Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A simple discussion of the physical characteristics and probable origins of the races of the world. Color illustrations by Symeon Shimin.
Chicago, A.C. McClurg, reprint, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth. Eleven color illustrations by Florence Scovel Shinn. Mild wear to covers. "When Mr. O'Callaghan dies after a long, severe, and expensive sickness, he leaves his widow a state of unlimited poverty and seven boys." The dialect is said to come close to the speech of Irish immigrants in 1900. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial glossy boards. In this witty, fast-paced sequel to Getting Even, seventh-grader Iris Bloom can handle anything, whether it's a fashion crisis or the despicable Corky Newton. What's more, she is certain she doesn't need a baby-sitter. But when a visit alone to the mall ends in a frightening near-assault, she changes her mind.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 333 pages, blue cloth, later printing, first published in 1935. Black titles on spine. Name stamp on inside front cover. Paper tanning but a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Reprint, 1923, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Full color illustrations by Nancy Barnhart. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Darkening to cloth spine. Titles on spine, and cover in gilt. Gutter cracked onpages 94/95.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pink cloth covers with black drawing and lettering, 55 pages illustrated in b&w by Mircea Vasiliu. This copy INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR WITH A DRAWING OF A SEAGULL CARRYING A FLOWER TO FELLOW ILLUSTRATOR KURT WIESE, dated 1957. Quite a scarce book even without the signature. Clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue cloth stamped in dark blue, 89 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Previous owner's inscription front endpaper. Mild spine faded. Corners and spine rubbed.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in gilt, orange, black and gray. 353 pages. Publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis, map & 6 b&w illustrations by Wal Paget. A bright, clean book in the original pictorial binding.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages plus 32 page catalog of additional titles. Hardcover. Features 12 black & white illustrations by W. H. Margetson. Previous owners inscription on preliminary page. Green cloth covers with titles and decoration on front cover and spine. Covers show standard wear. Binding somewhat loose. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing , 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Frank Schoonover. White stamped lettering, decoration worn on front, light fraying to green cover boards, light soil. Internally good.
Hardcover. NY, Liveright, Inc./Junior Literary Guild, Book Club Ed., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, black cloth, yellow lettering, Decorative endpapers. B&w illustrations By Raphael Doktor. An illustrated history of Jesuit missions in North America starting in 1632. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth illustrated boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. 380 pages plus 26 pages of publisher's catalogs at end. 10 b/w illustrations by William Rainey and three one page maps. Spine a bit faded, light soil to rear cover,otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 300 pages. Yellow cloth cover with gilt lettering and color embossed illustrations, b&w frontispiece and 7 illustrations by Charles Copeland. Cocked spine, wear to cover corners and edges, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in 3-colors plus gilt on front cover and spine, 393 pages plus publishers ads in rear. with twelve b&w illustrations by William Rainey, and a map.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran & Company, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green and white, 469 pages. Irish descendants of a horse thief sacrifice love and freedom for position and security in Victorian period. Woodcuts by Freda Bone. When Anthony Considine creeps into Mellick town with a stolen horse in 1789, it sets the destiny of his family for decades to come. By the 1850s, through thrift and hard work, his son Honest John has made the Considines a leading Mellick family. In turn, his son Anthony builds a fine house in the country for his wife and children--most especially for his adored son Dennis. Little does he know that when Dennis grows up he will threaten the toil of generations with his love for a peasant girl. A stirring family saga of divided loyalties and individual freedom; of matches made and lost; and of the constraints of religion and family pride. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated in color, black & white by Nelson Grofe. Retold by Martin from Child Christopher by William Morris. Gilt decorated cover with color label. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated in color, black & white by Nelson Grofe. Retold by Martin from Child Christopher by William Morris. Gilt decorated cover with color label. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 210 pages, 60 color designs by Walter Crane. Beige cloth with torquoise and dark brown decoration by Crane. Green decorated end papers. Spine rubbed, light scratches on spine, front fly leaf chipped at corners, rear hinge partially cracked. Internally very good.
Hardcover. London, Ward Lock and Co., 8th Ed., Circa 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with color label on cover, 256 pages. illustrated with 8 color, 250 b&w illustrations. Light soil to covers, previous owner inscription in pencil dated 1944. No date on copyright.
Hardcover. Chicago, Reilly & Lee, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages, illustrated in b&w by Neill. Rust colored cloth with color plate on front cover. Some faint marking to front end paper illustrations, otherwise clean, tight copy. Musty odor.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, 1884, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. B&W illustrations by F.S. Church, 150 pages. Red cloth covers with gilt design of flying horse in front of moon, beveled edges. All edges gilt. Light fraying to top, bottom of spine. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down.
Hardcover. New York, Dover Publications, Inc, Reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers in slipcase. Color and b/w illustrations and color frontispieces by W.W. Denslow. A slight musty odor from being packed away. Smudges on some of the pages, otherwise clean. Bindings tight. Spines straight. Some foxing to edges.The Wonderful Wizard of OZ: 267 pages. Red spine, which is faded with a touch of foxing.The Marvelous Land of OZ: 287 pages. Blue spine which is faded with a touch of foxing.
Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue and Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages illustrated in color by Gruelle. Bright cardboard covers in color, wear to corners. Light tape shadow to front endpaper illustration, otherwise clean internally.