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New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, (c 1947.). Hardcover -. Fair condition overall (some wear to covers, especially the corners, prev owner's name).. Later printing. Map frontispiece. Bound in illustrated boards, map of Spindrift island on endpapers. Lists to #17 at front of book. 209 pp.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, (c 1947.). Hardcover -. Good overall (bookplate, peeled spot on front cover), no dust jacket.. Later printing. Map frontispiece. Bound in rust tweed cloth boards, map of Spindrift island on endpapers. Lists to #10 at front of book. 209 pp.

Boston:: Lothrup, Lee & Shepherd,, (c 1919). Hardcover -. Very good in green boards with black lettering, small illustration on spine. . Early printing. First book in this series about the girls of the Sunnyside Club, set in upstate New York (where the author was born.) Illustrated by Florence Liley Young with a color frontispiece and three color internals. 374 pp. Plain endpapers.

New York:: A. L. Burt,, (1936). Hardcover -. Good in light green cloth with black lettering (some sunning to the spine, corners a bit bumped, but a tight and sturdy copy ). Early printing. The second book in this series of only 3 books by the author best known for the Beverly Gray series. In this book, Gale Howard and the orher Adventure Girls, members of the senior class of Marchton High, see an airplane crash and go to the pilot's assistance. Several weeks later, Gale rides with the young pilot Brent when he flies her father to Canada on business. On the return trip, Brent's plane crashes. While Brent goes for help, Gale disappears, a victim of amnesia. Glossy frontispiece. 255 pp. Green and white illustrated endpapers.

New York:: Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1925 (c 1899). Hardcover -. Very good in red cloth with blacklettering (missing front endpaper, prev owner's name, but overall sturdy and tight), no dust jacket.. Later printing. The story of a young man, from a small town in Illinois, who is determined to get a college education, and of his successes and failures during his first year at Princeton University - the college which Williams himself attended. Williams is primarily known as the winner of the first Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his 1917 play "Why Marry?" Illustrated with a color frontispiece and three internal glossy plates. A title in the Scribner Series for Young People. 201 pp.

Akron, Ohio:: Saalfield Publishing Co.,, (1936). Hardcover -. Good in orange cloth with black lettering (rather severe toning to the pages, front hinge starting, gift inscription dated Christmas 1940) . Reprint. The second book in this series of only 3 books by the author best known for the Beverly Gray series. In this book, Gale Howard and the orher Adventure Girls, members of the senior class of Marchton High, see an airplane crash and go to the pilot's assistance. Several weeks later, Gale rides with the young pilot Brent when he flies her father to Canada on business. On the return trip, Brent's plane crashes. While Brent goes for help, Gale disappears, a victim of amnesia. Frontispiece. 255 pp.

Akron, Ohio:: Saalfield Publishing Co.,, (c1936). Hardcover -. Good in dark blue cloth with black lettering (rather severe toning to the pages, gift inscription) . Reprint. The second book in this series of only 3 books by the author best known for the Beverly Gray series. In this book, Gale Howard and the orher Adventure Girls, members of the senior class of Marchton High, see an airplane crash and go to the pilot's assistance. Several weeks later, Gale rides with the young pilot Brent when he flies her father to Canada on business. On the return trip, Brent's plane crashes. While Brent goes for help, Gale disappears, a victim of amnesia. Frontispiece. 255 pp.

New York:: A. L. Burt,, (1930). Hardcover -. Very good in tan boards with dark brown lettering, no dust jacket. Rather uncommon in the original A. L. Burt edition. . Early printing. As Stephen Hart is about to graduate from a military school, he and his younger sister are called home by a telegram from their uncle's housekeeper. Glossy frontispiece. The books in this series are each standalone titles, by several different authors. 256 pp.

New York:: Cupples & Leon Company,, (1927). Hardcover first edition -. Good only in beige cloth with navy lettering and illustration on front cover - pencilled gift inscription dated Christmas 1927, some soiling to the covers, front hinge cracking, foxing in the margins of some pages and other wear. First edition. The first book in this boys adventure series, also known as The Jewel Series, since each adventure has the boys involved in finding different gemstones. "Malcolm Edwards and his son Ralph are adventurers with ample means for following up their interest in jewel clues. In this book they form a party of five, including Jimmy Stone and Bret Hartson, boys of Ralph's age, and a shrewd level-headed sailor named Stanley Greene, They find a valley of diamonds in the heart of Africa." Probably a first edition - lists only the first 3 titles in the beginning of the book all issued in1927 as a "starter set" as was common with juvenile series at the time. Glossy… Read More

Akron, Ohio:: Saalfield Publishing Co.,, (c1936). Hardcover -. Good in dark green cloth with black lettering (rather severe toning to the pages, prev owner's name) . Reprint. The second book in this series of only 3 books by the author best known for the Beverly Gray series. In this book, Gale Howard and the orher Adventure Girls, members of the senior class of Marchton High, see an airplane crash and go to the pilot's assistance. Several weeks later, Gale rides with the young pilot Brent when he flies her father to Canada on business. On the return trip, Brent's plane crashes. While Brent goes for help, Gale disappears, a victim of amnesia. Frontispiece. 255 pp.

Chicago:: M.A. Donohue & Company,, (1914). Hardcover -. Good condition overall in illustrated brown cloth (gift inscription, soiling to edges of textblock), no dust jacket. . Early printing. The fourth book in this early aviation series of 5 titles . Glossy frontispiece. The header on the pages still uses the original title "The Bird Boys Flight." 250 pp plus 8 pp publisher's ads.

Chicago:: M.A. Donohue & Company,, (1912). Hardcover first edition -. Good+ condition overall in illustrated brown cloth (gift inscription, corners slightly bumped), no dust jacket. . Early printing. The third book in this early aviation series of 5 titles . Glossy frontispiece. 239 pp plus a chapter of 'Frontier Sketches' (p 80-96) and 4 pp publisher's ads.

New York:: M.A. Donohue & Company,, (c 1915). Hardcover -. Good condition in teal boards in a fair dust jacket (usual toning to the pages, gift inscription dated Christmas 1927, dust jacket with some overall edgewear and a few small chips.) . Reprint. Plain frontispiece. 186 pp plus 6 pp ads. Dust jacket depicts a group of Boy Scouts on a camping trip with their leader and a Native American guide.

New York:: George Sully and Company, , (1920). Hardcover first edition -. Fair condition only in illustrated beige cloth (damage to spine covering near the top, hinge cracked before title page) .. First edition. Sixth book in this World War I adventure series. Copies by the original publisher are rather hard to find. Last title in list at front. Frontispiece. 218 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

Cleveland, OH:: The Goldsmith Publishing Co.,, (ca 1930, c 1919). Hardcover -. Good overall in olive green cloth with black lettering - rather severe age-tanning to the pages. . Reprint. Second book in this World War I adventure series. A "tale of army aviation. Entrusted with a special mission, the young airmen go over the German lines and learn important secrets. They had previously aided an American girl who had a German guardian, and they fall in with this rascal, who tries to make trouble for them. They are captured and sentenced to be shot. How they manage to escape makes reading no boy will want to miss." Illustrated by Robert Gaston Herbert. 216 pp plus 2 pp publisher's ads.

New York:: World Syndicate Publishing Co., (1931.). Hardcover -. Good only condition in blue cloth (corners bumped, rather severe toning to the pages, slight spine slant and some wear to the covers). Early printing. The third book in the Airplane Girl series (originally published as the Girl Sky Pilot series) . As Brodogan comments in her monograph on "Flying Girls, Super Sleuths." . "In the moment before aviation was commercialized, and social limits were officially imposed, a number of significant girlsÕ aviation series books slipped past cultural gatekeepers and emerged onto the reading scene." This series was one of several in the early 1930s, most quite uncommon now. It is a mix of realism and the improbable - Roberta Langwell finds herself kidnapped and her plane taken over by seal poachers who are operating from an island in the Bering Sea. Unlike most juvenile series, this ends abruptly with Roberta still imprisoned on the island, although her means of escaping… Read More

Boston & New York: : Lee and Shepard Publishers,, 1898 (c 1886). Hardcover -. Very good in tan cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, black, gilt and cream illustrations. Missing the front endpaper, but otherwise a tight and straight copy, bright and attractive covers. . Early printing. The fifth book in this series which focuses on the reformatory effects of getting boys at Beech Hill Industrial School involved in a boat building project. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and 2 glossy internal plates. 339 pp plus 10 pp of publisher's ads.

New York:: Grosset & Dunlap,, (1934). Hardcover first edition -. Good overall in red cloth with black lettering (some wear to covers) . First edition. The first of three titles in this series, all issued in 1934. The second mystery series written under this pseudonym by an author best known for his Boy Scout series. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece and 3 internal glossy plates by Seymour Fogel. 197 pp plus 10 pp publisher's ads. Green and white illustrated endpapers.

New York:: A. L. Burt,, (c. 1926.). Hardcover -. Very good in illustrated tan boards, gilt lettering (lettering rubbed on spine, gift inscription dated Christmas 1927.). Early printing. The first in a series of books for 'girls 12 to 18 years of age' set in the ranchlands and wilds of Montana. Frontispiece with the illustration repeated on the front cover. 223 pp.

Cleveland, Ohio:: World Syndicate Publishing Co.,, (ca 1935, c 1919.). Hardcover -. Good in pale gold cloth in a poor dust jacket with a wraparound illustration ( usual toning to pages,some shelfwear - dust jacket has overall edgewear, tape repairs to interior and to back cover). Reprint. A between the wars issue of this boy's "adventure" story set in the Great War, World War I. 214 pp.