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Good+ condition Houghton Mifflin Boston 1898 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 100 pages, b+w frontis, color pictorial cover Story of 2 young girls set in New York City. Binding with light soiling and fading to front illustration. One page is creased. Solid copy.

VG+/VG condition Harper & Row NY 1974 2nd ptg hardcover 8vo, 245 pages, bibliography. Dustjacket prie clipped with light edgewear. Bright tight clean copy.

X-Lib o/w VG trustees under will Boston 1925 89th edition hardcover 12mo, 276 pages. German and English text. X-Lib with usual markings from a Christian Science reading room. Brown cloth with bright gilt spine and cover titling.

Good+ Simpkin, Marshall & Co London 1848 hardcover 9 volume set. Green cloth bindings with gilt spine titles, engraved title pages and frontis engravings. There is light general agewear including chipping at spine extremities, foxing to frontis engravings and tissue guards. A few inside hinge papers are cracked, but all volumes are solid. This set belonged to Laura Astor Delano, daughter of General Armstrong and wife of Franklin Delano, great uncle of Franklin Delano Roosevelt for whom FDR was named. 6 of the volumes have "Laura A Delano, from her husband, July 29th 1849" inked on the front endpaper.

VG/VG Univ Chicago Press Chicago 1963 1st hardcover 8vo, 392 pages, index, notes, appendix. Study of the 1940s through its fiction including Dos Passos, Granville Hicks, Trilling, Faulkner, Penn Warren, Capote, Welty, etc. Name inked bottom front endpaper. Light dustjacket rubbing. Solid clean copy with dj in protective cover. DJ price clipped.

Good+/Good+ Cornell Univ Press Ithaca 1957 1st hardcover 8vo, 705 pages, b+w photos and illustrations, maps, index, bibliography. Book's covers stained at extremities from old dustjacket cover. Endpapers stained from same. Otherwise a nice, solid copy with dustjacket in protective cover.

VG/VG Ronald Press New york 1957 1st edition hardcover 8vo, 260pp, index, bibliography. "...gives the background necessary for an understanding of the situation in all its depth and complexity. " Light rubbing to dustjacket. Nice solid,clean copy in protective cover.

VG/VG Funk & Wagnalls NY 1965 1st hardcover 8vo, 214 pp, b+w frontis, color dj art by Vic Donohue. Adventure story of a boy trying to clear his father's name. Light dustjacket edgewear with 3/4" closed tearat upper spine left. Solid and clean with dj bright in protective cover.

VG/no dustjacket Ida Waugh illus Penn Publishing Philadelphia 1915 early reprint hardcover 8vo, 205 pp, b+w frontis. Christmas gift sticker inside front cover. Very small chip at upper right corner of front endpaper. Otherwise solid and clean with pictorial cover.

Fine/Near Fine Macmillan New york 1991 1st hardcover 8vo, 278pp, b&w photos, index. 40+ year career in country music broadcasting. Just the lightest rubbing to dustjacket; clean, solid, tight, bright copy.

Good+ Scribner Armstrong NY 1872 early reprint hardcover 12mo, 308 pages + ads, b+w illustrations. Name and address pencilled on front endpaper. A few light pencil marks at margins. Light wear to cloth at spine ends. Solid clean copy. Green embossed cloth with black and gilt titling and decoration.

G+ pinhole in front gutter cloth, spine titling faded Viking NY 1928 1st hardcover 8vo, 336pp, Indexed with bibliography and appendices. Contents include books, literary decency, evolution of sex censorship, tes Obscenity, the critic as expert, changing fashions in obscenity, etc.

VG, no dj Costume JB Lippincott Philadelphia 1938 2nd revised hardcover 8vo, 360 pp, color frontis, 210 illus History of the development of dress and study of national costume in Europe, No. Africa, Asia and the Americas. Light extremity wear only; solid clean and bright.

VG Bible House Chicago 1901 hardcover 8vo, b+w photos. Salesman's sample copy with partial contents including advertisement at rear, tipped in publisher's ticket at front. Green cloth with gilt decoration and titling. Small paste on of President McKinley. General rubbing and agewear. Solid clean copy with name inked front endpaper and reverse of frontis illustration.

Good+ Rand McNally Chicago 1956 early reprint hardcover 8vo, unpaginated, color illustrations, color cover and endpapers. Light cover wear; boards worn through at tips; otherwise solid and clean. Elf Book #530.

VG George Cruikshank Children Frank F. Lovell & Company New York late 1800s Early edition Hardbound 8vo, 268pp + ads, Black & White illustration by Cruikshank, decorated cover, spine and endpapers late 1800s to circa 1900 printing. Some light rubbing to cover extremities and name inked at top of front endpaper; otherwise a nice tight, clean copy with strong black and gilt cover titling and decoration on olive green cloth.