Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Ask the Name of the Lion

Price: $12.50

Publisher: New York, Doubleday & Company : 1962

Seller ID: 49469

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages; 1962 Doubleday & Company. HC/DJ 1st American edition. Tightly bound copy in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.95 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Spine and thin area adjaent to the spine sun faded; mild shelf rubbing to jacket edges. VG++/VG-
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Beach Fire.

By: Alyea, Dorothy

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Company : 1951

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 49494

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 52 pages; [SIGNED] 1951 E. P. Dutton & Company. HC/DJ. 1st edition. Signed by the poet on the front flyleaf. Original dust jacket with light general toning; lettering at spine faded and generally effaced. Mild shelf rubbing with a few small nicks at edges. VG+/VG-; Signed by Author
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Sherwood Anderson's Memoirs; [Kate Smith's copy, with her pictorial bookplate]

By: Anderson, Sherwood

Price: $195.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace : 1942

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 21369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 507 pages; Prior ownership of Kate Smith with her large pictorial bookplate to the front pastedown. 1st printing; this is a review copy, so stamped on the front endpage with publication date (April 9, 1942) and issue price ($3.75) included in the stamp face. Square, snugly bound copy. Text clean and unmarked. Dust jacket is moderately toned and lightly shelf soiled with rubbing at edges. Small chip missing from lower edge of front jacket panel and a larger 1" x 2" chip missing from the lower edge of the rear panel. Prior owner has tape reinforced the spine en...
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Tom Swift and His Ocean Airport, Or, Foiling the Haargolanders

By: Appleton, Victor & Nat Falk (Illust. )

Price: $300.00

Publisher: NY, Grosset & Dunlap : 1934

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 38994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Very good in very good dust jacket. ; 214 p. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 214 pages; 1st edition of #37 (second to last) of the Grosset published 1st Swift series. #37 Ocean Airport is the last title in the list on the copyright page, is not included on the list at rear of book which ends at #36 Television Detector. Front dust jacket flap also ends at #36. Original orange cloth with titles boldly in black to cover and spine; publisher's orange top stain is uniform and bold. Pictorial orange lining sheets. Original pictorial dust jacket has shallow chipping at spine ends, mild toning to spine p...
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Don Sturdy on the Desert of Mystery Or Autoing in the Land of the Caravans

By: Appleton, Victor; Walter S. Rogers

Price: $32.50

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1925

Edition: reprint

Seller ID: 12804

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 214 pages; 1925 Grosset & Dunlap. HC/DJ. Circa 1932 printing of the book in a dust jacket that appears to be earlier. Thatched red cloth with titles blocked in green to cover and spine. Nat Dlak illustrated edndpage and Walter Rogers frontis. Publisher ads at rear list 12 Sturdy titles, though the front dust jacket flap has only 7 Sturdy titles and the rear flap ends with Tom Swift #29 Air Line Express. Book bright and cleanwith just a hint of silverfish patchiness to board edges. Dust jacket with shallow chips at spine ends and tips and with a short open run midsp...
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Sounder

By: Armstrong, William H. & Barkley, James (Illust. )

Price: $19.50

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row : 1969

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 45311

ISBN-13: 9780060201432

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 128 pages; 1969 Harper & Row. HC/DJ 2nd printing with numberline starting at 2 on the rear colophon. Tightly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $3.95 issue price to top corner of front flap; no labels or Newberry sticker to front panel. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed at edges with short closed nicks/tears at spine ends. Jacket clipped bottom corner of front flap. Trace toning to endpages. Early printing. VG++/VG-
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Uncle Sam's Army; How it Fights

By: Avison, George

Price: $19.50

Publisher: New York, Macmillan Company : 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 35836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Drawings; Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 40 pages; Snugly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Bound in army tan cloth with titles in black to cover; spine unlettered as issued. Pictorial dust jacket is toned and tanned at spine and edges. Small chips to unlettered jacket spine panel and lower front corner with a short closed tear from the bottom edge of the rear panel. Illustrated with large drawings on each page, depicting the numerous Army specialist jobs described in the text. VG+/VG-
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Swift's Poetic Worlds

By: Barnett, Louise K.

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Newark, University of Delaware Press : 1981

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 47804

ISBN-13: 9780874131871

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 225 pages; 1981 University of Delaware Press. HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound and clean in original dust jacket. Jacket rubbed and with several ships from edges. VG+/VG-
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A Queer Kind of Death

By: Baxt, George

Price: $42.50

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1966

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 37263

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

1966 Simon Schuster (Inner Sanctum) HC/DJ 1st printing. Baxt's 1st pubclished mystery novel. Bright tight and clean copy; no marks. Dust jacket reatins publisher's $3.95 issue price on unclipped flap. Dj front panel has two short closed tears bottom edge and mild rubbing top edge. Rear panel has a longer "scrunch" tear with a small 1/2" triangular loss at corner and some wrinkling and chipping to the author photo. Book's green paper covered boards mildly shelf rubbed and nicked edges/corners. VG+/VG-; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 249 pages; 1st printing of Baxt's 1st mystery novel...
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The Suspended Drawing Room

By: Behrman, S. N.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Stein and Day : 1965

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 39323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 253 pages; 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by Behrman on the flyleaf, dated Oct 1965 NYC. Soundly bound in original 1/4 cloth backed spine and brown paper covered boards. Spine just slightly shelf cocked. Dust jacket toning at spine and panel edges with light shelf rubbing to edges and a few short closed tears. VG+/VG-; Signed by Author
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The Calas Affair Persecution, Toleration, and Heresy in 18Th Century Toulouse

By: Bien, David D.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Princeton, Princeton University Press : 1960

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 42686

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 199 pages; [SIGNED] 1st edition. Inscribed by the author on the front pastedown to his Princeton fellow historian, William Bruce Catton. Snugly bound and neat in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket has a light to moderate drink ring ripple to the cover panel, light toning to surfaces and mild shelf rubbing to edges. VG+/VG-; Signed by Author
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Bob Brownell's Gunsmith Kinks

By: Brownell, F. R. "bob" & Frank Brownell (Ed. )

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Montezuma, Iowa, F. Brownell & Son : 1969

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 50077

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Photographs & Diagrams; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 496 pages; 1969 F. Brownell & Son. HC/DJ 1st edition. Snugly bound with original pictorial dust jacket. Prebbled black cloth lettered in gilt. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos and diagrams. Dust jacket with light general toning and shelf rubbing at edges. Mild fray to jacket at spine ends and a light spot of soiling front edge of the cover panel. VG+/VG-
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The Tarzan Twins

By: Burroughs, Edgar Rice & Douglas Grant (Illust. )

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Joliet, IL, P. F. Volland Company : 1927

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 35369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Color & b/w illust; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 2nd edition/printing (of 7 total printings issued. ) Snugly bound in original blue 1/4 cloth backed, pictorial paper covered boards. In original color pictorial dust jacket that has some mild drakening to the front spine edge from likely exposure to smoke from a fire. Jacket is crisp edged with mild fading at spine and some light edge rubbing and superficial nicking. Book feels and appears generally unhandled with contents in exquisite condition. Mild shelf scrape to lower edge of boards. Illustrated thorughout by Grant's art work, most...
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The Stars Beyond the Storms

By: Burton, Katherine

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Benziger Brothers : 1954

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 204 pages; Square and neat in glossy illustrated dust jacket. Jacket is bright but worn at edges with several small nicks and tears and a few larger chips; one larger square-shaped open tear along bottom jacket edge obscures part of author's last name. Soild unmarked copy. VG+/VG-
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Special Delivery; A Packet of Replies

By: Cabell, James Branch

Price: $29.50

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride : 1933

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 37620

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; 2nd printing (before publication). Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket has a thin swath missing from the bottom edge of the front panel and a dime sized chip missing front the lower front corner. Shallow chip missing from the crown of the jacket spine panel. Binding snug and contents clean with no marks. VG+/VG-
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Electric Railways of Northeastern Ohio

By: Canfield, Joseph M.

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Chicago, Ill, Central Electric Railfans' Assoc. : 1965

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 45862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

CERA Bulletin 108; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 223 pages; 1965 Central Electric Railfans' Assoc. CERA Bulletin 108. Oversize HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Errata sheet and single page map laid in at front. Illustrated throughout with b&w photos and drawings. Contents clean and unmarked. Jacket lightly rubbed to edges and surfaces. VG+/VG- ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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The First Ten Years of American Communism; Report of a Participant

By: Cannon, James P. ; Theodore Draper (Intro)

Price: $39.50

Publisher: New York, Lyle Stuart : 1962

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 49511

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 343 pages; 1962 Lyle Stuart. HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket moderately toned and faded at spine, price clipped front flap and with light shelf rubbing to edges and surfaces. Contents clean and neat with no marks. VG+/VG-
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Bulgarian National Embroidery, Western Regions

By: Choukanova, Rossitsa; Hristo Vakarelsky (Foreword)

Price: $135.00

Publisher: Sofia, Bulgarski Houdozhnik Publishing House : 1957

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 47701

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Color reproductions; Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall; 280 pages; 1957 Bulgarski Houdozhnik Publishing House. Oversize oblong HC/DJ. Introductory text and plate captions in English, French and German, 135 plates reproduce in color examples of emroidered skirts, sleeves, coats and dresses. Soundly bound in color pictorial paper covered boards with cloth backed spine. Matching pictorial design to paper dust jacket, unlettered at spine, as issued. Jacket rubbed and worn at edges with small chips and fray at spine ends. Page stock lightly toned; mild foxing to endpages and jacket flaps. VG+/VG- ... Over...
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The World of Justus Falckner

By: Clark, Delber Wallace

Price: $16.50

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Muhlenberg Press : 1946

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 42885

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 189 pages; HC/DJ. 1st edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Jacket price clipped top corner of front flap, toned to spine and the top half of the side panels and with 1/2 inch chip from the crown of the spine panel. . Illustrated pictorial endpages. Text clean and neat. VG+/VG-
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The Oil Century; From the Drake Well to the Conservation Era

By: Clark, J. Stanley

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press : 1958

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 50358

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 281 pages; 1958 University of Oklahoma Press HC/DJ 1st edition. Snug, bright and neat in original pictorial dust jacket. Gift inscription penned to front endpage. Dust jacket lightly shelf rubbed and worn with a few nicks and abrasions at edges. Illustrated with b&w photos. Jacket price clipped front flap. VG+/VG-
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Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket