Rare books from Jans Collectibles: Vintage Books

New York: D. Appleton And Company, 1869 Chipped top and bottom of the spine, badly bumped corners, mesh binding still tight, Couple of news paper clippings inside the front board, one attached to the board and one newspaper clipping attached to the inside back board, 351 pages. Each page has an inch margin around it. Classically, Poetically, and Practically. Contains numerous curoius dishes and feasts of all times and all countries besides three hundred modern receipts.

Harper Crest, 1967 Yellow boards, tape marks where mylar covered dust jacket is attached. Dust jacket very good. Price clipped; Ex-Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

The Reilly & Britton, 1904 This is the first edition, first printing, 3rd state. This is the first edition with the following state points. Date of 1904 on title page, with published July 1904 on the copyright page. Red cloth binding with silver lettering, title Marvelous omitted from cover. With 16 color illustrations. The book is in good condition for being almost a 100 year old children's book. HInges worn to some degree but covers still holding tight. Covers remain nice and bright. Very little if any degree of rubbing. Smudge mark to back cover. Pages are clean and all color plates are present. No childrens cray on marks or pencil. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 287 pages

New York: Harcourt , Brace And Company, 1935 Bright blue cloth boards, faded spine, cloth broken bottom corner tip and top corner tip. Cracked inner spine.Inscribed by the illustrator Reginald Birch with a drawing of a woman with an angle playing instrument. The
illustration has creases and some waves but not directly on the illustration but some on the inscription. Color of illustration has bled
through to the back of the page.

The date and year are unknown (40's or 50's). This is a vintage manuscript, unpublished. There are 5 pages of typed pages with corrections of the text and 14 heavy cardboard watercolors , they look very professional and are beautifully done. Some of the watercolors are
very similar or almost look like copies of the others, only the colors
have changed or some minor differences.

Helen Bullock, 1933 A manuscript of a book never published. Sweet book illustrated. Typed text, 50 pages. An inch darkened strip on the right hand of the title page. In a black (University) three hole binder with reinforced holes.
Helen Bullock was 18 years old according to book title page. The color
illustrations are really cute. One of a kind of book.

New York: Simon And Schuster, 1957 Nice lot , A little Golden Book, The Lone Ranger and Tonto , very good condition, with signed card and a signed 8x10 black and white photo by
Clayton Moore. The photo comes with a certificate of authenticity by AHQ America. The photo is signed in a blue pen.

Pennsylvania This is an original manuscript of a children's book never published with original art. The cover is in fair condition, lots of edge wear and chips. An original color drawing on the front of the cover, very cute of mice.
The book is dedicated to Cornelia Sturges. No date but probably early 1900's. The title page is printed in color pencils. Most pages are typed.
12 original illustrations in varying sizes in color and black and white. I counted 12 typed pages. Two illustrations are missing. Binding is hole punched and string tied. Some loose pages.

Lillian Baker Sturges has a professional status as a fiction and non fiction writer and editor. Lillian was born November 19, 1886 in Pennsylvania and passed away in May of1968 at the age of 81 in Pennsylvania. Lillian lived in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.

She wrote several children's books The Runaway Toys and The Goose Girl

She also wrote a book on hat pins published by Collector Books and a
book entitle Art Nouveau & Art… Read More

New York: Henry Holt And Company, 1949 Black boards with a red cloth spine in very good condition. The corners are bumped and the cloth is broken on three corners and one of the three corners barely showing. Nice color not fading. Inside pages clean and unmarked except for signature and inscription.<p>

The only copyright date is 1949..

Signed by Audie Murphy on the first blank page and an inscription on the title page in blue ink. on the end paper in black ink.<p>

Dust jacket is price clipped and has a lot of edge wear, creases and bends. an inch chip on the back of the dust jacket and some chips to the dust jacket spine. A small nick to the bend at the folds in.<p>

America's most decorated hero of World War II <p>

Audie Murphy recounts his personal experiences in the foxholes and dugouts of World war II. It is a first hand story of the men who carried the guns, the little men who had only their friends and their weapons between them and the enemy. Told in… Read More

USA: Penguin Books, 1985 Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs, inscribed and signed my Mr.
Burroughs.<p>

The copyright dates on the inside of the title page states that Penguin
books first printing was in 1979 and the last printing in this book was 1985. The back of the book states that the design cover was done
by Neil Stuart in 1984 Art selected by Andrew Wylie, =<p>

The book has an inscription on the inside front cover but it is not in English and I do not know what it says.<p>

The book comes with an obituary of Mr. Burroughs, in front of him on the cover are a bunch of roses, also comes with a sheet listing the Casket Bearers, Honorary Casket Bearers, Appreciation, and music selections. The back of the sheet is verses fromUlysses.<p>

The story behind this book/bundle is quite amazing. While this person lived in Brooklyn, the man around the corner from his apartment cheated on his wife and she caught him and they had a big fight that the whole building could hear and… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1952 First edition, first printing. Stated first edition on the copyright page with the code I-B<p>

The book is in near fine condition. Nice end papers with no writing.
Inside pages clean and unmarked.<p>

Dust jacket is price clipped, mylar covered, Faint chips at the top and bottom of the spine. A small 1/2" tear top of dust jacket spine. Very
tiny nick to the dust jacket top corner. A 1/2" tear top edge to the back of the dust jacket.

Boston: Lee And Shepard, 1870 Alice's Adventures In Wonderland in good condition.<p>

Front board cracked and coming loose from the book at the title page.. Front title page loose but in the book. Page three loose
from the book , complete 192 pages.<p>

Gold tipped edges. The second edition puiblished in the US after the 1869 edition Lee and Appleton which used sheets printed in the UK. Faded spine.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1966 Yellow cloth boards with red text. A few smudges and dirt but over all in good condition. No broken cloth, No dust jacket.<p>

The inscription was ripped out at some point and taped back in.
The inscription sayes To our friend and neighbor Hope from
Margaret and Hans June 12, 1974. A large original drawing of George holding a bouquet of flowers with a get well soon tag in color. Stated seventh printing. You can see the drawing bleeding through the print side of the end paper<p>

With several hours of research on line, the inscription is by Hans.
If you look at all other inscriptions and signatures by both Margaret
and Hans, their r's is written differently and this is his. Also, he almost always signed inscriptions as HaRey and never Hans, making this rarer. The illustration is realy cute as well.<p>

Not an expert on signatures , so you be the judge.