NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 490pp. This is the author's first book, an historical novel whose hero is caught up in the plans of John Paul Jones during the Revolutionary War. 7.75" x 5.25". (more information)

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NY Scribner's 1907., 1907. Hardcover. Gilt-decorative binding and contents near fine condition. 7.75" x 5" 156pp Sentimental novel of a London gentleman and the poor Cockney street girl he befriends. Illustrated by 8 color plates by F.C. Yohn. 2nd printing edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Boston Houghton, Mifflin 1901., 1901. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Minor marks on endpaper and back cover, else very good condition. 7.5" x 5" 366pp Decorative light-blue cloth, with climbing rose design on cover and roses on spine, stamped in gilt, green and red. Disappointed in love in the 1860s, Miss Pritchard chaperones her niece Eunice's trip to Europe in the 1890s, and helps her find romance there. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., 1938. First Thus. Pictorial Boards. Very Good. 93pp; illus from drawings. A nine-page biography of Tommy Kelly precedes this movie-based version of Twain's classic. Both covers have a movie still of Tommy Kelly as Tom Sawyer, superimposed on a color-illustrated background of steamboats on the Mississippi River and boys in overalls and straw hats on the bank. [This edition is not listed in Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature.]. 6.75" x 5.25". (more information)

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Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1924. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Corners of boards lightly bumped. pp: xv, 108, erratum slip. 8" x 5". (more information)

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Boston: L.C. Page, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Arthur W. Brown. Decorative, pictorial cloth binding lightly rubbed at edges. pp: 415, (8); color frontispiece. "Being the history of a man who, having himself come up from the miner's pick, having the profoundest sympathy for the men, the Union, and all it stands for, and has done for Labor, yet single-handed and alone, successfully withstood the encroachments of the Mine Workers' Union, and the unjust demands of its leaders." 7.75" x 5". (more information)

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Nassau: Bahama Life, 1971. 2nd printing. Pictorial wraps. Very Good. 144pp. The author married a white Canadian and divorced her before returning to his native home in the Bahamas. This autobiographical novel concerns the stresses on a mixed marriage posed by tropical island living. 8.75" x 5.25". (more information)

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Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1904. Limited. Pictorial cloth. Very Good. John T. McCutcheon. 487pp; 58 illustrations. Crissey, a journalist with the Saturday Evening Post, based these 58 fictional letters on his knowledge of politicians. 8.25" x 5.5". (more information)

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NY: Herman W. Lefkowitz, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf-wear to spine ends. 334pp This futuristic novel opens in 2390 with Indian warriors along the east coast unified to repel invasion by "the white enemy." As the plot develops, the Chinese, Turks and Indians, with nature's help, destroy most other nations on earth. This is a presentation copy from the publisher, signed by Lefkowitz, March 26th, 1935. 7.5" x 4.5". (more information)

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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Decorative and pictorial binding. 86pp; two plates. A tale of thwarted romance. 8.25" x 5.25". (more information)

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NY: Viking Press, 1938. First Edition. Original Cloth. Good. William Gropper. Private bookplate, some light shelf-rubbing. 188pp. Prefaced by an acknowledgment to the Federal Writers Project, WPA, State of Massachusetts. Tells of the astonishing adventures of Bowleg Bill, a cowboy from Laramie, who becomes a fisherman and whaler, sailing out of various Massachusetts ports, especially on Cape Cod. A lengthy appendix describes where and from whom the author collected these folk tales. Berger authored THE CAPE COD PILOT for the WPA. 8" x 5.5". (more information)

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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First US Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. pp: iv, 477; 49 illustrations by the author. [Bleiler, Science-Fiction & Supernatural Fiction, page 65]. 7.5" x 4.75". (more information)

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Boston: L.C. Page, 1901. First Edition. Original cloth. Good. Albert F. Schmidt. pp: (x), 263; frontispiece and seven plates. This romance novel, set on a small island of the Maine coast, includes much local dialect. Front free-endpaper removed. 7" x 4.5". (more information)

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1903. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Lawson Wood. Gilt-pictorial binding. pp:vii,306,(6); 6 plates from paintings. The British author of boys' adventure stories unleashes a corker set during the Boer War. 7.75" x 5". (more information)

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Barcelona I.G. Seix y Barral Hnos 1957., 1957. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 8.25" x 6" 32pp Set in medieval Spain, the text of this story is in Spanish. Illustrated by 4 color plates. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. (more information)

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Mendota, IL: Wayside Press, 1971. Revised Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Bookshop stamp on front endpaper. pp: 153; 7pp illus from old prints. This fully annotated bibliography won the 1964 Horatio Alger Society Award for Literature. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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Paris: Artheme Fayard, 1939. First thus. Decorative Cover. Very Good. Jean Morin. 125pp; 24 woodcuts. First published in 1909, this novel shows the unhappy results of "selfish self-abnegation and ascetism," according to Benet. 9.25" x 7.25". (more information)

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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius. Original wraps. Very Good. pp: 77, (3)ads. Goethe's short novel in epistolary form, his first great popular success, is here issued by a collectible publisher. 8.5" x 5.5". (more information)

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1903. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. C.M. Relyea. Turn-of-the-century American fiction for women. 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1927. First Thus. Original Cloth. Fine. Milo Winter. 128pp; frontispiece, 12 color plates, text drawings, pictorial endpapers. The author, a Harvard grad and Congregationalist minister, wrote this book in 1863 "in one of the darkest hours of the Civil War" and published it anonymously. 8.25" x 5.75". (more information)

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Chicago Herbert S. Stone 1900., 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding and contents in very good condition. 7.75" x 4.75" 255pp Holdsworth (1860-1917) was born in Jamaica to missionaries who worked among the freed slaves. This novel is set in the Alps. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Boston Houghton Mifflin 1915., 1915. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding a little rubbed, else near very good condition. 7.5" x 5" pp: (vi), 376 Bound in gilt-stamped green cloth with the cover lettering and fleur de lis in a frame. This medieval romance is set in France in the last quarter of the 12th century. Illustrated by frontispiece illustration. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Howard Pyle and others. Decorative cloth binding. pp: vii, 403; 8 b&w plates. This is the most popular novel by the Virginia-born author (1870-1936), an historical romance of the women of Jamestown. It is one of Merle Johnson's "High Spots of American Literature." 7.75" x 5". (more information)

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NY Century 1909., 1909. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial binding and contents in very good condition. 7" x 4.5" pp: (v), 141 Designer binding: gray cloth, floral design on cover and spine, stamped in blue and gilt. Illustrated by 12 color plates. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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NY: Regent Press, 1913. 5th printing. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. Henry Hutt and T.C. Lawrence. 182pp; 6 plates, vignettes. This Jack London novelette about a prize-fighter was first published in 1905. [Blanck, Bibliography of American Literature, #11886.] 7.5"x 5". (more information)

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NY Century 1905., 1905. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding and contents near fine condition. 7.75" x 5" 233pp Decorative mustard cloth, portrait of Amish girl and floral wreath on cover, stamped in colors, by the Decorative Designers. Romance centers on "Biney" Wilt, daughter of "one of the richest Amish farmers of Lancaster County," Pennsylvania, and her two suitors--an Amish neighbor and a citified artist. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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NY Century 1899., 1899. Hardcover. Decorative bindings and contents in very good condition. 8.25" x 5.5" pp: 306 + 261. Illustrated by 63 plates from old prints. Continental Ed. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 1909. Second Edition. Original cloth. Very Good. pp: 303, (7). This is the playwright's novelization of his controversial 1908 play by the same name. It was blasted by the Socialists of the day as misrepresenting their cause and beliefs. In the introduction, Moffett states his true position on limiting individual wealth, jailing crooked millionaires, etc. He worked also as a journalist and mystery writer (1863-1926). 7.5" x 5". (more information)

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NY Dial Press (1977)., 1977. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. Book and dust jacket in very good condition. 8.5" x 5.5" pictorial dj 192pp The artist-writer's third book comprises 8 short stories, all set in the Puerto Rican community of New York's Lower East Side. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. (more information)

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Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske, 1891. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Pictorial cloth. 109pp; frontispiece, 8 plates. A pencilled gift inscription on the endpaper is dated Christmas, 1890. In this dialect tale, written by "Adirondack Murray," an old backwoodsman and his friend, Wild Bill, visit together on Christmas eve. 8.75" x 6.5". (more information)

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