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Huffard, Grace Thompson and Carlisle, Laura Mae; Selected and Arranged By.
My Poetry Book; An Anthology of Modern Verse for Boys and Girls
Chicago, John C. Winston Co.,
1934, Hardcover,
illus: Willy Pogany, Condition: Good, Eight full page color illustrations by Willy Pogany, and numerous black and white illustrations. Introduction by Booth Tarkington; in collaboration with Helen Ferris. A beautifully illustrated compendium of poetry and verse, such as: Stevenson's, The Land of Story Books & The Swing; James Whitcomb Riley's, Little Orphant Annie and The Runaway Boy; Eugene Field's, Rock-a-by Lady; Sir Walter Scott's, Lullaby of an Infant Child; The Lilly Princess, (Japanese, unknown); The Young Dandelion, Dinah Maria Mulock Craik; Pippa's Song, Robert Browning; Christmas Carol, Kenneth Grahame; The Owl and the Pussycat, Edward Lear; How to recognize a Snark, Louis Carroll, and hundreds of others by Emily dickinson Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, Longfellow, Martin Luther, Benet, Kingsley, Bryant, Rito, etc. Blue cloth, gilt (faded) lettering and illustration. Spine missing, taped. Illustrated end papers. First gathering loose in book, page 16 bumped with closed tears to edge. Glossary and rear e.p. loose. Block of text tight, clean, mild toning. Illustrations beautiful. Glossary, index by first line, title and author to rear. 504 pp 8 vo.
(Song, By, Robert, Browning, Christmas, Carol, By, Kenneth, Grahame, The Owl, And The Pussycat, By, Edward, Lear, How, To, Recognize, A, Snark, Louis, Carroll, Eugene, Field, Little, Orphant, Annie, Willy, Pogany, Illustrations, Poetry, For, Children, Illustrated, Poetry, Children's, Poetry, My, Poetry, Book, Illustrated, By, Willy, Pogany) Cat No. 2858.
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Benchley, Robert; Illustrations By Gluyas Williams.
My Ten Years In A Quandry, And How They Grew
New York, Blue Ribbon Books,
1940, Hard Cover,
illus: Gluayas Williams, Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Good Plus, Robert Benchley; 1889- 1945: Member of New York's famous literary Algonquin Round Table, he contributed humorous pieces to Vanity Fair, was a reporter for the New York Tribune, and shared an office with Dorothy Parker as a freelance writer. He began at The New Yorker in 1925 and was the drama critic from 1929-1940. In this volume Mr. Benchley offers practical and indispensable information on: how to treat people who greet you on the telephone with "one moment please"; what to do with publicity notes on authors (Mr. B. suggests they go awfully well with peanut butter); how to find a locomotive you have mislaid. Then there's a testy correspondence between Mr. B. and schoolteacher who maintains there is such a place as Budapest. Mr. B. seems to think Budapest was was eliminated in 1802 because the coffee was getting bad. Many hilarious people turn up too: a penguin called Eddie. Benchley's supreme wit and off beat sense of humor wind up with five sizzling chapters of his Unfinished Life story, from the innocent young man who arrived in New York looking for pitfalls only to find that it was a holiday and they were all closed for that day! Red cloth boards and spine. DJ flap edges squared, 100 to upper flap ($1.00). Yellow pictiorial with red lettering, upper and lower edges (front and rear) have 2 inch thin remnants of tape, f.e.p. stains from tape to edges. Few chips to spine ends. Cartoon illustrated. All else clean, tightly bound. 361 pp, sm 8vo
(Benchley, American, Humorists, Humor, 1930's, Algonquin, Round, Table) Cat No. 2488.
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Smith, Edward H.
Mysteries of the Missing
New York, The Dial Press,
1927, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Very Good, A book on "Strange" disappearances; kidnappings; ghost ships Somewhere off the Outer Banks; during the nineteenth century an heir to the Tichborne family was lost at sea on his way to Australia Omaha, Nebraska; in 1900 fifteen-year-old Eddie Cudahy, the son of a millionaire meatpacking tycoon, was forced into a buggy by two men; the sudden disappearance of author and journalist Ambros Bierce, 71 years old at the time. Bierce went to Chihuahua in order to observe the Mexican Revolution in 1913 and never surfaced again; the disappearance of Balloonist Dr. Andree' and other mysterious events. Bibliography to rear. Illustrated with frontispiece and 14 rare illustrations. Red cloth boards and spine. DJ price clipped, tan pictorial, spine ends and corners chipped, 1 1/2 inch closed tear to lower edge. Rear cover 1 inch chip to corner, advertisement for The Detective Stories of J. Jefferson Farjeo. Very clean white text, solidly bound. In brodart mylar. sm 4 to, 311 page
(H., Smith, Mysteries, Of, The Missing, Mysterious, Abductions, Missing, Persons, Child, Abduction, The Abduction, Of, Charlie, Ross, Disappearance, Of, Theodosia, Burr, Disappearance, Of, John, Orth, Kidnapping, Of, Eddie, Cudahy, Mystery, Non-Fiction, True, Life, Disappearances, Mysterious, Disappearances, Ghost, Ships, Spectral, Ships, U.S.S., Cyclops, Disappearance, Of, Ambros, Bierce) Cat No. 1929.
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Oates, Joyce Carol.
Mysteries of Winterthurn
Philadelphia, The Franklin Library,
1984, First Edition ed, Full Leather,
illus: Daniel Maffia, Condition: Fine, Signed by Author 19th Century Murder Mystery: the unexplained murders at Glen Mawr Manor, and in its vicinity, aroused great terror in the inhabitants of Winterthurn....superstitious the inhabitants of Winterthurn doubtless were, to have feared, for decades, "angels", or "angel-figures", loose in the night and frequently in the day; an naive in their stubborn belief that a preternatural force emanated from the Manor. Signed to f.e.p. This limited first edition of Mysteries of Winterthurn has been privately printed, and personally signed by Joyce Carol Oates, exclusively for members of The Signed First Edition Society. Beautifully bound in suuple brown leather, gilt decorations to boards and raised spine. Silk marker, marbled end papers, all edges gilt.Two page frontispiece Fine unread condition. sm 4to, 482 pages
(Library, Signed, First, Editions, Mysteries, Of, Winterthurn, First, Edition, Joyce, Carol, Oates, Signed, Books, Signed, Books, Leather, Binding, Books, Murder, Mystery, First, Edition, Mysteries, Detective, Mystery, 19th, Century, Murder, Mystery, Xavier, Kilgarvan, Daniel, Maffia, Illustrator, Signed, Limited, Edition, Murder, Mystery, 19th, Century, Mystery) Cat No. 1966.
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Sutton, Margaret. Illustrated By Pelagie Doane.
The Mysterious Half Cat. Judy Bolton Mystery #9
New York, Grosset & Dunlap,
1936, Hard Cover,
illus: Pelagie Doane, Condition: Very Good, Jacket: Very Good, Number 9 in the Judy Bolton Series. When old Mr. Potter is reported killed in a wreck, his relatives start searching his house for his will. Unearthly events follow, but Judy and her new friend, Holly Potter, investigating a clue provided by Judy's cat, finally track down the mysterious transparent figure.. Brown tweed boards, illustration to lower corner. Brown end papers of house. DW (A/PC A.), clipped to upper flap, last book title "The Forbidden Chest". Color front with Judy and friends, Judy pointing to shadow of a cat. White spine. Lower edge bumped with mild crease and small closed tears, rubbing of spine ends and edges, lower rear jacket has closed tear to edge with small chip. Mild soil. Beverly Gray Mysteries to rear jacket. All else very clean, tightly bound. sm 8 vo, 215 pp. In protective mylar
(Bolton, Series, The Mysterious, Half, Cat, Judy, Bolton, Girls, Series, Books, Vintage, Juvenile, Girls, Mysteries, For, Young, Children) Cat No. 2636.
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