When You were a Boy by Sabin, Edwin L

Baker & Taylor Co, 1905. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Frederic Dorr Steele. NOT an ex library book. Dark blue cloth covered book with decorated cover, print in gold. 302 clean interior pages.

Forgotten Books, 2019-01-03. Paperback. New. 1.6497 in x 22.8934 in x 15.1777 in.

NY: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Frederic Dorr Steele. Hardcover, green cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt. 302 pages, top edge gilt. Nostalgic picture of a boy's childhood in the 1900s. School, Goin' fishin," baseball and the circus are all part of this story with line drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Mild shelf wear, spine slightly cocked. Clean. Record # 381266

New York: Baker & Taylor, 1905 Green cloth pictorially stamped and titled in gilt, wear to corners and spine ends, rubbing at folds. Illustrated in b&w throughout.. First Edition. Very Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Frederic Dorr Steele. 8vo.

New York: Baker & Taylor Company, 1905. Octavo (20cm). Green cloth stamped in gilt, black, and grey, top edge gilt; 302,[2]pp; 2pp publisher's ads at rear; frontispiece and in-text illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Ownership inscription and rubber stamp of Robert E. L. Miller to front free endpaper. Rubbed, with some color on front flaking off, front joint cracked, internally clean: just Very Good. Sabin (1870-1952 was a popular author of Western fiction for boys. [62397].

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905. Hardcover. Illustrations by Frederic Dorr Steele. Small 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering and black, ivory and pale blue pictorial stamping. 302pp, (2pp ads). Tissue-guarded frontispiece, numerous small line drawings. Very good. Mild bit of binding edgewear, else internally tight and nice; charming nonauthorial 1905 gift inscription ("A reminder of / 'When you were a boy'....") on front flyleaf. Attractive first edition of this Huck Finn-ish boy's yarn, the third novel by this prolific boys' adventure story writer (1870-1954) -- with choice autograph addition: Tipped opposite half-title page is a Typed Letter Signed from Sabin, 1p, 7½" X 11", La Jolla, CA, 7 January 1940. Addressed to notable future Lincoln scholar Arnold F. Gates (1914-93). Near fine. On beige imprinted letterhead, Sabin writes graciously to an admirer: "Your birthday greetings and New Year good wishes to me (addressed to Hemet) are heartily appreciated. They came as it were out of the… Read More

New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905. Book. Very Good+. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). First Edition, First Printing.. New York: The Baker & Taylor Company, 1905. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good+/no dust jacket. First Edition decorated American trade binding (signed binding - R.W.C. - R. Weir Crouch). Book is SIGNED by the author. Clean green cloth boards; upper horizontal pictorial panel of village and river in black, white and pale blue within black thick rule border, gilt lettering; motif repeated on spine. Very clean and solid; very tiny tear to cloth at spine base corner. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with gilt top page edges. Inscribed and signed by author on front free endpaper: "Frederick Conklin - From one boy to another - by the author - Edwin L. Sabin. Feb. 25th, 1905." Illustrated by Frederic Dorr Steele, including frontis illustration with clean tissue guard. 302 pages + 2 pages of advertising by the publisher at… Read More