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194690 pages. Fiction: The Fugitives; He Loves Me; Take Care When You Say Hello; The Long Denial (part 3 of 4); When the Lilacs Bloomed; Mr. Digney Has a Dream. Articles: The Deadliest War - Germ Warfare; Judy Holliday - star of 'Born Yesterday'; Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon criticizes abuse of power in Congress; How to Run a Prize Fight - the Louis-Conn brawl; Scranton Buys its Own Jobs; Lessons in cooking fish on the beach in the Nassau, Bahamas manner; George Vogel is staff Organist at the Freeport Bank of Freeport, Long Island; Miracle Bark of the California Redwood; and more. Ads include: Color GE Radio ad featuring Frank Sinatra; Great color photo ad for International trucks featuresWillers Truck Service of Sioux Falls, SD, plus the Herman Oil Transport Company of Fremont, NB; Lucky Strike cigarette ad; Borden's ad featuring Elsie the Cow; Martin Aircraft; Nice color-photo ad for Oldsmobile and its new Hydra-matic transmission; Bendix Aviation; Hickok belts; Little Lulu is featured prominently in a Keenex ad; Santa Fe Railroad; Union Pacific Railroad; Douglas DC-4 aircraft; Piper aircraft; Mercury cars; Acushnet golf balls; Very attractive ad for Jantzen swim suits and sun clothes; Blatz Beer - sailing scene; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features bride. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
194898 pages. Articles: Out of This World - the great telescope on Palomar; Fashion High Command - how experts choose clothes to suit most American women; Can We Guarantee a Free Europe?; Two-Party Gal - Mrs. Perle Mesta; The Secret Papers of Harry L. Hopkins (part 3) - The Common-law Marriage - his visit to Churchill in 1941; Saint-Lo Fights another Battle - much of the town still in rubble after Normandy invasion; Block that Toothache! - good news for those who don't like the dentist's drill. Fiction: The Bramble Bush (part 1 of 5); Dear Miss Phillips; Once to Every Woman; Shadow of Fu Manchu (conclusion); Important to a Man; It All Came Out. Ads include: Nash cars; Vitalis (with photo of Bobby Riggs); Borden's products - featuring Elsie the Cow; 'Jeep' Station Wagon; International School buses - rare ad!; Fisher Body; Douglas Shoes; Mercury cars (lovely 2-pages); DeSoto cars; Columbia bikes; Cory coffee-maker; Kodak; Santa Fe Railroad; Schlitz; Chrysler centerfold (puppy theme); Hamiliton watches; Jayson shirts; GM Electro-motive division; Kaiser Frazer; Fruit of the Loom; Chesterfield cigarettes (back cover) - featuring Alan Ladd. Unmarked with average wear. A nice vintage copy. Book
194682 pages. Fiction: Leader of the Band; The Other Woman; The Senator was Indiscreet; The Reformer; Sleep, My Love; Callaghan's Miracle. Articles: The Roosevelt I Knew (part 1); No War with Russia; Just Swing the Club Head - Golf Pro Ernest Jones; Why Teachers Quit School; Bermuda - Tourist Paradise; Dowager Queen - Mrs. Twombly; Everyone catches a fish at this lake near Azusa, CA; Color photo aboard a luxuriously appointed C-47 (DC-3) designed by Raymond Loewy; One Year After V-J Day. Ads include: Eveready Batteries; Philco record players; Santa Fe Railroad; *Fantastic* Wurlitzer Juke Box ad "Nickel's worth of fun - fishermen have lunch"; "Crack-Up" movie; Good Year tire centerfold; Frigidaire fridges; Waltham watches; Old Mr. Boston Liquor; Kodak film; Squirt Soda; "The Killers" movie starring Ava Gardner; Aeronca airplanes; Nice Jeep ad inside back cover; Lucky Strike ad on back cover. Unmarked. Moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
194790 pages. Articles: From Rags to Riches - Chaplin in a Bluebeard role; America's Number One Mystery Man (part 1 of 2) - the career of Frank Costello and his strange empire - great photos; John Bull Sees Red, White and Blue - Britain's privations give rise to bitter criticism of America; Dem Bums Abroad - Brooklyn Dodgers did their spring training in Havana, Cuba; Mr. Secretary Marshall (conclusiont) - his military background can help him achieve diplomatic victories; The Happy Gentleman - Frank Crowninshield - article with photo. Fiction: The Blast (part 1 of 2); The Blond Hairpin; Promise in the earth; The Flexible Mind; The Curse of the Krebils; White Man in the White Land. Includes these ads: "The Man Out" - great full-page movie ad - starring James Mason; Canadian Pacific Vacations; Santa Fe Railroad; The National Guard (two pages); Dubonnet; Oldsmobile cars (nice); Great full-page color-photo ad for Fortune shoes for men; Schick Electric Shaver "Fits Your Face" - full-page color-photo; Packard cars (classy); Washington State Tourism (color-photos); Chevrolet; Life Savers; Timely Clothes; Red Cap Ale; Hickok Belts; Canadian National Railways - travel; Red Top Ale; Queen Anne Pecan Roll; Puritan Sportswear; United Jewish Appeal full-page ad features photo of General Eisenhower and lengthy excerpt of his speech to the U.J.A. in Washington, D.C.; Eversharp pens; Coke ad on back over features three young office ladies. Average wear. Center page loose but present. A worthy vintage copy. Book
194894 pages. Articles:.The House at Hyde Park - the home FDR loved; Spare-Time Statesman - President of General Electric, Charles E. Wilson; Does the Army Want the Reserves? - its brass hats view civilian soldiers with mixed feelings; Sketches in Sawdust - Paintings of Circus folk; Why Atoms Don't Fly - obstacles to atomic-powered aircraft; The Fat of the Land - a new theory of obesity and its cure. Fiction: I'm a Stronger in Town Myself (part 1 of 3); The Half-Shot Hereford; A Very Funny Guy; Bride and Room; A Sure Thing; Madam President (conclusion). Includes ads for: Parker pens 1951; Pepsodent - featuring Marjorie Groats; Lifebuoy soap; RCA Victor radios and phonographs; Milky Way Chocolate Bars; Diamond Trucks - great color photo; Willys-Overland Motors "Jeep"; Drewry's Old Stock Ale - featuring Mountie; Argus cameras (twin lens); Pontiac - centerfold; Stewart-Warner radios; Oldsmobile; Foot Pals; Walt Disney's "Melody Time" movie; Templeform hats; DeSoto cars; GM Electro-motive division; Solovox; Dutch Boy Paint; Frazer cars; Santa Fe Railroad; National Guard; United Jewish Appeal - full page showing hoards behind barbed wire; Back cover Coke ad shows young lady who has stopped for a break from driving. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
194994 pages Features: My Friend Ethel Barrymore; Trouble is My Middle Name - Rocky Graziano Story (part 3 of 3); Why You Haven't got a House; Thrill Pills Can Ruin You - Barbituates; The Strange Case of the Dionne Quints - article with great photos of the 15-year-old girls; Fox of the Indies - Matthew Fox on the prowl in Indonesia. Fiction: The Lollipop Tree; Arabella and the Susquehanna; A Wife Walks Out; For Every Man There's a Woman; The Rain Maker; Pride's Castle (part 6 of 8). Includes these ads: a great colour one-page ad for Zenith radios, Packard cars, RCA Victor radios, Ford cars, Oldsmobile cars, Chesterfield cigarettes - two-page color photo ad featuring Lou Boudreau, Ben Hogan, Joe Di Maggio, Jack Kramer and Frankie Albert, Hudson cars, Santa Fe Railroad, The Douglas Super DC-3, Monarch Coffee, and a back cover colour photo ad for Camel cigarettes featuring pool players Willie Mosconi and Willie Hoppe. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Book
1948ref. 534G1567Springfield IL U.S.A.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company. Good. 1948. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 78 pages. Articles:Campus Crusader - Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College; Designs for Touring 5 - a trip to New York's Finger Lakes; No Miracle in the Marshall Plan - we must wage a war of education in Europe; High Prices Make Cheap Living - the effects of inflation on America's middle class; Brothers in Crime - The Notorious Renos train robbers of the 1860s; Bob Taft's Martha - she's a veteran politcal campaigner. Fiction: A Cross for Urdia; Fair Exchange; A Penny For Your Thoughts; Madam President; The April Load; The Gracious Senor. Includes the following ads: Studebaker inside front cover; Listerine antiseptic - featuring black porter; RKO movies of the month; American Kitchens; De Beers Diamonds - with portrait of Miss Virginia H. Palfrey of Boston; Heinz Ketchup; Philco radio-phonographs; International Harvester TD-24 bulldozer great color photo; "Frontier-Buck" shoes by Fortune; Talon slide fasteners; Ballantines Ale; Old Thompson Whiskey; Life Savers; Emerson Radios; Prince Albert pipe tobacco; MontaMower; Dromedary Corn Muffin Mix; Spam; United Jewish Appeal full-page fundraising ad featuring crying Israelli infant in crate; Interesting US Savings Bond ad shows large wolf with teeth bared and caption "Wolf Poison" they equate bond purchasing with keeping the wolf away from your door; Rutland Patching Plaster; Lucky Strike cigarettes back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine April 3 1948 Campus Crusader - Harold Taylor of Sarah Lawrence College; Designs for Touring 5 - a trip to New York's Finger Lakes; No Miracle in the Marshall Plan - we must wage a war of education in Europe; High Prices Make Cheap Liv . The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company unknown
1946ref. 316G2172USA: Crowell-Collier Press. Good. 1946. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 74 pages. Features: Nice 1-page photo ad features 'teen-age' fashion model Kitty Higgins and her two children; Nice 1-page color ad for Lyon Whitewall Tires; The Sweetest Town on Earth - the modest community of Grasse in southern France has the perfume industry by the nose - article with color photos; The Bosom of My Family fiction; The Railroads Fight Back; The Flappers Chilidren - a veteran of WWII compares the doughboys who returned from WWI with today's ex-G.I.s - article with photos; Who's Kilroy Cocktails for One fiction; Sleeping Beauty fiction; Life Liberty and Orrin Dooley fiction; Nice 1-page color ad for International Trucks features a K-7 parked outside a diner; 1-page color ad for Seagram's V.O.; Great color one-page ad for Borden's Hemo vitamin drink; 1-page color-photo ad for Ansco film; Grand Slam Gags - a bridge tournament champ passes along some funny stories; Two-page color ad for Old Mr. Boston Liquor; Very colorful 1-page Christmas ad for Carling Red Cap Ale; The Host fiction; Nice 1-page color ad for movie 'The Jolson Story'; 1-page color ad for Harwood's blended Canadian Whisky; Nice 1-page color ad for Gordon's Gin; The Songs Roll By fiction; 1-page ad for the New York Stock Exchange NYSE features great photo of the first national auto show in 1900; The Bell of San Anselmo fiction; Nice 1-page color ad for Goebel Beer; Christmas in the Desert - color photos of Christmas lights on cactii; Christmas Coke ad on back cover shows family gift-wrapping. Somewhat above-average wear. Small chips from cover fold. A worthy vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Collier's Magazine December 28 1946 Kyle Crichton Robert C. Ruark Bill Davidson Lee Hazen Thomas H. Wolf Amy Porter Oren Arnold teen-age' fashion model Kitty Higgins and her two children; Nice 1-page color ad for Lyon Whitewall Tires; The Sweetest Town . Crowell-Collier Press unknown
1878ref. 33208London: F.E. Longley 1878. Very Good. London: F.E. Longley n.d. ca. 1878. First Edition. Four volumes; slim 12mos 15cm; publisher's uniform pictorial paper-covered boards printed chromolithograph with publisher's device discretely mounted to each volume; illus. throughout including advertisements at front and rear of volume. Moderate wear to margins bottom inch of spine of "Random Sketches" and "Robert Vincent's Mistake" perished else a Very Good bright and sound collection. Titles include: 1. Mary Baskin. "The Deverill Revival / Beginning to Live; or The Ragged School Dinner." 2. Rev. Arthur Mursell. "Random Sketches." 3. Rev. James Yeames and Emilie Searchfield. "Hugh Bidston / A Tale of Self Sacrifice." 4. Rev. James Yeames and Mary Baskin. "Robert Vincent's Mistake / Caught by Guile." Small cache of four volumes in the Fireside Series which provided short and easy-to-consume morality tales packaged in cheap but jewel-like bindings. The rear cover of each volume is adorned with a vivid advertisement for Berlin Wool and German Needlework imported by M. Leader. Each volume is also adorned with advertisements for Fry's cocoa extract Sulphine supplement for indigestion and the Willcox and Gibbs sewing machine company. OCLC and Library Hub locate copies at Cambridge only of each title except "Random Sketches" which appears to be unrecorded as of June 2025. F.E. Longley unknown books
1942ref. 4611341942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of five books from the poet Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. They included two Inscribed association copies one Signed copy of an unpublished poetry collection and a rare promotional flyer. All are first editions. Three are hardcovers with original or contemporary dustwrapers and two are paperback originals. Overall very good with moderate wear and some with dampstaining or soiling. Vilas 1878-1955 was a poet and playwright who graduated from Lewis Institute in Chicago and authored five collections of poetry and 14 plays. She read and lectures across the county and on radio in the Washington DC where she lived with her husband who was a prominent Milwaukee lawyer served on the Federal Trade Commission. The works here appear to have come from the Palmer family of Bethesda Maryland with three books inscribed or signed to them and two of them with notes from Vila in the text adding background or explaining the inspiration behind various poems. An interesting collection of poetry from a successful but now overlooked poet. List: Fiat Lux Let There Be Light: A Modern Mystery Play. New York: Samuel French 1922. Acting edition. Octavo. 26pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Good only with dampstain at the edges oxidation at the staples and splitting at the spine ends. The Drummer of Fyvie and Other Verse. New York and Reader Editions Inc. 1926. First edition. Octavo. 95pp. Very good gray boards with paper label in very good homemade marbled dust wrapper with the title in silver. Inscribed by the author: ‘To our dear new old friends The Palmer Family – This book. Please accept it as “the Guerdon of a grateful quest’ - Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. January 1942 Betheda -Maryland-.” Aromancy and Other Verse. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. 71pp. Near fine black cloth boards with gilt lettering in very good printed dustwrapper with some toning small stain and edgewear that including nicks and tears. Inscribed by the author: “For Richard Palmer with my affection and admiration Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. This little volume with notes in the margins!!! The last day of 1942-.” The text is marked in more than nine places with corrections notes or comments on the origin of the poem or the person who inspired it. Certificate of Flight. New York: Loker Raley 1939. First edition. Octavo. 79pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and spider web patterned acetate dustwrapper. Near fine with a tidemark affecting bottom corner of the text block in about very good dustwrapper toning chipping and splitting at the front flap fold. A collection of verse. OCLC locates two copies Yale and University of Miami. Flyer: Faith Vilas. New York: Helen M. Fowles 1942. Single quarto sheet folded once to make four pages. Near fine with horizontal crease and contemporary ink corrections. A flyer providing a biography of Vilas along with blurbs for “Certificate of Flight and Fiat Lux and a note listing her poetry readings on WWDC radio in Washington DC. Suggested Titles For Book. Rye New York: Mrs. Charles A. Vilas no date. Small quarto. Perfectbound in printed wrappers. 46pp. Fair condition with heavily spoiling several interior pages trimmed and rear wrap detached but present. A preliminary collection of previously published poetry for an intended book. The front wrap lists six possible titles and the first page is Signed by Vilas who has also annotated 10 pages. hardcover books
1878ref. 33208London: F.E. Longley 1878. Very Good. London: F.E. Longley n.d. ca. 1878. First Edition. Four volumes; slim 12mos 15cm; publisher's uniform pictorial paper-covered boards printed chromolithograph with publisher's device discretely mounted to each volume; illus. throughout including advertisements at front and rear of volume. Moderate wear to margins bottom inch of spine of "Random Sketches" and "Robert Vincent's Mistake" perished else a Very Good bright and sound collection. Titles include: 1. Mary Baskin. "The Deverill Revival / Beginning to Live; or The Ragged School Dinner." 2. Rev. Arthur Mursell. "Random Sketches." 3. Rev. James Yeames and Emilie Searchfield. "Hugh Bidston / A Tale of Self Sacrifice." 4. Rev. James Yeames and Mary Baskin. "Robert Vincent's Mistake / Caught by Guile." Small cache of four volumes in the Fireside Series which provided short and easy-to-consume morality tales packaged in cheap but jewel-like bindings. The rear cover of each volume is adorned with a vivid advertisement for Berlin Wool and German Needlework imported by M. Leader. Each volume is also adorned with advertisements for Fry's cocoa extract Sulphine supplement for indigestion and the Willcox and Gibbs sewing machine company. OCLC and Library Hub locate copies at Cambridge only of each title except "Random Sketches" which appears to be unrecorded as of June 2025. F.E. Longley unknown
1942ref. 4611341942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of five books from the poet Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. They included two Inscribed association copies one Signed copy of an unpublished poetry collection and a rare promotional flyer. All are first editions. Three are hardcovers with original or contemporary dustwrapers and two are paperback originals. Overall very good with moderate wear and some with dampstaining or soiling. Vilas 1878-1955 was a poet and playwright who graduated from Lewis Institute in Chicago and authored five collections of poetry and 14 plays. She read and lectures across the county and on radio in the Washington DC where she lived with her husband who was a prominent Milwaukee lawyer served on the Federal Trade Commission. The works here appear to have come from the Palmer family of Bethesda Maryland with three books inscribed or signed to them and two of them with notes from Vila in the text adding background or explaining the inspiration behind various poems. An interesting collection of poetry from a successful but now overlooked poet. List: Fiat Lux Let There Be Light: A Modern Mystery Play. New York: Samuel French 1922. Acting edition. Octavo. 26pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Good only with dampstain at the edges oxidation at the staples and splitting at the spine ends. The Drummer of Fyvie and Other Verse. New York and Reader Editions Inc. 1926. First edition. Octavo. 95pp. Very good gray boards with paper label in very good homemade marbled dust wrapper with the title in silver. Inscribed by the author: ‘To our dear new old friends The Palmer Family – This book. Please accept it as “the Guerdon of a grateful quest’ - Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. January 1942 Betheda -Maryland-.” Aromancy and Other Verse. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. 71pp. Near fine black cloth boards with gilt lettering in very good printed dustwrapper with some toning small stain and edgewear that including nicks and tears. Inscribed by the author: “For Richard Palmer with my affection and admiration Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. This little volume with notes in the margins!!! The last day of 1942-.” The text is marked in more than nine places with corrections notes or comments on the origin of the poem or the person who inspired it. Certificate of Flight. New York: Loker Raley 1939. First edition. Octavo. 79pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and spider web patterned acetate dustwrapper. Near fine with a tidemark affecting bottom corner of the text block in about very good dustwrapper toning chipping and splitting at the front flap fold. A collection of verse. OCLC locates two copies Yale and University of Miami. Flyer: Faith Vilas. New York: Helen M. Fowles 1942. Single quarto sheet folded once to make four pages. Near fine with horizontal crease and contemporary ink corrections. A flyer providing a biography of Vilas along with blurbs for “Certificate of Flight and Fiat Lux and a note listing her poetry readings on WWDC radio in Washington DC. Suggested Titles For Book. Rye New York: Mrs. Charles A. Vilas no date. Small quarto. Perfectbound in printed wrappers. 46pp. Fair condition with heavily spoiling several interior pages trimmed and rear wrap detached but present. A preliminary collection of previously published poetry for an intended book. The front wrap lists six possible titles and the first page is Signed by Vilas who has also annotated 10 pages. hardcover
1893ref. 401924Romae : Ex Typographia Polyglotta 1893. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good gilt-blocked leather-backed cloth copy. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; xi 924 p. ; 30 cm. Subjects; Catholic Church Missions. Catholic Church. Congregation of the Propagation of the Faith. Rescripts Papal. Romae : Ex Typographia Polyglotta hardcover
1907ref. 38979Rome 1907. 1st prtg. Two volumes. Over 1200 pages. Folio. Hardcovers rebound. Ex-seminary library books. Old paper label on spine stamp on title page but otherwise a clean tight set in very good condition. Complete text of the decrees #1-2317 for the years 1622-1907. unknown
2012ref. x-1598745557Left Coast Pr 2012. Hardcover. New. 200 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. Left Coast Pr hardcover
2012ref. x-1598745565Left Coast Pr 2012. Paperback. New. 200 pages. 9.00x6.50x0.50 inches. Left Coast Pr paperback
2012ref. mon0000181059Routledge 2012-12-15. Hardcover. Very Good. 0.9000 in x 9.0000 in x 6.2000 in. very clean hardcover. no marks. clean text. solid binding. very light wear. ISBN matches listing Routledge hardcover
ref. 650483560Left Coast Press Incorporated . Papeback. New. pp. 200 Left Coast Press, Incorporated unknown
1989ref. ROD0104144DESCLEE. 1989. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 162 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 234-La foi
1987ref. 316740Boston: David R. Godine Publisher 1987. 1st U.S. Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good price clipped dust jacket. Owner name inked on FEP.; 190 pages. David R. Godine Publisher hardcover
2005ref. BN442797Mitchell Beazley 2005. 2005. Cognac: The Illustrated Guide to the History and Taste of Cognac Mitchell Beazley Drink Cognac: The Illustrated Guide to the History and Taste of Cognac Mitchell Beazley Drink Faith Nicholas and Craig Easton Mitchell Beazley unknown
ref. 1906821798.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
ref. 1913141683.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
ref. 1840009020.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
2006ref. Q-1840009020MITCH 2006-07-28. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! MITCH hardcover
