Presumed First Edition. Original printed wrappers, 5" by 3 1/2". Little Blue Book No. 1688. An uncommon cocktail recipe book. Very Good. Item #37210
Second Printing. Original red cloth, stamped in black, octavo, 80 pages. Uncommon English printing of a not so uncommon title. Includes recipes for: Absinthe Frappe, Blue Blazes, Café au Kirsch, California Absinthe, Claret Punch, Egg Nog, Egg Nog Bowl for New Year's Party, Fog Horn, Gin Daisy, Gin Fizz, Gin Rickey, Golden Fizz, Hot Applejack, Hot Apple Toddy, Hot Irish, Hot Scotch, Hot Spiced Rum, John Collins, Maiden's Dream, Mamie Taylor, Medford Rum Punch, Milk Punch, Mint Julep, Mint Julep--Brandy, Morning-Glory Fizz, New York Sour, Peach Blow Fizz, Pick Me Up, Picon High Ball, Pigeon Wing, Planter's Punch, Port and Starboard, Port Wine Flip, Port Wine Sangaree, Pousse Café, Pousse L'Amour, Ramos Fizz, Remsen Cooler, Rhine Wine Cobbler, Rickety Scotch, Royal Fizz, Royal Plush, Sam Ward, Sauterne Cobbler, Sauterne or Hock Cup, Shandy Gaff, Sherry Cobbler, Sherry Flip, Silver Fizz, Souiesse, St. Croix Rum Sour, Stinger, Syracuse Cooler, Three Trees, Tom Collings, Tom and Jerry, Velvet, Ward Eight, Whiskey Rickey, Whiskey Sour, Bandel Melange, Shelburne Cooler. Very Good, tiny tear at top spine end cloth, foxing to title page. Item #26928
Folio, stiff linen-like pictorial wraps. Color illustration on every page with bright colors and seven lines of text beneath each picture. Uncommon Popeye edition. Very Good but for three pages with crayon scribbles. Item #13942
First Edition, number line at last page begins with '1'. Illustrated by James Barkley. A modern 'young adult' classic and perennial favorite of grade school reading lists concerning an African-American sharecropper and his coon dog, Sounder. Near Fine, in Very Good to Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket without the Newbery Award sticker, few nicks and light rubbing at spine ends and few flap corners. Item #15875
First Edition. Hubin listed mystery novel and fantasy novel missed by Bleiler of a young Prince from fabled Atlantis who is blackmailed for his dalliances with too many beautiful women. Great dustjacket art of a bi-plane crashing into the ocean. Near Fine in Very Good modestly soiled dustjacket, small chips at spine ends. Item #37323
First Edition. Artist themed novel set in Kansas City, New York City and Paris. Nice gold foil dustjacket. Near Fine but for covers mildly bowed in Very Good dustjacket, modest edge wear, small closed abrasion at front spine edge. Item #27422
First Edition. Charles Hargens dustjacket art. Romance novel of George Washington and his "fierce passion for the lovely woman he could never possess [but found] outlet in the supreme creation of an empire". Near Fine, contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good mildly soiled dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners. Item #23587
First Edition. "Story of fashionable extravagance and of the successful efforts to retrain it made by The Honorable Socrates Potter, the genial friend of Lizzie". Very Good, gift inscription at front endpaper, in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, modest edge wear and nicking. Item #32414
First Edition. "A telling satire on the follies of fashionable life, and the fads and excesses of the young people of today". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, minor loss at top spine end. Item #24746
First Edition. Kurt Wiese illustrations. Picture book about the 49th state. Part of the Know Your States Series. Very Good plus with return address sticker located on title page in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket with wear down middle of spine, edge wear, light chipping and short closed tears to top edge, and two inch closed tear to bottom front edge. Item #13944
12x15. Very detailed map in lovely condition. Item #33784
12x14.5. Includes: Holstein, Hanover, Mecklenburg, the Prussian States, and Saxony. Very detailed map in lovely condition. Item #33769
First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Universal film directed by George Loane Tucker and starring Matt Moore and Ethel Grandin. Extremely scarce photoplay edition with six stills from the film that dramatizes the social problem of white slavery and prostitution. A Hubin listed mystery in which the protagonist tracts down a millionaire white-slaver who entrapped her sister. Considered to be Universal's most important silent era production, being the company's first feature length release, the first film to deal with sexuality, and first major success as a production company. The overwhelming success of Traffic in Souls convinced Universal's president to move the company from New York to Hollywood. Ball's novel is thought to be the first novelization from film to book. Near Fine but for top corner of front endpaper clipped, some foxing to page edges, in Very Good dustjacket, some modest soiling, shallow loss at top spine end. Item #25927
First Photoplay Edition illustrated with scenes from the silent film directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Ben Lyon, Anna Q. Nilsson, Viola Dana, Hobart Bosworth, and Dorothy Sebastian. A novel set against the background of the Alaskan Gold Rush. An uncommon photoplay edition. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends and rear panel edges, few inch closed tear at lower front panel. Item #23160
First Edition stated. World War Two set mystery novel of occupied Paris and the chief of England's Secret Service. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with nicking and rubbing at spine ends. Item #27627
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11.5x14.5. Beautiful, detailed and coloured map. Item #33908
First Edition. A string of murdered art collectors and art dealers brings Special Agent Stephen Duane of the F.B.I. onto the case. Very Good, cloth wear at spine ends and cover corners, in Very Good plus dustjacket, light spine end chipping, few short closed tears and minor edge wear. A scarce mystery title by this obscure publisher. Item #8472
First Edition. "The New York-Newport colony has become so mixed that it is impossible to maintain the rigid lines originally drawn by Ward McAllister, limiting the charmed set to four hundred." [Smith. American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography] Scarce in dustjacket. Near Fine in dust soiled, but nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipping at upper edges. Item #31427
Sixth Edition. Politzer dustjacket art. "Georgie May is the story of a courtesan living in the underworld of a large southern city" at the turn of the century, "a hardboiled, vicious, sullen cocotte on the surface, Georgie May is nevertheless at dagger-points with the foulness and malevolence of her surroundings". Very Good, light stain to top corner of first several pages, in Very Good dustjacket, light stain along rear flap edge. Item #28433
First Edition stated. Romance novel of a modern Lancelot, a giant of a soldier, an ardent lover - destined to live and love greatly, and to have a strange power over women. Includes elements of second sight, mysticism, and the First World War. Not found in Bleiler. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket but for half inch sized chip at lower spine end, few small edge chips, short closed tears and creases. Item #14874
First Edition. With block print signed by both authors laid in. Story of a Mexican Revolution. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with light chipping to top spine end and mild darkening to rear edges. Item #16771
First Edition. Paris set novel in which our heroine has only one year to live and who sets out to become a famous performer. Her reckless lifestyle causes her to be nearly raped, her attacker murdered and when it is discovered that she will live after all, she abandons her stage name and starts a new life as a married woman. "If you were young and beautiful, wealthy, daring, romantic, talented and suddenly found that you had but one year to live, what would you do?" Near Fine in a nearly Very Good dustjacket, narrow loss at front flap edge, shallow edge chipping, lower spine end with quarter sized chip. Item #21272
First Edition stated on title page. Oblong Octavo, Original illustrated boards and dustjacket. A perennial grade school reading list classic, Georgie is one of the mostly widely read ghost stories. This copy with unglazed boards. Extremely scarce first edition of this classic children's story and first in the Georgie series. Near Fine, with only lightest signs of wear, short contemporary gift inscription at front free endpaper, in original Very Good plus price-clipped dustjacket with "manufactured under war time conditions" notice at lower front flap, few edge nicks and short closed tears, small chip at lower spine end. Item #16050
First Edition. Illustrated by the author. Collection of humorous stories and cartoons in dialect by this once well-known contributor to the Chicago Tribune. This copy inscribed to literary critic Percy Hammond, signed by both Bromley and Chicago Tribune columnist Richard Henry Little. Very Good plus in Very Good dustjacket, cm chip top front flap corner, top spine end cm deep chip rounding to rear panel, some overall darkening to panels. Item #7827
32.5x33. A partial, coloured and highly detailed map of Brookline with Beacon Street and Longwood Square to the North, Riverway to the East, Francis Street to the South, and St. Paul Street to the West. Item #33968
