Famous Authors from Bee Creek Books

New York: A. L. Burt, Publisher 443 pp. Maroon cloth covers with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are lightly bumped and rubbed, top page edge darkened, minor scuffing to cover faces, cover edges are bumped, spine ends are bent with some small tears. Decorative endpapers. Interior is tight, clean. Book in VG to VG+ condition.. Cloth. Very Good.… Read more about this item

London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1937. "The scenes of Mr. Hilton's new novel are laid in a small Cathedral town, where the tragedy of 'the little doctor' was worked out." Empire Edition (this edition is supplied for sale only in India, the Dominions, and the Colonies). 219 pp. Maroon cloth cover with gilt title on front cover and spine. DJ… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. Translated from the German by Whittaker Chambers. With a foreword by John Galsworthy. From the foreword: "Bambi is a delicious book. Delicious not only for children, but for those who are no longer so fortunate. For delicacy of perception and essential truth I hardly know any story of animals that can stand beside this life-story of… Read more about this item

Boston: Ticknor And Fields, 1860. 405 pp. 16 pp of advertised books for sale at conclusion of text. Brown cloth covers with faded gilt lettering on spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, significant scuffing and fading to cover faces, joints are worn, some soiling spots, spine is creased, spine ends are missing and there is fraying/tears. Loose… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1937. 68 pp. Brown cloth covers with gilt title on front cover and faded gilt on spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, minor scuffing and marks to cover faces, spine ends/corners rubbed and fraying. Endpapers are tanned and foxed. Interior pages are tanned, some foxing spots. Book in VG- to VG condition.. First… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1934. 331 pp. Blue cloth covers with yellow title on spine. Missing DJ. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed, scuffing and wear to cover faces, worn joints, spine is slightly discolored and creased, spine ends are bent and fraying. Cocked spine. Broken hinges. Endpapers are tanned, black ink spots to front inside… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. With stories by Alexandre Dumas, Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Sir Walter Scott, William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Richard F. Burton, Rudyard Kipling, among others. Locations described include The Dead Sea, Mount Vesivius, the Desert of Sahara, Niagara Falls, The Grand Canyon, Victoria Falls, Mammoth Cave, and Yellowstone, along with many others. Numerous photographs of… Read more about this item

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1903. With stories by Alexandre Dumas, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and Jules Guiffrey, among others. Artwork described includes The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, The Sistine Madonna by Raphael, The Night Watch by Rembrant, The Hay Wain by Constable, The Madonna of the… Read more about this item

New York: Privately Printed, 1921. "The writings ot Thomas Bailey Aldrich in both poetry and prose are well-nigh perfect of their kind. He was a literary craftsman of the highest type and expended all of his effort in the attempt to make of each lyric or sonnet and of every short story a little masterpiece." One hundred and twenty-five copies… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 500 pp. No publishing date listed. Green cloth cover with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are rubbed to boards, edges bumped, white marks/scuffing on cover faces, spine is creased, spine ends are bent and fraying. Front hinge broken, back hinge loose. Interior pages are lightly browning, otherwise clean. Book in… Read more about this item

Washington: Department of Interior, 1939. 58 pp., mimeographed paper. In 1943, Jeff Dykes (well-known Western bibliographer and respected bookseller), wrote to the Forest Service for "a list of books by and about park rangers." The Department sent back this list as well as a 13-page list of Field Officials of the National Park Service and Books Suggested for Study for… Read more about this item

Boston: Estes and Lauriat Thackeray's Works: Handy Volume Edition. 443 pp. Maroon cloth covers with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges discolored and rubbed, scuffing and marks to cover faces, several white spots on both front and back covers, spine is faded with scuffs and some white spots, spine ends are fraying and torn.… Read more about this item

Boston: Estes and Lauriat Thackeray's Works: Handy Volume Edition. 392 pp. Maroon cloth covers with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges discolored and rubbed, significant scuffing and marks to cover faces, many white spots (paint?) on both front and back covers, spine is faded with scuffs and some white spots, spine ends are quite… Read more about this item

Boston: Estes and Lauriat Thackeray's Works: Handy Volume Edition. Edited by Arthur Pendennis, Esq. 411 pp. Maroon cloth covers with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges discolored and rubbed, significant scuffing and marks to cover faces, spine is faded with scuffs and some white spots, spine ends are quite fraying and torn. Gilt top… Read more about this item

Boston: Estes and Lauriat Thackeray's Works: Handy Volume Edition. 391 pp. Maroon cloth covers with gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners are bumped and rubbed, edges discolored and rubbed, scuffing and marks to cover faces, spine is faded with some white spots, spine ends are fraying and torn. Gilt top page edge. Frontispiece protected by tissueguard. Interior pages browning… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1886. Thackeray's Complete Works, The People's Edition. With 325 Illustrations by the Author, Du Maurier, Cruikshank, Leech, Millais, Barnard, and Others. Stories include: Novels by Eminent Hands, Jeames's Diary, Adventures of Major Gahagan, A Legend of the Rhine, Rebecca and Rowena, The History of the Next French Revolution, Cox's Diary, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J.… Read more about this item

New York: The Viking Press, 1967. "Beach Stop-time is a memoir of boyhood and adolscence, it deals with family conflict, friendship and love, the paralysis of terror, pride in new powers - all the commonplaces of reminiscence. But this is the story of a young life told with such freedom and skill, peopled by characters so rich, that it transcends… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1886. Thackeray's Complete Works, The People's Edition. With 325 Illustrations by the Author, Du Maurier, Cruikshank, Leech, Millais, Barnard, and Others. Stories include: Mrs. Perkins's Ball, Our Street, Dr. Birch, The Kickleburys on the Rhine, The Rose and the Ring, Ballads and Tales, The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond, Men's Wives… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1873. Harper's Illustrated Library Edition. 359 pp. Twelve page list of books available to libraries from Harper & Brothers. Green cloth covers with gilt author signature on front, gilt title lettering on spine. Cover corners and edges are bumped and rubbed to boards, scuffing and marks to cover faces, joints are worn, creasing to… Read more about this item

New York: Hurst & Company 223 pp. No publication date. Red cloth covers. Covers are very worn and tattered with corners and edges rubbed to boards, bumped edges, cover faces scuffed and torn and extremely dirty. Joints have multiple tears and holes, exposing spine. Spine is worn and has large white mark, top of spine is missing, spine ends are… Read more about this item