Original light blue cloth lettered in black on boards. A Bible question-and-answer book in the Know-Your-Bible Series. The Soul of the Bible in Fifteen Hundred Sentences. "Christmas, 1942" on first free endpaper. No other writing. Very clean. 126 pp. View More...
Original red tweed with plain grey endpapers on boards. Unclipped DJ has several small edge tears, so taped inside. Lists to Country Doctor's Nurse in book, so estimated date of publication is 1955. No names or other writing. No damage to book. 216 pp. View More...
Red cloth on boards. Half-title and p. 3 have extraneous marks not affecting readability. Set in a hot, Spanish-speaking country, occupied in part by gypsies. No racial prejudice in evidence. Chickens and other animals are seen. Two leaves have very short (1-inch) gutter tears at bottom. Cover a bit grubby. 15 illustrations in colour, and 7 in b/w. 135 pp. View More...
Original dark green cloth on boards, lettered and decorated in silver. Previous owner's name and a few marginal lines. Knapp established God's Bible School in 1900, and the name was later extended by adding "and college." Over time it has been granted authority to confer Associate and Baccalaureate Degrees. 145 pp. plus ads. View More...
Original green cloth with bright gilt lettering. Very rare biography of outstanding Baptist preacher in U.S. and Canada. No marks or deliberate damage. One pair of leaves edge-torn by careless separation(uncut). Active at Perth, Ontario; Milwaukee, WI; Toronto; and Woodstock, Ontario, but known primarily for his founding of, and long connection with, Canadian Literary Institute. 466 pp. View More...
Original olive green cloth over boards with gilt lettering. 1" tear (horizontal and vertical) in cloth at spine and 3/4" gouge in cloth on cover. Corner and edge wear. Front hinge cracked. Missing folding plates #1, #5, #23 and most of #26. Scarce. 260 pp. including Index. View More...
Original grey cloth with black decoration and silver gilt lettering over boards. Light blue dustjacket features illustration of a croquet mallet and ball with red, white and blue lettering. Dustjacket has handsoil, spine darkening, edge and corner wear, and small edge tears. Something evil is happening in the remote English village of Cainsmarsh. One observer blames it on angry spirits of Neanderthals whose graves have been disturbed by archaeologists. View More...
Original pictorial cloth on boards. Lists on back to The Mystery of Flight 908 (15th title). Since Hidden Valley is the 3rd title, I would date it at 1960. Green airport endpapers. No writing. Cover rubbed. 218 pp. View More...
Brown hardcover with "leather grain" stamped on the cloth, and gilt titles and decoration on the spine. Spine is somewhat bowed out. Foxing on front free endpapers. This book tells the unfortunate story of a former medical student named Griffin, who invents a procedure that causes invisibility, and tries it on a cat and then himself, without knowing how to reverse its effects. He ends up being very angry, and commits more than one murder. The book has been made into films several times. 244 pp. View More...
Original red cloth on boards. No writing. Small nick in front hinge. This novel about a prominent business man and his discussions with a psychiatrist has been seen by some as a love letter from Wells to Margaret Sanger, the prime mover of birth control efforts which did not bear official results until many years later. A "thinly-veiled autobiography" perhaps, as some have said. At any rate it seems to be widely agreed that Wells's writing during his "social period" is not up to the previous standard. 286 pp. View More...
Original black cloth lettered and decorated in red on boards. This has been a beloved book - generally loose and worn. Previous owner's name. 319 pp. Published for the Crime Club, which reminds its readers, "Crime Club Readers Never Tell." View More...
