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Banner by the Wayside
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New York: Random House, 1947 Publisher: New York: Random House, 1947, New York; Cloth. Fine/No. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Illus. by DJ Design Paul Kennear. more information
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Young'un
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New York: MacMillan, 1944 New York NY: The MacMillan Company, 1944, New York NY, 1944. Hardcover.. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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The Tamarack Tree
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New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1947 Whittlesey House, Decorative Cloth. Tan cloth boards with green. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Morning Noon and Night
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New York: Harcourt Brace, 1968 New York, Harcourt, Brace and World Inc. 1968, Book Club (BCE/BOMC).. Very Good/Fine/Fair. more information
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Tom Stetson and the Blue Devil
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Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1951 llustrated by Ursula Koering; Whitman # 2358. Decorated burnt organe boards with white and red illustrations, all block edges tinted red.Very little wear on corners of cover, otherwise great. H Endpapers have assorted animal and bird drawings in b/w.Third adventure in the Tom Stetson series by Cutler. Takes place in the Amazon.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Ursula Koering. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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A Country with No Name : Tales from the Constit
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New York: Pantheon Books, Inc.,, 1997 419 pp. Pulitzer Prize-winning author. 12 tales based on "talks" with historical figures. A stylish, mysterious, and peremptory young Englishwoman who is completing her university studies, undertakes to spend two weeks tutoring a young American in American history.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.. First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Bright Leaf
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Rinehart, 1948 Rinehart & Co, New York, 1948. Green Cloth HC -Gilt Lettering. Book. Very Good/Fine. more information
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To Let
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New York: Charles Scribner & Sons, 1969 The Scribner Library /Contemporary Classsic 250 pages. Very clean, intact, tight. Very good condition. The third volume in "The Forsyte Chronicles" one of the most enduring and popular works of 20th Century literature.. Soft Cover. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by John Pimlott Cover Painting. more information
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The Ewings of Dallas
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US Garden City, N.Y.: Nelson Doubleday. 1980. Book Club edition. Octavo. Cloth. in very good lightly edge tanned dustjacket with a bit of wear to the foot. "The blistering, uncut saga of the secret passions and scandals of TV"s favorite family".. Cloth. Fine/Good+. more information
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Dinner at Antoine's
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New York: Julian Messner Inc, New York, 1948 365 pages, Top and bottom of spine with edgewear, otherwise in almost fine condition.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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The Wonderful Country
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Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1952 UNTIL DEC. 20, 2005 THIS BOOK WILL BE SHIPPED Xpress Post. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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The Southerners
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New York: Appelton Century Crofts, 1953 Book Club (BCE/BOMC); Near Fine/No Jacket. BCE. 8 1/4" x 6 ". Grey hardcover with blue lettering on spine. Perfect pags, very light wear on corners. A sweeping, panoramic novel by the author of "The Web of Days"; pp.407. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. more information
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The Call of the Wild / White Fang / the Sea-Wolf
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Kingsport: Octopus Books/Longmeadow Press, 1984 Waldenbooks, 1984, ; Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Hardcover with padding. High gilt on cover and binding. Also on page ends-all 3 sides. Beautiful burgundy & gold endpapers.Burgundy simulated leather binding with bright gilt lettering & decorations to front board & spine panel, all page edges gilt, Book clean, bright, tight & square.. As New/No Jacket. more information
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Proud New Flags
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J. B. Lippincott, 1951 Grey hardcover with navy illustration on cover and spine. Uncut pages, impeccable, solid binding. ICTION ABOUT THE CONFLICT OF THE NAVIES OF THE UNION AND CONFEDERACY WHICH OCCURED DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Angela's Ashes: a memoir
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Scribner; HBDJ, 1996 , minor rub, Vwinner of the Pulitzer Prize.. Fine/Fine+. more information
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My Friend Flicka
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Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott Co,, 1941 NEAR FINE book condition/NO dust jacket. UNTIL DEC. 29, 2005 THIS BOOK. Cloth. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by John Steuart Curry. Atlas Folio - over 23" - 25" tall. more information
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Cross Creek
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Charles Scribner and Sons, 1942 New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942, Hard Cover. Book Condition:. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Edward Shenton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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My Name is Aram
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New York:: Harcourt, Brace and Company,, 1940 Copyright 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940.Published in 1940, this edition has 20 pages. Illustrated by Don Freeman. Yellow cloth cover with small pictorial on cover, white letters on red background on cover and spine. Book in great conditions, pages impeccable, very slight rubbing on corners of cover. 'The story of a foreign-American Tom Sawyer born in California' around the turn of the century, who grows up in a 'lopsided and comic environment. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Illustrated by Don Freeman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Tow Sawyer Abroad, Tom Sawyer Detective and Other Stories, Etc. Etct
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New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1913 D-N (March 1913) Very early edition of this collection, early printing - Decorative red cloth with gold lettering on spine, stamped deesign (flower on spineO on sRE Stories in book are Tom Sawyer,Detective; The Stolen White Elephant; Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion; The Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut; About Magnnimous-Incident Literature and Punch, Brothers, Punch. Spine becoming unglued loose in Front, covers and pages in very good state, Digital photo on request.. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Dan Beard & AB Frost. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information
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Extracts from Adam's Diary
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Montreal: Little, Brown and Company/Whitcombe & Gilmour, 1950 Canadian edition of Twain's work, orig. pub. in 1893. Small hardbound book, 90 pages, with bright yellow cloth binding, green printing and red & green snake & apple graphic. No DJ. Darker spot (2''circular) mall smudge on front cover, otherwise very nice and clean. Twain drew the "hieroglyphics" which constitute Adam's "diary". Not one of Twain's major works, but has his humour.. Pictorial Cover. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information
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The Captive Witch
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Julian Messner Inc, New York, 1951 Copywriterd First Edition 1951. Indian Captivity - Settlers. VG+ book,. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fine/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information
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