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HBDJ ,1966 ON TITLE & COPYRIGHT PG, STATED 1ST EDITION , NF-/VG+ , LAST BLANK PAGE HAS BEEN TORN OUT, SLIGHT LEAN TO BOOK,Dust jacket has a bit of LITE edge wear, a couple of wee creases, bright clean, looks good in new plastic cover. No former owner's name. Text is unmarked, NFine- in Very Good+ Dust Jacket WITH TINY EXTREMITIES CHIPS WEAR TINY EDGE TEARS, 8vo. Black Cloth with Silver Gilt Titles on spine cvr, 181 PGS ,, Jeff Green, Manhattan document expert and sometimes sleuth, is approached by the attractive artist OF CHILDRENS BKS Leah, who is worried because her tenant, Jared Cowley, disappeared suddenly from his old farmhouse in Pennsylvania. He left a mysterious note hinting at unspecified dangers catching up with him, as well as 1000 $ to organize a crayfish dinner for the 6 members of his weekly poker club. Jeff drives out to Pennsylvania to see the farmhouse for himself and finds a dead body, a member of the poker club. He meets all the surviving members of the poker club : a lawyer with the outlook of an overgrow

HBDJ, 1961, 1st Edition THUS. EARLY ISSUE, Spine is cocked, bumping/chipping present. DJ has been price-clipped, price-sticker present on front-inside cover. Good condition. Light to moderate shelf wear, creasing on covers. Binding intact. Good condition Dust Jacket Included. DJ has light to moderate shelf wear, rubbing , At 1st in Holmes familiar Baker Street Lodgings, they might well be dismissed as Superstitions, but Later on the Desolate windswept Moors of Devonshire the curse suddenly assumed a sinister & dreadful Reality, story of Demon Hound whose unearthly cry Meant

Bobbs-Merrill,, 1940 , HBDJ, 1940, . First Edition. First 1st Printing. VG/GOOD, AS-IS, Very good book in GOOD+ dustjacket that has light wer , rub & scuff & Tiny chips Tears Extremities, THICK Grey Cloth cvr Titled in Blue, Interior nice tight clean light Fox, Wear , Blank pg opposite Half title has former Owner Name address,15 yr. old Lucy Lou went with Mama to Uncle Daniel’s Counting House. All the Aunts & Uncles were There. Uncle Daniel himself isn’t so Bad, but Aunt Alicia’s Mincing ways are tiresome. Lucy’s mother had had a fortune when she married but something had happened to it, Poor Papa had Died. Aunt Malvina who believed in womens rights & was a Spinster was only relative willing to take them in. She found out it was fun to travel with her Aunt Malvina & KListen to her Speeches. The story is not a mystery but it is rather an adventure set in the 1850s. The protagonist (Lucy Lou) is an early feminist.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.

HBDJ, 1950 on Title PG TWICE , 1ST EDITION, RATHER TIRED RATTYJACKET FAIR- TEARS WEAR, CORNER & DJ Spine CHIPS, SCUFFED EDGES, ETC. SLIGHTLY LARGER in Series ,SMALL , 8 1/4"x6-3/4" RED OBLONG Illustrated Hardback Cvr WITH FABULOUS SCENE FROM A BOAT COUPLE LOOKING AT MANHATTAN, NOT EX-LIBRARY, VG Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Kurt Wiese (illustrator). 1st Edition. 28 pp., Color Illus, Color illus e.p., RED Hardback with Color ILLUSTRATED LABEL Cover, Oblong 8vo, VG, Assumed 1st ed. Light shelfwear, light tone, May 1950 gift inscription, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket edgeworn, Taped on reverse, chips and tears, rub, name stamp on rear flap, wear. Solid oblong hardcover. ; "The author's narrative has a splendid informational background. Yet it gives a vivid, delightful picture of New York's vast resources in industry, in commerce and business, and in the accomplishments of its inhabitants. Picture Book Of New York is enriched by Kurt Wiese's many pictures in color which catch the drama of life in this beautiful state." Uncommon in dust jacket. ; 30 pages. Her Population is Greatest of all 48 States. Climate is Varied. Her Scenery Among the Best in Continent of North America. & NEW YORK CITY IS 2ND LARGEST IN THE WORLD. , Author's narrative has a splendid informational background. Yet it gives a vivid, delightful picture of New York's vast resources in industry, in commerce and business, and in the accomplishments of its i

HBDJ, STATED 1ST Modern Library, 1961,NF/VG-, SMALL CHIP Front DJ , TINY CHIPS DJ SPINE Ends, THICK BLACK Cloth with Silver Gilt Titles to SPINE, 499 PGS + List of Titles, Back of DJ Lists titles Basic writings Freud Thru Theory Leisure Class ,Deep & Intimate Account of Actual Family from Slums Mexico City.Manuel & Roberto, the Brothers,TEIR SISTERSX CONSUELO & MARTA & JESUS THE FATHER. World of Violence & Death. Capacity for Gaiety. Hope for Better Life.

MODERN LIBRARY NY, 1946 HBDJ, Stated First Modern Library Edition on Copyright pg, 1946. VG/VG, AS-IS, no bad wear but there's THIN EDGE masking tape applied neatly to the bottom and top edges DJ from reinforcement to edge on Verso of DJ. The 316 ML titles listed inside the DJ are correct for the first edition. Book is in VG condition; tight Green Cloth binding with Title in Gilt inside Black Box, clean boards with minimal wear, bump at upper-right corner, no writing or marks on the interior pages. The dust jacket is in VERYGood condition; front panel with VERY small light stain and DJ spine with modest soiling , some scuffing on the folds, 5 X 7 1/4 IN. , Blue Topstain outerTop pgs edge, 400 pgs, NO ADS IN BACK, OVER 300 GREAT Titles mentioned on back of DJ. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y., 1972 HBDJ, 1972. Stated 1ST EDITION , 1st PRINTING .SIGNED BY AUTHOR, NF+/VG-, AS-IS, .Yellow COLOR ILLUSTRATED Boards surrounding Color Illustration of Cable Car with 2 B/W Eyes in Front Chugging Uphill in Front of Houses Hardcover. TITLED IN BLACK ON FRONT CVR, Book Condition: A very NEAR Fine+ copy . DJ LIGHT RUB, WEAR SMALL EDGECREASEs & tiny Tears DJ & few Scuff Marks is VG- CONDITION Oblong large octavo in color illus yellow boards; [32] pgs. col. illus. 20 x 24 cm. In a super-sturdy sewn library binding. Signed by Caen on HALF title page which also HAS FORMER OWNER INSCRIPTION. , DJ protected Clear Mylar, Unpaginated, DJ Spine Tiny Chips, This is the only children's book ever done by Mr. Caen. Light Soil Back DJ ,Ages 4-8, rollicking tale of the adventures of Charlie, the youngest cable car. Only sixty years old, he is tired of the same old rut. story of an unusual friendship between a cable car and a chance encounter with a dragon during Chinese New Year. dragon and old San Francisco, wonderful adventures by one of San Francisco's favorite natives, takes you on wonderful adventures in the City by the Bay, Nob Hill, China Town, Russian Hill, and the possibility of a disasterous plunge in the San Francisco Bay unless a miracle occurs, A zany tale set in San Francisco during the Chinese New Year's celebration about a young cable car that is tired of his job so he turns left instead of right on Jackson St, ending up in the middle of a parade where he meets a Chinese dragon who is also bored with his work. The famous columnist's foray into juvenile fiction, set of course, in San Francisco. The late Herb Caen was a humorous and active voice for the city by the bay. This charming children's book was written for his son Christopher. , Numerous full color illustrations from water color.. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

HBDJ, 1942 on title Page TWICE, 1st Edition, hardcover in FAIR only Dust jacket. SOLD AS-IS, VG- Book has light shelf edge wear, else, clean, tight and unmarked. Dust jacket has chipping and several closed tears. Archival tape used only to stop further tearing. Also, previous owner affixed a thin piece of masking tape to back dj cover: measures about 1 1/2". Actually looks better than sounds. p49 , SECOND SERIES, DIRECTLY South of New York City Lies this LONG NARROW Country with aLong Coastline on Pacific Ocean. a 15th-century Inca citadel, located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru, on a (7,970 ft) ANDES Mountain Ridge , Spanish Influence is still Visible in the Lovely Old City Houses WITH THEIR CENTRAL PATIOS. .has Heat of Lowlands AS WELL AS COOLNESS OF VERY HIGH ALTITUDES. Country has been lived in For Centuries ,Early Inhabitants were Inca Indians who created Entirely by Hand Beautiful Palaces & Temples of fitted Stone. U.S. Imports from Peru Copper & Tungsten.

HBDJ, 1st US Edition, 1967. DARK Green cloth Hardcover with 2 Crows at TOP with egg lying on ground. VG+/VG. This 1STedition is covered in green cloth with two crows on the front cover in black with the spine CVR lettered in WHITE. The book is clean and tight. NOT THE WEEKLY Reader Children's Book Club Edition, TINY CHIPS WEAR AT FOLD CREASE of DJ & tiny chips & Small tear edges of YellowGreen DJ, FADE SUN Back DJ which has small edge stain top edge DJ back , Small Chip Top SPINE DJ but Titles Intact, BACK INNER Flap DJ shows B/W Photo by Rosenys of Mr. & Mrs. Yorgo Cassapidis & Aldous Huxley at Opening of Mr. Cassapidis art Exhibit in Antelope Valley, Calif, 1961, 6.75" x 8.5" ,Dust jacket has some soft water stains in the inner panels and a faded small red mark in the back

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