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BILLHEIMERS' BOOKSALE LIST FOR MARCH, 2008 Here's a new sale list for this month, with some exceptionally interesting books for you to examine and perhaps want to buy. They're predominantly vintage books for teens and young adults, but there are some for younger readers and a few that were originally meant for adults. We think you'll find this list fascinating and nostalgic, as well as reasonably priced! We have a lot of fun collecting books and compiling this collection! SOME OF THE CONTENTS!! (Not necessarily in this order) 1. MANY JUDY BOLTON, NANCY DREW, AND TRIXIE BELDEN BOOKS! 2. SEVERAL SPECIAL SALES HERE AND THERE! 3. A BIG SECTION OF YOUNG ADULT MYSTERIES THAT COULD ALSO BE "MALTSHOPS ROMANCES," OR TEEN NOVELS 4. Some CAREER-ROMANCES, a very popular category! 5. FOR HOME-SCHOOLERS, some NEWBERY award winners, the non-fiction books, as well as other wonderful books to read. 6. FOR SERIES book collectors: you'll find many new additions of popular as well as unusual series to check out! This month's series book additions are especially great! 7. Lots of additions to the "MALTSHOP" novels from "the nostalgia years." Many used book shops don't bother to stock these categories, so this is an unusual chance to stock up up on these teen-girls' novels from the 40s through 60s. 8. BOOKS BY WONDERFUL AUTHORS!! Mildred Wirt Elizabeth Hamilton Friermood Marjory Hall Betty Cavanna Maud Hart Lovelace Janet Lambert Catherine Woolley hundreds more!! 9. GREAT SERIES BOOKS (NOT ALL OF THEM EVERY TIME, BUT WE TRY!) Judy Bolton Maida Trixie Belden Nancy Drew Linda Craig and some interesting ones you may never have seen before! 10. MAINE books from our home state. 11. ALICE'S PICKS -- books that I love best 12. Alice's Wish List 13. Animal stories 14. Books written mainly for boys Contents won't be in the same order as this list, but everything is there, somewhere ******************************************************************** PRICES OF THE BOOKS REFLECT Condition Popularity Scarcity My opinion of them! *************************************************************************** We only use a few abbreviations, including these: HB -- hardcover book PB -- paperback book XL -- library discard book DJ -- dust jacket PC -- picture printed on the cover YA -- young adult (teen) book cond == condition If you don't understand something in our sale list, Email and ask us. ******We recommend asking your browser to reload or refresh to make sure you have the latest version of our web page.******* OUR POSTAGE POLICY We weigh all orders, and charge the actual postage that we figure out from a chart. If we feel that we will be using a lot of padding, and packaging, that's figured into the price. . All will be sent Media mail unless you want to pay more for 1st class or whatever. If you want insurance, we'll figure out how much extra that will be FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED!!!!!!!!! WE ACCEPT PAYPAL!!! ******************************************************************************************* ALICE'S WISH LIST!!!! WE'LL BE HAPPY TO TALK ABOUT TRADING FOR BOOKS ON OUR WISH LIST Condition isn't important unless I specify that I'm looking for an upgrade. MY WISH LIST! I'd like hardcover copies of the following Janet Lambert books: Forever and Ever For Each Other Welcome home, Mrs. Jordan Jean Nielsen -- Walk Under the Trees good hardcover with DJ of Fair Exchange MORE OF MY WISH LIST -- Jack and Jill magazines from the 30's through 50's. I'm missing a lot from the late 50's. Condition does not have to be perfect, but will affect how much I'm willing to pay! Usually, I've paid $1 or $2 per magazine. Also, American Girl Magazines (not the ones related to the dolls, but the Girl Scout Magazines from the '40s and '50s!) I have some, but would like to have more. Calling All Girls magazines from the 40s and 50s The Fabulous Year (Elizabeth Ogilvie) in HB with a DJ. Or if you have a copy with a DJ, maybe you could make a copy of the DJ to cover my "naked" book! MORE OF MY WISH LIST! Books by Fjeril Hess, including Toplofty, Castle Camp, and others. Books by Margaret Sutton Haunted Apartment Gail Gardner, Jr Cadet Nurse REMEMBER, THESE BOOKS ARE NOT FOR SALE, THEY ARE ON MY WISH LIST!!!!! Dust jackets for Emery's Bright Horizons One of the Crowd "Best Friends in Summer" by Mary Bard Books by Virginia Fairfax -- Camp Pioneer, Secret of the Halliday House. REMEMBER, THESE ARE MY WISH-LIST BOOKS! (Sorry, but they aren't for sale.) --------End of Alice's Wish List ----------- ********************************************************* TO START THIS MONTH'S LIST ********HERE IS A VERY SPECIAL OFFERING! ******** ALICE'S "CHARMING SISTER SARAH" HAS MADE SOME BEAUTIFUL SERIES BOOK GIFTS! FOR YOURSELF OR FOR GIFTS!!!-- CHARM BRACELETS FOR BOOK LOVERS!!! MANY STYLES OF SERIES-BOOK BRACELETS (SHE'LL ALSO WORK WITH YOU TO MAKE A CUSTOM-MADE BRACELET ! INCLUDING ++++NEW +++ CHRISTMAS BRACELETS IN MANY STYLES! Alice's sister Sarah has made some special charm bracelets for people who love series books and Maltshops! There are many styles, each one with a theme. There are Judy Bolton bracelets, Nancy Drew bracelets, Teens-of-the-50's bracelets, general Series Book bracelets. They were first seen at the Phantom Friends' Reunion in Mount Dora Florida, where we sold out almost immediately. You will LOVE this fine jewelry: I can assure you. I should know, I wear my three "Sarah Bracelets" everywhere! The CHRISTMAS charm bracelets are more beautiful than you could believe, without seeing them! Colorful, varied, imaginative, you will wear yours for the rest of your life! If you would like to see some sample bracelets you can click here: http://www.midcoast.com/maltshopbooks/charms.htm ################################################################# NOW FOR THE BOOKS! BEGINNING WITH A BIG SALE! Each of the following books will cost $2 Very good values!! Nancy Drew Hardcovers, all in great condition! New edition shiny yellowbacks in fine cond -- #5 Secret of Shadow Ranch $2.00 #10 Password to Larkspur Lane, $2.00 #33 Witch Tree Symbol, $2.00 #38 Mystery of the Fire Dragon $2.00 (formerly a library book, good cond.) Nancy Drew Paperbacks $2 each. These are mainly in good condition! Some are former library books, but weren't read very many times. #60 The Greek Symbol Mystery. $2.00 #63 The Twin Dilemm1 $2 #74 The Mysterious Image $2 #76 The Eskimo's secret (I especially enjoyed this one, for some reason!) $2 #92 Ghost of Craven Cove (I recently reviewed this one for TWW. It has a rather authentic Maine setting) $2.00 #93 Case of the Safcracker's Secret (this one will only be $1.50) #96 The Case of the Photo Finish (international track meet in River Heights)$2 #116 Case of the Twin Teddy Bears (Christmas story) $2 #132 The Fox Hunt Mystery $2 (2 copies) #135 Riddle of the Ruby Gazelle (this one is only $1.50 due to creases on the cover) #139 Secret of Candlelight Inn $2 #162 Case of the Lost Song $2 NANCY DREW FILES SERIES $2 EACH Nancy Drew Files #12 -- Fatal Ransom $2.00 Nancy Drew Files #24, Till Death do us Part PB, $2.00 Nancy Drew Files #41 Something to Hide (interesting cover, lots of jack-o-lanterns in back of a dressed-up Nancy) $2 Nancy Drew Files #76 The Perfect Plot. Nancy and George go to a conference for mystery lovers -- something like a PF reunion? $2.00 Nancy Drew Ghost Stories -- "Six Bone-chilling tales of Mystery and Terror!" $2 Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys Super Mysteries. FUN!!! These are all PBs A Crime For Christmas (very good cond) $2 Buried in Time $2 Dangerous Games $2 The Paris Connection $2 Double Crossing (this one will be only $1, fair condition.) The Mystery Hunters at Lakeside Camp (Capwell Wyckoff) 1934. HB fairly good condition, $2.00 Donna Parker on her Own (1962) one of the very pleasant Donna mystery series books that we reviewed quite favorably in Whispered Watchword this fall. Donna is a very realistic teen with interesting problems and ablilty to learn from them! Picture cover book. $2.00 Three Investigators Crimebusters, #1 3 Rough Stuff. PB 1989 Modern incarnation of the popular 3 Investigators mysteries. $2 The preceding books are all $2 each +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SPECIAL SECTION OF MAINE BOOKS AND A FEW BOOKS FROM OTHER NEW ENGLAND LOCATIONS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, TOO. We think that some of the greatest authors in the world live or summer in Maine! Try one or 2, and you may decide to come to Maine yourself. I can hardly believe how much some of these books are getting on Ebay and other places! I knew they were good, but didn't realize that other people knew it, too. My prices are no more than 1/2 of what they are getting other places. Most of my copies are x-lib, but some are very good! Turkey Day Murder (Leslie Meier) 2000. A Lucy Stone Mystery (for adults.) People who buy from my sale list, have really enjoyed reading about this Maine family and small-town life, of course salted with good mysteries. The first book, Mail-Order Murder, puts Lucy to work during the Christmas rush at an LLBean clone. As the series advances, she gets a more interesting job, her children grow up, and you get to know a lot of the characters who live in the town. Most of the books surround a holiday, and this one deals with (you could have guessed!) Thanksgiving. PB, cute cover, $2.00 Back-to-school Murder (Leslie Meier) 1997. A Lucy Stone Mystery (for adults) Big trouble at the kids' school. Nice paperback. $2.00 Down East Detective (Karen Lemke) Shocking Crimes From the 20s through the 60s! From the Annals of the Maine State Police! As you may guess, this little book is almost a spoof of the tabloids, but it does tell stories about real crimes (names changed to protect the guilty) about many unique crimes that could only happen in Maine, according to the author. Cover shows a really racy picture, don't buy this for your little kid, but it's also really strange -- a girl in torn dress, flagging down a stern-looking copy on a motorcycle with a sidecar. In the sidecar sits a big black bear! Well, have fun. PB, good cond, $1.50 Maine Beautiful (Wallace Nutting) reprint of a classic book, 1924? Packed with black/white photos of Maine as you wish it still looked. Old houses, nature, Wonderful text, too, history, descriptions, poems. This copy is from a library, but you'd hardly know it, it's so clean and fresh. I think the pictures are very romantic and beautiful! I wonder how many of the buildings and wild sites are still there? HB, DJ, $5.00 Books by Maine writer, Lew Dietz. These have a great appeal to people who really love the back-country forests. He wrote about boys, but anyone would enjoy reading them for the authentic (but very entertaining) stories of life in the wilds. Wilderness River (Lew Dietz) 1961. How's this for a begining sentence? "It was a warm Indian Summer day in late October that my friend Nick Fales and I found the body in the woods." Deitz wrote "boys' books," but anyone who enjoys reading about adventure in the Maine woods, would love them. Most of them are about Jeff White, but this one stands alone. It's a former library HB, but in almost pristine condition. Someone put a clear plastic cover over the library picture cover, and it would leave marks inside the book if you removed the plastic, so I didn't try. Enjoy it! $4.50 Pines for the King's Army (Lew Dietz) 1955 (first edition if this means anything to you.) Historical 1721. Maine woods when they were the true wilderness, complete with "savages." Several dramatic full-page illustrations. XL, HB, Somewhat worn, but tight binding and clean pages. $3.00 Mystery of The Pilgrim Trading Post (Anne Molloy) 1964. Three young cousins are extremely reluctant to spend the summer with their elderly cousin, at the very tip of Maine, almost into Canada. But life in this very small town gets pretty exciting! By the end of summer, well, Maine has cast its spell once again -- and a mystery is solved! HB, XL, PC, good condition. $3.00 (2) Lost on a Mountain in Maine (Donn Fendler) 1939. This story is very famous in Maine. All the school kids read it, and the author has often visited schools to talk about his ordeal on Mt Katahdin when he was 12. He wandered around the wilderness for 2 weeks, after losing the rest of his party in the fog. PB in very good cond. $2.50 Another copy, good cond, $1.75 Donn Fendler, fair condition -- READ IT, I'M QUITE SURE YOU WILL LIKE THIS BOOK! PB, fair, $1.00 There Is a Tide (Elspeth Bragdon) 1964. Boy and his father spend the summer on a Maine island after the prep-school headmaster suggested it might help the boy's attitude if he and pop got better acquainted. Experiment isn't working too well until the boy starts to know the islanders, and particularly a girl. Another case of Maine working its magic on difficult people (Dad changes a bit, too.) Nice DJ picture of a boy on a rock, girl with her dog on a little point of land under the pine trees. Looks like a lot of places not far from where we live. Illus by Lilian Obligado. HB, DJ, XL, all in good condition. $4.50 That Jud! (Elspeth Bragdon) 1957. Jud is an orphan, and feels unloved and lonely even in the close-knit community of Spruce Point, Maine. He spends a lot of his time getting into trouble, and escaping to his "secret" island hidout. Things go badly wrong, unless he can redeem himself. It's a really nice book, a Maine book -- so don't worry too much about this appealing kid. HB, with DJ, over a library PC, very nice condition. $3.50 Three Children's books by E. B. White -- this is a large PB and includes his classic books (and when I call something Classic, I really mean it!!) IN very good condition! INclueds Stuart Little, Trumpet of the Swan, and Charlotte's Web. 2 have the wonderful Garth Williams illustrations, Swan has interesting Edward Frascino illustrations. These are are the original art. Pictures of all 3 covers are pictured on the cover of the book. Very nice one-book set. $2.50 One Man's Meat (E.B. White) "A personal record of Life on a Maine Coast Salt Water Farm" is the subtitle. I believe that these essarys were mostly printed in Harper's and The New Yorker in the late '30s and early '40s, so there's a lot about WWII, both the time leading up to it, and its effects on the home front. But mostly they're humorous and/or very pointed pieces about farm living, camping in Florida, and my favorite -- the woes of having hay fever. There's a letter to Henry Thoreau about the state of Walden pond all those years and automobiles later! And a wonderful piece about evaluating the new children's books of 1938 (Not too complimentary!) I love White's humor and vision. PB, $2.00 Secret of Saturday Cove (Barbee Oliver Carleton) 1961 illustrations by Charles Geer Dedicated to the boys and girls of Friendship, which is the town adjacent to the one where we live. About a girl and boy who try lobstering to help the family. Here's a copy in very good condition, HB with PC, $4.00 Another copy of Saturday Cove, in fair (reading) condition -- read a good Maine mystery for a good Maine bargain price! HB, XL, $1.50 Secret of the Missiong Grave IDavid A. Crossman) 1999. Newer than most of my books, but this is a juvenile mystery by another author from Friendship, Maine. Large HB published by Down East Books (Rockland, ME) "A Bean and Ab Mystery." Ab is a girl, Bean is a boy. Book is in very good condition, DJ has a tear at the top of the front. There are others in this series, so keep your eyes out for them! HB, XL, DJ, $3 Abbie Burgess, Lighthouse Heroine, Jones and Sargent. Paperback in fair condition but signed by one of the authors (Ruth Sargent) true story of a role model for girls! PB $2.00 Another copy of Abbie Burgess, paperback in good condition $2.50 BOOKS BY LOUISE DICKINSON RICH If there aren't very many, then I hope to have more books by this popular and very fine author on my next sale list. Star Island (original title: Star Island Boy) Rich, 1968. Boy is put in a foster home on a Maine island. He starts to feel secure for the first time, but then he thinks her finds out the real reason he's been placed there. I can't imagine how Louise Dickinson Rich writes about boys so very well. I do know that she writes very beautifully about living on a Maine island, and lobstering! The picture cover on this nice small hardcover, shows a very typical and realistic scene of lobster boats, islands, and seagulls over the water. $3.50 Sally (Original Title, Three of a Kind) Rich. 1970. Very much loved story about a girl who finds a happy foster home on a Maine island, only to feel rejected when the family's grandson arrives for a long visit. He's a strange one, and no one thinks he can be helped -- except Sally. PB, a bit of water staining, but still has a very colorful and attractive cover, and sturdy binding. $2.50 --------------------------------- Moving To Maine: The Essential Guide to Get You There (Victoria Doudera) 2000 She moved to Maine about 15 years before writing this book, and decided to answer all the questions she kept hearing from other people who wanted to do the same. A practical but very entertaining book, with profiles of people who live here, charts, statistics to help you decide if you really do want to "Take to the Woods," ideas for making a living after you get here, sports, quotes from famous residents like Stephen King, politics, religion, entertainment. You'll love reading it even if you have no notion of moving to The Pine Tree State. Large (brand new?) PB originally $15, my price $4 Books by Elizabeth Coatsworth --- One of my all-time favorite authors since I was a little girl! Most of these book could be listed as Alice's Picks. She lived only a few miles from where we now live, but i never met her. HI have heard her daughter speak about her mother's works, at several seminars or meetings. She concentrates on her mother's poetry, as the daughter is a poet herself, but I'm convinced that her stories are even better! Here I Stay (Coatsworth) 1938. This is one of my all-time favorite books, even though it's a historical novel, usually not my top category. Takes place in Maine, in 1817. Everyone else in the settlement leaves for the Western Reserve in Ohio, but Margaret stays all alone on the home that she and her beloved father had built up before he died. Wonderful details of the long, long winter with hardly a human contact, but plenty of interaction with animals, the land, nature of all kinds. Believe it or not, she even finds romance! I'd like to guarantee that you will love this book, but I can't afford to give you your money back if you don't love it as much as I have, each of the 5 times I've read it! HB, XL, fair condition, with a lovely copy of the original DJ, picturing a sweet girl with all her animals (and actually a man driving a hay wagon in the background. One of the few times when someone visited her, I guess!) HB, LDJ, $5.00 The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale (Coatsworth) 1951. She wrote several of these "Incredible tales" that combine myth, local legend, and imagination, in a story that uses mundane details to make you believe the supernatural elements. Maine setting, of course. HB, XL, PC, good condition. $3.00 Personal Geography (Coatsworth) "Almost an Autobiography" In her 83rd year, Coatsworth put together this compilation of many selections from her private journals, public writings, poetry, and reflections. The date on the title page is 1968, but there are entries that date from later than that, so this must be a 2nd edition. Nice HB book in good DJ with a picture that covers both back and front of the book. Imposing woman stands in a meadow, overlooking Chimney Pond. $5.00 Alice-all-by-Herself (Elizabeth Coatsworth) 1937. This is one of her wonderful, "contemporary" (to that year) stories for girls, which I treasure more than her historical or biographical stories for young people, though they are good, too (especially "Here I stay" which is about my favorite Coatsworth, but that's another story, literally.) This tells about Alice, who lives in Damariscotta, Maine, a few miles south of where this Alice lives. She has all kinds of small adventures, which are charming to read about, and give you a good picture of what Maine was like just before WWII, when things started to homogenize all over the country. Illustrations by another powerful name in young people's books of the 20th century, Marguerite de Angeli. Tall book, 180 pages, including quite a few of Coatsworth's poems, which are as famous as her stories. Very nice laser copy of the original dust jacket, (which has a blank back cover but very attractive front cover.) This is a personal copy, not a former library book. HB, LDJ, good condition, $7.00 Sword of the Wilderness (Coatsworth) 1936. Takes place in 1689.Captured by Indians! Trekked through the wilderness, starving, freezing, eventually learning to live together. Much more than just an adventure story, of course, as Coatsworth was a fine author and observer of humanity. HB, PC, good condition, $3.00 Jock's Island (Coatsworth) Sheep dog trying to keep guarding his sheep when the island's inhabitants are evacuated before a volcano eruption. PB, nicely illustrated. $1 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BOOKS BY ELIZABETH LADD, one of the best authors of authentic Maine YA books from all of the 20th century. She lived just about all her life on a rather remote island, enjoying animals and children, all of which contribute to her wonderful books! Most of them were illustrated by Mary Stevens, another favorite of ours, and another Maine native. Some of Ladd's books form series, but any can be read separately with great pleasure. Meg of Heron's Neck (Ladd, with Mary Stevens illustrations!)1961. The first book about Meg, explaining how she happened to live in several unusual places and how she ended up with her black cat and crow. Beautiful story, even more beautiful pictures by our very favorite artist. Cover of this XL PB is only in fair condition, but the interior is clean and neat, pages are like new. I don't know how that happened, but it did! So if your interest is in reading a lovely story, not in owning a lovely book, this will be just fine! PB, $1.75 Meg's Mysterious Island (Elizabeth Ladd) illustrated by Mary Stevens. 1963. This is one of those books that has everything I like, and I have to read it at least every other year! Meg and her much older brother spend the winter in a log cabin, on an island, entirely self-sufficiently. Details of cooking, housekeeping, nature, pets, blizzards, and ... terrible crooks! Feisty Meg saves the day, and has to be one of the most endearing kids you'll ever read about. This is sort of a prequel (is that the word?) to the other Meg books, taking place before she has to become "civilized." The Mary Stevens illustrations are at least as wonderful as the story. It's in very good condition, with a good DJ, what a beautiful all-Maine book! paperback Down East quality reprint. $3.50 Trouble on Heron's Neck (Elizabeth Ladd) 1966. Another Meg Mystery, this one set during a Maine summer. A tame crow plays a big part in this story -- Ladd wrote beautifully about animals and birds. PIcture cover on a former library copy HB. $4.00 The Indians on the Bonnet (Ladd) 1971. The Bonnet is a point of land on the Maine seacoast. As with most of Ladd's books, the characters are true Mainers, working and living under the harsh but beautiful conditions of the Maine coast, the life that summer visitors don't see. In this book, the plot goes beyond "bad guys" and fun, to touch on the subject of prejudice against Native Americans. I love reading anything by Ladd, always the nicest of girls as her heroines, as well as a setting that can't miss. But this one, while worth reading for sure, also makes you think, and isn't quite as cozy as her other books. HB, XL, in very good condition inside and out, $4.00 A Fisherman's Daughter (Elizabeth McKey Hulbert) "A Charming fictional story of young Jan Stanley's growing up, influenced by the real-life character of Andrew M. Longley, Jr, DO. I think this is a sort of advertisement for Osteopathic medicine, but it's also a cute Maine story with some good sketches of various Maine fish, lobstering gear, etc. PB, in very good condition, $1.00 Seven Steeples (Margaret K. Henrichsen) 1953. After she's widowed, this pastor decides to accept the job of ministering to seven small churches in rural Maine! Reading this book, you'll move back in time to the Maine of our dreams, before TV and Walmart had pasteurized the whole State O' Maine. I've loved this book for most of my life, since being introduced to it by friends who knew the author and attended one of her churches when they were in Maine. Oh by the way, it's non-fiction, and almost as good as Louise Dickinson Rich's stories (same general area as her later books, too.) HB, with a DJ that seems a little large for the book, but it's the right one. (I don't know how that happened!) $4.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BOOKS BY MARY C. JANE. Her books are great for middle-school readers, each one having a different Maine setting. NOthing fancy, just children enjoying their lives and some mysterious happenings. They feature girls and boys equally. Maine kids love them, I love them, and so will you. You really need to have all of them! All have pleasant Raymond Abel illustrations. Mystery at Dead End Farm (Jane) 1961. Beautiful Down East PB reprint in fine condition. If you've ever seen the potato country of northeastern Maine, you'd wonder where these kids could find a mystery there. However, they certainly did! PB, $2.50 Mystery of the Red Carnations (Jane) 1968. Who puts the red carnations on the grave of the unknown person? And what on earth would the kids write about when the teacher asked them to tell about an adventure? Nothing ever happens in this dull old town -- or does it? PB in good condition, $2 (2) Mystery Behind Dark Windows (Jane) 1962. Kids live near an old, supposedly deserted, factory building, owned by their aunt, who refuses to sell or use it. What's happening in that old building when they see lights and activity at night? HB, Picture Cover, XL, worn condition, but holding together, and the pages are pretty clean! $4.00 Mystery by Moonlight (Jane) 1963. Girl has to walk by "the haunted house" on her way home from school. It's deserted, so why are there sounds coming from it? Strange things keep on happening -- as all of her books, there are both boys and girls. Scholastic PB, in fairly good condition. $2.00 Mystery by Moonlight (Jane) 1963. Hardcover. former library copy with a DJ. Book itself is sturdy but well-worn. DJ is in nice condition. $4 Mystery at Shadow Pond (Jane) 1958. Strange cover picture of 2 kids looking out a door at what looks like a robot! The story is about a brother and sister, a cat and a horse, and some missing very important papers! PB, $1.50 Mystery on Nine-Mile Marsh (Mary C. Jane) 1967. Mrs. Jane knew what kids wanted to read about -- a really mysterious house across a creepy marsh, a neglected donkey, and you know the rest -- crime! Mystery! XL HB book in rather poor condition, with taped spine, rough edges, but a nice atmospheric cover picture still bright and fresh as these library picture covers remain. Interior pages aren't bad at all. HB, XL, PC, $2.50 Better copy of Nine-Mile Marsh. XL with DJ over a PC. $4.50 Paperback copy of Nine-Mile Marsh -- eerie cover picture of trees and a lurid sunset! Good condition, $2.00 Mystery on Echo Ridge (Jane) PB, nice condition! $3.00 Mystery on Echo Ridge (Jane) 1959. Hardback with picture cover. Former library copy shows quite a bit of wear, but it's tight and clean inside. Strange deserted house is reputed to be haunted, but what will happen when someone moves into the house? Family fun, jewels, etc. HB, XL, PC, $4.00 Mystery at Shadow Pond (Mary C. Jane) PB $2 (2) This book has an arresting cover picture -- children looking out a door at a robot, which is shining in the night! Includes a horse and a dog, too. END OF BOOKS BY MARY C JANE ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BOOKS BY ELISABETH OGILVIE -- some are YA but some are for adults, too. Wonderful teen romances by my Maine neighbor, Elisabeth Ogilvie. I should include all of these in the Maltshop section of this list, but they are such wonderful true depictions of Maine life in the area where we live, near the coast and on the islands. Oglivie, who recently died, lived near here, and was a very nice lady as well as a very talented writer for both adults and teens. I wish there were more available -- will list them when I get any! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ALICE'S PICKS -- A SPECIAL CATEGORY OF BOOKS I LOVE! I'VE LOVED SOME OF THEM ALMOST ALL MY LIFE! SOME ARE NEW DISCOVERIES THAT I WANT TO SHARE Dear Enemy (Jean Webster) 1915. Author of Daddy-Long-legs wrote this sequel to her most popular book. Somehow, the heroine takes charge of an orphan asylum! She writes letters to her "enemy" who persists in making various suggestions for making the venture successful. AS in the previous book, the ending is almost predictable, but still very satisfying, and the story is full of so much fun that you wish you'd never get to that inevitable ending! Lots of humorous little sketches by the author. HB, Vintage-looking and lovely DJ, $3.00 Angel Unaware (Dale Evans Rogers) 1953. The reason I've included this book in my picks, is that it was read and cried over by all the teen girls when I was that age. The little tiny, sick girl who was the baby daughter of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, only lived a couple of years, but apparently had a big impact on her family and others. It's written as if the baby were talking to God, and mostly deals with her wish to return to Heaven. I don't know if I could read something this sweet any more, but as a little girl, it really wiped me out. Cute little book with a picture of the baby in one corner of the DJ, and Roy and Dale looking up at her from the lower corner. HB, DJ, $3.00 The Middle Sister (Miriam E. Mason)1947. Mason's books are so good! I don't remember reading them as a child, although I was the right age. I just MAY have forgotten some of the books I read back then, hard to imagine! Anyway, this one is wonderful! Family moves from Ohio to Minnesota (when it was the frontier) and each child can take one special thing. Sarah Samantha chooses her young apple tree. The trials that poor tree had to go through! Will it survive to allow SS to make an apple dumpling for Uncle Romeo? I suspect this story is a metaphor for the troubles our forefathers went through during the Westward expansion, but don't let that stop you! Dave and I loved it. HB, XL, some pages are warped, but no odor. $2.00 The Middle Sister (Miriam Mason) 1947. Historical setting, book for middle-grade readers. Family moves from Ohio to Minnesota, the girl takes her apple tree along with her! It's a wonderful story of all the things she did to protect the tree, and finally harvest its first apples. Dave and I just read this story together, and were tickled by the dear story, the nice family, the funny situations, and the really, really unexpected ending! PB, $1.50 I capture the Castle (Dodie Smith) 1948. This edition of a sort of classic (in an underground kind of way)has a recommendation from J. K. Rowling right on the front cover. This book is nothing at all like Harry Potter, except for being British. A girl's diary of her life in a run-down castle, and grows up through her teen years. I can't explain it better than that, but you will probably like it very much! Large PB, fine condition, $2.00 The Silver Pencil (Alice Dalgliesh) 1944. You're probably tired of reading that some book was my favorite when I was a kid, but this one was my ultra, very, favorite book for about five years during junior high and high school. The story of Janet, who went from a child living in Trinidad, to a student in England, to college in the US, to teaching, and writing books. Yes, it's autobiographical but fictional and very lovely. Newbery honor book, this PB has the original internal art with a new (but not bad) cover picture. Some creases, and pencil marks inside the cover. Pages are good. $1.50 Eleven Blue Men and Other Narratives of Medical Detection. (Berton Roueche) In the late 40s and the 50s, this man wrote many essays for The New Yorker, all about some very entertaining medical detection. I first read this book when I was a teen, but I've been re-reading this one and the sequels at least every couple of years ever since. Even though I know pretty much how they will all turn out, I can't keep away from them, they are so wonderfully entertaining and droll. Think "Mystery Diagnosis" without ads or annoying musical background. If you read this book, I'm pretty sure you'll be looking for the other books in this series! Vintage PB in good condition, $2.00 Ida Early Comes over the Mountain (Robert Burch) 1980. There's no denying it, Ida Early is quite peculiar in her clothing, appearance, and actions. She entrances the motherless family she takes care of, but no one in that tiny, depression-era Georgia town, knows how to treat this kind but strange person. PB, $2.00 Christmas with Ida Early (Burch) 1983. Sequel to Ida Early Comes over the Mountain. If you read the first one, you'll wish you had the 2nd, so might as well order them both. What nice stories! What a wonderful character! PB, very good cond, $2.00 Love From your Friend, Hannah (Mindy Warshaw Skolsky) 1998. OK, relatively recent, but just a glimpse of the cover of this PB will make you want to read it. Hannah, in 1937, in her red school dress, sitting on a stool at the counter of a -- yes, it's true -- Maltshop! There are the pies on little shelves in a showcase, a big menu, and an American flag, stuck in a picture of FDR! That's your hint of one of Hannah's many correspondents, the president of the US, his wife, and other people in the administration. It's fiction, but full of real events and things that happen in the year covered by this incredible and adorable book.
PB, $2.00 Strangers in the Desert (alice Dyar Russell) "A Ghost Town's dusty mines hid the only Clue to the fate of a boy who was front-page news" says the front cover of this Comet/Books edition. These are the PBs that have 9 squares on the back cover, with a synopsis of the story under the pictures, and a lovely interior format. Lots of pictures and an amazing front cover picture! Originally published in HB in 1938, this edition came out in 1949. Just holding it in my hands makes me happy, it's such a wonderful edition. Fairly good condition, really good mystery, interesting characters, desert setting, plenty of good reading. $3.00 The Absolutely True Story.. How I visited Yellowstone Park with the Terrible Rupes. (Willo Davis Roberts) Another recent book (at least compared with our usual offerings) and another book that Dave and I loved reading together and with our grandson Zeben. From 1994, this is a mystery, a human interest story, and best of all, the story of a trip in an RV. We have a copy of this book on our trailer collection shelves. You WILL enjoy this book, or there's something wrong with you!!! HB, good cond. $2.50 Books written and/or illustrated by Kate Seredy. I'm listing these in this section because I've just finished writing about Seredy's life (the article appeared in the May, 2007 issue of Whispered Watchword.) If you are intered in reading bookswritten and illustrated by her, or other people's books that she illustrated, here are a few of them. If there aren't many here, I'll try to find more very soon. The Good Master 1935 A Newbery award winning book The Singing Tree 1939 sequel to Good Master These 2 PBs are in fairly good condition. Together, they tell the story of Kate and Jancsi, cousins who live with his father, "the good master." Starting in pre-war Hungary, with carefree fun on horseback and around the countryside, they gradually tell about the changes that come to their country. These beautiful books have been appreciated by kids, including myself, for more than 70 years, so if you haven't read them, here's your chance to read both at the same time. The illustrations are by the author, except the cover of Singing Tree, which is a revised picture -- I guess you know I can never figure out why they do that to reprints! 2 XL PBs, $3.75 LOIS LENSKI books -- we really like these books about children from all over the country, mostly living in poverty but usually joyful and adventurous. She wrote and also illustrated all of her books. Judy's Journey (written and illustrated by Lenski) 1947. Award-winning book that got high praises from people who worked with migrant workers and child labor foes, but it's also an entertaining and dramatic story about a girl who doesn't let a rough life get her down. Full of wonderful Lenski illustrations and humor with a very satisfying ending. PB, good condition, $2 Strawberry Girl (Lenski) A Newbery winner, 1945. Paperback with fancy color picture on the cover, b/w original illustrations inside. $1.50 Policeman Small (written and illus by Lenski) It's all here except for the title page and pages before the text starts. Probably torn out when book was taken out of the library. Song is there at the beginning, and all of the text. Funny, cute, instructive, for beginning readers or lovers of Lenski's art. HB, XL, PC, $2.50 Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (Newbery Honor book) 1941. Written and illustrated by Lenski except for the cover on this reprint. good condition PB, $1.50 Indian Captive (Lenski) hardcover copy with beautiful Lenski picture on the cover, inside of the front and back covers featuring Lenski map of the area (around the Ohio river) where the story takes place. HB, XL, PC, $3.50 Alice, Or The Mysteries (Edward Bulwar-Lytton) No date on this little gem, but it looks very elderly. You probably won't want to read this, but who knows, maybe you will love it! Very small print. I couldn't resist it, as there aren't too many books with Alice as a character. The cover is quite decorative, red with a silhouette of Alice, stylized flowers and designs. $1.00 Little Vic (Doris Gates) Illustrated by Kate Seredy -- what a wonderful combination, Gates and Seredy, both being very good with stories about horses, to say nothing of stories about children! This is the story of the orphan son of a jockey who is sure that Little Vic is a winning race horse! Other people certainly aren't convinced. Boy goes all over the country with the horse, and great things happen! HB, PC, personal copy. $3.00 The White Stag (Kate Seredy) 1937. Newbery Award Book. Written for ages 8-12, this is historic and legendary story of the Huns, and their leader, Atilla, as they follow an elusive stag across the land. PB, $1.00 ---------------------------------- With Love From Karen (Marie Killilea) 1963. Didn't we all cry over "Karen" when we were teens. Disabled girl with everything working against her, overcomes many problems and loves life. There was much more to that book, written by her mother, and I for one re-read it many times. The author wrote With Love From Karen to tell what happened to Karen after the end of the first book, because thousands of letters were written to Karen by people who, like me, loved "Karen." This copy is a very nice hardcover, no DJ, but in good condition otherwise. $2.50 Adult book -- not YA. Ghost Girl (Torey Hayden) 1991. Have you read any of Hayden's books? She's a special education teacher, who specializes in the most difficult children in the world, abused, mute, destructive, extremely sad. She writes about her children in a downright, but absolutely riviting manner. This is one of the most amazing of all, and I've read many of her books. PB, $1.50 Because of Winn-Dixie (Kate DiCamillo) 2000. A cute little book that we first picked up because of the trailer-camp picture on the cover, then loved it for the very nice story inside. Girl lives with her loving but inattentive father, and is adopted by a rather nondescript dog that follows her from the grocery store. Newbery Honor book, and this is one of the times that I fully agree with their committee! PB, rather square (an unusual size and shape,) Good condition $2.00 (2) Good Morning, Miss Dove (Frances Gray Patton) 1954. One of my young-teen favorites, a sentimental or nostalgic look back at the teaching life of a strict but fair teacher. A kind of female "Goodbye, Mr Chips." PB, $2.00 Here's a cute little hardcover book (DJ, too!) about Bears -- The Teddy variety. The Little Book of Celebrity Bears -- featuring Paddington on the front. $1 Miracles on Maple Hill (Virginia Sorensen) Newbery medal winner 1957. Family moves to a farm to help Father get well after his return from being a POW. They need a miracle, and they're helped by the turn of the seasons, especially the maple sap rising in the spring, and the making of maple syrup. Fine condition paperback, $2.00 Blue Willow (Doris Gates) 1940. About the MOST satisfying books you can ever read. Absolutely sweet story about a very poor migrant farmer girl who wants a home. Newbery Honor book and one of the most deserving! Everyone I know who has read it, loves it very much. The ending will probably make you cry, but with joy. PB in good condition, with the clever original Paul Lantz art. $2.25 PB in fair condition -- I get lots of requests for the book, so I'll offer these as reading copies for $1.25 The Year of the Dream (Jane collier) 1962. Nice family wants a boat, so they all work together for a whole year to earn the money for it. Lots of interesting money-making schemes! PB, $1.50 Baby Island (Carol Ryrie Brink) 1937. A dream come true for a girl who loves babies! 2 sisters are shipwrecked on a desert island with 4 assorted babies. All the details of providing for their charges plus a bit of mystery -- of course! This is the perfect book for a long read in front of the fire on a freezing winter day. Treats a very serious subject with the lightest of touches, and such happiness! PB $1.50 Books by Lenora Mattingly Weber. These have recently been reissued in beautiful PB editions Image Cascade publishing, but die-hard fans like to own the "actual" HB book that we read as teens. Now it's a lot cheaper to do just that, since the reprints have come out and the market for the originals has dropped! If there are no Weber books available now, I hope to have more at another time. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ The Maida books are So Beautiful! By the way, the Maida series is just about my favorite series, along with Judy, Trixie, and Beany. Maida is entirely different from any of the other series, and entirely loveable to me! I'll be listing more Maida books in the future, but in the meantime, maybe you'll spot some, and I recommend that you read them for sure! NOTE: I'm offering several Maida books this month, most of them absolutely lovely, with beautiful ("real") dust jackets. In the past, I've listed several of Maida's books, usually with beautiful laser copies of the DJs, at prices far above what I usually charge for books. In each case, these books did sell to other fans of this sweet, quite scarce series. So I'm going to list these books, also at much higher prices than I usually ask for books on this list. Remember, some of these books are really hard to find, and if you tried to buy Maida's that are this nice through ABE books, you'd find prices that are a whole lot higher than I'm asking! Maida's Little Camp (Irwin, 1940, #5) Maida and her friends spend a month at a wonderful Adirondack cabin. Outdoors living, camping, exciting adventures. This book has a blue tweed cover, The book itself is in very good condition except for the slightest of wear right along the bottom edges. The DJ is in fairly good condition, with a few "issues." There is a tear about 2" long, at the bottom of the front cover. The front flap is missing but that doesn't show unless you open the book, since the DJ is covered by a mylar cover. The top of the DJ spine is a little worn, as happens when people pull a book out of a bookcase by the top. I love the DJ picture, which shows the children sitting around a stone fireplace, in camp chairs, doing various activities like knitting, painting, and reading a map. Pine paneled walls, a window looking out over an outdoors scene. HB in very good condition, DJ in fairly good condition, $12.00 MORE OF ALICE'S PICKS! Books by Frieda Friedman. She wrote the most beautiful books for middle-grade girls!. Since I was a girl myself, I've loved her books, and re-read them when I need something to counteract the complexities of adult life in the 21st century. Wonderful families in every-day situations, realistic stories, and believable happy endings. New York City settings. I'll be sure to list any Friedman books that come my way. The Nanny Diaries (McLaughlin and Kraus) 2002. I don't try to sell adult books very often, and to tell the truth, I don't read them very often. But I came across this one, took a look, and didn't surface until I finished it. It's fiction, but there is a note that it is based on truth and the experience of the authors. College student becomes a nanny to a very, very rich but disfunctional family. It's pretty appalling to read about what she encounters (though she just loves the little boy, probably much more than his mother does.) Not appropriate for a child, I imagine it would be rated for over 16 years of age. HB, DJ, good condition, $2.00 Books written and illustrated by Carolyn Haywood. I really enjoy her realistic but humorous stories about Eddie, Betsy, and the rest of the group. By the way, the first Haywood was published before I was born, so I grew up with these darling books. The children remind me of myself and my friends in grade school! These are mostly "chapter books" of 150-200 pages Back to School with Betsy (Haywood) PB reissue of a 1943 original. Has the chubby-cheeked NOT original cover illustration. Internal illustrations are the original Haywood ones. Taped spine. $1.25 =================================== Books by Catherine Woolley, one of my very favorite authors. She turned 100 years old last summer! One whole issue of Whispered Watchword was dedicated to her, with many very loving reviews of her books (some written by me.) You can read some Woolleys to honor her along with people on Cape Cod, who are all celebrating her birthday!!!) Note: Sadly, Catherine Woolley died a couple of years ago, just after her 100th birthday. All the Ginnie and all the Cathy series go on my best-loved lists! I'll try to have more Ginnie and Cathy books, as well as other Woolley books, pretty soon. Ginnie's Baby-sitting Business (Woolley) hardcover title is Ginnie and her Juniors. Very good PB copy of Ginnie's Baby-sitting business! $2.00 Ginnie and the mystery Doll (Woolley) 1960. it's an antique doll, which appears and disappears in this wonderful Cape Cod setting. PB, fair cond, $1.25 (2) END OF "ALICE'S PICKS" SECTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SERIES BOOKS -- HARDCOVER UNLESS NOTED +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BEGINNING OF TRIXIE BELDEN COLLECTION (see more Trixies under "Suzanne's books") *** NOTE!! *** I've been surprised -- or might I say "Shocked?" that some people who visit our web page have NOT read Trixie Belden books!!!! They are the Gold Standard of girls' series books from the mid-to-later 20th century! To meet Trixie is to love her! Here's a chance to start your collection with the first few reasonably priced)books in the series. And you may nearly complete your collection with the extremely scarce, much more expensive, later volumes that I'm offering. By the way, my prices were set after looking at the "Completed auctions" on Ebay, but I used the lowest prices for each volume as my guide! You're welcome to ask me about condition before you spring for the more expensive books! Trixie #2, Red Trailer -- Cameo edition, with darling Mary Stevens illustrations. Good condition, one of my favorite stories, since it includes a trailer trip, and life in a trailer campground. This is a fairly scarce format, and the most beautiful of the Trixie formats. Slight separation of front cover from rest of the pages. $4.00 Trixie Belden #3 Gatehouse Mystery (1951.) In this book, Trixie's brothers, who play such a large part in future books, come home. The Bob-White club is formed, and they fix up their clubhouse. One copy is the beautiful, unusual "cameo" style, with a small picture of Trixie in the upper corner, bigger picture fills the whole front cover. Mary Stevens illustrations. Fair cond. $4 Trixie Belden and the Gatehouse Mystery, I think this is the first format, regular size hardcover, originally with a DJ, here without it, but with a very romantic-looking cottage under the moon, on the printed picture cover. Nice Mary Stevens ilustrations, including a nice border all around the front and back endpapers, showing the Bob-Whites in various amusing or exciting situations. Fairly nice condition. $3.00 Another copy is a library edition, hardcover made from PB. Paperback size. Very sturdy. $3 Trixie #3, paperback with oval cover picture, pretty nice copy, $2.00 Trixie Belden #4, mysterious Visitor. A new member of the BobWhites, another appearance of the well-known trailer! Mysterious Visitor in a small Whitman HB, good cond, $3.00 Mysterious visitor PB -- fairly good cond $2.00 reading copy $1.00 Trixie Belden #5 Mystery off Glen Road -- a wedding at Honey's home, a hurricane, lots more. Paul Frame illustrations (some in full color) Whitman Deluxe edition in good condition, $5.00 Trixie #5 Glen Road -- small Whitman format, with Trixie and Honey with their horses, on the cover. Good condition, $3.00 Trixie Belden and Mystery in Arizona #6(1958.) "cellophane" edition, illus by Mary Stevens. Bob-whites' first trip away from Sleepside, to a dude ranch in Tucson. These cello editions are not usually in great condition, but this one is as good as you will find any of them. They are beautiful and collectable HB, PC $4.00 Trixie Belden and the Mysterious Code #7 School rules are against secret clubs, so The Bob-Whites have to prove that they're doing worthwhile things. They have an antique show to benefit Unicef -- and all those antiques attract some shady elements! HB, Small Whitman format with picture cover. $3.00 Trixie #9, Happy Valley Mystery Small Whitman picture cover ed, good condition, $3 Trixie #11, Bob-White Cave Small Whitman HB PC edition (this is one of my favorite Trixies, as they spend a vacation in the Ozark Mountains, and go spelunking) Good condition, $3.00 Trixie #12, Mystery of the Blinking Eye -- CAmeo edition, illustrated by Paul Frame. Very nice condition of this collectable and rather scarce edition, combined with such a good story! Oh well, I love all the Trixie stories, don't I? You will, too! Trixie Cameo #12, $4.50 Trixie #15, Mystery on the Mississippi. Bob Whites take a trip on a river barge, and of course the criminals follow them, or is it the other way around? Side trip to Mark Twain sites, which were the reason for a PF trip a few years back. PB, a bit of wear around the bottom and corners of the cover, but not at all bad. Clean and tight. $2.50 Trixie #15, Mystery on the Mississippi -- small hardcover, which is the way the PBs were bound when they were sold to libraries. The front has a paste-down picture from the original PB with oval picture, but the interior has a very sturdy small hardcover binding. In very nice condition. $2.50 Trixie #34, Mystery of the Missing Millionaire -- one of the scarce titles! I absolutely love the plot of this one, but I won't give it away at all. PB in very good condition, $8.00 ********************************************************************************** JUDY BOLTON ! Start your Judy library at reasonable prices, or get started on an extra set of the very best of series for your niece or daughter! We have made laser copies of the DJs for many of these books, to make them look much nicer than the "undressed" copies. Most of us have a very hard time telling the difference between an original DJ and the copy, the LDJs look so beautiful. The later numbered Judy Bolton books are unfortunately much harder to find than the early ones, and are therefore much more expensive. I looked at Ebay and ABEbooks for guidelines, and tried to be more reasonable than either one. I love to get these wonderful books out to people who really want them! If you love Judy, take a look at My Sister Sarah's Charm Bracelets, near the beginning of this web page. One of the bracelets features Judy Bolton charms! I've recently realized that some of my customers/friends don't read Judy Bolton books. So I'm going to try to explain why so many people are in love with this series, which is really different from other series! What I came up with is this -- each book is, of course, a complete story that can be read and vastly enjoyed by itself, the entire series is also a very long, continuing story about a girl, her friends, her romance, and in a way, the history of a town. Judy grows in age and experience, and (in contrast to most of the other series of that era) never forgets what has happened to her in the past. You will get to know what happens to Judy, but also you can follow her friends and acquaintances, as well as her own family. The mysteries are really interesting, and the side stories are full of the kinds of things that most of us love to read about -- summer camp, parties, friendships, marriages, pets. Many people read all the Judy's in order every few years, as if we are reading one long, long continuing story. Here are quite a few Judy Bolton stories -- these are old books, some in fairly good condition, some kind of worn out, but all wrapped up in nice laser copies of the original dust jackets. The pictures are vintage Pelagie Doane art, and in some ways, as collectible as the books themselves. Remember, if you take a laser copy of anything, it will have pictures of the same flaws that appear in the original item, so these LDJs have pictures of holes or tape or creases, wherever the original had any of those things. These were all taken from my own personal copies of the DJs, so my beloved books have these same holes, tapes, or creases! In many cases, what you are paying for is actually just above the cost of making the copies of the dust jackets -- the book comes along for the same price! Dates from the early 30s through the mid-60s. The classic series book era! FIRST, A JUDY BOLTON STARTER SET! If you keep thinking you'd like to find out what all the enthusiasm is about, here's your chance! The first 3 books introduce you to many of the key characters in the series -- Judy, Horace, their parents and grandparents, Peter, Blackberry, Honey, more. You'll find out why the Boltons moved to the house in Farringdon, how Judy met her very best friend, how Blackberry joined the family, and much more. The books are in fair to good condition. The all-important first 3 Judy Boltons, including: 1. The Vanishing Shadow -- dark red covers on the book, laser copy of the original DJ 2. The Haunted Attic -- tweedy cover, with DJ in fair condition, a few nicks and tiny rips, but the front with the picture of Judy, is really good. 3. The Invisible Chimes -- tweed cover, fair condition book Three-book starter set of Judy Bolton -- $10.00 #2 The Haunted Attic -- After the big flood, Judy and Horace and their parents move to a house that will be the scene of several mysterious happenings over the years! In this book, we begin to see Judy's role as defender of people who are victims of prejudice, as well as victims of crime. Very dear story! Laser copy of the DJ, by Pelagie Doane, shows Judy and Horace in the messy attic, trying to figure out what's causing the menacing noises and sightings. HB, LDJ, $5.00 #3 The Invisible Chimes -- Judy and her brother Horace meet lifelong friend Honey, and they start to unravel the story of her background. Book in fair condition, outer covering of spine is missing. Looks good in especially attractive dust jacket (a laser copy of it.) $4.00 #4 Seven Strange Clues -- The high school burns down, and Judy wants to know what caused this disaster. A poster contest provides some clues. Laser repro DJ by Pelagie Doane shows Judy and several of her friends, gazing down a mysterious trap door. HB, LDJ, $5.00 Another copy of Seven STrange Clues in laser DJ, but the book itself isn't in very good condition. Covering of outer spine has been glued on. Looks good with LDJ. Pages of text are just fine! $4.00 #5 The Ghost Parade -- A wonderful camp story! After the HS burns down, the students have an extra-long vacation, so Judy and her friends take a trip to the Thousand Island Camp. Blackberry the cat goes along with them, and it's a good thing he did! What he did for them, is the basis for his future reputation as a very smart kitty. You'll love the picture on the laser copy of the original DJ which I put on this book. A bunch of really scary masks on a deep red background, stunning! Dark green cover on the book, fairly good condition, with a small light stain on the front cover and age-darkened pages. The LDJ really makes this book look good. HB, LDJ, $5.50 #6 -- The Yellow Phantom -- most of the action is in NY city. One friend gets a job, another meets her hero and gets engaged while Judy solves several mysteries! It has the newer DJ picture of the laser copy of the newer DJ picture. Red tweed book in fair condition, but looks good with the laser copy of the DJ! $5.00 #11 The Unfinished House. This is one of my own personal favorites. AFter the flood, the town is being rebuilt. Judy and Peter help a defrauded woman get back at the con artists by designing and overseeing the building of a small house. Mysterious illnesses, strange noises, and a cute little boy. Nice intricate picture on the laser copy of the original DJ. Thick green covered book, Moderately good condition, pages nice and clean. $7.50 #13 The Name on the Bracelet -- Now Judy really IS engaged, but what problems! Her friend has a brand new baby, but there's a mix-up here, too. A strange story, with sinister characters and great suspense. Nice cover picture with a cute bassinet to indicate the inclusion of a little one. Judy and her friends are growing up! Thick green book is firm and complete, with clean pages, but it has a stained cover. Looks very good with its laser copy of the original DJ. $8.00 #15. The Mark on the Mirror -- Friends giving Judy a wedding shower! Does anything like this ever happen in a Nancy Drew or Cherry Ames? Definitely not! But you know that something mysterious will happen before very long. Nice cover picture of Judy and Blackberry (cat) looking in a mirror, while a beautiful old grandfather clock looks on. Possible child abuse, long-lost family members, all kinds of interesting subjects. Thick green book, exterior in fair condition, pages clean except for a bit of edge discoloration. Book plus LDJ, $9.00 Now here are MORE Judy Boltons!!! #1 Vanishing Shadow -- orange cover -- fair-to-good cond $3 #1 Vanishing Shadow -- paperback (very unusual!) This book has a cute picture on the cover -- artist's idea of what Judy looks like may not agree with ours, but she's not bad! And Blackberry as a kitten, in her arms. Tempo Books PB from 1987 $3 #2 Haunted Attic -- thick green book in good condition, with original DJ, in fair cond. DJ is all there except part of the spine. The front and back covers are all there, and there's a plastic dj cover to protect everything. $4.00 #2 Haunted Attic, thick green book in very nice condition except for slightly brown (uniformly colored) pages. $3.00 #4 Seven Strange Clues. Judy and her friends find more of the secrets that lurk in the house that the Boltons moved into after the flood. Old green-covered book, nice laser copy of the original dust jacket. Pages uniformly brown with age. Book plus LDJ, $10.00 #5 Ghost Parade, red tweed cover, corners of spine rubbed and bumped, interior very nice. $5.00 #7 Mystic Ball -- thick green covers, spine is sunned, pages are age-darkened, but the book is in overall pretty good condition. Judy and Peter try to expose a phony fortune-teller who has frightened their superstitious friends, especially Irene. Great story! $4.50 #11 Unfinished House. I love this one! Maybe because it takes you through the entire process of building a house, from designing to moving in. Also, there's a wonderful and especially interesting mystery, even a medical mystery. Maybe I love it because I remember it so well from my girlhood. Anyway, enjoy it! Thick green cover, slightly loose interior binding, rough spot at top of exterior spine. $5.00 ____________________________________________________________________________ OTHER SERIES BOOKS INCLUDING GIRLS' AND LITTLE CHILDREN'S SERIES!! First -- books by our wonderful Mildred Wirt! As you can see, I can't keep them long enough to let very many people see them. I'll keep trying! Penny Parker Mystery Series by Mildred Wirt -- (I'll try to have more Penny Parkers in the near future!) Penny Nichols series by "Joan Clark" are actually by Mildred Wirt, and many people consider these to be pretty much clones of the later Penny Parker series. Penny N. is also a lively girl with a slightly less lively sidekick girlfriend, and a widowed father who is in this case, a detective. She zooooooms around town in her little car, and helps her father with his cases. To me, every bit as good as the Penny Parker series! Penny Nichols Finds a Clue (Wirt/Clark) 1936 First in this series. Believe me, you will be breathless as you read of her exploits, pure vintage Mildred Wirt! It's in the usual worn condition (these were cheap books when new) with a laser copy of the original DJ. By the way, these DJs are all alike except for the writing. They show a couple of flapper-looking girls in a red roadster (I think that's what a roadster is!) You'll worry about whether they can stay on the road as they gaze and point out at the countryside. But that's our Penny! HB, LDJ, $4.00 Penny Nichols and the Mystery of the Lost Key (Wirt/.Clark) 1936. Another hair-raising adventure, helping a young woman get her inheritance away from evil relatives (sound like Nancy Drew? No wonder!) Book is in fair condition, covered by a laser copy of the original DJ, which wasn't in such hot shape itself. The LDJ actually looks better than the real thing, since it's printed on a nice untorn piece of paper! HB, LDJ, $3.00 Penny Nichols and the Black Imp (Wirt/Clark) 1936 Art theft! Crooked jury decision! Penny can handle all of that and much more. There's a laser copy of the original dust jacket, which looks sort of weary since mine had quite a few pieces missing from it. But it makes the book look much more dressy. The book itself is in pretty nice condition under the LDJ. $3.00 Dan Carter and the Haunted Castle (Mildred Wirt) 1951. I love the cover and frontispiece by Marguerite Gayer, who did the Brownie, Girl Scout and Boy Scout covers, too! This book may be just right for your Cub Scout, but you will probably want to keep it with your Wirt collection: this series is beautiful. HB, good condition, DJ with a few little pieces out of the top of the spine and some corners, a few chips out of the bottom. The DJ front cover picture is complete -- including 2 Cubs gazing at a rather ruined-looking castle. HB, DJ, $4.00 Dan Carter, Cub Scout (Wirt) 1949. Very nice copy of the first book in the Cub Series by Mildred Wirt. Cover by Marguerite Gayer, shows 3 Cubs in uniform, around a campfire, with a nice little log cabin in the background, birch trees, a pheasant -- altogether an idyllic scene. Book and DJ are both in good condition. $5.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Recent Whispered Watchword reviews rate the Marjorie Dean series highly! Loyal friends, high morals (except for the girls who have low morals!) parties, schooldays, clothes, and a tad of romance. Life of upper-middle class girls in the 2nd decade of the 20th century. Here are some books from this series, so you can enjoy them for yourselves! I'll try to include more Marjorie Dean books in the next list! Marjorie Dean, High-School Junior (1917) You guessed it, she's a junior! Rather worn book, but still holding together. Basketball team picture on the cover. This book involves an interesting mystery that causes far-reaching results for Marjorie and her friends. $2.50 Christie and Company Down East (Katherine Hall Page) 1997. Second (I think) in this really good series about 3 girls who met at a boarding school. They all happen to be fans of Agatha Christie, so they aren't sad when mysteries keep turning up! In this one, they spend a vacation in Maine original home of one of the girls. PB, very good condition, $2.00 The Phantom Stallion (A Penny of Paintrock Story) 1961. there are only 2 in this cute little series about a girl and her horse. Very attractive, wholesome picture cover of a black horse, blonde girl in Western clothes, with a cowboy on a horse coming up in the background. I'm sure there were originally more books planned for the Trixie-like series, but these two are worth reading, anyway. This one has everything -- mystery, horses, rodeo, troubles and good times. Book is sturdy and very firm, but someone did a bit of "artwork" on the back cover and there are names along the page edges and endpapers. Text is clean. HB, PC, $2.50 Dana Girls mysteries were the equal of the Nancy Drews for many years. Too bad they are now discontinued! I guess you have to put 2 sisters together to make one Nancy Drew, but of course, they sometimes have to go to school, while Nancy is fancy-free. Mystery of the Wax Queen (Dana Girls revised picture cover edition #4) good condition! HB, $2.50 Secret of the Swiss Chalet (Dana Girls revised picture cover edition, #7) HB in good condition, $2.50 The Haunted Lagoon (Dana Girls revised picture cover edition, #8) HB in good cond, $2.50 Mystery of the Bamboo Bird (Dana Girls revised picture cover edition, #9) this is a former library book in pretty good condition but with a library sticker on the back. and a sticker on the back cover. Interior pages are very nice. HB, $2.00 Winking Ruby Mystery (Dana Girls revised picture cover edition, #12) good condition HB, $2.50 In the shadow of the Tower (Dana Girls #3.) This is the vintage style, thick purple book, with a laser copy of the original dust jacket (this style has a band down the middle of the front, with a variety of pictures from the story, and on the back cover, large script saying
"a New Story by the Author of Nancy Drew.") The DJ that this copy was made from, is in beautiful condition, so this copy looks very, very nice. $8.00 The Portrait in the Sand (Dana Girls #12) The book is an old tweed-jacketed edition, moderately good condition, and it has a laser copy of the original DJ to cover it up and make it look great. The picture shows the girls, dressed ever so casually in cotton skirts and white blouses, digging up a picture from a sand dune. A very sinister guy is hiding (not successfully)behind a big rock, peering out at them. $5.00 Nan Sherwood is a nice old series (there are 7 in all) about a girl who starts out facing poverty but like most of these old series, eventually can go to boarding school and chase around the world. Nan Sherwood at Lakeview Hall: Or, the Mystery of the Haunted Boathouse (Carr) 1916. 2nd book in series, no DJ, but the book is neat, firm, and clean. $3.00 Books by Grace May North -- She wrote at least 2 series in the '20s. Here are a couple of her non-series books that would be fine additions to any series! Well constructed, coherent plots, with interesting characters and attractive settings. Meg of Mystery Mountain (Grace May North) 1924. Stunning story! You've probably read the plot many times, but never so well-done, and in such a wonderful setting. Selfish, snobby, rich girl's father loses all his money (by being the only honest person in his company!) She's still pround and disdanful, thinks she's better than almost anyone else. Hurts her family terribly, almost causes total disaster for her father, brothers and sister, to say nothing of Meg, a worthy and noble girl for whom the book is named! Setting is a log home high in the Rocky Mountains. HB, fair condition, $2.00 Nan of the Gypsies (Grace May North) 1926. Nan is happy being a gypsy, but a good lady decides to "civilize" her. It's very interesting to read about whether and/or how this succeeds. This book must have been very popular, as I've run across several editions of it. This one is one of those attractive, large Saalfield YA editions, brown cover with nice no-nonsense black letters in the title. The pages have turned brown with age, but they aren't brittle, and are firmly set in the binding. $3.00 Janet Hardy in Radio City (Ruthe S. Wheeler) 1935. Wheeler wrote several good stories all with a bit of mystery in them, and I always sell them fast (because I can honestly recommend them?) This is second of a 2-book series about Janet, who goes to work in Hollywood and then to radio city, though she's only a teen. These are sort of career romances, as she develops a great interest in the inner workings of acting and the what goes on behind the shows. In the end, she has a big decision to make, about her future career. A frightening mystery among other things! HB, old but good cond. $3.50 Grace Harlowe series -- one of the longest of the old, old series. Takes Grace through high school, college, helping out during the Great War, and into the world. It's unusual to find any of these books in good condition, as they were not made to last through the ages. However, they hold together, and are complete and readable. Starting around the year of 1911. I hope to have more Grace Harlowe books soon. Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College (Jessie Graham Flower: A.M.) 1914. Well, you guessed it -- she's a junior at college. Still having fun and just the tiniest touch of romance. Fair condition, has a few flaws, mainly a piece missing from the very top of the spine. $2.50 Polly Brewster Series -- Big Lot! 1922-1925. Polly lived at Pebbly Pit in the Southwest, where her family owned a mine. Soon enough, she branched out, and lived the life that seemed to be so dear to the hearts of rich series book girls in the early '20s -- traveling, dabbling in business, giving and attending grand parties, going everywhere with a group of loyal friends. She still loved The Southwest (Colorado in this case) and returned there from time to time. Here are 7 of the first 8 books. I'm not trying to say that the books are in good condition! They are between fairly good and fairly poor, but all there, and not falling apart or anything like that! For the price, I'm not going to go into more detail than that, but suffice it to say that they are somewhere above just "reading copies." Titles: Polly of Pebbly Pit Polly and eleanor Polly in New York Polly and her Friends Abroad Polly's Business Venture Polly in South America Polly in the Southwest Seven Polly Brewster books (no Djs) $18.00 Polly Brewster series #2 -- Polly and Eleanor. Pages are brown with age, and cover has a few stains, but it's firm and tight, a good reading copy. HB, $2 Little Sunshine's Holiday (Miss Mulock) I don't know whether this is part of a series or not, it has all the earmarks, but I didn't locate it in the Girls' Series Companion. There's no date listed, though all the pages are present, so this is something of a mystery to me. The pictures date it somewhere around the turn of the last century. It tells about a very young girl who travels to Scotland with her mother and father, and has a few unusual adventures (you'll love the picture of her confusion when confronted by a kilt-clad man!) The cover picture is another mystery, showing a very fashionable young woman in maybe her early 20s, I don't know who that may be. The parasol and gigantic hat might help you date the book, if you know your fashion history. All in all, it's fun and in very good condition for a book of probably 100 years of age. $3.00 Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure (Lizette Eldhome) Here's an unusual series, consisting of 4 books about a group of girls who help people and have a whale of a good time doing it. I'll try to have more Merriweather Girls in the future! Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Sidney) this is the first in a very old series. The wonderful thing about this hardcover reprint is that it has Barbara Cooney illustrations! There's a nice full-color frontispiece, and b/w drawings all the way through. Book in very good condition. $3.00 The "Melody Lane" series by Lillian Garis is quite unusual. I guess it's one of those series that you either love or hate. I happen to like it VERY much! It's atmospheric and creepy in some ways, but very down-to-earth and realistic on others. Like Judy Bolton, the girls of Melody Lane lived during the Depression. Carol, the main character has to work at least part time, but has many chances to solve mysteries and expose the same type of evil-doers that Judy does -- scam artists, fortune-tellers, fake ghosts, and people who prey on innocent children. I highly recommend the books, but be aware that some people find them less snappy and concise than the Nancy Drews. 1933 and 1934. I'll try to have more Melody Lane books in the near future! In the meantime, good luck finding some yourself -- I think you will really enjoy them! While you're looking, try some of Garis' other books, which are similar but present other characters. The Tower Secret (Melody Lane #3 by Lilian Garis) Pelagie Doane illustrations. I won't try to summarize the story. Towers are always sinister, aren't they? Fairly good condition book, covered by a laser copy of the original DJ, showing 2 girls in PJs, sitting on a bed looking out at the night, illuminated by rays of light from the tower. HB, LDJ, $6.00 Ted and Tony: Two girls of Today (Lilian Garis) 1929. One of Garis' two-book mini-series. 2 girls with boyish nicknames meet and hit it off right away. They have adventures and solve ghostly mysteries, a lot like the girls of Melody Lane. Tony is the more affluent of the two, while Ted has to make a living for her family, but you know how that can change for the better! HB, cute little picture of a boy? Girl? on the front cover. HB. Worn, but sturdy and tight. $3 Betsy-Tacy Books by Maud Hart Lovelace, just about the best of all series books in the whole world! Shame on you if you haven't discovered them, but I can't say much, since I didn't read them until I was an adult. The first book is just right for early readers, and each book gets just a little bit more advanced, until the last book, which is about Betsy's first year of marriage. My daughters loved these books tremendously, and so do my husband and I! My oldest grandson had them read to him when he was a pre-schooler, and I like to think that it's part of the reason he's turned out to be such a wonderful kid. If you haven't read every single one of the Betsy-Tacy books, you have missed one of series-bookdom's greatest treats! I resisted reading them for years, though my daughters told me they were wonderful. Then, when we were going to our first PF reunion, in Mankato, MN, the actual town where the Betsy-Tacy books were set (called Deep Valley)I started to read the series. Well --- I want to tell you, I'll always listen to my daughters' recommendations after this! These books are indescribably good. It's best to read them in order, as I fortunately did, and they have all been reissued in the past few years, so you can do just that. By the way, don't judge the series by the first book (Betsy-Tacy) because the books "grow up" with the girls, sort of like the Little House books. In the first, the girls are just turning 5, and a 5-year-old would enjoy that book. Eventually, the girls grow up, go to high school, and even marry. The content and reading level of the books grow along with them, and become ever more gripping! (If I don't have any Betsy-Tacy books for sale, watch for some in the future!) Betsy-Tacy (Lovelace) 1940. This is a nice pb (Harper Trophy) with the original Lenski art on the cover as well as interior. Sweet little story for sweet little girls, about sweet little girls.Very good condition. $2.00 Another copy of Betsy-Tacy in fair but perfectly readable condition, $1.00 Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill (Lovelace) 1942. Lenski illustrations except for the cover, which has the "grotesque" newer ilustration. Harper Trophy PB. $2.00 Cherry Ames, the most popular nurse series ever printed, a nurse with a thousand specialties, all of them interesting and romantic -- and connected with fascinating myseries! You will love these attractive copies, as well as the stories inside them. Cherry Ames, Senior Nurse, 1944, red tweed cover, fair-to-average condition. $2.00 Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse -- red tweed book covered by a beautiful copy of the original dust jacket, showing pretty Cherry and several other nurses and a patient. The cover doesn't even hint at the very exciting story inside -- WWII nursing in jungle and on islands, with a very puzzling mystery thrown in (of course!) HB, moderately good condition, with good laser copy of the DJ. $4.50 Cherry Ames, Chief Nurse, tweed cover, pretty good condition except for separation at front, 3rd page from the rest of the pages. Still very tight binding. $2.50 Cherry Ames, Night Supervisor, 1950. Solid red book with laser copy of the original dust jacket. Book is in fair condition, firm, solid and complete, just not very nice-looking! With the LDJ, it looks just great. Of course a laser DJ shows everything that was on the original DJ, and that one had a price sticker spot, very faint, on the front. Looks like a couple of white spots, that's all. Book with LDJ, $6.00 BOOKS BY HARRIET PYNE GROVE -- unlikely name, was it a pen name? -- but very good stories. S. P. Mystery, no DJ, but with a bright yellow cover, pretty good condition with the the usual darkened pages and slight age-spots on the cover. These books can be as much as 75 years old! $3.50 The Amy And Laura series by Marilyn Sachs is aimed at a younger reader than the Maltshop books, but they appeal to the same audience of adults. 2 sisters move to a new apartment in NY, and deal with a number of problems, including a mother who has to spend a long period in a hospital, being the new kid on the block, and a bad bully. But there are wonderful, nostalgic scenes of jumprope rhymes, school adventures, pets, lots of family scenes. Laura's Luck is a camp story -- always popular! If you like the same books that I do, I can almost guarantee that you will like these books very much. Amy Moves In (Marilyn Sachs) 1964. She hates their new home! And no wonder, terrible things happen. First book in the series, you will be engrossed! PB, $1.25 Amy and Laura (Marilyn Sachs) 1966. Introducing Veronica Ganz, the toughest girl in school. Laura, as hall monitor, tries to get Veronica to behave! Also, the girls' mother comes home from being in the hospital for a very long time, and things aren't the way they used to be. The sisters are feuding, among many other things. Another wonderful Amy and Laura story.. PB, $1.50 Watch for a Tall White Sail (Margaret E. Bell) 1948. First in the series about a girl who moves to Alaska in 1887. PB, Tempo Books edition. $2.00 HB copy of Watch for a Tall White Sail, with a beautiful picture cover! Xlibrary copy. $2.50 The Meadow-Brook girls series is an early outdoors-adventure series, based in New Hampshire (I think it's the only relatively major series that is mainly set in New England.) Enjoyable in the mold of the first few Ruth Fieldings or the Outdoors Girls. The Meadow-brook girls Afloat: or The Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover. 1913. The girls spend the summer on a houseboat! That's my dream summer, isn't it yours? But of course they have more adventures than you will want to have! Old, but fair condition. $2.50 Six Star Ranch (Eleanor Porter) 1913. This book doesn't really have anything to do with Pollyanna, but later in the series this book is linked with the Glad Books, so it might be fun to read it along with the others. By the way, did I mention that I really like the Pollyanna books? HB, good cond, $2.00 Pollyanna Grows UP (Eleanor H. Porter) 1914. Hardcover, very old edition, says it's the 13th impression, Sept 1919. Firm and strong, but a bit stained. Not too badly. Quite a few full-page internal ilustrations. HB, $2.50 Pollyanna Grows Up ( Porter) 1914. Puffin Paperback. The back of this book says it was first published in 1927, though my hardcover edition says 1914. Take your choice, it's an old classic, anyway. Nice copy, very good condition. $2.00 Pollyanna's Jewels (Harriet Lummis Smith) 1925. Book 5 (?) in the series. Her "jewels" are, of course, her children! You will find that the Pollyanna in these stories is a very interesting, and not at all silly, person. I've enjoyed reading this series, and never hear someone described as a pollyanna, without laughing at the misunderstanding. HB, fair condition, $2.00 Pollyanna's Debt of Honor (Smith) 1927. As always, she is trying to help people, while her own family is having one adventure after another. Fun! HB, fairly good cond, $2.50 Every Boys Mystery and Adventure Stories, 1935. This isn't a girls' series book, but I have most of the boys' books on sale, so I had to list this one elsewhere. It contains 3 complete books, Brothers of the Senecas by Walter E. Butts, Detectives, Inc by William Heyliger, and Vanishing LIner by George Morse. It's a gigantic volume, as each of these books is about 250 pages long! There is a DJ, pretty nice looking but missing the back flap. DJ has a picture from each of the books that are included in the volume. Book itself in good condition, though I think the great weight has caused a little strain on the spine. But it's an interesting oddity, and very attractive. $4.00 Ruth Fielding series. Ruth starts out as a motherless girl, just like Patti Fairfield and a lot of other old series heroines! But she goes in a different direction, after the first few books full of rollicking adventures in boarding school, in the north woods, and at the shore. In later books of this very long series, she becomes a career girl, role model for feminists, and pre- courser of Nancy Drew and other series females. Yet, she keeps her femininity, and eventually even marries (take notice, Nancy!) I've enjoyed all the Ruths that I've read, from beginning to end. I'll add books about Ruth when I find them for you! Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill (Emerson) #1 in series. As in most of the series, this one provides the basis for the rest of the books, and introduces most of the characters that you'll read about in future books. Fairly nice condition, though the pages are brown from age. $3.00 Ruth Fielding at lighthouse point -- #4 in series. 1913. This book has a loose binding, but is holding together. Frontipiece is loose, but not lost! Otherwise, Cover and spine look good. HB, $2.50 Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch (Alice Emerson) #5 in the series. Has a nice Merry Christmas inscription to Mother from her Son Frank, Dec 25, 1920. I guess we aren't the first generation of adults to read these teen series. Pages are age-browned, but binding is tight. Old style picture on cover (Ruth in front of a full moon or sun.) $3.00 Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm, Or, What became of the Raby Orphans. #7 in series. All the kids spend time at the fabulous farm owned by father of one of them. They help some sad little kids. Book is worn but the pages are tight and fairly clean. $2.50 Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures, #9 in the series. Subtitle: Helping the Dormatory Fund. In the typical condition of these old series (this one has an inscription dating it to Christmas of 1928.) Solid and firm, anyway. $3.00 Ruth Fielding in the Saddle, or College Girls in the Land of Gold (Emerson) #12 in the series, 1917. A rather ugly cover on the book, but interior is in good condition. Good for a reading copy. $2.00 RUTH FIELDING books with higher numbers, are not easy to find! They're interesting, since Ruth marries and eventually has a little girl. But all that isn't enough to stop her movie career, or keep her from being involved in mysteries. An early Judy Bolton type and quite a good role model for 20th century women. Ruth Fielding Treasure Hunting: subtitled A Moving Picture that Became Real(#19, 1923) Good condition except for discoloration (sun?) along the spine. $4.50 Ruth Fielding in the Far North: Subtitled The Lost Motion PIcture Company (#20, 1924) They go WAY up north, near the pole, to make a movie! Good condition for one of these oldies. $4.50 Ruth Fielding and her Great Scenario: subtitled Striving for the Motion Picture Prize (#23, 1927) This one takes place in Maine! Good condition! $4.50 Ruth Fielding at Cameron Hall, Subtitled A mysterious Disappearance (#24, 1928) You'll love this one if you like to see your series book lovers married after all these years! Fairly good condition, however someone colored the picture on the front cover (I think it looks better that way!) and there's a worn place on the spine. The binding is firm and the pages are clean. $3.50 Ruth Fielding Clearing Her Name: Subtitled The Rivals of Hollywood (#25, 1929) As happens to Nancy Drew, people are jealous and try to smear Ruth's reputation. Very good condition except for a very tiny hole from a long-defunct bug. This only affects the very top of a few pages. A rather scarce book! $4.00 Ruth Fielding in Talking Pictures: subtitled The Prisoners of the Tower (#26, 1930) Her latest, perhaps greatest, and certainly her most expensive, picture isn't selling the way they had anticipated. Could it be that the public is craving "talkies?" I found the discussions about this new venture to be very interesting! And of course nothing goes as smoothly as Ruth and Tom could wish. The book is in nice condition, this one is getting close to the end of the series, and so is a lot harder to find than the early ones. $5.00 Ruth Fielding and Baby June. No more subtitles on any Ruth books. #27, 1931. Ruth surprises her friends when she and Tom have a baby girl (how did they do that in these old books, like Judy's friend Irene? I couldn't have hid my condition from a blind person!) Her nurse with the stellar reputation and the strange name of Anita Grenade, is seen talking with one of Ruth's enemies, and guess what happens? Book is in good condition, rather scarce title -- $5.00 Patty Fairfield series. Patty starts out as a motherless girl who stays with various relatives, and is a simple, sweet young thing. She soon becomes acquanited with life in the lap of luxury, and you can visit her there in the many books in this series. Descriptions of parties, costumes, mansions, travels, decorations -- I've never read of more opulant settings! Of course there are adventures and mysteries, friendships, and romances. Patty ends up married in the end of the series. Due to their original good quality, they are usually found in fairly good condition, considering their extreme age! Interesting series. I'll add more Patti books as soon as I can, in the meantime, try to find them yourself, I'm sure you'll enjoy reading these extravagant stories! Author -- Carolyn Wells Ginny Gordon Mysteries (by Julie Campbell, hooray, a Trixie author!) Ginny is another of the Schoolgirl Sleuths, and has a group like Trixie's Bob-whites, called The Hustlers. They are always looking for ways to make money, and run into plenty of mysteries while doing so. I'll add more Ginny Gordons as soon as I find them! Ginny Gordon and the Disappearning Candlesticks (1948) The Hustlers want to make some money, so they start a Swap Shop. If you are wondering whether this book is really written by the same person who wrote Trixie, just read the very first page -- one of the characters says "Gleeps!" when Ginny brings up her big idea. First book in the series. HB, good condition. $3.00 Ginny Gordon and the Missing Heirloom. 1950. Ginny and her group has just solved an important mystery, when along comes another one! They are all working at the Swap Shop (we might call it a Thrift Shop) and something is jut NOT RIGHT. I'm sorry to say that the book has a faint musty smell, but it's encased in a brand new laser copy of the original DJ, picturing Ginny surrounded by lots of antiques, in someone's dark attic. The odor is not noticible with the DJ on the book. but if you are very sensitive to this sort of thing, you won't want to buy this lovely book. $3.00 Ginny Gordon and the Broadcast Mystery -- 1956. You'll fall in love with this story before you get past the first page -- where there's a picture of Ginny and John surrounded by tall stacks of used books! They were still running their second-hand book shop (their latest money-making scheme.) They'd already been involved in one mystery surrounding the book stall when another one came along! HB, PC (nice vintage radio broadcast picture on front and back of the book.) These books are never in perfect condition, but this one isn't too bad. $3.00 "The Mexican Mysteries" series is about 3 American girls (main character is Jo Anne) who spend their summers in Mexico, helping people and having rather wild adventures. A really great series, I only discovered it a few years ago, but loved it immediately. These are beautiful books, in the thick Saalfield formats, with rather brittle pages, but good sturdy bindings. I'll try to have more Mexican Mysteries (by Randolph) soon. Peggy Lane Theater Series By Virginia Hughes. These books are to a theater career what the Vicki Barrs are to stewardess career, or the Connie Blairs are to an advertising career. The books even look the same as those series, with similar attractive picture covers. The books all look good, they are almost always in very good condition, standing up well over the years. They're the story of a young girl who starts out in her career, and has many experiences as she advances in the theater world. There are even simple mysteries in most of the books All series book collectors ought to have them! They're especially fun to read if you're interested in the theater. But entertaining if you aren't a theater fan! I'll add Peggy Lane books when I have more of them. Peggy Finds the Theater (Hughes) Obviously #1 in the series. 1962. Peggy starts at the bottom of the ladder, but even there, runs into plenty of mystery and intrigue. She also finds that she loves the theater even more than she had hoped she would! HB, PC, a little worn around the edges, but still quite nice. $3.50 The Beverly Gray series is fabulous! It's a long series that was popular from the 30s through the 50s, and is still very much read, especially by subscribers to Susabella Passengers and Friends magazine. We will try to list more Beverly Gray books soon -- they were very popular last time! Beverly Gray, Sophomore. 1934. The title says it all! I've covered the blue tweed book with a laser copy of the original, old version, of the dust jacket. Shows 2 girls in sort of flapper attire, running across the campus. Nice misty colors, romantic look to the college. I think perhaps the DJ and the book are a mismatch, but they look very good together, so maybe they belong together. Both book and DJ in good condition. $5.00 Beverly Gray's Adventure (1944) Bev gets a job as secretary to a man who's suspected of being a spy! Danger! Adventure, as the title promises. HB, not beautiful, but firm, complete, and perfectly readable. $2.50 Beverly Gray's Assignment (1947) Starts out with an assignment that keads to New Orleans, but that's just the beginning. Would you believe that pirates are part of this story? Yep! HB, worn along the edges, but pretty good otherwise. $3.00 Beverly Gray's Vacation -- 1949. #20 in series (or 19 if you don't count World's fair, as they obviously don't, as it says #19 on the cover.) They're off on another trip aboard the Susabella! Nice action-filled picture cover. $2.50 Beverly Gray's Island Mystery -- 1952. For once, here's a "Clover" picture cover copy in good condition. Beautiful cover picture of Bev, all dressed up in blazer and pearls, at the entrance of a cave that's being blocked by 2 sinister men in black. $5.00 The Far Journey (Loula Grace Erdman) 1955. Attractive edition, with color endpapers, and a dust jacket that's in good condition, but somewhat scratched. Story tells about a young man and woman's courtship, wedding, home life, and later, a trip to move from Southern Missouri to the Texas Panhandle in the 1880's. I think this was probably originally written for adulst, but this author wrote a lot of really good YA books, and this one is perfectly enjoyable and appropriate for a teen. HB, DJ, $2.50 Kim Aldrich series -- for older teens, as Kim starts out as a secretary to an insurance company, then becomes an investigator, which of course is a great way to run into mysteries, even dangerous ones. The first book in the series, from 1972, is Miscalculated Risk (Kim Aldrich) by Jinny McDonnell. Cover shows Kim in a diving suit, with a scary hand reaching out for her from the deep! HB, PC, #3.00 Dorothy Dixon Series is about a very adventurous 16-year-old who gets her pilot's license and flies around solving mysteries and rescuing people, things like that! There are 4 books in the series (and a phantom title) all from 1933. They were cheap books to start with, and pretty much always have brown, slightly brittle, pages. I will try to have more Dorothy Dixon books very soon! Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings (Dorothy Wayne) 1933. First in this very exciting and entertaining series. This copy has relatively clean pages compared with most Dixon books, and the binding is still firm. But the hard cover is quite ugly, with some of the blue coloring worn off. It must have been painted on very thinly to start with! However, there is a DJ, in at least fair condition, all there, but with a well mended rip and a few creases. In its mylar DJ cover, it looks good. Book plus DJ, $3.50 Nurses Three is a short (7 books) but very good hardcover nurse series. There are 3 sisters, all nurses, all daughters of a famous doctor that they seem to want to live up to. The 3 girls have different personalities and interests, and each one has a couple of books all to herself. A unique idea for a series, and quite wonderful! The books have attractive picture covers, in a different color for each of the girls. If there aren't any Nurses Three books here, I will hope to have some to offer soon! Nurses Three -- First Assignment, a Penny Scott Story (Jean Kirby) 1963. In fairly good condition, though I've mended the inside of the binding. HB, PC, great story! $4.00 Nurses Three -- A Very Special Girl, A Tracy Scott Story (Kirby) 1963. In fairly good condition, though I have mended the inside binding. Very interesting setting on a Native American reservation, complete with romance, mystery, and some puzzling problems for this very special girl to figure out. HB, PC, $3.50 Linda Carlton's Ocean Flight (Edith Lavell) 1931.Linda Carlton was a girl flyer in the days when that was quite a daring occupation. In her case, I guess it WAS pretty daring, since she has more adventures than you can shake a stick at! HB, in fair condition, $2.50 The Mystery of the Fires (Edith Lavell) 1935. This is from the short but really good series about Mary Louise Gay. In this one, she and her friends go to a lake community for a restful vacation, but, like Nancy, there's never a dull moment when Mary Louise is on the scene! The book is made of brittle paper, and some of the pages are loose, but it's all there, and the cover is in great condition. The book is in one of my favorite formats, the large, thick Saalfield editions. Other books in this series are Dark Secret and Secret Band. I like them a lot, and wish I could find copies of all of them for all of you! HB, $3.00 Polly series by Lillian E. Roy. Mostly with light blue covers. The Polly series tells about a girl who started out on a ranch in the southwest, and really loves her life there. The first 2 books are set on the ranch. Many adventures, and a bit of romance. After that, Polly goes out into the big world, and is very successful in every way, but of course it never changes her sweet nature! In a later book that I don't have for sale, she goes back to the ranch for a while, and then sets off for fantastic trips and adventures. Romance intrudes, but as in all of these very old series, it's very mild and treated a bit humorously. Eventually, she marries. This is a fairly long series, and worth collecting and reading. I'll try to list more Polly books very soon! Kathy Martin nurse series. Kathy Martin books are like slightly more modern Sue Barton or Cherry Ames. A long and very interesting nurse-mystery series.) They were written by Josephine James, starting in 1959. Kathy has a very interesting family, who live on an apple farm in California, she has a nice boyfriend (but just can't make up her mind to marry him!) and she is just as good as Cherry Ames at nursing and finding mysteries to solve. All the books have attractive picture covers, and are Golden Press HB editions to match several other popular series that you probably already have in your collection. I certainly hope to have more Kathy Martin books in the future. A Cap for Kathy (Josephine James) Kathy Martin #1, 1959. Kathy graduates from HS, and almost immediately mysterious things start happening. Her family is involved, so she has to help figure out what the trouble might be. Then things go from bad to worse. Kathy is more 3-dimensional than Cherry, and her family is not at all typical of the families of many series book heroines. Several of us read this book last year for a review in Whispered Watchword, and we were in agreement that it was a very exceptional story. Beautiful cover picture of Kathy in her cap, in front of an apple orchard. Good condition, $4.00 A Cap for Kathy, XL picture cover edition. (See description above) A really good series, you should try it! One of the good things about it is that there are 13 books in the series, so you won't run out of them in a hurry. HB, XL, PC, $2.75 Susan Sand series, from the 1980s, is popular with Nancy Drew fans who love this feisty, brave teen girl detective and mystery writer. The titles are enough to catch anyone's attention! Too bad this is such a short series (8 books.) The first few are fairly easy to locate and reasonably priced. The next 4 or 5 are not too hard to find, while the last couple of them are quite rare. Good luck finishing your Susan Sand series! I'll try to include more Susan's on my list, very soon. Sue Barton Nurse stories! In my opinion, this is the best of all the nurse series. Yes, they are outdated as far as the nursing techniques and information, but the human interest is exceptional, and the writing is beautiful. If you read them in order, there's never another series that keeps your interest as compellingly as this one, unless it's Beany Malone. Timber Trail Riders. Timber Trail is a horse farm, and there are both boys and girls in the riding club. I only started collecting this series recently, but I do enjoy them and want to share them with my friends. They were cheaply made and cheaply bound, so they're never in very good condition, but they have very attractive picture covers, and well-illustrated interiors. Whitman cellophane style I'll try to include some more Timber Trail Riders books as soon as I can. The Luck of Black Diamond (Timber Trail Riders, a Sunny Saunders Story) 1963. Cover picture of a girl in proper riding habit, on a prancing black horse. Other horses and riders in the ring, trees in the background. Cellophane-covered edition in no worse condition than these 1960s Whitman picture cover books usually are. $2.00 BOOKS BY L.M. MONTGOMERY -- The author of "Anne" was a very prolific writer! Here are some interesting and unusual books -- all paperbacks, most with very attractive covers. Anne of Avonlea (L.M. Montgomery) Very nice hardcover, from the Grosset and Dunlap Anne of Green Gables Series. Light green cover, oval picture of Anne (doesn't look like my vision of Anne, but she does have lovely red hair.) Very nice condition HB, $2.00 Anne of Windy Poplars (Montgomery) Grosset and Dunlap edition, orange cover with slight white stain. no DJ. Spine separation at front interior, but otherwise nice cond. $2.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Outdoor Girls is a very long series, 23 books in all, about adventurous group of girls -- if you like the older series about girls who seem to be paving the way for today's active women, you ought to start collecting these books. They can be read out of order with no problem. By the way, both this series and Moving picture Girls are for much older girls than "Hope's" Bobbsey twins. I'll try to add books from these series very soon. Blythe Girls are supposed to be written by Laura Lee Hope, but if you're thinking "Bobbsey Twins," forget it! This long series appealed to teens of yesterday and appeals to PFs of today. The girls are in their late teens, no slapstick situations like those the Bobbseys were always involved in. Mystery, yes, but much more "mature" sleuthing. The girls are orphaned, and actually have to work hard for a living. Each has a totally different type of job, so there are lots of opportunities for interesting mysteries. I'll add more Blythe girls books as soon as I can! Donna Parker series. All are Whitmans eds with picture covers. You will never see any books from this series in perfect condition. They have deteriorated with age, and weren't too sturdy to start with. But they're colorful looking and very good stories! Donna Parker Special Agent 1957 Donna wants to solve a mystery! vintage cover (old kitchen scene) $2 Donna Parker at Arawak -- 1962. Donna worked at a camp once before, but it wasn't anything like this one. Now she has charge of a cabin along with one other counselor, who is not very nice or helpful. In fact, her roommate is quite a mystery -- which is just up Donna's alley! Mary Stevens illustrations make this a very special book! HB, PC, the usual loose binding that all of these Whitman books seem to end up with, but not bad!! $3.00 If you like to read about the outdoors, camping, jolly fun and dangerous adventures, then the Campfire Girls stories will please you as they please me! There are several Campfire series, from various years and by various authors, and this can be confusing, but just dig in and enjoy them when you find them, don't worry about reading them in order or anything. Usually, they're episodic and unrelated to one another, and also, there's always plenty of explanation and descriptions of personalities, so you can catch right up on the previous books if necessary. The Campfire Girls Do Their Part: or, Over the Top with the Winebagos #8 in series by Hildegard G. Frey. 1919. Picture cover shows the girls swimming off the side of a boat, with canoes and tents along the shore. The bathing suits are worth the price of this book! You'll find out a lot about Campfire girls, including the fact that they use supposed Indian names, which is a little confusing, but after a while, it seems normal or even charming. Book in vintage condition, with frayed edges and corners, but the binding is pretty good! $3.00 Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World (Margaret Vandercook) 1914. #6 in this series, This book is in rather good condition, and has 4 illustrations, of a very romantic nature. Front cover picture of girls in Indian costumes (but I think they are not really Native Americans) paddling a canoe. $3.00 A Campfire Girl's Chum (Jane L. Stewart) #2 in the Stewart series. 1914. This is my favorite of the many Campfire Girls series, being 6 books that form one very long story. You can read each one by itself, or all of them in a row, and I predict that you'll find them quite exciting and entertaining. No silly, girlish, pranks or shrinking violets allowed! Really dangerous situations, good camping practices, long hikes, delicious food cooked around the fire. HB, good condition (these old editions were made with cheap paper, so now the pages are brown, but these are still in good shape.) It has a very attractive dust jacket, 2 happy girls (more modern than the original date of the book) cooking over a campfire. DJ has a few chips out of it, but front is just fine. $3.75 A Campfire Girl's Chum in fair condition. Nice solid forest green cover, but interior pages are light brown, and the binding is somewhat loose (pages solidly attached) $2.50 A Campfire Girl in Summer Camp (or A Camp Fire Girl... depending on where in the book you are looking.) by Jane L. Stewart, 1914. #3 in this series. Subtitled: Camp Fire Girls at Long Lake. Large book in good cond, with a lovely DJ, showing campfire girls in Native American costumes, around a camp fire (dreamy, misty art but no artist is acknowledged.) HB, DJ $6.00 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Kay Tracey mysteries ("Frances K. Judd") If you haven't read the Kay Tracey mysteries yet, you have a treat in store for yourself. They are among the long series from what I think of as the Golden Age of "classic" girls series books, the 30s through 50's. Actually, I love all of the series from that era, but Kay is one of the really good ones -- possibly that's because there are quite a few of them, so you don't get interested and then only find 3 or 4 of them to read. I never want to get to the end of a series! I'll try to include Kay Tracey books in future lists. In the Sunken Garden (Kay Tracey #2 in the PB numbering) 1951 and 1980. Tall PB with pretty cover Fair condition -- $2.00 In the Sunken Garden (Kay Tracey #12 in the HB numbering) I've made a laser copy of a DJ for this book, but I'm not sure it's a match for the book itself. So it's just there to make the book look great -- and this is the Dj format that everyone loves. There's a yellow background, with a picture of an open book. One side of this book has a picture from the volume it's covering, with the author's name at the bottom of the picture of a page! The other side of this depicted book has a few words that may or may not be from that particular volume. It' very unusual and decorative. The book itself has a green board cover. Frontispiece but no internal illustrations. HB plus LDJ, $4.00 The Message in the Sand Dunes, Kay Tracey #6 in the paperback numbering. revised in 1980. Nice PB, a few library markings but very good condition, $2.50 The Message in the Sand Dunes, Kay Tracey #9 in the hardcover numbering. 1938. This is a yellow-covered, Cupples and Leon book in very good condition. $4.00 Linda Craig -- get acquainted with this good series!!! It's gone through several incarnations, including a beautiful hardcover edition (which is pretty hard to find,) a beautiful PB printing of the original edition, and a new, slightly smaller PB set, with mostly new titles and quite a few changes. I've read all of them, and I will admit that I liked the older ones better, but even for a non-horsey gal like me, the new ones were good reading, too. If there aren't any Linda Craigs listed here, look for them when you have a chance, and I'll try to list some of them next time! Linda Craig and the Mystery in Mexico (Ann Sheldon) #5 in series. This copy is the deluxe hardcover, but it's had a few bumps along the way. Cover picture is misty, but totally correct (looks just like mine.) Binding tight and pages clean. HB, PC, $3.00 Linda Craig #2 (old numbering PB) The Clue on the Desert Trail. Nice cover picture of Linda on Chica d'Oro, riding past red desert cliffs, with horses and riders looking down from the cliff tops. Poisoning, theft, and kidnapping all figure in this one! PB, from 1962. $2.00 Linda Craig #6 (old numbering PB ) The Ghost Town Treasure. Well, that's a wonderful title! Ghost Towns are really enticing. Cover picture of Linda on Chico d'Oro, in the bushes, looking out at the ghost town -- signs saying Hotel, Sheriff, etc. Linda, her brother and their friend fill in as riding counselors at a camp, but the nearby ghost town beckons them, too. PB from 1964, $2.00 Linda Craig #7 (new numbering, new 1989 edition) A Horse for Jackie. The new editions have Linda riding a newly-named horse, Amber. Who is Jackie, why does she want so badly to learn to ride, and other questions about this obviously super-rich girl? PB, excellent condition, $2.00 Linda Craig #8 (new numbering) A Star in the Saddle. A soap opera is filming an episode at the next ranch, so Linda and her friends and their horses want to sign on as extras! PB, excellent condition, $2.00 Linda Craig #10 (New numbering PB) Anything for Kelly. This one is a lot of fun, especially if you've ever tried to go into business with a friend. Linda and her friend Kelly want to make enough money for both of them to go to a riding workshop, and they think up the idea of selling cookies in a big way, delivering them on horseback! Well, things don't always go smoothly. PB, very good condition, $2.00 The Adventure Girls (Clair Blank) A short series by the author of the superb Beverly Gray books, you'll only have to find 3 books to complete the series! The name says it all -- they have adventures. HS and early college age girls. If there aren't any Adventure Girls books listed here, I'll try to add some to the next sale list. In the meantime, you can be looking for these interesting books yourself -- good luck! By the way, one of the best things about this series is that the girls live in Maine! But they travel far and wide. I hope to have more Adventure Girls books in the near future. Adventure girls in the Air (Blank) 1936. Girls of the Adventure Girl club have one adventure after another, to live up to their name. Gail has more than her share, including (though there are even more) a plane crash, amnesia, a race, and love! I just re-read this one, and it kept me reading past my bedtime. One of the things I love about this series is that these high school girls do all the everyday things, like homework and coming home to dinner on time, but they also run around taking risks that Nancy Drew might even think twice about, and act as if it's just in a day's work. HB in fair condition, (crayon marks on some pages) with most of a DJ (about 1/10th of front is missing, but exciting parachute picture and the rest of the DJ are OK) $3.00 Vicki Barr series. This is a major series from the same era as the Cherry Ames and Connie Blair books. If you don't have this series, GET STARTED ON IT!!! Vicki is a flight stewardess. This might be one of my very, very favorite series -- I re-read the books every few years, because they are so beautifully written and such great mysteries. If I don't have any Vicki books for sale, I'll certainly be looking for them during our book-searching travels. In the meantime, now you know about this series, and maybe you'll find some yourself! Good luck! ----------------------------------------- Connie Blair series was written by Betty Cavanna under the pen name of Betsy Allen. There are 12 books, from the 40s and 50s, and they're all well written (of course,) neatly bound, and very attractive if you can find them in DJ. The titles all have colors in them. Connie's an artist who gets involved in various mysteries through working for an advertising agency. I hope to have more books from this series to offer you very soon! Connie Blair #1 Clue in Blue -- 1948. Paperback copy of this first book in the series. I just finally completed my set of PB Connie's, as they aren't easy to find. But lucky you! I have a couple of duplicates for you! Connie Blair #2 Riddle in Red 1948. Nice copy with a good DJ. Connie is hired by an advertising agency, and soon has to solve a mystery on top of her other tasks! Creepy DJ picture of cute, innocent little Connie knocking on a door, while a suspiciously mean-looking man peers out from behind a window curtain. HB, DJ, $4.00 Connie Blair #2 Riddle in Red -- tweed without DJ, but in very good condition. #3 Connie Blair #3 Puzzle in Purple -- 1948. Paperback edition, with attractive art-school cover! $2.50 Meg Duncan series (Holly Beth Walker)This is a wonderful series about a "schoolgirl Sleuth," set in Virginia. Other than the setting, these books remind me of Trixie's or Robin Kane's or a few of the other series from that wonderful era of sweet, mild, friendly girl detectives! The books started out in hardcover editions, with very pretty picture covers. Then they came out in nice paperbacks with different, but also attractive, pictures on the covers. If you like YA mysteries and Siamese cats, you can't help loving the Meg books. I hope to have more Meg books soon. **************************************** TO BEGIN -- A COMPLETE SET OF MEG DUNCAN STARTER BOOKS! If you're eager to read all the Meg stories at once, you don't have to look around and try to find them all in different places. Here they are at once! 5 of the 6 are hardcovers, the 6th is a PB. There're all in good condition! The pictures surround the entire covers, front to back. They include: #1 Meg and the Disappearing Diamonds (Meg and her cat on front) #2 Meg and the Secret of the Witch's Stairway (Meg, friend, and uncle in uncle's Rolls) #3 Meg: The Treasure Nobody Saw (Meg and friend climbing in a window!) #4 Meg: The Ghost of Hidden Springs (Meg and friend in Old-fashioned clothes) #5 Meg: The Mystery of the Black-Magic Cave (Meg and friends peering around bushes to watch a parade of witches) #6 Mystery in Williamsburg (remember that this one is a PB) Williamsburg scene. COMPLETE SET OF SIX MEG DUNCAN BOOKS. $14.00 ************ Additional Meg book -- The Secret of the Witch's Stairway -- Meg Duncan #2. Like so many stories with a Southern setting, this one harks back to Civil War times, but the girls are straight 1960s in their mystery-solving zeal! PB, $2.25 Betty Lee, Junior (Harriet Pyne Grove) 1931. There are 4 books in this high-school series, of which this is obviously the 3rd. Nice family, plenty of adventure, school hi-jinks. This copy of the book is in fair condition, though relatively firmly bound, and having nice clean interior pages. It's wrapped in a very attractive laser copy of the original DJ, showing a boy and girl elaborately dressed in queen and king of hearts costumes, with the boy kissing the girl's hand! Clown in the background. Very showy. HB, with LDJ, $4.50 Robin Kane Series (Eileen Hill) mid-1960s. These books are very much like the Trixie Beldens, as they are about a group of kids who have fun and solve mysteries, ride horses, and generally have a wonderful time. Like Trixie, Robin's best friend is rich, while she and her family live a middle-class life (though they feel poor, maybe in contrast with her friends.) There are superficial differences from the Trixies, such as the California setting rather than Hudson River area. I think that if there were 39 Robin Kanes, this series would be every bit as popular as Trixie. The real author is Nicolete Meredith Stack, who also wrote some of the Trixies and some very good Maltshop type books. TO BEGIN, A STARTER SET: ROBIN KANE STARTER SET The first 3 books in the Robin Kane series, so you can try them out and decide whether you want to buy the rest of them. You will like them!!! The books in this set are in moderately good condition. The books in this series weren't expensive to start with, and haven't stood up to the years without some disintegration. They look very nice, though, especially since the cover pictures extend all the way around front, spine, and back! Nice books. They include: #1 Robin Kane -- Mystery of the Blue Pelican (Robin and her horse on cover) #2 Robin Kane -- Mystery of the Phantom (Robin and a young man caught in a spooky house during a bad storm) #3 Robin Kane -- Mystery of Glengary Castle ((Robin and a girl friend trying to spy on a real castle along the misty CA coast.) Robin Kane Set -- 3 books for $7.50 More Robin Kane books: #1 Mystery of the Blue Pelican 1966. Meet Robin and her friends. They get jobs as extras on a film, chase cattle rustlers and horse thieves, and help the police. HB, PC, good condition, $3.50 #2 Mystery of the Phantom, 1966 Fair condition -- $2 (2) #5 Mystery in the Clouds -- 1971. Wonderful cover picture of 2 girls on the front cover, 2 boys on the back cover, all on horseback. The kids and their horses are all dressed up in very fancy Western costumes, ready to go to Pasadena for the Tournament of Roses Parade. Exciting story, nice looking book, too. HB, PC, $3.00 #6, The Monster of Wolf Point -- 1971. Very good condition! Nice cover picture of the typical West coastline but with a Loch Ness type monster showing. The girls research dinosaurs and work as Candy Stripers among other things. Good book, in good condition. $3.00 (2) The Ranch Girls series. The ranch is in Wyoming, but as usual in these very old series, the girls soon branch out and travel, first in the SW, then later in Europe. I'll try to add some Ranch girls books very soon! Mimi at Camp (Anne Pence Davis) 1935. Don't you love camp stories? Yummy food cooked outside, creepy stories around the campfire, sports, awards, This is the first in the Mimi series, and obviously intended to make you want to read the rest! HB, fair cond (these old Goldsmith editions don't last into eternity) with a cute and pretty nice DJ. $3.50 Mimi at Sheridan School (Anne Pence Davis) 1935. 2nd in series about a girl with a penchant for adventure and fun. I have 2 copies in fairly good condition for books in this series, which wasn't very good quality to start with, and is nearly 70 years old now! One sturdy copy $3, another a little better, $3.50 Mimi at Sheridan School (Davis) Subtitle: The Adventures of a Tomboy. The front flap mentions that there's never a dull moment when Mimi is around! The DJ picture is of a really cute young lady on a beautiful black horse, with a very colorful background. This is a very nice copy of the book (to start your "Mimi" collection off right!) with a good, though not perfect, DJ protected in Mylar. The book is sturdy and clean. $5.00 Jane Allen, Center (Edith Bancroft) 1920. There are 5 (or possibly 6) books in this college and sports series. In this, the 3rd, Jane is a sophomore, and of course there are the typical social and sports rivalries and ripping-good times, but there's more to this series. Interesting books. Of course they aren't to be found in very good condition, as they were cheaply manufactured at the time. Especially hard hit in these oldies, is the "hinge" between the front and back covers, and the page block. However, the spine isn't too loose in this one. Read it carefully and everything will be OK. HB, $2.50 On the Way Home: Diary of a Trip from South Dakota to Mansfield, Missouri in 1894, written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, with a setting by Rose Wilder Lane (daughter of Laura and Almanzo) Il