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New York: Bantam Books, 1962. mass market paperback. Book G: age wear to wraps and spine, text clean, binding intact, solid reading copy.. 16mo 225pp. edited Ernestine Taggard with an introduction by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. see pictures for synopsis. #02708.

Orbis Books, 2005. softcover. very good: minimal signs of wear, no writing, tight binding and pages.

London: Sphere Books Ltd, 1989. mass market paperback. Book VG-: mild shelf wear, else clean, square, tight, unmarked.. 16mo 183pp. see pictures for synopsis. #02952.

Caldwell, Idaho: Clark Publishing Company, 1977. Third Edition. softcover. Book VG: tear on cover at top and bottom of spine, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 4to 284pp. Fifth printing, third edition. from Preface to the Third Edition: "...So, if you are a drama instructor who believes that your students learn best by getting on their feet and performing, you will enjoy teaching from this text. Each chapter consists of a complete activity project worked out in detail and aimed at giving your students practical experiences in drama." #01461.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. hardcover. Book VG-: soil/age and shelf wear to boards and spine, toning and foxing to endpapers, text clean, binding tight.. 8vo 365pp. from Preface: "The objects of this work is to present, as the title states, the essential facts in the history of music. To the text, which aims to accomplish this, illustrations have been added that are intimately related to the subject-matter of the chapters in which they appear. It is hoped that the book will appeal to the music-lover as a simple and naturally consecutive recital of the growth of the art of music as one distinct manifestation of the development of human thought. But it is also intended that the volume shall interest and benefit the student. For the purposes of individual or classroom instruction the book will be found to provide sufficient material for one year's work." #02674.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1900. Rudolph Valentino Edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear to edges of board and to spine, mild toning and offset to endpapers./DJ fair: age toning, chipping, edge wear, closed tear at flaps.. 12mo. 116pp. + Illustrations, ads. Illustrations from film made starring Rudolph Valentino. from front flap: "How a dashing Frenchman loves a fair lady of England, in the days of powder, patches, and perukes, how he fought off thirteen swordsmen with his single rapier, and won his way to the confidence of nobility, all told with a lightness and brevity of touch which makes it the most charming and delicate bit of light fiction which has appeared for a very long time." #01388.

McClure Phillips and Co, 1901. hardcover. good: spine faded and bumped, corners slightly bumped, some age related wear/soiling on cover, binding tight, pages unmarked/no dj. C.D. Williams. 9th impression, April 1901, of Booth Tarkington's historical novel set in 18th century England. Adapted multiple times, including two movies, one in 1946 starring Bob Hope. #00021.

McClure Phillips and Co, 1902. first edition. hardcover. very good: sunning to spine, else sharp and clean. clean text, tight binding. true first state/first edition ("the" for "she" on p. 127)/no DJ. Henry Hutt. Duodecimo 351pp. #00265.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1914. hardcover. Book VG: shelf wear to boards and spine, ex libris bookplate on front paste down, gift inscription FFEP, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: chipping/edge wear, age toning, not clipped. Gordon Grant. 8vo 345pp. from front flap: "Nowhere has Booth Tarkington done such finished, exquisite work as in this story of boyhood. The full flavor is not only for the grown man or woman but for boys themselves who never tire of reading of the antics of their own kind. It is a picture of a boy's heart, full of those lovable, humorous tragic things which are locked secrets to older folks without the gift of understanding." #02055.

New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1916. hardcover. Book VG: mild shelf wear, ex libris bookplate on front paste down, gift inscription FFEP, text clean, binding tight./DJ VG: age toning, mild edge wear and chipping, not clipped. 8vo 356pp. from front flap: "Amazing, pathetic and profound in the power of psychology by turns, PENROD AND SAM, like PENROD gives the most amazing whiffs of real boyhood and contains some of the best written stories of juvenile prankishness that have ever been written." #02056.

New York: Bantam Books, 1945. first thus. mass market paperback. Book G: crease and slight peeling to spine, shelf wear to wraps, age toning and evidence of damp stain to text block, name FFEP, text clean, binding intact, good reading copy.. 16mo 254pp. November 1945. See pictures for synopsis. #02839.

Harcourt Brace and Company, 1920. hardcover. very good: some scuffing to boards, bumped corners, toning to endpapers, text clean, binding tight./very good: small closed tears, some chipping, age wear.. Duodecimo 188pp. 1946 printing. From inside flap: "The Acquisitive Society is an analysis of the theory of individual rights. It shows how that theory, though appropriate to the simple economic civilization for which it was formulated, results under modern conditions in waste, inequality, and a struggle of classes. As an alternative, it suggests that rights of property and industrial organization should be based upon the principle of Function." #00306.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. first edition. hardcover. good: bumped, worn boards and spine, offset on front board possibly from stacking, toning on endpapers, slightly cocked, text clean, binding tight./no DJ. 12mo. 330pp. printed March 1922. collection of short humorous anecdotes, poems, bits of news, collected from newspaper columns of author. #00940.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1963. Book of the Month Club. hardcover. Book VG: age wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./DJ fair: heavy edge wear/holes to edge and corner, chipping, NOT clipped.. 8vo 421pp. from front flap: "In the ages before the first global war, four dynasties--the Habsburg, Hohenzollern, Ottoman, and Romanov--dominated much of civilization. [. . .] This volume in the MAINSTREAM OF THE MODERN WORLD SERIES covers the period from 1905 to 1922, when these four ruling houses crumbled and fell, destroying old alliances and old boundaries. World War I was precipitated by their decay, and their splintered, baroque rubble proved to be a treacherous base for the new nations that emerged from the war." #01468.

WW Norton & Company, 1973. first edition. hardcover. near fine: slightest signs of shelf wear, else clean, tight, square. inscribed by author on FFEP: "dear Dorothy, with happy memories of Seminary day and hopes for many future reunions With love from Edith June, 1973" and flat signed by author on title page./near fine: in protective brodart cover, NOT price clipped ($5.95). 8vo 256pp. from front flap: "Set on an imaginary campus in Berkshire County, this literate mystery involves members of the English faculty, their families and their students, as well as a group of dedicated gardeners and two Siamese cats (appropriately named Beatrice and Benedick, since where they are there is always "much ado about nothing"). Anne Redmond, a sprightly, charming, and intuitive heroine, leads the reader through a maze of characters and events as bizarre as they are plausible. A remarkably gripping mystery of style, wit, and polish ensues." #00744.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1948. first edition. hardcover. Book VG: mild soil/spotting to boards and spine, light foxing to endpapers, text unmarked, binding intact. 8vo 661pp. Atlantic Monthly Press Book. stated first edition, first printing September 1948. from Notice to the Reader: "...Twenty years' experience as curator and director in American museums has convinced me that the phenomenon of art collecting is too instinctive and too common to be dismissed as mere fashion or the desire for fame. It is a complex and irrepressible expression of the inner individual, a sort of devil of which great personalities are frequently possessed. It is a curious coincidence that all of the men and women dealt with in these pages were highly interesting in their own right and would, indeed, have been so even had they never collected anything in their entire lives." #02494 HEAVY ITEM WILL REQUIRE EXTRA S/H.

St. Martins Press, 1979. first edition. hardcover. very good: gift inscription in pen on front paste down, marking on FFEP, else clean and tight./very good: corner/edge wear, chipping, NOT clipped ($10.95). 8vo 469pp. from front flap: "Against a backdrop of mortal strife between Christian and Muslim in eleventh-century Spain, The Infidel tells the dramatic, richly authentic story of a woman forced to choose between clashing cultures and warring men." #0879.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1987. first thus. mass market paperback. Book VG: crease to spine, mild shelf wear, text clean, binding tight.. 16mo 233pp. September 1987. see pictures for synopsis. #02690.

New York: WW Norton & Company, 1933. first edition. hardcover. Book VG- : mild shelf wear to boards and spine, stain bottom front corner, toning/offset to paste downs and endpapers, name on FFEP, text clean, binding tight./DJ G: age wear/rubbing, edge wear and chipping, NOT clipped ($2.00). 8vo 288pp. from front flap: "To thousands of readers there's nothing to match a new Asey Mayo story, where murder fits thrillingly into an atmosphere of wind-swept dune and sea, and inimitable characters fall into adventures both grisly and gay. SPRING HARROWING is the answer to the mystery fan's prayer, an exciting tale of death and detection which again proves Phoebe Atwood Taylor to be unsurpassed in the special field she has made her own." #01700.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. hardcover. Book VG+: touch of foxing to endpapers else clean, square, tight, unmarked./DJ VG: clean, unclipped. 8vo 346pp. fifth printing. from front flaps: "Technology has made us healthier and wealthier, but we aren't necessarily happier in our zealously engineered surroundings. Edward Tenner is a connoisseur of what he calls "revenge effects"--the unintended, ironic consequences of the mechanical, chemical, biological, and medical forms of ingenuity that have been hallmarks of the progressive, improvement-obsessed twentieth century. In seeking out these revenge effects, he ranges far and wide in our cultural landscapes to discover an insistent pattern of paradox that implicates everything from black lung to bluebirds, wooden tennis rackets to Windows 95." #02557.