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681PlathBellJar Plath,Sylvia.1971 First American Edition, Harper & Row. THE BELL JAR. BY POET SYLVIA PLATH. States impression 71 72 73 10 9 8 7 6 on page 296. 296 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 3/8. Purple Boards, mauve topstain, purple end-papers. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION. VERY GOOD ORIGINAL UNCLIPPED $6.95 BLACK DUST JACKET. States SBN 06-013356-2 on the back… Read more

144PilkeyBooger2vols Pilkey, Dav CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS AND THE BIG-BAD BATTLE OF THE BIONIC BOOGER BOY PARTS 1 AND 2. (Captain Underpants Epic Novel #6) Scholastic 2003. FEATURING FLIP-O-RAMA. Softcover. ISBN 9780439376105, ISBN 9780439376129. Publisher: Scholastic, Incorporated, 2003. Used. Part I: Captain Underpants and Big Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: George and Harold are in a sticky situation!… Read more

109KoeglerBallet. Koegler,Horst. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Ballet. Copyright 1977. Oxford University Press. Stated First Edition. EXLIB. VG/VG price-clipped DJ. 583 pages, indexed. A straight, clean copy. No exterior stamping appears. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Contains more than 5,000 entries covering every aspect of ballet during he past four centuries. HISTORY OF BALLET. PERFORMING ARTS, THEATRES, COMPOSERS. ISBN… Read more

138 BurgessWoman Burgess, Alan. The Small Woman (aka The Inn of the 6th Happiness) E.P. Dutton First Edition, 3rd printing thus 11/1957. Used. Good Condition/ Good condition original Dust jacket. 256 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ¼. BIOGRAPHY. HISTORY OF CHINA. RELIGION. Illustrated with historic photographs. Synopsis: "The beautiful and remarkable true story of Gladys Aylward, a parlourmaid, who longed to… Read more

101JamesSquare James, Henry, Jr. Washington Square Copyright 1922, Harper & Brothers reprint edition. (This story was also produced as a film called "the Heiress". Washington Square is a novel written in 1880 by Henry James about a father's attempts to thwart a romance between his naive daughter and the man he believes wishes to marry her for her… Read more

096HeinleinStar: Heinlein, Robert A. Double Star. Doubleday & Company, Inc. BCE. 1956, Doubleday Science Fiction. CLASSIC SCI-FI. Used. VG/Good-. Summary: Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, finds himself shanghaied on a spaceship bound for Mars and big trouble. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. Used. VG/Good- original dust jacket.

066PauliTruth Pauli, Hertha Her Name Was Sojourner Truth. 1962 Stated First Edition Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Used. HARD TO FIND. A Biography of Sojourner Truth. Civil War Era. About Ms. Truth: "Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After… Read more

0082DoyleLamp Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life. First American Edition. D. Appleton & Co. Copyright 1894.A collection of medical and detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective series. VG condition/ no DJ included if originally issued. A square, solid copy with bright… Read more

045AndersenGrimm. , Andersen, Hans Christian; Brothers GrimmAndersen's Fairy Tales / Grimms' Fairy Tales (Companion Library)Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1963. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Two titles in one book. No Dust Jacket. illustrated hardback 311pp and 247pp. Illustrations by Leonard R Vosburgh and Adele Werber. Penmark, The Brothers 044Grimm, History of Germany, German Folklore, Fantasy,… Read more

Cholmondeley, Mary.Red Pottage. Copyright 1899, Harper & Brothers First Edition. 375 pages plus adverts. Used. Good- condition/ No DJ included. Plot Summary: "Red Pottage follows a period in the lives of two friends, Rachel West and Hester Gresley. Rachel is a wealthy heiress who falls in love with the weak-willed Hugh Scarlett after he has broken off an affair with Lady… Read more

Burgess, Gellet. Goops and How to be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants. Copyright 1900, 1928. Published 1928 by J.B. Lippincott, 37th Impression Thus. Unpaginated. 90 Black and white illustrations by the author. Children's Book. EXLIB Good+ Condition/ No DJ included. Rare red and yellow pictorial boards are very nice. Has the letter "E" painted on… Read more

A. Conan Doyle. The Poison Belt. 1913 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Hodder & Stoughton/ George H. Doran. States Hodder & Stoughton on the spine. RARE. Illustrated. Red Boards with gilt titling. Gilting still bright. All 16 B&W plates, including frontis, present and affixed to binding. 2nd TITLE OF THE PROFESSOR CHALLENGER SERIES. "Being an account of Another Amazing… Read more

Mulford,Clarence Edward. Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting on… Read more

36Doyle, A. Conan Through the Magic Door (1907) is an essay about exploring books by Arthur Conan Doyle, Creator of The Sherlock Holmes Series. His subject is the charisma and charm of books. Creative visualization. Doyle invites readers to enjoy the greatest minds of all times through what they have left behind and argues that, when we read, the selfishness… Read more

Wharton, Edith. The Children. D. Appleton 1928 Stated First Printing, September, 1928. Black boards with Yellow titling and ornamentation. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 347 pages. New York & London. 5 5/8 X 7 7/8. Signed by former owner in pencil on front end paper. A square, solid copy. RARE. Plot Summary: "First published in… Read more

Krauss, Ruth. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers FIRST EDITION. States 1945 on the title page. Beige Boards. USED. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. 6 X 8 ¼. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy… Read more

001 Anderson, Maxwell Bad Seed, a play by Maxwell Anderson. Adapted from the original novel "The Bad Seed" by William March. 1955 Dodd, Mead Fireside Theatre Book Club Edition. Used. Green boards. 96 pages. Good/Acceptable Condition original Patty McCormack purple dust jacket. Original cast list and 2 production photos. Book has a loose gather. Jacket has old tape damage… Read more

By Peter Newell, author of "The Hole Book". The Rocket Book, Harper & Brothers Stated October, 1912 First Printing. USED. GOOD+ CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET INCLUDED. 7 1/8 X 8 7/8. Seller's Note: Sadly, (no one is sadder than me) the Front paper paste-down label has been removed from cover. Almost no glue remains on gray cloth front board.… Read more

Bemelmans, Ludwig. Madeline's Rescue. Viking Press, New York. Copyright 1951, 1953 by Ludwig Bemelmans. First Edition, Stated Eleventh Printing December, 1970. Awarded the Caldecott Medal in 1954. EXLIB Good/ No Dust Jacket Included. Library bound. Large Format. Size: 8 ¾ X 12. 56 pages. Yellow Boards. Painted front board is in nice shape. Pages are… Read more

Swinnerton, Frank. Nocturne. Copyright 1917 by George H. Doran Company. First Edition. Used. Good/NO DJ. Red boards with Gilt Celtic knot design on spine, gilting is still fairly bright. 250 pages. Bright pages. Plot summary: Summary: Jenny and Emmy are two sisters, who live with their 'Pa', now unable to work due to health problems. Jenny works in millinery,… Read more