Offered here is a vintage Tom Swift children's series book, "The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures - Tom Swift and His Flying Lab", by Victor Appleton II, Grosset Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1954. Blue tweed cloth boards with dark navy titles and illustration - very lgiht bump at extremities - edge sunning. Illustrated endpages - Lists 3 Tom Swift Jr. titles on the verso of the half title page and the rear flap and the rear panal of the dust jacket. The dust jacket has light edge wear with very small chips at the corners and at the bottom front edge and the blue on the top edge of the pages is sun faded - slight lean. First Edition. Illustrated frontis and throuighout by Graham Kaye.- pages white.
Offered here is a vintage Tom Swift children's series book, "The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures - m Swift and His Jetmarine", by Victor Appleton II, Grosset Dunlap Publishers, New York, 1954. Blue tweed cloth boards with dark navy titles and illustration - very lgiht bump at extremities - edge sunning. Illustrated endpages - Lists 3 Tom Swift Jr. titles on the verso of the half title page and the rear flap and the rear panal of the dust jacket. The dust jacket has light edge wear with very small chips at the corners and at the bottom front edge - a couple of tears repaired on the inside with acid free tape; and the blue on the top edge of the pages is sun faded. First Edition. Illustrated frontis and throuighout by Graham Kaye.- pages white.
Offered here is a vintage young adult Tom Swift hardcover: "Tom Swift and His Rocket Ship", "The New Tom Swift Jr. Adventures", by Victor Appleton II, Grosset & Dunlap, 1954. #9103., 1954. Illustrated. Illustrated end papers. 8vo. Hard Cover/No Jacket. Pages clean and tight, extremely light rub to cover extremities at bottom front cover corner and bottom front gutter and at top right corner tip, two bumps on edges on back cover. Appears unread.
Offered here is a vintage Horatio Alger series book, "Tom the Boot Black", by Horatio Alger, Jr., Donohue edition, ca. 1910. Light tan cloth boards with red and black illustration - front gutter seems re-glued. Add for bicycle on back of first endpage, which has a name and message at the top edge
Offered here is a vintage hardbound classic children's series story book, "Treasure Island - The Classic Series - Whitman", by Robert Louis Stevenson, with very colorful Dust Jacket. This is one of those cheap Whitman books with "pulp-like" paper. It is in better condition than most you will find like it. Darl Greem cloth boards with orange stamped titles. Illustrated endpages with sailing vessel.The Dust Jacket has chipping along the edges and fold - some old tape repair inside the DJ.
Offered here is a vintage children's hardcover, "Two Boy Gold Miners or Lost In The Mountains", by Frank V. Webster, Cupples & Leon, New York, 1909.; Excellent cream colored cloth with red and black illustration, stamped black titles, a hint of bumps at the extremities, age disintegration of cloth at front trough, wonderful book, in good and very scarce dust jacket with a large chip missing from the bottom of the jacket spine - brittle and sunned at spine. Titles in the book end with "Jack The Runaway." Second edition (1910ca). Illustrated by drawings.
Offered here is a vintage children's Western hardcover series book: "Wyatt Earp", by Philip Ketchum, illustrated by Robet Doremus, Whitman Publ., Racine, Wisc., 1956, #1548:49. Glossy pictorial paper boards, Rubbing and stressing at the gutters with glossy surface coming off. Bump at top cover corner, Illustrated endpages, nice whit pages.
Offered here is a vintage Horatio Alger children's hardcover: "Young Explorer; Or, Among The Sierras", Horatio Alger, Jr., Porter & Coates Edition, Philadelphia, Publ., 1880, 285pp. This was the last title that was published by Loring, in 1880. The last page ends with statement that : The fourth and concluding volume of the Pacific Series will be called "Ben's Nugget; or, A Boy's Search for Fortune", the first edition of Ben's Nugget" was published by Porter & Coates in 1882, thus this very early edition of Young Explorer. Brown blind stamped decorated cloth boards with cloth binding with gilt ornate decorations etc - cover worn at extremities - minor bumps and rubs at the extremities and spine head and heel. Dark Green endpages. Double elaborately illustrated frontis with protective tissue.
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