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The Tracer of Lost Persons |
1906, Appleton.
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Sci-fi/fantastic story collection. Illustrated. 5 p.l., 293 p. front.,
5 pl. 20 cm. This novel, about a sentimental detective
taking on varous cases of missing persons, became long running radio
series - Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons. |
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John Murray, London, 1907. Amalgamated Press, London, 1911. |
Westrel Keen was created by Robert Chambers
and appeared in The Tracer of Lost Persons (1906), and if he isn't the
source for the much-better-known Mister Keen, the main character in the
"Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons" radio show, I'll eat my hat. It's fairly
obvious, I suppose, except that I've never seen anything in print or on
the 'Net about Chambers' work being the source for the radio show.
Westrel Keen is a "sleepy-looking elderly gentleman" who runs Keen &
Co., the "Tracers of Lost Persons" agency. They "are prepared to locate
the whereabouts of anybody on earth." And they do mean anybody; not only
will they look for and find someone's ideal woman (or man), they will
also find the human version of someone's idealized woman (in one story
they help the creator of a Gibson Girl-like creation find the human equivalent),
and will even help one lovestruck adventurer restore a centuries-comatose
Egyptian woman to life. Keen & Co. are a well-staffed company full
of clever young women and informants on every level of society and in
every country in the world. Their files are incredibly detailed, and it
seems that there is no one that Keen & Co. do not have information
on or cannot get information about.
Mr. Keen himself is suspiciously intelligent and well-informed; in one
story he casually reveals that he is an expert Egyptologist and in another
he off-handedly mentions that he has cracked hundreds of the most difficult
cyphers, leaving the impression that there are many other fields in which
he is an expert, but that he is not usually called upon to reveal his
knowledge. He has reduced the "superficial muscular phenomena and facial
symptomatic aspect" of people to a system so that he can automatically
tell what a person is feeling and when they are in love. Mr. Keen is also
well-educated in the occult, although he is clearly interested only in
those things that can help people; he is not fazed by the idea of two
soul-mates connecting psychically before they ever meet physically, and
in fact helps identify the other soul-mate and then arrange the meeting.
Likewise, when confronted by the long-slumbering Pharaonic Egyptian woman,
Keen has little difficulty in finding the incantation that will awaken
her. He is so capable and so imperturbable, in fact, that he strikes me
as being the obverse and more benign version of Chesterton's The Man Who
Was Sunday. http://www.geocities.com/jjnevins/pulpsk.html |
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Mountain-land |
1906, Appleton. New York 
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Children's book. ix, 122 p., 1 l. illus., 8 col. pl. (incl. front.)
25 cm. Illustrated by Frederick Richardson and Walter King. |
Nature-fantasy of the adventures
of a boy and girl and their friend, the Red Squirrel. Illustrated with
full page color plates by Frederick Richardson and black and white decorations
in text by Walter King Stone. Original pictorial boards and illustrated
end pages. |
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One of a series written by Robert W. Chambers, and the
only title in the Series Full Color Illustrated by Frederick Richardson
(Illustrator of Queen Zixi of IX, 1905, by L. Frank Baum). 122 pages,
with Full Color Paste on Front board Pictorial Illustration, ALL 8 FULL
COLOR Plates, Numerous Text Decorations by Walter King Stone, &
toned Illustrated end papers. A Thoroughly Charming View of Mountain
& Sky Life !! 8" x 10" |
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The Fighting
Chance |
1906, Appleton.
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Problem novel. 5 p. l., 499 p. front., 7 pl. 20 cm. 8 illustrations
by A. B. Wenzell.
Contents
include: Acquaintence, A Winning Loser, Persuasion, The Seamy Side,
The Bargain and more!! |
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T & A Constable,
Printers to His Majesty at the Edinburgh University Press. |
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novel deals with a man who endangers his life and loves with his alcoholism.
The story begins with Mr. Siward, arriving at a
train station only to find that he was supposed to arrive at a different
train station. A groom from the house he is visiting happens to be there
picking up a hunting dog, and finds room for Mr. Siward to ride with Miss
Landis, the carriage driver, the dog, and the groom himself. There are
8 pictures included in this 499 page book. Opening
line: The speed of the train slackened; a broad tidal river flashed
into sight below the trestle, spreading away on either hand through
yellowing level meadows. And now, above the roaring undertone of the
cars, from far ahead floated back the treble bell-notes of the locomotive;
there came a gritting vibration of the brakes; slowly, more slowly the
cars glided to a creaking standstill beside a sun-scorched platform
gay with the bright flutter of sunshades and summer gowns. |
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The Younger Set |
1907, Appleton.
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Problem novel. Illustrated by G.C. Wilmshurst. 5 p.l., 513 p. front.,
plates. 20 cm. This novel took up the question
of divorce in New York society. |
Opening line: "You never met Selwyn,
did you?" Eight chapters. |
A. L. Burt Co., N. Y., 1907, 4 p.l., 513 p. front. 20 cm. |
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The Tree of Heaven |
1907, Appleton.
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Fantastic/horror story collection. ix, 325 p. front., 3 pl. 20 cm.
Stories:
"The Bridal Pair," "The Carpet of Belshazzar," "The Case
of Mr. Helmer," "Excuria," "The Ghost of Chance," "The Golden Pool,"
"Out of the Depths," "The Sign of Venus," "The Swastika," "The Tree
of Dreams." |
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Grossett & Dunlap, N. Y., 1907. A. Constable, London, 1908. |
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Garden-land
Chapters:
I: The Garden
II: The Ruby-Throat
III: Musca, The Fly IV: King
Speckles and King Spots
V: The Caterpillars
VI: The Fish Pond
VII: The Night People |
1907, Appleton.
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Children's book. Illustrated by Harrison Cady. 5 p. l., 129 p. col.
front., illus., 7 col. pl. 24 x 20 cm. |
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| Garden-Land, from the
series by Robert W. Chambers, who also wrote Mountain-Land, Outdoor-Land,
etc. Illustrated by Harrison Cady, published in New York D. Appleton and
Company 1907. A really delightful children's story with 7 chapters. Chapter
I: The Garden. Chapter II: The Ruby-Throat. Chapter III: Musca, The Fly.
Chapter IV: King Speckles and King Spots. Chapter V: The Caterpillars.
Chapter VI: The Fish Pond. Chapter VII: The Night People.
The first page, which is in one
of the photos shown, has been stapled and then the staples removed;
maybe someone was really excited about getting their first stapler and
then got in trouble for stapling the book and removed them? The book
is dedicated to Frederic Cromwell 2nd, copyright 1907 by Robert W. Chambers,
published October 1907. |
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THE
WIT AND HUMOR
OF AMERICA
Edited by
MARSHALL P. WILDER
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
This ten volume set with dust jackets was originally copyrighted in 1907
by the Bobbs Merrill Company; the Thwing Company later again copyrighted
it in 1911.
Handy little volumes (6 3/8" x 4 1/8"), these books contain
selections from many of America's favorite writers. Each book has a frontis
of one of the contributors.
Among many other authors are:
Henry Ward Beecher
William Cullen Bryant
Robert Chambers
Samuel L. Clemens
Frederick S. Cozzens
Anne Virginia Culberton
William Devere
William Henry Drummond
Edward Eggleston
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eugene Field
James Montgomery Flagg
Edward Everett Hale
Joel Chandler Harris
Bret Harte
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Emerson Hough
Grizzly-Gru Ironquill
Wallace Irwin
S.E. Kiser
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
William Vaughn Moody
R.K. Munkittrice
Petroleum Nasby
Wilbur Nesbit
Meredith Nicholson
Bill Nye
James Whitcomb Riley
John Saxe
John Philip Sousa
Frank L. Stanton
Bert Leston Taylor
J.T. Trowbridge
Artemus Ward
Carolyn Wells
Walt Whitman
John Greenleaf Whittier
Thomas Ybarra |
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Some Ladies in Haste |
1908, Appleton.
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Satire, first chapter is marginally fantastic. xiii, 242 p. incl. front.,
illus. 3 pl. 20 cm. |
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Some ladies in haste
London : Archibald Constable, 1908. |
| Some Ladies In Haste. By Robert W. Chambers.
D. Appleton And Company, New York, MCMVIII. Illustrated frontispiece.
Copyright, 1908 by the author, and in 1907 by The Curtis Publishing Company.
Published May, 1908. Contents include: The Mischief-Maker;
Diana's Chase; An Overdose; A Remedy; A Guilty Man; The Absent-Minded
Goddess; A Lady In Haste; Absent Treatment; Sui Generis; and Ex Machina.
Measures 5" by 7 3/4" and has 242 pages. |
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The Firing Line
Chapters include:
A Skirmish
A Flank Movement
Terra Incognita
Under Fire
A New Enemy
A Conference
Calypso's Gift |
1908, Appleton.
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Problem novel. ix, 498 p., 1 l. front., 7 pl. 20 cm. Another
tale about divorce in New York society. |
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Illustrated by Margaret Jervis |
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Authors Digest: The World's Great Stories in Brief, Prepared
by a Staff of Literary Experts, with the Assistance of Many Living Novelists.
Rossiter Johnson, Ph.D., L.L.D., Editor in Chief. Published by the Authors
Press, 1908, first edition, over 8,000 pages. There are 20 volumes in
this collections, including the Manual of Ready Reference for the set.
The books are bound in green cloth with gilt spine lettering and are in
about fine condition. See scans, including the first seven volumes of
the set. The volumes are clean and unmarked, no owner names, not library
discards. The hinges are sturdy and these books have received very little
reading usage over the past century of their existence! They look impressive
on a bookcase. This is the Monogram Edition with presentation pages from
the publishers to the original owner, Roswell Henry Pickford, presented
to him by his wife, Kate Ingram Pickford, with signed and sealed notice
from the publisher's Registrar, in volume One. Each volume has a fine
frontispiece mezzotint, photogravure or another type of beautiful illustration
etched or printed on quality paper, with a tissue guard or protective
holder, which relates to one of the excerpts in that volume. For example,
volume One has a photogravure from The Tower of London by William Harrison
Ainsworth. In addition to the large group of worldwide famous authors
represented, there are also special contributions from many members of
the New York or Boston Authors Clubs, such as Colonel John Jacob Astor,
Irving Bacheller, Robert W. Chambers, Richard Harding Davis, Margaret
Deland,Frederick Dellenbaugh, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Cary Eggleston,
Ellen Glasgow, Anna Katherine Green, John Habberton, Will Harben, Marion
Harland, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Andrew Lang, George Barr McCutcheon, Donald
Grant Mitchell, Christian Reid, Amelie Rives, Molly Elliot Seawell, Francis
Hopkinson Smith, Harriet P. Spofford, Ruth McEnery Stuart, John Townsend
Trowbridge, Mary E. Wilkins (Freeman),etc,etc. The Manual of Ready Reference
is edited by Marion Mills Miller and contains brief analyses of the world's
great stories and analytical indexes of chief elements found therein (some
of the pages in this volume only are soiled marginally.) The 19 volumes
of extracts from the best authors of the world, past and up to 1908, contain
samples from the works of hundreds of famous authors, some examples: Edmund
About, Jane Austen, Jane G. Austin, Aphra Behn, Edward Bellamy, Edward
Bulwer-Lytton, James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Alexandre Dumas,
Victor Hugo, Charles Lever, Louisa Muhlbach, Dinah Maria Mulock (Mrs.
Craik), Charles Reade, Walter Scott, Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson,
Albion Tourgee, Anthony Trollope, Emile Zola, etc,etc. Also, volume XVIII
represents Mythology and Folk-Lore with analytic index, and volume XIX
contains a dictionary of biographies of authors represented in this series,
and volume XX is a dictionary of Famous Names in Fiction, Drama, Poetry,
History, and Art. |
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Special Messenger |
1909, Appleton.
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Civil war 1861-1865. Illustrated. 8 p.l., 3-260 p. front., illus., 7
pl. 20 cm.
The exploits of the famous confederate scout and spy - Miss Boyd |
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The Danger Mark |
1909, Appleton.
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Problem novel. Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell. vii, [1] p., 1 l., 495,
[1] p. front., 7 pl. 20 cm. |
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Appleton, 1919, vii, [1], 495, [1] p. 20 cm. |
This novel deals with a girl who endangers
her life and loves with her alcoholism.
The book begins: All day Sunday they had raised the devil from attic to
cellar; Mrs. Farren was in tears, Howker desperate. Not one out of the
fifteen servants considered necessary to embellish the Sea Grave establishment
could do anything with them after Kathleen Severeness sudden departure
the week before. When the telegram announcing her mother's sudden illness
summoned young Mrs. Farren to Staten Island, every servant in the household
understood that serious trouble was impending for them. |
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The Green Mouse
CHAPTER
I. An Idyl of the Idle
II. The Idler
III. The Green Mouse
IV. An Ideal Idol
V. Sacharissa
VI. In Wrong
VII. The Invisible Wire
VIII. "In Heaven and Earth"
IX. A Cross-town Car
X. The Lid Off
XI. Betty
XII. Sybilla
XIII. The Crown Prince
XIV. Gentlemen of the Press
XV. Drusilla
XVI. Flavilla |
1910, Appleton.
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Sci-fi/satire stories. Illustrated by Edmund Frederick. xiii, 281 p.
col. front., illus., col. plates. 20 cm. |
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Ailsa Page |
1910, Appleton.
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Civil war 1861-1865. PUBLISHED BY A.L. BURT CO.
NEW YORK, 1910; 502 PAGES; |
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A. L. Burt Co., N. Y., 1910, 1912. |
| New York during the firing on Fort Sumter
and the gay quality of the first wave of Civil War enthusiasm. (HFG-4188)
A FICTIONAL STORY OF THE 3RD. ZOUAVES AND THE 8TH LANCERS DURING THE CIVIL
WAR |
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