Miscellaneous from Antique Books Den

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1916 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. A WONDERFUL ACTION ADVENTURE WRITER. AN ENTERTAINING, INTERESTING STORY. James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson… Read more about this item

CHICAGO: STANTON AND VANVILET CO., 1905 NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. FOR THE LOVER OF COMEDY AND HISTORY. STEWART WAS A FAMOUS COMEDIAN OF HIS TIME. Cal Stewart (b. 1856 Charlotte County, Virginia, d. December 7, 1919) was an American comedian and humorist who pioneered in vaudeville and early… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC., 1941 BLACK COVER WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 12 CHAPTERS, AUTHOR AND SUBJECT INDEX, NUMEROUS TABLES, ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. EASTMAN WAS A PROFESSOR OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America), is a device that controls… Read more about this item

PHILADELPHIA: W.B. SAUNDERS COMPANY, 1925 NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. COUPLE NOTES IN PENCIL INSIDE BACK COVER. TIGHT AND GOOD SHAPE. AIKENS WAS AN R,N, THAT WROTE THIS AND OTHER BOOKS PERTAINING TO NURSING. THERE ARE 26 CHAPTERS WITH GREAT DETAIL ON NURSING AND ETHICS. A VERY INTERESTING READ FOR THOSE IN… Read more about this item

CHINA: HARPER COLLINS, 2007 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH TERRIFIC DETAIL, PICTURES AND DISPLAYS TO INTERACT WITH. MAPS, WOLF HAIR, SECTIONS THAT OPEN UP, SLIDE CHANGE TO WEREWOLF, PHOTOS THAT CHANGE PICTURE. LOOKS AS NEW. FOR THE LOVER OF VAMPIRES AND THE DARK WORLD SURROUNDING. A MUST HAVE FOR THOSE WHO LOVE VAMPIRES AND THE WORLD THAT SURROUNDS THEM. Vampyre: The Terrifying Lost… Read more about this item

UNITED STATES: PENNWICK, 1978 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH EXCELLENT PHOTOGRAPHY OF IMPERIAL CHINA, 1850-1912. PROTECTIVE COVER IS LIGHTLY WORN. PICTURE OF MANDARIN AND HIS WIFE. RED COVER WITH CHINESE WRITING ON FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. SECTIONS INCLUDE FOREWARD, IMPERIAL CHINA: A CHINESE VIEW, PHOTOGRAPHS, PHOTOGRAPHY IN IMPERIAL CHINA, INDEX OF COMMERCIAL AND AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN CHINA 1846-1912 AND SOURCES. VERY… Read more about this item

CHICAGO: A.C. MCCLURG & COMPANY, 1912 LIGHT GREEN COVER, ART PICTURE OF GLORIA KERR FRONT, BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME WEAR AND FADING COVER, FORMER OWNERS NAME AND ADDRESS INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. COPYRIGHTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 19 CHAPTERS, VERY NICE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. VETY NICE BOOK, ROMANTIC STORY THAT IS VERY TOUCHING. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE… Read more about this item

BOSTON: PERRY MASON & CO., 1884 BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT, GOLD ON SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT 1885, ARTWORK VERY NICE. Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1871 NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT. GOLD PRINT SPINE. SMALL BOOKSTORE LABEL IN FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. NICE LOOKING ARTWORK. FOR THE LOVER OF DICKENS. Dombey and Son is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. It follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the… Read more about this item

USA: RAND, MCNALLY & COMPANY, 1893 NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, VERY LIGHT FOXING IN VERY FRONT AND BACK. 15 CHAPTERS. INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING BOOK. Michael Trevennack is an elderly English civil servant who spends his holidays on the Cornish coast staring out at a rock formation known as St. Michael's… Read more about this item

CHICAGO: LAIRD & LEE, 1889 DARK BLACK COVER, NICE DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, ILLUSTRATION PAGES LOOSE AND INTACT, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, LIGHT BROWNING PAGE EDGES DUE TO AGE, FORMER OWNER NAME FRONT, 25 CHAPTERS, INTRODUCTION BY BAILIE EXPLAINING HISTORY AND ROMANCE COVERED. TERRIFIC BOOK ON THE CATASTROPHE AND A ROMANCE THAT CAME ABOUT AND LIVED AFTERWARD. The Johnstown Flood,… Read more about this item

BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 1916 LIGHT TAN COVER, WHITE PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. ARTWORK TISH FRONT. NINE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. FIVE SECTIONS/ STORIES. ACTION PACKED AND INTERESTING MYTERIES. RINEHART COMPARED TO AGATHA CHRISTIE. Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel… Read more about this item

GREAT BRITAIN: COLLINS, 1949 NICE LOOKING BLUE TEXTURED COVER, SILVER PRINT SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. CLAN MAP OF SCOTLAND AND LARGE NUMBER OF PROMINENT TARTAN ART. 8 SECTIONS THAT INCLUDE CLAN SEPTS AND DEPENDENTS, PERSONAL NAMES ENGLISH AND GAELIC, DRESS OF HIGHLANDER, SCOTTISH CLANS, GLOSSARY SCOTTISH PLACE NAMES, DATES SCOTTISH AND CLAN HISTORY, CLAN MAP OF SCOTLAND, CLANS AND… Read more about this item

UNITED STATES: JOHN MURPHY COMPANY, 1887 RARE BOOK, BLACK COVER WITH FADED PRINT SPINE. INSCRIPTION PREVIOUS OWNER FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ENTERTAINING AND INTERESTING STORY. Anna Hanson Dorsey (1815 – 26 December 1896) was an American author of novels and short stories. A convert to Catholicism, she was a pioneer of Catholic literature in the United States. ANTIQUE BOOKS… Read more about this item

DETROIT, MICHIGAN: CHRYSLER CORPORATION, 1946 DARK RED COVER, LIGHT WEAR AND FADING, GOLD PRINT FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. ARTWORK ON ALMOST EVERY PAGE. CHRYSLER PLANT MANUFACTURED BILLIONS OF BULLETS FOR WORLD WAR II. Detroit Arsenal (DTA), formerly Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant (DATP) was the first manufacturing plant ever built for the mass production of tanks in the United States.… Read more about this item

BOSTON: CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL AND PUBLISHING SOCIETY, 1889 RARE BOOK, DARK BLUE COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. SMALL TEAR FRONT COVER OUTSIDE, BLACK DESIGN FRONT, BOOK HAS LIGHT WEAR. TIGHT THROUGHOUT. SEVERAL PIECES OF ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. BOOK DEDICATED TO MOTHERS OF AMERICA. BOOK IS ROOTED WITH A RELIGIOUS TINT. VERY ENTERTAINING AND OFFERING GOOD GUIDANCE IN ITS MESSAGE. ANTIQUE… Read more about this item

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO: TRANSCRIPT PRINTING CO., 1880 RARE BOOK, LEATHER COVER, GOLD, RED AND BLACK DESIGN SPINE. FRONT COVER LOOSE BUT INTACT. FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH APPENDIX IN BACK. MANY PERSONAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS, ANECDOTES, AND FAITHFUL DESCRIPTIONS OF EVENTS PERTAINING TO THE ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY AND ITS PROGRESS. 44 CHAPTERS. GREAT DETAIL WHICH… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: MCCLURE, PHILLIPS AND CO., 1907 TAN COVER WITH WHITE AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT. FRONTISPIECE LOOSE BUT GOOD SHAPE. REST OF BOOK TIGHT AND CLEAN. 6 ILLUSTRATIONS. GOOD ARTWORK. AN ENTERTAINING, FUNNY BOOK. POPULAR IN ITS TIME. Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 – September 13, 1937) was an American author. He was the author of more than 30… Read more about this item

LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, 1877 NICE LOOKING BLUE COVER, BLACK AND GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. LIGHT EAR EDGES COVER, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 96 CHAPTERS, FILLED WITH ARTWORK THOUGHOUT. Jules Girardin (1832-1888) was a French writer. Henry Frith (2 May 1840 – 12 October 1917) was an Irish engineer who translated the works… Read more about this item

PHILADELPHIA, PA: GLOBE BIBLE PUBLISHING CO., 1892 BEAUTIFUL BOOK COVER, DARKER BROWN WITH BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. LIGHT WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE, FRONT SEAM. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, WONDERFUL BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS FROM AROUND THE WORLD. COLLECTED FROM EUROPE, ASIA, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, AND PACIFIC ISLANDS. ALSO PICTURES FROM LEADING GALLERIES AROUND THE… Read more about this item