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A. St. John Adcock - THE BOOKLOVER'S LONDON - Macmillan, NY 1913 - Illustrated - $45 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Joan Baez - AND A VOICE TO SING WITH - Summit Books, NY 1987 - First Edition in Dust Jacket - Signed "Love, Joan Baez" with hand drawn Heart - $75
Louis A. Banks - WHITE SLAVES - OPPRESSION OF THE WORTHY POOR - Lee & Shepard - Boston 1892 FINE Condition - 1st - $40 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Clare Boothe - MARGIN FOR ERROR - Random House - N.Y. 1940 FINE Condition - 1st/DJ - $35 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Roark Bradford - JOHN HENRY - Literary Guild - New York 1931 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - $30
Anne Bronte - THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL - Oxford Press, London 1912 - 24mo - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Robert Browning - THE RING AND THE BOOK - Thomas Crowell - N.Y. 1897 VERY GOOD Condition Author's Revised Text - $35
Robert Browning - THE RING AND THE BOOK - Heritage Press - N.Y. 1949 FINE Condition - Boxed - Illustrated by Carl Schultheiss - $30
Thomas Bulfinch - THE AGE OF CHIVALRY - Thomas Crowell, NY 1901 FINE Condition - Gilt Top Edge - contains the story of King Arthur and his Knights and the Mabinogeon (Prose Tales of the Welsh) - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Richard E. Byrd - DISCOVERY - Putnam's - N.Y. 1935 FINE Condition - 1st - DJ - $95
Richard E. Byrd - LITTLE AMERICA - Putnam's - N.Y. 1930 FINE Condition - 1st - $75
James B. Cabell - THE SILVER STALLION - John Lane - London 1928 FINE Condition - 1st - DJ - Illustrated by Frank Pape - $85
James B. Cabell - SOMETHING ABOUT EVE - McBride & Co., NY 1927 FINE Condition - Limited 1st Edition of 850 copies - this is copy 126 and is neatly signed by James Branch Cabell - with Unopened Pages - Half Vellum Boards - $125
Erskine Caldwell - TOBACCO ROAD - Grosset and Dunlap, NY 1942 VERY GOOD Condition Dust Jacket - written 10 years after the original with a New Preface by the Author - Previous owner name under front jacket flap - $25
Carter, Jimmy (President) - TURNING POINT - First Edition - Dust Jacket - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - $195
Lady Jackson Catherine Charlotte - LADY JACKSON'S WORKS - LAST OF THE VALOIS/ACCESSION OF NAVARRE - Grolier Society - London (ND) - Two Vols - Leather - VERY GOOD Condition - Limited Ed. #84/1000 - $85 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Lady Jackson Catherine Charlotte - THE OLD REGIME - Henry Holt & Co - N.Y. 1898 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - $30 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Anton Chekhov - THE CHERRY ORCHARD AND OTHER PLAYS - Grosset & Dunlap - N.Y. 1935 VERY GOOD Condition - Howard Simon Woodcuts - $20
Chevalier, Maurice - I REMEMBER IT WELL - First Edition - Dust Jacket - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - $95
Winston Churchill - THE DWELLING PLACE OF LIGHT - Macmillan - N.Y. 1917 FINE Condition - 1st - Beautiful condition - 462 pp - with ads - $60
Joseph Conrad - THE SHADOW LINE - Doubleday, Page & Co. - Garden City 1924 VERY GOOD Condition Leather Binding - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
James Fenimore Cooper - THE WATER WITCH OR THE SKIMMER OF THE SEAS - John Winston, Philadelphia (nd) FINE Condition - Gilt Top Edge - previous owner bookplate inside front cover - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Malcolm Cowley - THE ADVENTURES OF AN AFRICAN SLAVER - Garden City Pub - Garden City 1928 VERY GOOD Condition - Illustrated - $35
Crawford, Mary Caroline - OLD BOSTON IN COLONIAL DAYS OR ST BOTOLPH'S TOWN - Page & Co, Boston 1908 -VERY FINE Condition - Beautiful 1st Edition in Gilt Decorated Cloth with motif of old Boston on Cover and Gilt Top Edge365pp - Index - Illustrated - $75
Countee Cullen - COPPER SUN - Harpers - N.Y. 1927 FINE Condition - 1st - Illustrations by Cullen - $95
James O. Curwood - THE COUNTRY BEYOND - Cosmopolitan - N.Y. 1922 FINE Condition - 1st - $65 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Richard Harding Davis - CAPTAIN MACKLIN - HIS MEMOIRS - Scribner's, NY 1902 FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Gilt Top Edge - $45
Richard Harding Davis - IN THE FOG - R. H. Russell - N.Y. 1901 FINE Condition - 1st - $45
Richard Harding Davis - THE DESERTER - Scribner's - NY 1917 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - $35
Richard H. Davis - THE NOTES OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT - Scribner's - N.Y. 1911 FINE Condition - - Photo Illustrated - $25
Richard H. Davis - REAL SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE - Scribner's - N.Y. 1911 FINE Condition - - Photo Illustrated - $25
Charles Dickens - DOMBEY AND SON - Bradbury & Evans - London 1848 - VERY GOOD Condition - 1st Edition IN 3/4 Leather- 1st Printing with "Capatin" on p324-missing "if" p426 - 3/4 Leather - Cover split-repaired - Previous owner name/address stamped on ffep - $250
Charles Dickens - MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT - Chapman & Hall - London 1844 FINE Condition - 1st book edition - Illustrations by Phiz - Excellent condition - 3/4 Black Leather - Marbled Boards and End Papers - $450
Thomas Dixon Jr - THE VICTIM - Appleton - N.Y. 1914 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - $45
Robert J. Donovan - PT 109 - JOHN F. KENNEDY IN WORLD WAR II - McGraw-Hill, NY 1961 FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Dust Jacket - Previous owner name on front end paper and title page -Scarce title - $75
Amanda Douglas - OUT OF THE WRECK - Lee and Shepard, Boston (early reprint -1900s) Great Condition in Scarce Dust Jacket - $30
Norman Douglas - SOUTH WIND - Argus Books - Chicago 1929 FINE Condition - Two Volume Set - OW(Covered by new Book Plate) - Illustrated by John Austen - $80
Garnett Laidlaw Eskew THE PAGEANT OF THE PACKETS - A BOOK OF AMERICAN STEAMBOATING - Henry Holt & Co., NY 1929 FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Photo Illustrated story of the American Steamboat with its huge smokestacks and decks awash in cotton - $75 LT William H. Fetridge - THE NAVY READER - Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis 1943 VERY GOOD Condition 1st Edition - SIGNED by the Author - in Scarce Dust Jacket - Heavily illustrated with photos, maps and illustrations - $95
Henry Fielding - JOSEPH ANDREWS - John Lane - London 1929 FINE Condition - In Scarce Dust Jacket - Illustrated by Norman Tealby - in Box (worn/repaired) - $75
Fleming, Ian - OCTOPUSSY AND THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS - London, Jonathan Cape 1966 - 1st Edition - FINE Condition - Dust Jacket (price clipped) - $95
Fleming, Ian - YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE - London, Jonathan Cape 1964 - 1st Edition - VERY GOOD Condition - Dust Jacket (chipped) - brown spots on paper edges - $95
Frank Foxcroft - WAR VERSE - Crowell - N.Y. 1918 VERY GOOD Condition Full Leather (worn at edges) - Gilt Top Edge - a Collection of World War One Poems - $45
Anatole France - GOLDEN TALES - Dodd Mead - N.Y. 1927 FINE Condition - - Illustrated by L. Patterson - $75
Anatole France - THAIS - Illustrated Editions Co - N.Y. 1931FINE Condition - OW - $65
Franklin, Benjamin - WORKS OF THE LATE DOCTOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN: CONSISTING OF HIS LIFE, WRITTEN BY HIMSELF, TOGETHER WITH ESSAYS, HUMOROUS, MORAL & LITERARY, CHIEFLY IN THE MANNER OF THE SPECTATOR - Dublin 1793 - 303pp - Scarce and Interesting Collectible - Bound in Grey Cloth - FINE Condition with only light foxing to interior - $265
John Fulleylove (Illustrator) THE TOWER OF LONDON - A. C. Black, London 1908 Like New Condition - The Tower of London as described by Arthur Poyser - 213 pages with index, 22 color plates and fold-out map of the tower - Gilt Top Edge - Covers are Red Cloth with Gilt - $125
Capt Willard Glazier - HEADWATERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI - Rand McNally - Chicago 1893 FINE Condition - 1st - Illustrated - Decorative Cover/Spine - $75
Kenneth Grahame - THE GOLDEN AGE - John Lane - London 1900 (Dodd Mead 1905 Reprint) FINE Condition - Illustrated by Maxfield Parrish - $75
(graphics image) Harris, Joel Chandler - AARON IN THE WILDWOODS - Houghton - Mifflin - Boston 1897 FINE Condition - 1st - OW - Illustrated by Oliver Herford - $145




Harris, Joel Chandler - THE CHRONICLES OF AUNT MINERVY ANN - Scribner's 1899 - Illustrated by A. B. Frost - 1st Edition - NEAR FINE - previous owner names on fep - light wear and fading to exterior - $95
Harris, Joel Chandler - TOLD BY UNCLE REMUS: NEW STORIES OF THE OLD PLANTATION - Grosset & Dunlop 1905 - VERY GOOD Condition - Illustrated by A.B. Frost, Conde and Verbeck - $95
Joel Chandler Harris - ON THE WING OF OCCASIONS - Doubleday Page, NY 1900 FINE Condition - 1st Edition -with Light Green Cover with Sword and Wings - Illustrated - story about plot to kidnap President Lincoln - $85
Joel Chandler Harris - ON THE WING OF OCCASIONS - Doubleday Page, NY 1900 FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Special Edition Printing with Dark Green Covers and Gilt Title - Previous owner name on front free endpaper - Illustrated - story about plot to kidnap President Lincoln - $75
Harris, Joel Chandler - UNCLE REMUS HIS SONGS AND SAYINGS - Appleton - NY 1919 FINE Condition - Illustrated by A. B. Frost - $75
Bret Harte - POEMS - James Osgood - Boston 1871 VERY GOOD Condition 1st/2nd State - Spine chipping - $50
Nathaniel Hawthorne - TANGLEWOOD TALES FOR GIRLS AND BOYS - David McKay, Philadelphia (nd) - Gilt Top Edge - $20
Rupert S. Holland - HISTORIC RAILROADS - Macrae Smith Co., Phila 1927 - VERY FINE Condition - Hardcover in Blue Illustrated Boards - Beautifully Illustrated Color Plates of famous railroad adventures, including the story of "The General" in the Civil War - A wonderful gift for the railroad enthusiast - $95
Oliver Wendell Holmes - THE AUTOCRAT AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE - Ticknor & Fields, Boston 1864 FINE Condition - Clean Tight Copy - $50 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Oliver Wendell Holmes - THE PROFESSOR AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE (WITH THE STORY OF IRIS) - Ticknor & Fields - Boston 1860 FINE Condition - 1st - 403 pp and Index - $175 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Emerson Hough - 54-40 OR FIGHT - Bobbs-Merrill - Indianapolis 1909 FINE Condition - 1st - Illustrations by A. I. Keller - $175 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Washington Irving - THE CRAYON PAPERS / LEGENDS OF THE CONQUEST OF SPAIN / SPANISH VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY- John Alden - Phila 1884 FINE Condition - - Gilt top edge - 3 Works in 1 Vol - $50 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Jackson, Helen Hunt - RAMONA - Little Brown & Co, Boston 1900 - FINE Condition - 2 Volume set - 3/4 Leather with Marbled Boards and End Papers - Monterey Edition - Gilt Top Edge - called the "most original and picturesque novel of American life" in early California - illustrated with exquisite sepia prints - $125
Johnston, William G. - EXPERIENCES OF A FORTY-NINER - Pittsburgh 1892 - Scarce 1st edition - FINE Condition - Bright and Clean in Green Cloth with Gilt 1849 on Front Board - Believed to be one of 50 copies printed - 390pp - Frontis of Author plus 13 Illustrations (All Present) - Sylvester Marvin bookplate inside front board - includes laid-in presentation slip to Marvin from Author - (Howes J173; Graff 2229; Streeter Sale 3198; Kurutz 364a; Cowan p316; Mintz 261) - $1800
Katharine M. Jones - THE PLANTATION SOUTH - Bobbs-Merrill - N.Y. 1957 FINE Condition - 1st - Includes photos of ante-bellum homes - $25
W. Sloane Kennedy - JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER - HIS LIFE, GENIUS AND WRITINGS - B. B. Russell, Boston 1892 - Revised and Enlarged Edition - Illustrated with Bibliography - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Rockwell Kent - SALAMINA - Harcourt Brace - N.Y. 1935 FINE Condition - 1st - Illustrated by the author - $45 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Omar Khayyam - RUBAIYAT - David McKay - Phila 1942 FINE Condition - - Illustrated by Will Pogany - $45 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Captain Charles King - A WOUNDED NAME - F. Tennyson Neely, NY 1898 VERY GOOD Condition 1st Edition - Army story of the West and California and encounters with the Spaniards who lived there following the Civil War - owner writing in pencil (1898) on front free end paper - $25
Coretta Scott King - MY LIFE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING JR - Holt Rinehart - N.Y. 1969 FINE Condition - 1st - DJ - $45 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Knox, Rose B. - FOOTLIGHTS AFLOAT - First Edition - Dust Jacket - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Gertrude Lawrence - A STAR DANCED - Doubleday Doran - Garden City 1945 FINE Condition - 1st - DJ-partial - OW - $20
Charles Lindbergh - THE SPIRIT OF ST LOUIS - Scribner's - N.Y. 1953 FINE Condition - - $30 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Henry W. Longfellow - TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN - Ticknor & Fields - Boston 1864 - 1st Printing - 2nd State - VERY GOOD Condition - solid endpapers - has a faded gift inscription on fep dated 1864 - outside is faded and top of spine has chipped away - title is faded but still readible on spine- $30
Henry W. Longfellow - THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP - Fields, Osgood - Boston 1870 - FAIR Condition - 1st/Spine sunned - rear board cracking - Gilt Edged - $35 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Henry W. Longfellow - THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH - E. P. Dutton - N.Y./London (ND) FINE Condition - - Many beautiful color plates - Gilt Edges - Gilt/Color Cover - Illustrated by Arthur Dixon - $65
Lowell, James Russell - UNDER THE WILLOWS AND OTHER POEMS - Boston 1869 - 1st Edition - FINE Condition - Bright Green Cloth with Gilt Willow on Front board - Bright Title on Spine - Interior Clean and Tight - Gilt Top Edge - Very Small Gift Inscription dated 1869 on fep - $45
George D. Lyman - RALSTON'S RING - CALIFORNIA PLUNDERS THE COMSTOCK LODE - Scribner's, NY 1937 VERY GOOD Condition 1st Edition - Dust Jacket (chipped) - Photo illustrated story of the Old West and Virginia City's contribution to the wealth of California - well researched with 65 pages of notes and references - $75
Mary Tucker Magill - MAGILL'S FIRST BOOK IN VIRGINIA HISTORY - J. P. Bell, Lynchburg 1908 - Approximately 1/3rd of this book is on the Civil War - Written as a school text for children - This copy well-worn and has a few pencil annotations and page tears (all pages complete) - Front free end paper missing - Title page reinforced - Illustrations of Lee, Stonewall, Ashby - $35
Cecile Matschat - SUWANNEE RIVER - Literary Guild - N.Y. 1938 FINE Condition - DJ - $35
W. S. Maugham - THEN AND NOW - Doubleday - N.Y. 1946 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - DJ-Chipped - $25
Bill Mauldin - BACK HOME - Sloane Assoc. - N.Y. 1947 FINE Condition - 1st - DJ-tears - OW - Drawings by the author - $40
McGovern, George - GRASS ROOTS - First Edition - Dust Jacket - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - $195
John McGroarty - CALIFORNIA - ITS HISTORY AND ROMANCE - Grafton Publishing, Los Angeles 1911 VERY GOOD Condition 1st Edition - Minor Spine Fading - Sepia Toned Illustrations - Gilt Top Edge - $75
Milne, A. A. - THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER - Metheun & Co., London 1928 - 1st Edition - FINE Condition - Gilt Top Edge - Illustrated - Gift Inscription on fep dated 1928 - $550
Milne, A. A. - NOW WE ARE SIX - Metheun & Co., London 1927 - 1st Edition - FINE Condition - Gilt Top Edge - Illustrated - $225
Milne, A. A. - TOAD OF TOAD HALL - Metheun & Co., London 1929 - 1st Edition - VERY GOOD Condition - Gilt Top Edge - Minor spotting to edges - $225
Edna St.Vincent Millay - THE KING'S HENCHMAN - Harpers - N.Y. 1927 - FINE Condition - 1st Edition (Later printing) - with code "BB"(Feb 1927) on copyright page - $50
Christopher Morley - PARSON'S PLEASURE - N.Y. 1923 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - $60 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Allan Nevins - FREMONT: PATHMARKER OF THE WEST - Appleton Century, NY 1939 - 1st Edition - Fine Condition - Mapped End Papers - $55
Thomas Nelson Page - THE OLD GENTLEMAN OF THE BLACK STOCK -Scribner's - N.Y. 1901 - VERY GOOD Condition - Light soiling to exterior - Previous owner name in ink on fep with date "Xmas 1901" - Illustrated by Howard C. Christ - Gilt Top Edge - $45
Parton, Dolly - MY LIFE AND OTHER UNFINISHED BUSINESS - First Edition - Dust Jacket - BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - $55
Haywood Patterson - SCOTTSBORO BOY - Doubleday - Garden City 1950 FINE Condition - 1st/DJ - $65
Dewitt Peters (Lt Colonel and Army Surgeon) - KIT CARSON'S LIFE AND ADVENTURES - FROM FACTS NARRATED BY HIMSELF - Dustin, Gilman Co, Hartford 1874 - GOOD Condition - Gilt Edges - Bumped/worn corners - Scarce - illustrated with wood plate engravings of Indian scenes - written to make Carson look singularly positive, this text offers rare glimpses of life with the Indians in New Mexico and Utah following the Civil War - $165
(graphics image) Edgar Allen Poe - TALES OF MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION - Tudor Pub Co - N.Y. 1933 FINE Condition - Illustrated by Harry Clarke - Black Cloth - 8 tipped in Color Plates - BP from Berryman Estate - Very Clean - $225




C. C. Post - DRIVEN FROM SEA TO SEA - Elliot and Breezley, Chicago 1888 - FINE Condition - Gilt Edges - The story of Martha Parsons who, with her 2 daughters and adopted son, journeys across America to join her husband John in California in the 1800s - written to fan emotions against land grant thieves, railroads and corporations who were known for cheating and otherwise taking land from the settlers of the west - details many of the schemes that deprived these early settlers of their money, land and lives - includes a large section with quotes from the press, lawyers and government officials to document the difficulties cited in the test - $100
Ruby Radford - MARIE OF OLD NEW ORLEANS - Penn Publishing Phila 1931 VERY GOOD Condition 1st/OW - $10
Rawlings, Marjorie K. - CROSS CREEK - Scribner's, NY 1941- VERY GOOD Condition - 1st Edition with "A" on copyright page - No Scribner Seal - No Yellow Top Stain - Dust Jacket (price clipped) with small chips - Boxed - $95
Opie Read - AN ARKANSAS PLANTER - Rand McNally - Chicago 1896 1st FINE Condition - Illustrated by W.W. Denslow - $60
(graphics image) Capt Mayne Reid - THE SCALP HUNTERS - Routledge & Son - London (n.d.) VERY GOOD Condition 1st? Illustrations - Decorative cover and spine - $75



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Agnes Rothery - VIRGINIA - THE NEW DOMINION - Appleton Century - N.Y. 1940 FINE Condition - 1st/DJ - Illustrated by E. Suydam - $35
Schwarzkopf, Gen. Norman - IT DOESN'T TAKE A HERO - Bantam - N.Y.1992 - FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Dust Jacket - His Autobiography - With Laid-In FOUR STAR BOOKPLATE - BOLDLY SIGNED by him - $165
Seton, Ernest Thompson - MONARCH THE BIG BEAR OF TALLAC - Scribner's - N.Y. 1904 - VERY GOOD Condition with minor wear to boards - 1st Edition - Illustrated by E. T. Seton - $85
George Bernard Shaw - CASHEL BYRON'S PROFESSION - Brentano's, NY 1899 VERY GOOD Condition - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
George Bernard Shaw - THE IRRATIONAL KNOT - Brentano's, NY 1905 FINE Condition - - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
George Bernard Shaw - TRANSLATIONS AND TOMFOOLERIES - Brentano's, NY 1926 FINE Condition - - $45 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Gen. William T. Sherman - RECOLLECTIONS OF CALIFORNIA 1846-1861 - Biobooks, Oakland CA 1945 FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Edited by Joseph Sullivan - contains two facsimile letters Sherman wrote as a Lieutenant in Monterey and a facsimile maps of the California Gold Region drawn by Sherman and bearing his initials - the map and letters were the basis for President Polk's announcement of Gold in California and the resulting Gold Rush of 1849 - The author writes his introduction on V-E Day in 1945 and speaks well of Sherman's link to that success and of the Sherman Tank that made it possible. The book explores the 1856 Vigilance Committee and it's murderous behavior during the period Sherman was in California and Sherman's connection to its activities. Contains many unopened pages. A Limited Edition of only 625 Copies - this one Signed by the Author. - $95
Francis Hopkinson Smith - COLONEL CARTER'S CHRISTMAS - Scribner's, NY 1915 FINE Condition - $20
Robert L. Stevenson - THE WRECKER - Cassell & Co - London 1892 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - Slight cover staining - $175 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Robert L. Stevenson - TRAVELS WITH A DONKEY - Scribners N.Y. 1920 VERY GOOD Condition - Biographical Edition - $20 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Frank R. Stockton - THE CAPTAIN'S TOLL-GATE - Appleton N.Y. 1903 FINE Condition - 1st - Includes Bibliography - $30 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Frank R. Stockton - THE GIRL AT COBHURST- Scribner's N.Y. 1898 FINE Condition - 1st - $30 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Stommel, Henry - LOST ISLANDS: THE STORY OF ISLANDS THAT HAVE VANISHED FROM NAUTICAL CHARTS - British Columbia Press 1984 - AS NEW Condition - Oversized hardcover in Dust jacket - 145pp - map inserts at rear - $20
Stowe, Charles Edward - THE LIFE OF HARRIET BEECHER STOWE - Boston 1890 - FINE Condition - 530pp - By her son - Bright Gilt Decoration and Title on Cover and Spine - Gilt Top Edge - Includes advertising insert from Houghton Mifflin on Uncle Tom's Cabin - $75
William Makepeace Thackery - ROUNDABOUT PAPERS - Dent & Sons, London 1946 - Everyman's Library Edition - 12mo - Like New Condition in Red Cloth - previous owner name penned at top of free front end paper - $15 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Mark Twain - INNOCENTS ABROAD - OR THE NEW PILGRIM'S PROGRESS - American Publishing - Hartford 1889 FINE Condition - Very Nice Copy! - Lots of Illustrations - $125
Mark Twain - MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Harper & Brothers - NY 1924 - FINE Condition - 1st Edition - 2 Vol Set - Typical of Twain (Samuel Clemens), this title opens with his statement "I am writing from the grave. On these terms only can a man be approximately frank" - Beautiful Condition! Small Bookplate - Frontis of Twain in his bed where he dictated most of this autobiography - Gilt Top Edge - $175
(graphics image) Mark Twain - PUDD'NHEAD WILSON - THOSE EXTRAORDINARY TWINS - American Pub Co -Hartford 1894 - Very Good Condition - 1st American Edition - $225




Mark Twain - FOLLOWING THE EQUATOR- American Pub Co - Hartford 1897 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - Page repairs - $95
Mark Twain - LIFE ON THE MISSISSIPPI - Harper Bros - N.Y. (ND) - FINE Condition- Illustrated by Walter Stewart - Color frontis and 8 Black and White Plates - $45
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) - ROUGHING IT - American Publishing Co., Hartford 1888 FINE Condition - Clean and Tight - Rebacked and restored with New End Papers by yours truly as part of a course I taken on book binding and repair - $110
Henry Van Dyke - THE RULING PASSION - Scribner's, NY 1902 FINE Condition - Gilt Top Edge - Decorative Covers - a collection of eight short stories - $20 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Lewis Wallace - THE FAIR GOD- Houghton Mifflin - Cambridge 1892 FINE Condition - - $10
Wallace, Susan E. - THE LAND OF THE PUEBLOS - New York 1888 - 1st edition - FINE Condition - Illustrated - 285pp - previous owner name and date 1892 on fep - $145
Robert James Waller - THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY - Warner, NY 1992 FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Dust Jacket - $150 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
H. B. Marriott Watson - THE PRIVATEERS - Doubleday Page, NY 1907 FINE Condition - Decorative Cover- 1st Edition - Mystery novel set in the Seaports of old England - $25
J. E. White and W. F. Parsons - PARSON'S HAND-BOOK OF FORMS - A Compendium of Business and Social Rules - White, Battle Creek 1882 - GOOD Condition - Full Leather Covers (heavily worn) - front free endpaper removed - Gilt Edges - Great Illustrations - complete manual on penmanship, business practices, law, banking, bookkeeping, grammar and punctuation and etiquette - Interesting for its sections such as the laws relating to "Rights of Married Women" - $75 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Stewart E. White - GOLD - Doubleday Page - N.Y. 1913 FINE Condition - 1st - Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty - Gold embossed spine and cover - $75 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Lilian Whiting - THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT - From Pike's Peak to The Pacific - Little Brown, Boston 1908 - Beautiful Condition - Gilt Top Edge - Photo Illustrated study of the Western United States - $35
John Greenleaf Whittier - AMONG THE HILLS - Fields, Osgood Co - Boston 1869 FINE Condition - 1st - $75
Kate D. Wiggin - THE OLD PEABODY PEW - Houghton Mifflin - Boston 1907 FINE Condition - 1st - $45
Thornton Wilder - THE IDES OF MARCH - Harpers - N.Y. 1948 VERY GOOD Condition - 1st/DJ - $45
Tennessee Williams - THE GLASS MENAGERIE - New Directions, NY 1949 - 1st New Classics Printing - Dust Jacket - Photo Illustrated with shots of Kirk Douglas and Jane Wyman - $35
Tennessee Williams - SUMMER AND SMOKE - New Directions, NY - 2nd Printing - Dust Jacket - $35
Tennessee Williams - VIEUX CARRE - New Directions, NY 1979 FINE Condition - As New - 1st Edition - Dust Jacket - Based on Williams' 1938 visit to the French Quarter in New Orleans - $95
Owen Wister - LADY BALTIMORE - Macmillan, NY 1906 VERY GOOD Condition 1st Edition - small hole in front free endpaper - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Frank Lloyd Wright - AN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE - Edited by Edgar Kaufman - Bramhall House, NY 1955 FINE Condition - 1st Edition - Dust Jacket (sunned at spine and across top margin of front) - $95 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Richard Wright - BLACK POWER - Harper, NY 1954 - 1st edition - Dust jacket - $60 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Richard Wright - NATIVE SON - Harper Bros, NY 1940 VERY GOOD Condition 1st - with later Dust Jacket (small chips) - $75 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Malcolm X - AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X - Castle Books, 1965 - Dust Jacket - $40 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE
Emile Zola - NANA - 3 Sirens Pub. - N.Y. 1933 FINE Condition - - Illustrated by Fred Mayer - $25 SALE - TAKE 1/3RD OFF OUR PRICE

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