BOYS' AND GIRLS' BOOKSHELF by Charles Welsh, Rev. John Talbot Smith, Morgan Shepherd (John Martin), Rev. George E. Reed, Joseph H. Adams, Ralph Henry Barbour, L. Frank Baum, Katharine N. Birdsall, J.G. Brown, John Burroughs, Ellis Parker Butler and many many more!! - 1912: BOYS AND GIRLS

Reilly and Britton Co. CHICAGO, 1912. . Black & White Cover of Woman, Orissa Kane in Red Coat & Hat at Wheel Flying Old Biplane ( Airplane ) with friend Sybil holding Hankie , Flying Girl SERIES #2, An Uncommon Book, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, HINGES Little Weak slight Cracking Light FoX, Wear, O/W NICE, Blank Endpapers FoXed , HARDBACK NODUstJacKet, , 1912, 1st Edition, 1st Printing with White Title on Front Cover , VG-/VG- CONDITION, NOJACKET, SOLD AS-IS, (Schiller 1978 catalog reference used). Five pages of ads in the rear including one for the Aunt Jane's Nieces series Thru Vacation. , Embossed Illustrated Red , Black & White Clothbound Cover of Woman Flying Airplane with Female Friend, with INSET, Cover Lettered in Black for Author at Very Bottom, Mild Wear, Rub, Scuff, Spine Cvr Sunned, White lettering on Spine Slight FADE . Tiny Chips Wear Extremities, Interior TIGHT with Light Rub, FoXing STAINS, Wear, few pgs protrude outward, O/W NICE ! 313 PGS, 5 X 7 in., Small Light Stains… Read More

New York Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. HBDJ, POOR DJ wiTh LARGE Piece Missing Top Spine DJ & smaller piece Bottom & along edges , 1913, 1st Edition, Pretext Lists thru this Title & Tom Swift Thru Cannon, Front DJ 2 small Ink Names & Boys eye is outlined & small Corner Piece out & Bottom Edge DJ small pieces Missing Yet Title & Author & Picture Remain Intact, Back DJ Lists Tom Swift, Boys Columbia end Outdoor Chums WIth Fox, SMALL chIp & Tears, DJ Rub wEAR Scuff Tiny Chips Extremities, Bright Olive Green & Red, Black Illustrated Cloth cover duplicated DJ Illustration Nice Condition Light Wear, VG Condition Book, Interior Nice tight ,Light FOX, Mild Wear, 214 Pgs + ADS Ending with Outdoor Chums Big Game, small illus. of boy with camera on Cover spine, minimal wear Cloth Cover background are the most exciting of scenes; a rhinocerous attacking a tiger, a bear standing on its hind legs, a ship sinking and a building on fire being fought by the local fire brigade, 5"x7.5". There were 11 Volumes in… Read More

M. A. Donohue, Chicago, 1912. . Orange & White Fancy Printed Illustrated endpapers FOX of 3 Campers in Wilds with Flock Geese Flying Over by LAWRENCE, Front Inner Flap DJ Lists Harry Castlemon Series ends winged Arrows Medicine, HBDJ, 1912, 1st Edition, BOOK VG-, DUSTJACKET POOR Condition, AS-IS, Glazed DJ Small Pieces from Front Missing YET Title & Author INTACT & Illustration Mainly There, But Spine Ends DJ LARGE Chip Removing Title , Back DJ LARGE PIECE Out At TOP & Tears Chips Edges , Interior Nice tight Clean Light FOX, WEAR, Printed on high grade flexible Paper,Bound in Vellum cloth of Blue, blacke , Brown White, Stamped from Original Designs. TITLE page FOXed, 313 Pgs + ADS Modern Card Tricks, etc ends . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Poor.

Printed By A.L. Burt, 1925. HBDJ,1925, 1st edition, first printing with the jacket listing on the back only 5 Lakewood Boys titles thru this title, and 5 Ranger Boys titles. VG/GOOD, AS-IS, Dust jacket is Nearly intact with Nice Front DJ tiny edge chips & Spine DJ small piece out at Bottom of inch or so & tiny Chips Across top spine dj, and the binding and all pages are in great shape. Back DJ Edge chips Extremities, Color DJ light Rub, Wear Tiny Chips Tears Extremities, white Spine Ends DJ small Chips Fox, Back DJ light wear , small chips Not Affecting Titles end with Ranger boys & Their Reward, Beautiful Green Red,Black, Brown Cloth Cover Illustration of Man with gun shooting Cougar light Rub, Wear, 248 PGS + ADS IN Back End with Boy Allies with Marshall Foch, There is no Burt age code on the spine making this a pre-1927 text. This title was originally printed in 1925. The book is in it's original jacket with paper loss to top and bottom of spine . The book is clean with an… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1949 Pictorial boards, moderate shelf wear to bottom edge, else clean; matching dust jacket with a few spots of insect damage. Price intact ($1.50). Brown's poetic text focuses on how a child reckons with the world around him or her and finishes off with a reinforcement of individuatlity; "The important thing about you is that you are you." Weisgard's artwork is beautiful and complements the text. See Bader pg. 263. . First Edition. Very Good/Very Good -. 4to.

New York Grosset & Dunlap, 1913. Glossy B/W Frontispiece Blake & Others Filming Movie Scenes Outside at Chasm REGLUED Back into Book Slightly ASKEW Including 1st , twelve pages Also slight askew, Inner Hinges Starting Slightly Cracked, HBDJ, POOR DJ with Numerous Small Pieces Missing edges extremities DJ & Spine DJ has 1.5 In Piece out Bottom & Top Smaller Chip Missing affecting word Moving , 1913, Early Edition, DJ Lettered in Red on Front Outlined in Black, Pretext Lists thru Earthquake Land & Tom Swift Thru Cannon, Front DJ Small Mended Tears & small Corner Pieces out, Yet Title & Author & Picture Remain Intact, Back DJ Lists Tom Swift, Boys Columbia end Outdoor Chums Cabin Point with FOX & Chips along Top & bottom Edge, DJ Rub Wear Scuff Tiny chips Extremities, Bright Olive Green & Red, Black Illustrated Cloth cover Depicts Boy in Center with Camera & Surrounding Scenes Nice Condition Light Wear, GOOD+ Condition Book, Interior Nice tight ,Light FOX, Mild Wear, 214 Pgs + 6 pgs ADS… Read More

McLoughlin Bros. Inc., Springfield, 1927. HBDJ, 1927, GOOD+/VG-, AS-IS, Back DJ light soil Wear & tiny Chips Tears Extremities liSts thru Skpper of Cynthia, Dj light tiny ChipS Tears Extremites, 254 Pgs NO ADS in Back, Red Cloth with black lettering light Rub, Wear, Delightful Mystery as Ruddy meets Ethel Slade, who has Blind spells, Camping with Boys Scouts on Evergreen Lake & Mysterious Cave with Face of Fire. Tussle with Two Wildcats. Hard Cover. Good/Very Good.

Charles E. Graham & Co., New York, 1914. HBDJ, 1914. 1st Edition, Pretext Lists Thru This Title, Cloth. First Edition Lists to Self in Book. last title listed in book is this title.Dustjacket has some general soil and has some chipping at the extremes. but spine wear not bad, and wording anywhere on jacket is unaffected by chipping. Definitely a collector's copy, .Dj chipped, with small tears. Beautiful Yellow Tan Cloth HARDBACK with Replication of DJ Scene Boy Scout with Blue & Red & Lettered in Black & Red, 8vo, Page edges tanning, not at all brittle, Book VG- in FAIR+ DJ, AS-IS, . Slight Shelfwear, DJ Chipped, with small Tears EDGES Extremities., 126 pgs. +2 ADS end with Three Little Trippertrots on Their Travels , DJ Spine Ends Tiny Chips Fade, Back DJ light Soil, Stains, FoX lists Thru Three Little Trippertrots on Their Travels . First Edition. Hard Cover.

Printed By A.L. Burt, 1925. HBDJ,1925, 1st edition, first printing with the jacket listing on the back only 5 Lakewood Boys titles thru this title, and 5 Ranger Boys titles. VG/GOOD, AS-IS, Dust jacket is Nearly intact with Nice Front DJ tiny edge chips & Spine DJ small piece out at Bottom of inch or so & tiny Chips Across top spine dj, and the binding and all pages are in great shape. Back DJ Edge chips Extremities, Color DJ light Rub, Wear Tiny Chips Tears Extremities, white Spine Ends DJ small Chips Fox, Back DJ light wear , small chips Not Affecting Titles end with Ranger boys & Their Reward, Beautiful Green Red,Black, Brown Cloth Cover Illustration of Man with gun shooting Cougar light Rub, Wear, 248 PGS + ADS IN Back End with Boy Allies with Marshall Foch, There is no Burt age code on the spine making this a pre-1927 text. This title was originally printed in 1925. The book is in it's original jacket with paper loss to top and bottom of spine . The book is clean with an… Read More

Blackie and Son Ltd., London Printed in GB. HBDJ, NO DATE. c., 1920. Early Vintage, blue, green & Orange hardback original pictorial cloth near fine Cover light wear, in torn and soiled but complete DW with tiny chip Tears edge DJ, Back DJ light Soil, Fox, Wear,Dustjacket VG- Condition, AS-IS, 384 pgs + ADS In Back Thru Bob Wylie of Jordans, Interior nice tight Clean light FOX, Wear, .Victorian adventure story in the Jules Verne vein,Juvenile adventure novel involving a 600 foot long flying submarine which visits the north pole, a frozen Viking vessel, and Africa to find unicorns and King Solomon's Ophir [and hence of interest to lost race collectors], and Mount Everest!. Hard Cover.