Recent Arrivals from Gary Menchen

Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables. Boston: Page [1921]. Hardcover with dustjacket. The 52nd impression from 1921. Jacket is generally clean, lacking top of spine and portion from the back, Back cover has listing for "The Five Avonlea Books" and three other Montgomery titles. Former owner's name of ffep; Slip inserted advertising a new Avonlea title, Further Chronicles of Avonlea.… Read more about this item

Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell. Molly Make-Believe. New York: Grosett & Dunlap. Last printing date shown November 1915. Very good copy with dust jacket; Dust jacket has minor wear, inclduing pull at tip of spine and a small pieve missing from back. Former owner's inscription on front free endpaper. Back of jacket has lengthy list of titles available from G&D. See photos.

Three Little Pigs. Forty illustrations by John Rea Neill.Hardover with dustjacket Philadephia: Henry Altemus Company, copyright 1904. 94p. Jacket has tears. Coloring on endpapers from jacket. Binding is clean and bright. Interior clean; very good. See photos.

Two volumes of Wellington's Dispatches, covering the period of the Battle of Waterloo. The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington. Volume 12. May 1814 to December 1815. iv, 716, 1p. Wrappers. A photographic reproduction of Gurwood's "New" edition of 1838. The Supplementary Despatches, Correspondence, and Memoranda of Field Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington, K.G. Volume 10. March to July… Read more about this item

De Morgan, Augustus. Writings for the Companion to the British Almanac 1831 - 1857. Waterville: pagesofpages.com, 2022. vi, 494p. Paperbound, 6 by 9 inches. Photographic reproductions of August De Morgan's 27 annual contributions to the companion to the almanac - topics include bibliography, history of science and mathematics, the Newton-Leibnitz controversy, astronomy, actuarial calculations, decimal coinage and so on. New.

Mundy, Talbot. All Four Winds. Being Four Long Novels of India. Containing King of the Khyber Rifles; Jimgrim; Black Light; Om. London: Hutchingson & Co. 1232p. no date, probably 1933 or after. Blue cloth; front hinge cracked but holding, edge wear to binding: see photos.

Mundy, Talbot. Tros of Samothrace. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1934. 949p. Yellow cloth binding with design on front cover. Faint pencilled sketch of ocean-liner on back free end-paper. Very good condition.

Fox, William F. Regimental Losses in the American Civil War. 2021. 595p. Wrappers, as new. A substantial book, 7 5/8 by 9 1/4 inches. A photographic reproduction of the fourth edition of 1898.

Williams, Dorothy Hunt. Historic Virginia Gardens. Preservations by the Garden Club of Virginia. Charlottesville: Published for the Garden Club of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia. xvi, 350p. Hardcover in protected dust jacket, both in very good condition. A handsome book

Cheng'En, Wu. Journey to the West. Beijing: Foreign Languages Publishing House. Three volumes, all stated first editions, 1982-1986, all in very good condition and with very good dust jackets. Translated by W. F. W. Jenner. Volume 1: 1982, isbn 0-8351-1003-6. 575p. Jacket in a glassine cover. Volume 2: 1984. isbn 0-8351-1193-8. 630p. Jacket in a glassine cover. Volume 3: 1986. isbn 0-8351-1364-7. 646p.

Egerton, Clement [translator]. The Golden Lotus. A Translation, from the Chinese Original, of Chin P'ing Mei. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1955. 4 volumes, in tattered, chipped and taped dust jackets. Each volume a reprint from 1955, and with a former owner's bookplate. The volumes themselves are in very good condition.

Various Authors. Six classic Maine Civil War Regimental Histories. All are photographic reproductions of the original editions, wrappers, 6 by 9 inches. Total weight will be 10 lbs., so not suitable for consolidated international shipping. Domestic shipping, by media mail, will be without charge. Volumes are: Tobie, Edward. History of the First Maine Cavalry 1861-1865. Originally published… Read more about this item

Wellesley, Arthur. The Dispatches of Field Marshal The Duke of Wellington. Gurwood's "New" editions of 1837. 3 volumes, coving Wellesley's period in India, 1799 through 1805. Edited by Lieut. Colonel Gurwood. Vol 1: xxxii, 639p. Vol. 2: 711p. Vol 3: 687p. Three volumes total, 2,307 pages plus various introductory materials. Weight 8 lbs. so not suitable for consolidated… Read more about this item

Small, Abner. The Sixteenth Maine Regiment in the War of the Rebellion 1861 - 1865. A reproduction of the edition originally published in Portland, ME by Thurston & Co. in 1886. iii, 323p. The reprint includes a list of other sources on the 16th Maine. The regiment lost heavily at Fredericksburg; at Gettysburg they were essentially sacrificed on the first day… Read more about this item

Houghton, Edwin. Campaigns of the Seventeenth Maine. Reprint 2021. [ii], 333p. Wrappers, new. A reproduction of the original edition published on 1866 in Portland byShort & Loring. It was a very early Civil War regimental history; The 17th was called up in 1863 and participated in many of the campaigns of the Army of the Potomac. At Gettysburg they… Read more about this item

Menchen, Gary. The Detective Book Club 1942 - 2000. A Checklist of 3-in-1 Mystery Omnibuses from Walter J. Black, Inc. pagesofpages.com, 2021. 156p. A chronological listing of their publications, though at least the year 2000, with full author and title indexes.

Petrov, Vladimir. My Life as a Slave Laborer in the Siberian Mines. New York: Farrar, Straus and Company [c.1949]. Hardcover, no dustjacket; top of spine badly pulled: see photo. An early account of the gulag.

Cherry-Gaspard, Apsley. The Worst Journey in the World. Two volumes. Penguins No. 99 and 100. Two volumes in vintage Penguin editions, Volume 1 is Hammondsworth, 4th impression, October 1938. Volume 2 is London, 2nd impression, August 1937.

Map of Canada. Route of the Imperial Press Conference Tour of Canada 1920. Cased map, linen backing, 27 sections ( 3 rows of 9). 36 inches by 22 inches, including margin. Very good condition. Various natural resources printed in red on map, for example timber, pulpwood, fish, minerals. This must be a fairly late example of a cased linen-backed… Read more about this item

Edith Pargeter's Second World War Trilogy following the experiences of Jin Benison: The Eighth Champion of Christendom; Reluctant Odyssey; Warfare Accomplished. Trade paperbacks, published by Headline in 1990. The first volume is a second printing. All are read condition: creases to spine, but tight enough. From the back of one: "Each title in this remarkable trilogy carries the distinction -… Read more about this item