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A Very Good copy of the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas written by Gertrude Stein
A Grey Arrow Book, 1960
Awesome collectible cover!
Soft Cover
Born in San Francisco Alice B. Toklas is an indelible figure in modern cultural history.

Made the " top ten books to have" list for 1940's decade . And the top 100 ever written! A must for any and all collections!
Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1945. First Thus . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 7 3/4" X 5 1/4. First American BCE. Waugh's seventh novel
1945 stated on full title page. Copyright dates: 1944, 1945, by Evelyn Waugh. Book printed and bound by Kingsport Press, Inc. Kingsport Tenn.

Pantheon, 1958 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. September 1958, stated third printing. Grey boards with red overlay at spine, VG condition. Usual shelf wear at edges and spine,one inch split at front bottom edge of spine. Dedication to PO owner "mom" and PO's name and address on inside cover. Pulitzer Prize Winner .

Milano: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, 1875 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. VG++/none Hardback, Marbled boards, gilt bands around spine with gilt titles. Clean, tight, unmarked. 756 pages minus glossary. Published in Italian in it's entirely. Illustrated..

Alfred A. Knopf, NY, 1949 "First and Second Printing before publication" SCARCE Edition. VG/none Orange boards bright, very good condition. Po's signature, no other marks. Slight bumping to corners, spine edges, light staining also along outside edges of page

Garden City, New York 1934VG/ noneThe collected short stories of W. Somerset Maugham30 Stories: Rain, Fall of Edward, Barnard, Mackintosh, Red Honolulu, Pool, Letter, Before The Party, Force of Circumstance, Outstation, Yellow Streak, P&O, June, Round Dozen, Creative Impulse, Miss King, Hairless Mexican, Gillian Lazari, Traitor, His Excellency, Mr Harrington's, Washington, Footprints in the Jungle,Human Element, Virtue, Alien Corn, Book Bag, Vessel of Wrath, Door of Opportunity, Back of Beyond, Neil MAC Adam

Hardcover. First Modern Library Edition. 16mo. 4.5 x 6.625 in. xii, 243 pp. ML Binding Style 1, dark peacock blue 'limp croft leather' (leatherette), with gothic Boni & Liveright device in gilt on upper cover, gilt title to spine; with blue marbleized endpapers and catalogue of 35 titles (C3) preceding frontispiece page. Translated by Constance Garnett, with an introduction by Thomas Seltzer, Russian translator and friend of D.H. Lawrence. Illustrated with black & white photographic frontispiece of Turgenev.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Same date to title and copyright pages. VG/none. Oatmeal colored/textured boards with imprint of Ernest Hemingway's signature on front cover. First flyleaf partially torn away. Clean, no marks, tight edition. Black title on spine is clear, red background a bit worn.
Considered Hemingway's most important work.

Very Good /noneFirst American Edition1915 Doubleday, New YorkCollection of military poems and short stories. Decorated with British Admiralty and French Flags.

First Edition, Macmillan, seventh printing.NF with NF Original DJIllustrated by Willy Pogany
RARE DJ!Pictoral map end pages depicting Greece and the surrounding nations of the Mediterranean Sea.Greek Mythology cycling around Jason and the Argonauts and the quest for the Golden Fleece. The Golden Fleece is the fleece of the golden haired winged ram procured in Colchins. Also included is tales of the creation of Heaven and Earth, the labors of Hercules, Thesus,the Minotaur and more rousing adventures!

A soft cover copy of The Good Earth in Very Good Condition.
Published by Cardinal.

1874 , Popular EditionConsidered one of the greatest historical works on the Spanish in America.Historical account of Peru in the late 1800'sBeautiful burgundy covers, all over arabesque designs blocked in blind and lettered and decorated in gilt long the spine. Clean and crisp internally. No dj as issuedVery Good/noneAfter favorable reception of his first books Prescott set out to write about the history of the Spanish conquest of the Incas of Peru. The Incas contact with the devastatingly powerful empire of Spain, one of the most epic confrontations in the annals of human history. Prescotts rendering of the story has always been considered one of the great historical works on the Spanish in America and one of the great works in American history.

Harper & Brothers, New York 1938. NF/VG RARE First editonPrice of $2.75 on dj. Blue boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Also a white etching of a horse and buggy on front board. Book is in NF condition, tight, no marks, no smells, no foxing. Original b & w photos throughout depicting a physician's life in over 100 years ago. Rare dust jacket. Water color illustration on front of by Salter showing a physician in a horse and buggy traveling down a country lane. Normal edge and spine wear for a book nearly 100 years old. One small tear in dj at bottom of spine.Here in a book of enchanting intimacy and homely humor is the story of an American country doctor- of countless country doctors all over America. A colorful figure in the medical word today, head of the Hertzler Clinic at Halstead, Kansas, "Pop" Hertzler began his career forty years ago under conditions of pioneer hardship - when it was a case of "root hog or die" for children and adults alike.

Harcourt & Brace 1943, First. VG/none. Rust orange boards with black titles to spine and illustration of young man on bike with dog chasing (delivering telegrams) . Also an illustration of a young boy on the spine. PO's signature on first fly leaf. Otherwise, a clean tight copy - no other marks. No DJ. The Human Comedya loving novel about a family during WWII. It was made into a movie starring Mickey Rooney , Fay Bainter and Frank Morgan. The book won a Pulitzer Prize, and the movie won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Rooney received an Oscar Nomination for Best Actor.

G.P. Putnam's Sons NY and London 1915. VG+/GOOD+ Purple hard boards, tight clean edition. Each interior page has flower and gilt border around text. DJ is in Good + condition. It has been taped at the top and bottom edges to the book. Has chipped and open tears along top and bottom edges.

VG/none
Dark red covers.

Cabell's most famous book. He is known as a prolific writer of fantasy novels.
"Jurgen is a pawnbroker caught between romantic and cynical world views: a would be poet. He wished to be rid of a nagging wife, he finds himself the poorer for it, and sets out to make good his loss. His quest ranges through various scenarios borrowed from history, myth and fiction involving many allegorical figures." BARRON 3-67

Little Brown and Company, 1901 Near Fine copy, no dj.. Bright Burgandy boards with gilt title cirlcled by gilt flowers. GORGEOUS copy. Gilt titles on spine with fancy LBC insigna.

Doubleday New York 1956, First NF/NF Map Endpapers. Dark green boards with gilt titles on front and spine. No marks, no names, no stickers. Tight and clean, like new. DJ has price of $6.95. Colorful, illustrated dj depicting mountains and an orange sky. The book is a colorful gallery of characters: heroes and rascals, adventurers and plodders, men who invaded and tamed or were tamed by t the geographers call the true Far West - California, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado. In the cast are Spaniards, Russians, Yankees, southerners; Sutter, whose dream of an idyllic retreat in the foothills of paradise was shattered by the Gold Rush; John C. Fremont, Mark Twain, Brigham Young, Ralston's Ring, and the Big Four; the Silver Kings, H.A. W. Tabor and Baby Doe, the Rose of Sharon and Eilley Orrum, and scores more.

Mr Woodchuck
Frank Baum, author of Wizard of Oz,wrote this book!
He used the pseudonym "Laura Bancroft"
A full set of all six books lists for $7500.00

In great condition! Light scruff around "Mr";on the cover . Otherwise pages are clear and bright. Some faded ink smudges on end papers. (Like pencil marks in the day!)

Roberts Brothers 1892 Good/none. Original dark blue cloth with red titles and illustrations on the front board and gold titles on the spine. Loose binding, a loose page, one 1/2 page torn out. A few pictures scribbled on. Many pages at back of book with list of "new publications".Contents: I. A Book of Nonsense II. Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets III. More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany Etc. IV. Laughable : A Fresh Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Etc. "With All The Original Illustrations"This was a well loved book - obviously read over and over again as family entertainment!