Smith, Harvey

Nine to Five

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1944. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 348pp. Blue cloth. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Corners worn, spine moderately faded, contents toned, small hole and abrasion on half-title page and on page 1 , bookseller small label on rear pastedown.0 Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 003320

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Health

Keywords: NYC

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Trivia

London, Constable & Company, Ltd. 1922. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Signed by Associate. 153pp. Blue paper over boards, buckram backing. Soiling and darkening to cover, contents clean, endpapers darkened. Book is from Albert Bigelow Paine's personal collection. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front free endpaper as follows : "Given me by Brand Whitlock, at the Hôtel des Anglais, Cannes, December 25th, 1926, Albert Bigelow Paine. Paine was the author of Mark Twain's biography. Whitlock was an author, journalist, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio and diplomat. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001877

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Signed

Keywords: Essays "Albert Bigelow Paine" Autograph

Spielman, M.H.

The Hitherto Unidentified Contributions of W.M. Thackeray to "Punch"

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1900. Hardcover. 349pp. Blue binding has minor staining. Corners worn. Spine faded and creased. Interior very clean and some pages still uncut. Pages ix to xii have a clean tear near inner margin. Good.

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Book number: 000010

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Illustrated

Keywords: Humor Cartoons

Steinbeck, John

The Moon is Down

New York, The Viking Press, 1942. First Edition, Second State, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. 188pp. Blue cloth, silver spine lettering. Book is in very clean and unworn condition, text is mildly toned, binding is tight. Dust jacket is price clipped, chipped (slight lloss of text), lightly soiled. First edition, 2nd state, no typo on page 112, line 11. Very Good/Fair.

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Book number: 003818

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: "Doctor Winter" Prackle Orden Loft

Steinbeck, John

The Wayward Bus

New York, The Viking Press, 1947. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. 312pp. Book Club edition. Rust color boards, gilt lettering. Cover and contents are in very good condition, text mildly age-toned. Dust jacket is chipped along edges, and spine lightly scuffed, rear panel darkened. Includes publisher's review ladi-in. Very Good/Fair.

Old BookshelfProfessional seller

Book number: 003820

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: "Ernest Horton" Pritchard Norma Mildred Juan

Sterne, Laurence

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, By Mr. Yorick and the History of a Good Warm Watch-Coat &c. A Political Romance .

Paris, Theophilus Barrois, 1783. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. 205pp. Half leather, marbled paper over boards, leather spine label. Covers worn, joints and hinges split and chipped, boards holding firmly, text block is sound, portions of text mildly toned and spotted, light staining and notations on enepapers. Good.

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Book number: 003235

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Travel and Geography

Keywords: Faineant Rambouliet

Stevens, James

Big Jim Turner

Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 1948. First Edition. Soft cover. Blue card stock tall galley proof, paper label to front cover. Moderate fading to covers and light soil, contents are clean. Uncorrected proof for advance readers. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002084

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: Western

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Napa Wine, a Chapter from "The Silverado Squatters"

St.Helena, Califronia, James E. Beard, 1965. First Edition, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Hardcover. x, 12pp. Leaf pattern green paper over boards, paper spine label. Very clean, near fine condition. Stevenson's love affair with the wines of the Napa Valley. Near Fine/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004202

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Biography, Food and Drink

Keywords: California Calistoga Wines

Stockton, Frank R.

The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. Soft cover. 195p ads. Yellow wraps. Cover moderately soiled, light edgewear and short tears, spine missing 1 inch piece from bottom, front cover archival tape-reattached, text is age-toned, owner's name showing faintly on front cover. Good.

Old BookshelfProfessional seller

Book number: 002255

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: Euphemia Derelict Barnbury Water-Devil Granges

Thompson,Maurice

Milly; or, At Love's Extremes

New York, New Amsterdam Book Company, 1901. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Soft cover. 266pp +ads. Pictorial red wraps. Corners chipped, bit of bleed from red cover to front endpaper, slight dampstain to inner margins of first few pages. 4 black and white illustrated plates. Good.

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Book number: 004219

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Romance

Thompson, Ruth Plumly

Pirates in Oz

Chicago280pp. Gren cloth, The Reilly & Lee Co. 1931. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover. John R. Neill. 280pp. Green cloth with color pictorial pasteon, 12 color plates by John Neill plus numerous black and white illustrations. Moderate wear to cover, chipping to head and tail of spine, vertical striations to pictorial, binding a bit tender, contents are clean. gift inscription on front endpaper. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 004665

Catalogue: Children's, Literature and Fiction

Keywords: Ruggedo, "Gnome King" Scarecrow Peter

Thompson, Thomas

Range Drifter

Garden City, New York, Doubleday & Company, Inc. 1949. Soft cover. Tall blue card stock galley proof. Light soil and fading to cover, first 2 pages slightly loose, contents clean, brief editing notes on front free endpaper. Uncorrected proof for advance readers. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002083

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: Western

Toussaint, Franz

Le Jardin des Caresses

Paris, L'edition d'art H. Piazza, 1919. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Benjamin Seielstad. 215pp. Couverture rigide, condition bon. Morocco half-bound marbled boards, gilt spine lettering, black stamped spine, color frontispiece by Léon Carré. Text in French. A limited edition of 500 copies of which this No. 175. Moderate wear and scuffing to cover, contents are clean and mildly age-toned, binding is tight and secure, inscription on front free endpaper dated 1928. Good.

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Book number: 003104

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Erotic

Keywords: Amour Love

Trollope, Anthony

The Golden Lion of Granpere

New York", Harper & Brothers, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. 124pp + ads. Rust cloth, gilt lettering, frontispiece with tissue-guard. illustrated with full page and in text illustrations. Rubbing to extremities, contents age-toned but clean except for a small spot in margin of one illustration page, small tear to tissue-guard, binding is tight. One of Trollope's short novels. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 002062

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction

Keywords: "George Voss" "Madame Voss"

Tuthill, L.C.

The Boarding-School Girl

Bostonb, Crosby, Nichols, and Company, 1846. Thirteenth Edition, 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Hardcover. Jos. Laing & Co. 139pp Copyright date is 1846, this edition probably circa 1860. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt spine lettering. Rear board detached but present, chipping to corners and spine ends, contents occasionally spotted, inscriptions on endpapers (mostly in pencil), Portsmouth, Virginia bookseller's blindstamp on front endpaper, binding is sound. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 001864

Catalogue: Literature and Fiction, Children's

Keywords: Juvenile