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Beebe, Lucius. Legends of the Comstock Lode. Paperback. 1954, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. By Lucius Beebe and Charles Clegg. First Edition Thus. USED. VG Condition/ None as issued. 82 pages, indexed. 6 X 9 1/8. Comstock Lode, California Gold Rush, Mining, History of California.

Beebe, Lucius. Comstock Commotion: The Story of The Territorial Enterprise and Virginia City News. Copyright 1954, Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ included. A nice copy. USED. 129 pages 6 ¼ X 9 5/8. California Gold Rush, Mining, Comstock Lode, Virginia City Nevada. Journalism. History of California. 19th Century.

Steig, William The Lonely Ones. Copyright 1942, First Edition. Duell Sloane and Pearce, NY. USED. VG/VG Original dust jacket. QUITE RARE THUS. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Cartoons by New Yorker Magazine contributor and author and illustrator of SHREK!, WILLIAM STEIG. 102 pages, 5 3/8 X 7 ¾.

Devol, George H. Forty Years A Gambler On The Mississippi. 1926 Henry Holt First Edition. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ is included. 5 1/4 X 7 5/8 288 Pages. Red boards with playing card emblem at center front. Spine states "Of The Mississippi" in error. Summary: In his "Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi" Devol recounts dozens of anecdotes of how he plied his Three-Card Monte and sharp dealing skills to cheat the cheaters and/or suckers on steamboats and in river towns over more than four decades in the mid-nineteenth century American South" Please see our stock photos.

BABBITT. BY SINCLAIR LEWIS. Used. No Dust Jacket is included if issued. USED. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ No DJ Included. Harcourt, Brace & Company First Edition, Stated Fourth Printing Thus, November, 1922. Please see our photos. .5 1/8 X7 1/2. 401 pages plus adverts.

Bierce, Ambrose. In The Midst Of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. Copyrright 1891 Chatto & Windus. London. States only: Printed by Spottiswoode and Co.' on the copyright page. 1892 on title page. Used. VG Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy Blue Boards with Gilt titling and blindstamped floral ornamentation at center front panel. Titling on spine is still good. Used. Documentary Anthology. Short stories of the American Civil War. Documentary. War Stories. Military History. About Ambrose Bierce: "The fate of this author is unknown. In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared and was never seen again." 5 X 7 3/4 244 pages plus LOTS of adverts. RARE.

209LewisBabbittRed Sinclair Lewis. Babbitt. Copyright 1922. No other info appears on the copyright page. Harcourt Brace, NY. This is an undated Harbrace reissue edition, circa 1936 Printed from First Edition second issue plates with the correction of "Lyte" for "Purdy" on p. 49, line 4. USED. VG/Good-. Dark red boards and original maroon dust. Quite rare thus. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. 401 pages.

Wilder, Laura Ingalls: On the Banks of Plum Creek. 1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform edition. ILLUSTRATED BYGARTH WILLIAMS. Used. VG-/ NO DUST JACKET IS INCLUDED. Hardcover. Apple Green Boards. Little House on the Prairie series The book tells about the family's move to Plum Creek, Laura's first time going to school, and grasshoppers that eat their crops. 339 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¼. Please see stock photo of Garth Williams cover art.

172ScottReporter Scott, Jane: Barbara Owen: Girl Reporter. 1956, Avalon Books First Edition. WOMEN IN JOURNALISM. EXLIB. Good/Good original price-clipped blue dust jacket. 5 ¼ X 8 224 pages. A nice find. RARE.

167MarshTitanic Marsh, Ed W. James Cameron's Titanic. Stated First HarperPerennial Edition, 1st Printing thus, 1997. AS NEW. SOFTCOVER. ILLUSTRATED WITH COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS. Please see our stock photo. ISBN0060953241. Large format. 4to., 178 pages. An inside look at the making of the blockbuster film starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Scarce. $41.95. Domestic US sales only, please.

Battaglia, Aurelius. Captain Kangaroo Storybook. Random House 1963. Used. VG/ No DJ as issued. LARGE FORMAT. 9 ½ X 13. HARD TO FIND. A clean, solid copy.

Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's. Douglas, Ann. Farrer First Noonday Press Edition, 1996. Softcover. Used. VG Condition. 6 1/8 X 9 1/8 606 pages, indexed. Summary: "Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan In The 1920's" is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann Douglas arugues that when, after World War I, the United States began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, New York became the heart of a daring and accomplished historical transformation."

Jewett, Sarah Orne: The Country Of the Pointed Firs .Franklin Watts, ca 1986, A Keith Jennison Book. Large-Print Edition. RARE/SCARCE. EXLIB. VG Condition/ VG clear plastic dj. 8 ¾ x 11 3/8. 247 pages. Please see stock photo. Our copy is not stamped discard on the front cover and includes the RARE original white and green dust jacket for this edition. "A classic of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders, and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England Character."

Pauli, Hertha: Her Name Was Sojourner Truth. 1962 Stated First Edition Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. Used. HARD TO FIND. A Biography of Sojourner Truth. Civil War Era. About Ms. Truth: "Sojourner Truth was an American abolitionist and women's rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826. After going to court to recover her son in 1828, she became the first black woman to win such a case against a white man." VG/Good original unclipped $4.95 purple dust jacket. Maroon boards with bright silver titling on the spine. 249 pages, indexed. 53/4 X 8 ¼.

MARGARET MITCHELL: Gone With The Wind, published December, 1939 by The Macmillan Company. MOTION PICTURE EDITION. First Printing Thus. Paperback. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ issued. Bound in yellow pictorial stiff card wraps. Clark Cable and Vivien Leigh front cover. 391 pages 7 X 9 1/2. Scarce. Includes 12 pages of color prints from the film. Plot summary: "Epic Civil War drama focuses on the life of petulant Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara. Starting with her idyllic life on a sprawling plantation, the film traces her survival through the tragic history of the South during the Civil War and Reconstruction, and her tangled love affairs with Ashley Wilkes and Rhett Butler."

Wilder, Laura Ingalls. By The Shores Of Silver Lake,1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams Little House on the Prairie series. Used. VG-/G- unclipped $2.95 dust jacket. 1 inch loss at top of dj spine. The family moves from Minnesota and Laura and Mary take a thrilling train ride during which an attempted payroll robbery takes place.

Wilder Laura Ingalls: The Long Winter. 1953 Harper & Brothers Uniform Edition. Pictures by Garth Williams. BIOGRAPHY. Used. VG/Acceptable $2.95 Original Snowball fight Dust Jacket. Back panel of jacket is water- stained. The story of the hard winter of 1880-1881 in the Dakota Territory with the pioneer Ingalls Family. Little House on the Prairie series. 335 pages. 6 X 8 ¼.

Mulford,Clarence Edward: Bar-20, 1907 First Edition, The Outing Publishing Company, New York. Title page states MCMVII. HOPALONG CASSIDY #1. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth and F.E. Schoonover. Used. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Red boards with Large gilt titles. Black titling on spine. Hinges cracked. N.C. Wyeth Illustration at center front shows Hopalong "Hoppy" Cassidy sitting on a barn wall. Plot summary: "In Bar-20, the first Hopalong Cassidy novel by Clarence E. Mulford, Cassidy could fan a gun like a Billy the Kid... Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. No one in the state of Texas could beat him. Until he met Slim Travennes, head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee. Slim was snake-fast. No man could go up against him and live. No man. Hoppy could stand or die. He had no other choice. None at all".

RARE OCTOBER, 1908 HARPER & BROTHERS. UNEXPURGATED FIRST EDITION. INCLUDES THE WATERMELON PAGE. COLOUR PRINTS. ILLUSTRATED BY PETER NEWELL. HOLE-DRILLED. ANTIQUARIAN. Good USED condition/ No DJ Included. USED. Front paper paste-down is scuffed. Binding is tight and all plates look in good shape. Finger marks noted. 7 3/8 X 8 7/8. This is so much fun! Like watching animation go by one frame at a time. And we're off, like a shot!

By Peter Newell, author of "The Hole Book". The Rocket Book, Harper & Brothers Stated October, 1912 First Printing. USED. GOOD+ CONDITION/ NO DUST JACKET INCLUDED. 7 1/8 X 8 7/8. Seller's Note: Sadly, (no one is sadder than me) the Front paper paste-down label has been removed from cover. Minor corner-bumps. No titling on spine if printed there originally. Pages are all present, in nice shape, and affixed to binding. HOLE-DRILLED straight through the book. RARE IN THIS FIRST PRINTING.