POPULAR FICTION, 1814-1939 SELECTIONS FROM THE ANTHONY TINO COLLECTION L.W. Currey, Inc. John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller POPULAR FICTION, 1814-1939 SELECTIONS FROM THE THE ANTHONY TINO COLLECTION WINTER - SPRING 2017 TERMS OF SALE & PAYMENT: ALL ITEMS subject to prior sale, reservations accepted, items held seven days pending payment or credit card details. Prices are net to all with the exception of booksellers with have previous reciprocal arrangements or are members of the ABAA/ILAB. (1). Checks and money orders drawn on U.S. banks in U.S. dollars. (2). Paypal (3). Credit Card: Mastercard, VISA and American Express. For credit cards please provide: (1) the name of the cardholder exactly as it appears on your card, (2) the billing address of your card, (3) your card number, (4) the expiration date of your card and (5) for MC and Visa the three digit code on the rear, for Amex the for digit code on the front. SALES TAX: Appropriate sales tax for NY and MD added. 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Insurance, if required, is additional (not an option for First Class International Service). BOOKS PURCHASED: We are alway interested in purchasing fine single items or collections. L.W. Currey, Inc. John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller P.O. Box 187 8453 Early Bud Way Elizabethtown, NY 12932 Laurel, MD 20723 [email protected] [email protected] 518-873-6477 301-512-1300 www.lwcurrey.com www.jwkbooks.com Members: A.B.A.A. and I.L.A.B. 1. Abdullah, Achmed. THE THIEF OF BAGDAD ... Based on to cloth, some foxing to half title leaf, title leaf and frontispiece, Douglas Fairbanks' Fantasy of the Arabian Nights. a very good copy. (#152059) Illustrated with Scenes from the Photo Play. New York: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, [1924]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 4. Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen) and May 9-319 [320: blank], four inserted plates with film stills, Cotes. KALEE'S SHRINE ... Bristol and London: J. W. original red cloth, front Arrowsmith ... Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1886. Small and spine panels octavo, pp. [1-4] [1] 2-196 + 12-page publisher's stamped in gold. $250 catalogue and single leaf advertising Rowlands' Articles, original brown cloth, front panel stamped in black, spine Photoplay edition. panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, black First published in 1924 in coated endpapers. $650 New York by H. K. Fly. Novel based on Douglas First edition. Novel of an Anglo-Indian woman possessed Fairbanks' Fantasy of the by the goddess Kali. "The ideas are interesting and sophisticated, Arabian Nights by Elton but the treatment is cheaply sensational and not up to Allen's Thomas and a short better work elsewhere." - Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural version by Lotta Woods. Fiction 16. Wolff 110. Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends and Gold lettering a bit corner tips, very faint circular spot on rear cover, a bright, very tarnished, top edge a good copy. (#151763) trifle dusty, else a near fine copy in about very 5. Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen). AN ARMY good pictorial dust jacket DOCTOR'S ROMANCE ... London, Paris & New York: Raphall (designed by Willy Tuck & Sons, n.d. [1894]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [1] 2-109 Pogany) with some wear [110-112: ads], inserted frontispiece (uncredited portrait along edges and several of Allen) and seven full page plates with illustrations (one small shallow chips, a chromolithograph) by Harry Payne, original mainly head of spine panel and upper front corner tip, and two closed tears, 12 mm at chromolithographic stiff card wrappers with cloth spine. bottom edge of rear panel and 12 mm at bottom rear flap fold. $250 Overall, a fairly attractive example of the colorful jacket. (#148059) First edition. A short novel of romance and military adventure set in Matabeleland (now the western province of 2. Adams, William. BORN IN THE WHIRLWIND. Boston: Zimbabwe), South Africa, during the First Matabele War (1893-1894). The third (and last?) of the publisher's "The Arena Publishing Company, 1893. Octavo, pp. [1-3] 4 Breezy Library Series." Wolff 96. A very good copy. A very scarce [5-7] 8-304 [305-320: ads], flyleaves at front and rear, book. (#151646) original green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, white endpaper with floral pattern printed in green. $250 First edition. A romantic melodrama with dastardly doings and murder in eastern Georgia during Reconstruction after the American Civil War that features a strong female protagonist who survives being tossed about by a tornado, among other happenings. Not in Wright. Corner tips a bit rubbed, a couple of tiny white (paint?) flecks to rear cover, pulpy paper a bit tanned, a very good, bright copy. (#151647) 3. Akerman, John Yonge, writing as "J. Y. A." TALES OF OTHER DAYS ... London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-v] vi-vii [viii-x] [1] 2-250, engraved title and six inserted plates with illustrations engraved by J. Thompson and S. and T. Williams after drawings by George Cruickshank, early purple binder's cloth with leather title label affixed to spine panel, top edge untrimmed. $250 First edition. A collection of supernatural, folkloristic, and traditional tales, written or retold by Akerman, several from German sources. Cohn 22. Private owner's bookplate affixed to 6. Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen). STRANGE front paste-down. Cloth worn at spine ends, some patchy fading STORIES ... London: Chatto and Windus, 1884. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-iii] iv-vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-356 + 32-page publisher's catalogue dated "October, 1884" inserted at rear, frontispiece by George du Maurier, original pictorial brown cloth, front cover stamped in black and white, spine panel stamped in black, white and gold, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, top edge untrimmed, black coated endpapers. $850 First edition. The author's first collection of short fiction, sixteen stories, including fantasy and science fiction: "The Reverend John Creedy," "My New Year's Eve Among the Mummies," "The Mysterious Occurrence in Piccadilly," "Pausodyne," "The Child of the Phalanstery" and "Our Scientific Observations on a Ghost." Wolff 121a (1892 printing). Slight spine lean, cloth worn at spine ends and corner tips, cloth rubbed along outer joints, hairline cracks along inner hinges, endpapers foxed, frontispiece and tissue guard foxed with a bit of offset on title page, a few leaves of the inserted catalogue proud, still an about very good copy. A scarce book seldom found in decent condition. (#151795) worship a pterodactyl." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 21 and A Spectrum of Fantasy Volume II, p. 131 (describing first and 7. Allen, Grant (Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen). THE WHITE fourth printings). Hairline cracks along inner hinges, top edge of MAN'S FOOT ... London: Hatchards, 1888. Octavo, pp. [i- text block dusty, still a tight, bright, very good copy of an v] vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-216 + undated 32-page publisher's attractive book. Like most Digby, Long books, quite scarce. catalogue inserted at rear, 17 illustrations by J. (#151877) Finnemore, original pictorial green cloth, front panel stamped in brown, black and gold, spine panel stamped in 10. Anonymously Edited Anthology (probably edited by gold, rear panel stamped in black, white endpapers with Percy W. Everett). GHOST STORIES AND OTHER QUEER floral pattern printed in olive green. $250 TALES. London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., n.d. [1931]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-256, original black cloth, front and First edition. Adventure novel set in Hawaii. Wolff 126. A spine panels stamped in orange. $750 clean, bright, nearly fine copy. A lovely copy of an attractive book. (#151572) 8. Ames, Joseph Bushnell. THE BLADED BARRIER ... New York, London: The Century Co., [1929]. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [1-2] 3-393 [394-398: blank], original pictorial red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. $350 First edition. Lost city of an ancient Chinese civilization discovered in Baja California. Early owner's name and address in ink on front free endpaper. A bright, nearly fine copy in very good pictorial dust jacket with light wear at edges, mainly spine ends, soiling to rear panel, and a stain to front panel that is barely noticeable because it blends into the jacket art, which looks like the work of Mahlon Blaine. Quite scarce in jacket. (#147623) 9. Anderson, Mary. A SON OF NOAH. London: Digby, Long & Co., Publishers, n.d. [1893]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1] 2-318 [319-320: blank], original decorated green cloth, front panel stamped in red and black, spine panel stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel, floral pattered endpapers, top edge untrimmed, First collected edition.