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Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No. First Edition. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1901. Worn first edition of this collection of short stories about animals, illustrated in photogravure on thick paper and printed in sepia tones. Includes: Lady Lee; Gentleman Jack; Union Square Jim; My Friend the Elephant; Sallie Russell; Little Byron; Baby and the Kitten; Maxey; Daniel Pratt; A Kindergarten Experiment. Maroon cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, 255 pages. Covers heavily rubbed at the extremities with light fraying to the corners and spine ends, binding shaken with many pages loosened but still well attached, pages lightly age-toned but generally clean with occasional light finger soil to margins, light name stamp on front pastedown, no other markings. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/No. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good to very good condition. A little finger soiling on preliminary and first seven pages. Spine tips and cover corners are worn. Spine surface and some cover edges are rubbed. Decorative green binding. 245 pages with 30 illustrations.

Hardcover. Limited Edition, 1/175 copies. Octavos, Two volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in contemporary half blue morocco, blue cloth boards. Paneled spines with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Top edges of textblocks gilt. End-papers marbled. Mild general shelf wear. Spines mildly sunfaded. Bumping and fraying to head and tail of spines. Fraying and fading to board edges, particularly near fore edges. Silk bookmark ribbons torn and are completely detached. Volume 1 page 37 with a small closed tear repair. Some offsetting from text throughout. Illustrations in orange ink throughout. CONTENTS: Vol. I (312 pages) -- Vol. II (275 pages). Shelved in Case 9. 1415295. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. 66 pages. Short Stories: Queen's Gate Incident; Competition at Slush Creek; Big Game; Jacobs' Beachcombers. Articles: Basketball Beanpoles - with action photo of 6'-7" Howie Schultz of Hamline; Delayed Combat Fatigue - an alarming new trend in the increase of neuropsychiatric disorders among veterans who have been discharged for a year or more;; Inside Spain; I Deserted Franco - a Spanish Republican who was forced into Franco's Army goes over the hill and describes what made him desert; Eager Beaver - photo-illustrated article on playwright Garson Kanin - with sexy backdoor photo of Judy Holliday; Bradley's Beachhead - General Omar N. Bradley reviews his first year as chief of the VA (Veteran's Administration); How Job Training Became a Scandal; My Lost Division - John Hillard Dunn, his 106th Division, and the Battle of the Bulge; Robbers on the Racetrack - Don Meade says Arcaro and other jockeys will steal a horse race as quick as they flash a whip ; Murder in the Soap Operas - Dan Banion detects too many corpses among the cornflakes; Iron Roof Over Harlem - article on prospects for the people of Harlem, with photos of Billie Holliday, Canada Lee, Romare Beardon, Bert Alves, Kenneth Spencer and Vivian Richardson; You Don't Die Bored; Happy Landing - Gerald L.K. Smith is now on Los Angeles City Council - article with photos. Picture Stories: Anything Goes - great photo-illustrated feature of "The Painted Post - America's only True Western Dance Hall", in the San Fernando Valley; Hot on Ice - people pay big money to see figures skaters such as Donna Atwood, Phil Taylor, Don Condon and Mary Irwin. Labor's Publicity Battle - with sexy photos of Colleen Sullivan of Detroit, and Elayne Keenan of Detroit; Bergen College Boom - great photo feature on how this sleepy college suddenly snapped awake under the GI Bill of Rights; One Block West of Broadway. Special Features: Merry Christmas; Salute of the Month - one-page photo of Elliott Roosevelt; Reconverted; Photos of three vets in the new lives - Alan Rockwell, David Pressman, and Milton Burns; Pin-Up - Martha Vickers. And more. Ads: Great one-page ad for movie "Never Say Goodbye" with photo of Errol Flynn and Eleanor Parker; Lovely back cover color ad for Eagle Clothes features man and woman at airport. Light wear. Unmarked. Light age-toning to contents. A high-quality vintage copy.; Folio - over 12" - 15" tall; Salute Magazine, Jan. (January) 1947, Vol. 2, No. 1 - Early Article on PTSD (Delayed Battle Fatigue) Bobby Clark California Roping Champion Death Valley MacDonald Bullwhip Artist Queen's Gate Incident; Competition at Slush Creek; Big Game; Jacobs' Beac. Illustrated by Peskin, David (cover); Scott, Will; Brockell, Don;Stefanelli, Joe; Myers, Harry; Davis, J.H.; Stern, Phil (illustrator).…

Original antique poster for The Cosmopolitan An Illustrated Monthly Magazine October 1895 advertising the contents of the issue including the headline article - The Last of the Jungle Stories by Rudyard Kipling - featuring an intricate Art Nouveau design with a scene from the Jungle Book showing a child sitting on a rock with a bear, leopard, wolf and snake beneath a full moon and an image of a man in a suit standing with his arms crossed in a forest looking up at a ghostly figure of a lady in front of the trees, the articles listed around the images with a decorative border including the words America Europe Asia Africa Oceanica on the side and Volume XIX Number 6 Illustrated by Cabrinety, Osterlind, Drake, Denman, Carter Beard and Kemble in bold red letters below. First published in 1886 The Cosmopolitan was a family magazine run by Paul Schlicht in New York; this issue was edited by John Brisben Walker (1847-1931) who bought the magazine in 1889 and transformed it into a literary magazine; in 1905 it was bought by William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951) and is now a popular women's monthly fashion, lifestyle and entertainment magazine Cosmopolitan (also known as Cosmo) under Hearst Communications. Written by Joseph Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), The Jungle Book was first published in magazines as a series of stories from 1893, inspired by the author's childhood in India. Good condition, restored tears, restored paper losses, minor staining, backed on linen. Size: 50x33cm. Will H Drake (illustrator).…