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Chicago: Frederick J Drake, 1909. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Poor. 231, Viii, (100) + Ads At Rear. Disbound, String Binding Intact But Lacking Covers, Informally Wrapped In Correspondence Paper Of The Wendt Studios, With Handwritten Title By Julia Bracken Wendt And Part Of The Wendt's Bookplate. Julia Bracken Wendt, (1870-1942) A Notable American Sculptor, Illinois. Unsupported At Home Following The Death Of Her Mother When She Was Nine Years Old, She Ran Away From Home At Thirteen. By Sixteen She Was Working As A Domestic Servant For A Woman Who Recognized Her Talent And Drive, And Paid To Enroll Her In The Art Institute Of Chicago. There She Studied With Lorado Taft And By 1887 She Had Advanced To Become His Studio And Teaching Assistant. In 1893, During The Columbian Exposition She Was One Of Several Women Sculptors Nicknamed The White Rabbits Who Helped Produce Some Of The Architectural Sculpture That Graced The Exposition Buildings. She Was Awarded A Commission To Produce Illinois Welcoming The Nations, A Sculpture For The Fair. The Work Was Later Cast In Bronze And Unveiled At The Illinois State Capitol.In 1906 She Married Painter William Wendt And Moved To Los Angeles, California Where She Continued Her Success. In California She Taught At The Otis Art Institute And, With Her Husband, Was Instrumental In The Founding Of The California Art Club In 1909, Which Was Developed On The Premise Of Allowing Women And Sculptors Into The Membership. Wendt Was A Member Of The National Sculpture Society And Exhibited And Was Featured In Both The 1923 And 1929 Exhibitions And The Resulting Catalogues. Her Work Can Be Found In: Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Chicago Historical Society, The Civil War Monument, Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga, Tennessee, The Laguna Art Museum, Harvard University Portrait Collection,Old Los Angeles City Hall (Now Located In The Natural History Museum Of Los Angeles County), Lincoln Park, Los Angeles, California, As Well As In Numerous Private Collections. Exhibitions: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893; Annual Exhibition, Palette Club, Aic, 1895; Annual Exhibition Of Works By Chicago Artists, Aic, 1899-1910 (9 Times); St Louis/Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904 ; Chicago Municipal League, 1905 ; Pan-California Expo, San Diego (Ca), 1915 ; California Art Club, 1918 ; Solo Exhibits With Husband, Aic, 1909-21 ; National Sculpture Society, 1929 National Sculpture Society, Los Angeles (Ca) Museum. Awards: Commission, "Illinois Welcoming The Nations" For Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892 ; Commission, Exposition Park, Los Angeles (Ca). Commission, Battle Monument, Missionary Ridge (Tn) ; Sculpture Prize, Chicago, 1898; Municipal Art League Prize, Chicago, 1905 ; Gold Medal, Pan-California Expo, San Diego (Ca), 1915; Harrison Prize, Los Angeles (Ca), 1918

San Diego, California, USA: CORINITH Suspense Novels / Regency Suspense, 1966. Book. Illus. by Robert Bonfils Painted Cover Art!. FINE+, Near New. Soft cover. First Edition in BOOK Format, PBO Thus.. 160 pages. "The Agent's Death was moved, seconded, unanimously passed. and the monstrous masked chairman of crime's board of directors summoned his sadistic executioners ! Even the brilliance of disguise of Secret Agent X could not delude the Octopus, nor could all his cunning and daring stem the tide of violence that sinister squid of the underworld was spewing forth. As the satan is superfiend's black blimp rained terror on the nation, the agent struggled helplessly in the claws of his captors, and it looked like . Exit Agent X!" >>> Excellent example Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall..

New York: Star Dist, 1970. Paperback. 190p., illustrated with explicit drawings, very good first printing PBO in camp pictorial wraps. Gay pulp fiction. Rough Trade RT-433.

Publications of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. United States Department Interior Haskell Press,, 1941. SOFTCOVER, 1941, 1st Edition, VG-/GOOD-, AS-IS, PAPERBACK, Beige Cover with Former Owner Name on Front in Ink. Cvr Titled in Black light wear Rub, 6 3/4 X 10 in. Light Scuff Rub Wear Back Cvr, 73 pgs. Ink Writing on Title pg notes, Some Underlining Here & There on some pgs & some marginnotes, Stapled booklet in tan printed wrappers. .FORMER Owner Name Address on Title pg & Half Title with Address & Ink Note, Douglas McKay, Secretary Department of the Interior, Glenn L. Emmons, Commissioner Bureau of Indian Affairs,& Hildegard Thompson, Chief of Branch of Education, with Original Price Intact of 50 cents on front Endpaper pg, Frontispiece, Bibliography & List of Illustrations .paper covers are beige with black lettering on the front, Stapled booklet in tan printed wrappers. In these pages, the Indians will be described as they were when the whites frist found them.. First Edition. Soft Cover.

Los Angeles: Double Vision Gallery. As New. 2003. First Edition. Paperback. Color illustrated softcover, clean and sharp. Exhibition catalogue. Book is firm in binding, color plates throughout. Essay by Peter Frank. A bright, crisp copy. Unpaginated. Free of any markings, not ex-library. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall .

Junior Books, DD Dean, Garden City. Hno DJ, beige cl, Good-, some wear, small- tears to cloth spine, 1941, stated 1st edition, interior pages of book VG, AS-IS.

Bantam. Collectible - Very Good/Very Good. 1996. First Printing. Hard Cover. (I321) .

Whitman Publ, Wisc., 1962. HARDBACK NODJ Issued, 1962, 1st Edition, VG+/VG, NO JACKET, AS-IS, Interior Nice Tight Clean light Wear FOX, 210 Pgs + ADS. First Edition. Hard Cover.

Cincinnati, OH: The Little Man Press, 1941. Limited. Cloth . Very Good/No Jacket. 6 & 1/2' x 7 & 1/2'; no dustjacket. One of 230 trade copies of First Edition of 400, total including 100 (hor commerce: aka before trade) 50 signed & numbered and 20 signed with special drawing. This one is not signed or numbered but remains uncommon and collectible. Grey cloth with gold lettering on spine. Sunned spined. Darkened at margins of covers front and back. Dust staining textblock edges. Tonning to end pages front and back. Glue residue bottom of rear pastedown. Stray ink marking in what appears to be a child's hand on that same rear pastedown page. (78 pages.)

Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. HBDJ, 1926, 1st EditioN THuS, VG-/GOOD+, AS-IS, DJ has FOX light Wear tiny chips Tears Extremities & has SMALL Round Yellow Sticker Front of DJ covering some of Face of man, Scuffing along edges at Spine DJ, Spine ends DJ small pieces out Yet Titles Intact, 233 pgs + ADS END WITH WolF Breed, 7.5 x 5 in. Olive Green & Black cloth light Wear .Personally Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, The Complete lavish starcrossed romance Adventure Novel of Russian Revolution & the part played in it by Volga Boatmen,Photoplay edition issued to coincide with the release of the Cecil B. DeMille silent film starring William Boyd. with William Boyd starred as Feodor, the Boatman, with Elinor Fair as the Princess Vera.. First Thus. Hard Cover.