Young Adult from

Latest date in the book is 1917. A gift inscription on the front free endpaper is dated 10/1/31. On that same page is a bookplate sticker from a more recent owner. A third name is on the half-title page. The frontispiece is in color, the remaining illustrations are black and white. Splits in the endpapers show the binding fabric, both… Read more about this item

First edition, first printing. No dust jacket. Tan fabric covered boards with red print on front and spine. Wear at the corners and at the top and bottom of the spine. Four illustrations. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked. Owner's bookplate on the front free end paper. A rare book. … Read more about this item

No dust jacket. A former library book, where the spine was once repaired with librarian's tape, as can be seen in photo #2. The only date on the copyright page is of the original Scribner edition, as is common with Grosset & Dunlap books of that era. A pencil notation on the dedication page gives the date of 6/6/1924, which… Read more about this item

Book shows its age. The brown fabric covered boards with black print on the front and spine has board showing through at three corners and is quite worn at the top of the spine (see photo #2). Hinge splits have occurred at the front and rear endpapers, with the front free endpaper being lost (see photos #3 and 4). The… Read more about this item

First edition, first printing. A memoir written by two of the twelve children in the family. Illustrated. A story made famous by Hollywood with movies in 1950, starring Clifton Webb and Myrna Loy, 2003, with Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt, and 2022, with Gabrielle Union and Zach Braff (Disney+). A humorous telling of the 14-member household,… Read more about this item

A full set of the Lemony Snicket masterpiece. Perhaps not quite a masterpiece like the Mona Lisa, or the Roman aqueducts, or a really well-prepared filet mignon, but the best he's ever done (or so it's been said, perhaps even by Daniel Handler). Anyway, volumes six through thirteen are first editions with complete number lines. Some volumes… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Blue fabric covered boards little wear. Illustration glued onto the front cover, with gilt print and trim. The fabric over the spine is darkened, as is the gilt print thereon. Owners name on the half-title page. Seven color illustrations are included. Books of this era would have stitched pages, but the… Read more about this item

A small book with brief histories of ten areas and peoples, with illustrations. Intended as a text for students starting their study of countries of the world. The deep red fabric shows some wear at the corners and the extremes of the spine, plus a couple small spots of bleaching. The binding is tight and the pages are clean and… Read more about this item

Tan fabric covered boards show some wear along the edges and a bit of staining front and back, but generally not too bad for its age. Front and rear free endpapers have been removed. The frontispiece has been decorated with crayon (see photo #4), as has been one of the many illustrations within. Some stories have been graced with pencil… Read more about this item

Former library book. No dust jacket. Red fabric is worn through at the corners and places along the lower edge. Looks as if it was replaced over the spine with darker red librarian tape. Hinge splits in the endpapers front and rear. The pages are clean and tight; a few have been repaired with decades-old… Read more about this item

First edition. Date on the cover page and the letter A on the copyright page. No dust jacket. Tan fabric covered boards with green print and decoration on the front and spine. The fabric is darkened over the spine and shows very little edge wear. Binding is solid with no hinge splits. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, with… Read more about this item

Light blue fabric covered boards with an embossed image on the front and plack print on the spine, discolored along the top edge. Owner's name inside the front cover. The pages are clean, tight and unmarked, dusty along the top edges, with a few small spots of pink stain on the lateral page edges. About ten illustrations,… Read more about this item

No dust jacket. Nor any idea what the fabric color started out as, it's all just grimy and gritty now, like a fine grade of sandpaper. That said, the fabric doesn't show much wear and seems intact all around. The pages are clean and, for the most part, tight. There are two loose pages, one being an illustration that has… Read more about this item

Textured paper covered boards with brown print and decoration on the spine. The paper is worn through at the corners and at the head and tail of the spine. The pages, deckle-edged and dyed red on the top edge, are clean, tight and unmarked, with no hinge splits. The dust jacket has numerous spots of wear at… Read more about this item

Wear at all the corners. The rest looks fine. Pages are clean and tight, with age tanning. A collection of true stories of American spies, written for the middle grades reader. A rare book.

Red fabric covered boards with black and yellow decoration on the front and spine and gilt print on the spine. A small smudge of something on the front, possibly paint. Wear at the corners and head and tail of the spine, fairly mild for the book's age. Pages are clean and yellowed. Stitching is still solid, but a split is… Read more about this item

A fairly rare title from Gene Stratton-Porter. Dust jacket shows a fair amount of wear and a water stain on the rear. To prevent further damage, a previous owner encased it in a mylar bookcover. The book has light blue fabric covered boards, with darker blue print on the front and spine. There is some wear… Read more about this item

Red cloth covered boards with black print on cover and spine and two color stamped decoration on the cover. Fabric is darkened over the spine. Wear to the fabric is miimal. There is a spine split after the front endpaper (photo #6) and there is looseness in the stitching at a couple other locations (photo #7). No pages are coming… Read more about this item

Large trade paperback format. Very little wear. The first book in the In Stone Series. For readers in the middle grades and up. A rather rare book.

Second book in the In Stone Series. Shows very little wear. Large trade paperback format. For the other two books, see ST06635 and ST06633. For readers middle grades and up. A rare book.