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American Book Company, New York, Cincinnati, Chicago 1913. Hardcover. First Edition. Condition: Very Good +. No dust jacket as issued. 647 pp. Text white and clean with no foxing. Some pencil marking and underlining in text with inscription in pencil on rear free endpaper. Prior owner attribution on front free endpaper and pastedown. Full color frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. Two page, full color map of England showing all counties. Remarkable condition for a book of this age.

C. L. Hammond and Company, Maplewood, NJ, 1952. Hardbound. First edition. Condition: Very Good+. No dust jacket. 256 pp includes Classification Key, Tables of Wildlife Refuses, Glassary and Index. Text white, clean and unmarked. Prior owner attribution in pencil on title page. Green and white pastedown and front free endpapers decorated with drawings of nature. Profusely illustrated with 320 original color paintings of animals and plants (282 by Walter Ferguson and 38 by John Cody) and 34 pages of colored maps. Rear cover has light shelfwear. Exceptional condition considering its age and scarcity.

Curriculum Foundation Program, Health and Personal Development series featuring Dick, Jane and Spot. 95 pp with 85 pages carrying primary story teaching 81 words and full color illustrations with balance of pages as teacher notes. Very rare to find a teacher's edition. Clean, readable text and illustrations with no markings. Light blue covers with dark blue outline illustration of Dick swinging from a bar and Spot excited at his feet. Title is embossed in orange. Average wear on corners and spine tips.The front endpaper carries a school stamp. 1948, presumed to be first edition. Very good condition book. Not an ex-library copy.

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York, 1937. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Registered Deluxe Edition. No dust jacket issued. 524 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Gold front and rear pastedowns. No shelf wear. Print and material quality pristine--a GIFT QUALITY COLLECTIBLE. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) kept a journal of his discoveries on the four year plus voyage of the 'Beagle' to the Galapagos Archipelago (1831-1836). This 1937 Second Edition, a journal form of 'The Voyage of the Beagle,' has a preface dated 1845. The book outlines Darwin's development and nature of the trip which strongly influenced his destiny. Charles W. Eliot served as Harvard's president (1869-1909) and as editor of the Harvard Classics Series. An introduction by Eliot of this work is included. This book is Volume 29 of the original Harvard Classics Series.

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York, 1937. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Registered Deluxe Edition. No dust jacket issued. Volume III of English Poetry in Three Volumes, Pages 959-1422. Text clean, white and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Gold front and rear pastedowns. No shelf wear. Print and material quality pristine--a GIFT QUALITY COLLECTIBLE. A collection of notable poetry by the foremost English poets of the 19th century. Charles W. Eliot served as Harvard's president (1869-1909) and as editor of the Harvard Classics Series. This book is Volume 42 of the original Harvard Classics Series.

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York, 1937. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Registered Deluxe Edition. No dust jacket issued. 421 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Gold front and rear pastedowns. No shelf wear. Print and material quality pristine--a GIFT QUALITY COLLECTIBLE. A philosophical inquiry in the origin of our ideas of The Sublime and Beautiful with several other additions. Charles W. Eliot served as Harvard's president (1869-1909) and as editor of the Harvard Classics Series. An introduction by Eliot of this work is included. This book is Volume 24 of the original Harvard Classics Series.

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York, 1937. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Registered Deluxe Edition. No dust jacket issued. 441 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Gold front and rear pastedowns. No shelf wear. Print and material quality pristine--a GIFT QUALITY COLLECTIBLE. The Arabian Nights' Entertainments translated by Edward William Lane and Revised by Stanley Lane-Poole. Charles W. Eliot served as Harvard's president (1869-1909) and as editor of the Harvard Classics Series. An introduction by Eliot of this work is included. This book is Volume 16 of the original Harvard Classics Series.

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York, 1970, 63rd printing of the 1937 second edition. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Registered Deluxe Edition. No dust jacket issued. 519 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Gold front and rear pastedowns. No shelf wear. Print and material quality pristine--a GIFT QUALITY COLLECTIBLE. The original Man of La Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes and translated by Thomas Shelton. Charles W. Eliot served as Harvard's president (1869-1909) and as editor of the Harvard Classics Series. This book is Volume 14 of the original Harvard Classics Series.

P. F. Collier & Son Corporation, New York, 1937. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Registered Deluxe Edition. No dust jacket issued. 470 pp. Text clean, white and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Gold front and rear pastedowns. No shelf wear. Print and material quality pristine--a GIFT QUALITY COLLECTIBLE. A collection of notable essays by the foremost authors of the 19th century. Charles W. Eliot served as Harvard's president (1869-1909) and as editor of the Harvard Classics Series. An introduction by Eliot of this work is included. This book is Volume 28 of the original Harvard Classics Series.

Doubleday Page, Garden City, NY, 1914. Hardcover. "For the first time in her life, Barrie saw the door that led to the garret stairs standing ajar. It was always, always locked, as is correct, though irritating, for a door that leads to Fairyland." Novel of a young female runaway in Scotland. Text near fine condition with no marks, tears or wear. Leaves lightly yellow typical of age. Watercolor illustration on both front and rear, pastedown and free-endpapers. Very Good condition.

Macmillan and Company, New York, 1929. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No dust jacket. 577 pp. Text white, some pencil notations, no foxing. Owner attributions on front and rear free endpapers and front and rear pastedowns. Pencil notation on outside edge and bottom edge. Illustrated through with b/w photographs and color maps.

The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio 1953. Hardcover. First edition, dated 1953. Condition: Near Fine. No dust jacket. 412 pp. Text clean, white and printed on glossy paper, with no foxing. No prior owner attribution. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs. Full color map of the State of Ohio on front free endpapers and pastedowns.

Grolier Incorporated, New York, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Condition: Fine, like new. No dust jacket issued. 482 pp. Text is clean, white and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Part of Grollier's Treasury Series in presentation bindings. This book is described by the author as: "an attempt to collate within a single volume, and in terms easily comprehended by the unschooled music lover, all the information he requires for an intelligent, mature, and even comprehensive understanding of music: its structure, backgrounds, evolution, creators, basic vocabulary and terminology, its schols and movements and its literature."

David McKay Company, Philadelphia, 1938. Hardcover. Sixth Edition, Enlarged and Revised. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. 751 pp. Text lightly yellowed, typical of age and materials used. Green tinted top edge. No prior owner attribution. Several ink or pencil notations on selected recipes. Handwritten recipes added on blank pages. Rear cover has circular burn mark where book may have been left on a hot stove burner. Front cover shows wear indicating usage.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket condition: Fair. 269 pp. Text has deckled outer edge, clean, ivory-colored leaves, with light foxing and some smudges. Former library book evidenced by stamp on front free endpaper. Dust jacket has survived by being of card stock, but shows shelf wear and faded front cover illustration. This book is 27th out of 28 Western fiction adventures of Hopalong Cassidy authored by Mulford spanning the timeframe between 1906 and 1941.

Success Company, Petersburg, NY; Toledo, OH, Danville, IL; Oklahoma City, OK and San Jose, CA, 1908 and 1909. Hardcover. First editions. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket issued. Two complete books in one volume. 744 and 280 pp. Text is clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Date 1909 is hand-written in blue ink on front free endpaper along with 35 cents. Household Discoveries contains b/w drawings. Mrs. Curtis's Cook Book contains both b/w drawings as well as full-color drawings provided by the Kellogg Fruit Co. Cover is faded with age and shows shelfwear at head and tail of spine. Rare to find first editions of both books in one volume.

Household, Topeka, Kansas, 1952. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No dust jacket. Stated 23rd edition (revised and illustrated) 320 pp, tabulated into 26 sections. Text clean and unmarked with no prior owner attribution. Cover corners bumped. Vintage mid-century cookbook from the Plains. Full color pastedowns and free end papers.

Prentice-Hall. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Top edge and spine of DJ has curled with small tears. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Not price clipped. Cover corners and spine bumped but remarkably clean. 304 pp is clean, crisp and unmarked. No prior owner attribution. Sound binding. Not ex-Library copy. "Now for the first time, John Robert Powers reveals the secret formula that has brought total beauty to thousands of Powers girls--changing their lives by showing them how to achieve true poise, charm and self-confidence. Under his guidance, girls with buck teeth have been turned into movie stars; grandmothers have become glamour girls; small town girls have become leaders of New York society..." Susan Trowbridge Partington, (Power's creative assistant) was credited in the original first edition by the author for "Without her untiring efforts and inspired skills, this book could not have been… Read More

Ginn & Company, Boston, MA, 1904. Revised edition. Condition: Good+. No dust jacket. 265 pp. Text clean, slightly yellowed, typical of age. Prior owner attribution on page 9. B/W illustrations throughout. An elementary school textbook that describes physiology and health of the human body to young, emerging teens.

Ginn & Company, Boston, MA, 1895. Revised Edition. Condition: Very Good-. No dust jacket. 250 pp + 4 pp publisher advertisements. Text clean, unmarked with no prior owner attribution and sunned, typical of age. Black & White Illustrations throughout. Front interior lower spine cracked about 2 inches. Light water stain at top edge of first 160 pp. "The real object of studying physiology in our schools is to teach young folks how to keep well and strong; and to avoid evil habits that destroy character as well as health." The original 1891 version of this book was revised for this edition by Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, the Superintendent of the Department of Scientific Instruction of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union to address the effect of alcoholic drinks, tobacco and other narcotics upon the human system.