1916ref. 27572Publisher: Cupples and Leon NY 1916 B/W Glossy Frontispiece by Walter S. Rogers 2 Internals 1 Evening in the Week the Juniors were Allowed the Freedom of Gymnasium HB NODUSTJACKET 1916. 1ST EDITION Beige Brown B/W Illustrated Hardcover of 3 Boys in Suits. VG-/GOOD . AS-IS NOJACKET Corners and edges remarkably little bumped. Remainder clean and tight Light wear Fox. 246 pgs few dogeared pgs ADS in Back end with Banner boy Scouts snowbound BACK CVR FEW LIGHTER STAINS Interior nice tight PRE TEXT LISTS THRU BASS ISLAND This led to an Organization of boys Dept. in Local YMCA. When the lads realized what was being done for them they joined in the movement with Vigor & did all they could to help the Good Cause. To raise funds they gave a Minstrel Show & other entertainments & a # of them did their best to win a Gold Medal offered by a Local Minister who was greatly Interested in the work of Upbuilding Youthful Character. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Publisher: Cupples and Leon, NY hardcover
1906ref. 27566CENTURY COMPANY NY 1906 Twenty full page color illustrations plus the color paste down on the cover twenty one color illustrations total. HARDBACK NODJ ISSUEDStated Published November 1906 1ST EDITION 1st printing Dates Match on title & Copyright pg VG/GOOD AS-IS NOJACKET. SMALL BLUE CLOTH WITH COLOR PICTORIAL LABEL ON FRONT Inset OF FAIRY With Wings & Flowers 132 pages. Color illustrated on glossy paper. No Dust Jacket. Light wear. A little fraying at foot of spine. Covers a bit sun browned or maybe light soiling. Very Good - condition. 5 1/4 X6 1/2 IN. Tiny edge Tears Spine cvr. Interior nice tight clean Light wear Fox few creases edges pgs. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Harrison Cady . CENTURY COMPANY, NY hardcover
1867ref. 26966Jones Brothers & Co Chicago Atlanta 1867 HARDBACK NO DJ 1867. First Edition NF-/GOOD- AS-IS NOJACKET BLUE HARDBOUND CVR WITH SLIGHTLY RUBBED GILT DESIGN ON FRONT CVR & ITS SAYS DEDICATED TO THE BOYS IN BLUE CLOTH OVER BOARDS Blue cloth binding rubbed at extremities & Spine cvr has TAPE Repair & Darkening; Many good b&w ils. some are fold-out 510 pgs GOOD- in original gold stamped blue cloth light Rub Wear Sound binding with Interior Light Wear Fox pgs very clean and tight with only a few light stains to top corner margin of last few pages. 1 B/W Fold-Out Illustration with TAPE RESIDUE Edges Light Darkening wear rub Spine cvr & its Edgesoriginal gold stamped blue cloth. Sound binding very clean and tight 8vo LIFE IN THE CAMP FIELD AND HOSPITAL ADVENTURES OF SPIES AND SCOUTS TOGETHER WITH THE SONGS BALLADS ANECDOTES AND HUMEROUS INCIDENTS OF THE WAR A VERY RELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION WHILE THE THOUGHTS OF THE WAR WAS STILL FRESH. "DEDICATED TO THE BOYS IN BLUE" ETCHED ON THE FRONT COVER In GOLD Gilt Armies of the Union Many good b&w ils. some are fold-out 18 fold-out pages with portraits of Union officers including Meade Hancock Warren Sickles Butler Hooker Custer Sheridan etc and Confederate officers such as: Lee Jackson Longstreet Mosby Hood Forrest etc. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Jones Brothers & Co, Chicago Atlanta hardcover
1919ref. 25365Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. Publ 1919 HBDJ 1919 Early Edition16mo.; Small pictorial PINK covered boards of Black & Red Cover duplictes DJ Illustration light Wear ; BOOK very good in a chipped and soiled dust jacket GOOD- AS-IS. Small Chip Front DJ takes out Part of M in Merryvale O/W Intact DJ light Wear & Tiny Tears Extremities Back DJ Lists Thru What Tommy Did light Wear Soil Interior Nice Tight Clean light FOX Wear 59 pgs ADS in Back Thru Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp Illustrated pictures in color Alice Hale Burnett is an American author of children's books. She is best known for writing books set in a small town called Merryvale. Juvenile. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co. Publ, hardcover
ref. elala4251Leeds & London: Chorley & Pickersgill Ltd. The Electric Press 1906. 4to. pp. 3 p.l. 26 4 27-60 2 61-134 2. colour frontis. map 1 colour plate & numerous text illus. gilt-stamped cloth light soiling to upper cover Leeds & London: Chorley & Pickersgill, Ltd., The Electric Press, 1906 hardcover
1966ref. 26781Radha Soami Stasang Beas India 1966 His mystic songs composed over four hundred years ago continue to be sung with joyous enthusiasm to this day in thousands of India's villages. A biography and account of the teachings of the sixteenth century Indian mystic and poet Kabir the despised weaver of Benaras Comprehensive study of the mystic teachings together with over 200 of his songs of one of India's greatest mystics. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Radha Soami Stasang Beas, India hardcover
1997ref. 22187Numerous b&w plates Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies hardcover
2002ref. 26615BENDON. Publishing ASHLAND OH Printed in China 2002 HARDBACK NO DJ ISSUED 2002 1ST EDITION 1st Printing FINE-/NF NOJACKET Glossy Padded pictorial cvr of Santa on Roof going down Snow covered Chimney wearing Red & White Suit Green Gloves & Blue Boots Cvr has tiny Residue mrk 11 X 11 in. Interior nice tight clean very light Wear Light small crinkling or light creases to some pgs. 1st Edition. Hardcover. BENDON. Publishing ,ASHLAND, OH ,Printed in China hardcover
1919ref. 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
1919ref. 26588Grosset & Dunlap by arrangement with LIPPINCOTT 1919 HBDJ 1919 1ST EDITION THUS GOOD/VG- AS-IS BOOK IS Turquoise BLUE COVER WITH NAVY BLUE LETTERING on Front & Spine Cvr 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. 289 pgs. Hard Cover. Book Condition: GOOD Dust Jacket Condition: VG- Reprint Edition. 8vo The boards are a blue-green color with the lettering in dark blue. The dust jacket is in VG- condition with wear and tear and Tiny chipping along the edges & Extremities. The jacket is in new clear protective covering. Fiction. Interior nice tight clean Light wesr FOX & yellowing pgs Thruout . Slight spine Fade & Tiny end chips NOT AFFECTING TITLES Back DJ Light wear fox SOIL Lists thru Margaret Wilson . Roger Mifflin is now the proprietor of a bookshop in Brooklyn. 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. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good. Grosset & Dunlap, by arrangement with LIPPINCOTT hardcover
1919ref. 26590Grosset & Dunlap by arrangement with LIPPINCOTT 1919 HBDJ 1919 1ST EDITION THUS GOOD/GOOD- AS-IS BOOK IS Turquoise BLUE COVER WITH NAVY BLUE LETTERING on Front & Spine Cvr 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. 289 pgs. Hard Cover. Book Condition: GOOD Light rub wear Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD- Reprint Edition. 8vo . The dust jacket is in GOOD- condition with wear and tear and Tiny chipping along the edges & Extremities & SMALL CHIP TOP LEFT FRONT DJ Takes out part of top word THE. The jacket is in new clear protective covering. Fiction. Interior nice tight clean Light wesr FOX & yellowing pgs Thruout Slight DJ Spine Fade & Tiny end chips only affecting Top word THE Back DJ Light wear fox Lists thru Margaret Wilson Sun to Spine DJ somewhat tattered but mostly whole. Blurb "This book while produced under wartime conditions in full compliance with government regulations for the conservation of paper and other essential materials is COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED." Has book store logo and previous owners' name else unmarked pages are yellowing. 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 nam. First Thus. Hard Cover. Good/Good. Grosset & Dunlap, by arrangement with LIPPINCOTT hardcover
1909ref. 26209Reilly & Britton Chicago Publ. 1909 Hardback NODustJacket 1909 1st Edition 1ST Printing VG-/GOOD NOJacket AS-IS Brown Tan with red & Green Illustrated Cloth Lettered in Black & Red on front & spine Cvr Cover light Rub Wear Stiffness when you open book Approx 5 X 7 1/2 in Interior nice Tight Light FoX SOME small Stains 325 Pgs Ads in back include The Airship Boys Aunt Jane's Nieces series and Annabel. Cover is nice and bright with just some slight rubbing & wear edges & Extremities The book is a bit cocked Tiny chips spine cover ends Spine is generally good with minor fading Binding and pages are very solid. Otherwise clean and bright with no tears odor . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Reilly & Britton, Chicago Publ. hardcover
1953ref. 26050LIFE 1953 MAGAZINE 1953 1st Edition Light scuffing and soiling minor corner creasing but overall tight clean copy with no splits at spine. GOOD/GOOD CONDITION AS-IS MAGAZINE Scuffed and lightly soiled with moderate spine splits and creasing 148 pgs RUB Wear Scuffing Back Cover spine starting to split a little few dog eared pgs & last pg some lite wrinkling Interior relatively nice tight clean . Includes Vermont lady legislator Queen Mary dies. railway nightmare homecoming the Cabinet Churches of America Shrine of St. Ursula Mme. Chiang Wellesley egg cookery big hats Japan's Giants ostrich sculpture. First Edition. Soft Cover. LIFE paperback
1902ref. 26018David McKay Phil. Publ 1902 HARDBACK NODustjacket.1902. 1st edition VG/VG- NOJACKET AS-IS Decorative Cloth. Book Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo 5 X 7 1/2 in. . 288 pages plus publisher's ads in Back end with Things Generally by Max Adeler. 12mo. Tan cloth decorated with a circus motif with an elephant lions and clown. Spine title slightly faded. A few occasional smudges inside; date stamp on rear pastedown. No dust jacket. Titled in Gold Gilt on spine cvr. First Edition. Hard Cover. David McKay Phil. Publ hardcover
1986ref. 25933Random House NY 1986 HBDJ Oversized embossed green & Beige cloth Boards 1986 1st edition with Number 1 Intact in Line on copyright pg F-/Fine light wear FoX extremities DJ Interior nice tight Clean light Wear DJ protected by Clear Mylar UNPAGINATED. First Edition. Hard Cover. Random House, NY hardcover
1900ref. 23069Harper & Brothers Publ. 1900. HB NODJ illustrated cloth Cover in Beige black Red of 2 Men observing typewriter 1st edition 1900 2nd Printing Light Wear Soil Cover Gold gilt titles Spine Rubbed NF/NF NODJ 171 pgs ADS Interior Nice tight Clean Cover small stain Binding is 12mo. 4 1/2 X 7 in. Small chip to Blank Margin edge few pgs . First Edition. Hard Cover. Harper & Brothers Publ. hardcover
ref. 25917PRESS OF PUBLIC OPINION. Decorah Iowa. HARDBACK NODustJacket UNDATED BUT EARLY 1920 NF-/VG AS-IS NOJACKET Brown cloth Titled in Bright Gold Gilt Cvr light wear & small tears tiny chips Extremities Back DJ small bottom edge stain 161 pgs Spine cvr ends tiny tears chips Interior nice tight clean light wear some FOX Stains 6 X 7 1/2 in. Covers Slightly Wobbly . Their new house pleasantly situated on left bank of small Stream called Plum Creek. Chapters include Jesse is brought to trial June Afternoon in Dugway Frances Armstrong gives a party at which a Skeleton Appears an old time store & its habitues ETC. Hard Cover. PRESS OF PUBLIC OPINION. Decorah, Iowa hardcover
1964ref. 25828John Long. London. Printed in GB 1964. HBDJ Small Green cloth Hardcover Titled in White & Yellow on spine cvr 1st edition Stated 1st Published 1964 1st printing BOOK VG DJ GOOD CONDITION AS -IS DJ worn and soiled priceclipped dustjacket with light Wear & Chips Tears edges. DJ protected in Clear Mylar. BACK DJ brown staining wear soil light creases 4 3/4 X 7 1/2 in. 184 pgs. NO ADS in Back. Interior nice tight clean light Wear Fox . threatened into driving a van used in a bank robbery was a man with the brass knuckle of fear driven hard into his Vitals until the moment the whole meaning of his life changed & he fought Back. First His Newspaper wrapped around the Jemmy which smashed a bank Messengers Head is Lost Next he runs down a little boy playing in the street. How Haddon escapes from a secret gang hide-out to aid the Law. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. John Long., London. Printed in GB hardcover
ref. 25748H. M. CALDWELL NY. HB NODJ ISSUED UNDATED but around 1934 Edition VG-/VG AS-IS NOJACKET Small Brown Cloth with Gold Gilt Title & Color Inlaid Paste-On of Robin Hood with Arrow in Red Tights & Another Man by Tree on Front Cvr Gold Gilt rubbed off Spine Cvr with Floral Design has tiny Chips Spine cvr ends. 4 1/4 X 6 1/2 in Approx. Interior nice tight clean light wear FOX. 263 pgs NO ADS in Back . Hard Cover. H. M. CALDWELL NY hardcover
1905ref. 25516Samuel Edson Cassino & Son Salem Mass. H. M. Caldwell 1905. HARDBACK NODJ ISSUED1905 1st Edition NF-/VG- AS-IS NOJACKET pictorial red cloth cvr with Paste-On Label of Group of Chickens & Rooster by Farm Fence CVR light rub wear Scuff with light Stains on Back Inner Hinges Starting slightly cracked with Mended Clear Tape Hinge repairs Interior nice tight clean light Wear FOX 95 pgs Titled in Black on front Cvr Small Hardback 12mo. First Edition. Hard Cover. Samuel Edson Cassino & Son, Salem Mass., H. M. Caldwell hardcover
1986ref. 25343Necronomicon Press West Warwick RI 1986. Beige Softcover WRAPS with 2 Boys with coats Holding HAT walking inbetween Headless Figures on Front nice cover art by Jason Eckhardt NF-/VG- AS-IS PAPERBACK Stated Published April 1 1986 1st Edition 8.5 X 6.75 in. approx Interior nice Tight Clean light Rub wear Cvr light wear & light Small red Stain top outer Edge & on back light stain acroos top edge with light wear 39 pgs. First Edition. Soft Cover. Necronomicon Press, West Warwick, RI paperback
1918ref. 25242George H. Doran Company 1918. HARDBACK NODJ 1918 Book only in FAIR- condition. AS-IS NOJACKET Some Small light stains on the margin edges of cover the spine covering is torn and shredding & pulling away but Titles Readab;e and the corners are damaged with small Tears. The book is splitting Slightly after the title page pages are lightly TONED & Fox one page is almost apart from the book and several pages are torn with Clear Tape Repair. Red Cover light rub wear & Titles in Black with Color Paste-On on Front of Boy Girl & Gray Cat with 2 Balloons saying I just let them go for a Teeny Weeny Minute & Away They Went 146 pages 6 3/4 by 8 1/2 inches. Covers litttle Wobbly Interior relatively Nice Tight light FOX .Illustrations both B/W and Red black and gray full page plates are wonderful. The author the sister of writer Mary Roberts Rineheart however appears to have been well known in her day. This was one of her early works; after its publication she was offered the job of writing a syndicated children's department for a large group of Newspapers and I also found references to her columns and Articles with advice on child Rearing. .They visit the lands of Lost Balloons Runaway Feathers Soap Bubbles and good smells. The book is funny in places - the cat given speech on the trips grumbles about being forced to visit soap bubble land. It also has seriOus real life touches - there are references to World War I with food shortages and the children's father at a military camp in the west. The author the sister of writer Mary Roberts Rineheart however appears to have been well known in her day. This was one of her early works; after its publication she was offered the job of writing a syndicated children's department for a large group of newspapers and I also found references to her columns and articles with advice on child rearing. Hard Cover. George H. Doran Company hardcover
1931ref. 24761Cupples & Leon. 1931. HBDJ 1931 Early Issue PreText Lists thru This Title Front Inner Flap DJ & PostText lists Thru #6 Red Auto Mystery Beige cloth Book Condition: GOOD with Man in Hat Looking thru Window on front bk. Dust Jacket Condition: POOR. 8vo . Front panel illustration on DJ is Clear and w/ no Big tears or chunks missing. HowevEr Spine is faded and there is much rubbing to extremities alONg w/ small chunks of DJ missing but ONly Affecting llard in Willard at Bottom rest of Titles & Illustration Intact on Front. Now in protective Clear mylar. Binding in cocked. Textblock is clean and tight with Aging & FOX light Wear interior pgs. DJ spine Darkened Fox with small End pieces Out Back DJ Tiny Chips Tears Fox lists thru #16 Motor Boys on Road River 206 Pgs ADS inBack Thru Bomba Jungle Boy & Painted Hunters. While on a vacation Bob captures a band of criminals & solves a mystery in which millions of dollars in Gems & Jewelry had Been stolen . Hard Cover. Good/Poor. Cupples & Leon. hardcover
1901ref. 24654Philadelphia: David Mckay Pub 1901. HARDBACK NODustJacket 1901 1st Edition THUS VG/GOOD- AS-IS NOJACKET Beige Black & Red Illustrated cover of Young man in Suit & Hat reading Newspaper with red Luggage Cvr Scuff rub wear light Soil Fox spine Cvr Interior nice tight Clean light Fox Wear 307 pgs 39 chapters NO ADS in BAck Cover edges rub wear rubbing on spine cvr. First Thus. Hard Cover. Philadelphia: David Mckay Pub hardcover
1903ref. 24568David McKay Phil. Publ 1903. HBDJ 1903 1st Edition Book is GOOD light dirt tight binding. DJ is FAIR condition AS-IS overall dirt and wear some darkening front flap torn and almost off small chips Extremities YET Titles Illustration INTACT. This is a very hard to find DJ regardless of condition Green Red & Black Illustrated Cloth Cover of an elephant clown Holding Ring Looking Thru its Legs and lions Posing Duplicated DJ illustration Cvr light rub wear Fade Scuff Spine DJ light end chips remove part publ name at Bottom Interiornice tight clean light FOX Wear 310 pgs NO ADS in Back. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. David McKay Phil. Publ hardcover