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1822réf. V71064London: Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean 26 Haymarket 1822. Hardcover. Very Good. Hand-coloured aquatint plates 16 of 19 after H. Alken and J. Barenger by G. and T. Hunt. Volume I Nos. I-VI Jan-June 15 1822 all published Royal octavo red half roan original boards covered in blue sugar paper spine title gilt rebacked with matching red roan corners original spine laid on original free end-papers with new pastedown armorial bookplate with motto DA VIS and pencilled ownership H. Davis at head of titlepage vi 2pp list of engravings 540pp 16 of 19 hand-colored plates. LACKS 4 text leaves pp 217-24 - the missing 3 plates and 4 text leaves in colour facsimile reproduced from the 1904 reprint bound in to match. One gathering with edges browned some offsetting from plates to text otherwise clean and crisp throughout. Beautiful bright hand-coloured plates of hunting shooting tandem-driving livestock etc. Very rare in original edition Schwerdt II p.212 "the first and only edition of a rare and valuable magazine". This is the original 1822 edition not the more common reprint published in 1904. Printed by W. Lewis for Thomas McLean, 26, Haymarket hardcover
2010réf. C15NF-OA071526G6Barcelona Spain: Editorial Juventud S.A 2010. Hardcover. Near Fine. 10 x 10.5. Near Fine. Spanish language edition. 2010. Editorial Juventud Barcelona. Unmarked. Hardcover. 10x10.5". Lovely full color illustrations. Binding tight solid & square. Spanish translation by Teresa Farran i Vert of Demi's The Empty Pot a Chinese folk tale in which a boy named Ping wins the throne through honesty. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Spanish Language Edition. La maceta vacia is the Spanish edition of Demi's The Empty Pot translated by Teresa Farran i Vert and published by Editorial Juventud in Barcelona. The story retells a Chinese folk tale about Ping a boy gifted with plants who is given a seed by the Emperor as a test of character. When his seed will not grow Ping brings the Emperor his empty pot rather than a false bloom and his honesty wins him the throne. Demi is an American author-illustrator known for picture books drawing on Eastern art traditions and multicultural folk tales. Editorial Juventud, S.A hardcover
2019réf. C16NF-OA071526G3Woodbury Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications 2019. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. N/A. Near Fine. Complete 78 card set. 2019. Llewellyn Publications Minnesota. Unmarked. Rigid cardboard box w/ pull-off lid; all 78 cards & 128 pp small format guidebook present clean & bright w/ no bends. Illustrated by Alejandro Colucci. The Tarot Z deck a Rider-Waite-Smith-based tarot set built around a zombie-apocalypse theme w/ guidebook by Jaymi Elford. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Tarot Z is a 78-card tarot deck with a 128-page companion guidebook published by Llewellyn Publications in 2019. Illustrated by Alejandro Colucci with text by Jaymi Elford the set reworks the traditional Rider-Waite-Smith structure around a zombie-apocalypse survival theme. The guidebook pairs each card with post-apocalyptic interpretations while keeping the familiar RWS framework housed in a rigid pull-off box. Colucci is known for genre cover art and Elford for accessible divination guides. Llewellyn Publications paperback
1999réf. C15NF-OA071526G5Oakland California: Chaosium 1999. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. 5.5 x 8.5. Near Fine. First printing. 1999. Chaosium California. Unmarked. Paperback tight solid & square. Clean & bright; cover lies flat no rips tears or stains no spine creasing. Cover art by H.E. Fassl; b&w interior illustrations by Dave Carson. 284 pp. 5.5x8.5". A Cthulhu Mythos anthology edited by Robert M. Price collecting ten new stories & three earlier tales set in Lovecraft's decaying seaport of Innsmouth. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Tales Out of Innsmouth is a Cthulhu Mythos anthology edited by Robert M. Price and published by Chaosium in 1999 in its Call of Cthulhu Fiction line. Set in and around H.P. Lovecraft's decaying Massachusetts seaport of Innsmouth it collects ten new stories and three earlier tales exploring the Esoteric Order of Dagon and the town's Deep One heritage. Cover art is by H.E. Fassl with interior illustrations by Dave Carson. Robert M. Price edited numerous Cthulhu Mythos anthologies and long edited the journal Crypt of Cthulhu. Chaosium paperback
2017réf. C9NF-OA071526G7Los Angeles California: TOKYOPOP 2017. First Edition; 2-in-1. Paperback. Near Fine. 4x1x7. Studio Dice. Near Fine. 2017. TOKYOPOP California. Remainder mark else unmarked. Paperback tight solid & square; cover lies flat. Spine uncreased clean & bright; no rips tears or stains. Illustrated in b&w. Special 2-in-1 collector's edition binding Belle's Tale & the Beast's Tale as a double-sided volume. Disney Manga adaptation of the 2017 Beauty and the Beast film adapted by Mallory Reaves w/ art by Studio Dice. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: This Tokyopop Disney Manga volume is the Special 2-in-1 Collectors Edition of Beauty and the Beast adapting Disney's 2017 live-action film. The double-sided binding pairs Belle's Tale and the Beast's Tale telling the story from each character's perspective. The adaptation is written by Mallory Reaves with black-and-white art by Studio Dice. It brings Disney's fairy tale into a manga reading format. TOKYOPOP paperback
2012réf. C0VG-MK072226J2Roseville California: Prima Games 2012. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8 x 10.9. Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. 2012. Prima Games Roseville California. Unmarked. Paperback. Binding tight solid & square. Illustrated color throughout. Spine uncreased. Very light edge or shelf wear. No rips tears or stains. 8x10.9". Official Prima guide to Disney's Epic Mickey 2 w/ full-color labeled maps of Wasteland quest walkthroughs & foreword by Warren Spector; Prima Games ended all print guide publishing in 2019. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Published by Prima Games in 2012 Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two: Prima Official Game Guide serves as a full physical record of the co-op adventure game directed by Warren Spector. The narrative walkthrough details the journey of Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit as they utilize magical paint brush and remote control mechanics to save Wasteland a dark stylized alternate dimension populated by forgotten Disney characters and park attractions. The guide features high-density color maps character art and step-by-step game quest listings. Labeled world maps reveal every hidden secret collectible pin and movie reel across Wasteland while full-color tables document the items available at the in-game Emporium Shop. Visual layouts provide detailed descriptions of enemy behaviors and boss strategies to assist players of all skill levels. Author Michael Searle compiled the game mechanics under project manager Todd Manning w/ graphic design overseen by Red Sheet Studio. Foreword text by industry icon Warren Spector frames the development history of developer Junction Point Studios which was shuttered by Disney shortly after the game's release. Prima Games ended all print strategy guide publishing in 2019. Prima Games paperback
1979réf. C0Gg-MK072226J4Ithaca New York: Cornell University Press 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 6x1x9. Other. VG/G. First Edition; First Printing. 1979. Cornell University Press Ithaca New York. Previous owner & provenance signature of biophysicist George Holzwarth to front free endpaper else unmarked. Hardcover. Good tan cloth very clean and bright. Binding tight solid & square. Illustrated b&w. Good dust jacket w/ moderate wear: small chips nicks and tears to edges; chips creasing top and bottom of spine; fading; several 1/2 to one inch tears several small chips; creasing edge and shelf wear; small notation handwritten on back cover of dust jacket; not price clipped. Vintage science technology textbook. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's foundational monograph of modern soft matter physics; the author received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes's text presents the foundational monograph of modern soft matter physics. The work outlines scaling concepts and self-similarity laws to describe the complex physical conformations and dynamics of long flexible polymer chains. De Gennes's theoretical frameworks draw mathematical analogies between macromolecular behavior and the critical phenomena of phase transitions unifying polymer chemistry with the rigorous principles of statistical mechanics. Tan cloth covers embossed w/ a gold-gilt title on the spine and front cover house the text which is illustrated throughout with black-and-white figures and mathematical diagrams. The publisher's dust jacket features a minimalist geometric design of interlocking circular rings on the front panel and carries catalogs for Cornell University Press's chemistry lectureships on the rear panel. A previous owner signature on the front free endpaper provides a provenance link to Wake Forest University biophysicist and Professor of Physics George Holzwarth. Having pioneered research in macromolecular dynamics polymer physics and DNA gel electrophoresis Holzwarth's ownership connects this volume directly to the active scientific community that applied de Gennes's scaling equations during the textbook's initial 1979 release. Cornell University Press first published the volume in Ithaca New York in late 1979. Pierre-Gilles de Gennes who subsequently received the 1991 Nobel Prize in Physics for his generalizations of order phenomena in complex matter composed the work as a synthesis of contemporary polymer theories. The publication date coincided with rapid developments in neutron scattering and light spectroscopy experiments which validated de Gennes's scaling equations. Cornell University Press hardcover
1902réf. C4VGg-ES072726A5New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1902. 1902 c. 1910; early print. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 5.25 x 7.75. G/F. 1902 c. 1910 early print. Grosset & Dunlap NY. Unmarked. Hardcover. Good blue cloth covers w/ orange & black pictorial artwork; chip to top spine deep sun fading particularly to edges and spine fraying w/ small area of cloth loss to spine head edge shelf wear. Uneven tanning endpages. Frontispiece on glossy paper w/ b&w illustration. Acceptable red-stamped paper dust jacket quite rare even in fair condition to survive red artwork & lettering; heavy chipping & jacket loss to spine and upper right edge front see photos few half-inch chips & small closed tears along edges; unclipped; series adverts; protected in mylar cover. 224 pp. 5.25x7.75". Early Stratemeyer Syndicate juvenile w/ Edward Stratemeyer writing as Arthur M. Winfield in the original 40-cent Enterprise Books series. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Preserved with its original pre-WWI red-stamped paper dust jacket this rare vintage 12mo hardcover edition of Bob the Photographer; or A Hero in Spite of Himself captures the turn-of-the-century transition from 19th-century dime novel paperbacks to publisher-bound juvenile series fiction. Authored by Edward Stratemeyer under his Arthur M. Winfield pseudonym the storyline follows orphaned youth Bob Hazelton navigating studio photography railroad intrigue and wilderness perils while thwarting a train conspiracy. The narrative blends Horatio Alger pluck-and-luck themes with period industrial fascinations specifically view-camera photography and steam railroading. The physical volume features blue cloth boards stamped in orange and black with a detailed view-camera illustration a glossy monochrome frontispiece and plain endpapers. Enclosing the binding is an authentic circa-1910 paper dust wrapper displaying red artwork the 40-cent Enterprise Books price mark and publisher series advertisements along the flaps and rear panel. The front flap advertises The Enterprise Books listing down to Lost in the Land of Ice while the rear flap advertises The Bobbsey Twins listing down to The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore. Bibliographically carrying a 1902 copyright date by A. Wessels Company and a Grosset & Dunlap title page this printing state dates to circa 1910 based on back cover advertisements listing The Tom Swift Series down to Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout published in 1910. Edward Stratemeyer's work during this era connects to the brief Stitt Publishing Company window 1905 to 1906 a pivotal phase in the development of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Stratemeyer's factory assembly model pioneered the production framework that later spawned The Rover Boys The Bobbsey Twins The Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew. Paper dust wrappers from popular libraries and early juvenile series suffered an estimated 99.5% attrition rate as early readers routinely discarded fragile wrappers. Surviving pre-WWI paper wrappers represent major antiquarian rarities in juvenile series collecting. As an intact dime-novel-era artifact preserving its original publisher wrapper the book provides an important physical record of early 20th-century popular print culture. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1918réf. C4NFnf-A072726A6New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1918. 1918 c. 1920 Early Print. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.25 x 7.75. R. Emmett Owen. NF/VG. 1918 c. 1920 early print. Grosset & Dunlap NY. Unmarked. Hardcover. Near Fine olive-green cloth w/ dark brown lettering edge wear and rubbing. Photographic endpapers depicting World War I soldiers. Glossy frontispiece plate by R. Emmett Owen. Very Good original pictorial dust jacket tape to spine ends and bottom edge neatly done. Cover photographic art credited to Underwood & Underwood; unclipped. 206 pp. 5.25x7.75". Seventh volume in the Tom Slade series following the Boy Scout hero as a motorcycle dispatch rider behind Allied lines in World War I France written by Percy Keese Fitzhugh under the endorsement of the Boy Scouts of America. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Set during World War I in France Tom Slade Motorcycle Dispatch Bearer recounts the front-line adventures of young Boy Scout Tom Slade as he serves as a dispatch rider behind Allied lines. Operating his trusty motorcycle across hazardous mountain passes in the Vosges and shell-torn roads in Picardy Tom carries urgent military orders between troop commanders. The narrative combines high-stakes courier missions with themes of scout resourcefulness courage under fire and wartime duty. Bound in vivid olive-green cloth with bold dark brown stamped lettering on the front cover and spine the volume features full-page photographic endpapers depicting World War I soldiers taking prone firing positions with rifles alongside military motorcycles. A glossy coated frontispiece plate illustrated by R. Emmett Owen captures Tom encountering an enemy soldier in his searchlight beam. The text spans 206 numbered pages followed by period publisher catalog advertisements for The Tom Slade Books. Bibliographical evaluation of the jacket back cover advertising The Roy Blakeley Books through Roy Blakeley's Bee-Line Hike dates this specific Grosset & Dunlap printing to circa 1920. Author Percy Keese Fitzhugh wrote extensively for Grosset & Dunlap under the official endorsement of the Boy Scouts of America creating interconnected youth series that defined American juvenile fiction during the 1910s and 1920s. Bridgeboro scout characters created by Fitzhugh introduced millions of young readers to outdoor woodcraft patriotic service and military history. The publisher produced these volumes in uniform series bindings incorporating contemporary photographic imagery from Underwood & Underwood to reflect the technological atmosphere of early twentieth-century warfare. Early Grosset & Dunlap juvenile series titles published prior to 1922 are sought after by specialized children's literature preservationists and World War I fiction collectors. Fragile paper dust jackets from this period experienced an attrition rate exceeding ninety-nine percent due to immediate reader disposal upon purchase. Surviving copies retaining their original color pictorial dust wrappers represent uncommon publishing artifacts from the Golden Age of series books. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1909réf. C4Gg-A073026A3New York: The Platt & Peck Co 1909. Early Print. Hardcover. Good/Good. 5.25 x 7.7. S. Schneider. G/G. Early Print. 1909 c. 1910. The Platt & Peck Co. NY. Owner stamp & handwritten notations to front endpaper else unmarked. DJ included missing front and back interior flaps. Hardcover. Good tan cloth covers & spine w/ orange & black pictorial cover decoration; moderate shelf wear surface soiling edge rubbing minor cloth fraying at spine head & heel & corner bumping. Moderate even tanning to closed text block edges & interior pages. Good illustrative dust jacket missing both front and back flaps w/ moderate tanning moderate surface soiling edge rubbing small chips to spine head & heel & a few 1/2 inch to 1 inch closed tears along top panel edges; protected in mylar cover. 256 pp. 5.25x7.7". Glossy b&w frontispiece by S. Schneider. Seventh volume in the eleven-book Frontier Boys series written under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Capt. Wyn Roosevelt. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Issued by The Platt & Peck Co. an antique hardcover volume in its original pre-WWI color pictorial dust jacket presents Capt. Wyn Roosevelt's 1909 juvenile adventure novel The Frontier Boys in Hawaii; or The Mystery of the Hollow Mountain. Serving as the seventh entry in the eleven-book Frontier Boys series the storyline follows brothers Jim Joe and Tom Darlington alongside their companion Juarez as they voyage aboard the ship Sea Eagle to the Hawaiian Islands. Upon arrival the group encounters perilous wildlife navigates uncharted volcanic caverns beneath hollow mountains and confronts organized criminal gangs threatening island residents. Originally published in 1909 by the A. L. Chatterton Company the Platt & Peck issue represents an early printing circa 1910 identified by the dust jacket rear panel advertisement listing Ralph Victor's ten-volume The Comrades series down to Comrades with the Winton Cadets. A glossy black-and-white frontispiece illustration by artist S. Schneider introduces the text which appeared under the house pseudonym Capt. Wyn Roosevelt created by Edward Stratemeyer for the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The Frontier Boys series reflects early twentieth-century American youth literature during a period of expanding Pacific travel and cultural interest following the 1898 annexation of Hawaii. Paper dust jackets produced on budget juvenile series between 1908 and 1912 suffered an extreme attrition rate as fragile paper wrappers were routinely discarded by contemporary readers making surviving jacketed copies increasingly uncommon. The Platt & Peck Co hardcover
1934réf. C4VGvg-A073026A7New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1934. First Edition text block. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 5.25 x 7.75. Walter Rogers. VG/G. Married First Edition Book to Early Reprint dust jacket. 1934 c. 1938. Cupples & Leon Company NY. Interior series list ending at title #16 Hostile Chieftain; Front flap series list through title #20. Small notations to dust jacket front flap series else unmarked. Hardcover. In the Steaming Grotto. Very Good covers bright & clean yellow cloth w/ black stamped title & illustration to front cover & black lettering to spine; light shelf wear & minor edge fading. Tanning to text block edges & interior pages w/ droplet stain to outer text block edge extending slightly into a few page margins please see photos. Good illustrative wraparound dust jacket w/ light water spots & stains scattered closed tears; faded colors; light edge rubbing minor edge wear unclipped; protected in mylar cover. 212 pp. 5.25x7.75". Glossy frontispiece. Sixteenth volume in the twenty-book Bomba the Jungle Boy series produced under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Roy Rockwood. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Featuring an original illustrative dust jacket Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Hostile Chieftain; or A Hazardous Trek to the Sea represents the sixteenth entry in the twenty-book juvenile adventure series produced under the Stratemeyer Syndicate pen name Roy Rockwood. Set in the dense wilderness of the South American Amazon the storyline follows young Bomba as he navigates tribal territories hostile warriors and dangerous wildlife while attempting a dangerous expedition to the coast to discover his lost origins and family history. Issued in mustard-yellow cloth boards debossed with black front cover illustrations and spine lettering the volume features custom illustrated pictorial endpapers and a glossy black-and-white frontispiece plate. Bibliographical examination confirms a First Edition text block published in 1934 by Cupples & Leon featuring interior series advertisements listing through title sixteen Hostile Chieftain. Wrap-around dust jacket advertisements listing through title twenty In the Steaming Grotto identify the jacket as an early reprint state produced circa 1938 to 1940. Created by Edward Stratemeyer's Stratemeyer Syndicate the literary packaging house behind The Hardy Boys Nancy Drew and Tom Swift the Bomba books were written by skilled ghostwriters including Howard R. Garis and John William Duffield. Emerging during the golden era of 1920s and 1930s pulp literature the series adapted popular jungle survival themes popularized by Edgar Rice Burroughs into serialized action fiction tailored for young readers. Late-numbered volumes from the Cupples & Leon run #11 through #20 were produced in smaller printings and research indicates were never reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap leaving the original Cupples & Leon printings as the only jacketed editions produced for these late-series titles. Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
1932réf. C4VGvg-A073026A9New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1932. Early Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.25 x 7.75. VG/VG. Early Reprint. 1932 c. 1936. Cupples & Leon Company NY. Previous owner name to front free endpaper pencil notations to front pastedown bookplate area & checkmark notations to dust jacket front flap series list interior text unmarked. Hardcover. Very Good yellow cloth covers w/ bold black stamped title & Bomba illustration to front cover & publisher emblem to spine; glossy frontispiece plate; a few small dark spots to back cover light edge and shelf wear to spine heel & corner tips. Even tanning to text block edges & interior pages. Very Good illustrative dust jacket; front panel 1/2" chip showing white paper loss upper edge light creasing & small nicks bright color retention; rear panel featuring Bob Dexter Series advertisement light soiling; unclipped front flap listing Bomba series titles through In Land Burning Lava; protected in mylar cover. 206 pp followed by period publisher advertisements listing 18 Bomba series titles. 5.25x7.75". Fourteenth volume in the twenty-book Bomba the Jungle Boy series produced under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Roy Rockwood. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: First published in 1932 by Cupples & Leon Company Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Painted Hunters represents the fourteenth volume in the classic Bomba the Jungle Boy adventure series. Set in the dense wilderness of the Amazon interior this installment follows the white jungle youth on his ongoing quest to uncover his true ancestral lineage navigating perilous encounters with wild beasts and the hostile Painted Hunters. The physical volume is presented in yellow cloth boards with black stamped cover typography and a central line illustration of Bomba accompanied by a dark blue publisher emblem to the spine a tinted top page edge and illustrated endpapers. Bibliographical analysis of the dust jacket and interior advertising pages identifies the volume as a circa 1936 printing determined by the series advertisement listing through Title #18 Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Land of Burning Lava published in 1936 on both the front jacket flap and facing the final text page. Produced under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Roy Rockwood the Bomba series occupies a notable place in early-to-mid 20th-century American juvenile fiction. Unlike the initial ten volumes in the series late-numbered titles #11 through #20 were produced in smaller print runs during the Great Depression and research indicates were never subsequently reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap. Consequently surviving Cupples & Leon printings preserved in their original pictorial dust jackets remain the sole jacketed editions produced for these late-series adventures. Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
1937réf. C3NFnf-A073026A8New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1937. First Edition Married Early Ed. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5.25 x 7.75. NF/NF. Glossy. First Edition book Married to Early Reprint dust jacket. 1937 c. 1949. Cupples & Leon Company NY. Unmarked. Hardcover. Interior series list ending at title No. 19 In the Perilous Kingdom rear panel advertising Junior Trail Blazer Books. Near Fine bright orange cloth covers w/ black stamped title & illustration to front cover & black lettering to spine; minor shelf wear & light corner bumping. Orange topstain publisher-applied top edge tint. Moderate even tanning to text block edges tiny droplet stain top edge. Near Fine illustrative dust jacket w/ minor edge wear & faint soiling to rear panel nicks edge wear; bright color retention; unclipped; protected in mylar cover. 208 pp. 5.25x7.75". Plain Frontispiece. Nineteenth volume in the twenty-book Bomba the Jungle Boy series produced under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Roy Rockwood. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Published as a vintage hardcover juvenile adventure Bomba the Jungle Boy in the Perilous Kingdom presents the nineteenth installment in the classic 20-volume series. Created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate the narrative follows young Bomba as he ventures deep into uncharted African territories to unravel the mystery of his heritage. Navigating perilous riverways predatory wildlife and hostile jungle tribes the protagonist relies on his survival skills and jungle instincts to overcome mounting hazards. The storyline captures the atmospheric thrill of mid-century jungle fiction blending suspenseful exploration with dramatic encounters. Publisher-designed physical features include bright orange cloth covers stamped with a black title and character illustration paired with an orange topstain a publisher-applied top edge tint. Decorative patterned endpapers and a black-and-white illustrated frontispiece plate complement the interior text. Bibliographical analysis confirms a First Edition book from 1937 listing series titles through #19 on the interior advertisement panel married / paired with a circa 1949 early reprint dust jacket advertising Junior Trail Blazer Books on the rear cover. Issued under the house pseudonym Roy Rockwood the series emerged from the studio of Edward Stratemeyer the publisher behind Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys. Ghostwriters crafted the fast-paced narrative to meet the soaring demand for youth action tales during the 1930s. Cultural interest in the character expanded further in the late 1940s and 1950s when Monogram Pictures adapted the novels into a popular twelve-film cinematic franchise starring Johnny Sheffield. Late-numbered volumes in the Bomba series were produced in reduced printing runs during the Great Depression and original paper dust wrappers on Cupples & Leon editions suffered severe attrition over time leaving surviving jacketed copies increasingly uncommon. Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
1928réf. C3NFnf-A073026B1New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5.25 x 7.75. W. S. Rogers. NF/NF. First Edition; First Printing. 1928. Cupples & Leon Company NY. Light owner stamp & small personal label w/ notations to front free endpaper else unmarked. Hardcover. Near Fine tan cloth covers w/ black stamped title & illustration of Bomba crouching w/ a spear to front cover & black lettering to spine; sharp corners & minimal shelf wear. Even tanning to text block edges & interior pages. Near Fine illustrative dust jacket w/ faint edge rubbing chipping & creasing at top & bottom of spine head & heel a tiny nick at upper spine fold & a 1 inch closed tear to rear panel; clean & bright w/ vibrant color retention; unclipped; protected in mylar cover. 208 pp followed by publisher series advertisements. 5.25x7.75". Glossy frontispiece plate by W. S. Rogers. Sixth volume in the twenty-book Bomba the Jungle Boy series written under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Roy Rockwood. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Published by Cupples & Leon Company in 1928 Bomba the Jungle Boy on Terror Trail or The Mysterious Men from the Sky represents the sixth volume in the long-running twentieth-century juvenile adventure series. Written under the syndicate pseudonym Roy Rockwood the storyline follows feral youth Bomba as he investigates strange aircraft flying above the South American jungle while shielding his guardian from hostile forces. Navigating dense tropical foliage native encounters and aerial mysteries Bomba fights to protect his jungle domain. Bound in tan cloth covers stamped with a black ink illustration of Bomba crouching with a spear the volume features a glossy frontispiece illustration by W. S. Rogers. Bibliographical analysis confirms a true first printing identified by the copyright page advertisement box listing strictly to title #6 Terror Trail and the dust jacket rear panel advertising The Baseball Joe Series through title #14 published in 1928. Written under the syndicate pseudonym Roy Rockwood a house name created by Edward Stratemeyer the early Bomba titles are credited primarily to Howard R. Garis creator of Uncle Wiggily and one of the most prolific syndicate authors of the twentieth century. The narrative combines early aviation themes with traditional jungle survival fiction of the era. Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
1929réf. C3VGfr-A073026A6New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 5.25 x 7.75. VG/Fair. First Edition Jacket lists to this title: 1929. Grosset & Dunlap NY. Previous owner name & inscription to front free endpaper else unmarked. Hardcover Very Good; yellow cloth covers w/ black & orange stamped title & biplane illustration; light shelf wear & heel rubbing; Glossy frontispiece plate. Even tanning to text block edges & interior pages. Fair illustrative dust jacket; water staining to jacket spine & panel edges light edge rubbing small chips & short closed tears; flaps list through Rex Lee: Ranger of the Sky; unclipped unpriced; protected in mylar cover. 244 pp followed by publisher ads. 5.25x7.75". Fourth volume in Thomson Burtis's eleven-book Rex Lee Flying Stories written by a WWI Army Air Service pilot. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: An antique single-volume hardcover juvenile aviation novel Rex Lee Sky Trailer represents the fourth entry in Thomson Burtis's eleven-volume flying adventure series. Published by Grosset & Dunlap in 1929 the storyline follows daring young aviator Rex Lee as he pilots his biplane into the West Virginia mountains to visit his companion Larry McCrann. Dangers escalate upon discovering two downed aircraft on Mount Baldy thrusting the hero into a bitter political and physical feud between the rival Callhoun and Chatfield mountain families. Partnering with a local physician Rex navigates treacherous mountain updrafts sabotage and aerial dogfights to trail a secretive outlaw across the ridge lines. Bound in mustard-yellow cloth covers with bold black and orange stamped title lettering and biplane cover art the volume features custom pictorial endpapers and a glossy monochrome frontispiece plate. Bibliographical analysis of the dust jacket points to a First Edition First Printing state as the front flap and rear panel advertise series titles strictly through this fourth volume Rex Lee: Ranger of the Sky as title #3 and Sky Trailer as #4 displaying no subsequent titles published later in 1929 or 1930. The original multi-color jacket displays dramatic biplane combat artwork wrapping across the front panel and spine. Thomson Burtis crafted the series directly from his extensive background as a World War I U.S. Army Air Service aviator test pilot and aerial photographer. Unlike many syndicate-produced juvenile series of the era that relied on uncredited ghostwriters Burtis brought authentic cockpit procedures flight mechanics and military air lore to early youth literature. Released during the height of the post-Lindbergh aviation boom the narrative captures interwar American fascination with commercial flying aerial barnstorming and radio technology. Original 1920s Grosset & Dunlap paper dust jackets suffered extreme attrition among young readers leaving surviving jacketed early printings increasingly uncommon. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover
1934réf. C3VGvg-A073026B5New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.25 x 7.75. Walter S. Rogers; Howard L. Hastings. VG/VG. Glossy. First Edition; First Printing. 1934. Cupples & Leon Company NY. Pencil notations to front free endpaper else unmarked. Hardcover. Series lists on interior pages & dust jacket front flap end at this sixteenth title w/ rear panel advertising the Great Marvel Series ending at By Air Express to Venus 1934. Very Good bright orange cloth covers & spine w/ black stamped illustration & lettering; light shelf wear minor softening to spine head & heel & faint rubbing to corner tips. Red top edge tint. Even tanning to text block edges & interior pages. Very Good illustrative dust jacket w/ light tanning & faint surface rubbing; light edge wear a few tiny chips & small closed tears to spine head upper corner & upper edges; still bright color retention; unclipped; protected in mylar cover. 212 pp. 5.25x7.75". Glossy frontispiece plate by Howard L. Hastings w/ jacket art by Walter S. Rogers. Sixteenth volume in the twenty-book Bomba the Jungle Boy series produced under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Roy Rockwood. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Published in 1934 by the Cupples & Leon Company this vintage adventure hardcover represents the sixteenth volume in the Bomba the Jungle Boy series. The narrative follows the young protagonist as he leads a perilous expedition through deep equatorial wilderness striving to guide a group of stranded travelers safely to the coast. Tensions peak when the party must cross the territory of the Sitanda tribe drawing the ire of the hostile tribal leader Mabogi and the medicine man Mangu in a classic test of jungle survival and navigation. The physical volume features the publisher's bright orange cloth boards debossed with a bold black stamped illustration of the jungle boy on the front cover and spine. A red top edge tint decorates the text block which includes illustrated endpapers and a glossy frontispiece plate illustrated by Howard L. Hastings. Walter S. Rogers designed the illustrated dust jacket. Bibliographic analysis points to a true first state with series lists on both the book's internal pages and the dust jacket front flap ending precisely at this sixteenth title and the jacket's rear panel advertising contemporary 1934 releases. Created under the Stratemeyer Syndicate's house pseudonym Roy Rockwood the Bomba books occupied a prominent position in interwar American youth culture alongside other major syndicate properties. Late-series entries published during the peak of the Great Depression were produced in restricted print runs. The first-state dust jacket and interior plates document early twentieth-century American children's literature and illustration. Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
1932réf. C3VGg-A073026B2New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1932. 1st Ed text block in Early Repr. Hardcover. Good/Good. 5.25 x 7.75. VG/G. First Edition text block in Early Reprint married dust jacket. 1932 c. 1932/1933. Cupples & Leon Company NY. Light owner notation to front endpaper & title page else unmarked. Hardcover. Very Good yellow cloth covers w/ black stamped title & illustration to front cover; light shelf wear & minor corner rubbing. Orange topstain publisher-applied top edge tint w/ even tanning to text block edges & interior pages. Good illustrative married dust jacket w/ edge wear small chips heavy creasing & a 3 inch closed tear to rear panel; still bright color retention; protected in mylar cover. 207 pp. 5.25x7.75". Glossy frontispiece plate facing title page. Thirteenth volume in the twenty-book Bomba the Jungle Boy series produced under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Roy Rockwood. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Originally published in 1932 by Cupples & Leon Company Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Cannibals represents the thirteenth volume in the classic interwar juvenile adventure series. The plot follows the jungle youth during a high-stakes expedition across unexplored South American riverlands where he encounters hostile native tribes and dangerous wildlife while pursuing long-sought clues regarding his lineage. Written in the signature cliffhanger style of early American pulp fiction the narrative develops themes of wilderness survival ancestral mystery and frontier resilience. Yellow cloth covers feature black stamped title lettering and a full front-board line illustration depicting the central character navigating tropical vegetation. An orange publisher stain coats the top edge and the volume contains a monochrome glossy frontispiece plate depicting a jungle encounter scene facing the title page. Bibliographical analysis of the dust jacket identifies an early 1932 or 1933 state indicated by front flap advertisements listing through the fourteenth series entry Bomba the Jungle Boy and the Painted Hunters alongside rear panel lists promoting Willard F. Baker's Bob Dexter Series. The Bomba series originated under Edward Stratemeyer's Stratemeyer Syndicate using the publisher's house pseudonym Roy Rockwood with primary text ghostwritten by Howard R. Garis and John W. Duffield. Capitalizing on the interwar media fascination with tropical exploration and pulp fiction the books established a lasting cultural legacy that later adapted into a twelve-part Hollywood motion picture series starring Johnny Sheffield between 1949 and 1955 as well as a silver-age comic line produced by DC Comics. Middle entries in the Bomba series hold a distinct place in mid-century publishing history as volumes eleven through twenty were issued in smaller production runs by Cupples & Leon and research indicates were never reprinted by Grosset & Dunlap leaving surviving jacketed copies increasingly uncommon. Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
1929réf. C3VGvg-ES073026B3New York: Cupples & Leon Company 1929. 1st Ed text block in Early Repr. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 5.25 x 7.75. W. S. Rogers. VG/VG. Glossy. First Edition text block in Early Reprint dust jacket. 1929 c. 1934. Cupples & Leon Company NY. Previous owner inscription & name to decorated front endpaper bookplate box else unmarked. Hardcover. Very Good yellow cloth covers w/ crisp black stamped illustration & lettering; faint rubbing to the corner tips minor softening to the spine head & heel & light rubbing along the lower board edges. Publisher's orange top edge stain still bright. Very Good illustrative dust jacket w/ faint surface rubbing along vertical flap folds minor rubbing to spine heel & a tiny 1/8 inch nick to upper rear edge; bright color retention; unclipped; protected in mylar cover. 210 pp followed by publisher ads. 5.25x7.75". Monochrome frontispiece plate by W. S. Rogers. Eighth volume in the twenty-book Bomba the Jungle Boy series produced under the Stratemeyer Syndicate house pseudonym Roy Rockwood. Ships from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: Originally published in 1929 by Cupples & Leon Company Bomba the Jungle Boy Among the Slaves represents the eighth adventure in the 20-volume Amazon jungle series created by the Stratemeyer Syndicate. The narrative follows fourteen-year-old feral youth Bomba as he traverses the South American wilderness in search of his true heritage and missing mother. In this volume Bomba enters the perilous Valley of Skulls organizing an uprising to liberate the enslaved Araks tribe while battling wild predators and hostile rainforest factions. Presented in bright yellow cloth boards stamped with a black illustrative cover scene and spine lettering the volume features publisher-designed sports-and-adventure pictorial endpapers a publisher's orange top edge stain and a monochrome frontispiece plate illustrated by W. S. Rogers. Bibliographical cross-referencing identifies a First Edition text block confirmed by the copyright page series list ending at title #8 Among the Slaves paired with a c. 1934 early reprint dust jacket verified by front flap advertisements listing through title #14 And the Painted Hunters. The work was produced under the publisher's house pseudonym Roy Rockwood created by syndicate founder Edward Stratemeyer and ghostwritten by staff authors including John William Duffield and Howard R. Garis. The Bomba series captured the mid-twentieth-century American popular fascination with feral jungle heroes following the success of Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan eventually inspiring a twelve-film cinematic series produced by Monogram Pictures between 1949 and 1955. Cupples & Leon Company hardcover
1963réf. C1NF-ES071526z3New Hyde Park New York: University Books Inc 1963. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. 9x6x2. Complete Set of 2 Mediums of the 19th Century w/ Slipcase. NF. First Edition Thus. Hardcover Books Volumes 1 & 2 1963. University Books New Hyde Park NY. Unmarked. Near Fine tan cloth; bindings tight solid & square. Publisher slipcase sturdy no splits; edge shelf wear w/ some areas of rubbing & color loss. Publisher maroon stain to top edges bright unmarred. 307 pp & 374 pp plus index. Frank Podmore's history of the nineteenth-century spiritualist movement first published in London in 1902 as Modern Spiritualism. This edition adds a biographical & bibliographical introduction by psychical researcher Eric J. Dingwall. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: First published in London in 1902 under the title Modern Spiritualism Frank Podmore's Mediums of the 19th Century is a comprehensive and critically rigorous history of the modern spiritualist movement. The study charts the development of belief in spirit communication clairvoyance and physical mediumship tracing its evolution from late eighteenth-century animal magnetism and Mesmerism through the rise of the nineteenth-century spiritualist boom. Podmore offers an analytical examination of the psychological factors physical tricks and anomalies that defined Victorian mediumship. This University Books edition of 1963 presents the work as a two-volume set issued in a publisher's slipcase without individual dust jackets. Volume One covers the early origins and development of Spiritualism in America and Europe while Volume Two focuses on the physical phenomena of spiritualist circles automatic writing and the rise of organized psychical research. This edition includes an introductory essay by parapsychologist and psychical researcher Dr. Eric J. Dingwall providing biographical and historical context to Podmore's work. Podmore was a founding member of the Fabian Society and an influential early leader of the Society for Psychical Research known for his skeptical psychologically grounded approach to investigating mediums apparitions and telepathy. University Books, Inc hardcover
1966réf. C3VGvg-ES071526Z3New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 7 x 10 x 4. Complete Set of 2 The Historians' History of the United States. VG. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover Books Volumes I & II w/ slipcase. 1966. G.P. Putnam's Sons NY. Unmarked. Very Good boards; bindings tight solid & square. Very Good dust jackets w/ bit of edge & shelf wear; small nicks & chips to head & foot of spine on larger volume; sunfaded spines; bright color to fronts. Green publisher slipcase sun faded; very sturdy no splits. 1384 pp. 7x10x4". Anthology of American history drawn from the writings of the nation's foremost historians including Francis Parkman Henry Adams George Bancroft & Charles A. Beard arranged chronologically from the pre-colonial era through the mid-twentieth century. Edited by Andrew S. Berky director of the Schwenkfelder Library & James P. Shenton professor of history at Columbia University. Ships in box from the USA quickly & w/care. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ SYNOPSIS & HISTORY: 2 Volume boxed Set. The Historians' History of the United States compiled and edited by Andrew S. Berky and James P. Shenton is a two-volume historical anthology presenting a pageant of American history. Chronologically structured from the pre-colonial era through the mid-twentieth century the work brings together chapters and essays by American historical scholars including Francis Parkman Henry Adams George Bancroft and Charles A. Beard offering diverse analytical perspectives on the political social and economic milestones that shaped the nation. First published in 1966 by G.P. Putnam's Sons in New York the anthology also functions as a survey of how American historical writing itself evolved across two centuries. By integrating writings from different eras and academic traditions it serves as a reference work for libraries and students of American historiography. Editors Andrew S. Berky a specialist in early Pennsylvania history and director of the Schwenkfelder Library and James P. Shenton a professor of history at Columbia University and Civil War scholar compiled these volumes to offer students and historians a multifaceted overview of the nation's historical literature. The set was issued with illustrated dust jackets featuring a patriotic American eagle motif and housed in a publisher's slipcase. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover
réf. B9781015547575Hardback. New. hardcover
1915réf. 78995Wien:: Munk 1915. publisher's blue cloth with applied color illustration on front panel. Some staining and soiling to the applied color illustration; cloth a little frayed at joints and extremities; but tight and sound; the contents fine. . Folio. Complete with twelve spectacular full-page color illustrations by Heinrich Lefler and Joseph Urban and elaborate border decorations on every page. . Contents: Die wilden Schwaene. Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse. Das Meerfrauelein. Die Galoschen des Gluecks. Die Reisekamerad. Die roten Schuhe. Des Kaisers neue Kleider. Die Schneekoenigin. Der Fliegende Koffer Das Maerchen vom Paradiesgarten. Der Schweinhirt. Die Nachtigall. Munk, hardcover
réf. 0062222600.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1915réf. 67866New York:: Frederick A. Stokes Company 1915. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards with applied color illustration on front panel in dust jacket illustrated with the same color plate. Faint reddish stain near the red cloth backstrip along short sections of the joint area; very slight wear to binding; clean tight and sound in a slightly dampstained dust jacket which is missing the bottom four inches of the backstrip. . Folio. With tipped-in color plates and text illustrations in black and white by E. Yarrow Jones and R. B. Brook-Greaves. Frederick A. Stokes Company, hardcover
1937réf. 46496New York:: Snellgrove Publications 1937. First edition. publisher's cloth illustrated in color. Cloth rubbed at extremities with tiny chips at the extremities of the spine. Folio. Illustrated by Willy Pogany and Natalie Harlan Davis including a color flower diagram with printed overlay. Snellgrove Publications, hardcover
