As the Young star of the Children's Ballet chases afte her Dog Eclair Nan Bravely takes Jackie's Place until the Show Ends. After the Performance She & Bert & Freddie begin their Puzzzling Search for the Young Ballerina & her Blue Poodle Here begins a wild chase thru NYC right into the clutches of a No good Gang of Dognappers. Will they be saved from Canine criminals. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Gloria Singer . NY Wanderer Books #1 on DJ Spine, Simon & Schuster hardcover
1950ref. 27072HBDJ 1950. Stated First Edition; First Printing VG/VG. AS-IS Dates match Green Tweed Cloth Hardcover cvr Lite wear Titled in Blue on Spine with Illustration on front of boy in Snowshoes . DJ. Minor wear to extremities. Jacket is in a fresh mylar cover. ; 8vo.Interior Nice tight clean Light wear Fox Jacket shows slight edgewear light wear to back DJ and some TINY CHIPS ENDS DJ SPINE; DJ Protected Clear Mylar cvr 5 x 8. 182 PGS Half Title pg Former Owner pencil Inscription dated 1951 who have spent many summers in Deep Hollow persuade their Parents to allow them to spend their Winter Holiday there with the Joosts the Postmaster His wife & their Son chuck ! It is perfect weather for winter Sports.they go Skiing & Sleigh Riding Play Hockey Skate Fish thru the Ice & Practically Fly Across Miles of ice in Chuck’s New Ice Boat. Strange things start Happening that build Up Suspense. & Smsons become Amateur Detectives ages 7 to 10. Alfred A Knopf, New York, hardcover
1919ref. 24851Phillips & Van Orden Co. San Francisco CA 1919. HBDJ 1919 1st Edition 1st Printing VG-/VG- AS-IS Beige Blue & Red Dustjacket with Small Chips Extremities & Edges light Rub Wear Back DJ Staining Extremities & light Soil Spine DJ light Stain Top Edge & Tiny Extremities chips Last 21 pgs light Stains Edges Interior nice tight clean light Wear Rub 120 pgs Cloth Cvr bright Grey black and a touch of red on tan Illustrated cover light rub Wear . Whimsical Account of Strange Adventures of Johnnie Bob in the schools of Animals Frogs & Fishes. Fascinating to the young & refreshing to the Old. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Phillips & Van Orden Co. San Francisco, CA hardcover
1953ref. 27051Alfred A Knopf New York 1953 HBDJ SEPTEMBER 1953 Third PrintingVG/VG AS-IS Gray Tweed Cloth cvr Lite wear Titled in Blue . Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Bob Meyers illustrator. Slight age yellowing to edges clean and unmarked. Jacket shows slight edgewear light soiling to back and some fading; not price clipped. DJ Protected Clear Mylar cvr 5 x 8. 186 PGS. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Alfred A Knopf, New York, hardcover
1948ref. 26685Bobbs Merrill NY 1948 HBDJ 1948 Early Edition VG/NF AS-IS Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. Hardcover - very clean no marks very clean inside NF dustjacket with VERY SLIGHT WEAR edgewear 234 pages black lettering on blue TWEED boards - from a private collection. Back Dust jacket lists Thru BOY OF OLD VIRGINIA light Fox SPINE DJ ENDS TINY CHIPS TEARS. Interior nice tight clean Light Fox Wear suspense-filled and mystery-riddled pages nicely enhanced by black and white illustrations! DJ Protected Clear Mylar Molly Lornwode & Her Small Friend Liz huddled Close Together in the Abandoned Icehouse. They cannot understand why they have been Imprisoned in This Chilly Place by Liz’s Stepmother. Now as they Clasp each Other in the Scary Blackness Molly realizes that many Mysterious happenings of the Last Few Weeks have Not been Mere Accidents. When she thinks back she remembers that ever since she & her Younger Brothers & Sister Told Liz the story of their Grandfather’s Coat a strange series of events has Puzzled the Lornwode Family. Mums had cut down the Coat to fit Molly’s Brother John. a Ghost that Bumped Invaded the Attic then the old Coat Disappeared Suddenly when they went on Sunday Picnic to the Farm. They found it thrown down Into the Icehouse where they were trapped. Will they be rescued & solve the Mystery This is an old classic fiction novel . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Bobbs Merrill, NY, hardcover
1970ref. 24160William Morrow & Co NY 1970. HBDJ 1st edition 2nd Printing August 1970 Dates Match on Title & Copyright Page VG/VG- AS-IS Yellow & Blue Cloth Boards Cvr light rub Wear Interior nice Tight Clean Light Wear FOX & last two pgs Corner Creases Top Back DJ light Stain Wear . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. William Morrow & Co, NY hardcover
1965ref. 13099Arthur Barker Limited London 1965. HBDJ1st British edition1965 FINE-/F- DJ slight rub wear & brown cloth Bk light wear 192 pages. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Arthur Barker Limited London hardcover
1935ref. 25948Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Co 1935 HBDJ 1935 Early Reprint. Salmon red Cloth Hardcover with black illustration on Front. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD . 8vo 5 3/4 X 8 1/4 IN. Very Good/GOOD .311 pgs. Dj with darkened backstrip & fade a few small stains edgewear chips to lower spine DJ in Mylar. Scarce especially in dustjacket. SMALL stain DJ Spine & wear tiny chips tears Edges DJ. Interior nice tight clean light wear Fox. .These Stories grew in Sierra Nevada Mountains in CA. There are all sorts of Queer True Things in Them. Any Bear would die rather than go by a red flannel petticoat & fish really do like Butter. Just try washing a churn in a stream if you dont believe it. Petronila of the Coats did sleep in a tower of Fog & Luckless Pigwidgeon did change all of his 100 sons into Golden Trout ETC. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Co hardcover
1962ref. 27843Long Beach Yacht Club 1962 HARDBACK NO DUSTJACKET ISSUED 1st edition 1962 VG 256 PGS WITH NAMES OF BOAT OWNERS Large Beige pictorial blind stamped with illustration of Club & titles in Blue has Liote Soil Wear Interior nioce Condition 11 1/4 X 8 3/4 IN. . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Long Beach Yacht Club hardcover
1919ref. 24880Phillips & Van Orden Co. San Francisco 1919. HBDJ 1919. 1st Edition 1st Printing Beautiful Beige & Orange & Black cloth Hardcover duplicates DJ Illustration. Book Condition: VG/VG- Sm8vo. DJ with minor nicks along upper margin & tiny chips tears edges; tight and bright copy 91 pgs. Spine ends DJ small chips. First Edition. Hard Cover. Phillips & Van Orden Co. San Francisco hardcover
1986ref. 11359Warner Books NY 1986. Paperback pictorial color Wraps with small sticker residue September 1986 Stated 1st Edition Thus with #1 Intact Number Line FINE/F- SOFTCOVER cover & interior Light Rub Wear 176 Pages. First Thus. Soft Cover. Warner Books NY paperback
1925ref. 27616MODERN LIBRARY NY 1925 HBDJ Stated 1st modern Library Edition on copyright pg 1925. GOOD/GOOD AS-IS EARLY DUSTJACKET WITH TEARS CHIPS EDGES NOT affecting Titles BACK DJ MENTIONS 225 ML Titles Approx 7 X 4 1/2 in. Limp dark brown leatherette bds with scuffing rub wear edges binding tight brown leather with gilt logo of the Modern Library and gilt title. 270 pgs with tiny hole on last pg NO ADS IN BACK. The leather or leatherette shows creasing wear. Otherwise good. Tiny chips end Spine DJ . 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. MODERN LIBRARY NY hardcover
1931ref. 25504Cupples & Leon Co. 1931. HARDBACK NODustJacket 1931 1st Edition VG-/VG AS-IS NOJACKET Bright Color Illustrated Boards with Green Cloth Spine Cvr light rub wear Scuff Extremities Approx 8 3/4 X 7 in. Tiny Corner Chips WearInterior nice tight Clean light wear FOX few Tiny Dogeared pgs & some Few light pencil marks 86 PGS Reprints of the Daily Newspaper Strip. .Bright Color Illustrated Boards of Annie in Red Dress Trimmed in White on Tropical Island with Dog & Bear with Capsized Boat in Water & Palm Leafs Overhead COMICS CARTOONS RELATED Format Illustrated in B/W Originally Appeared in Newspaper Chicago Tribune One of the most beloved Classic Newspaper Strips in Comics history. Annie the Orphan Girl dog Sandy doll Emily Marie & Daddy Warbucks. Leapin' Lizards!. First Edition. Hard Cover. Cupples & Leon Co. hardcover
1916ref. 27502Publisher: Cupples and Leon 1916 3 glossy Internals withFoX on blank edge HARDBACK NODJ 1916 1st edition 1st printing VG-/GOOD AS-IS NOJACKET VINTAGE COLLECTIBLE BOOK HAS Little WEAR CORNERS AND Light STAINS FROM AGE Has OVERALL EYE-APPEAL OF THIS VERY SCARCE AND VERY RARE BOOK FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF ACTION ADVENTURE LITERATURE AND IT'S 97 YEARS OLD THIS YEAR!! IN PRETTY VG- OVERALL SHAPE FOR ITS AGE GREAT CLASSIC BOOK WITH 246 PAGES ADS in Back List Thru Motor Girls in Mountains AND SOME GREAT VINTAGE ILLUSTRATIONS !!! Brown cloth with B/W & Brown Illustration on front light rub wear & light stain to Back CvoerPRE TEXT LISTS THRU BASS ISLAND Summer was at hand & at a meeting of boys of YMCA of Cliffwood it was decided that a regular summer camp should be instituted. This was located at beautiful spot on Bass Island & there the Lads went Boating swimming fishing & tramping to their hearts Content. There were a great many surprises but in the end the boys managed to clear up a MYSTERY of Long standiing. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Walter S. Rogers. Publisher: Cupples and Leon, hardcover
1951ref. 27483Hollywood California 1951 HBDJ 1st Edition Stated 2nd Printing February 1951 Book VG/ GOOD DJ Condition AS-IS Small Chips Light Soil from Yellow & Black Illustrated DustJacket but Illustration of the Girl in Gown & Title & Author Basically Intact DJ Spine Small chips Approx 6 X 9 1/4 in. Lime Green Cloth cover Titled in Black light Wear Interior nice tight clean light Wear Fox 61 pgs Book in great shape unmarked. Jacket is lightly toned with some light wear and tears Preamble by Louise Bennett Reed of Long Beach California. Illustrated in B/W. Commentary by Russell Iredell of Laguna Beach CA who often needs Service of Models in his work is Internationally Famous as Portrait Painter & is Listed in Who's Who in America. Combined with Posing For Commercial Photographers For Professional Attainment of Poise in Wearing Clothes With Beauty & Grace comes Self-Confidence & the Confident Person has time to think generously of Other People. This is the Secret of Real Charm. to Forget Yourself & Become Genuinely Interested in Others. Revised Edition of Just For Women published in 1940. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Hollywood, California hardcover
1938ref. 26948Albert Whitman & Co. Chicago 1938 HBDJ JULY 1938 1ST EDITION THUS 4th Printing Stated NF/GOOD- AS-IS NOT an EX Library Book. Brown cloth covered book with full size paste on plate on the cover Duplicates DJ Illustration Light Rub wear Color illustration endpapers. Interior pages clean. Pages unnumbered. Est. of 85 pages. Two color illustration opposite each page of narrative. Dust jacket has 1/2" chip top of spine 1 1/4" and shorter closed tears on edges. Fade line on rear. DJ Protected clear Mylar DJ Tiny Chips Tears Extrremities Back pink DJ has Fade Wear & Small Edge Tears Small crease front Btm Corner DJ which shows edge FadeInner Flap Dj Original Price intact 65 CENTS Pink & Blue Illustrated Frontispiece Introduction duotone color drawings are by far the best part of this Childs Book. They are beautiful. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Albert Whitman & Co., Chicago hardcover
1952ref. 26794Houghton Mifflin NEW YORK 1952 HB NODJustJacket 1952 1ST EDITION Stated 2ND printing GOOD/GOOD- AS-IS Hard Cover Library Rebind Edition: Illustrated Boards Ex-Library OF Blue Grey With Black Lettering & B/W Green & Yellow Cable Car With Yellow & Green Buildings Surrounded By White Design CVR. 64mo-up to 3" tall. Ex-library usual stamps fep removed Blue Grey Cloth cvr Decorated with center Illustration with Yellow cable car & Yellow Buildings & Mountains in Distance & Golden Gate Bridge in Black & all Titles Black Lettering on Front Cvr backed by White corner and spine edge wear binding tight inside boards have erased marks interior pages basically clean many have tears or bites out of bottom of edges at spine turn coffee . 9 1/4 X 9 1/4 in. 42 PGS EX-LIBRARY Usual Wear DISCARD STAMP on Endpaper Book is dedicated to Frieda Klussman is known as the"Cable Car Lady" and is credited with getting the cable car preservation on the ballot to be protected by the voters. A memorial to her is in the SF Cable Car Museum. Charming color illust. of cable cars that wind around the text. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Houghton Mifflin, NEW YORK hardcover
1954ref. 27415Scholastic Book Services Coward-McCann Publisher 1954 B/W FRONTISPIECE OF Dick Sam & Jackie Inner DJ Flap has Original price Intact $2.50 HBDJ VG/GOOD AS-IS 1954 1st Edition Red Cloth hardcover with Black illustration of buil.ding & Trees on Front w/dj; . Book is only in good condition for its age; edges corners and covers of book show minor wear. . No underlining; no highlighting; no internal markings. DJ with short tears to head/heel of DJ spine; DJ worn at tips and damp stain to DJ spine & SMALL ENDS CHIPS SPINE DJ. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 IN. DJ Protected clear Mylar. Small stain to outer top pgs edge near hingetheir hearts jumped up into their Throats so that even a Whisper was impossible. They find a real & Unaccountably deserted House hidden away on Pine Knoll in Kingsville.They are scared but go in anyway. They search for a treasureThey go all over the House Sam grab s a handful of Papers. book for anyone who likes explore Old houses & likes secret Clubs. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Dorothy Marino . Scholastic Book Services Coward-McCann Publisher hardcover
