Gargoyle Books, IOBA

No Binding. Condition: New. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). BRAND NEW, just removed from box, this is a Single Xmas Card designed by Edward Gorey, now long out-of-print. Titled "Untitled,'' it features a line of Gorey people decked out in their holiday best behind his famous alligator, all ready to hang ornaments on the outdoor tree. Interior say "Merry Christmas." Comes with envelope ready for mailing. Special: buy any 2 or more Gorey cards (we are offering 4 designs), take off $.50 each, 3 or more, take off 1.00 each card, & NO extra shipping after the first card! Our photos depict the Exact item you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.

No Binding. Condition: New. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). BRAND NEW, just removed from box, this is a Single Xmas Card designed by Edward Gorey, now long out-of-print. Entitled "A Christmas at Hugglebee Pond,'' it says "Seasons Greetings" on the interior. Comes with envelope ready for mailing. Special: buy any 2 or more Gorey cards (we are offering 4 designs), take off $.50 each, 3 or more, take off 1.00 each card, & NO extra shipping after the first card! Our photos depict the Exact item you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.

No Binding. Condition: New. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). BRAND NEW, just removed from box, this is a Single Xmas Card designed by Edward Gorey, & released posthumously by his trust. Entitled "Gazebo," it shows 2 children riding an ice-skating alligator, with the greeting "Wishing You Smooth Skating for the Holidays" on the interior. Comes with envelope ready for mailing.Special: buy any 2 or more Gorey cards (we are offering 4 designs), take off $.50 each, 3 or more, take off 1.00 each card, & NO extra shipping after the first card! Our photos depict the Exact item you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.

No Binding. Condition: New. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). BRAND NEW, just removed from box, this is a Single Xmas Card designed by Edward Gorey, now long out-of-print. Entitled "The Crestwood Carolers,"' it says "Happy Holidays" on the interior. Comes with envelope ready for mailing. Special: buy any 2 or more Gorey cards (we are offering 4 designs), take off $.50 each, 3 or more, take off 1.00 each card,& no extra shipping! Our photos depict the Exact item you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Ushler, John (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Another in Whitman's series of collectible books for children, most based on popular 1950s-1960s television & culture! All are hardcovers with semi-glossy illustrated covers; none every came with dust jackets. Collect them all! In 282 pages, + extra ads for other Whitman books in rear, this one (#1567) is in only Fair condition: clean, with minor surface rubbing & edgewear, bumped corners, light soil. Rear hinge is cracked & has been reglued; text block strong. Protective acetate coating is tearing in places along the spine. Light dampstain to bottom page edges. All pages show moderate-heavy tanning, especially around edges, in line with age & paper quality, but are unmarked. Our photos depict he EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. BONUS: buy any 2 Whitman titles at the same time & take 10% off, buy 3 & take 20% off, with only $1.00 extra shipping each book!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition Later Printing. Book #3 in the Campfire Girls series by Stewart (other titles were written by other authors previously & afterwards), first published in 1914. The plot again involves a kidnapping & daring rescue, along with competition with a group of boy scouts in which the girls prove their proficiency! In 241 pages with plain frontispiece. Hardcover book has dark blue cloth-covered boards with black lettering to front & spine. Condition is only Fair: both front & rear hinges are cracked, all pages secure. Crossed out former owner's information on ffep; name & date on rear endpaper. Else, quite clean no other writing/underlining/highlighting; not ex-lib. Pages are heavily tanned & becoming a bit brittle, commensurate with age & paper quality. NO DJ on this copy (see our listing #019581 for a copy with the DJ). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received before 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Stevens, Mary (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Book #5 (Whitman #1576) in the 7-volume series of girls' adventure/romance/mystery series published,1957-1964, all written by Marcia Levin under the pseudonym, Marcia Martin. In 282 pages + 2 pages of ads for other Whitman titles in rear, with illustrations throughout by Mary Stevens. Hardcover (5.5" x 8") has glossy pink decorative paper-covered boards with bright lettering to front & spine & a clear acetate cover, which is mostly peeled off. Condition is Though the binding is firm, the first page (ffep) has come completely loose & has an old gift inscription in pencil to back side. The opposite endpaper (inside front cover) has numbers written in all the squares. Interior pages unmarked, but heavily tanned. Both hinges cracked. Heavy rubbing to extremities, bumping & tearing to most corners & both ends of spine. Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Thus. Book #5 in the 15-book WWII adventure series for boys featuring aviator Dave Dawson. Orig. published in 1941 by Crown, this is a contemporaneous reprint from Saalfield, not a modern reprint. Hardcover 12 mo with purple cloth over boards stamped with a black image of Dave & his plan to front/lettering to spine is in Fair condition: clean, binding strong & straight. Writing in pen inside front cover, else unmarked. Pages tanned, heaviest around edges, commensurate with poor quality wartime paper. Hinges intact, but both starting. Heavy rubbing down to underlying boards to bottom outer corner of front cover, nicked area with cloth fraying at lower spine, spotting to both boards. NO DJ (missing).Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition Later Printing. Book #2 (of 22 total) in the popular boy's series from the early 20th century featuring the adventures on land, sea, & air of 3 well-to-do young men. Under the pseudonym, "Clarence Young,'' author Howard Garis made his debut writing for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (his wife, Lillian, would assist on some of the books in the corresponding "Motor Girl" series). Orig. published in 1906, this is a slightly later printing (listing to Book #9 in front matter) with the second cover-art design. Hardcover 2mo bound in gray cloth with stamped black design to front & black lettering to front & spine, in 244 pages with ads for other series in rear. Condition is Fair: though generally very clean, there is heavy rubbing to extremities with some fraying. Binding is shaky, cracked at title page & rear hinge; all pages in the text block are secure. Pages moderately tanned, heavier around edges, commensurate with age. Former owner's name & address in pencil inside front cover, gorilla sticker to ffep; NO other writing/underlining/highlighting; not ex-lib. NO DJ (missing).Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Poor. Benton, Thomas Hart (illustrator). First Mass Market Paperback Edition. Complete & unabridged text of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, published in conjunction with the 1951 film starring Vivien Leigh & Marlon Brando. In 142 pages + 8 pages of photos from the movie in center, cover art by Thomas Hart Benton. 1962 movie starring Paul Newman & Geraldine Page. This 17th printing (1964) is in Fair condition: completely clean, but fragile, with the front cover completely detached & repaired with clear tape along the crease to the front cover that parallels the spine. Outer-upper corner of same cover has torn off & been reglued inside, there is a small chip to the fore edge side through the "e" in the last word of title. Inside pages are heavily tanned, but completely unmarked. Nicely protected in new clear mylar collector bag free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Doremus, Robert (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Another in Whitman's series of collectible books for children, most based on popular 1950s-1960s television & culture! This is one is an original adaptation for young readers of an earlier (1931) biography of the famous lawman. All are hardcovers with semi-glossy illustrated covers; none every came with dust jackets. Collect them all! A FIRST EDITION, in 282 pages, + extra ads for other Whitman books in rear, this one (#1548) is in only Fair condition: generally clean; all pages show moderate-heavy tanning, especially around edges, in line with age & paper quality, but are unmarked. Edgewear is fairly heavy, with bumped corners & both ends of spine. Protective acetate covering is peeling; spine shaky (both hinges cracked), but intact.Our photos depict he EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. BONUS: buy any 2 Whitman titles at the same time & take 10% off, buy 3 & take 20% off, with only $1.00 extra shipping each book!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition Later Printing. Groundbreaking series about a young orphan girl who eventually comes to head her own motion picture company in the early decades of the 20th century, laying the groundwork for other children's series featuring strong female leads. This was Vol. #5 in the series of 30 books), in 204 pages + 8 pages of ads in rear, glossy frontispiece. Orig. published in 1913 this is a later printing of that First Edition, listing to self in front but to RF #22 in rear. Condition is just Fair" heavy rubbing to both covers, cloth is threadbare or tearing in places, bleached along bottom edge. Rear hinge cracked, but text block secure. Scattered soil & spotting, some writing from public library inside both covers, else unmarked. Basically a filler-reading copy. NO DJ. SPECIAL: Buy 2 or more books in this series, take 10% off, 3, take 20% off, 4, take 30% off & only $1 extra shipping each! Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: G-. Kaye, Graham (illustrator). First Edition Later Printing. Vol.#9 in the second Tom Swift YA series, which was comprised of 33 volumes written under the pseudonym Victor Appleton II. Originally published in 1956 in a blue-tweed cloth version with DJ (see our listing #019790), this is a later Picture Cover edition from the early 1960s, with pictorial boards & gold spine. Slightly later printing, listing to TS#20 in front matter & TS#22 on back cover. In 214 pages with a plain frontispiece & blue/white endpapers by illustrator Graham Kaye. Condition is just barely Good: generally very clean, with mild tanning to page edges, binding strong, but starting to split at lower title page, hinges intact. Pages creamy white with very mild tanning/dust dulling to outside edges. Former owner's name & stickers inside front cover & to ffep; NO other writing/underlining/highlighting. Extremities rubbed, heavily at corners, with slight tearing to paper at both ends of spine. Scraped spot to center of front cover on satellite.Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (PST) ship that same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: VG-. Haggander, Sylvia (illustrator). First Edition Later Printing. Book #2 in the-short-lived (1966-1971) six-book series featuring teenage girl sleuth Robin Kane. First Edition, later printing (lists to Book #3). Hardcover book with colorful paper-covered boards, 188 pages, is in VG- condition: completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages modestly tanned, heavier around edges, commensurate with age. Former owner's name in pen on ffep, else unmarked. Mild rubbing to extremities & many rubbed spots on lower half of front cover; slight corner bumping. No DJ as issued. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping if ordered by 2 pm weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next day.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Thus. Part of the Sixth rendition from the 1970s--the yellow "oval paperbacks," of the popular girl's series published 1948-1986 written by the pseudonymous "Kathryn Kenny." Of the 34 titles published in this format, this is #12, originally published in hardcover in 1963. Lists to book #34 in front matter (later printing). Softcover with decorative wrappers (cover art by Jack Wacker), in 212 pages, is in Good condition: generally quite clean & bright, binding cracked & pages 83-86 are detached, but present. All pages tanned, heavier around edges (commensurate with age & paper quality), but completely unmarked save for old price stamp to ffep. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (PST) ship very same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Thus. Another volume in the classic series featuring the sleuthing sister pair Louise & Jean Dana. Orig. published in 1966, this is one of the reissued "white spine" picture cover series from 1972, with slightly revised texts & its original position as #28 changed to #4, with new cover art (artist unattributed). Lists to "Hundred Year Mystery" on back cover. "Blonde on right" at upper spine. Hardcover 12mo in 176 pages, plain frontispiece + 5 internals, is in Fair condition, downgraded due to heavy rubbing/silverfish damage to bottom inner corner of front cover & lower spine. Else, very clean internally, binding strong & square, pages creamy white with a hint of tanning. Very mild rubbing to extremities, mildly bumped corners.Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Nielsen, Jon (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Book #2 (Whitman #1591) in the 7-volume series of girls' adventure/romance/mystery series published,1957-1964, all written by Marcia Levin under the pseudonym, Marcia Martin. In 282 pages + 2 pages of ads for other Whitman titles in rear, with illustrations & decorative endpapers by Jon Nielsen. Hardcover (5.5" x 8") has glossy decorative paper-covered boards with bright lettering to front & spine & a clear acetate cover, which is mostly intact but starting to peel in places. Condition is Fair: reading or filler copy only! Front hinge was cracked & mended with clear tape, as was the entire exterior spine. Another crack in binding toward center of book. Pages tanned with light dampstain to outer edges (fore edge side); unmarked save for old gift inscription in pen inside front cover, former owner's name in pencil with 2 stickers on back of ffep. Rubbing to extremities. Cello covering is peeling all over. heavilyVG+: very clean & bright & colorful, pages mildly tanned, but unmarked. Binding strong & straight, hinges secure. Mild rubbing to extremities all around, heavier at both ends of spine (tiny tear where lower spine meets front cover) & all corners, which are bumped. No DJ, as issued by publisher. Our photos depict he EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. BONUS: buy any 2 Whitman titles at the same time & take 10% off, buy 3 & take 20% off, with only $1.00 extra shipping each book!

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition Later Printing. Book #8 (of 22 total) in the popular boy's series from the early 20th century featuring the adventures on land, sea, & air of 3 well-to-do young men. Under the pseudonym, "Clarence Young,'' author Howard Garis made his debut writing for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (his wife, Lillian, would assist on some of the books in the corresponding "Motor Girl" series). A hardcover bound in dark green cloth stamped with a colorful pictorial design & lettered in black to front & spine, in 248 pages. Orig. published in 1912, can't tell this printing since all front matter pages are missing; book starts with page 1 of Chapter 1. Both hinges cracked, boards loose & shaky.Pages moderately tanned, heavier around edges, commensurate with age, but unmarked. NO DJ (missing). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Soft cover. Condition: Good-. Issued in the heyday of the wildly popular radio & TV series from the 1940s-1950s featuring child prodigies, this book offered 10 questions about the world of science, math, history, music, literature, sports, geography, nature, & more for children to test their wits & knowledge. Unpaginated, with all answers provided. Illustrated throughout with line drawings typical of the era. The First Edition from 1941, this slim paperback has brightly decorated orange-red wrappers & a stapled binding. Condition downgraded to only Good- due to moderate-heavy edgewear, tearing at lower spine & heavy rubbing along rest of spine. Interior is clean, page heavily tanned, commensurate with age & wartime paper quality. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Soft cover. Condition: VG-/G+. First Paperback Edition. By the woman widely acknowledged as the one who brought yoga to the women of the west & who was "yogi to the stars" during the Golden Age of Hollywood. In 208 pages with Index, black-and-white photos & illustrative drawings throughout. Orig. published in hardcover in 1959, this is the First mass market paperback edition from Signet (Y4606) from 1968, albeit the Seventh Printing. Condition is VG-/Good+: very clean, binding straight & strong, pages show age-appropriate tanning. Former owner's name in pen on first page, along with a note from her inside front cover to the effect that she had studies with the author at her home in Tecate, Mexico, & found her "a fascinating lady." Otherwise, completely unmarked. Slight chipping to fore edge side of front cover, light soil, mild creasing & edgewear. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Thus. Book #8 in the 15-book WWII adventure series for boys featuring aviator Dave Dawson. Orig. published in 1942 by Crown, this is a contemporaneous reprint from Saalfield, not a modern reprint. Hardcover with blue-green cloth over boards stamped with a black image of Dave & his plan to front/lettering to spine is in just Fair condition: clean, binding strong & straight. Pages heavily tanned & somewhat brittle, commensurate with poor quality wartime paper, but unmarked. Flaws: both hinges cracked, binding shaky, exterior shows fading/soil/rubbing to extremities. NO DJ (missing). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition Later Printing. Book #6 (of 22 total) in the popular boy's series from the early 20th century featuring the adventures on land, sea, & air of 3 well-to-do young men. Under the pseudonym, "Clarence Young,'' author Howard Garis made his debut writing for the Stratemeyer Syndicate (his wife, Lillian, would assist on some of the books in the corresponding "Motor Girl" series). Orig. published in 1908, this is a later printing (listing to Book #9 in front matter & to #22 in rear) with the second cover-art design stamped on brown cloth. In 247 pages with ads for other series in rear, glossy frontispiece (completely detached) + 2 internals. Condition is Poor: heavy rubbing to all extremities, with paper loss & fraying. Soil, white spot to front cover; both hinges cracked, text block intact. NO DJ (missing). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Poor. First Edition First Printing. Collection of 26 sci-fi/fantasy stories personally selected & edited by the late, great Ray Bradbury, who also provides the Introduction. In 304 pages + Title & Author Index. Though a FIRST EDITION, First Printing from Sept 1952 of this Bantam Giant (A944), this thick mass market paperback is in Poor condition: collectible for cover art only or as a reading copy! Though clean, the binding is cracked & the first section of about 50 pages has come loose; every page is present, however. Rubbing to extremities, heavy edgewear along spine & interface with front cover, including many small chips & creases. Pages show age-appropriate moderate tanning, but are still supple. Looks nice protected in new mylar collector bag.Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive from us, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! All orders processed before 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time) ship same day; later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition Later Printing. Groundbreaking series about a young orphan girl who eventually comes to head her own motion picture company in the early decades of the 20th century, laying the groundwork for other children's series featuring strong female leads.This was Vol.#11 in the series (of 30 books), in 206 pages + 6 pages of ads in rear, glossy frontispiece. Orig. published in 1917, this is a slightly later printing of the First Edition, listing to RF #12 in front & rear. Condition is just Good: generally quite clean with random spotting, light soil. Moderate corner bumping & edgewear/rubbing, fraying. Both hinges cracked; text block secure. Pages heavily tanned around edges & slightly brittle, bt unmarked. NO DJ. SPECIAL: Buy 2 or more books in this series, take 10% off, 3, take 20% off, 4, take 30% off & only $1 extra shipping each! Our photos depict the EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Johnson, Jerry E. (illustrator). First Thus. Another in Whitman's series of collectible books for children, this one (#1613) adapts 11 of the horror master's best tales for YA readers. A FIRST EDITION in this format (First, thus), in 213 pages, with illustrations throughout, this hardcover book has colorful matte paper-covered boards. Condition is Good+: very clean, binding straight & strong. Former owner's name & address in pen on both front & rear endpapers, else unmarked. All pages show moderate-heavy tanning, especially around edges, in line with age & paper quality. Modest bumping to corners & both ends of spine. Our photos depict he EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. BONUS: buy any 2 Whitman titles at the same time & take 10% off, buy 3 & take 20% off, with only $1.00 extra shipping each book!

Soft cover. Condition: VG. Hundreds of brain teasers about Sherlock Holmes & his cases. Trade paperback book is very clean & tight, pages white & unmarked save for tanning. Light shelfwear. Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Poor. Gorey, Edward (illustrator). First Thus. Another Anchor mass market paperback (#A8) with cover art by the late, great Edward Gorey (not noted anywhere in book, but per Toledano's definitive bibliography), published in 1954. Condition is Poor: binding is split & cover is loose from text block, which is split. But Gorey's art is all there on the front cover & spine, with rubbing to their interface & light creasing short tears to spine itself; nicely protected in a new mylar collector bag Free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Vosburgh, Leonard (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. Another in Whitman's series of collectible books for children, most based on popular 1950s-1960s television & culture! This one was part of the "Real Life Stories," all base on true events. Here, famous undercover agents from American history are featured in 11 stories for YA readers. All are hardcovers with semi-glossy illustrated covers; none every came with dust jackets. Collect them all! In 210 pages, + extra ads for other Whitman books in rear, this one (#1512 ) is in Good- (minus) condition: generally very clean, with minor surface rubbing & edgewear, bumped corners, light soil. Binding straight & strong. Protective acetate coating is tearing in many places along the spine, & spine shows heavy rubbing at both ends. All pages show moderate-heavy tanning, especially around edges, in line with age & paper quality, but are unmarked.Our photos depict he EXACT book you will receive from us--never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day. BONUS: buy any 2 Whitman titles at the same time & take 10% off, buy 3 & take 20% off, with only $1.00 extra shipping each book!

Hardcover. Condition: Fair-Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Book #7 in the 15-book WWII adventure series for boys featuring aviator Dave Dawson. Orig. published in 1942 by Crown, this is a contemporaneous reprint from Saalfied, not a modern reprint. Hardcover with red cloth over boards stamped with a black image of Dave & his plan to front/lettering to spine is in Fair-Good condition: though clean with a secure binding & intact hinges. Pages are heavily tanned & brittle, commensurate with poor quality wartime paper, but unmarked. Exterior shows fading & rubbing to extremities, with some fraying of cloth at both ends of spine & corners. NO DJ (missing). Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: VG-. Gorey, Edward; Philippe, Jullian (illustrator). First Mass Market Paperback Edition. Analysis of the social, moral, & political life of seventeenth-century France, focusing on the reign of King Edward XIV, in 304 pages with. 16 pgs of illustrations. Another Anchor paperback (A122) for the Gorey completist, though he did only the typography here; cover art by Jullian Philippe. The First Edition from 1953, this book is in VG- (minus) condition: generally quite clean, with mild, age appropriate tanning both inside & out. Corners crisp, spine strong & uncreased with one tiny scrape. Interior shows significant underlining, primarily in the early chapters--thus, the reduced price. Nicely protected in new mylar collector bag. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have on hand! Same Day Shipping on all orders received Weekdays before 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends, & holidays ship very next business day.