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AN ELEGY IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD AND OTHER POMES

By Thomas Gray THE DESERTED VILLAGE by Goldsmith

NY:  Charles E. Merrill, 1909 Hard Cover 153 pp.  From The "Merrill's English Texts" Series, Very Good, Some pencil markings mostly on the inside cover and leaf.

A Second Ohio Weed Manual... Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station. 

WOOSTER, OH., OHIO AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, MAY 1906, 6 BY 9 IN., PAGES NUMBERED 291-377 + 5 B/W PLATES + INDEX, AGRICULTURE DESCRIPTIVE ILLUSTRATED LIST OF OHIO WEEDS, REVISED EDITION OF BULLETIN 83,  SOFTBOUND PAMPHLET, STAPLED, PRINTED WHITE WRAPS. 

Poor condition due to the last few pages are missing from the index and the back page.  Ohio History, Wooster, Ohio.

Betty Grable and The House With The Iron Shutters 1943 FIRST

By Kathryn Heisenfelt

Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman, 1943 First edition, 1st Printing.  252pp.  Authorized Edition. B&W illustrations.  VERY GOOD to Near Fine in GOOD + dj.  Lettering rubbed on binding, strong on front.  Previous owners name. 

"An original story featuring Betty Grable, famous motion picture star, as the heroine"   

Bible Readings for the Home Circle 1888 First?

Washington D. C.  Review & Herald Pub. Assn.  1888, believe to be first edition. Hard Cover, Very Good condition with blemishes to covers,  8vo.  6" x 9". 600p. Green cloth binding w/ red and gilt decor and gilt lettering on spine and cover. Marbled page edges. Incl. B&W illus. Incl. “162 readings for public and private study, in which are answered over 2800 questions on religious topics, contributed by more than a score of bible students”.  A scarce if not very hard to find book in VG condition. 

Brewers Collection of National Songs and Hymns

Chicago: Orville Brewer Pub. Co.

Auditorium Building, Chicago: The Orville Brewer Publishing Co. 1900. 32pp.  Students series of four penny classics, vol. I, no. 7, price four cents, issued semi-monthly. Red decorative paper covers 4 inch tear at bottom of spine, taped, but complete, clean, very good for such a fragile item.  GOOD condition.

French Writers Other European Writers The prefaces to the New York Edition

HENRY JAMES, EDEL, LEON WITH MARK WILSON.

Literary Classics of the United States  Distributed to the trade in the U. S. and Canada by Viking Press  1984; c1984  First Printing Stated, Hardback.  Ex Library copy with normal markings with plastic wrap, otherwise FINE condition with dust jacket FINE condition. 1408 p.

A great study guide for college students.

Green Margins 1936 First edition

By E. P. O'Donnell

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1936 First edition, illustrated map endpapers.  499pp.  VERY GOOD condition with ends of the spine lightly worn. Former owner's stamp.  A novel about the Louisiana wetlands, takes place in & around the Mississippi River Delta, Fort Jackson, Spanish Pass, etc. The first winner of the, Houghton Mifflin Fellowship Prize.

HIND SIGHTS or Looking Backward At Swindles 1911 FIRST ed.

Farming Collectable

NY: Rural Publishing Co., 1911. First edition. Trade paperback original; decorative wraps, 128 pp. Interesting & well written; concentrates largely on frauds upon farmers “Seed Trade Tricks, The Hen Business, Live Stock Frauds, Stock Investment Pits, other swindles”.  GOOD + condition with tears to covers.  Complete content.  A SCARCE issue!  An early 1900 book on fraud, swindles, and what to do to protect yourself.   

Holy Deadlock  1934 First edition stated

By A.P. Herbert,  Garden City, New York: Doubleday Doran. 1934. First Edition stated. Hard Cover. 372pp.

The humorous odyssey of two young people in search of a decent divorce, from the author of "The Water Gypsies".  VG + with sunning to binding, clean, tight.  Stated "First Edition" on copyright page.

Hymns of Praise Numbers One and Two Combined 1926

Chicago: Hope Publishing Co. 1926.  498pp and indexed.  Previous church ownership stamped on inside covers. Contains responsive readings. Covers are heavy dk. green buckram with gold lettering. GOOD + condition, tight, clean pages. 

Poison  Stated FIRST edition 1926
By Lee Thayer,  NY:  Doubleday Page 1926 stated FIRST edition.  Stamp on front endpaper.  Broken front and back hinge complete.  340pp.  GOOD condition.  Fiction Mystery. 

Riddle of the Pyramids
By Kurt Mendelssohn

New York, NY Praeger Publishers 1975.  Size is 8vo Hard Cover. 224 pgs. (INDEX) Illustrated by 15 color, 42 line 85 illus.

A few chapters include:
Prelude to the Pyramid
The Pyramid Age
Conformation at Dahshur
The Mexican Pyramids
The meaning of the Pyramid

Plus more.

This is a wonderful book for anyone interested in the subject of pyramids. Makes a great coffee table book!  FINE condition with DJ in Very good.

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