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NY: Scribners. NEAR FINE book, no DJ. 1st ed. Green cloth.. 1910. 1st edition.. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book. 1st ed. PRISTINE from pastedown to pastedown & all three text block edges. Conkey seal on cp. 10"x6",583pp. . Bright boards & spine, no spine sunning. Photos and Goodwin drawings in black & white. IMMACULATE inside. ZERO aging, foxing, marginalia, or any other kind of stain. Both pastedowns and 1st & last eps likely as white as new. Nor is there any glue browning at pastedown gutters. All three text block edges just as bright. Cover gilt likely bright as new. Book's two types of flaws are minor and confined to the covers. (1) All extrems scuffed but not worn. Wear being when the cloth is worn through to the underlying cardboard. (2) Spine has a few bubbled spots, one being a third of the way from the top. A professional conservator could eliminate these cover flaws. LASTLY this book stays closed when stood on its spine. It's a pretty safe bet it has never been read. .

NY: Appleton Century Crofts. FINE book, VG+ DJ. Very clean DJ with $4 price. 8.5"x6", 240pp.. (1957). 1st ed. "1". Hardcover. FINE book, VG+ DJ(in Brodart). Book flawless & immaculate BUT: few tiny foxing spots on text block fore edge. "1" on last page. . DJ very nice but upper & lower edges with minor edgewear, chips & tears up to 1/4". Book seldom read, if at all. It stays closed when stood on its spine. .

NY: Appleton Century Crofts. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ. Clean DJ with $4 price. 8.5"x6", 240pp.. (1957). 1st ed. "1". Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Book flawless & immaculate BUT tiny foxing spots on text block fore edge. "1" on last page. . Bright & atractive DJ but top & bottom edges worn. Chips & closed tears up to 1/2". Few minor cover flaws. Spine sunned a bit, spine top with tiny closed tears. Bkplt. Pastedowns lightly glue browned. Very tight, seldom read, if at all. Book stays closed when stood on its spine. .

NY: Countryman Press, Barnes. VG+ book, no DJ. SIGNED & inscribed on fep. FINE inside.. (1946). 1st edition.. Hardcover. VG+ book. "To Robert S. Bickley with all good wishes Ray P. Holland". Spine lettering faded a bit. FINE inside. 7"x5",130pp. . Tight. Book tends to stay closed when stood on spine. .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. VG book, GOOD DJ. FAE. No tp date, BUT cp: "1st published 1933".. (1933). 1st American. Hardcover. VG book, GOOD DJ(in Brodart). FINE text & illustrations. Red cloth with red tinted top edge. Gilt lettered spine info. . FINE book BUT: extrems rubbed, very few foxed spots on text block fore edge, spine ends lightly sunned. PRISTINE inside, no pastedown glue browning, aging, foxing, marginalia, etc. DJ a very plain design. Both flaps and rear panel blank. Had been a price on upper flap, now clipped. Bright front panel design. Problems with DJ spine. Lower 3" chipped away. Sunned. DJ had split at spine. Now repaired inside with archival adhesive tissue. 5" closed tear upper front panel, similarly internally repaired. Still a nice DJ. .

Garden City, NY: Windward House. FINE book. 5 raised ribs. Six gilt edge ruled spine panels.. (1937). REPRINT. Hardcover. FINE book. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards. TEG. Binder signed @ very top of first blank's verso. 8vo, 229pp. . Originally published by Derrydale in 1932. Gilt lettered title & author on 2nd & 4th spine panels. Blind stamped horn on 2nd blank panel. Pristine text block. Very tight binding. Book tends to stay closed when stood on its spine. A few minute spots of rubbing on the raised ribs. Otherwise a flawless book, in & out. .

NY, London: Putnam's. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ. Bright DJ. Minor wear on top & bottom.. (1929), 1928cp. 7th impression. Hardcover. NEAR FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Book's front cover bottom edge lightly stained, same on back cover's bottom & fore edges. . Book's text block edges with tiny foxing spots. Book seller's ticket inside rear cover. Seldom read, if at all. Immaculate inside, including both pastedowns & all plates. Very tight, book stays closed when stood on its spine. DJ spine faintly sunned & both edges lightly edgeworn. .