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HBDJ, Very Good/VG-, AS-IS. ,Feb 1924, 1st Edition, STATED 1ST ISSUE, , Single illustration as Frontispiece by Frances Creedon. Preface by John Steven McGroatyBEIGE Tweed Cloth Lettered & ILLUSTRATED FRONT CVR IN BLUE OF WOMAN, Cover VERY light rub, wear Interior nice tight Clean light Wear FoX, , 166 pgs, 12mo. BEIGE Cloth HARDBACK WITH BLUE TITLES & OVAL ILLUSTRATION IN BLUE. Hardcover. Clean crisp copy with no markings. Very good in VG- dust jacket with SPINE & edge chips & Tiny STAINS TINY CHIPS TEARS BACK OF DJ, . Clean crisp copy. SMALL CHIP TOP OF DJ SPINE , 120-page slightly undersized hardcover published by the author. Stated "First Issue, February, 1924." Signed by the author on first endpage. Single illustration as frontispiece. Good. Fully clean and tight. Tear to bottom margin of one page. Chip to front hinge at upper spine. Moderate soling to page tops. Obvious wear to dust jacket with spine discoloration, Good/Fully Clean and Tight/ SLITE Obvious Wear to Dust Jacket/Signed On First Page, centered around a Spanish romance in Pasadena, then part of the Spanish estate San Pasqual in 1847, just before California's statehood. Love Story of Early Days in Pasadena IN WHICH FAMOUS OLD SPANISH Families are woven into the Plot, Includes Founding of Tournament of Roses

HBDJ , 1960, 1st edition, 1st printing, VG+/VG- ,AS-IS, TAPE TO VERSO OF DJ & SMALL EDGE CHIPS WEAR RUB, UNPAGINATED, A slim, Oblong RED CLOTH picture book WITH WHITE TITLE, Red clothbound hardback in original jacket, with wear. MENDED TEAR TO BACK OF DJ ,but No 1 has so many Legs or such pretty feet as Silly, Frilly Ermintrude, surely the most charming Centipede, AN INSECT who ever Yearned to Adorn each lovely foot in a different kind of shoe. Yet she learned from all these 100 pretty Shoes she Leasrned 1 Simple truth Pretty is as Pretty Does

Office of The Girls Own Paper, London. HBDJ,. Book Condition: GOOD-. Dust Jacket Condition: FAIR-. AS-IS, Undated 1920 ?, . Red & Black Illustrated Cloth Cover light rub, wear Bump, . Dj chipped with some small pieces missing. Back DJ & spine DJ have Pieces Missing, Tears, Wear FoX TAKING out some of Print, Yet Front DJ Primarily Intact with Scuff Rub, Tear & tiny Chips take out part E in Esther top Left, Interior Nice tight but FOX stains Wear & Tiny Dogears, 279 Pgs + ADS thru Lighted Candles, Exterior pgs edges FoX, , A novel published in the early twentieth century, about Esther Cameron who would have liked to be either a doctor or a clergyman because she thought them the noblest of professions. Hard Cover.

New York & Philadelphia. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1942. SIGNED & inscribed by Horte & Wyncie, the author & Illustrator, & Original COLOR DRAWING FRONT DJ GLUED IN OPPOSITE TITLE PG, Inner DJ Flap $1.50, COLOR illustrated Endpapers, HBDJ, 1942 ON TITLE PG & COPYRIGHT. Small Quarto. First Edition. 1st Printong, VG+/VG, Bound in original bluegrey embossed cloth RED LETTERING,. DJ with chips at tips and edges. Hinges sound. Overall, very good or better.Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Edge-torn & Chipped. hardcover, partial discoloration of endpapers, corners slightly worn, light wear to extremities, contents lightly toned, Unpaginated, in edge-torn and edge-chipped dust jacket; LARGE ORIGINAL B/W INK SKETCH of boy on bicycle carrying large pie, with cat in basket, by Wyncie King (tag attached to pie says "for Ivor and George"; and on blank facing this sketch, on the half-title page, in ink, "to - Ivor and George with our love - Hortie and Wyncie"; PLUS pen and ink and watercolor rendering of a variant of the image on the dust jacket (girl and boy peering into pie shop window) on sheet mounted on the blank facing the title page Size: 8vo , Foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher ,,A interesting and scarce example of the story of two French children, Clare & Jacques in Nazi occupied France during WWII, Madame Bon bon had shop in Village of Routon with Pink Peppermints,Chocolate creams ETC. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Wyncie KING, .

G. W. Dillingham, NY, 1904. . There are 16 full page color plates and many color illustrations in orange, white & black throughout this book. HardBack NODJ, 1904, 1st Edition, 1st State, GOOD+/VG-, NOJACKET, AS-IS, Green Cloth with Green LETTERING & Charming Color Pictorial Label of 2 Men one holding Gun other sitting on Ball with White Hat & Trowell, Cover Rub, wear , Scuff, Tears to Extremites & Spine Ends, Small Red Spot Cover Back & Tears Edges Spine, Interior slight Rub, Wear, Scuff , FOXING, Some pgs small separation Hinge & Tears Edges, This book has light green hard covers with dark green lettering & a pastedown picture on the front cover. There are light blue pictorial endpapers and a title page with a picture in orange, white, & black.The hard covers show some fading/wear/staining, The spine has a rip and shows wear. The top & bottom spine edges and the book corners show ripping/wear. The lettering is faded on the spine. The cover pastedown picture is ripped, & looks like it was glued/repaired at the rip.There are minor pencil marks on the front endpapers and on back blank page. ,Some pages are coming apart from the binding. Three of the color plates are apart from the binding. The back endpapers are split a bit at the binding. alot of the pages have either fingerprints/smudges/minor staining/minor rips. There is some minor aging/browing around the edges of the pages, 240 pages. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Bantam, New York DOUBLEDAY DELL, 1997. HBDJ, 1st edition, THIRD PRINTING, November 1997, Hard cover. Used - Fine/Like New Fine in NEAR FINE dust jacket SIGNED ,LIGHT Edgewear and scratches to dust jacket Book as new . Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 116 pgs. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

M.A. Donohue Chicago. HBDJ, nd(1920's), 1920. Green/black/red Cloth Hardcover of Lady in Hat Holding Red Rose Reading Book . . Pages browning. GOOD/GOOD-. AS-IS, Protected DJ in Clear Mylar., 12 mo., Cover spine Wear Wrinkling marks, & slight Warp to Book, Interior nice tight Aging FOX Aging light Rub, Wear, . Includes Three Little Susy Stories: " Little Susy's Six Birthdays " " Little Susy's Six Teachers" " Little Susy's Little Servants " ; . Hard Cover.

A. L. Burt NY, 1928. HBDJ, 1928, 1st Edition, , Pretext & Back of DJ List Thru Mine, VG /GOOD, AS-IS, Small Tears Front DJ , Back DJ Light FoX Soil & Tiny Chips Tears Extremities, Small Chip DJ Spine Ends affects Title & Publ Name , Olive MustaRd Green Decorated with DarkRed & Black Cover with Embossed Gilt Lettering at Top light Wear , Interior nice, tight cleaN light FOX, Wear, Back DJ ALso LISts Angela Brazil Bks for GIrls, 240 pGS, NO ADS , Dust Jacket with some edgewear, edge rips and some chipping on DJ edges. Piece miSSIng on top and bOTtom of DJ spine . Some browning spots on DJ spine . SomE spOts on back sIde of DJ re-eNFoRCed witH Some tape. Only minimal wear on book under DJ. Title page disconnected from edge about 2" down from top. Otherwise very good. Pages are clean, tight and in tact. . ( Merry Lynn Forrester ) Charm of School & Camp Life , out-door sports & European Travel is found in tHis tale of Merilyn & Her Friends at Boarding School & College. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

HBDJ, 2 VOLS ,1968, NF/ VG+ , IN YELLOW ILLUSTRATED DUSTJACKETS WRAPPER DRAWING OF POET WITH LARGE QUILL SEATED SURROUNDED BY A DESIGN & & LARGE QUILL WITH SMALL BIRD, +INDEX BACK OF DJ SAYS FEW OF 500 AUTHORS, LARGER FORMAT, GREEN CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT TITLES ON SPINE CVR. LIGHT RUB, WEAR SCUFF & TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS TO DJ, IN YELLOW ILLUSTRATED DUSTJACKET WRAPPER DRAWINGS BY Leonard N. Breach, OF POET WITH LARGE QUILL SEATED SURROUNDED BY A DESIGN & LARGE QUILL WITH SMALL BIRD,Originally published under the title "Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets" in 1779 LIVES OF 52 POETS OF 17TH & 18TH CENTURY, metaphysical poets includes Abraham Cowley, SIR JOHN DENHAM, EARL OF DORSET, MATTHEW PRIOR, JOHN MILTON, WILLIAM KING, JOHN POMFRET ETC

Ditchling, Sussex: Pepler and Sewell, St Dominic's Press, 1934. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. Hagreen, Philip. One of 300 copies, octavo size, sixteen unpaginated leaves. The text of a lecture given in London by Fr. McNabb to the Catholic Poetry Society. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in brown quarter-cloth over green paper covered boards, limitation page states, "300 copies have been printed by hand in Caslon 14 point Old Face type on Head's hand-made paper, January 1934. This is No. 255."; "Stones from the Brook: No. 1 Geoffrey Chaucer" (printed on the half-title); octavo size, (8" x 5 1/4"), sixteen unpaginated leaves. In a paper wrapper with black lettering on both panels and flaps. ___CONDITION: Volume is near fine, boards have straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some fading to green color of both boards in uneven patches and on back boards around perimeter. The paper wrapper very good, overall light sunning, the right margin of the front flap unevenly torn vertically, and a 3/4" closed tear near head of spine. ___CITATION: Taylor & Sewell, no. A234, which notes the title-page engraving by Philip Hagreen. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.