New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1892. Paperback. [5], 8-384 p.; 18 cm. Paperback; plain brown wrappers. Mary J. Holmes was a popular 19th-century American novelist. This novel was first published in 1864. In Fair Conditon: wrapper is rubbed and creased; edges of first and last leaves are chipped; upper corner of... More about Darkness and Daylight: a Novel
Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Co., 1913. Paperback. 295, [21] p.; 18 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. This was no. 130 in the publisher's The Hart Series. Series list through no. 132 is on the back cover. Publisher's advertisements on 21 pages following text. No date of publication. The publisher began this... More about Tempest and Sunshine; or Life in Kentucky
Lowell, Mass. C.I. Hood Co., Proprietors Hood's Sarsaparilla, 1890. Paperback. 243, [5] p.; 19 cm. Green wrappers printed in black. Advertisements for Hood's patent medicines on wrappers and final 5 unpaginated pages. Hood's Home Library, no. 6. No date of publication. C.I. Hood (1845-1922) started producing sarsaparilla and other patent... More about The English Orphans or A Home in the New World
Huntington Beach, CA: Phoebe Marie Holmes, 1940. Paperback. iii, 43, [1] leaves; 27 cm. Green cloth spine; green paper covers with cover title in black: 200 Radiant-Health Recipes. Mimeographed. Final leaf is a list of books by the author, printed on green paper. Portrait of the author on title page... More about 200 Radiant Health Recipes
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987. Hardcover. First U. S. Edition. [12], 452 p., [16] p. of illustrations; 24 cm. Off-white linen with gilt-stamped spine title. Dust jacket. The author drew on material not previously used -- "diaries, memoirs, letters, and newly discovered manuscript material kept by Austen descendants" --... More about Jane Austen: Her Life
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New York: American Mercury, 1947. Paperback. 127, [1] p.; 19 cm. Stapled paperback with cover art by George Salter. Contents: The Clue of the Missing Motive [the Great Merlini] by Clayton Rawson -- You Take Ballistics by Cornell Woolrich -- The Repeater by Van Wyck Mason -- Sing a Song... More about The Lady Holding a Green Apple [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 9, no. 39 February 1947
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. 90, viii p.: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; advertisement for Calvert's carbolic ointment on back wrapper. Pages are unopened. Contents: Martini Luigi Implora Pace: A Poem by Stephen Phillips; The Defence of Farvingdon: A Story by... More about The Dome: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the...
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1905. Hardcover. xiv, 320 p., frontispiece portrait; 17 cm. Original limp calf (orignally green) with gilt-stamped cover title: "Best American Poems." Illustration of lilies stamped in green on front cover. Yapp edges. Brown ribbon bookmark. Top page edges gilt. Includes indices of authors and... More about One Hundred Best American Poems; selected by John R. Howard
London: Unicorn Press, 1899. Paperback. viii, [1], 180-264 p.: full-page illustrations, music; 22 cm. Grey wrappers printed in dark blue with yapp edges; emblem of the Unicorn Press on back wrapper. Pages are unopened. Publisher's advertisements on first 8 pages. Contents: Allonby: A Story by A.H. Holmes; The Carpenter's Shop... More about The Dome: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine and Review of Literature, Music, Architecture, and the...
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New York: American Mercury, 1950. Paperback. 143, [1] p.; 19 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Once Upon A Train [Hildegarde Withers & John J. Malone] by Craig Rice & Stuart Palmer -- The Impromptu Murder by Roy Vickers -- The Six Silver Spiders [Solar Pons] by August Derleth --... More about Guilty [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 16, no. 83 October 1950
Greensboro, N.C. Lifestyles Press, 2000. Hardcover. viii, 345 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. Illustrated dust jacket. Inscribed to Mary by the author on front free endpaper, dated Nov. 2001. The Mary to whom she inscribed this book was Mary Hamilton Purcell, who served... More about A Girl From Nebraska: As I Remember My Life and the Loved Ones Who Graced It
Cleveland, Ohio: W.A. Ingham, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. xiv, [15]-362 p.: frontispiece portrait of the author; 20 cm. Original publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles; blind-stamped decoration on both boards. Introduction by C.C. Baldwin; "A Word Commendatory" by Sarah K. Bolton. Ex-library: bookplate of the Silas Bronson Library... More about Women of Cleveland and Their Work, Philanthropic, Educational, Literary, Medical and Artistic A...
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1886. Hardcover. 30, [4] p.: hand-painted, water color floral illustrations on 13 pages; 29 cm. Original wide cream calf spine with gilt-stamped cover title; light green paper over remainder of boards, with gilt-stamped floral decoration running along leather-paper border. White moire endpapers. Lacking original slipcase. This is... More about The Procession of Flowers in Colorado by Helen Jackson (H.H.); illustrated in water colors by...
London: Pandora / HarperCollins, 1994. Hardcover. ix, [1], 240 p., 16 unpaginated pages of illustrations; 24 cm. Blue textured paper over boards with gilt-stamped spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. The author reexamines the life of Frieda Lawrence (1879-1956), wife of D.H. Lawrence, partially through Frieda Lawrence's own words. Book and... More about Frieda Lawrence; Including Not I, But the Wind and other autobiographical writings
Baltimore: 1995. Paperback. xv, [1], 258, [6] p.; 23 cm. Paperback. Part of the Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction series. Josephine Jacobsen (1908-2003) won the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal, the Poets' Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award of the Poetry Society of America. She served as the... More about In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems
New York: Amistad, HarperCollins, 2006. Hardcover. [8], 296 p.: map; 22 cm. Orange and yellow cover with gilt-stamped spine title; Amistad emblem blind-stamped on front cover. Illustrated dust jacket designed by Laura Klynstra Blost. The author's first novel, set in contemporary Washington, D.C., and post-World War II Dominica. Book is... More about Unburnable
New York: F.A. Mills, 1899. Sheet_music. [8] p.: music; 31 cm. Illustrated front wrapper in green and pink, with photograph portrait of a woman, presumably Alice Johnson. Sheet music for piano and voice. Wrappers included in page count. Caption title: Jes' Ma Lil' Black Lamb. Publisher's advertisements on inside front... More about Jes' a Lil' Black Lamb: Darkey Lullaby
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911. Wyeth, N.C. Hardcover. The Riverside Press, Cambridge. x, [2], 683, [7] p.: tissue-guarded color frontispiece, and 3 additional leaves of illustrations; 20 cm. Plain grey cloth with paper label printed in red and black. Maps on endpapers. No dust jacket (as issued). First edition. Designed by... More about The Long Roll; with illustrations by N.C. Wyeth
London: L. Upcott Gill, 1894. Hardcover. Second edition. 92, [2], 88, [2], 84, 12, [4] p.: illustrations; 19 cm. Dark green publisher's cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and cover title; red, light green, and black decoration on spine and front board. Red-brown patterned endpapers. No year of publication; includes publisher's... More about Games of Patience for One or More Player by Miss Whitmore Jones; Illustrated [1st, 2nd, and 3rd...
New York: Books, Inc., 1952. Paperback. Copyright 1941 and 1952 by Stratemeyer Syndicate, East Orange, N.J. [8], 209, [3] p., frontispiece; 20 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. List of Kay Tracey mysteries follows text. Frances K. Judd was a pseudonym used by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for this series, which was... More about The Lone Footprint: A Kay Tracey Mystery
New York: Books, Inc., 1960. Paperback. [10], 210, [4] p.; 20 cm. Paperback with front cover illustration of Kay Tracey in a pink dress overlooking a cast-iron gate into a garden where a ghostly woman dances. No date of publication; copyrighted by the Stratemeyer Syndicate in 1951. Books, Inc., issued... More about In the Sunken Garden: A Kay Tracey Mystery
Berlin: Volksverband der Bücherfreunde -- Wegweiser-Verlag, 1928. Hardcover. 381, [2] p.; 19 cm. Half polished calf with gilt-stamped spine title; pink and blue paper over boards. Top page edges red. Pink ribbon bookmark. This was the second volume issued in the tenth year to members of the Volksverband der Bücherfreunde... More about Amor und Psyche auf Reisen: Roman von Marta Karlweis; mit einem Begleitwort von Jakob Wassermann
London: Paul Breman, 1975. Paperback. Second edition. 20, [2] p.; 22 cm. Stiffened wrappers; wrapper photograph (of the author?). Heritage series, v. 24. The author, Dolores Kendrick is an American poet, Professor Emerita at Phillips Exeter Academy, and was named Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia in 1999. Her... More about Through the Ceiling
Edinburgh: William Oliphant, 1829. Hardcover. Fourth edition. Edinburgh: Published by William Oliphant; and Hamilton, Adams, & Co. London. 2 volumes: [2], 371, [1] p.; 342 p., 1 leaf of a plate; 19 cm. Contemporary maroon half polished calf with marbled paper over boards. Red leather spine labels in the center... More about Dunallan; or, Know What You Judge; A Story
Philadelphia, Pa. Keystone Publishing Co., 1890. Hardcover. Vol. I. xxvii, [1], 373 p., frontispiece, 4 leaves of plates: illustrations; 24 cm. Half leather with marbled paper over boards. Endpapers are dark brown printed with a floral pattern. Top page endges are gilt. Frontispiece is tissue-guarded. The author, Sarah H. Killikelly... More about Curious Questions in History, Literature, Art, and Social Life Designed as a Manual of General...