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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Book. Illus. by Dorothea Warren Fox, Illustrator. Fine. Hardcover. Stated First Edition.. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1954. Stated First Edition. Fine/Near Fine. Dorothea Warren Fox, Illustrator. Collectible quality First Edition, First Printing in clean unclipped original dust jacket. Very clean sky blue cloth boards with black cloth spine, red lettering, blue decoration on spine. No fading, bumping or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean decorated endpapers. No names, writing or bookplates. 248 pages. Clean dust jacket is unchipped, not price clipped (3.00 on front inside flap), no tears, slightest hint of edge wear. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Things don't always go the they way you expect them to when you take a family vacation! This story is even funnier than the author's previous "Father of the Bride." Made into a rollicking movie (1962) starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, and Fabian..
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- Keywords FICTION, FIRST EDITION, EDWARD STREETER, DOROTHEA WARREN FOX, HUMOR, FAMILY VACATION BOOKS INTO FILM
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
by Hillenbrand, Laura
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1966 Legend of Grizzly Adams Dillon 1st Ed 1st HBDJ
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A Very Good, First Edition, First Printing of "The Legend of Grizzly Adams" California's Greatest Mountain Man by Richard Dillon. The priced dust jacket has some light chipping at the head and the heel of the spine. Boards are clean. Square book. Points good. Internally, lightly read if at all. No writing.
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The Beans
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Baby Weems
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NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn and sunned, shaken, several small . tears to lower edges of pages.. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Slate blue illustrated cloth. Introduction by Robert Benchley. Many black and white illustrations by Disney studio artists. The humorous story of the genius baby, which was part of the 1941 Disney film, The Reluctant Dragon. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [64] pages .
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Ben-Hur: 1967-1915
by Lew Wallace
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Hard cover no DJ. Dedication Dec......./88Worn corners. Pages discolored with age.
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Seabiscuit: An American Legend
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NYC: Random House, 2001 First printing (with 24689753 number line) in first state dust jacket -- author blurbs are in correct order: Ambrose, Nack, Beyer, Rosenbaum, $24.95 price, with no mention of the audio version or being a NY Times bestseller. The incredible story of the little horse who could, basis for the movie with Jeff Bridges. 399 pp, indexed. B&W photographs. Minimal edgewear, slight rubbing to dust jacket - now in protective mylar.
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1966 Legend of Grizzly Adams Dillon 1st Ed 1st HBDJ
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A Very Good, First Edition, First Printing of "The Legend of Grizzly Adams" California's Greatest Mountain Man by Richard Dillon. The priced dust jacket has some light chipping at the head and the heel of the spine. Boards are clean. Square book. Points good. Internally, lightly read if at all. No writing.
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The Beans
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First English edition- 2 books with the original UK issue dust jackets; both books are fine with no defects other than than the common foxing to the paper used by publisher. You will receive two copies of the first English edition book for the same price. One has the first state dust jacket designed by Gill Day and the other has the second state dust jacket designed by Don Macpherson. Neither copy has been read and are in as new condition.
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Baby Weems
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NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company. Fair with no dust jacket; Boards worn and sunned, shaken, several small . tears to lower edges of pages.. 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Slate blue illustrated cloth. Introduction by Robert Benchley. Many black and white illustrations by Disney studio artists. The humorous story of the genius baby, which was part of the 1941 Disney film, The Reluctant Dragon. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; [64] pages .
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Ben-Hur: 1967-1915
by Lew Wallace
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Hard cover no DJ. Dedication Dec......./88Worn corners. Pages discolored with age.
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Mr. Hobb's Vacation
by Streeter, Edward
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Harper & Brothers, NY, 1954.. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, hardcover, VG in tan boards with corners lightly bumped. Part of dj taped to endpapers. Hobbs, a frustrated and successful businessman, was looking forward to his vacation, a place by the sea with his children and grandchildren. But when the time came it was a disaster. A man who worshipped order was in the midst of chaos. Humor. How our dreams are knocked about by reality. 248 pp.
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
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Harper, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good. Dorothea Warren Fox. Very nice copy, firm in binding, unmarked in unclipped jacket showing gentle sunfade to spine. There is tan coloration perhaps from glue at endpaper edges.
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MR. HOBBS' VACATION (Novel made into Film)
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popular library, , (first PB 1962), . K-09, near fine, unread (MOVIE TIE-IN / JIMMY STEWART), paperback,
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation (Movie Tie-In Starring = James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian ; Popular K9)
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Canada: Popular Library., 1962. Book. Illus. by PHOTO Cover From FILM/Movie. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition By This Publisher.. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 156 pages."Mr. Hobbs wants to spend a quiet holiday at the beach, but his wife has invited all their family to stay with them." Movie Tie-In Starring = James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara, Fabian ; >> Minor creasing to covers..
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
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Harper & Brothers. Good/Good. 1954. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. (S295) .
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
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Harper & Brothers, 1954. First Edition. Interior is excellent/Minimal wear to cover and jacket.
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
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NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1902. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. vi, (i), 248 pp .
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
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Harper & Brothers, 1954. hard cover. good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Good, hard cover book with torn dust jacket, book club edition, sunned, deckle pages, 248 pages, 8vo.
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Mr Hobbs' Vacation
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New York: Harper & Brothers. Good in Good+ dust jacket. 1954. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Well cocked, edge tone, staining/foxing to covers at top, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket small tears and chips, light rub, light foxing, otherwise light wear. Solid hardcover.; "For months ahead Mr Hobbs had daydreamed of the pleasures that would be his and the many things he would do. But, somehow, when the time arrived, affairs did not turn out as he anticipated. His grandchildren were either sleeping or eating. His daughters were involved in their own pursuits. His sons-in-law baffled him. The business of living kept getting in his way - the problem of hot water, the demands of hospitality, garbage disposal. A man who worshiped order, Mr Hobbs found himself existing in the midst of what seemed to him unbelievable chaos." Illustrated with drawings by Dorothea Warren Fox. First Edition, First Printing of this delightful humor novel by the author of Dere Mabel…
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Mr. Hobbs' Vacation
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Harpr & Bros., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated. 1/4 black cloth on teal paper-covered boards, spine title in teal and red. Modest shelf wear to the binding. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, has some rubbing at the spine ends, and one very short closed tear at the top of the front panel.
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The Sky and the Forest
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C.S. Forester: The Sky and the Forest. Little, Brown and Company, Boston. Stated First Edition First Printing Thus August, 1948. Cover price $2.75. Used. VG BOOK/VG UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. A story of a central Africa. By C.S. Forester, author of the Admiral Hornblower series.
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Murder for Christmas (A Midnite Mystery)
by Christie, Agatha
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Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.
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The Silence Of The North
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By Olive A. Frederickson with Ben East. AUTOBIOGRAPHY. RARE. 1972 Crown Publishers Inc., NY. The Silence Of The North, The Incredible story of a woman's fight for survival in a merciless winter of the Canadian Wilderness during the 1940's. Adapted as a film in 1981 and directed by Allan King. VG/GOOD $5.95 unclipped dust jacket. USED. 5 ¾ X 8 ½. 209 pages. Illustrated with b/w photographs.
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The Midnight Sky
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Los Angeles: Netflix, 2020. Oversized hardcover with white boards, front cover embossed title and photo, spine black embossed lettering, black endpapers. Very good condition with some shelf wear. Pages are unmarked. Book published in conjunction with the movie. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.
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Grand Hotel
by Baum, Vicki
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GRAND HOTEL BY VICKI BAUM. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION. Also published in the German language as Menchen Im Hotel. Used. Good Condition. No DJ is included. Bright pages. STATED FIRST EDITION. Copyright page states: "All rights reserved. First published 1930" Geoffrey Bles Publishers, London. Original source material for the famous film of the same name.
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Another Part of the Forest
by Hellman, Lillian
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ANOTHER PART OF THE FOREST. THE VIKING PRESS, FIRST EDITION STATED FIRST PRINTING THUS, APRIL, 1947. Used. Very good condition/Good + condition original unclipped, $2.00 price appears on front flap. Fuscia dust jacket spine is a trace sunned. Mylar wrap. Another Part of the Forest, a play in three acts by Lillian Hellman, author of "The Little Foxes", and "The Searching Wind". Patricia Neal frontispiece.
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HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK
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Norwalk, Ct: The Easton Press, 1967. Reprint . Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. pp: 138. Bound in full grey leather covered boards elaborately decorated with the letter 'H' stamped in gilt designed by Peter Winfield Johnson. The book includes raised bands to the spine, gilt edges, frontispiece, and satin endpapers. The illustrations by Legrand were originally in the 1939 Limited Editions Club publication. The text of this edition is also from the 1939 publication which was derived from the Second Quarto of 1604 and the First Folio edition of 1623. It contains the old style spelling and punctuation of the earlier printings. The size of the text block is almost exactly the same as that of the First Folio. The paper was made at the Glatfelter Paper Mill in Spring Grove, Pennsylvania. Laid in is a four-page booklet on the historical context of this publication.
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Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Readers Library)
by Hugo, Victor
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Hugo, Victor. Undated. Circa 1950. William J. Hill Co., Inc. Chicago, Ill. Not an illustrated edition. USED. VG/No DJ Included. Adventure Fiction Romance/Horror. Sorry about the group photo, but please see stock photo of binding for William J. Hill editions for the item being offered here. Blue Boards, gilt titling and red ornamentation on spine. 380 pages. 5 ½ X 8 ¼. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love. A clean, square, solid copy.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Library ML 35)
by Hugo, Victor
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Hugo, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Modern Library ML 35) Undated, circa 1950, Random House. States complete and unabridged. USED. VG/VG price-clipped original publisher's DJ. Sorry about the group photo, but Please see the item listed for sale here at 2nd book lower row. Front cover illustration depicts Quasimodo atop a moonlit gargoyled roof-top. Red boards, black topstain. 416 pages plus adverts. 4 3/4 X 7 3/8. Summary: Classic title by French Author Victor Hugo about cruelty, courage, and love.
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Deliverance
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NY Houghton Mifflin 1970.. vg+/vg+/very minute wear to top of sp. panel. Dickey's 1st novel that was filmed in 72 by John Boorman w. a screenplay by Dickey who also had a sm. part in the film. 1st print. edition. Binding is cl.w.dj.
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