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By: N/A
Price: $80.00
Publisher: London: John Henry and James Parker: 1859
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2022174
Condition: Good
First edition. 1/4 inch bookworm hole in fore-edge margin, hinges just starting, corners a bit rubbed, front board lightly stained, owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1859 Hard Cover. 126 pp. 12mo. Colonial American novel, featuring a frontispiece of Pocahontas saving the life of English settler John Smith. Sabin 12688. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Luther Roby: 1843
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 1953827
Condition: Very Good
Fourth American edition. Lightly rubbed, a few pages a bit foxed. 1843 Small Hard Cover. 114; 118 pp. 12mo. Two books in one volume. Original brown boards, gilt titles & decorations on spine, blind-stamped design on boards. A British work of fiction following the exploits of a young sailor. View more info
By: 'Asterisk' (Author of 'Isles of Illusion')
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Constable & Co Ltd: 1924
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2201867
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Light crease on front cover has caused slight damage to endpaper on reverse. Ink stamp on title page, ink number on contents page. 1924 Hard Cover. 332 pp. CONTENTS: THE WOMAN: The Recruiting; The Voyage; Ashore; Learning; Clouds; Storm; Escape; Haven; Topsy; THE MAN: Change; Pere Douceret; Stephens; The Mission Station; Is It Well with the Child?; Native; THE CONCLUSION: Shame; Rats; Evil; Sacrifice. View more info
By: Adams, Guy
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Solaris: 2013
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2269572
ISBN: 1781080895
Condition: Near Fine
First printing. Spine creased. 2013 Mass Market Paperback. 318 pp. A weird western, a gun-toting, cigarrillo-chewing fantasy built from hangman’s rope and spent bullets. The west has never been wilder. A Steampunk-Western-Fantasy from Guy Adams. “You wish to meet your God?” the gunslinger asked, cocking his revolver, “well now... that’s easy to arrange.” Every one hundred years a town appears. From a small village in the peaks of Tibet to a gathering of mud huts in the jungles of South American, it can take many forms. It exists for twenty-four hours then vanishes once more, but fo... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Random House: 1958
Seller ID: 2266783
Condition: Very Good
Ex-library copy, rebound. No jacket, pocket mark on front endpaper, pencil note on rear paste-down endpaper. 1958 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 275 pp. Story about Erie canal and a man who worked on it. During the early 1800s, a waif in upstate New York makes his way from odd-jobs boy in an inn to captain of a canal boat. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Peoples Book Club / Consolidated Book Publishers: 1944
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Seller ID: 2279311
Condition: Very Good
Book club edition. Very good in good jacket. Ink name on title page, minor sticker removal mark on front endpaper, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1944 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 470 pp. A historical novel set in Palmyra, NY in the era of the construction of the Erie Canal. Endpapers feature idyllic color illustration of the Erie Canal & surrounding countryside. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Samuel Hopkins Adams (January 26, 1871 - November 15, 1958) was an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism. Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York. In... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Random House: 1950
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2278420
Condition: Very Good
Jacket edges rubbed, minor loss to jacket spine head and jacket spine base, jacket flaps taped to boards. 1950 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 185 pp. Illustrated by Lee J. Ames. They want riders--young riders-- good riders!. The news spread quickly from ranch to ranch. Cowboys, stagecoach drivers, trappers, and prospectors rushed to join the newly formed Pony Express. This business of carrying the mails across country sounded mighty exciting! View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: M.A. Donohue & Co.: 1936
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2272415
Condition: Very Good
Jacket edges rubbed with a few minor chips. 1936 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 319 pp. Includes color frontispiece. Rose in Bloom, by Louisa May Alcott, depicts the story of a nineteenth-century girl, Rose Campbell, finding her way in society. It is Alcott's sequel to Eight Cousins. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: A.L. Burt Company: 1928
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2272416
Condition: Very Good
Surface tears along jacket edges, one-inch tear along top edge of jacket rear, a few small tears along jacket edges. A few small spots on top page ridge, ink name on frontispiece recto. 1928 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 334 pp. Includes color frontispiece. Jack and Jill: A Village Story by Louisa May Alcott, is a children's book originally published in 1880. It takes place in a small New England town after the Civil War. The story of two good friends named Jack and Janey, Jack and Jill tells of the aftermath of a serious sledding accident. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company: 1905
Seller ID: 2278878
Condition: Good
No jacket, binding repaired, minor loss to spine head and spine base, ink note on front endpaper. 1905 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. Bab and Betty, two little girls, are having a tea party with their dolls when an unknown dog appears and steals their cake. The girls find the dog, Sancho, along with his owner Ben Brown, a run-away from the circus who is hiding in their play barn in a carriage. They discover that Ben is a horse master and when he is taken in by the Moss', they get him a job on a neighboring farm. It is there that he can work with horses and dr... View more info
![Image for My Boys [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag. My Boys, Etc.]](/assets/images/product/2279499.jpg)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company: 1900
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2279499
Condition: Very Good
Reissue of BAL 168 (early 1900s). No jacket, tear along spine head and front hinge, a few light smudges to first few pages. We have more books available by this author!. 215 pp. CONTENTS; My Boys; Tessa's Surprises; Buzz; The Children's Joke; Dandelion; Madam Cluck, and Her Family; A Curious Call; Tilly's Christmas; My Little Gentleman; Back Windows; Little Marie of Lehon; My May-Day Among Curious Birds and Beasts; Our Little Newsboy; Patty's Patchwork. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Roberts Brothers: 1885
Edition: Early printing
Seller ID: 2279512
Condition: Near Fine
Early printing. No jacket, ink gift note on second blank. 1885 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 276 pp. Engraved ads for Alcott's other books follow text (BAL 206). A collection of 12 short stories. CONTENTS: Grandma's Story; Tabby's Table-Cloth; Eli's Education; Onawandah; Little Things; The Banner of Beaumanoir; Jerseys, or, the Girl's Ghost; The Little House in the Garden; Daisy's Jewel-Box, and How She Filled It; Corny's Catamount; The Cooking-Class; The Hare and the Tortoise. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Roberts Brothers: 1889
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2279513
Condition: Near Fine
First Thus: second edition of A Modern Mephistopheles, first appearance of A Whisper in the Dark (BAL 219). No jacket, ink gift note on second blank, pages very faintly toned. 1889 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 350 pp. ABOUT A MODERN MEPHISTOPHELES: This chilling tale of lust, deception, and greed beings on a midwinter night as Felix Canaris, a despairing writer about to take his own life, is saved by a knock at the door. His mysterious visitor, Jasper Helwyze, promises the poor student fame and fortune in return for his complete devotion. The embittered Helwyze the... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company: 1914
Seller ID: 2279514
Condition: Very Good
No jacket, ink gift note on front endpaper, ink name on frontispiece recto. 1914 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 365 pp. The novel is the final book in the unofficial Little Women series. In it, Jo's children, now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Little, Brown, and Company: 1900
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: 2279516
Condition: Very Good
First Thus (BAL 230). No jacket, sticker on front paste-down endpaper, ink gift note on front endppaer, pencil marks on page one. 1900 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 54 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titles and red poppies on cover. EXCERPT: As the great steamer swung round into the stream the cloud Of white handkerchiefs waving on the wharf melted away, the last good-byes grew fainter, and those who went and those who stayed felt that the parting was over. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1901
Seller ID: 2262055
Condition: Near Fine
Two half-inch tears along top edge of jacket front, jacket edges lightly rubbed, ink marks on rear jacket flap. Ink note on front endpaper. 1901 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 335 pp. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little Men'. Little Men tells the story of Jo... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap: 1947
Seller ID: 2278345
Condition: Very Good
One inch by one inch chip to jacket spine head and jacket spine base, jacket edges rubbed with multiple small chips and creases. 1947 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 372 pp. Illustrated by Douglas Gorsline. Color endpapers. Little Men, or Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys is a novel by American author Louisa May Alcott, first published in 1871. The novel reprises characters from Little Women and is considered by some the second book of an unofficial Little Women trilogy, which is completed with Alcott's 1886 novel Jo's Boys, and How They Turned Out: A Sequel to 'Little... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Stitt Publishing Company: 1905
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2279515
Condition: Very Good
No jacket, light stain along front hinge, top page ridge very faintly foxed, a few faint smudges on page ridge, pencil name and date on front endpaper. 1905 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 198 pp. Reissue of Alcott's first full-length book. Flower Fables was the first work published by Louisa May Alcott and appeared on December 9, 1854. The book was a compilation of fanciful stories first written six years earlier for Ellen Emerson (daughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson). The book was published in an edition of 1600 and though Alcott thought it sold very well, she received ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: A.L. Burt Company: 1925
Seller ID: 2204408
Condition: Very Good
Ink name inside. 1925 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, 352 pp. A western story set in a small town in Nebraska on 'the rim of the prairie.' The characters include a tantalizing heroine made more attractive by a hint of mystery, a steadfast hero, and two delightful pioneers.-Cleveland Open ShelfKeywords: BESS STREETER ALDRICH RIM OF PRAIRIE WESTERN WILD OLD WEST NEBRASKA HISTORICAL FICTION View more info
By: Allen, Hervey
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Dell: 1949
Seller ID: 2148535
Condition: Good
Wrappers starting to delaminate. 1949 Mass Market Paperback. We have more books available by this author!. Young, restless, eager for adventure, Anthony unexpectedly finds himself master of a large plantation and slave establishment in steaming, equatorial Africa, far from the tranquility of his native Livorno, Italy. View more info
By: Allen, Hervey
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1933
Seller ID: 2283715
Condition: Near Fine
First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Owner bookplate on front endpaper, jacket toned. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916, when he was in the National Guard serving on the Mexican Border, Hervey... View more info
By: Allen, Hervey
Price: $225.00
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1933
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283716
Condition: Near Fine
First edition, first state (p. 352, line 6: Xaxier; p. 397, line 22: found found; p. 1086, line 18: blacksmith ship). Includes original jacket in good condition (unclipped, $3.00 list price on front flap). Jacket toned, minimal loss from jacket spine head, a few closed 1/2 inch tears along edges. 1933 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 1224 pp. 8vo. The novel which inspired the 1936 Academy Award winning film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fredric March and Olivia de Havilland. From the publication of his Ballads of the Border in 1916, when he was in the National ... View more info
By: Allen, Hervey
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: 1944
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2289104
Condition: Very Good
First edition. One inch tear along bottom edge hinge of front jacket panel and front flap, jacket edges lightly rubbed. Front board lightly soiled, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper. 1944 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 305 pp. From dust jacket flap: On the only road leading west over the mountains at Bedford there is a tavern, Pendergasses'. Here centers the local life of the frontier, and here we find Salathiel Albine again, who was captured as a child by the Shawnees, but escaped to Fort Pitt..... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Macmillan Company: 1898
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2202908
Condition: Very Good
18th printing. No jacket, large stain to corner of rear paste-down endpaper and rear endpaper. 1898 Hard Cover. 361 pp. James Lane Allen was an American novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as Kentucky's first important novelist.This novel, by the author of John Gray, is a story set in the green wilderness of Kentucky. Parts of the tale are taken from John Gray and the... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200656
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 1999 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. viii, [2], 399 pp. 8vo. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Sommers is raised in the British colony of Valparaiso, Chile, by the well-intentioned Victorian spinster Miss Rose and her more rigid brother Jeremy. Just as she meets and falls in love with the wildly inappropriate Joaquin Andieta, a lowly clerk who works for Jeremy, gold is discovered in the hills of northern California. By 1849, Chileans of every stripe have fallen prey to feverish dreams of wealth. Joaquin takes o... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harper Collins: 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed by author
Seller ID: 2200660
Condition: Near Fine
First American edition. Signed by author without inscription on title page. 2001 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 304 pp. 8vo. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. Internationally celebrated novelist Isabel Allende has written a magnificent historical novel set at the end of the nineteenth century in Chile -- a marvelous family saga that takes up and continues the story begun in her highly acclaimed Daughter of Fortune. Recounted in the voice of a young woman in search of her roots, Portrait in Sepia is a novel about memory and family secrets. Aurora d... View more info
By: Allende, Isabel; Peden, Margaret Sayers
Price: $15.00
Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers: 2005
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2200693
ISBN: 0060778970
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. English text. Near fine.Near Fine. 2005 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 390 pp. English text. A swashbuckling adventure story that reveals for the first time how Diego de la Vega became the masked man we all know so well.Born in southern California late in the eighteenth century, he is a child of two worlds. Diego de la Vega's father is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fe... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Appleton-Century: 1946
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2260639
Condition: Very Good
Reprint. Quarter-size surface tear to jacket front, jacket edges rubbed, jacket lightly foxed (more so on reverse), front jacket flap price clipped, page ridges lightly foxed. 1946 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 310 pp. It is laid in the period of the French and Indian War, just after the colonists' first big victory at Lake George, and it pictures their subsequent struggles with Montcalm. The book ends with the massacre of Fort William Henry. Robert Lennox, a young American fighter, and his two friends--Tayoga, and Onondaga Indian, and David Willett, a hunter--fall ... View more info
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Back Bay Books: 2008
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2265844
ISBN: 0316065773
Condition: Very Good
Light toning to page ridge. 2008 Trade Paperback. In 17th-century Iran, a 14-year-old woman believes she will be married within the year. But when her beloved father dies, she and her mother find themselves alone and without a dowry. With nowhere else to go, they are forced to sell the brilliant turquoise rug the young woman has woven to pay for their journey to Isfahan, where they will work as servants for her uncle, a rich rug designer in the court of the legendary Shah Abbas the Great. View more info
By: Andrews, Mary
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Rand McNally & Company: 1958
Seller ID: 2272839
Condition: Very Good
Corners lightly rubbed, pencil name on title page, pages lightly toned. 1958 Hard Cover. Unpaginated. The story of a dog living in Colonial times in Yorktown, Virginia. View more info
