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Golden Press, New York, 1962. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Near fine. No dust jacket. 320 pp. Text clean, white unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Prolific illustrations throughout by the Walt Disney studio. Remarkable condition for its age.

Pet Milk Company, St. Louis, 1930. Softcover. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. Looseleaf pages held together by two metal locking rings linking holes punched at spine. 80 pp with full color illustrations by Martin Kaiser. Text clean and unmarked throughout. Additional hand-written and newspaper recipes included as attached by metal rings. Remarkable condition in light of construction and age.

Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1967. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First edition. No dust jacket issued. 160 pp with b/w photos and early drawings throughout. Text is lightly tanned typical of age and is clean and unmarked with no owner attribution. Great depiction of the history of Football from its inception through the first Super Bowl in 1967, the year this book was published.

Carlton Books, 2001. Book condition: Near Fine. No dust jacket. First edition as evidenced by "1" appearing in number line. 256 pp with full color photographs throughout. Ken Schultz served as the Fishing Editor of Field and Stream magazine and was dubbed "Mr. Fishing USA" by ESPN. The fishing encyclopedia any angler would want for his library. Pristine first edition.

Harry N . Abrams, Inc., New York, 2002. Hardcover. Condition: very good+. Dust jacket condition: very good with slight closed end tear at front lower edge. First edition with number "1" in the number row. 320 pp. Text white, glossy, clean and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. A comprensive history of the James Bond phenomenon with over 500 color and B/W photographs , design sketches and story boards. Oversized shape and weight may require additional shipping.

Large book. Spine cover is missing, but hinges remain tight. 182 heavy lightly browned pages, games, puzzles (some neatly completed in pencil) and works of literature for children ages 10-13. Concept of the book is to provide entertainment for children isolated at home with a contagious disease. Good book.

Racine, Wisconsin USA: Golden Press / Western Publishing Company, 1970. Hardcover. Fair condition. Gustaf Tenggren illustrations. 1942, copyright renewed 1970. This book is a forty-eighth printing, 1982. Original price, $.89. No ISBN. Clean, no writing. Pastedown cover peeling from top right edges on both front and back. Minor corner wear. Front pastedown has owner attribution. Title page torn from bottom and repaired with cellophane tape. All pages intact with no markings. A colorful readable copy.

Houghton Mifflin, Boston, MA, 1911. Hard Cover. Condition: Good-. First Edition. No Dust Jacket. Maginel Wright Enright (illustrator). Selections from the works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina G. Rossetti, Alfred Tennyson, James Whitcomb Riley, Frank Dempster Sherman, Abbie Farwell Brown, and Augusta Stevenson. 128 pp, tanned text block, some pages have stains, fingerprints and small tears or chips, but text is otherwise unmarked and in very good reading condition. Ivory cloth boards with orange, green and black pictorial cover boards are quite worn and soiled, spine and edges are rubbed/fraying. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper, binding is tight with no hinge cracks. First Readers were handled by small children and received wear accordingly. This rare book is in remarkably good condition considering its age and usage.The illustrator, Maginel Wright Enright was an American children's book illustrator and graphic artist. She was also the younger sister of Frank Lloyd Wright,… Read More

American Stove Co., St, Louis, MO, 1931. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. Ninth Edition. 186 pp. Text yellowed typical of age and free of markings. Pastedown and front and rear free endpapers depict b/w illustrations. Prior owner attribution on front free pastedown and front free endpaper. Drawings contained in earlier editions replaced with full color photographs. hinges cracked, but still intact. A cookbook promoting the use of gas stoves equipped with the Lorain Oven Heat Regulator. Earlier editions of this book did not credit Dorothy M. Shank as author/compiler.

William Morrow & Co., Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A., 1966. Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. DJ has 1 inch tear at head of rear edge and small tear on front near spine at top and pin hole on front cover. Jacket is lightly soiled. Book is tightly bound. BCE. 256 pp. Text is clean and unmarked with rough-cut edge, very readable copy. No owner attribution. Not a library copy. An early crime novel (written by a woman) featuring homicide detective Luis Mendoza as he seeks for a connection between seven murders or attempted murders.

Lee and Shepard Publishers, Boston, 1893. Third edition hardback. Condition: Very Good. 248 pp. + eight pages of advertising for other books of the era. Text block lightly yellowed, typical of age; clean, unmarked, no prior owner attribution. The binding is tight. Very good condition for its age. "This book, therefore, is written for women; for use in their clubs, unions, societies, --any organizations where it is important to know how to conduct a formal meeting" as described by the author in the preface.

Goldsmith Publishing Company, NY, 1933. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. 251 pp. Clean text tanned typical of age and materials used and unmarked except for prior owner attribution and price on front free endpaper. Dust jacket is brightly colored illustration and has small chips on top edge front and back and small chip on lower back edge. Dust jacket art is signed Gretta (J. Clemens Gretta). Sherman is a juvenile sports fiction writer from northern Michigan.This story is about the conflict between Garrett High School star quarterback Bo Hardy and fullback Russ Willard, who was chosen captain of the team over Hardy.

Atheneum, New York, 1963. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket condition: Good+ Dust jacket is lightly soiled, has a small chip at the head of spine and has been price clipped. 400 pp. Text is white, clean and unmarked except for prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. "A narrative history of a young president in the White House...From the moment of his election in November, 1960, John Fitzgerald Kennedy faced as many crises as, perhaps any president since Lincoln. Confronting him immediately were the problems of Laos, Berlin and Cuba."

HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1996. Hardcover. States first scholastic printing, September, 1996. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket condition: Very Good. 176 pp. Text white and clean. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper. Pages 35-50 have become detached from spine.

Like new copy of 1961 book by Frank G. Slaughter. Epidemic! is a story of imminent panic creating a debacle that could wipe out the people of New York City within days and the efforts of the book's heroes as they combat this plague. A like-new book club edition in excellent condition. 219 pp. No markings throughout clean, readable text.

Harper & Brothers, Publishers, New York, 1958. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 437 numbered pp; Pages: clean, bright, and unmarked. Owner attribution in ink on front free endpapers. Fore edge deckled and top edge tinted orange. Minimal shelf wear. Maggie Now is the story of an Irish immigrant girl who is torn between answering her own needs and catering to the desirous men who dominate her life. She learns to navigate loss, separation, and hope as she forges her own path toward happiness. The author gained early fame from her previous book, "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". As a bonus, included with this book is a copy of the paperback March, 1958 periodical "Wings", the Literary Guild Review featuring the release of Maggie Now and highlighting the author, Betty Smith. The Wings periodical is very rare.

The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia, PA, 1943. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 376 pp. Text box white and unmarked. A pink stain appears at top outer edge affecting hafl title page, title page through page 2 of the book. Otherwise unmarked with no prior owner attribution.

Harper & Row, New York, 1963. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, BCE. Dust jacket condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket has one-inch closed-end tear from bottom edge on front cover and a sunned spine. 308 pp. Text lightly yellowed as typical of paper quality used. Clean, unmarked with no owner attribution. The book follows the first year of the marriage of Brooklynites Annie McGairy and Carl Brown, in 1927. Although both of their families are against their marriage, the couple weds anyways and move to the Midwest where Carl is studying to become a lawyer. They quickly discover the difficulty of balancing college life with marriage. This is Betty Smith's fourth and final novel written before her death in 1972. She became most famous for her first novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. "What the reader takes away from Joy in the Morning is its sunny tenderness, Carl's decency and determination, Annie's freshness and warmth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn was Francie Nolan's story. One… Read More

The Pictorial Review Company, New York, 1931. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No dust jacket issued. 463 pp. Text block lightly sunned, typical of age and materials used. Otherwise clean, unmarked with no foxing or prior owner attribution. Remarkably clean condition for its age.

A. S. Barnes and Company, New York, 1951. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 25 pp (complete. Text has b/w photographs throughout. Pages clean, white and unmarked except for a crayon name on front free endpaper. Light foxing on front and back free endpapers and title page. One of the eight Barnes All-Star Library books (DiMaggio, Kiner, Williams, Musial, Berry, Blackwell, Lemon and Pafko). This short biography includes his 16-straight wins, his no-hitter and his almost double no-hitter in 1947 with the Cincinnati Reds. Blackwell's career statistics shown on front and back endpapers and pastedowns. Remarkable condition for its age. One of the rarer books of the Barnes All-Star Library series.