Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Joshua Todd [Association Copy]

By: Abbot, Anthony as Oursler, Fulton

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart : 1935

Edition: Fourth Printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 27038

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 525 pages; Signed and inscribed on the front endpage by the author to fellow novelist T. Everitt Harre, dated April 1935. Soundly bound copy in original dust jacket. Binding a little cocked in the spine. Beige paper dust jacket is toned and lightly shelf soiled with spine panel sunned; title lettering remains bold but lighter color printing of the author name is considerably faded. Jacket is nicked at edges with several short closed tears and shallow stress creases at edges. Shallow damp stain to the top edge of a handful of pages at front. Inscribed association copy...
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Tom Swift and His Chest of Secrets, or, Tracing the Stolen Inventions: Tom Swift #28

By: Appleton, Victor

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1925

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 216 pages; HC/DJ. Apparent and presumed 1st edition. Swift title list on jacket flap lists 28 titles, ending with "Chest of Secrets" ; ad at rear of book lists 27 Swift titles, not including not including"Chest of Secrets". Sound dust jacketed copy in original mustard yellow cloth with "quad" design of illustrations in red and green. Pictorial dust jacket is bright, with a nickel sized chip missing from the top edge of the rear panel and a few very small chips/nicks from the spine ends and corners. There are several short closed tears at ja...
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Peter Arno's Ladies & Gentlemen

By: Arno, Peter

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1951

Seller ID: 47036

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 1951 Simon and Schuster. Oversize HC/DJ. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket with $3.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Bound in ywllow and blue patterned paper covered boards with titles boldly in white. Dust jacket shelf rubbed and worn with several shallow nicks and short tears at edges. Fisrst and last several pages with light to moderate foxing to front edge; usual and expected light toning to page stock. Binding material pulled and shallow fray at crown. No marks of any kind. VG-/VG- ... Oversize book may require additional charg...
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Changing Pilots

By: Ayres, Ruby M. & Harry Timmins (Jacket Art)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc. : 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 35387

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 306 pages; Soundly bound in original color pictorial dust jacket with handsome jacket art by Harry Timmins and publisher's $2.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Dust jacket lightly rubbed at edges with a vertical stress crease to the spine from having been removed and placed as a bookmark while reading. Light shelf soiling to cloth boards; binding a little shaken in the spine with slight shelf cock. Solid and attractive, uncommon in dust jacket. VG-/VG-
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Writers of To-Day; Vol. 2

By: Baker, Denys Val (Ed. )

Price: $12.00

Publisher: London, Sidgwick and Jackson Ltd. : 1948

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 48167

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 200 pages; 1948 Sidgwick and Jackson . HC/DJ 1st edition. Soundly bound copy in original dust jacket. Prior owner name stamp to front pastedown; her light pencil underlining in the essay on Auden, on whose work she wrote her doctoral disertation. Else clean and solid with light to moderate shelf wear to jacket extremities. VG-/VG-
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Freedom and Responsibility in the American Way of Life: Five Lectures Delivered on the William W. Cook Foundation At the University of Michigan, December 1944

By: Becker, Carl L. & George Sabine (Intro. )

Price: $39.50

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1945

Edition: Sixth Printing

Seller ID: 43153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 122 pages; 6th printing. Snugly bound copy in original title lettered dust jacket. Jacket toned to spine and panel edges; price clipped from front flap, Trace sunning to cloth top edge of boards. 2 pages at rear with cusrsry marginalia. Solid clean copy in slightly worn and toned jacket. VG-/VG-
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Pieces of Time; Peter Bogdanovich on the Movies

By: Bogdanovich, Peter; Harold Hayes (Intro)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Arbor House : 1973

Edition: Second Printing

Seller ID: 47453

ISBN-13: 9780877950721

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 269 pages; 1973 Arbor House. HC/DJ. 2nd printing. Soundly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $7.95 isue price intact to unclipped front flap. Binding slightly shelf cocked in the spine; light dust soiling top edge. Jacket lightly sunned at spine with superficial shelf rubbing at tips. Uncommon. VG-/VG-
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The Grass Harp: a Play

By: Capote, Truman; Cecil Beaton (Photos)

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : 1952

Edition: First Edition; First Printing

Seller ID: 50484

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 120 pages; 1952 Random House HC/DJ 1st printing of the dramatic treatment done by Capote, first performed at the Martin Beck Theatre on March 27, 1952. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket with publisher's$2.50 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Light general toning to the whites of the jacket design; mild shelf rubbing jacket edges and very small instance of silverfish predation to several letters of the title at spine. Trace residue of the black adheive commonly used in the edge of older period dust jacket protectors, visible to bottom edge of the board...
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The Blue Eyed Six

By: Carmean, Edna

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Lebanon, PA, Sowers Printing Co. : 1981

Edition: Second Edition

Seller ID: 50489

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 267 pages; 1981 Sowers Printing Co. HC/DJ 2nd edition. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket; contents neat and unmarked. Just slightly shelf cocked in the spine. Dust jacket islightly shelf rubbed at the edges with a short closed tear top edge rear panel and a drink ring centered on the front panel. Illustrated with a few b&w photos and reproductions. VG-/VG-
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Fred Fenton on the Track, Or the Athletes of Riverport School

By: Chapman, Allen; (Stratemeyer Syndicate)

Price: $39.00

Publisher: New York, Cupples & Leon Co. : 1924

Edition: early printing

Seller ID: 34334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

#4 Fred Fenton Athletic Series; Frontis on glossy stock; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 206 pages; Circa [1924] Cupples & Leon Co.. HC/DJ. Early printing, date approximated by titles in Cupples & Leon ads on the reverse of the dust jacket; (ex.; Dorothy Dale to the Rescue last dale title). Soundly bound inlight yellow cloth with pictorial design (athlete on field) to board in black and red. Color pictorial dust jacket with boy on shoulders of fellows. Dust jacket with light/moderate rubbing and nicking to edges. Light shelf soiling to whites of jacket at spine and rear panel. Binding just a little...
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, Private Aufzeichnungen, Erste Veroffentlichungen aus den Papieren des k.u.k. Generalstabs-Chefs

By: Conrad Von Hotzendorf, & Kurt Peball

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Munich, Amalthea : 1976

Seller ID: 31856

ISBN-13: 9783850020732

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 352 pages; Soundly bound copy in original pictorial dust jacket. A few scatterd pages with mild pencil underlining; several pages at front with heavier pencil marginalia. Largely unmarked. Dust jacket lightly edge worn with a few minor nicks at edges. VG-/VG-
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Mr. Lincoln's Proclamation; The Story of the Emancipation Proclamation

By: Donovan, Frank Robert

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Co : 1964

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 42832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 146 pages; 1st edition. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket. Binding just slightly shelf cocked in the spine; light foxing to page block edges. Jacket shelf rubbed with a few shallow nicks at edges. VG-/VG-
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The White Company

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan & Frank Schnoover (Jacket Art)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1935

Edition: reprint

Seller ID: 49562

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Frontis; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 391 pages; Circa [1935] Grosset & Dunlap HC/DJ Early reprinting. Snugly bound and clean in original color pictorial dust jacket from art by Frank Schnoover. Bound in textured orange cloth lettered in black; illustrated pictorial endpages and a frontis on glossy stock. Dust jacket lightly shelf rubbed edges and with thin 1 inch high chip torn along 3 inches of the top edge of the cover panel. Some silverfish pitting to the page block edges front and bottom. Contents clean and neat. VG-/VG-
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Bitter Waters; Helps in the Pursuit of Perfection

By: Doyle, Charles Hugo

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, P. J. Kenedy & Sons : 1961

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 38670

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 175 pages; Soundly bound in original dust jacket. Prior owner name stamp to front endpage; some offset tape ghosts to endpage edges where and older style dust jacket cover had been taped to itself (not though to the endpages). Text clean with no marks observed. VG-/VG-
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Rubáiyát of Omar-Khayyàm [From] the 2nd Edition, 1868 [Original Persion with Translation to English, German, French & Arabic]

By: Fitzgerald, Edward (Trans)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Tehran, Tahrir-Iran Co : 1964

Seller ID: 49470

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Color Plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 628 pages; 1964 Tahrir-Iran Co. HC/DJ Edition published in commemoration of the 1962 White Revolution and The Shah. Soundly bound in original color pictorial dust jacket. Reproduces the 1868 Fitzgerald translation, floowed by a selection of Quatrains in original Persion translated into English, German, French and Arabic. Illustrated with color plates. Binding a little shaken; text block pulling alightly on binding cords. Boards splay slightly at front edge. Jacket a little shelf rubbed and worn with several short closed tears at edges. VG-/VG-
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White House Profile; A Social History of the White House, its Occupants and its Festivities

By: Furman, Bess

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill : 1951

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 49488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 368 pages; [SIGNED] 1951 Bobbs-Merrill. HC/DJ 1st edition, stated. Soundly bound and clean in original pictorial dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Furman on the 2nd free endpage and dated November 1951. Jacket with general light to moderate toning; shelf rubbing to edges and surfaces. Light general toning to page stock; jacket price clipped front flap. B&w illustrations. VG-/VG-; Signed by Author
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Johnny Gruelle's Golden Book

By: Gruelle, Johnny

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago & New York, M. A. Donohue : 1929

Edition: Revised Edition; reprint

Seller ID: 35485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W & Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 95 pages; Oversize HC/DJ in glossy pictorial boards with unlettered red cloth backstrip/spine. Snugly bound and neat with original pictorial dust jacket reproducing the pictorial design on the boards. Lower front corner shelf bumped with light scrape and rupture to paper over boards. Dust jacket rubbed at edges with several nicks and shprt closed edge tears. Contents bright and very neat. 1929 the last date of several copyright dates recorded. With dust jacket; still a handsome copy. Contains Little Brown Bear; Cheery Scarecrow; Eddie Ele...
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Henry William Stiegel, the Life Story of a Famous American Glass-Maker [With Pamphlet} Baron Stiegel Room, Brunswick Hotel

By: Heiges, George L

Price: $22.50

Publisher: Manheim, PA, Published By the Author : 1937

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 42274

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

B&W Photos and reproductions; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages; [SIGNED] 1937 Self-published. HC/DJ 1st edition. Signed by the author on the title page. Laid in at front is an 8 page pamphlet from the then prestigious Brunswick Hotel of Lancaster, showcasing the murlas of the Baron Stielgel Room at the Hotel. Als laid I at front is a photo post card of Zion Lutheran Church in Manheim, photo credited to the book's author. Prior owner pencil notation of purchasing the book at Heiges' Drug Store. Soundly bound in original pictorial dust jacket, unlettered at spine - as issued. Jacket lightly shelf soi...
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The Art of Pennsylvania Dutch Cooking

By: Heller, Edna Eby

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Galahad Books : 1976

Edition: reprint

Seller ID: 49413

ISBN-13: 9780883653555

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages; 1976 Galahad Books. HC/DJ Reprint. Soundly bound in original color pictorial dust jacket. Jacket lightly shelf rubbed with a few short closed tears and shallow chipping at crown of spine. Dust spotting top edge of page block and light foxing to front edge. Contents clean and neat; small ink date stamp to front endpage. VG-/VG-
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The Old Man and the Sea

By: Hemingway, Ernest

Price: $165.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1953

Edition: early printing

Seller ID: 50483

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 140 pages; 1953 Charles Scribner's Sons. HC/DJ. Very early reprinting in the original pictorial dust jacket design with the same $3.00 issue price and design as that of the 1952 1st printing. There is no mention of the Pulitzer on the jacket flaps copy. Soundly bound in original pale blue cloth lettered in silver at spine and with Hemingway signature imprint in blind to the cover board. Jacket generally bright and clean with $3.00 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Jacket has a few small scuffs to the front flap folds, light shelf rubbing to edges and spine ends and ...
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Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket