Baum Arthur W (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Spine tips are lightly worn. Bottom corner is bumped. Articles include Ring of Hate Around Israel, Little Giant from Bug Tussel, and I Drove Cross Country in the Turbine Auto. Part II of Eden 1962. 98 pages.

Magazine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. ; Unbound, neatly trimmed & in mylar with a stiff backing board. Please note: This is NOT A BOOK, but from a vintage journal. "Hammonds Books" is NOT written on the item but only on the scan. The scan may not illustrate the complete image. ; Illustrations; 10x14; 5 pp pages;

Leatherette. Condition: Good+. Denslow, W. W. (illustrator). 4 titles from Award Books, Inc.'s Best Seller Classics (BSC) Series. Little information was available about the company nor the BSC Series. BSC are complete and unabridged reprints of works beyond their copyright protection, bound in brightly colored leatherette, sold at the low price of 50 cents retail each. BSC makes no claims of copyright nor gives any indication of print-runs or editions. This means dates are subjective. I estimate these were published and sold in the 1940s, 1950 as the latest date. At the head of the spine, there is an Award Books catalog number. The titles in this lot are: 1) CL605 The Wizard of OZ by L. Frank Baum. Includes original illustrations by W. W. Denslow. 190 pp. 2) CL455 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 7 stories, 190pp: Red-headed League Boscombe Valley Mystery Five Orange Pips Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb Adventure of the Noble Bachelor Adventure of the Beryl Coronet Adventure of the Copper Beeches 3) CL4?? Tales of Mystery by Edgar Allen Poe. 8 stories, 143pp: Tell-Tale Heart Cask of Amontillado Black Cat Masque of the Red Death Fall of the House of Usher Murders in the Rue Morgue Purloined Letter Pit and the Pendulum 4) CL451 The Invisible MAN by H. G. Wells. 142pp. Brightly colored leatherette paperbacks with white lettering on front & spine. Exteriors show minor wear along edges, with more at head of spine for the blue copies (Poe's stories are scary). Interiors are tight, clean and text unmarked. Pricing in pencil erased from ffep. As mentioned above, there are no dates of any kind in these books. Printed in U.S.A. Award Book catalog listed with title above. No ISBN nor LCCN. MSR = $ 0.50.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Rockwell, Norman (illustrator). First Edition. Norman Rockwell cover illustration entitled "The Army Cook" depicts a cook with the 71st Brigade at Fort Ethan Allen, Vermont, who has just prepared a holiday feast for 137 hungry soldiers. This was a rare instance when a Rockwell cover corresponded with an article in the magazine. Features: Desert Battalion - An Army oasis of USO glamour girls invades Palm Springs, with great color photos; The Incredible Earl of Suffolk aka Charles Henry George ("Wild Jack") Howard, twentieth Earl of Suffolk - He lived and died for England (first of two articles); Memphis Yankee - Cotton pickery president Bill Robinson of McCallum and Robinson, Inc. in Tennessee; What's Wrong with our Patent System? - Jerome Frank proposes a plan - patent applied for; I Cheer the Referee - a football referee's wife boos the 60,000 who boo him; Woes of an Army Cook - but Army chow is better these days; Home Front gets Action - Cape Cod's civilian defense faces a real war test - with many color photos. Stories: Courage; Home is a Place; I Should Listen to Mabel!; Second Fiddle; Happy Land; Siren in the Night (part 2 of 6). Nice color-illustrated one-page White Truck ad shows linemen at work in winter storm. One-page B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of construction of the Inter-American Highway. 100 pages. Complete and unmarked with moderate wear. 2" x 1" piece missing from back cover along coverfold. A worthy copy of this wonderful WWII-era issue.; Cover Illustration; Folio.