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New York: George H. Doran Co. , (1914). First Edition. Author's second novel and first mystery. Con men discover a healer and attempt to cash on his powers. Basis for the Paramount Picture starring Lon Chaney, Betty Compson and Thomas Meighan. Near Fine in attractive Very Good or better dustjacket (especially for being from 1914), few nicks and mild wear.

First Edition. Complete in two quarto volumes, modern full leather bindings, but retaining original marbled pastedowns and endpapers with ownership bookplates of Sir Henry St. John Mildmay (Dogmersfield Library) whose library was auctioned in London in 1907. Edited by Lord Braybrooke using John Smith's transcription of the original diary. Pepys diary gave historians important insights into the Restoration of the British Monarchy, the Anglo-Dutch war, The Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. Illustrated with 13 engraved plates as called for, no half-titles. An attractive set, some pages foxed, frontis of volume one with some staining.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co., (1928). First Edition Stated, in First Issue Dustjacket. Author's Pulitzer Prize winning novel of the Gullah inhabitants of South Carolina. Scarce title. Near Fine, red labels bright and crisp, black cloth has lost some of its sheen from use, in attractive Very Good dustjacket, some modest shelf wear, red color at spine modestly faded, half a dime sized chip at top front panel (price in tact at flap)

Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1904. Second American Edition, First Format with Green Cloth and Decorated Endpapers. Small Duodecimo. Tan paper dust jacket with black ink illustrations and lettering, green illustrated cloth over boards, white end papers with orange illustrations, thirty-one color illustrations. Altemus' Wee Books for Wee Folks. Good dust jacket, chipping to spine ends, top third of front panel torn away and now reattached with archival tape at verso, slight damp stain at top spine and over to top spine edge of front panel, very good overall, discoloration to cloth from dampstain at rear cover, very light foxing to edges, smudges to title page, pencil inscription from 1907 at verso of frontispiece.