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New York: Cameron & Kahn, 1954. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 187 Pp. Green Covers, Softcover Issue. Inscribed By Author On Half-Title. Lightly Used Book, Very Good.

Junior Books, DD Dean, Garden City. Hno DJ, beige cl, Good-, some wear, small- tears to cloth spine, 1941, stated 1st edition, interior pages of book VG, AS-IS.

Chicago: Frederick J Drake, 1909. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Poor. 231, Viii, (100) + Ads At Rear. Disbound, String Binding Intact But Lacking Covers, Informally Wrapped In Correspondence Paper Of The Wendt Studios, With Handwritten Title By Julia Bracken Wendt And Part Of The Wendt's Bookplate. Julia Bracken Wendt, (1870-1942) A Notable American Sculptor, Illinois. Unsupported At Home Following The Death Of Her Mother When She Was Nine Years Old, She Ran Away From Home At Thirteen. By Sixteen She Was Working As A Domestic Servant For A Woman Who Recognized Her Talent And Drive, And Paid To Enroll Her In The Art Institute Of Chicago. There She Studied With Lorado Taft And By 1887 She Had Advanced To Become His Studio And Teaching Assistant. In 1893, During The Columbian Exposition She Was One Of Several Women Sculptors Nicknamed The White Rabbits Who Helped Produce Some Of The Architectural Sculpture That Graced The Exposition Buildings. She Was Awarded A Commission To Produce Illinois Welcoming The Nations, A Sculpture For The Fair. The Work Was Later Cast In Bronze And Unveiled At The Illinois State Capitol.In 1906 She Married Painter William Wendt And Moved To Los Angeles, California Where She Continued Her Success. In California She Taught At The Otis Art Institute And, With Her Husband, Was Instrumental In The Founding Of The California Art Club In 1909, Which Was Developed On The Premise Of Allowing Women And Sculptors Into The Membership. Wendt Was A Member Of The National Sculpture Society And Exhibited And Was Featured In Both The 1923 And 1929 Exhibitions And The Resulting Catalogues. Her Work Can Be Found In: Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Chicago Historical Society, The Civil War Monument, Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee, The Laguna Art Museum, Harvard University Portrait Collection,Old Los Angeles City Hall (Now Located In The Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County), Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, California, As Well As In Numerous Private Collections. Exhibitions: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Aic, 1895; Annual Exhibition Of Works By Chicago Artists, Aic, 1899-1910 (9 Times); St Louis/Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904 ; Chicago Municipal League, 1905 ; Pan-California Expo, San Diego (Ca), 1915 ; California Art Club, 1918 ; Solo Exhibits With Husband, Aic, 1909-21 ; National Sculpture Society, 1929 National Sculpture Society, Los Angeles (Ca) Museum. Awards: Commission, "Illinois Welcoming The Nations" For Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892 ; Commission, Exposition Park, Los Angeles (Ca). Commission, Battle Monument, Missionary Ridge (Tn) ; Sculpture Prize, Chicago, 1898; Municipal Art League Prize, Chicago, 1905 ; Gold Medal, Pan-California Expo, San Diego (Ca), 1915; Harrison Prize, Los Angeles (Ca), 1918

New York: Star Dist, 1970. Paperback. 190p., illustrated with explicit drawings, very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-433.

6 & 1/2' x 7 & 1/2'; no dustjacket. One of 230 trade copies of First Edition of 400, total including 100 (hor commerce: aka before trade) 50 signed & numbered and 20 signed with special drawing. This one is not signed or numbered but remains uncommon and collectible. Grey cloth with gold lettering on spine. Sunned spined. Darkened at margins of covers front and back. Dust staining textblock edges. Tonning to end pages front and back. Glue residue bottom of rear pastedown. Stray ink marking in what appears to be a child's hand on that same rear pastedown page. (78 pages. )

Macmillan NY, 1914. HB NODustJacket, April 1914, Printed a year after first edition , Interior Nice, tight Clean some rub, wear, lite wrinkling, dogears, & small water stains on corner blank Margins thruout, VG-/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, 201 pgs + Ads, Beige & Orange & black Decorated Cloth cover light rub, wear ,soil & tiny Chips Extremities,. Hard Cover.

Bantam Books, New York NY,, 1991. HBDJ, July 1991, 1st Edition, 2nd Printing, NF+/F-, Half-Cloth With Black Boards with Gold Gilt Title Spine, Light Wear, Interior Nice tight Clean, 371 pgs, The dust wrapper is protected with a clear plastic cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. HBDJ, 1926, 1st EditioN THuS, VG-/GOOD+, AS-IS, DJ has FOX light Wear tiny chips Tears Extremities & has SMALL Round Yellow Sticker Front of DJ covering some of Face of man, Scuffing along edges at Spine DJ, Spine ends DJ small pieces out Yet Titles Intact, 233 pgs + ADS END WITH WolF Breed, 7.5 x 5 in. Olive Green & Black cloth light Wear .Personally Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Complete lavish starcrossed romance Adventure Novel of Russian Revolution & the part played in it by Volga Boatmen,Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the Cecil B. DeMille silent film starring William Boyd. with William Boyd starred as Feodor, the Boatman, with Elinor Fair as the Princess Vera.. First Thus. Hard Cover.

The Bibliophilist Society, . HB NODustJacket, 1931, 1st Edition thus, Black embossed black Cloth lettered on Spine, General VG+ Binding , Minor shelf, edge wear & lite soil pgs edge. No DJ , Interior Nice, tight Clean light wear FoX NF, 322 pages, spine Scuff. First Edition. Hard Cover.

First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Book 8. (railroads, pictorial works)