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NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1916 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. A WONDERFUL ACTION ADVENTURE WRITER. AN ENTERTAINING, INTERESTING STORY. James Oliver Curwood (June 12, 1878 – August 13, 1927) was an American action-adventure writer and conservationist. His books were often based on adventures set in the Hudson… Read more about this item

CHICAGO: STANTON AND VANVILET CO., 1905 NICE LOOKING LIGHT BROWN COVER, BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. FOR THE LOVER OF COMEDY AND HISTORY. STEWART WAS A FAMOUS COMEDIAN OF HIS TIME. Cal Stewart (b. 1856 Charlotte County, Virginia, d. December 7, 1919) was an American comedian and humorist who pioneered in vaudeville and early… Read more about this item

CHINA: HARPER COLLINS, 2007 BEAUTIFUL BOOK WITH TERRIFIC DETAIL, PICTURES AND DISPLAYS TO INTERACT WITH. MAPS, WOLF HAIR, SECTIONS THAT OPEN UP, SLIDE CHANGE TO WEREWOLF, PHOTOS THAT CHANGE PICTURE. LOOKS AS NEW. FOR THE LOVER OF VAMPIRES AND THE DARK WORLD SURROUNDING. A MUST HAVE FOR THOSE WHO LOVE VAMPIRES AND THE WORLD THAT SURROUNDS THEM. Vampyre: The Terrifying Lost… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 1897 BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN BOOK, NICE RAISED DESIGN ON COVER AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, UPPER EDGE OF PAGES HAVE GOLD COATING. CLEAN AND TIGHT, VERY GOOD SHAPE. INSCRIPTION IN FRONT WHERE GIVEN AS CHRISTMAS GIFT. WONDERFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT BY GARRETT. Kingsley, Charles, 1819-75, English author and clergyman. Ordained… Read more about this item

MURFREESBORO, TN: GINGERSNAPBOOKS, 2007 A BOOK OF POETRY FROM DANIEL CRAIG TONEY WHO WAS A SOUL THAT HAD A WAY WITH WORDS AND LIFE. HE LIVED LIFE TO THE FULLEST. SOFT COVER WITH BLACK WHITE DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. PUBLISHED BY HIS DAUGHTER DISPLAYING DANIEL'S POETRY. A WONDERFUL GIFT. 77 POEMS ABOUT LIFE'S STRUGGLES AND WONDERFUL TIMES. A BOOK THAT… Read more about this item

UNITED STATES: BELFORD, CLARKE & CO., 1887 NICE LOOKING RARE BOOK, BLACK TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, TITLE PAGE LOOSE BUT GOOD SHAPE, NEW EDITION COMPLETE ONE VOLUME. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF GREAT WRITING IN FICTION AND POETRY. Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot (Marian Evans),… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1940 COLLORFUL COVER, SHOWS SOME WEAR ON THE OUTSIDE, TAPE ALONG SPINE AND RED MARKER ARTFULLY FILLS IN TITLE ON FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. FIRST AND LAST BLANK PAGES MISSING. FIELD WAS KNOWN AS THE CHILDRENS POET. LITTLE BOY BLUE AND WYNKEN BLYNKEN AND NOD ARE 2 OF HIS… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: MITCHELL KENNERLEY, 1918 RED COVER WITH GOLD PRINT FRONT. LIGHT FADING FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. INTERESTING POEM ON LOVE, LIFE, SOCIETY AND RELIGION. THE POEM WAS DELIVERED AT HARVARD. PASSAGES APPEARED IN THE BELLMAN, BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT AND AMERICAN MAGAZINE. Harold Witter Bynner (August 10, 1881 – June 1, 1968), also known by the pen name Emanuel… Read more about this item

INDIANAPOLIS: THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, 1905 NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. LIGHT WEAR EDGES. FORMER ORNERS NAME AND INSCRIPTION INSIDE FRONT. RILEY'S WORKS ARE ALWAYS COMPRISED OF GREAT POETRY AND BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK. VAWTER HAS CONTRIBUTED WONDERFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. A VERY UPLIFTING AND ENTERTAINING BOOK. James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American… Read more about this item

CHICAGO: A.C. MCCLURG & COMPANY, 1912 LIGHT GREEN COVER, ART PICTURE OF GLORIA KERR FRONT, BLACK PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, SOME WEAR AND FADING COVER, FORMER OWNERS NAME AND ADDRESS INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. COPYRIGHTED IN GREAT BRITAIN. 19 CHAPTERS, VERY NICE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. VETY NICE BOOK, ROMANTIC STORY THAT IS VERY TOUCHING. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE… Read more about this item

BOSTON: PERRY MASON & CO., 1884 BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT, GOLD ON SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT 1885, ARTWORK VERY NICE. Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison… Read more about this item

BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, 1878 BEAUTIFUL GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN, GOLD ON SPINE. FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT 1879, NICE ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1871 NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT. GOLD PRINT SPINE. SMALL BOOKSTORE LABEL IN FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. NICE LOOKING ARTWORK. FOR THE LOVER OF DICKENS. Dombey and Son is a novel by English author Charles Dickens. It follows the fortunes of a shipping firm owner, who is frustrated at the… Read more about this item

USA: RAND, MCNALLY & COMPANY, 1893 NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, VERY LIGHT FOXING IN VERY FRONT AND BACK. 15 CHAPTERS. INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING BOOK. Michael Trevennack is an elderly English civil servant who spends his holidays on the Cornish coast staring out at a rock formation known as St. Michael's… Read more about this item

BOSTON, CAMBRIDGE: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY, 1916 LIGHT TAN COVER, WHITE PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. ARTWORK TISH FRONT. NINE ILLUSTRATIONS THROUGHOUT. FIVE SECTIONS/ STORIES. ACTION PACKED AND INTERESTING MYTERIES. RINEHART COMPARED TO AGATHA CHRISTIE. Mary Roberts Rinehart (August 12, 1876 – September 22, 1958) was an American writer, often called the American Agatha Christie. Rinehart published her first mystery novel… Read more about this item

HARTFORD, CONN.: SILAS ANDRUS & SON, 1854 RARE BOOK. DARK BROWN COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT SPINE. LIGHT WEAR COVER, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, LIGHT WEAR INSIDE. FRONTISPIECE A PICTURE JOHN BUNYAN, ART WORK THROUGHOUT. ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WORKS OF THEOLOGICAL FICTION. FOR THE LOVER OF RELIGION AND CHRISTIAN HISTORY. The Pilgrim's Progress from… Read more about this item

BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, 1876 WONDERFUL BOOK BY A TREMENDOUS POET. DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE, LIGHT WEAR EADGES. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT DATED 1877. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. POPEMS LISTED UNDER CONTENTS WITH NOTES AND INDEX IN THE BACK. VERY NICE COLLECTION. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was… Read more about this item

UNITED STATES: JOHN MURPHY COMPANY, 1887 RARE BOOK, BLACK COVER WITH FADED PRINT SPINE. INSCRIPTION PREVIOUS OWNER FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ENTERTAINING AND INTERESTING STORY. Anna Hanson Dorsey (1815 – 26 December 1896) was an American author of novels and short stories. A convert to Catholicism, she was a pioneer of Catholic literature in the United States. ANTIQUE BOOKS… Read more about this item

LEWSISBURG, PA: J. R. CORNELIUS PRINTER, 1878 VERY NICE DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT SPINE. FORMER OWNER LABEL IN FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ARTWORK PICTURE JAMES AIKEN AS FRONTISPIECE. A LARGE NUMBER OF INTERESTING POEMS BY AIKEN WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF A COMMON MAN. INTRODUCTION WRITTEN BY AIKEN IN 1878. A VERY INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING COLLECTION FROM A… Read more about this item

NEW YORK: A. L. BURT COMPANY, 1890 NICE LOOKING BOOK, LIGHT TAN COVER, BLACK DESIGN, GOLD ON SPINE. FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. ILLUSTRATED THROUGHOUT. ALGER WAS WELL KNOWN FOR ENTERTAINING BOOKS FOR OLDER BOYS AND ADULTS. A POPULAR AMERICAN WRITER OF HIS TIME. Horatio Alger Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) was an… Read more about this item