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193166723US: The Reilly & Lee Co 1931. Hardback. Good . Red cloth over boards with black-debossed titling and black-debossed titling and illustration to front board. Pages have scattered light foxing and spots of soiling to margins of some pages throughout small spot of foxing to top edge of half-title page and light stamping onto title page from illustration on facing page. Endpages have moderate to heavy foxing and soiling and tape repair to inner hinges. Text block is sunned particularly at top edge with two small spots of soiling to lower edge soiling to fore edge near lower corner and light soiling and scuffing to top edge. Boards have light soiling to edges sunning to spine and cracking to cloth at outer hinges. Soiling to center and tail of spine light to moderate bumping and rubbing to edges corners and ends of spine. Binding is sound spine is cocked. The Reilly & Lee Co unknown
192725574Reilly & Lee Co 1927. HARDBACK NODustJacket1927 1st Edition GOOD/GOOD- AS-IS NOJACKET THICK Red & Black Cloth Illustrated vr of 3 Boys Marching with Darkening & Spotting & General Wear Rub Cvr Spine Cvr smallSpot & Edge Tears lightWear Back Cvr Spotting & Wear 321 Pgs NO ADS in Back Interior relatively Nice condition light Wear FOX Aging . First Edition. Hard Cover. Reilly & Lee Co hardcover
1931047219Chicago and New York: The Reilly & Lee Co. 1931. Copyright 1931. Generally good shape but with some condition issues - please read complete description. Red pictorial cloth printed in black with dustjacket. The book has had moisture exposure but no musty odor. Some light discoloration at the far bottom of the rear cover traces of old mildew to endpapers good hinges firm text block clean pages no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped 1.25 and would be rated very good with only light shelfwear and tiny chips to spine ends - if not for some minor red staining on the reverse side invisible from the front. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Reilly & Lee Co. Hardcover
1929047218Chicago and New York: The Reilly & Lee Co. 1929. Copyright 1929. Generally good shape but with some condition issues - please read complete description. Red pictorial cloth printed in black with dustjacket. The book has had moisture exposure but no musty odor. Some light discoloration at the far bottom of the rear cover traces of old mildew to endpapers good hinges firm text block clean pages no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped 1.25 and would be rated very good with only light shelfwear and tiny chips to spine ends - if not for some minor red staining on the reverse side invisible from the front. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Reilly & Lee Co. Hardcover
1936047217Chicago and New York: The Reilly & Lee Co. 1936. Copyright 1936 likely first edition. Hard to find title with condition issues - please read complete description. Red pictorial cloth printed in black with dustjacket. The book has had moisture exposure that mainly impacts the covers endpapers and the interior of the dustjacket but no musty odor. Covers spotted with both light and dark areas evidence of old mildew to endpapers and blanks at beginning and end good hinges firm text block clean pages no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped 1.25 and looks great from the outside with only minor shelfwear and tiny edge chips internally stained from the red covers very little paper loss. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Reilly & Lee Co. Hardcover
1939032580Chicago: Reilly and Lee 1939. First Edition. Octavo. 333 pages. Besides a writer of humorous juvenile novels the author was appointed to the Virginia State Board of Censors to make certain that movies were devoid of sex and also did not suggest any kind of racial mixing such as Oscar Michaux's films represented. In this book the family has a black maid who sees a turtle walking across the kitchen floor. She is frightened thinking it is a large bug. "I was a cleanin' up those chilluns' rooms an' I seed sumpen the like er which I ain't never seed in no hotel room.". The dialect while relatively accurate was used to show how the maid was pleasant but clearly knew her place--to serve her white employers. Bound in red pictorial cloth lettered and decorated in black spine lettering black light wear and fading to head previous owner's name and address both inner hinges cracked through endpapers apparently reglued and holding well in unclipped pictorial dust jacket lettered and decorated in red black and tan spine faded wear along the edges and corners with chipping to head and a few other small chips. Reilly and Lee unknown
1936228200Reilly & Lee 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 9x6x1. Hardcover First edition published by Reilly & Lee. Dust jacket is torn and chipped especially along the edges. However is now in an archival protective wrapper. Internally the pages are clean unmarked and the binding is sound. One page has a small section torn from the edge. It does not affect the text/readability. A nice collectible copy of this title in the Miss Minerva series. Professional packaging in a box and prompt shipping. RBR Reilly & Lee hardcover
193636427Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co 1936. 1st edition. Cloth. Good -. Clifford P. Benton. 1st edition. A Good- copy lacking dust jacket. 12mo. 311 pp. Red cloth with title and decoration in black. Spine is faded overall cloth is worn soiled and faded. Cloth at top & base of spine torn. Previous owners name and crayon drawing inside front cover. Front and rear hinges crack with webbing showing. Paper is age toned with some light soiling at text edge. Some occasional spotting to text. A Good minus copy of this scarce title. Sampson wrote ten novels usually incorporating Calhoun's "Miss Minerva" in the titles creating one of the few series of novels for children which used Southern characters and settings. While Sampson followed the format of the popular children's series of the time she had her creations encounter the wonders of the 20th century in the South. The Reilly & Lee Co unknown
1025841948.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1931045315Chicago: Reilly and Lee 1931. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. This copy has the deep green jacket. No printing stated. Maroon cloth with black silhouette decoration. Shallow quarter inch chip to head of jacket spine. Long owner gift inscription. $1.50 jacket price. <br/> <br/> Reilly and Lee hardcover
1939122082Chicago: Reilly and Lee 1939. First edition first printing. Hardcover in dust jacket. Small owner's label to front pastedown else fine in fine faintly edgeworn dust jacket with slight sunning to spine in mylar cover. Reilly and Lee hardcover
1929191Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1929. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. William Donahey. Hardcover/ DJ; Fine/ VG. C.1929; assume First Edition 1st printing- no note of further ones. DJ price-clipped but does show Price $."" portion. Red & black pictorial DJ clean & bright w/ minor toning & edge wear sm. chips & closed tears- mostly on spine & back panel; NO rubbing- displays extremely well. Cloth binding excellent decoration replicates DJ picture; clean crisp & square- really no flaws- looks almost new. Hint of toning to text; tight clean unmarked. Excellent copy- I don't think you'll be disappointed. Reilly & Lee hardcover
193148889Chicago: Reilly & Lee Co 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 280p octavo illustrated. Front fly leaf expertly repaired as this book was printed with a binding flaw. Other wise a fine crisp copy in a very good dust jacket. <br/><br/> Reilly & Lee Co hardcover
1016085664.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1120821002.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1167112474.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1166997804.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1120647134.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
193119985Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co. Fair. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine is worn and faded rubbed at the top. Inner hinges are cracked. Small food stain on 3 pages. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages . The Reilly & Lee Co. hardcover
193176022Chicago: Reilly and Lee 1931. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis illustrations by Helen Lorraine 280p. Rebound in recent quarterbinding marbled boards backed in red leather. Backstrip lightly sunned. Original colorful front cover cloth which has a few white spots and a tiny chip has been reinforced and bound in preceding the half-title. 21 cm. No Jacket. Sampson wrote a series of Miss Minerva novels for children in which Miss Minerva and many of the other Tennessee-based characters were African Americans. Speed the white author of this cook book written in the African America dialect spoken by Speed's Miss Minerva character say the following in part about her own cooking: "Cooking is never a task to me. I really like to do it -- that is if someone else washes the pots and pans . Incidentally I have an excellent cook who never wants me to cook anything myself." Two widely separated extracts from the Introduction on pages 7-8 . Reilly and Lee hardcover
22610CHChicago/New York: The Reilly & Lee Company 1923 302 pp. Original red pictorial cloth covers very bright and clean. Modest rubbing to corners and spine ends. Inscription to previous owner "Pattie/from Santa Claus/Christmas 1947" on front endpaper. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ wear and light chipping to edges. Spine sunned. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good to Very Good-. Illus. by William Donahey. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Reilly & Lee Company Hardcover
22609CHChicago/New York: The Reilly & Lee Company 1933 316 pp. Original red pictorial cloth covers very bright and clean. Spine ends and bottom corners a bit bumped. Inscription to previous owner "Pattie/from Santa Claus/Christmas 1948" on front endpaper. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light edge wear. Modest chipping to corners and spine ends. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by Clifford P. Benton. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Reilly & Lee Company Hardcover
22608CHChicago/New York: The Reilly & Lee Company 1927 322 pp. Original red pictorial cloth covers very bright and clean. Spine ends and bottom corners a bit bumped. Inscription to previous owner "Pattie/from/Santa Claus/Christmas 1947" on front endpaper. DJ lightly soiled and rubbed w/ light edge wear. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good-. Illus. by William Donahey. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. The Reilly & Lee Company Hardcover
192530185Chicago: Reilly & Lee 1925. Early printing ca 1927. Red cloth binding with black stamping. Red & black dust jacket which replicates binding design. VG square & tight/light foxing/VG modest edgewear. 329 1 pp. Illustrated by William Donahey. 12mo. <br/><br/>Miss Minerva Series #5. The now politically incorrect stories of life in the South with Miss Minerva chaperoning her young charge Billy with his 2 partners-in-crime Jimmy Garner & Wilkes Booth Lincoln Billy's 'colored' friend who is often featured in the dj graphics. Reilly & Lee hardcover books
1931Embry 184149The Reilly & Lee Co. 1931. First edition first printing. Small owner's label inked name and brief gift inscription light rubbing to edges overall near fine in very good dust jacket with some light sunning to spine shallow creasing to spine tips and rubbing to folds in mylar cover. B&W illus. by Clifford P. Benton. Red cloth pictorially stamped in black. The Reilly & Lee Co., 1931. First edition, first printing. hardcover books
