New York: Review of Reviews Co., 1908. Hardcover. 304 p., frontispiece; 19 cm. Red leather spine with gilt-stamped spine title; red cloth over boards. Former owner's name, R. Kimball Carleton, on front free endpaper, dated 1919. This is one volume of a 6-volume collection. It contains stories by American authors..... More
New York: George Munro, 1878. Hardcover. 288, [6] p.; 19 cm. Dark green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; embossed author's name on front cover over gilt decoration. Blind-ruled borders on both boards. Pale yellow endpapers. Former owners' names on front fixed endpaper: M. E. S. Gibbs, and Annie A Skelton..... More
Philadelphia: International Publishing Co., 1877. Paperback. 15, [1] p.: illustrations, music; 40 cm. Contents include international news (the Russo-Turkish War); fiction: The Arundel Motto by Mary Cecil Hay, and Lost and Won: A Sea Sketch by Roger Starbuck; a sermon by C. H. Spurgeon; advice for the farm, garden, and..... More
Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Co., 1946. Hardcover. 264 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Blue cloth with dark blue spine and cover titles, and spine decoration. Top page edges red. Illustrated dust jacket printed in blue and red; in mylar cover. Publisher's advertisements on back flap and back section. Elizabeth Headley was one of..... More
Chicago and New York: Rand McNally & Co., 1890. Hardcover. 253 p.; 19 cm. Dark blue cloth with white cover title; light blue decoration on spine and front cover. Translation of Kloster Wendhusen by Emilie Wilhelmine Bertha Behrens (1848-1912), German novelist who used the pen name Wilhelmine Heimburg. Small label..... More
New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Press, 1996. xi, 369 p.; 22 cm. Paperback with color illustrated front cover. The author presents 47 tales "told by three Beldi women, members of a historic and highly civilized community, the city's traditional elite. Tale-telling is important to all Beldi women, and this book..... More
New York: Avon, 1982. Paperback. [6], 247 p.; 18 cm. Paperback. Five victims of the same brutal rapist take the law into their own hands in Houston. In Very Good Condition: edges lightly rubbed; pages are clean and tight. More
London: Edward Goldston, 1936. [8], 462 p.; 19 cm. Publisher's yellow cloth with black spine title. No dust jacket. Faint price in red on front free endpaper. Edward Goldston also published, by the same author, Centaur in 1937 and Thy Shafts Fly in 1938. In Daughters of Bondage, the author..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 1986. Paperback. [12], 160 p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Paperback with cover photograph by Rosamond Wolff Purcell. Cover title: The Woman in Black: A Ghost Story. In Very Good- Condition: slightly cocked; front cover very lightly soiled; front cover creased; pages are clean and tight... More
Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1936. Hardcover. 366 p.; 21 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. White endpapers with black-and-white yin and yang symbol on green background. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookdealer's label on back free endpaper recto: Holliday Bookshop, New York. Former owner's inscription on front..... More
![Item #002764 The Concrete and the Universal [Swarthmore Lecture]. Margaret B. Hobling](/pictures/thumb/002764.jpg?v=1472082255)
London: George Allen & Unwin, 1958. Hardcover. [6], 53, [3] p.; 19 cm. Green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles. No dust jacket. Includes publisher's advertisements for Swarthmore Lectures through 1957. First Edition. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "With kind regards, Margaret B. Hobling. 26.5.'58."..... More
New York: American Mercury, 1947. Paperback. 127, [1] p.; 19 cm. Stapled paperback with cover art by George Salter. Contents: The Creeping Siamese [the Continental Op] by Dashiell Hammett -- The Quarterdeck Club [the Saint] by Leslie Charteris -- People Do Fall Downstairs by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding -- The Man..... More
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
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
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
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
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
![Item #006769 Guilty [in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine vol. 16, no. 83 October 1950]. Fannie Hurst](/pictures/thumb/006769.JPG?v=1546037345)
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
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
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
Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Co., 1896. Hardcover. 860 p.; 24 cm. Half black morocco with gilt-stamped spine title and embellishments; black morocco-grain cloth over boards. Contents include: articles by Agnes Repplier: The Fete de Gayant, and Old Wine and New -- The Children of the Road by Josiah Flynt --..... More
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
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
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
San Francisco: Paul Elder & Co., 1910. Paperback. [6], 8, [2] p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Brown card covers, stapled, with black cover title and green-and-black cover illustration. Three holes along spine, as issued. First page and last have full-page illustration in green of birds and insects in a tree. Story..... More