READING COPY. Text block is solid, square, bright, clean and unmarked. Pale blue cloth covers with gilt lettering are soiled. First free page has owner's name and bookstore stamp. No dust jacket. 223 pages. "one f the first attempts to present a comprehensive hypnosis course in book form. In this sense, it is a 'Textbook of Hypnotism' ". NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
UGLY but solid reading copy with clean and bright text. Covers are creased and chipped. Tilted spine. 296 pages 6.75x 4.25x 1" (17x 11x 2.2 cm). Driven into Apache Territory, Braddock's on the run with a deadly past, a pretty woman, and a gun so fast it's a legend. The Pecos Kid #3 NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Tight, age-tanned pages and cover, clean interior, soiled exterior, square. Penciled notes in margin on 1 page. Faint owners name on front cover in pencil. 23 page (+ 5 advertising pages), staple-bound pamphlet. Contents: The Ordinances of 1645, 1646, 1649, 1651; The Fisrt, Second, Third and Colonial Navigation Acts; The Confirmatory Act and The Explanatory Act. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Tight, age-tanned pages and cover, clean interior, soiled exterior, square. Penciled notes in margin on 2 pages. Faint owners name on front cover in pencil. 23 page (+ 1 advertising pages), staple-bound pamphlet. Includes plans by: Penn, Livingston, Coxe, Peters, the Lords of Trade, Galloway and The Albany Plan. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Solid reading copy. No jacket, but has illustrated exterior showing a biplane and an eagle. Age soil, wear and scuffing on the tan cloth covers. Binding intact, but starting to separate in front (cracked endpaper and mesh showing). Pages slightly tanned due to age, mostly along edges. Previous owner's name written on first free page. 250 pages + ads. 5.25x7.5x1" Number 4 (Flights; or a Hydroplane Round-up) in the Vintage boy's adventure series featuring the Bird Boys. (This series was also published as the Aeroplane Boys.) This features their adventures with hydroplanes. NOT KEPT AT STORE- o... View More...
Tight, tanned pages, clean interior, light age soil to exterior, seriously curled. Creased spine and covers. 3/4# split to bottom edge of front spine hinge. Shelfwear to all edges Some pages have had small corner creases and cheap paper is starting to split on creases. Bookstore stamp on first free page. "Il faisait vraiment une chaleur a crever. De l'East River et de l'Hudson montait une a sorte de brume que le soleil pompait a meme les fleuves pour en habiller les grande-ciel dont les contours etaient flous et tremblotants dans l'azur ardent..." Text in French. 219 pages. View More...
Solid reading copy without dust jacket. Tight, faded green cloth covers, slight age tanned pages, light age soil to covers, clean pages, square. Softened spine ends and rubbed cover edges. Corner bump has left 5 dog eared pages and 2 pages with large corner crease with small rip on crease. 1930 gift inscription on first free page. Best selling author of the 1920s and 1930s including the "Fu Manchu" series of mysteries. View More...
READING COPY. Tight, 415 clean but age-tanned pages, light age soil to soft creased and scratched covers, curl to spine with multiple reading creases. 2 page corners with creases and rubbed cover edges. "Ned and Beth chanced upon the hamlet and immediately fell love with it...the haven they dreamed of. Or so they thought...Cornwall Coombe was to become the place of ultimate horror..." NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup View More...
Cover worn and detached (glue has dried out), ripped along front hinge, with chips at top and bottom of spine. Text block is solid and square with clean, unmarked text but lightly age tanned pages. 184 pages. DIME NOVELS - Printed on the cheapest of paper, with lurid cover illustrations, dime novels (which found a name in their ten cent price tag)...were considered ephemeral, to be read, often in secret, passed on to friends, or discarded. Dime novels... targeted a youthful working class audience with their thrilling, stereotyped tales of Wild West adventures, master criminals, detective sto... View More...