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1916Best.-Nr. 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
1951Best.-Nr. 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
1938Best.-Nr. 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
1952Best.-Nr. 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
1954Best.-Nr. 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
1933Best.-Nr. 27393London: JONTHAN Cape 30 BEDFORD SQUAREPrinted in Oxford at Alden Press 1933 HBDJ Stated 1st Published 1933. 1st Edition VG/GOOD- AS-IS BLUE CLOTH Hard Cover Titled in Yellow on Spine Cvr . VG HB Unclipped DJ with some minor repairs and edgeware & tiny chips tears wear Fox to Extremities pages in good condition. 256 pgs in scarce DJ which is protected Clear Mylar Small chip top front DJ but doesnot remove any of Title Light soil to back DJ & tiny chips creases to Spine DJ Ends when Night fell he Lighted Candles. Lifting the Latch of the Old Door THEY ARE IN THE MIDST OF THE MATERIAL setting of another day. And to these things they react in Different Fashion each to his own Temperment & view Point. Bainton the owner of the shop lived with his Niece who had masses of Red-Gold Hair. He sees his customers as ships passing across a Screen: seen for a Moment then vanishinginto the Yesterdays Some who came to Buy here in the old Curio Shop you will meet a few of them here them Talk see perhaps a reflection of the shifting Flame that is Personality. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. London: JONTHAN Cape, 30 BEDFORD SQUARE,Printed in Oxford at Alden Press hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. ABE-8442707580C. H. Van Vliet Co. Chicago 1923 HBDJ 1923. VG/GOOD- AS-IS Hardcover. Blue Cloth Hardcover with Embossed Gold Gilt Titles on front Cvr & Spine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD- with some soiling Wear. 8vo. 186 pages. Blue cloth hardcover with blue and white checkered dust jacket. Jacket is toned small stains and rubbed with small chips and tears on the edges in addition to a 1.5 inch interior tear. Spine and front of jacket are damp-stained. Spine is lightly bumped. Hinges are sound and text is clean. Jacket is toned and rubbed with small chips and tears Creases on the edges & Light stains. DJ Spine ends tiny chips wear FOX DJ Protected Clear Mylar 5 1/2 x 8. Book is clean and tight. Interior nice tight clean Light Wear Fox FORMER OWNER STAMP Back Blank Flyleaf Inner Flap DJ PriceClipped Lists Thru On Time Tales BLANK Endpapers Light WearFOX Color Frontispiece Playing Callers of Little Girl seated in Fabric chair Near Window wearing White hat with Red Ribbon Holding White Fan & wearing Long Red Robe with her feet resting on Purple Pillow with Little Boy & Girl Standing Playing Dress Up & Little Bown & White Dog with Large Gold Bowin Color Dustjacket of Boy Seated at Table wearing Purple Bowtie Yellow Sweter & White shirt with Little Girl Standing with Braided Hair Holding Wicker Basket of Apples & Toy Lamb & Duck on Floor & another Small Boy in Blue shorts White Top standing at Table edge with B/W Dog with Blue & White checkered Background in Wonderful Land of Make-Believe where so many of childhoods Happy Days are Spent Boy & Girl have many Exciting Adventures with their Little Chums & Fairy Make Believe. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. C. H. Van Vliet Co., Chicago, hardcover
1934Best.-Nr. ABE-8442707212Albert Whitman & Co JUNIOR PRESS BOOK CHICAGO 1934 HBDJ October 1934. 3rd printing Near Fine/ GOOD AS-IS Beautiful brown hardcover Boards with Color Paste-On Label Duplicates DJ Illustration 12mo cloth binding with color paste-on illustration cover is clean and bright DJ is faded and edgeworn with small tears owner's name 126 pages. DJ Protected Clear Mylar 5 1/2 X 7 1/4 in. Interior nice tight Clean Light wear few pg Edge Tears Light fox DJ Light rub Wear tiny Chips Tears Extremities bound in original beige cloth with colorful pictorial pastedown to front board in the original matching dustjacket.Tiny Chips Tears Spine DJ Ends. 3rd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Albert Whitman & Co JUNIOR PRESS BOOK CHICAGO hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 27183World Publishing NY 1967 Blank white Endpapers HBDJ 1967 First edition. FINE-/FINE- Hardcoverred clothFINE condition in FINE dustjacket.Contents clean & tight. 160 pgs. A beautiful copy.Tweed red cloth boards Titled in Black on Spine Cvr DJ Protected Clear Mylar Interior Nice Tight Clean Neighborhood children move the possessions their parents always complain about old birds nests broken dolls mounted butterflies into a deserted house that suddenly takes on a ghostly life of its own a Plea from their long-suffering parents that they get Rid of their Precious but Untidy Collections of Insects Chemicals Model Airplanes Stuffed Animals hats Rabbits & Movie Magazines sends George Carpenter his Sister Karen & their Friends on a search for a Clubhouse with Lots of Space. They find a place but the stairs to 2nd Floor are barred & Padlocked but the House seems Deserted. Soon however strange Noises from the barricaded Rooms Upstairs Disappearing Pictures & a Frightening Stranger make it plain that someone is trying to Evacuate Them. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. World Publishing, NY, hardcover
1956Best.-Nr. 27185Blackie & Sons London Limited Printed in Great Britain 1956 HBDJ Stated 1st published 1956. First Edition. 1st printing NF/GOOD AS-IS THICK Rust Orange TEXTURED Hard Cover Titled in Black everso Slight Slant. Book is NF foxing to foredge; DJ is GOOD TINY chipping and creasing to spine ends & Extrmities DJ. INTERIOR NICE TIGHT CLEAN LIGHT WEAR FOX DJ Protected Clear Mylar cvr 222 PGS NO ADS IN Back. Back DJ small Mended Tears creases light soil Lists Thru Moppys Great Adventure. DJ Spine has small end chip takes out SH in word Shadow at Top ERIC PERRY is set by His Eccentric Uncle Trevor in Singapore an Unusual Test in the form of a Treasure Hunt to prove that he is worthy of Inheriting the Old Mans Fortune. He accepts its Challenge & with His Friend Allan Scott enthusiastically proceeds to tackle the 1st Clue which Leads them to a Remote spot on Welsh Coast. The Trail which began as an Exciting but carefree Adventure very soon Falls Under an Evil Influence for which Trevor Perry is unwittingly Responsible. The boys after narrowly Escaping with Their Lives in a Blizzard High in the Austrian Alps Only gradually become aware that for some Mysterious reason they are relentlessly bneing Pursued by a shadow of Danger. A Tearaway Ride into Vienna Follows & from the Sinister steps of the Cafe Minerva to Venice the tempo of Events chase & escapes Quickens. Caught in the whirl of high adventure the boys reach Marseilles where the Treasure Hunt . Fast moving Yarn. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Blackie & Sons , London, Limited, Printed in Great Britain hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 27203A.L. Burt NY 1909 HBDJ 1909. 1st Edition THUS VG/GOOD- AS-IS THICK GREEN PINK & WHITE CLOTH Hard Cover WITH DRAWING OF HOUSE WITH 2 DOORS AT BTM & WINDOW ABOVE TITLED IN White . Book Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD-. . Hard Cover. Dust jacket has considerable shelfwear 1 1/2 inch tear on top front several small chips/tears at edges LARGE Chips at both spine DJ ends. Cover has a few small dents on top edge. Pages are clean and unmarked slightly toned. Hinges are perfect. Binding is slightly shaken. Good reading copy. BACK DJ LIGHT WEAR FOX STAINS Interior nice tight Clean light wear Fox DJ Protected Clear Mylar 375 pgs. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A.L. Burt, NY hardcover
1908Best.-Nr. 26924Reilly & Lee Chicago 1908 HBDJ 1908 1st Edition THUS LATER ISSUE BK VG-/ DJ IS GOOD- AS-IS Advertisement page at the rear of this book for the Oz books listing 15 in the series ending with "Kabumpo in Oz". Kabumpo was published in 1922 so even though the copyright date states 1908 this must have been printed about 1922 12mo. Measures about 7 inches tall by 5 1/8 inches wide. 58 pages AD Lists Thru Kabumpo in Oz. . Hardcover bound in blue pictorial cloth with small rub Fade Edges with a white color pastedown on the front cover with designs in yellow blue red and green that Match DJ Illustration. Comes with the original dust jacket which has the same image on the front and the back. The jacket is worn and soiled with small brown stains Extremities but is complete. Line of damping on the fore edge and bottom edge of the front panel and covering about the left quarter on the rear panel also near the fore edge. The damping translates onto the cloth beneath especially on the rear cover but it does not affect the interior of the book. There is a small dent at the bottom edge of the rear cover. Back DJ Light edge Wrinkle & Brown around Extremities DJ light wear Tiny chips Tears Edges DJ Titled in Green on front. Interior is sound and appears generally clean with Light wear Fox. Illustrated with 16 full page color illustrations including the frontis a color title page and a color half title for the section section Humpty Dumpty. DJ PROTECTED CLEAR MYLAR Blue Pictorial Cover with color Label pastedown of Alice in Yellow Dress & Green Bow in Hair & green & white Socks & Rabbit in Pink Vest & Black & Green Cape Holding Black H. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Reilly & Lee, Chicago hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 26932C. H. Van Vliet Co. Chicago 1923 BLANK Endpapers Light WearFOX HBDJ 1923. VG/GOOD- AS-IS Hardcover. Blue Cloth Hardcover with Embossed Gold Gilt Titles on front Cvr & Spine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD- with some soiling Wear. 8vo. 186 pages. Blue cloth hardcover with blue and white checkered dust jacket. Jacket is toned small stains and rubbed with small chips and tears on the edges in addition to a 1.5 inch interior tear. Spine and front of jacket are damp-stained. Spine is lightly bumped. Hinges are sound and text is clean. Jacket is toned and rubbed with small chips and tears Creases on the edges & Light stains. DJ Spine ends tiny chips wear FOX DJ Protected Clear Mylar 5 1/2 x 8. Book is clean and tight. Interior nice tight clean Light Wear Fox Color Frontispiece Playing Callers of Little Girl seated in Fabric chair Near Window wearing White hat with Red Ribbon Holding White Fan & wearing Long Red Robe with her feet resting on Purple Pillow with Little Boy & Girl Standing Playing Dress Up & Little Bown & White Dog with Large Gold Bow in Color Dustjacket of Boy Seated at Table wearing Purple Bowtie Yellow Sweater & White shirt with Little Girl Standing with Braided Hair Holding Wicker Basket of Apples & Toy Lamb & Duck on Floor & another Small Boy in Blue shorts White Top standing at Table edge with B/W Dog with Blue & White checkered Background in Wonderful Land of Make-Believe where so many of childhoods Happy Days are Spent Boy & Girl have many Exciting Adventures with their Little Chums & Fairy Make Believe. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Clara M. Burd. C. H. Van Vliet Co., Chicago, hardcover
1934Best.-Nr. 26961Thomas Nelson and Sons London 1934 HBDJ 1934 1st Edition UNDATED VG-/GOOD AS-IS Blue cloth Hardback titled & Decorated in blue. Book Condition: VG-. hardback with GOOD D/J medium size wear to edges hinges SLIGHTLY weak page edges foxed wear to head & tail of spine spine sunned & faded but Readable index DJ Protected lear Mylar DJ SPINE HAS SMALL CHIPS AT Ends REMOVING ING IN Gardening at Top 259 pgs Cultural Index Back DJ some soiling Rub Wear advertises Colour in Garden. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Thomas Nelson and Sons, London hardcover
1919Best.-Nr. 26968New York: Barse & Hopkins 1919 HBDJ n.d. ca 1919 VG/GOOD- AS-IS Beige Hardcover Trimmed & Titled in Red cloth cover color PasteOn illustration of Cinderella in Pink Dress seated on green Cushioned chair as she tries on Slippers for Prince whos wearing Yellow sash & Red Boots & black & Yellow Srtriped Pants & tipping his Furlined Hat with Yellow Feather . A title in "The Pleasant Hour" series 62 pgs. Very good in a good- dust jacket loss of approximately 1 cm at base of spine of book some overall chipping and edgewear to the dustjacket but the color pastedown is bright and attractive on front Cvr. Illustration on the dj differs from that on the pastedown. Uncommon in dust jacket. Light edge sgtains to Cvr Faded DJ has small edge Chips & Tears Back DJ Light wear soil Lists thru Traveling Besrs in Fairyland SPINE DJ ends small chips Front inner DJ flaps lists thru Corner House Girls snowbound Interior nice tight clean light wear fox DJ Protected clear Mylar including stories about Jock her terrier dog by Evelyn Everett-Green 'Bridget in Charge' by Dorothea Moore & Advice from Caterpillar from Alice in Wonderland Jack & Bean-Stalk beanstalk & Night before christmas with Santa claus Color Illustration Color frontispiece of surprised Cinderella as Fairy gives her a Pumpkin coach with Mice Pulling it & cover color illustration the Swedish-born artist von Hofsten who came to Chicago in 1893 as a young man and who became in a short time the head of the illustration department of the Herald Tribune. Color frontispiece and 5 additional color plates. consisting of traditional fairy tales and other stories and poems by various authors -Illustration on the dj differs from that on the pastedown. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. New York: Barse & Hopkins, hardcover
1919Best.-Nr. 26969Barse & Hopkins NY 1919 HBDJn.d. ca 1919 VG/GOOD- AS-IS BK Very nice condition with great pastedown and decent DJ with small tears . LightGreen Hardcover Trimmed & Titled in Black has small crease btm front cloth cover color PasteOn illustration of ROBIN HOOD DUPLICATES DJ ILLUSTRATION 63 pgs. Very good in a GOOD- dust jacket loss of approximately 1 cm at DJ spine ENDS of book some overall chipping and edgewear to the dustjacket but the color pastedown is bright and attractive on front Cvr. . Uncommon in dust jacket. Light edge sgtains to Cvr Faded DJ has small edge Chips & Tears Back DJ Light wear soil Lists thru Traveling Besrs in Fairyland SPINE DJ ends small chips Front inner DJ flaps lists thru Corner House Girls snowbound Interior nice tight clean light wear fox DJ Protected clear Mylar. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Barse & Hopkins, NY hardcover
1946Best.-Nr. 27001CROWN PUBLISHERS NY 1946 HBDJ 1946 1st Edition 1st Printing Pre-text Lists thru this Title As well as Back DJ which Lists 17 Titles thru this one. GOOD/GOOD AS-IS Bound in textured green cloth boards with spine titles stamped in black. Light edgewear lower corners rubbed slight bumps at the head and heel of the spine. The paper shows mild toning but is not brittle. Hinges solid; binding square. The dust wrapper has moderate edgewear and rubbing with small chips at the edges more so at the heel than elsewhere. No tape. Back DJ Light soil. Wear & tiny Chips Tears EdgesTiny chips Tears wear Spine DJ Ends Interior Nice Tight clean Light Were FOX & TONING THRUOUT 243 pgs NO ADS IN BACK DJ has small creases Wear tiny Chips Tears Edges Green Textured ClothTitled in Red on Spine Cvr Adventures in World War II of American DAVE DAWSON & His English Friend Freddy Farmer When the 2 were sent Home were sent Home From Europe just Before the Invasion of Continent seemed Aout to Start they Felt Almost as if They had been Cashiered But that Feeling Lasted Only Until They overheard a Conversation in a California Crop Pickers Shack & Stumbled Upon Plans for Biggest Coup Japanese Intelligence had Yet Attempted. Before they were Thru the 2 Aces descending Once More into the shadow of Death had chased Jap Rats all over the Pacific. Famous Naval Victory at Turk. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. CROWN PUBLISHERS, NY hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 26707Doubleday New York 1925 HB NODJ VG-/GOOD NOJacket. AS-IS 1925. 1st Edition. 1st printing Dates Match on Title & Copyright page Binding is ORANGE & Black plaid Design Hardbound. Book Condition: GOOD VG-/GOOD NOJacket. AS-IS 157 pgs Orange w/ black title at spine. Some shelf wear. front board is Nice Plaid on front cvr. . 6 X 7 3/4 in. Interior nice tight Clean light Fox Wear Slight Lean to book Publishers Orange Dye Top outer pgs topedge. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Doubleday, New York, hardcover
1931Best.-Nr. 24565NY USA: Cupples & Leon Company 1931 HARDBACK NODustJacket1931 Early Edition Book Condition: GOOD- AS-IS. NOJACKET. 12mo . Red Illustrated Cloth hard cover of Boy on front with scuffs and stains Wear. Chap Book. Interior slight rub wear some lite stains Mild FOX 210 pgs ADS IN back ends with Motor boys on Wing Book spine FADED. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. NY, USA: Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 23937House of the Green Label Herbert Jenkins York Street London 1923 HBDJ 1923 on Title Page 1st Edition Later Printing VG-/GOOD- AS-IS DJ light Rub Wear Soil Tiny Chips Tears Extremities Back of Green & White DJ DJ spine light Rub Soil Tiny Chips Tears Ends. FOX Stains Outer Pgs Edges Interior Nice tight Clean light FOX Wear 367 Pgs NO ADS IN BACK Grey Cloth Decorated Lettered in Black Light Rub Wear in Good- d/w edge-worn sunned spine small chips and closed tears quite rubbed a bit soiled but surprisingly good for its age!. Bumped and foxed page edges quite grubby eps discoloured owner's name pencilled on ffep . Young Little Heiress to Hunter Millions. Story of Mysterious Kidnapping to Punish Her Fathers Deed Hence the Mad act of Vengeance. First Edition. Hard Cover. House of the Green Label, Herbert Jenkins York Street, London hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 24217Grosset & Dunlap New York 1928 HBDJ 1928 1st Edition VG/GOOD- AS-IS Good strong binding Interior nice tight Clean light FOX Wear Minor tears wear Rub to the dust jacket Edges & small chips here & There Yet Front DJ Basically Intact & Fade DJ Spine light Chips Ends Back DJ lists thru Hervey Willetts .Green Cloth lettered in Red on front & in Black on spine light Rub Wear 235 pgs ADS in Back Thru Third Base Thatcher .Skinny Finds Friend In Danville Bently new Scout at Temple Camp Share harrowing episode in Lonely Cave. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Grosset & Dunlap, New York hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 26743John F. Shaw & Co. London 1928 HBDJ 1928. Early edition GOOD/GOOD AS-IS THICK Original Green & Black Decorated Cloth Cvr Light Wear. Book Condition: GOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD . 224 pages NO ADS in Back colour frontis. Green cloth covers with black decoration and lettering on spine and front board. Prize label on front endpaper. 1/2" missing at tail of dust wrapper spine. 1/2" and smaller tears and chips in edges of dust wrapper. ; 12mo. Interior nice tight Light Wear Fox Charming Children's story which begins with Murray's little brother being born. Hard Cover. Good/Good. John F. Shaw & Co., London, hardcover
1919Best.-Nr. 26594Grosset & Dunlap by arrangement with LIPPINCOTT 1919 HBDJ 1919 1ST EDITION THUS VG/GOOD AS-IS BOOK IS Turquoise BLUE COVER WITH NAVY BLUE LETTERING on Front & Spine Cvr 5 3/4 x 8 1/8. 289 pgs. Hard Cover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD Reprint Edition. 8vo This book is in very good condition for its age. The boards are a blue-green color with the lettering in dark blue. The dust jacket is in GOOD condition with wear and tear and chipping along the edges & Extremities & on front top left corner DJ Small chip NOT Affecting Titles. The jacket is in new clear protective Mylar covering. Fiction. Interior nice tight clean Light wesr FOX DJ Slight spine Fade & small end chips NOT AFFECTING TITLES Back DJ Light wear fox Lists thru BeauGeste .Gentle love Story runs thru the novel & an Exciting Bomb Plot of which the bookshop becomes the Tragic Scene.This is a suspenseful novel set in Brooklyn around the time of the end of World War I. It continues the story of Roger Mifflin the book seller in Parnassus on Wheels. It also details an adventure of Miss Titania Chapman and a young advertising man named Aubrey Gilbert. The narrative begins with a young advertising man Aubrey Gilbert stopping by a bookstore named "The Haunted Bookshop" in the hopes of finding a new client. Gilbert meets the proprietor Roger . First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Grosset & Dunlap, by arrangement with LIPPINCOTT hardcover
1919Best.-Nr. 26597Grosset & Dunlap New York 1919 HBDJ 1919 1ST EDITION THUS NF-/GOOD AS-IS BOOK IS turquoise BLUE COVER with small Embossment on front & Black cloth spine cvr Decorated & Titled in Gold Gilt on Spine cvr 5 3/4 x 8 1/8 approx. 289pgs. DJ Light rub wear Tiny chips Tears Creases edges & Extremities. cvr Light rub wear Interior nice tight clean Light wear Fox thruout. Small chip along edges & Spine DJ Ends NOT affecting Titles. DJ Protected in Clear Mylar Blue topstain to outer pgs edge. First Thus. Very Good/Good. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, hardcover
1951Best.-Nr. 26551Faber & Faber Ltd London 1951 HBDJ 1951. Stated 1ST Edition THUS. VG/GOOD AS-IS. Green Tweed cloth Hardcover Titled & decorated in Gold Gilt on Spine Cvr. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD. Apart from the initials FR on the front endpaper an unmarked hardback in a priceclipped dustjacket which is chipped by up to ½" at the spine ends & corners & edges of DJ. Dustjacket Protected Clear Mylar. Back DJ light wear FOX small edge chips Lists thru Best Nature Stories Interior nice tight light wear Fox. 256 pgs 5 1/4 X 7 1/2 in. A classic book for bibliophiles first published in 1919 here reprinted in a new edition. .What true bookworm does not Love to Browse around an old-Fashioned bookshop such as the Parnassus at Home which has a warm & comfortable Obscurity a kind of Drowsy dusk stabbed here & there by Bright cones of Yellow Light from green shaded Electrics & where the Air was heavy with the delightful Fragrance of mellowed Paper & Leather surcharged with a strong bouquet of Tobacco & what better guide could there be than its Proprietor Roger Mifflin.This is setting for charming Romance & Intriging Mystery. This is a great classic on books and book collecting Probably the most famous bookselling novel to be written The Haunted Bookshops rollicking plot provides ample doses of diversion while allowin. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Faber & Faber Ltd, London hardcover