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  • Publisher: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN NY
  • Date published: 1937
HBDJ, 1937 On TITLE & Copyright Pg, 1st edition , Oblong Green Cloth Illustrated Cover has WHITE SPOT FRONT CVR, also some light smudges. Illustrated B/W & Green Endpapers, BACK FLAP AD WHAT TO DO ABOUT MOLLY, Text block and pages tanned from age and shelf-wear. Text and color illustrations clean.Hardcover, UNPAGINATED, SIGNED on Title & Inscribed Copyright Pg By Flack, INNER DJ FLAP $1.50 ,, Buffy, a plump, Noisy, Greedy little robin who lives in an Beautiful Round NEST in Apple Tree in New Hampshire leaves home for an adventure.Chronicles the journey of a robin who travels from Georgia to New Hampshire to make his home. Full of facts about the habits and lives of robins.
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  • Publisher: Modern Library, New York,
  • Date published: 1933
HBDJ, 1933, 1ST MODERN LIBRARY , EARLY ISSUE, VG+/GOOD-, AS-IS, REPAIRED MENDED TEAR SPLIT TO DJ SPINE EDGE, BACK & VERSO OF DJ LISTS 225 TITLES & PRE ZIP CODE COUPON, Inner DJ Flap MENDED SEPARATION TINY PriceClipped but 95 Cents Intact, Great DJ design by Reichl !, Orange & White Rockwell Kent Endpapers, The BURGUNDY CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT book is in very good, clean, fresh, gently read condition with an intact binding, a good cover with some bumped covers, and no rips, tears, stains, or marks other than the author's signature INSCRIPTION on the pre-title page and, the book owner's name above, also written by the author. The dust jacket is dingy, torn, tattered and fragile EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR; its front flap is completely separate and the jacket has ink writing on its cover. 'hardcover' binding on this 6-3/4 by 4-1/4 inch book is actually a tightly woven 'balloon' cloth over a very thin, stiff but flexible 'board'. We believe this book is bound in Modern Library's binding style #7, tanning to dj spine, SMALL INK MARK FRONT OF DJ. , It is the central story, that of Melanctha, the Negro girl, which is the most original and compelling of the three...It is perhaps the first American story in which the Negro is regarded as a human being and not as an object for condescending compassion or derision
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  • Publisher: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons,
  • Date published: 1953
HBDJ, 1953, 1ST U.S. EDITION, 1st Printing, Very Scarce in any format. VG/VG, Smal tiny chips Tears DJ Extremities, Book has BURGUNDY red boards with yellow spine lettering, an unclipped DJ, no fading, has some edgewear and minor chips. Very seldom seen in this first Putnam's edition. A bit of soiling to the page edges, no other internal marks or writing. Very rare signed!. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo -, 300 pgs,Jacket shows a small bit of edge wear. In a brodart protective wrapper. ( Hermits of Harlem Collyer Brothers, Homer and Langley COLLYER, Mary E. Wood, Ella Wendel, Madison Square Mystery, Mary & William Colgate Colby, Hetty Green's Daughter, Sylvia Green Wilks, ETC ) Fascinating exploration of some of the world's most famous recluses, including the Collyer brothers, the Leary sisters, Emily Thorn, Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope and others. Eighteen in total, eccentric and mostly rich. including the wealthy Collyer brothers who lived alone together surrounded by dark legends and an age-old collection of rubbish into which they tunnelled and at last died. Fascinating exploration of some of the world's most famous recluses,
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  • Publisher: Reading, PA Fantasy Press
  • Date published: 1953
Reading, PA Fantasy Press, 1953 HBDJ, 1953, stated 1st edition, Original Red Cloth lettered & Decorated on Spine in Gold Gilt, Cover light Rub, Wear, Interior nice tight Clean light Wear FoX, F-/NF, DJ slight rub, wear & tiny Chips & small mended tears Extremities, 256 pages, Light soil Back DJ, Tiny Tear Base DJ Spine ,Author born in Butler , Missouri in 1907 . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.
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  • Publisher: Reading, PA Fantasy Press
  • Date published: 1953
Reading, PA Fantasy Press, 1953. HBDJ, 1953, stated 1st edition, Original Red Cloth lettered & Decorated on Spine in Gold Gilt, Cover light Rub, Wear, Interior nice tight Clean light Wear FoX, F-/NF, DJ slight rub, wear & tiny Chips & small mended tears Extremities, 256 pages, Light soil Back DJ, Tiny Tear Base DJ Spine. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.
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  • Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
  • Date published: 1951
HBDJ, CHIP TO FRONT TOP & BTM EDGE DJ & Small residue, 1951 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, SIGNED, VG- , AS-IS, MENDED CHIP REPLACEMENTS TO EXTREMITIES OF DJ , OBLONG binding with YELLOW cloth ILLUSTRATED Boards SOME SMUDGING & Pencil mark WEAR. 4to, 39 pgs, BACK OF DJ CHIPS TO EXTREMITIES, 39 PGS, Here he reimagines for children the life of the early 19th-century performer and legendary champion leaper (Niagara Falls, etc.) Brown & RED White Illustrated Endpapers, Harlem Renaissance novelist and poet.
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  • Publisher: New York Thomas Y. Crowell
  • Date published: 1974
New York Thomas Y. Crowell, 1974. HBDJ,1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing.with #1 Intact Number Line, FINE- in NF DUST jacket; Text pages generally clean & bright, DJ minor , rub, wear light Scuff tiny Chips tears Extremities, Blue cloth cover light Wear lettered in White & Orange with Yellow on Spine, 276 Pages , Index. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.
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  • Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
  • Date published: 1942
HBDJ, 1942 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, EARLY ISSUE, , NO Date on Title Page, .Early ISSUE Dustjacket $3.23 ON FLAP, VG/VG+, NOT X-LIB. Trade OBLONG binding with Brown Rust cloth ILLUSTRATED Boards. Same illus as DJ which has SMALL Blue & Silver Dolphin Sticker, . Book is very good- with some spotting on top & bottom edges of green cloth (scans available). DJ is very good+ to near fine- . Outstanding full color art by VIRGINIA LEE BURTON (CALDECOTT MEDALIST). 28 PGS,
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  • Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Date published: 1953
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS , 1953 HBDJ, 1953, 1ST EDITION, NF-/VG-, Copyright and title page are dated 1953; it meets all the 1st edition points as listed in Baumgarten Bibliography of Children's & Illustrated Books.Light foxing inside covers; white of DJ Foxed tiny stzins ; light DJ soiling; otherwise solid and clean with DJ in a protective cover, 1st edition measuring 6 3/4" x 6 1/4", Dark blue textured cloth boards with Illustrated color Label & black Titles on front, UNPAGINATED , Each text page faced w illustrated page Square 8vo, ,But sometimes this got him into a great Deal of Trouble, Oxford Books for Boys and Girls, one the most elusive Tudor books, . Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.
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  • Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, riverside Press
  • Date published: 1942
Inner Hinges Starting Cracked, ,Green, Brown & White Illustrated Endpapers, HBDJ, 1942 On Copyright pg,, 1st Edition, 1ST PRINTING, BK GOOD with Interior pg Slight soil Foxing / DJ VG with tiny Extremities chips tears LITE Crease on back, AS-IS, SCRUFFY & SOILED OBLONG CLOTH cvr binding with GREY OATMEAL ILLUSTRATED Boards with chip btm Spine .INTERIOR PGS LITELY FOXED ,First Printing dust jacket as all titles listed on flaps are pre 1942 "Sad-faced Boy, Choo Choo, Mike Mulligan" and on the rear flap "Don Coyote" by Leigh Peck. Everyone knows that Houghton Mifflin denoted its First Printings by having the date appear on the title page. This book is the only exception and doesn't have the date on the title page. To identify it as a first it must not list subsequent printings, which this does NOT. ,Oblong Quarto, 28 PGS , Grey boards in rough condition with multiples staining/foxing marks. Dust Jacket in VG Condition like it was stored for years, dust jacket price clipped and has small "F Bon" to front top right of dust jacket in pencil. A wonderful example of a rare Burton title.
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  • Publisher: THE BODLEY HEAD BTM OF SPINE CVR, John Lane, London
  • Date published: 1914
HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1914, FIFTH edition , MCMXIV, VG/GOOD, AS -IS, TITLE & opposite PG HAve LARGE FOX STAIN FROM NEWSPAPER ARTICLE LEFT IN,NOJACKET, OUTER TOP PGS R GOLD GILT. OPPOSITE TITLE PG IS LIST HIS 6 BOOKS STARTS WITH INVINCIBLE ALLIANCE. ORIGINAL GREEN CLOTH WITH GOLD GILT DESIGN ON FRONT LITE WEAR, , NO JACKET , 189 pp incl. 18-page introduction by author. Top edge gilt. Original green cloth with gilt lettering. VG. Includes newspaper clipping advertising the event where it was signed. Clipping was left in book, stained the pages where it was. Foxing on some Interior PGS, , Includes Newspaper Clipping PHOTO HIM PLAYING PIANO advertising the event where it was signed. Clipping was left in book, Stained the TITLE & BK LISTING PG pages where it was. who Lived at Villa Montezuma BROODS ON A HILL OVERLOOKING Downtown San Diego, BUILT IN 1887 in San Diego, CA, HAUNTED HOUSE ?, With Your Gifts U Will Find all Doors Open before U.
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  • Publisher: Random House, New York
  • Date published: 1971
HBDJ, 1971, STATED 1ST EDITION ,with "97532468" number line, Dj With Correct Publication Code 6/72 On Rear Flap VG/VG , Light Wear FOX creases DJ, FADE TO EXTREMITIES BLACK EMBOSSE BOARDS WITH BLACK CLOTH AT SPINE CVR4 & TITLED IN WHITE, 206 pgs, Tiny chips tears DJ Extremities, 8.25 x 5.75 in. DJ mylar-protected, This book includes a signed bookplate by Hunter S. Thompson which was acquired during his book-signing tour for The Rum Diary. Basis for the acclaimed 1998 Terry Gilliam film starring Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro. Bound in dark grey cloth; woven black cloth spine; silver lettering to spine in original Steadman illustrated dust jacket has small DJ Spine tear at Base ,Thompson's classic second & most lauded book, launching his unique brand of stoned & intoxicated yet inspired "Gonzo journalism". the savagely comic account of what happened to the country in the 1960's -- told through the narration of a strange, drug-crazed journey to Las Vegas. based on two trips to Las Vegas, Nevada, that Hunter S. Thompson took with attorney and Chicano activist Oscar Zeta Acosta in March and April 1971. Thompson wrote that he concluded their March trip by spending some 36 hours alone in a hotel room "feverishly writing in my notebook" about his experiences.
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  • Publisher: Modern Library Giant, NY
  • Date published: 1961
Modern Library Giant, NY, 1961 . HBDJ, 1961, New Edition Corrected & Reset, The book is in Very Good+ Condition and comes from a smoke-free home. Some staining , small circle on two pages, Measures 5-1/2" x 8-1/2", Red Decorated Cloth Titled on Spine, Interior Nice tight Clean LIGHT FOXing, Wear, DJ Near Fine Condition Light Wear & Tiny Chips Extremities Light FoX, 783 pgs, Publisher Blue Dye at Top Edges pages. & the Decision of United States District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey . New Edition Text Serupulously Corrected & Type Completely Reset & New Plates Made, One of Greatest Novels Ever Written. No consideration of contemporary CulTure can be Complete or even meaningful without it. Foreword by Morris L. Ernst & the Decision of United States District Court rendered by Judge John M. Woolsey. Signed by Author. Hard Cover.
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  • Publisher: Eyre Methuen LONDON
  • Date published: 1974
HBDJ, Stated 1st Published 1974, 1st edition. Signed by Christopher Milne on title page and dated 1992. Very good book in GREEN BV/W very good- dust jacket. No other markings to text. Binding is firm. Boards are clean. Dust jacket is mildly shelfworn. If you know Winnie the Pooh, and who doesn't, this book is a little diamond, a book full of great details, a book which gives a unique view of the Christopher Robin myth. A happy book about a happy childhood in the twenties and thirties in London and in SusseX
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  • Publisher: A. J. Valpy
  • Date published: 1812
London Uk: A. J. Valpy, 1812. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. 317, 344 Pp (Lacking Volume Iii). Full Maroon Morocco, Gilt, Blue Endpapers, Fine Gilt Rules To Covers And Turns, All Edges Gilt, Fine Binding. First And Apparently Only 19Th Century Printing. Presentation Inscription In Volume I "Mrs. Bolton From The Author". Rare Early Gothic Novel, Of Which Only A Few Institutional Copies Are Reported; Not In Sadleir. Near Fine, Bindings Bright And Clean, Just Slight Rubbing At Edges.
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  • Publisher: NY: Simon & Schuster , Reehl Litho Co,
  • Date published: 1940
NY: Simon & Schuster , Reehl Litho Co,, 1940 HARDBACK NODustjacket, 1940 on copyright page and no additional printings listed, 1st Edition, 1st Printing , VG-/GOOD-, AS-IS, NOJACKET, 4to, (9 1/4 x 12 1/4") pictorial Color boards with Red Cloth spine, Much rub of edges bookcvr and tip wear rub & Light scuff rub edges & Back Cover show some wear scratch marks & Light Stain, Interior Nice tight, Clean Light Wear, FOX, UNPAGINATED ,Simply told in verse and marvelously illustrated in bright color on every page., Color illustration on front board of Fifi sitting in a High Back Blue Chair with Large Red Bow in Her Hair, with her beau, a Dog, sitting on the floor beside the chair. Illustration of Fifi alone on back board.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket.
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  • Publisher: Mountain & Sea Publishing
  • Date published: 1983
Mountain & Sea Publishing, 1983 HB NODJ Issued, Photographic Cover with Label & Gold Gilt Decorated,1983, LATER Edition, FINE/F-, NOJACKET , SIGNED ALOHA TOM BLAKE 1989 on Title pg in Black Ink, . Signed by Author(s). Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Tom Blake PHOTOGRAPHY.
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  • Publisher: METHUEN & CO. LONDON Printed in GB by Jarrold & Sons Ltd
  • Date published: 1964
HBDJ, 1964, 905TH Thousand on Inner DJ Flap ,EARLY EDITION REPRINT, VG/VG, DJ HAS TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR & small tear on Back DJ, ON Copyright pg 53.12 with Bear holding Sign Catalogue No. 2/3928/4 , SMALL BLUE CLOTH WITH GILT FIGURES , 100 PGS, Illustrated Endpapers in Dark Red on Blue ,B/W Frontispiece, A. A. Milne died on January 31, 1956, aged 74. this first Pooh book would quickly become a phenomenon, This book of illustrated poetry was the first book to mention Winnie-the-Pooh (in the poem "Teddy Bear" and includes the first recognizable portrait of Winnie & the mentyion of Cbhristopbher Robin , There are also other famous Milne poems (such as "Buckingham Palace" and "Disobedience
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  • Publisher: LONDON Archibald Constable and Company
  • Date published: 1909
HARDBACK NODUSTJACKET, 1909 ON TITLE PG, 1st Edition, Very Good/GOOD, NO JACKET,. BLUE CLOTH Hardcover with wear rub to Spine Label & Edges cvr. Red Cvr Spine has rubbed & Worn TITLE Label ,Signed by Author, Very good condition; no tears, creases Bound in 1/4 maroon cloth atspine with dark blue boards; TTILE LABEL ON SPINE, gold lettering and leather title label to spine. - no jacket. - some wear, rubbing to edges of covers; bookplate on inside front cover. mild foxing to end papers. Otherwise, clean and unmarked. A good+ copy. 278 pgs ,He was invited to live in San Diego by a pair of real-estate developers, the High brothers, who enticed him by promising to build a mansion to his specifications. The result was the Villa Montezuma AKA SPOOK HOUSE (named after "The Montezuma", a migrant ship that first brought Shepard to America, COMPLETE WITH DEVILFISH WEATHER VANE ATOP THE MANSION ,HAUNTED HOUSE ? Broods on a Hill Overlooking Downtown San Diego,, BOYHOOD GROWING UP IN ILLINOIS PRAIRIE & Missouri, , CIVIL WAR Related. ,was invited to live in San Diego by a pair of real-estate developers, the High brothers, who Enticed him by promising to build a Mansion to His specifications. The result was the Villa Montezuma BUILT IN 1887, where he Lived with his Secretary LOVER , LAWRENCE TONNER, (named after "The Montezuma", a migrant ship that
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  • Publisher: DUTTON E. P. NY
  • Date published: 1928
HBDJ, 1st edition, SEPTEMBER 1928, 34th printing, Same Month As First. released in the same year as the London edition, ,Hardcover. BK VG-/GOOD+ DJ WITH TINY TEARS CHIPS EXTREMITIES, FEW PGS HAVE BLANK MARGIN EDGE CHIPS , though all printings starting with the first, were printed in the same month and year, . Covers a LITELY worn WH GILT READABLE ON FRONT CVR . Name written inside front cover and behind front endpaper. Front hinge starting to crack. In SLIGHTLYworn and chipped dust jacket. 7 3/4 X 5 3/4 IN. Approx , SMALL RED PINKISH CVR with Christopher Robin and Tigger in gilt, rrible, for what it's worth. 2 former owner names and an address crossed out on front endpapers. 178 pgs , In this collection, we learn that the "house" of the title is Eeyore's, which is (re)built by Piglet and Pooh; that Tigger does not like honey; and that while young Christopher Robin must go off to boarding school, the enchanted place of Pooh and his friends will always be waiting for him. The last of the four books in the Pooh series. Milne had bought his son a stuffed tiger, "Tigger"
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