Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

The Enchafed Flood, Or the Romantic Imagery of the Sea

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Faber & Faber : 1951

Seller ID: 48442

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 1951 Faber & Faber. HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound copy in original title lettered dust jacket. Blue cloth lettered in gilt; contents clean and neat. Jacket rubbed and worn with overall general toning, heavier at spine. Jacket with several closed tears at spine and edges; old tape mends to reverse of jacket at spine ends and a few shallow edge chips. An old store price sticker to front jacket panel; front flap with a deep price clip to bottom corner. VG/G
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New Illustrated Edition - Do or Die; a Manual on Individual Combat

By: Biddle, Colonel A. J. D.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Washingon, DC, The Leatherneck Association : 1944

Edition: Second Revised Edition

Seller ID: 35693

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 108 pages; 2nd edition, revised and enlarged with b&w photographs. Soundly bound with original pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's red cloth with title lettering in orange to cover. Pictorial dust jacket is worn and rubbed at edges with small nicks and chips and some short closed tears. Furring and partial separation along the flap folds has been mended with archival japanese tissue paper applied to the blank reverse side of the jacket. Bit of superficial mottling to the color of the cloth cover board. Contents clean and neat; illustrated throughout w...
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Treasury Of Great Gambling Stories

By: Brunner, Robert K. (Ed. ) and Ely Culbertson (Intro. ) ; Twain; Harte; Crane; Etc.

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Chicago, IL, Ziff Davis Publishing Company : 1946

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18844

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 382 pages; Square, sound and neat in original, worn dust jacket. No marks. Dust jacket missinfg an inch from the top and bottom of the spine panel with some surface and edge rubbing. Contents clean and neat. Unommon in dust jacket. VG/G
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The World Crisis [1911-1918 (One Volume Ed) ]

By: Churchill, Winston S.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1949

Seller ID: 47178

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Maps and charts, folding; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 866 pages; 1949 Charles Scribner's Sons. Stout HC/DJ. 1st printing of the revised single volume edition with a new introduction by Churchill. Soundly bound in original thatch pattern red cloth with titles brightly in gilt to spine. This copy retains the original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $7.50 issue price to unclipped front flap. Jacket is rubbed and worn at edges with surface stress; several shallow chips missing from spine ends and edges; there is a small open snag on the rear jacket flap fold and light general toning to the re...
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Men & Brothers; Anglo-American Antislavery Cooperation

By: Fladeland, Betty

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Urbana, University of Illinois Press : 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 50363

ISBN-13: 9780252002250

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 478 pages; 1972 University of Illinois Press. HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket rubbed and worn with chips and nicks at edges; sunned and fading at spine. Contents clean with no marks observed. VG/G
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Animated Noah's Ark

By: Harris, Laura and Julian Wehr

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1945

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 41968

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Oblong Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; Oblong format HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound in original color pictorial paper covered boards with contents gatered internally with a plastic spiral comb binding. Color pictorial dust jacket matching the design of the boards. All 4 mechanical designs in VG working condition. Mild wear to the perforations in the first few leaves from rubbing against the spiral binding. Dust jacket has a wide swath of dust soiling to the top 3 and front 1.5 inches of the cover panel. Several chips from jacket edges and light rubbing to jacket and board corners; a light...
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Cash McCall, A Novel

By: Hawley, Cameron

Price: $69.50

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin : 1955

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 43522

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 444 pages; [SIGNED] 1955 Houghton Mifflin HC/DJ 1st edition. Inscribed to John Atlee and signed by Hawley on the half-title page. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket with $3.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket heavily rubbed with shallow chipping at edges. Jacket flap folds relaxed and rubbed with short horizontal stress tears and mended partial vertical tear along the front fold. Larger chip missing from crown of spine; spine surface sunned and considerably faded. Publisher's top stain partly faded close to the spine. Light toning to the endpag...
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The Dragon and the Raven; or, the Days of King Alfred

By: Henty, G. A. & C. J. Staniland [Illustrator]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Hurst & Company : 1910

Edition: early

Seller ID: 36128

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 279 pages; Early printing in original dust jacket. Dated to 1910 by the gift inscription penned neatly to the front endpage. Snugly bound and clean in original light blue cloth with full size, paper, color lithograph illustrated title panel mounted to the cover board. Pictorial title design to spine stamped in blue and gilt. Pictorial dust jacket is missing 1x2" square sized chips from the spine ends and the lower 2 inches from the rear panel. Several closed tears to jacket edges; light shelf soiling to jacket surfaces. Light shelf bumping to l...
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The Shaman's Revenge Based on the Arctic Diaries of Vilhjalmur Stefansson

By: Irwin, Violet Mary

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Toronto, The Macmillan Company : 1925

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 13932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 286 pages; Signed by author. Publisher's green cloth with black title and image on cover. Original pictorial dust jacket has a long closed tear starting at the crown and running across the front panel. A shorter closed tear across the spine panel. Jacket rubbed edges and surfaces and with shallow chips along the edges. Light shelf soiling to the whites of the jacket design. Contents clean and bright; binding solid. Signed boldly by the author to the half title page. VG/G; Signed by Author
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English Literature in the Sixteenth Century, Excluding Drama

By: Lewis, C. S.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford University Press : 1954

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 50546

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 696 pages; 1954 Oxford University Press. Stout HC/DJ. 1st edition, 1st printing. Soundly bound in original dark blue cloth with titles and ruling brightly in gilt to spine. In the 1st state dust jacket of light yellow with titles printed in brown and with 12 titles in the series advertised on the rear flap - 4 indicated as "Published" including this one. Contents clean with no marks. Dust soiling top edge of the page block. Jacket heavily toned at spine and less so to sides. Light shelf soiling to jacket surfaces and light shelf rubbing with a few nicks at edges. Our fresh r...
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The Book of Family Devotion; Approved and Commended by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada

By: Presbyterian Church Of Canada

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Toronto, Oxford University Press : 1919

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 14135

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 96 pages; HC/DJ. Publisher's navy blue cloth stamped with seal of the Presbyterian Church and border ruling in blind. Title brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Tight binding and neat text. Expected mild toning to pastedowns and end pages. Prior owner's simple name label attached to front flyleaf. Text unmarked. Plain, unlettered dust jacket missing top and bottom most sections of the spine panel with uniform toning and light soiling. A solid and neat copy with a fragile but still present dust jacket. Quite uncommon in any original edition. VG++/G-
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Budongo: an African Forest and its Chimpanzees

By: Reynolds, Vernon

Price: $11.00

Publisher: New York, Natural History Press : 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: QS-AU51-LQVN

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages; 1965 Natural History Press HC/DJ 1st edition. Square, snug and neat. Prior owner name stamp to top edge and front endpage. Dust jacket flap folds show silverfish evidence with some serration and pinholing. Otherwise the DJ is bright and clean. VG/G
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The Master of the Microbe; A Fantastic Romance

By: Service, Robert W

Price: $375.00

Publisher: New York, Barse & Hopkins : 1926

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 25200

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 424 pages; Snugly bound in original wraparound pictorial dust jacket. Publisher's original orange cloth with title lettering in black to cover and spine. Cloth lightly pulled and just very slightly frayed at spine ends. Prior owner bookplate mounted to front pastedown. Pictorial dust jacket is missing shallow chips from the spine ends and top edge of the front panel. A larger inch wide triangular chip missing from the lower front corner of the front panel. The front panel has a crazed pattern of closed tears which were mended by the owner with a set of eleven short ...
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Damaged Goods; the Great Play "Les Avaries" of Brieux, Novelized with the Approval of the Author

By: Sinclair, Upton & Eugene Brieux

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co : 1913

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 35812

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 194 pages; 1st edition, thus, of the Sincliar novelization. Soundly bound and clean in original title lettered dust jacket. Ribbed gray cloth with titles brightly in gilt to cover and spine. Dust jacket worn and toned with larger chips missing from the spine ends, short closed edge tears and shallow chips. Jacket flap folds rubbed and a little furred; some cracking to the jacket spine joints, well preserved with new, archival and removable jacket cover. Light to moderate general toning to the cream colored jacket. Prior owner name and address dated 1...
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A History of Roman Sea-Power before the Second Punic War

By: Thiel, J. H.

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, North-Holland Publishing Company : 1954

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 42855

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 367 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound copy in original cream paper jacket with titles printed in red. Text clean and unmarked; light shelf bumping top front corners. Dust jacket sun toned and fading at spine with shelf rubbing and shallow chips and short tears at edges. Illustrated with one plate of photographs addressing the problem of the Corvus. Solid clean copy in worn jacket. Scarce. VG/G
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Galloping Dawns

By: Tuckerman, Arthur

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company : 1924

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 48166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 271 pages; 1924 Doubleday, Page & Company. HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Thatch patterned brown cloth with pictorial paper title label to spine; contents bright and clean. Uncommon original dust jacket worn with several closed tears and bottom of spine and a corner of the rear panel with old tape mends where they had been torn away. Offset toning from tape residue. VG+/G
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The Borzoi Reader

By: Van Doren, Carl (Ed. )

Price: $24.95

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1936

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 24237

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1030 pages; HC/DJ is stout, square sound copy in original brick red cloth. 3 color Borzoi style design dust jacket is a bit rubbed and frayed at corners and spine ends; spine panel a bit sunned and faded. Nice cross section of mid 30's culture and literature as selected by Van Doren and published by Knopf. Binding just a little sheken. Uncommon in dust jacket. VG/G ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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The Rover Boys Under Canvas

By: Winfield, Arthur M. (Edward Stratemeyer)

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Grossett & Dunlap : 1919

Edition: reprint

Seller ID: 12798

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 310 pages; 1919 Grosset & Dunlap. HC/DJ. Circa 1927 printing. Sound clean copy in original brown cloth with decorative illustration of 4 cameo portraits of the Boys and two pictorial panels done in red and darker brown. Color pictorial dust jacket with oval portrait of three lads and 2 pictorial vignettes of camping and baseball scenes. Jacket has had the misfortune of the prior owner's well meaning and now very old tape reinforcements to the top and bottom edges and flap folds. Rear flap has 9 Railroad series titles and rear panel has 30 Rover Boys titles. VG/G+
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The Wreck Of The Maid Of Athens - Being The Journal Of Emily Woolridge 1869-1870

By: Woolridge, Emily edited by Irving, Laurence

Price: $19.50

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company : 1953

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 0817L075952

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 141 pages; 1953 Macmillan HC/DJ 1st edition. Square sound copy in original pictorial dust jacket. Black cloth with titles and decorations in silver. Binding snug and contents clean. Dust jacket well worn with small chips out at spine ends and edges and a larger 1 1/2 inch chip missing from the front panel upper corner. Lavishly illustrated with bold wood cuts by Laurence Irving. A highly interesting 1st person account of shipwreck with additional interest added by the commentary from a women's perspective. VG/G
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Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket