First Edition. Octavo, original illustrated gray cloth, illustrated and printed dustjacket. Collection of short stories including a nautical adventure yarn. Scarce in original dustjacket. This copy with clipped Aldrich signature laid in. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some darkening at spine, top spine end chipped cm deep, few small chips at lower spine end. Item #14101
First Edition. duodecimo, original illustrated wrappers. Collection of short stories including a nautical adventure yarn. Scarce in original wraps. This copy inscribed and signed by the publisher, David Douglas, at front free endpaper. Very Good, creasing at spine, ends chipped. Item #17127
First Edition. L. Hopkins dustjacket art and silhouette illustrations throughout. Translated from the French of Emile de la Bedolliere. Charming children's story "of Mother Michael and her cat." Near Fine in Very Good Plus dustjacket, spine sunned with few shallow tears along edges. Item #24281
Early Printing. "Francesca Alexander was for years an intimate friend of Ruskin; her work has received high praise in both England and America. These rhymed legends of Florence are lovely and have a deeply religious significance which will appeal to all spiritually minded people". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at edges. Item #22162
First Edition. Harold E. Snyder dustjacket art. Hubin listed Granada and Paris set mystery and romance novel. "And out of the diabolical machinations of old Luis, and the cold-eyed vengeance of Tamayo, Spain's greatest toreador, the American girl, Gale Hilliard, and Philip Carr found each other." Scarce. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket (lacking bookmark from front flap), few small edge chips and closed tears, few small abrasions at front panel. Item #25555
First Edition. Harold E. Snyder dustjacket art. Romance of a love triangle between two employers of an architecture firm and a girl already engaged to one of them. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket but for shallow edge-chipping. Item #18835
Early Edition. 16vo. Charming story of a bear that comes to life from a chalk board drawing. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with minor blue marks to front panel and same color spots to rear panel. Item #15252
First Edition. Politzer dustjacket art. Adventure novel of lost treasure. "From Limehouse, that notorious section of London's East End, to a remote archipelago of the South Seas, is in itself a perfect back drop for this drama of swift moving action, conflict, escape and pursuit". Very Good but rather cloth soiled copy, married to a nearly Fine bright and crisp example of the original publisher's dustjacket which has been stored separately from the book (very likely since publication). A spectacular jacket. Item #23502
First Edition. E. Blaisdell dustjacket art. South Seas adventure novel of hidden treasure and a deserted island. Near Fine but for a few pages with smoke stains to margins in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #23970
First Edition. Mach Tey dustjacket art. The Bound to Win Stories for young adults. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #12099
First Edition. Tall octavo, original printed and illustrated wrappers, no. 5, volume III, seperate issue for November 1849. Contains Horatio Alger's third published work, a biography of the author Cervantes. This essay follows a poem and another essay on chivalry both published earlier in the same year by this short lived magazine. Also prints an obituary for Edgar Allan Poe who died in 1849. Very scarce Alger item. Very Good plus issue. Item #16877
Volumes 2 and 3 bound in one, January to December 1849. Contemporary 3/4 leather binding, marbled boards, gilt lettering at spine. Contains the three earliest contributions by Horatio Alger to a periodical, and his first published works. "Voices of the Past" (Poem), pp. 278 of Vol. II (June 1849); "Chivalry", a 2-page article p. 123 of Volume II, (March 1849) and "Cervantes", a page article p.241 (November, 1849). (See Gardner Bibliography). Also prints an obituary for Edgar Allan Poe who died in that year. Very scarce Alger item. Very Good volume, outer hinges cracked, front free end papers and title page shaken, text generally clean and free of staining. Item #12854
First Edition. Complete run of 12 separate issues, #430 through #442, February 28 through May 23, 1891. Original printed and illustrated wrappers. Extremely scarce serialized printing and true first appearance of Alger's young adult adventure novel published in The Argosy. Later published in book form in 1892 by Porter and Coates. This collection with #429 included which includes a short prospectus for Digging For Gold. A Very Good plus collection with only general minor soiling to most issues, edges crisp and wrappers generally clean, #442 with fore-edge bumped causing tiny chip to page edges, #436 small abrasion at top front wrap, #435 with inch closed tear to fore-edge of first 5 leaves and front wrap, spine creased. Item #10331
![Digging For Gold. A Story of California, as printed in The Argosy [Magazine]. Horatio ALGER](/pictures/medium/10331.jpg?v=1434450192)
Bound volume Two of Our Young Folks, 1866-7, including Alger's short story, How Johnny bought a Sewing-Machine. Volume issued with some color plates. Contemporary cloth over boards. Original 3/4 leather and marbled boards. Very Good tight copy, spine leather with surface loss. Item #16921
Folio, 4 sheets, original wraps. Six Issues of this newspaper sized magazine of cheap fiction. Includes first printings of six early and very uncommon stories by Horatio Alger including: The King and Abbott, April 6, 1889 issue, (Very Good issue, center fold of front page with darkening to fore-edge area with splitting at same portion of fold), The Prima Donna, November 30, 1889 issue (Very Good bright issue), Dock Thieves, or Thomas Harland's Adventure, May 3, 1890 issue (Very Good, partial splitting to horizontal fold of front page), Two Boy's Fortunes in March 30, 1889 issue (Good with some loss of paper at vertical fold of top page edges. The Lottery Ticket, September 1, 1888 issue, (Very Good, partial splitting along horizontal fold of pages). The Miser Outwitted, December 15, 1888 issue. (Very Good, partial splitting at horizontal fold of pages). All issues with two folds, fragile cheap paper mellowed from age. Item #10332
First Edition. Bound volume, XXIX, January to December 1869. contemporary 3/4 black leather, marbled boards, gilt at spine, raised bands. Contains the complete Alger story, Luck and Pluck; or John Oakley's Inheritance, in 12 parts. Very Good plus tight volume, moderate edge wear. Item #17151
First Edition. Complete run of 14 separate issues, #391 through #405, May 31, 1890 Through September 6, 1890. Original printed and illustrated wrappers. Extremely scarce serialized printing and true first appearance of Alger's young adult adventure novel published in The Argosy. Not published in book form until 1902 by A. L. Burt Co. Issue 391 through 397 in original rust red wrappers with printed and illustrated ads, Issue 398 through 404 in original white wrappers with printed and illustrated ads. A sharp and attractive collection, with most issues in clean and crisp condition, with only mild soiling or discoloration, #391 with some edge chips, darkened wrappers, splitting at spine edge, #393 lacking wrappers, #397 few tiny edge chips. Item #10334
![Tom Turner's Legacy as printed in The Argosy [Magazine]. Horatio ALGER](/pictures/medium/10334.jpg?v=1434450192)
First Edition. Complete run of 14 separate issues, #409 through #422, October 4, 1890 through January 3, 1891. Original printed and illustrated wrappers. Extremely scarce serialized printing and true first appearance of Alger's young adult adventure novel published in The Argosy. Not published book form until 1897 by Henry T. Coates and Co. A Very Good to Near Fine attractive collection, with most issues in clean and crisp condition, some soiling at edges, #417 front wrapper with considerable soiling, #415 lacking wrappers, #411 with top corner of front wrapper with tanning. Item #10335
![Walter Sherwood's Probation, A Story of Euclid College, as printed in The Argosy [Magazine]....](/pictures/medium/10335.jpg?v=1434450192)
First Edition. Hagadorn dustjacket art. Italy set romance novel. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #30738
First American Edition. H. Dixon dustjacket art. Translated by A.R. Allinson. Hubin listed mystery and part of the Fantomas Detective Series. Near Fine but for remnants of bookplate at front free endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, darkening to spine and rear panel, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners. Item #20063
First Edition. Philip Simmonds wrap around dustjacket art. Historical novel set in Glasgow, from the Pretender's visit in '45 to after the war depression. "All seen through the eyes of the Allisons and their descendants. Allison made sails; a grandson went into steel ships, another sold it all after the war, but his daughter returned to marry the man who had bought it". Very Good in Near Fine bright dustjacket. Item #29121
First Edition. Morgan Stinemetz dustjacket art. A royal mounted mystery set in the great Northwest wilderness. Several other of Allan's Blue Pete titles are listed in Hubin. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with a quarter sized chip at top rear spine edge. Item #7560
First Edition, Publisher's Dummy Copy, printing first 6 pages of text and a few additional blank pages, with proof dustjacket, linen backed by publisher. Frontis by Manning De V. Lee. Civil War set novel of the underground railroad. Uncommon title in an uncommon format. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #37389
First Edition. Oregon set adventure novel of a young woman's battle to hold her heritage and a coyote pack. Author was 'a Commissioner on the Oregon State Board of Horticulture'. Very scarce. Very Good, some surface erosion to cloth at upper rear cover, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chipping, modest soiling, wear at spine edges. Item #37858
First Edition. 'Sam Gilstrap, a jobbing gardener with alcoholic bent, bicycled off up the London Road one may morning and was never seen or heard of again. A novelist searches for evidence'. Uncommon title with publisher's 'seal' at rear of book which has been broken. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, loss at spine ends and upper front flap area. Item #37324
