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189749259New York: Frank Tousey Publisher 29 West 26th Street 1897. Early if not first printing of this edition. Series advert to rear cover lists through #162 of the series. Printed paper wrappers stapled. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Age toning & browning to paper small stain in upper right. Withal a VG copy. 14 2 pp. Text triple column. Adverts last 2 pages. Large wood engraved image to front wrapper. 11-3/4" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/>An early tale from this popular series which began in 1876 cf. Dime Novel Companion p. 220-221. Some speculate Frank Reade was an inspiration for the coming Tom Swift series ca 1910 as each protaginist is quite the inventor of futuristic devices which in turn give rise to fantastic adventures. <br /> <br />OCLC shows only one institutional holding of this edition. <br /> <br />Rare. Frank Tousey, Publisher, 29 West 26th Street unknown books
194974100495Ashford Kent UK: The Ashford Kent & Susses Tithe Payers' Association 1949. Book. Fair. Paperback. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 67 pages with forty-four illustrations. Circa 1949. Abundantly illustrated with very interesting black and white photographs which document a multitude of protests. "The Tithe Act of 1936 has left an entirely unsatisfactory state of affairs. It leaves the tithe-paying farmers disgruntled and antagonistic and puts the country in the position of placing a proportion of its most important citizens in this unsatisfactory state of mind for some sixty years. Agriculture is in fact made the scapegoat for the Church of England. The Government has satisfied its Church financially without the consent of its farmer tithe-payers. See London Demonstration. We therefore invity your perusal and study of the following pages and hope that you will find them instructive provocative and amusing. First leaf loose. Occasional markings to contents. Very rough copy of a most unusual work. The Ashford, Kent & Susses Tithe Payers' Association Paperback
194332569Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1943. Mild tanning to text paper mild edge wear small closed tear to upper front panel reading crease small chip to lower left front corner a very good copy. 32569. Octavo single issue cover by Rafael DeSoto pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Body in Grant's Tomb" by Cornell Woolrich. Fiction by T.T. Flynn D.L. Champion and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193922145Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1939. Mild edge wear and creases tape to verso of the edges of the front cover clear tape to spine ends a very good copy. 22145. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Case of the Talking Eyes" by Cornell Woolrich. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193622130Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1936. Paper loss to middle of spine with some spine edge rubbing a very good copy. 22130. Octavo single issue cover by Walter Baumhofer pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Living Lie Down With the Dead" by Cornell Woolrich. Also fiction by Carroll John Daly Frederick Nebel Fred MacIsaac and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193622129Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1936. Light edge wear with a chip to the lower front cover reading crease a very good copy. 22129. Octavo single issue cover by Walter Baumhofer pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "The Living Lie Down With the Dead" by Cornell Woolrich. Also fiction by Carroll John Daly Frederick Nebel Fred MacIsaac and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
194430845Chicago: Popular Publications 1944. Mild edge wear a nearly fine copy. 30845. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by D. L. Champion Frederick C. Davis and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications unknown
193622128Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1936. Cover cleanly separated from spine small chip to lower left front corner some clear tape to spine a very good copy. 22128. Octavo single issue cover by Walter Baumhofer pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel Frederick C. Davis and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193522199Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1935. Crease to right front cover reading crease penciled numbers to lower left front cover some fraying to lower spine edge a good to very good copy. 22199. Octavo single issue cover by Walter Baumhofer pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193322099Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1933. Mild edge wear some creasing a good to very good copy. 22099. Octavo single issue cover by William Reusswig pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Carroll John Daly and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
6131565988.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
194919451Chicago IL: Popular Publications Inc. 1949. Reading crease at spine edge a nearly fine copy. 19451. Octavo single issue pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes a Fredric Brown story. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
67 pages with forty-four illustrations. Circa 1949. Abundantly illustrated with very interesting black and white photographs which document a multitude of protests. "The Tithe Act of 1936 has left an entirely unsatisfactory state of affairs. It leaves the tithe-paying farmers disgruntled and antagonistic, and puts the country in the position of placing a proportion of its most important citizens in this unsatisfactory state of mind for some sixty years. Agriculture is, in fact, made the scapegoat for the Church of England. The Government has satisfied its Church financially without the consent of its farmer tithe-payers. (See London Demonstration). We, therefore, invity your perusal and study of the following pages, and hope that you will find them instructive, provocative and amusing. First leaf loose. Occasional markings to contents. Very rough copy of a most unusual work. Book
193728276Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1937. Light edge wear with tiny tears some creasing small separations of front cover from spine at upper and lower corners a very good copy. 28276. Octavo single issue cover by Malvin Singer pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Stuck With Murder" by Cornell Woolrich. Also fiction by Carroll John Daly Race Williams Fred MacIsaac and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193522124Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1935. Spotting to front cover mild edge wear a very good copy. 22124. Octavo single issue cover by Walter Baumhofer pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes "Dead on Her Feet" by Cornell Woolrich. Other fiction by Frederick Nebel Fred MacIsaac Hugh B. Cave and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193422112Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1934. Mild edge wear closed tear and crease to upper front cover edges trimmed a very good copy. 22112. Octavo single issue cover by Walter Baumhofer pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel Erle Stanley Gardner Carroll John Daly and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193422125Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1934. Mild edge wear a very good copy. 22125. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Frederick Nebel Dwight V. Babcock Fred MacIsaac and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193522114Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1935. Light edge wear with some nicks and tiny chips some paper loss to spine panel affects title lettering a very good copy. 22114. Octavo single issue cover by Walter Baumhofer pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Norbert Davis Frederick Davis Erle Stanley Gardner and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
193322097Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1933. Small chip to upper front cover mild edge wear and reading crease lower left cover separated from spine a very good copy. 22097. Octavo single issue cover by William Reusswig pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Includes fiction by Carroll John Daly George Harmon Coxe and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
1867WRCAM56560New York: Beadle and Company 1867. 32pp. Original pictorial orange wrappers. Minor edge wear and soiling spine worn tiny chip to front bottom corner. Uneven toning to titlepage else clean internally. Very good. The eighteenth entry in Beadle's first series of Dime Handbooks related to games and pastimes a genre that they originated and made vastly popular along with their dime novels. This volume is devoted mostly to advice and instruction on walking and running for sport and competition. Included is a report on Edward Weston's 1867 feat of walking from Portland Maine to Chicago a distance of some 1226 miles in only twenty- six days. "Deposited for copyright December 31 1867 and previously advertised as 'In Press'" - Johannsen. The address of Beadle and Company was 118 William Street at the time of its printing. JOHANNSEN BEADLE AND ADAMS I p.377. Beadle and Company unknown books
1885WRCAM56563New York: Beadle and Adams 1885. 428pp. including diagrams and a scorecard. Frontis. Original pictorial orange wrappers. Minimal wear. Near fine. A later edition of the fourteenth entry in Beadle's first series of Dime Handbooks related to games and pastimes a genre that they originated and made vastly popular along with their dime novels. Originally issued in 1866 the copyright on this edition reads 1885 was published by Beadle and Adams and indicated their location as 98 William Street. The front cover illustration repeated as a frontispiece shows a well- dressed lady with a croquet mallet. JOHANNSEN BEADLE AND ADAMS I p.377 ref. Beadle and Adams unknown books
Classic cover art features semi-nude good girl with bloody barber's shears protruding from her throat. 128 pages. Stories include: Hell With the Lid Lifted; The Stars Said Murder; The Farraday Phantom; The Body in Booth One; The Corpse Played Possum; Death Racket; Ready for the Rackets; and The April Thrill Docket. Unmarked. Binding intact. Above-average wear and soiling. Chips and chunks from covers and bottom of backstrip. Considerable nibbling to bottom corner of back cover and last 12 pages has resulted in the loss of a modicum of text and portions of several ads. Despite these deficiencies, a worthy reading copy of this classic issue. Book
193422111Chicago: Popular Publications Inc. 1934. Mild edge wear a few cover creases a very good or better copy. 22111. Octavo single issue cover by John Howitt pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Fiction by Hugh Cave Max Brand and others. Reference: Cook Mystery Detective and Espionage Magazine pp. 168-170. Popular Publications, Inc. unknown
1867WRCAM56561New York: Beadle and Company 1867. 622pp. including illustrations. Original pictorial orange wrappers. Minimal wear to wrappers tiny crease in middle of spine. Internally clean. Very good plus. The fifteenth entry in Beadle's first series of Dime Handbooks related to games and pastimes a genre that they originated and made vastly popular along with their dime novels. The text includes descriptions of yacht clubs in England America and elsewhere and includes descriptions of the 1866 trans-oceanic yacht race between the Henrietta Vesta and Fleetwing as well as rowing matches between Oxford and Cambridge and between Harvard and Yale. "Deposited for copyright May 31 1867 and put on sale June 1" - Johannsen. The address of Beadle and Company was 118 William Street at the time of its printing. JOHANNSEN BEADLE AND ADAMS I p.377. Beadle and Company unknown books
190517859<p>New York: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company 1905 First edition. OCLC records only one copy at Ohio State. Original color pictorial wrappers. . Octavo. 7 in. x 4.75 in. . Illustrated frontispiece and three plates. Wrappers are spotted and soiled with a small chip at the foot of the spine. Paper is browned but in solid condition. Good copy. Grave Miller White 1868-1957 was a writer of popular fiction from New York. Most of her novels were adapted from plays. Her better-known works include Tess of the Storm Country 1909 and Deserted at the Altar 1905 both of which were adapted info films.</p> J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company,
