Search Results: Young Adult from Royal Books, Inc.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. First Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by the author on the title page. A juvenile novel by the noted author of Westerns ("Shane," "Monte Walsh") about a cowboy reflecting on life. Foxing to the page edges, slight lean, and jacket spine text faded, else Near Fine and unread in a Near Fine, price-clipped dust jacket.

New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937. First Edition. First Edition. Details early cases by the FBI and other federal agencies, aimed toward younger readers. Photo-illustrated throughout. Near Fine in a Very Good dust jacket. Vintage bookstore stamp on the front pastedown. Jacket has a vertical crease to the spine, with light nicking to the extremities and cell tape reinforcement to the verso of the heel and crown.

N.p.: N.p., 1960. Original typescript for an unpublished young adult novel. Bound in with the text is a brief typed letter addressed to Ilse Lahn, an agent with the Paul Kohner agency, signed by authors Allen and Dorothy Childs, and a 20 cent stamp tucked above the letter. Incomplete as issued, with an outline of further chapters in the novel bound in after the text. A group of teenage girls attend a school-sponsored cross-country road trip, unaware that the trip will crack open previously untapped wells of emotion and uncertainty in their interpersonal relationships and extracurricular activities. Set in Burbank, CA. Housed in a manila mailing envelope, lacking wrappers and a title page. 36 leaves, with last page of text numbered 33. Typescript on onionskin stock, rectos only. Pages Near Fine, partially bound with a single paper clip.