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Williamson, C.N. & A.M. The Lightning Conductor: The Strange Adventures of a Motor-Car. RARE. First title in a very popular series of books about touring in early automobiles. London, 1903 Methuen Stated Second Edition. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Green boards. 345 pages plus adverts. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾. Includes Photographs. Our front cover features a party of three persons in a touring car. Illustrated with Photographs.

The Land Of Mist. A Professor Challenger Adventure. By A. Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes books. First edition of the third novel in the author's Professor Challenger series. 1926 Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., London. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, original publishers cloth. USED. Good- Condition/ No DJ Included. 286 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 5/8. Does not include publishers' Spring flyer. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

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.

Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped (South Seas Edition) 1925, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY. Volume XI of the series. USED. VG Condition/ Good original green dust jacket. Front of green jacket states Complete, Authorized, copyrighted. Green and white ocean map endpapers. 264 pages. 4 ½ X 6 7/8. Please see stock photo of cover design for this series.

Steig, William Brave Irene. 1988 Sunburst Edition, 1986 Farrar, Straus and Giroux copyright. USED. VG Condition. Softcover. ISBN0374409277. Unpaginated. Large format 7 ½ X 10 ½. A story about love and courage. "Brave Irene is Irene Bobbin, the dressmaker's daughter. Her mother, Mrs. Bobbin, isn't feeling so well and can't possibly deliver the beautiful ball gown she's made for the duchess to wear that very evening. So plucky Irene volunteers to get the gown to the palace on time, in spite of the fierce snowstorm that's brewing-- quite an errand for a little girl." Written and illustrated by William Steig, Author/ Illustrator of Shrek!

The Poison Belt. 1913 FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. By Arthur Conan Doyle. Hodder & Stoughton/ George H. Doran. States Hodder & Stoughton on the spine. RARE. Illustrated. Red Boards with gilt titling. Gilting still bright. All 16 B&W plates, including frontis, present and affixed to binding. THE PROFESSOR CHALLENGER SERIES. "Being an account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger. USED. Bright pages. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 5 ¼ X 7 ¾. 252 pages. RARE.

Sutton, Margaret. The Invisible Chimes,(Judy Bolton Mystery #3). . 1932, Grosset & Dunlap. Used. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Green Boards with brown titling and ornamentation. Summary: "When Judy Bolton meets a strange girl who cannot seem to remember her own name, Judy is determined to find out her identity. At first, she wants to help the girl she has named "Honey." But Honey was found in the company of thieves. Could it be she is not telling the truth about her past?" 213 pages. 5 1/4 X 7 5/8.

117AldridgeCat Aldridge, Alan. The Ship's Cat Stated First American Edition, 1977, Alfred A. Knopf. Complete title: "THE ADVENTURES AND BRAVE DEEDS OF THE SHIP'S CAT ON THE SPANISH MAINE, Together with the Most Lamentable Losse of the Alcestis and Triumphant Firing of the Port of Chagres". By artist Alan Aldridge and Richard Adams, author of "Watership Down" and "Shardik". EXLIB. VERY GOOD CONDITION/VERY GOOD PRICE-CLIPPED DUST JACKET. 8 7/8 X 11 1/4. Unpaginated. Protected in a mylar wrap.

Agatha Christie. The Clocks, A Hercule Poirot Mystery. 2013, Center Point Pub. Thorndike, Maine. LARGE PRINT EDITION. RARE/SCARCE THUS. ISBN 9781611737127. 5 7/8 X 8 ¾. 350 pages. EXLIB. VG/VG unclipped $34.95 DJ. Synopsis: "A hired stenographer lets herself into her client's home only to realize that the body of a dead man is sprawled across the living room floor. When recounting the scene to Detective Poirot, She distinctly remembers a cuckoo clock striking three but all the living room clocks showed 4:13. Poirot determines that, even more strangely, only one of these clocks belonged to the owner of the house."

203ChristiePaddington Agatha Christie. 4.50 From Paddington, 1957, Collins, London FIRST EDITION. USED. VG-/VG- UNCLIPPED DJ, ORIGINAL PRICE 12S 6D NET. Protected in a mylar wrap. Synopsis: "4.50 from Paddington (Miss Marple) is a detective fiction novel by Agatha Christie, first published in November, 1957 by Collins Crime Club. A Collins Crime Club Choice This work was published in the United States at the same time as What Mrs. Mc-Gillicuddy Saw!, by Dodd, Mead. 5 X 7 5/8. 256 pages. YOUR OFFERS ARE WELCOME HERE!

Christie, Agatha: Remembered Death (aka Sparkling Cyanide) 1945 HARDCOVER WITH DUST JACKET. Unabridged. Please see our stock photo. Used. VG/Fair unclipped DJ. 209 pages. 5 3/8 X 7 ¾. A COLONEL RACE MYSTERY.

Traven, B. : The Treasure Of Sierra Madre. 1994 THORNDIKE PRESS LARGE-PRINT EDITION. Thorndike, Maine. EXLIB. Good/ No DJ if issued. ISBN0786201002. 533 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ¾. Summary: "The story of three American adventurers who search for a lost gold mine in the mountains of Mexico. A tale of 'gold fever' and desperate greed." Basis for the Humphrey Bogart, John Houston film of the same name.

Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible VG/VG Used. HarperCollins 1998 Stated First Edition. Plot Summary: "In 1959 an overzealous Baptist minister named Nathan Price drags his wife and four daughters deep into the heart of the Congo on a mission to save the unenlightened souls of Africa. The five women narrate the novel. From the outset, the attitudes of the five women cover a wide spectrum." 6 1/2 X 9 5/8. 543 pages. Used. VG/VG. ISBN0060175400

Kingsolver, Barbara: The Poisonwood Bible VG/VG Used. 1998, HarperCollins Stated First Edition. Plot Summary: "In 1959 an overzealous Baptist minister named Nathan Price drags his wife and four daughters deep into the heart of the Congo on a mission to save the unenlightened souls of Africa. The five women narrate the novel. From the outset, the attitudes of the five women cover a wide spectrum." 6 1/2 X 9 5/8. 543 pages. Used. VG/VG. ISBN0060175400

Double Star. By Robert A. Heinlein. Doubleday & Company, Inc. BCE. 1956, Doubleday Science Fiction. CLASSIC SCI-FI. Used. VG/Good- original dust jacket. Summary: Lorenzo Smythe, an out-of-work actor, finds himself shanghaied on a spaceship bound for Mars and big trouble. 190 pages. 5 ¾ X 8 ½.

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life. By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Author of the Sherlock Holmes Series. First American Edition. D. Appleton & Co. Copyright 1894. A collection of medical and detective stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective series. VG condition/ no DJ included if originally issued. A square, solid copy with bright pages. A rare find in nice condition like this one. 5 x 7 ¾. 307 pages plus adverts.

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."

Dashiell Hammett: Five Complete Novels. MYSTERY ANTHOLOGY. The Thin Man and his wire-haired terrier Asta dust jacket design. See stock photo. Unabridged. 5 Novels are: Red Harvest, The Dain Curse, The Maltese Falcon, The Glass Key, The Thin Man. 1980 Avenel First Printing Thus. Used. VG/ Good Unclipped DJ. Original price $15.95. Maroon leatherette boards with gilt titling on spine. titling is still bright. 726 pages. 6 1/8 X 9 ¼. Pages are toning at the margins.

Jules Verne: Jules A Journey To The Centre Of The Earth 1959 Dodd, Mead Science Fiction Book Club Edition. Special introduction by Arthur C. Clarke. USED. VG/G original red, black and white Jean Morton dust jacket. Spine of jacket is skinned by price label removal. Beige boards, red topstain, 226 pages, binding is tight. Plot summary:" In Jules Verne's JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, a geology professor, Otto Lindenbrock, and his nephew Axel discover and decode an ancient document that purports to show that a dormant volcano holds a secret entrance to a series of caverns leading to a subterranean world at the earth's center. In the name of scientific discovery, they follow the instructions and undertake a hazardous journey deep within the earth..."

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!