A New York Detective

The Haunted Churchyard or Old King Brady, the Detective, and the Mystery of the Iron Vault

New York, Frank Tousey, 1945. Charles Bragin's Dime Novel Club Facsimile Reprint of this 1890 issue. Wraps. Quarto; pp; 32; Cover illustration; original printed pictorial self wrappers. Facsimile Reprint. Charles Bragin, an avid collector of dime novels, used his vast personal collection to issue a series of reprints in the late 1940s. This enterprise became known as the Dime Novel Club and was based in Brooklyn, New York. For a small fee, collectors around the country would receive the reprints through the mail. The dime novels featured heroes such as Buffalo Bill, Frank Merriwell, Nick Carter, and Deadwood Dick. Edge wear, some light toning .

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Book number: 17000

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Ephemera

Banks, Russell

The Darling

New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (2), 3-392; gray cloth and cream boards in a dust jacket. Set in Liberia, a political thriller. A very nice copy. Very Good/very good.

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Book number: 13583

Catalogue: Fiction

Bingham, Edfrid A.

The Heart of Thunder Mountain

New York, A. L. Burt Company, 1917. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; 358, (ii), ads; color frontispiece; green cloth, stamped in blind, lettered in white in a pictorial wrap around dust jacket; Jacket spine ends lightly worn, a nice tight copy. Bingham was a prolific screenwriter in the final ten years of the silent era, best known for his adaptations of the Zane Grey novels, "Riders of the Purple Sage," and "The Call of the Canyon." Naturally a Western. Storyline; young lady living in the old west, riding, fighting, learning to be an adult and learning to love. At time of cataloguing 5/14/15, the only copy available in jacket. Very Good/very good.

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Book number: 15307

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Western Fiction;

Bohjalian, Chris

Skeletons at the Feast

New York, Shaye Areheart Books, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 372, with "Reading Group Guide"; green cloth and red paper covered boards lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket, map endpapers. This copy signed by the author on the title page. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 17463

Catalogue: Fiction

Bok, Curtis

Maria: A Tale of the Norhtheast Coast and of the North Atlantic

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (iv), 246, (ii), notes; burgundy cloth lettered in gilt in an unclipped dust jacket. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 15810

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Sailing; Sea;

Brady, Cyrus Townsend

The Man Who Won

London, Jarrold's, 1924. First British Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp. (vi), 282 plus 4pp. ads; green cloth lettered in black; Previous owner's name on front free fly. One of his more scarce books. Very good .

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Book number: 13429

Catalogue: Fiction

Callaghan, Morley

It's Never over

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (x), 225; black cloth lettered in red. Callaghan attained some fame working in Paris in the 1920's and hanging with Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. A very talented Canadian writer. Minor edge wear else a solid very good copy .

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Book number: 17942

Catalogue: Fiction

Clippinger, Frances

The Satellite

New York, Random House, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (vi), 240; gray cloth lettered in black in an unclipped dust jacket. "Novel in which Hollywood success threatens a romance. One of only a handful of fictional books to use the word satellite in its title up to that time (well before the 1957 launch of Sputnik)" Tom Congalton. Very good/jacket that has edge wear but overall a very good.

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Book number: 15821

Catalogue: Fiction

Dos Passos, John

The Grand Design

Boston, Houghton, Mifflin Company, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 440; cream and red cloth lettered in black. The print run of this Depression Era / New Deal novel was 15000. lightly soiled, a good or better copy, solid and complete, rear panel of jacket affixed to the rear paste-down .

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Book number: 18775

Catalogue: Fiction

Duranty, Walter

Babies without Tails

New York, Modern Age Books, 1937. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (x), 168, (ii), ads; original pictorial paper wrappers by John Groth. The author had spent 17 years as the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times. His time in the Soviet Union inspired the 15 short stories published here. Previous owner's name and the date 1938 on a preliminary else, very good .

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Book number: 18802

Catalogue: Fiction

(Elliot, Maud Howe)

A Newport Aquarelle

Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1883. First Edition. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; (5), 6-250, (vi), ads; illustrated title page vignette; pictorial robin's egg blue cloth, patterned endpapers; Very good, cloth lightly faded, edge wear. Elliot was the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, the abolitionist and author of of the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Roberts Brothers was a great publishing house and their imprints are collected. Very good .

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Book number: 14001

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Newport Rhode Island; Newport Ri; Rhode Island; Roberts Brothers;

Feikema, Feike (Frederick Manfred)

Boy Almighty

Saint Paul, The Itasca Press, a Division of the Webb Publishing Company, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; xii, 338; green cloth with a red spine tile with gilt lettering. This copy is inscribed to a personal friend and signed Fred. Manfred published The Primitive, the first novel in his World's Wanderer trilogy, in 1949. It was poorly received, and the next two books in the trilogy, The Brother (1950) and The Giant (1951), met with mixed reviews. In 1952 Manfred decided to change his name from Frederick Feikema to Frederick Feikema Manfred, and Frederick Manfred became his publishing name. Lord Grizzly, the first of The Buckskin Man Tales, was the first work Manfred published under his new name. It was a best seller and one of the finalists for the National Book Award in 1954. The Buckskin Man Tales are the novels Lord Grizzly, Conquering Horse, Scarlet Plume, King of Spades, and Riders of Judgment. a rear jacket panel is affixed to the rear paste-down else a very good copy lacking the jacket .

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Book number: 18803

Catalogue: Fiction

Fergusson, Harvey

The Blood of the Conquerors

New York, Modern Age Books Inc, 1937. First Modern Age Edition. Paperback. Octavo; pp; (vi), 146, (ii), ads; original decorated red and black paper wrappers. A romantic tale of the Southwest. A "Red Seal" Book. book block toned, else very good .

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Book number: 18838

Catalogue: Fiction

Filene, Peter

Home and Away

Cambridge, Zoland Books, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo; pp; (viii), 322; olive cloth lettered in gilt in a pictorial dust jacket. Scarce, small printing; The first novel by this writer. Very good/very good.

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Book number: 18038

Catalogue: Fiction

Forster, E. M.

The Longest Journey

Norfolk Ct, New Directions, 1943. Hardcover. Duodecimo; pp; 327; blue cloth lettered in black. A volume in the New Directions "New Classics" series. Forster's story of middle-class England with the main character caught in the struggle between instinct and convention; No date on the copyright page for this edition, the book originally appeared in 1922, OCLC dates this edition in 1943. A nicely printed edition!. Very good .

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Book number: 18829

Catalogue: Fiction