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NEW YORK: SAM'L GABRIEL SONS & COMPANY, 1915 RARE ANTIQUE CHILDRENS BOOK, TOLD BY TERRIBLE TOWSER HIMSELF. NICE LOOKING COVER WITH DOGS PLAYING, WEAR ON EDGES, COUPLE MARKS COVER, INSIDE FRONT AND BACK SOME ERASED PENCIL MARKINGS. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT, PAGE 15/16 LOOSE BUT GOOD SHAPE, SOME LIGHT BROWNING PAGE EDGES. NICE ARTWORK AND STORY THAT KIDS LOVE. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

USA: American Book Company, 1914 NICE LOOKING BROWN BOOK, GREEN DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, BROWN PRINT. FORMER OWNERS NAME IN THE FRONT. CHOSEN AND ARRANGED BY HANSON HART WEBSTER; AND FANNY E. COE, TEACHER OF ENGLISH IN THE BOSTON NORMAL SCHOOL. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AUTHOR BY J.G. LOCKHART, DR. JOHN BROWN AND WASHINGTON IRVING. TIGHT AND CLEAN FILLED WITH WONDERFUL WRITINGS AND ARTWORK. Scott, Sir Walter (1771¿1832), novelist, poet, and essayist of the romantic period, concerned with Scottish Border legends and traditions throughout his lifetime. His Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802¿3) was a collection of folk and literary ballads in three volumes and contained his important early essay ¿The Fairies of Popular Superstition¿. While the elfin people play a role in his poetry, notably in ¿The Lay of the Last Minstrel¿, they and their lore are featured even more prominently in his novels. The Monastery (1820) discusses the nature of elemental spirits… Read More

MOUNT VERNON: PETER PAUPER PRESS, 1947 VERY NICE LOOKING BLACK COVER WITH WHITE DESIGN, WHITE WITH RED PRINT SPINE, CLEAN AND TIGHT, NO MARKINGS INSIDE, NICE LOOKING RED PROTECTIVE COVER. 21 TALES BY BOCCACCIO WITH ARTWORK . VERY NICE BOOK. Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 ¿ 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist. Boccaccio wrote a number of notable works, including The Decameron and On Famous Women. He wrote his imaginative literature mostly in the Italian vernacular, as well as other works in Latin, and is particularly noted for his realistic dialogue which differed from that of his contemporaries, medieval writers who usually followed formulaic models for character and plot. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: BOOKS, INC., 1946 LIGHT GRAY TEXTURED COVER, GOLD DESIGN FRONT, RED REINFORCED SPINE. LIGHT WEAR OUTSIDE AND FADING SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK BY RHEAD. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. BEAUTIFUL COLOR ARTWORK FRONTISPIECE. SHAKESPEARE MOST FAMOUS WORKS. INTERESTING AND ENTERTAINING. William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").[6][c] His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. Louis John Rhead (November 6, 1857 – July 29, 1926) was an English-born American artist, illustrator, author and angler who was born in Etruria, Staffordshire, England. He emigrated to the United States at the age of… Read More

PHILADELPHIA: JAMES CRISSY, 1826 LEATHER HARD BACK, GOLD AND RED DESIGN SPINE, LIGHTLY WORN COVER, CLEAN AND TIGHT INSIDE. VOLUME ONE OF THREE. CLEISBOTHAM WAS A SCHOOLMASTER AND PARISH CLERK OF GANDERCLEUGH. VERY NICE BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF SIR WALTER SCOTT. Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot (15 August 1771 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright, and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include The Lady of the Lake (narrative poem) and the novels Waverley, Old Mortality (or The Tale of Old Mortality), Rob Roy, The Heart of Mid-Lothian, The Bride of Lammermoor, and Ivanhoe. Tales of my Landlord is a series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (17711832) that form a subset of the so-called Waverley Novels. They were so called because they were supposed to be tales collected from the (fictional) landlord of the Wallace Inn at Gandercleugh, compiled by a "Peter Pattieson",… Read More

LONDON: BURGESS & BOWES, LTD., 1964 VERY NICE MIDGET CLASSIC WITH RED CUSHIONED COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, GOLD PAGE EDGES. COVERED CELLOPHANE COVER FOR PROTECTION, BLACK BOX SLIP COVER BOOK STORED IN. ALMOST NEW CONDITION, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. GLOSSARY AND SONNETS AFTER PAGE 197. VERY NICE SMALL COPY. The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion. The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

USA: American Book Company, 1902 1872 NOVEL,FRENCH AUTHOR, NOVEL IN FRENCH WITH VERY NICE NOTES AND VOCABULARY ENGLISH. TAN COVER, BLUE DESIGN WITH BLUE PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. NICE LOOKING BOOK, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, NO OTHER MARKINGS, TIGHT, CLEAN. Alphonse Daudet (French: [dod¿]; 13 May 1840 ¿ 16 December 1897) was a French novelist. He was the husband of Julia Daudet and father of Edmée Daudet, and writers Léon Daudet and Lucien Daudet. The Provence town of Tarascon is so enthusiastic about hunting that no game lives anywhere near it, and its inhabitants resort to telling hunting stories and throwing their own caps in the air to shoot at them. Tartarin, a plump middle-aged man, is the chief "cap-hunter", but following his enthusiastic reaction to seeing an Atlas lion in a travelling menagerie, the over-imaginative town understands him to be planning a hunting expedition to Algeria. So as not to lose face, Tartarin is forced to go, after gathering an… Read More

CHICAGO: CHARLES C. THOMPSON CO., 1904 VERY NICE LOOKING RED COVER, PICTURE BRADLEY ON FRONT, NICE DECORATION FRONT AND SPINE. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT WITH VERY NICE ARTWORK, 58 ILLUSTRATIONS. 22 CHAPTERS, 58 ILLUSTRATIONS. VERY ENTERTAINING BOOK SHOWING THE INTERNAL WORKINGS AND LIFE IN POLITICS. FOR THE LOVER OF LIFE AND POLITICS. Forrest Crissey (June 1, 1864 – November 5, 1943), was a prolific early twentieth-century American writer of books and articles. His most famous work was Tattlings of a Retired Politician, a 1904 book which entails the humorous but fictional letters of William Bradley. Other notable works included The story of foods, 1917; Where Opportunity Knocks Twice, 1914; The Romance of Moving Money (Brink's, Inc.), 1934; Alexander Legge 1866-1933, 1936; stories and articles in The Saturday Evening Post. From 1901 to 1934 he was on their staff while also writing other books, articles, and biographical information of various types.

PHILADELPHIA: JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY, 1897 NICE LOOKING BROWN COVER WHICH HAS SOME FADING. A RARE BOOKFROM THE SERIES OF CASTLEMON. SHOWS A FRONTIERSMEN AND NAVY MAN ON THE COVER AND IN BETWEEN INSIDE A BOAT STEERING WHEEL IS A PICTURE OF INDIAN TEPEES. CCAN STILL SEE RED AND BLUE COLOR ON FRONT OF COVER, WORN MOSTLY OFF OF SPINE. FIGURE ON SPINE IS QUITE WORN, PRINTED ABOVE PUBLISHER NAME LIBRARY EDITION- SOME MUST HAVE BEEN PRINTED ESPECIALLY FOR LIBRARIES- HOWEVER THERE ARE NO OTHER INDICATIONS THIS WAS ACTUALLY A LIBRARY COPY. SMALL SPOT ON BACK COVER WHERE HAD BEEN TEAR, ONLY INTERNAL MARKINGS ARE A SIGNATURE AND DATE INSIDE FRONT SIGNED BY FORMER OWNER. TIGHT AND IN GOOD SHAPE. GOOD SHAPE FOR OLD BOOK. COLOR ART FRONT AND BACK VERY NICE, FIRST COUPLE PAGES FRONT. HARRY CASTLEMON- (1842¿1915), American author of boys¿ adventure stories. Castlemon was born Charles Austin Fosdick in Randolph, New York, but grew up in Buffalo, where his father was a public-school principal. His series… Read More

NEW YORK: HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY, 1912 RARE NICE LOOKING BOOK ON HYDRAULICS. WRITTEN BY GEORGE E. RUSSELL, PROFESSOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT SPINE, FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT, GREAT DETAIL VARIOUS TOPICS, ILLUSTRATIONS, EQUATIONS, SOME NOTES IN PENCIL, VERY GOOD SHAPE, CLEAN, TIGHT. Hydraulics is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counterpart of pneumatics, which concerns gases. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKD LIVE.

New York: Walter J. Black, Inc., 1932 GREAT BOOK FROM A FAMOUS FRENCH NOVELIST. ONE OF HIS FIRST WORKS THAT MADE FAMOUS. NICE LOOKING TAN BOOK, LEATHER SPINE, RED DESIGN, RAISED RIBS AND BROWN PRINT SPINE, FORMER OWNERS NAME STAMPED FRONT, TIGHT AND CLEAN, LIGHT BROWN COLORING INSIDE FRONT AND BACK. Anatole France (French: [anat¿l f¿¿¿s]; born François-Anatole Thibault, [fr¿¿swa anat¿l tibo]; 16 April 1844 ¿ 12 October 1924) was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. Thaïs is a novel by Anatole France published in 1890. It is based on events in the life of Saint Thaïs of Egypt, a legendary convert to Christianity who is said to have lived in the 4th century. It was the inspiration for the opera of the same name by Jules Massenet. The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (French: Le Crime de Sylvestre Bonnard) is the first novel by Anatole France, published in 1881. With this work,… Read More

UNITED STATES: BELFORD, CLARKE & CO., 1887 NICE LOOKING RARE BOOK, BLACK TEXTURED COVER, GOLD PRINT FRONT AND SPINE, TITLE PAGE LOOSE BUT GOOD SHAPE, NEW EDITION COMPLETE ONE VOLUME. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. TERRIFIC BOOK FOR THE LOVER OF GREAT WRITING IN FICTION AND POETRY. Impressions of Theophrastus Such is a work of fiction by George Eliot (Marian Evans), first published in 1879. It was Eliot's last published writing and her most experimental, taking the form of a series of literary essays by an imaginary minor scholar whose eccentric character is revealed through his work. In a series of eighteen sometimes satirical character studies, Theophrastus Such focuses on various types of people he has observed in society. Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Anne or Marian, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.[3] She wrote seven novels: Adam Bede (1859), The… Read More

NEW YORK: P. F. COLLIER & SON, 1932 VERY NICE LOOKING GREEN COVER WITH GOLD WHITE AND BROWN DESIGN AND PRINT. FROM LOWELL THOMAS ADVENTURE LIBRARY. NO INTERNAL MARKINGS, TIGHT AND CLEAN. Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 August 29, 1981) was an American writer, broadcaster, and traveler, best known as the man who made Lawrence of Arabia famous. Thomas was born in Woodington, Darke County, Ohio, to Harry and Harriet (Wagner) Thomas. His father was a doctor, his mother a teacher. In 1900, the family moved to the mining town of Victor, Colorado. Thomas worked there as a gold miner, a cook, and a reporter on the newspaper. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.

CHICAGO: W. B. CONKEY COMPANY, 1903 RARE NICE LOOKING BOOK, COVER WITH THE THREE BEARS AND SILVER LOCKS. BEAUTIFUL ARTWORK THROUGHOUT. OTHER STORIES INCLUDE JACK AND THE BEANSTALK, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, THE ANIMAL CIRCUS AND REYNARD THE FOX. TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. BEAUTIFUL BOOK AND POPULAR CHILDREN STORIES IN EARLY HISTORY. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERSTING BOOKS LIVE.

CHICAGO: DONOHUE, HENNEBERRY & CO., 1890 NICE LOOKING DARK RED COVER, SILVER DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME INSIDE FRONT. PAGES HAVE A VERY LIGHT BROWN TINT FROM AGE, TITLE PAGE IS LOOSE BUT IN GOOD SHAPE. TIGHT AND CLEAN OTHERWISE THROUGHOUT. PUBLISHED DATE NOT LISTED, CIRCA 1890. Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxfordand back to Kingston. The book was initially intended to be a serious travel guide, with accounts of local history along the route, but the humorous elements took over. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

NEW YORK: A.L. BURT COMPANY, 1918 RARE CLASSIC WITH 1ST EDITION WITH LIGHT GREEN COVER, BLACK DESIGN AND PRINT FRONT AND SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE, FORMER OWNER NAME INSIDE FRONT, FRONTISPIECE IS COLOR ART OF A LADY WITH ROSES. TIGHT AND CLEAN. Marjorie Benton Cooke (1876 - April 1920) was an American monologist, playwright, and novelist. A specialist in comic dramatic sketches and light romantic fiction, she also wrote and performed monologues on suffragist issues. THRESHOLD RELATED A STORY ABOUT WOMEN'S WORK. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE INTERESTING BOOKS LIVE.

CHICAGO: LAIRD & LEE, 1889 DARK BLACK COVER, NICE DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE, ILLUSTRATION PAGES LOOSE AND INTACT, CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT, LIGHT BROWNING PAGE EDGES DUE TO AGE, FORMER OWNER NAME FRONT, 25 CHAPTERS, INTRODUCTION BY BAILIE EXPLAINING HISTORY AND ROMANCE COVERED. TERRIFIC BOOK ON THE CATASTROPHE AND A ROMANCE THAT CAME ABOUT AND LIVED AFTERWARD. The Johnstown Flood, sometimes referred to locally as Great Flood of 1889, occurred on Friday, May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam, located on the south fork of the Little Conemaugh River, 14 miles (23 km) upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, United States. The dam ruptured after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, releasing 14.55 million cubic meters of water. With a volumetric flow rate that temporarily equaled the average flow rate of the Mississippi River, the flood killed 2,208 people and accounted for US$17,000,000 (equivalent to about $550,000,000 in 2022) in damage. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: THE UPLIFT PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1907 NICE LOOKING TEXTURED COVER WITH PICTURE OF A WOMAN READING TO CHILDREN, BLACK PRINT SPINE, TIGHT AND CLEAN THROUGHOUT. 52 SECTIONS FILLED WITH STORIES AND GUIDANCE IN DEALING WITH CHILDREN. VERY ENTERTAINING AND EDUCATIONAL ON CHILDREN AND HOW TO EDUCATE AND GUIDE. WONDERFUL BOOK FOR THOSE THAT HAVE OR WORK WITH CHILDREN. AN INSIGHT INTO THE CHILDS WORLD. ANTIQUE BOOKDS DEN, WHERE BOOKS WITH CHARACTER LIVE. Sylvanus Stall (18 October 1847 6 November 1915) was a United States Lutheran pastor, most famous for his 1897 sex education and anti-masturbation book What A Young Boy Ought To Know and its many sequels. Stall was born in Elizaville, New York (now part of Gallatin). In 1866 he entered Hartwick Seminary, then Pennsylvania State University and the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was ordained a minister in 1874. Stall held a Doctor of Divinity degree. He was initially a pastor in Cobleskill, New York (187477), Martins Creek,… Read More

NEW YORK: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 BEAUTIFUL DARK GREEN COVER, GOLD PRINT AND DESIGN FRONT AND SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME AND LABEL INSIDE FRONT. CLEAN AND TIGHT THROUGHOUT. VERY NICE ARTWORK BY WRIGHT PICTURES THROUGHOUT. MADE INTO SILENT FILM 1917. VERY NICE BOOK. Francis Hopkinson Smith (October 23, 1838 April 7, 1915) was an American author, artist and engineer. He built the foundation for the Statue of Liberty, wrote many stories and received awards for his paintings. The Tides of Barnegat is a 1917 American drama silent film directed by Marshall Neilan and written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and Eve Unsell. The film stars Blanche Sweet, Elliott Dexter, Tom Forman, Norma Nichols, Billy Jacobs and Walter Rodgers. The film was released on April 12, 1917, by Paramount Pictures.

New York: ALFRED A. KNOPF, 1972 TERRIFIC BOOK ON A PART OF AMERICAN HISTORY. A GREAT PART OF NATIVE AMERICAN LIFE. NICE LOOKING BOOK, TIGHT WITH NO MARKINGS. WONDERFUL BOOK about the history of the buffalo. Pictures and artwork are tremendous. For anyone interested in history of the buffalo, Native American and the United States. ANTUQE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.