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HBDJ, SUMMER 1983 SIXTH EDITION, Gilt lettering on brown covers in a red pictorial dust jacket WITH LITE RUB WEAR. 4to, 256pp.VG/VG ,Slogan of Pacific Electric, WHOSE COMFORTABLE & SPEEDY INTERURBANS Linked Southern California's Mountains, Beaches, Orange Groves & Cities for More than Half Century, the P.E. At Its Peak had 1,164 Miles of Track & Operated 6,000 Scheduled Cars Daily ,Boasted that it was the World's Greates Electric Railway, It provided Rapid Transit in an Era when Autos were Primitive & there were Few Roads, author tells How & Why the Trolley era Began & Ended. Henry E. Huntington clashed with Tycoon E. H. Harriman ,Detailed Route INFO.

HBDJ, 1939 ON TITLE & COPYRITE PG, STATED 1ST EDITION, SMALL TEARS WEAR TINY CHIPS TO DUSTJACKET EXTREMITIES, BLUE CLOTH TITLED ON SPINE CVR, 225 pgs, VG/VG, AS-IS ,BLUE & WHITE ILLUSTRATED ENDPAPERS, B/W FRONTISPIECE, CHING-LING Dipped Her Clothes in water,while Mei-ling Held her coat tails to keep her from Falling, But what Use were Girls, Especially Girls like Ching-ling who were off Running Barefoot across the Rice Fields when they should B SITTING with a Needle. She kn ew her own worhtlessness. Every Day Old Jade, Her Great Aunt reminded her of It. If only she could help theKind of Mishap that was always Happening 2 HER, She thought wet shoes, a Hole N er #3 Coat, Losing Practically all Her Clothes Down the Canal. & Delivering her Uncle's Wedding box 2 the Wrong Bride. But Splendid things happened 2 Her 2, such as the Ride N the Magistrate's Rickshaw, & her great friendship with the Jade, merchant on Heavenly Fir Street. Mos

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, Stated 1st Published Oct. 1937, Dates Match on Title & Copyright pg,, 1ST EDITION, VG+/VG+ , 8vo . In pictorial jacket over matching YELLOW PICTORIAL boards OF RECLINING CAT WITH CLOTH SPINE CVR, 8vo, unpag. Signed by the Author on half-title page. (light toning to jacket extremities).

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, .

New York: Modern Library Edition, 1932 PriceClipped but 95 CENTS ON INNER DJ FLAP INTACT, Rockwell Kent Endpapers Orange & White Endpapers ,Red & white DJ with man on front with hands tied behind him & noose in front with red lines at top & Btm of DJ, HBDJ, 1932 , STATED 1ST Modern Library EDITION, Brown balloon cloth 4 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. with Gold gilt Running Streamer Man on front Cvr, VG/GOOD+, AS-IS, Condition of the book is VG, & the signature is amazing. Brown balloon cloth, with dark top stain which has a tiny black spot. Spine is straight, hinge and binding are good. Book is slightly cocked. The spine cvr slightly toned. There is toning along the front/back boards near the spine. Top corners of pages 67-82 have very small crease. Pages are not loose with no marks, Gilt on the front and spine is bright. The top/bottom of the spine are shelf worn. The top edge of the front panel is lightly worn. There is a very small indentation along the top edge of the back panel. Jacket is slightly worn with tiny chips teasrs edges. There is a bit of toning, soiling, chips and shelf wear. it is a First Edition dust jacket. The number of the listed titles is 210 and it appears on the back panel. The style of this dust jacket was in use from 1929-1933 Spring. The price on these jackets is on the back panel in the PRE ZIPCODEcoupon. Price was .95 cents. 531 pgs, NO ADS IN BACK, Small end chips DJ Spine,. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

HBDJ, 1939 ,EARLY ISSUE, RED CLOTH HARDBACK BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARGARET SUTTON ON TITLE PAGE AND DATED 1998 BY HER. DUST JACKET IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. NICE COLLECTIBLE! 249 PGS ,NO ADS IN BACK, in new protective CLEARmylar. BACK OF DJ LISTS NANCY DREW THRU CLUE LEANING CHIMNEY ,The ghost turns out to be a girl named Sally who insists that she is being plagued by ghosts. While Judy and Peter hardly believe the girl, they do like her and want to help her. Judy takes her home, only to have her disappear during a party. Later, Judy and Peter learn that Sally's full name is Sally Vincent, of the crooked Vincent family. Sally is fortunately

Inner DJ Flap $7.95 With "10/72" At Bottom Of Rear Flap, Red Endpapers former Owner Name, Jacket Design by Paul Bacon , HBDJ, 1972, STATED 1st edition, 1st printing, VG+/VG+, Red boards with red cloth Spine & Oval with her Signature in gold gilt on Front, 312 PGS, Wine Red Cloth,Gold Gilt in Oval , Over Red Boards on Front, Red Endpapers, Red Top Stain. 312 POGS,

HBDJ, 1949 ON COPYRIGHT PG, 1ST EDITION , EARLY ISSUE, VG/VG, Inner DJ Flap Lists THRU BLACK CAT'S CLUE, SIGNED BY AUTHOR MARGARET SUTTON ON TITLE PAGE AND DATED 1998 BY HER. RED CLOTH WITH ILLUSTRATION HAS TINY EDGE CHIP DUST JACKET IS IN GOOD CONDITION WITH EDGE WEAR TINY CHIPS. BOOK IS FIRST EDITION 1949-1 PER CLARKE'S GUIDE TO JUDY BOLTON .BACK OF DUSTJACKET LISTS THRILLING MYSTERIES STORIES BY CAROLYN KEENE, SECRET OF OLD CLOCK THE MYSTERY AT SKI JUMP , WHEN OLD MR. PORTER IS REPORTED KILLED, In a Wreck , His Relatives Start Seaching his House 4 His Will. Unearthly Events Follow, but Judy & Her New Friend, Holly Porter Investigating a Clue Provided by Judy's Cat, Fin ally track Down the mysterious Transparent Figure

(Glendale): Roy A. Squires, 1979. First Edition . Wrappers. Fine. 9 3/8" x 6 1/4. Chapbook, One Of The Last Chapbooks From Squires. #135 Of A Stated 230 Copies Printed From Post Roman And Hadrian Stone Cut Types, On Specially Made Paper By Twinrocler, With Covers Of Regina Katusha Made By Barcham Greene In England, The Wrappers Of French Marble, Numbered And Signed By Bradbury On The Colophon. This Copy Has An Additional Inscription "For Don- Friendly Wishes From Ray Bradbury Mar 28, 1980" On The Title Page (Don Corbett Was An Active Sf Fan Since Circa 1952). With The Original Printed Envelope, Near Fine, With The 135 Number Written In Pencil On The Back.