Category: Antiquarian

Second Course In Algebra

By: Englehardt, Fred, and Haertter, Leonard D.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: The John C. Winston Company : 1929

Seller ID: 34010

Condition: Good

Hardcover, navy blue with embossed art deco titles. First Edition, "Algebra-Second, Printed in the U.S.A., P-7-33." Book in good condition. One Owner. Spine tight, Some white scrapes on the front cover, a dent in the spine where thumb and fingers may have grasped it while wet. Red stamped mark on the back endpaper has a man leaning against a stone, and says "Patented Sept. 22, 1925." Name of owner pencilled inside front cover. A few small marks noting which problems to do for class. Text very clean.
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Bargains in Cathay: A Comedy in One Act

By: Field, Rachel

Price: $5.00

Publisher: 25 West 45th Street, New York, Samuel French : 1940

Seller ID: 40203

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fair

7.5" x 5", 35 pages. Pamphlet form, standard play script. Worn. Folded pages with staples. All pages secure. Some notes throughout in pencil. A Comedy In One Act. Our book number 40203.
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Wanted ~ A Chaperone

By: Ford, Paul Leicester

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd Mead & Company : 1902

Seller ID: 19914

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

8 3/4" x 6", 110 pages, Illustrator: Christy, Howard Chandler, Decorations by Armstrong, Margaret. Good Condition. Slight crack of front free endpaper, slight wear to top and bottom of spine and corners slightly rubbed. Gift inscription, ""Some little token etc" As Tweedlefraunch says. December 25,1902. C.F.W." A Christmas Story. Beautiful art nouveau borders on every page, Protected Illustrations as well. Gloriously beautiful novel for young people. Our book number 19914.
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The Story of Jean Valjean, Adapted from Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables"

By: Grames, Sarah Katherine, Ph.B.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: USA, F.A. Owen Publishing Company, Dansville, N.Y. : 1921

Seller ID: 762

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

This is a 1921 version of Cliff notes. Ms. Grames has "adapted" Les Miserables into a 32 page summary of the story of Jean Valjean. The Book has a blue cloth binding with black lettering, and is held together by three staples. The condition is remarkable for a book this age, as the only loosening of the staples is in the center four pages, one sheet has begun to come loose. This book is withdrawn from the library, so it has glue residue around the base of the spine. A beautiful little antique book, especially for students of Classical Literature. There is an handwritten note in the front cover...
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Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Vol. XVI

By: Guy de Maupassant, Henri Rene'

Price: $175.00

Publisher: Current Literature Pub. Co., New York, Copyright, 1903, by M. Walter Dunne. Entered at Stationers' Hall, London : 1903

Seller ID: 821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Withdrawn from the Vinita Public Library, the only shelf wear is to the very edges of the spine and corners, and only very minor. Silver printed papers inside covers, very ornate title page claims "The Life Work of Henri Rene' Guy De Maupssant, Embracing Romance, Travel, Comedy & Verse. For the first time Complete in English. With a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an Introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. Illustrated from Original Drawings By Eminent French And American Artists. The St Dunstan Society, Akron, Ohio." Illustrations in the text at the beginning of each enrt...
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World's Great Literature Volume 1: Orations of American Orators, Including biographical and critical sketches

By: Hawthorne, Julian introduction

Price: $49.00

Publisher: P.F. Collier & Son, New York : 1900

Seller ID: 126

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Very old book. ex-library. Cover cloth split for several inches onthe upper front hinge. Tissue paper loose, but present, with engraving. wear and tear to cover. Hinges split at endpapers, spine tight. all pages present. Oratons of Samuel Adams, Otis, Washington, John Adams, Patrick Henry, Hancock, Jefferson, Jay, Madison, Red Jacket, Morris, Rufus King, John Marshall, Henry Lee, Hamilton, Fisher Ames, Pinckney, John Quincy Adams, Tecumseh, Randolph, Story, Clay, Calhoun. Ex-library, cloth cover rip at top of spine in front, but pages tight and clean, discolored from age, but very good.
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AUDREY

By: Johnston, Mary

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin & Co. : 1902

Seller ID: 21603

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Private collection. Name of great-uncle inside front cover. Published February 1902. Some fading to spine. Paper cracked at hinge behind frontspiece illustration does not compromise the integrity of the binding. Minor shelf wear. 418 pages, lightly aged. Binding tight, text very clean.
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The Prodigal Judge

By: Kester, Vaughan

Price: $395.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers : 1911

Seller ID: 21821

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Sacrifice for survival. Private collection of Grandfather, previous owner's name on front endpapers. Old book, worn and dropped on corner, nibbles from outsides of pages by Archy the cockroach. All pages present, one loose page in the front of the book. Text clean, tissue over frontspiece intact and in good condition. Value comes from previous owner, H.K. Hibbard. Our book number 21821. Illustrations by M.Leone Bracker.
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Departmental Ditties and Ballads and Barrack Room ballads by Rudyard Kipling

By: Kipling, Rudyard

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company, for Review of Reviews Co. : 1915

Seller ID: 21803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Red Cloth Binding, revised April, 1899. Copyright 1899 by Rudyard Kipling. Hindu symbol for LIFE, swastika, above Printed Kipling signiture on frontspiece, in 1899 no negative connotation. Different Spelling in Contents 'The Rupaiyat of Omar Kal'vin.' Contents lists 94 entries.
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The Works of Charles And Mary Lamb, Volume VII, Letters 1821 - 1834

By: Lamb, Charles and Mary; Lucas, E. V. Editor

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, London Methune & Co. : 1905

Seller ID: 4000

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Looks like a much newer book. Leather embossed title on spine is worn. Red cloth covers are in good condition, pages tight, Spine secure, some minor shelf wear to the edges and corners. From a private collection in Oklahoma. Several pages have splotches across the inside, but most are clean and clear, only aging paper. Volume VII , Letters from 1821-1834.
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Six to One or The Scapegrace: A comedy in One Act

By: Mathews, Frances Aymar

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston, Walter H. Baker & Co. : 1889

Seller ID: 43704

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

7.5" x 4.75", 26 pages. Fragile play script in good condition. Paper yellowed, nick in edge of front cover, all pages present. Play is 14 pages, several pages of advertising for other plays after the script. Sewn binding. Our book number 43704.
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The Strength of Materials. A Text-Book For Manual Training Schools

By: Merriman, Mansfield

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York: John Wiley & Sons : 1903

Seller ID: 2012

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Third Edition, Enlarged, Second Thousand, 1903. Binding and pages sound and clean. This book was part of the field library of a county engineer in Southeast Kansas and Northeast Oklahoma in the first half of the Twentieth Century, and therefore shows some shelf wear to the outside. The book , at 103 years old, is in much better condition today than said County Engineer.
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Merrill's English Texts, Lycidas, Comus, L'Allegro, Il Penseroso and Other Poems by John Milton

By: Milton, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Charles E. Merrill Co. : 1906

Seller ID: 822

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Small Blue volume with black embossed lettering on the front cover. Withdrawn from the library, with very little library residue. In adition to the library stamps, the endpaper in the front is inscribed with the previous owner's name and her date of High School graduation, "Senior '18, V.H.S." (That would be NINETEEN- eighteen.)She also made notes in the margins in pencil. Six and one-half inches by four and one-half inches. 198 pages. A beautiful old book. Our book number 822.
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Your Life's In Danger; A Farce in One Act.

By: Morton, John Madison

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston, Charles H. Spencer : 1867

Seller ID: 44900

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good: Fragile

7.5" x 4.75", 21 pages plus two pages of advertising List of Publications available in 1867. Play script, used, notes and drawings in pencil, name of previous owner on front cover. Edges worn and some small tears, but considering the age of this little book which is practically ephemera, in good condition. Plot involves gentry and commoners. Our book number 44900.
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The Literary Guild Review, WINGS, February 1956

By: Packer, Joy

Price: $25.00

Publisher: The Literary Guild of America, Inc., Garden City, New York : 1956

Seller ID: 163

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Fine

Full color 12-page condensation from Valley of The Vines. Advertises the selections, bargains in bestsellers (Band of Angels, by Robert Penn Warren, Coromandel! by John Masters, etc.), Guild News (Books and Diapers, More Laurels, Authenticity, Next month.) advertises Gaylord Hauser's Guide to Intellegent Reeducing on the back cover
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Andromaque: Tragedie en cinq actes

By: Racine

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Paris, Calmann Levy, Editeur; Ancienne Maison Michel Levy Freres, A La Librairie Nouvelle : 1877

Seller ID: 40004

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fragile

7.25" x 4.75", 71 pages. Fragile, very old paper, chipped and soiled. Some corners missing from last page and back cover, all pages present. Andromache, in the original French. Published in France. Calmann Levy, Editeur; Ancienne Maison Michel Levy Freres, A La Librairie Nouvelle. Our book number 40004.
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The Reader's Digest Twentieth Anniversary Anthology

By: Reader's Digest

Price: $12.00

Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, Pleasantville , New York : 1941

Seller ID: 168

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

A Selection of the most outstanding articles published in the Reader's Digest during the past twenty years (1921-1941). 123 pages. Paper covered boards. Wear to corners and edges, some smudges and some water spots on the back of the cover. Our book number 168.
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School For Scandal: A Comedy

By: Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York No.122 Nassau Street, (Up Stairs), Samuel French

Seller ID: 43703

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fragile

7.5" x 4.5", 84 pages. Old and fragile, corners and edges chipped, but complete. "No. VII, Edited by Epes Sargent. School For Scandal: A Comedy, in five acts, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. With the stage business, cast of characters, costumes, relative positions, etc. New York: Samuel French, No. 122 Nassau Street, (Up Stairs) PRICE,] [12 1/2 CTS." Sewn together. Our book number 43703.
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Life And Glorious Deeds of ADMIRAL DEWEY, including A Thrilling Account of Our Conflicts With The Spaniards And Filipinos In The Orient and The Complete Story Of The Philippine Islands, Historical And Descriptive

By: Stickney, Joseph L.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: W.S. Reeve Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. : 1899

Seller ID: 4006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Library surplus. Shelf wear to edges of cover, slightly frayed at top of spine at back cover hinge. Photo facing the title page is missing. All other pages and photos are secure and present, That first one had been removed on purpose. Published in 1899 by W.S. Reeve Publishing Co., Chicago, Illinois. Full Title: "Life And Glorious Deeds of ADMIRAL DEWEY, including A Thrilling Account of Our Conflicts With The Spaniards And Filipinos In The Orient, and The Complete Story Of The Philippine Islands, Historical And Descriptive, by Joseph L. Stickney, Admiral Dewey's Aide, Fully Illustrated With Ph...
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The Knack of Selling: First -- Mapping out the Canvass

By: SYSTEM, The Magazine of Business

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Copyright by A.W. Shaw Company. SYSTEM, The Magazine of Business, Wabash & Madison, Chicago; 44-60 E. 23rd St., New York; 34 Norfolk St., Strand, London. : 1913

Seller ID: 13014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

4.5" x 8.5". 32 pages. Cloth cover with paper label on front. Some nicks to the paper. First subject in a series of books for the 1913 salesman. "You get an order from a prospect because of what he THINKS. Signing an order or handing over money must be a VOLUNTARY operation. To be WILLING he must think certain thoughts. YOU must lead him to think those thoughts..." Good advice in our world market and economy of entrepreneurship. Cracked at the hinge in front, partial crack in the back. Spine is secure, pages secure, paper aged. Text clean, no marks. Our listing number 13014.
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Category: Antiquarian