New York: cameo Books/ Detective House, 1954. Second printing. Softcover. Coler illustarted softcovers. 129 pp. Very good, citzens club stamp first page (half-title). Pulp fiction about two girls-- "eighteen and innocent" and "redhaired and divorced"---who fall in love with and battle over the same man in the rough waterfront part.....
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Hardcover. Hardcover. 282 pp. Illustrated with photos. Fine in fine dust jacket. Bill Bonanno, son of the legendary mafioso Joe Bonanno, was a "made guy" by the time he was in his early twenties (he was runmored to be the model ofr "The Godfather"'s.....
New York: Scribners, 2022. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 348 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. John Gotti, one of the most feared and certainly the flashiest mafioso in American history, became boss of the Gambino Crime Family with the brazen and.....
New York: Wordl Wide Publishing, (1929). Hardcover. Smaller format hardcover in decoraetd paper covered boards. 189 pp. Bound from the British sheets with World Wide Publishing (New York) imprint of title page and jacket. Inexpensive reprint edition on the typical fragile stock and thus somewhat uncommon to have survived. No.....
Doubleday, 1978. First edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 214 pp. Fine (light foxing top edge of the text block) in very good price clipped dust jacket.The Great Dectective meets the Great Undead in this entertaining pastiche. It chronicles the events leading up to the vampire's expulsion from England by Holmes and his.....
New York: Stokes, 1911. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, with "March, 1911" in banner on copyright page. Hardcover in navy blue cloth stamped in gilt. 299 pp. A tight, very good example, cover gilt bright, spine lettering soemwhat rubbed. Small 1970s owner's name and address top corner of front free.....
Chicago: Art Department of the Chicago Normal College, (1925). Limited ed. Hardcover. Quarto in patterned paper covered boards over buckram cloth spine. One of 200 copies only, this copy out of sequence and unnumbered and without the paper label. 28 pp. . A collection of short verse pieces by the.....
Random House/ Walt Disney Productions, 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Oversized in color illustrated hardcovers. First printing (no statement as is correct). Illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with color images from the animated motion picture. Very good.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1915. Hardcover. Hardcover in illustrated pale green cloth. 276 pp. Illustrations by Henry Sandham. A tight, very good or somewhat better example. "...[The] story of two unfortunates, that is, two Mexicn children captured some years since on the other side of the Rio Grande by the Indians....After.....
Boston: Dana Estes & Co., 1912. Hardcover. Oversized in color litho illustrated hardcovers over red cloth spine. 412 pp. plus ads on both front and rear endpapers. Color frontis with tissue guard. Very good, some wear about the edges and light stains along the front and rear top edges of.....
New York: Callaway, 200. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Slim, oblong oversized in color illustrated hardcover. Fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. Unpaginated (30 pp.) Illustrated with watercolor collage painitngs. Witty picture book about Crispin, a dignified cat with an undignified lifestyle. He lives with a family that.....
Philadelphia: Running Press, 2013. Hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Hardcover. Second printing. 395 pp. with index. Illustrated with photos. Here is the real story of the Beatles' harrowing rise to fame, focusing on the 7-year stretch from the time the boys.....
London: Simon & Schuster, 2019. First UK edition. Hardcover. First UK edition, issued simultaneously with the American. A fully fine, fresh, unused example in equally fine dust jacket.Definitive biography of the beloved--but often controversial---co-creator of Spiderman, Iron Man, and many other legendary superheroes and inventor of Marvel Comics. Quite difficult.....
New York: Scribners, 2007. First edition. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fully fine, fresh, unread example in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 209 pp. Illustrated with photographs. Comic, actor, musician, and author Steve Martin offers this autobiographical account of his rise to fame. In the mid-1970s he explded onto.....
Rutledge Hill Press, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A fine, fresh, unused copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 268 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. The gruesome reality of Civil War prison life is found in the personal stories of those who suffered it. Two.....
1858. Original printed certificate for three shares at $50 per share of the Crosswicks and Trenton Turnpike Company dated April 1st, 1858 and made out to one Isreal J. Woodward. 7 1/2" x 6 1/2", pale blue paper, blank backed, two light folds. Incorporated March 17, 1854, the turnpike ran.....
New York: Greenwillow, 1995. First edition. Hardcover. Slim oversized hardcover. First printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. 32 pp. The fables of Russian poet and fabulist Krylov are here retold by Ethel Heins and graced by the wonderful color illustrations of Anita Lobel.
New York: FSG/Harcourt, 1988. Hardcover. Slim oblong hadcover. A fine copy in fine, price clipped dust jacket. Unpaginated (30 pp.). Three Eliot poems gathered from "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" (in addition to the title poem are "The Pekes and The Pollicles" and "The Song of the Jellicles") graced.....
Wayne County Historical Society, 1950. First. Cloth. First printing. Blue cloth, 95 pps.; illustrated. Histroy of the Delaware & Hudson Canal which, when completed in 1828, provided the first practical water route for coal transportation from the eastern Pennsyvania coal fields. The canal ran from Kingston, New York on the.....
Phila: Univ. Of Pennsylvania Press, 1930. First. Hard Cover. First printing.A fine, bright copy; no jacket. Dark green cloth stamped in gilt and lighter green. 366 pps. with index. Memoirs and history of the Wissahickon Valley located just outside Philadelphia. A noted local historian, Dr. Weygandt recalls night-herons, the ice.....
New York: Summit Books, 1991. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Slim oversized hardcover. Fine in fine dust jacket. 96 pp. A delightful collection of Victorian era color cat illustrations by such artists as Louis Wain, Helena Maguire, and Henrietta Ronner. The book is separated into topical sections such as Snowtime.....
Nashville: Ideals Children's Books, 1990. First edition. Hardcover. Slim oblong hardcover. First printing. 32 pp. A fine, fresh copy in equally fine dust jacket. In this humorous sequel to Smith's "The Cats' Weding", Suki and Barney's three disobedient offspring lean what can befall children who don't heed their parents, advice.....
1986. Hardcover. Fine. hard covers. In fine dust jacket. Internally clean. 238 pp.
1964. Hardcover. Fine. Hard covers. in fine dust jacket. Internally clean. 249 pp.
New York, NY, U.S.A.: Dutton/Plume, 1992. First edition of THE AUTHOR'S HIGHLY ACCLAIMED FIRST BOOK. Fine in dust jacket a bit bumped along the top edge.
