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USA: THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY, 1909 NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH DETECTIVE ON FRONT, GREEN PRINT AND DESIGN SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, 15 STORIES, 12 ILLUSTRATIONS.
GREAT STORIES BY GEORGE BARTON. AS YOU SEE FROM THE PREFACE BARTON TAKES TRUE FACTS OF TOP DETECTIVES AND AND STORIES AND MAKES THEM INTO VERY ENTERTAINING STORIES
CHIEF WILKIE AND THE GOLD CERTIFICATES, VIDOCQ AND THE LOCKSMITHS DAUGHTER, COLONEL FRASER AND THE RAILWAY MYSTERY, GENERAL TREPOFF AND THE RUSSIAN STUDENTS, INSPECTOR BYRNES AND THE HANIER MURDER, ROBERT PINKERTON AND THE GREAT SAFE ROBBERY, CHIEF KELLY AND THE DESERTED HOUSE, CHIEF BROOKS AND THE MAN WITH THE LAZY EYES, INSPECTOR SWEENEY AND THE STOLEN GEMS, CAPTAIN LINDEN AND THE MOUNTAIN MYSTERY, CAPTAIN DONAGHY AND THE WHITE CASE, SUPERINTENDENT FOREST AND THE VERSATILE ROGUE, THE HEADQUARTERS MAN AND THE BURGLARY THAT FAILED, CAPTAIN OBRIEN AND THE MYSTERY OF THE HALLWAY, CHEF KELLY AND THE OPIUM SMUGGLERS.
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NEW YORK: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1969 Frances Sanger Mossiker is an American author best known for her historical novels. Her works include, Pocahontas: The Life and the Legend, The Queen's Necklace, and Madame de Sevigne. NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE BOOK, TIGHT, GOLD DESIGN AND PRINT ON SPINE, INSCRIBED AS GIFT IN FRONT OF BOOK, 26 PAGES OF ARTWORK AND PICTURES. The Affair of the Poisons (L'affaire des poisons) was a major murder scandal in France which took place in 1677¿1682, during the reign of King Louis XIV. During it, a number of prominent members of the aristocracy were implicated and sentenced on charges of poisoning and witchcraft. The scandal reached into the inner circle of the king. It led to execution of 36 people. Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715). Louis, the greatest king of France's grand siècle, was only a small boy when he succeeded his father in 1643. Because of his youth, real power passed to his mother Anne of Austria as regent and to the Italian-born first… Read More

CHICAGO: FRANK V. IRISH, 1896 BEAUTIFUL AND EXCELLENT DETAILED BOOK ON AMERICAN AND BRITISH AUTHORS BY EDUCATOR AND AUTHOR FRANK V. IRISH. A GUIDE AND HELP IN THE PRIVATE STUDY OF THE BEST AUTHORS AND THEIR WRITINGS. DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. 25 ILLUSTRATIONS OF AUTHORS AND HOMES. 60 AUTHORS, PREFACE, HINTS TO TEACHERS, INTRODUCTION, BIOS, INDEX, DETAIL EVALUATING, CLASSICS, BIBLE AS A CLASSIC, THOUGHTS. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

MUNCHEN, GERMANY: R. PIPER & CO., 1913 VERY NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER, GOLD PRINT WITH GREEN ON SPINE, NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND VERY NICE CONDITION. NICE GREEN INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. EDITED BY PAUL DEUSSEN, PROFESSOR PHILOSOPHY. WITH HELP FROM FRANZ MACKRAUER. VOLUME 10. GERMAN LANGUAGE. The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860), whose pessimistic philosophy was widely known in the late 19th century in Europe and the United States, held that ultimate reality was nothing but senseless striving or will, having no divine origin and no historical end. Schopenhauer, Arthur (Danzig, 1788-1860, Frankfurt/Main), the radical philosopher of pessimism, who described himself as the only worthy successor to Kant, assimilated all the negative trends of a disillusioned age. Like Voltaire, he mocked at the optimism of Leibniz, writing in a highly readable style, which enabled him to draw a Dantesque vision of suffering, demonstrating ¿welcher Art dieser meilleur des mondes possibles… Read More

Argentina: Espaza-Calpe, 1944 Nice looking paperback in Spanish laguage, prologue by Juan Valera, Colleccion Austral, Buenos Aires-Mexico, Dustcover is paper and fair condition- inner front flap loose and in good shape, all pages of book tight, light brown with age, former owners name front, a few notes are in pencil inside front cover and on a few pages translating to English.
Azul is a collection of short stories and poetry by Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío. It was published in 1888 as Darío's first major work and a major work of the Modernismo literary movement.[1][2] He is commonly considered the initiator of literary modernism, a thesis that has been supported by personalities such as Octavio Paz, Ángel Rama or Darío himself. Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 ¿ February 6, 1916), known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo (modernism)… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bowen-Merrill Co., 1894 Poems by Riley with several pages of his works in the back. BOOK IS IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. TIGHT AND NICE LOOKING. INSCRIPTION IN FRONT DATED 1894. CLEAN AND TIGHT. Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916), American poet. During his lifetime, Riley enjoyed enormous popularity. Known as ¿The Hoosier Poet¿ or ¿the people's poet¿, he drew material from Midwestern literature, fairy tales, and speech patterns. His verses, written in folk dialect, expressed the myth of rural America, with phrases such as ¿When the frost is on the punkin¿ and ¿the old swimin'¿hole¿. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: BONANZA BOOKS, 1985 NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE COVER, SILVER PRINT SPINE, VERY NICE LOOKING PROTECTIVE JACKET WITH DETECTIVE ON THE FRONT AND AUTHORS LISTED. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS. BOOK IS IN GREAT CONDITION. WONDERFUL CONTENT. DOYLE, MAUGHAM, WOOLRICH, BARRETT, CHARTERIS, GARDNER, MACDONALD, CASSIDAY, HOCH, JAKES, O'DONNELL, GILBERT AND FLEMING. CLASSICS OF ESPIONAGE FINISHING WITH OCYOPUSSY. A GREAT BOOK FOR THE COLLECTOR. Bill Pronzini (born April 13, 1943) is an American writer of detective fiction. He is also an active anthologist, having compiled more than 100 collections, most of which focus on mystery, western, and science fiction short stories. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, 1878 BEAUTIFUL GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN, GOLD ON SPINE. FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT 1879, NICE ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. The Gordon Riots of 1780 were several days of rioting in London motivated by anti-Catholic sentiment. They began with a large and orderly protest against the Papists Act 1778, which was intended to reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty (commonly known as Barnaby Rudge) is a historical novel by British novelist Charles Dickens. Barnaby Rudge was one of two novels (the other was The Old Curiosity Shop) that Dickens published in his short-lived (1840–1841) weekly serial Master Humphrey's Clock. Barnaby Rudge is largely set during the Gordon Riots of 1780. Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist and social critic who created some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest… Read More

NEW YORK: A. L. BURT COMPANY, 1921 NICE LOOKING GREEN BOOK, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, BAT WING DESIGN, ONLY MARKING IS FORMER OWNER SIGNED NAME IN FRONT, JOSEPH HORNE CO. BOOK SHOP STICKER IN BACK. MISSING BLANK PAGE VERY BACK. TIGHT, GOOD SHAPE. Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward (15 February 1883 ¿ 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was a prolific English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu. He worked as a poet, songwriter, and comedy sketch writer in Music Hall before creating the Sax Rohmer persona and pursuing a career writing weird fiction. A VERY INTERESTING SCIENCE FICTION WRITER. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: THE CHRISTIAN HERALD, 1899 LIGHT GREEN COVER, WHITE AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT SPINE. FIRST EDITION, LIGHT FOXING INSIDE VERY FRONT AND BACK. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, NUMEROUS UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS, INCLUDING FAC-SIMILE REPRODUCTIONS OF AUTHORS' MSS. INCLUDED IS INDEX TO SELLECTIONS, INDEX TO AUTHORS AND INDEX TO ILLUSTRATIONS. VERY INTERESTING LITERATURE SELECTIONS FROM FAMOUS AUTHORS, FAMOUS MEN, POLITICIANS, AND HISTORICAL FIGURES. LARGE NUMBER OF AUTHORS. FOR THE LOVER OF POPULAR LITERATURE AND HISTORY. Addison Irving Bacheller (September 26, 1859 – February 24, 1950) was an American journalist and writer. He founded the first modern newspaper syndicate in the United States. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1904 NICE LOOKING GRAY COVER WITH BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. WHITE SECTION FRONT COVER WITH DRAWING ARTWORK OF A LADY WITH A BONNET ON. LIGHT WEAR. BOOK INSCRIBED IN PENCIL INSIDE FRONT COVER CHRISTMAS 1909, FROM AND TO. FRONTISPIECE IS ARTWORK OF BEVERLY A CHARACTER. MADE INTO FILM 1926. TIGHT AND CLEAN THOUGHOUT. VERY NICE BOOK. ENTERTAINING AND INTERESTING. Beverly of Graustark (1904) Gutenberg text (filmed in 1926 with Marion Davies) George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include a series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions, which was adapted into a play and several films. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: BONI AND LIVERIGHT, 1923 Atherton, Gertrude Franklin (Horn) , 1857-1948, American writer, b. San Francisco. She wrote a series of historical novels about California, which include The Californians (1898), Rezánov (1906), and The Ancestors (1907). Her most popular books are The Conqueror (1902), which is a fictionalized biography of Alexander Hamilton, and the sensational novel Black Oxen (1923), concerning a woman who is rejuvenated by a glandular operation and based on Atherton's own experience of glandular therapy. A GREAT AUTHOR AND EARLY WOMEN'S AUTHOR. BLACK OXEN WAS HER MOST POPULAR NOVEL. THIS BOOK IS STILL IN GOOD CONDITION WITH SOME OUTER WEAR ON THE COVER AND EDGES. MARBLING IS AROUNG PAGE EDGES AND IS A LITTLE FADED. BLACK COVER, ORANGE ON FRONT AND SPINE. SIGNED BY FORMER OWNER IN FRONT. TIGHT. GREAT COLLECTOR ITEM. PRINTED FEBRUARY 1923. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1886 Amelia Edith Barr (Huddleston) (born March 29, 1831) in Ulverston, Lancashire, England, died March 10, 1919) was a British American novelist. In 1850 she married William Barr, and four years later they immigrated to the United States and settled in Galveston, Texas where her husband and three of their six children died of yellow fever in 1867. By 1891, when she achieved greater success, she and her daughters moved up the Hudson River to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, where they renovated a house on the slopes of Storm King Mountain and named it Cherry Croft. NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER, SIZE OF A POCKET BOOK, SWORD DESIGN FRONT, SILVER LETTERS FRONT AND SPINE, SLIGHT WEAR SPINE, TIGHT, SIGNED BY PREVIOUS OWNER FRONT, NO OTHER MARKINGS, ARTWORK FRONTISPIECE, RED AND BLACK INK TITLE PAGE. NICE COLLECTOR ITEM. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Philadelphia: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, 1870 NICE LOOKING DARK GREEN COVER WITH GOLD DESIGN FRONT AND PRINT SPINE. WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF THE SPINE AND LOWER RIGHT CORNER FRONT. FORMER OWNER LABEL INSIDE FRONT, COUPLE SMALL ERASED PENCIL MARKS INSIDE VERY FRONT. NO OTHER MARKINGS. PAGES AND BINDING TIGHT. AUTHOR'S REVISED EDITION. COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME. RIVERSIDE EDITION. VIGNETTE TITLE PAGE. BEAUTIFUL PICTURE FRONTISPIECE. published in 1822 under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Resembling its predecessor, The Sketch Book, the collection includes stories with English, French, and Spanish settings, but is chiefly remembered for ¿Dolph Heyliger¿ and its sequel, ¿The Storm-Ship,¿ which recount the adventures of a New York lad who undertakes to discredit the legend of a haunted house, but encounters its ghost and recovers a fabulous buried treasure, as well as marrying an heiress. Americanized versions of the Flying Dutchman theme are presented in ¿The… Read More

NEW YORK: JOHN W. LOVELL COMPANY, 1888 VERY NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER, OXFORD EDITION PRINTED FRONT WITH LION DESIGN AND SPINE, GOLD BRIDE OF NILE ON SPINE, BLACK INK IN DESIGN, WORN ON FRONT AND SPINE, INSIDE PAGES LIGHTLY BROWNED WITH AGE, TITLE PAGE IS LOOSE- IN GOOD SHAPE. Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, March 1, 1837 ¿ Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical papyrus, of ca. 1550 BCE, named for him (see Ebers Papyrus) at Luxor (Thebes) in the winter of 1873¿74. Now in the Library of the University of Leipzig, the Ebers Papyrus is among the most important ancient Egyptian medical papyri. It is one of two of the oldest preserved medical documents anywhere¿the other being the Edwin Smith Papyrus (ca. 1600 BCE). GREAT HISTORICAL NOVEL. COLLECTORS ITEM. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

NEW YORK: THOMAS, NELSON & SONS, 1959 RARE BOOK, NICE LOOKING COVER WITH BUFFALO ON FRONT, IMPRINT TITLE PAGE REGARDING LIBRARY, VERY BACK OF BOOK LIBRAY REFERENCE. GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN AND TIGHT. VERY NICE ARTWORK BY AUTHOR THROUGHOUT BOOK. EDUCATIONAL, ENTERTAINING BOOK ABOUT NATIVE AMERICANS LIFE WITH THE BUFFALO. Bison are large bovines in the genus Bison (Greek: "wild ox" (bison) within the tribe Bovini. Two extant and numerous extinct species are recognised. Of the two surviving species, the American bison, bison, found only in North America, is the more numerous. Although colloquially referred to as a buffalo in the United States and Canada, it is only distantly related to the true buffalo. Gardell Dano Christensen (1907, Fremont County, Wyoming 1991) was an American writer. Christensen lived in Dubois, Wyoming, with his wife, the author Eugenia Burney. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1894 Rare 1894 edition. NICE LOOKING BLUE TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. SLIGHT FOXING FRONT AND BACK. CLEAN, NO MARKINGS, TIGHT THROUGHOUT.
Agnes Blake Poor (November 10, 1842 – February 28, 1922) was an American author and translator. She wrote under her own name and the pen name Dorothy Prescott. She is thought to be the first American to translate Brazilian poetry from Portuguese into English.
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NEW YORK: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 1882 BEAUTIFUL GREEN TEXTURED COVER, GOLD AND BLACK DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, GOLD PRINT. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, GOLD TRIM PAGE EDGES, HEAVY BOOK, LONGFELLOW'S PICTURE FRONTISPIECE, 17 ILLUSTRATIONS, ALPHABETICAL LISTING FRONT, AUTHORS AND TITLES ALSO. TERRIFIC BOOK WITH A GREAT NUMBER OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTHORS, FOR THE LOVER OF POETRY AND SONG. FIRST EDITION. Charlotte Fiske Bates ( November 30, 1838 September 1, 1916) was an American writer, critic, and educator. Charlotte Bates was born in New York City as the youngest of six children. Her father, Hervey Bates, died when she was an infant, causing her mother, Eliza Endicott Bates, to relocate the family to Cambridge, Massachusetts. After public education and private tutoring, Bates accepted a position at the Salisbury School for Young Ladies as an instructor of English in September 1888. Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song (1882). ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: BOOK COLLECTORS ASSOCIATION, INC., 1930 NICE LOOKING GREEN BOOK WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE. NO MARKINGS INTERNALLY, NICE FRONTISPIECE ARTWORK. TIGHT AND IN GOOD CONDITION. A satiric novel, set in various Old and New World countries during the mid-eighteenth century; published in French in 1759, in English in 1759. An innocent young man travels the world in search of love and fortune, losing his illusions as he encounters vice in all its forms. François Marie Arouet was born in Paris, France, in 1694, the youngest child of a cultured middle-class family. Educated by the Jesuits at the College Louis-Le-Grand, Arouet abandoned the study of law for a literary career. His first work (Imitation de I'ode du R.P. Lejay sur Sainte Germaine) was published in 1710. Arouet soon discovered his gift for satire, which would land him in trouble over and over again. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

Garden City, New York: THE SUN DIAL PRESS, 1946 Captain from Castile. Action-packed historical romance set during Cortés's conquest of the Aztecs. The novel would be made into a film in 1947, starring Tyrone Power as Spanish nobleman Pedro De Vargas. Shellabarger was a historian who taught at Princeton from 1914 to 1923 before he became a full-time writer of popular historical romances, including Prince of Foxes (1947) and The King's Cavalier (1950). SAMUEL SHELLABARGER(1888¿1954), American educator and author. TERRIFIC BOOK, RED COVER, TIGHT BINDING. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, BLACK PRINT SPINE, RED ON TOP OF PAGES. 1776 BOOKSTORE, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.