1. Quadrille Court. Cleveland: International Fiction Library, (1929).
First American Edition. Novel of the heir to a fine property and a family feud. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, nicks at spine ends. Item #22814
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2. Messengers of Evil - Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas. New York: Brentano's, 1917.
First American Edition. Hardcover, octavo, bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to front cover and spine. French crime fiction, one of a series of popular pulp detective novels. Nearly Very Good, spine slightly faded, corners bumped. Item #24206
3. The Little People of Wood and Stream [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]. New York: House of Field, Inc, (1941).
First Edition. Illustrated by the author. "Dwarfs and Kelpies, Fairies and Elves". This copy signed and inscribed by author at front endpaper. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips. Item #26139
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4. Anno's Alphabet, An Adventure in Imagination. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. [1975].
First American Edition. Creative alphabet book by one of Japan's most recognized illustrators. Near Fine in Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Item #9685
5. Cocktail Mix-O-Meter 'The Golden Rule' for Mixing Perfect Drinks. West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York: Sloan Sales Co, [1933].
'First Edition'. Original plastic cylinder containing ten mixing and measuring 'sticks', 8 1/2 by 1 inch (box), printed label. Ingenious post prohibition cocktail mixing tool in which one would dip the stick into a glass and fill alcohol and mixers up to the appropriate lines. A contemporary 1933 newspaper advertises the Mix-O-Meter for seventy five cents. Very Good in Very Good box. Item #32804
6. Drawing and Tracing Book. New York: McLouglin Bros. 1895.
N.D. First Edition. Circa 1895-1900. A charming unused book designed to help teach basic drawing skills. Each page features objects to trace onto blank tracing paper provided. Very Good plus with mild creasing to top edge. Item #13940
7. Ex-Mistress. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1930).
Reprint Edition. Mach Tey dustjacket art. Romance novel of a lover's triangle. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, tiny chips at spine ends, tiny abrasion at lower spine end. Item #17034
8. The Gorham Cocktail Book. New York: Gorham Mfg Company, (1905).
First Edition. Original limp tan leather, blindstamped at front cover, 5" by 3 1/2", 48 pages. Fabulous little volume of cocktail recipes, one of only two recipe books to include the Liberal Cocktail. Two recipes are food items: Clam Cocktail and the Oyster Cocktail. Three of them are drinks that are technically not cocktails: Chocolate Cocktail (a flip), Coffee Cocktail (flip), and the Soda Cocktail (a soft-drink). The other forty-five recipes are true cocktails. "No cobblers, Collinses, coolers, fixes, fizzes, highballs, juleps, punches or sours in it. The majority of today’s so-called ‘craft cocktails’ (most of them actually sours or other short punches) would not have passed muster to get into the Gorham Cocktail Book." [Andrew Willett, Elemental Mixology] A lovely and scarce title. Very Good, front pastedown paper has mostly detached from inside cover, couple of 'drip' spots at covers. Item #26912
9. Autograph Collection Book, Including Senators, Congressmen, Confederate Military Officers, Actors and Authors. No Place: No Publisher, [1927].
Interesting collection of mostly clipped signatures collection circa 1927 judging from inscription at front inside cover. Original blue felt-like fabric covers, illustrated title page. Collection of approximately fifty autographs including SUSAN B. ANTHONY, clipped from a letter to her cousin. Senators and Congressmen include: Lymon Trumbull, John Conness, John Alexander Logan (Union General), Lewis Cass, William Steele Holman, John Griffin Carlisle, John Turner Wait, Hamilton Fish, John Sherman, John Charles Black, Clarence Emir Allen, Henry Moore Teller, Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Texas Fame). MILITARY: William S. Rosencrans (Union General), William E. Chandler (Secretary of Navy), Gideon Welles [twice] (Secretary Navy), William Worth Belknap (impeached Secretary Navy and General), Robert B. Vance (Confederate Brigadier General), Joseph Eggleston Johnston (Confederate General), John Eaton, Jr (Colonel Colored Regiment), Major Octavius L. Pruden. OTHER NOTABLES: Carl Schurz (Famous German American), Nance O'Neil (Actress), Fritzi Scheff (Actress), Mary Livermore (Suffrage), Cyrus West Field (Financier), George William Curtis (Author), Robert Todd Lincoln (President’s Son), J. D. C. Atkins (Indian Affairs Office), Zachariah "Zach" Montgomery (Orator), Kate Douglas Wiggin. Very Good, fabric covers with wear, few loose pages. Item #17754
10. Black Oxen. New York: A. L. Burt Co, (1923).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the film starring Conway Tearle, Tom Guise, and Corinne Griffith. A Romance of upper-class New York City. Near Fine but for pages bumped at top fore-edge corner, in attractive Near Fine dustjacket. Item #27361
11. A Child Is Born [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]. Caldwell, Idaho: The Caxton Printers, Ltd, 1939.
First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Warner Brothers film starring Geraldine Fitzgerald and Jeffrey Lynn. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by author at front endpaper. Very Good in Good only dustjacket, few coin sized chips, smaller chips and wear. Item #25642
![A Child Is Born [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]. Mary McDougal AXELSON.](/pictures/medium/25642.jpg?v=1433779634)
12. The Heart of George Washington. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1932.
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
13. Evangeline, A Romance of Acadia. Springfield: Milton Bradley Co. 1929.
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with sixteen scenes from the William Fox moving picture film starring Miriam Cooper and Albert Roscoe. Small Quarto. Uncommon oversized photoplay seldom found in an attractive dustjacket. Very Good to Near Fine tight copy, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, inch closed tears and some creasing to top front panel. Item #15567
14. Rehearsal for Love. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, (1940).
First Edition (in Grosset and Dunlap dustjacket). Pope dustjacket art. New York City set romance novel. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small light stain at front flap edge. Item #25858
15. Horses in the Sky. New York: John Day Company, (1929).
First Edition. F. E. Warren dustjacket art. World War One themed novel of four young men and their experiences. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, spine with modest fade. Item #25787
16. The Chicken-Wagon Family. New York: The Century, (1925).
First Edition, in dustjacket with "20th Thousand" plug at front panel. Wilkins dustjacket art. Romance between a little French girl in New York and a transplanted Texan who never was a cowboy, and involving a family who takes the reverse covered-wagon trail, northeastward from Louisiana to New York. Basis for the popular 1939 Herbert I. Leeds film starring Jane Withers, Leo Carillo, and Spring Byington. Almost Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some soiling to panels, chip at top spine area, few closed edge tears. Item #26355
17. The Sea of Dreams. New York: Macaulay Company. (1926).
Early or First Edition, published without called for frontispiece. George W. Gage dustjacket art. Novel of the South Sea Somoan islands, where "the golden-bodied half-breed women lure the white traders and settlers. The inevitable conflict between Western standards and the South Sea world's easy morals and disregard of commandments." Very Good plus in Very Good dustjacket, lower spine end and few flap corners with chips, general surface and edge wear. Item #10892
18. The Volga Boatman. New York: Grosset and Dunlap.
First Photoplay Edition and True First Printing of this adventurous novel of the Russian Revolution published simultaneously with the release of the film directed by Cecil B. De Mille. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, with only a few tiny edge chips and short closed tears. Item #7012
19. Playbill Signed by the Cast of LILIOM. New York: Forty-Fourth Street Theatre, (1940).
First Edition. Octavo, original wrappers. Original playbill for the play Liliom signed at front cover by the cast including Ingrid Bergman, Burgess Meredith, Helen Sheilds; Elia Kazan, John Emery, Joan Tetzel, and Ann Mason. Very Good, split along spine edge, few small chips to rear wrap. Item #20351
20. Proverb Stories of Many Lands. New York: The Century Co. (1924).
First Edition. Collection of adventure stories based on proverbial truths, with illustrations. Uncommon. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket, with light edge wear, darkening to spine, some shadowing to jacket. Item #18725
21. The Private Life of Louis XIV, Love Lives of the Great. New York: Louis Carrier and Co, 1929.
First Edition. "Specimen Copy, Not for Resale" stamped at title page. Interesting biography of the French King whose love life was as noted at his other accomplishments. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modestly faded at spine, few shallow chips. Item #21564
22. Carmen's Messenger. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1917).
First Edition. "Another gripping story of the Canadian Northwest. The son of a lumber king is found with a bullet hole through his head, and a package of bonds is missing from the safe of which he alone knew the combination". Listed in Hubin as a marginal mystery. Near Fine, contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, few tiny stains, some shallow edge chips. Item #23104
23. Java Jack. London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1927.
Presumed Reprint Edition, with 2/6 price at spine, but possible First Edition with date at title page. Abbey dustjacket art. Mystery novel of the "priceless jeweled cross imparted to Java Jack by the dying Robjohn". Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some edge chipping, top spine end with half in deep chip. Item #21505
24. The Beautiful White Devil. New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1897).
First American Edition. Original rust red wrappers. No. 215 in the publisher's Town and Country Library. The very scarce wrappers issue of this Hong Kong set novel of mystery and intrigue listed in Hubin. Very Good or Near Fine bright copy with tiny narrow chip at lower spine end and few mild signs of wear. Item #11430
25. Navy Blue and Gold [BOOKS INTO FILM]. New York: William Caslon Company, (1936).
First Edition. Novel of the Annapolis football team and three players from different walks of life. Basis for the hugely popular 1937 Metro Goldwyn Mayer black and white film directed by Sam Wood and starring James Stewart, Robert Young, Billie Burke and Lionel Barrymore. A very uncommon Book Into Film genre title to find in original dustjacket. Near Fine, some foxing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket but for a few inch abrasion at top front panel, few shallow edge chips. Item #20141
![Navy Blue and Gold [BOOKS INTO FILM]. George BRUCE.](/pictures/medium/20141.jpg?v=1434450410)