Fiction

Mendota, IL: Wayside Press, 1971. Revised Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. Bookshop stamp on front endpaper. pp: 153; 7pp illus from old prints. This fully annotated bibliography won the 1964 Horatio Alger Society Award for Literature. 8.5" x 5.5". more information

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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (x), 378, (2) ads; frontispiece and 7 plates. Decorative trade binding, with monogram of the designer Margaret Armstrong. This book contains nine short stories by Andrews. 7.75" x 5 more information

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Indianapolis Bobbs-Merrill (1912)., 1912. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding and contents in very good condition. 8" x 5.25" pp: (x), 423 Bound in dark blue cloth, gilt seal and sabre on cover, Napoleon's monogram blind-stamped in corners. The Alabama-born novelist (1860-1936), best known for her sentimental story of Lincoln (The Perfect Tribute), here offers a novel set in France during the rise of Napoleon. Illustrated by 6 plates after Castaigne. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. more information

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1917. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good +. Sears Gallagher. pp: v, 58; 4 plates. Decorative trade binding, no monogram, designer not identified. 7.5" x 5 more information

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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909. Second printing. Original Cloth. Good +. pp: (x), 378, (2) ads; frontispiece and 7 plates. Decorative trade binding, with monogram of the designer Margaret Armstrong. This book contains nine short stories by Andrews. Corners and backstrip lightly rubbed. 7.75" x 5 more information

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NY: Macmillan, 1912. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: vii, 533, (2) publisher's ads. 7.75" x 5.25". more information

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NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1918. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. Arnold Genthe. pp: (iii), 195; frontispiece from photograph. 7.5" x 5". more information

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NY: American News / Robert Bonner's Sons, (1894). Original Cloth. Very Good +. Warren B. Davis. pp: 395, (6) ads; 2 plates, head- and tail-pieces. Decorative trade binding, no monogram, designer unidentified. This novel tells the tale of Donald and Roberta and the power of the ivory Beads of Tasmer to bring them together in marriage, plus the miraculous happiness and prosperity that the Beads brought to the simple, pious peasants of the household of the Torquils. 7.25" x 4.75 more information

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NY: Duffield, 1910. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. A.B. Wenzel. 275pp; frontispiece and two plates in black and white. 7.5" x 5". more information

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London: British Council, 1950. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 44pp. Following an essay on the lives of the Brontes is a narrative bibliography of the works of Charlotte, Emily and Anne. 8.5" x 5.5". more information

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NY: A.L. Burt, (1908). Reprint. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: (vi), 345, (2) ads; color frontispiece. Decorative trade binding, with the monogram of the designer George Washington Hood. This novel presents the lives of pioneers on the prairie of western Canada. 7.5" x 5 more information

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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 490pp. This is the author's first book, an historical novel whose hero is caught up in the plans of John Paul Jones during the Revolutionary War. 7.75" x 5.25". more information

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NY: James Pott, 1900. Original Cloth. Very Good. E.S. Truman. pp: 31, (1) ad; color frontispiece. Decorative trade binding by an unidentified designer whose monogram is a capital A with a dot below. The text block has begun to pull away from the binding, while the binding itself is clean with bright gilt. 7.5" x 5 more information

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NY: Sol Lewis, 1981. Limited. Original Cloth. Fine. Two volumes, cloth slipcase. 301pp, indices; illus from title-pages of the works described. First published at London in 1935-1936, and here reprinted in an edition limited to 500 copies. Describes first editions of English authors whose books were first published in America before their publication in England, and first editions of American authors whose books were first published in England. 9" x 5.75 more information

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NY Scribner's 1907., 1907. Hardcover. Gilt-decorative binding and contents near fine condition. 7.75" x 5" 156pp Sentimental novel of a London gentleman and the poor Cockney street girl he befriends. Illustrated by 8 color plates by F.C. Yohn. 2nd printing edition. Binding is original cloth. more information

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Springfield, MA: McLoughlin Bros., 1938. First Thus. Pictorial Boards. Very Good. 93pp; illus from drawings. A nine-page biography of Tommy Kelly precedes this movie-based version of Twain's classic. Both covers have a movie still of Tommy Kelly as Tom Sawyer, superimposed on a color-illustrated background of steamboats on the Mississippi River and boys in overalls and straw hats on the bank. [This edition is not listed in Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature.]. 6.75" x 5.25". more information

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Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1924. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Corners of boards lightly bumped. pp: xv, 108, erratum slip. 8" x 5". more information

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Boston: L.C. Page, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Arthur W. Brown. Decorative, pictorial cloth binding lightly rubbed at edges. pp: 415, (8); color frontispiece. "Being the history of a man who, having himself come up from the miner's pick, having the profoundest sympathy for the men, the Union, and all it stands for, and has done for Labor, yet single-handed and alone, successfully withstood the encroachments of the Mine Workers' Union, and the unjust demands of its leaders." 7.75" x 5". more information

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NY: G.W. Dillingham, [1900]. (copyright 1864). Original Cloth. Near Fine. 332pp. Decorative trade binding, with the monogram of the Decorative Designers. 7.5" x 5 more information

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Nassau: Bahama Life, 1971. 2nd printing. Pictorial wraps. Very Good. 144pp. The author married a white Canadian and divorced her before returning to his native home in the Bahamas. This autobiographical novel concerns the stresses on a mixed marriage posed by tropical island living. 8.75" x 5.25". more information

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NY: Frederick A. Stokes, 1917. First Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. Illus from Photographs. pp: x, 269; 31 duotone illustrations from photographs. 8.25" x 5.5". more information

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Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1972. First Edition. Original Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. pp: xxxii, 642, index; 12pp illustrations. This first comprehensive, annotated bibliography of Crane begins in 1888 and runs through addenda in 1972. 9.25" x 6". more information

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NY: Macmillan, 1902. 2nd printing. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: 421, (4) ads. Decorative trade binding, with the monogram of the designer Cox. 7.5" x 5 more information

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Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, 1904. Limited. Pictorial cloth. Very Good. John T. McCutcheon. 487pp; 58 illustrations. Crissey, a journalist with the Saturday Evening Post, based these 58 fictional letters on his knowledge of politicians. 8.25" x 5.5 more information

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NY: Funk & Wagnalls, May, 1901. Illustrated Edition. Original Cloth. Near Fine. Thulstrup. pp: xxxv, 588; colored frontispiece, 16 b&w plates, tissue guards with captions. Decorative trade binding, with the monogram of the designer George Wharton Edwards. 7.75" x 5.25 more information

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NY: Herman W. Lefkowitz, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Light shelf-wear to spine ends. 334pp This futuristic novel opens in 2390 with Indian warriors along the east coast unified to repel invasion by "the white enemy." As the plot develops, the Chinese, Turks and Indians, with nature's help, destroy most other nations on earth. This is a presentation copy from the publisher, signed by Lefkowitz, March 26th, 1935. 7.5" x 4.5". more information

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NY: A.S. Barnes, 1902. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: x, 322, (5) ads. Decorative trade binding, no monogram, designer unidentified. Gift inscription. 7.5" x 5 . more information

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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Decorative and pictorial binding. 86pp; two plates. A tale of thwarted romance. 8.25" x 5.25". more information

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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1910. First edition. Original Cloth. Good +. alice barber stephens. pp: vii, 92; frontispiece, 6 plates. Decorative trade binding, no monogram, designer not identified. 8" x 5.25 more information

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Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1901. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. H.C. Ireland. 156pp; frontispiece and one plate. Decorative trade binding, with the monogram of designer Amy Sacker. Dramatic comedy of an American couple in Paris. 7.75" x 5.25 more information

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NY: Dodd, Mead, 1897. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. pp: v, 399. Decorative trade binding, blind-stamped design on cover and spine, no monogram. 7.5" x 5 . more information

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NY: Harper & Brothers, 1897. First US Edition. Pictorial Cloth. Very Good. pp: iv, 477; 49 illustrations by the author. [Bleiler, Science-Fiction & Supernatural Fiction, page 65]. 7.5" x 4.75". more information

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Boston: L.C. Page, 1901. First Edition. Original cloth. Good. Albert F. Schmidt. pp: (x), 263; frontispiece and seven plates. This romance novel, set on a small island of the Maine coast, includes much local dialect. Front free-endpaper removed. 7" x 4.5". more information

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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1903. First US Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Lawson Wood. Gilt-pictorial binding. pp:vii,306,(6); 6 plates from paintings. The British author of boys' adventure stories unleashes a corker set during the Boer War. 7.75" x 5". more information

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NY: Dodd, Mead, 1903. First edition thus. Original Cloth. Very Good. Harrison Fisher & George Wharton Edwards. 112pp; frontispiece, 4 plates, elaborate page-decorations throughout. Decorative trade binding, with the monogram of the designer George Wharton Edwards. Light wear to spine ends. 8.75" x 5.75 more information

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Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, no date. Original Cloth. Very Good +. 365pp. This novel was first published in England in 1877. Decorative trade binding, no monogram, designer not identified. 8" x 5.25 more information

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Barcelona I.G. Seix y Barral Hnos 1957., 1957. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pictorial paper covers and contents in very good condition. 8.25" x 6" 32pp Set in medieval Spain, the text of this story is in Spanish. Illustrated by 4 color plates. First Edition. Binding is original wraps. more information

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Paris: Artheme Fayard, 1939. First thus. Decorative Cover. Very Good. Jean Morin. 125pp; 24 woodcuts. First published in 1909, this novel shows the unhappy results of "selfish self-abnegation and ascetism," according to Benet. 9.25" x 7.25". A little spotty foxing to fore-edges, else in very good condition. more information

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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius. Original wraps. Very Good. pp: 77, (3)ads. Goethe's short novel in epistolary form, his first great popular success, is here issued by a collectible publisher. 8.5" x 5.5". more information

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Windsor, England: Gaby Goldscheider, 1977. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 40pp. Laid into this bibliography is Goldscheider's catalog #11, offering 189 Doyle items, priced from one to 500 pounds. 8.25" x 5.75". more information

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1903. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. C.M. Relyea. Turn-of-the-century American fiction for women. 7.5" x 5". more information

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NY: Harper, 1901. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good. pp: (viii), 351. 7.75" x 5". more information

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Chicago: Albert Whitman, 1927. First Thus. Original Cloth. Fine. Milo Winter. 128pp; frontispiece, 12 color plates, text drawings, pictorial endpapers. The author, a Harvard grad and Congregationalist minister, wrote this book in 1863 "in one of the darkest hours of the Civil War" and published it anonymously. 8.25" x 5.75". more information

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Winter Park, FL: Rollins College, 1939. First Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good. 48pp, index. A chronology and an "Attempt at Interpretation" precede the annotated bibliography of novels, short stores, poems & verses. 7.75" x 5.25". more information

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Boston: L.C. Page, 1902. First edition. Original Cloth. Very Good. 343pp; 20 portrait plates. Considers 21 female writers of fiction, including: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; Frances Hodgson Burnett; Sarah Orne Jewett; Anna Katherine Green; Molly Elliott Seawell; Gertrude Atherton; Ella Glasgow; and 14 more. 7" x 4.5 more information

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NY: McClure, Phillips, 1904. 2nd printing. Original Cloth. Very Good. Louis Loeb. pp: 317, (10) ads; tinted frontispiece. Decorative trade binding, with the monogram of the designer William James Jordan. Rear inner-hinge opened. 7.75" x 5.25 more information

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NY: Henry Holt, 1906. First American edition. Original Cloth. Very Good +. pp: 312, (1) ads. Decorative trade binding, with the monogram of WHS, designer unidentified. This novel is set in 14th-century France. 7.5" x 5 more information

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Chicago Herbert S. Stone 1900., 1900. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding and contents in very good condition. 7.75" x 4.75" 255pp Holdsworth (1860-1917) was born in Jamaica to missionaries who worked among the freed slaves. This novel is set in the Alps. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. more information

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Boston Houghton Mifflin 1915., 1915. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Binding a little rubbed, else near very good condition. 7.5" x 5" pp: (vi), 376 Bound in gilt-stamped green cloth with the cover lettering and fleur de lis in a frame. This medieval romance is set in France in the last quarter of the 12th century. Illustrated by frontispiece illustration. First Edition. Binding is original cloth. more information

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Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Howard Pyle and others. Decorative cloth binding. pp: vii, 403; 8 b&w plates. This is the most popular novel by the Virginia-born author (1870-1936), an historical romance of the women of Jamestown. It is one of Merle Johnson's "High Spots of American Literature." 7.75" x 5". more information

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