Thursday, December 29, 2011

After Christmas Sale!

Getting ready for our Annual After Christmas sale! Same as the Black Friday Sale: 40% off any book under 499.99! Just make the offer and it will be accepted. Starts Jan 1st!

Thursday, December 15, 2011

17th Book List Now Online!

1. Florence in the Poetry of the Brownings edited by Anna McMahan. 1904. 1st Edition. Published by A. C. McClurg & Co.

2. Poems by John Ruskin edited by James Wright. Early 1900's. Published by Merrill and Baker.

3. The Complete Poetical Works of Dante Gabriel Rossetti edited by William Rossetti. 1905. Published by Little, Brown and Co.

4. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. 1895. Published by Frederick Warne and Co.

5. The Poetical Works of Charles Lamb. 1867. Published by E. H. Butler.

6. Henry M. Stanley The African Explorer by Arthur Montefiore. Late 1800's. Published by Fleming Revell Co.

7. The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley edited by Roger Ingpen. 1909 Complete in 2 Volumes. Published by Scribners.

8. The Poetical Works of Bret Harte. 1882. Published by Houghton Mifflin an Co.

9. Old Paris, It's Court and Literary Salons by Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson. 1895. Complete in 2 Volumes. Published by L. C. Page Co.

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Dixon Public Library- List 16

1. The Chautauquan: A Monthly Magazine. Vol. XV, April 1892-Sept. 1892. Published by The T. L. Flood Publishing House.

2. The Chautauquan: A Monthly Magazine. Vol. XIV. Oct. 1891- Mar. 1892. Published by The T. L. Flood Publishing House.

3. The Chautauquan: A Monthly Magazine. Vol. XII. Oct. 1890- Mar. 1891. Published by The T. L. Flood Publishing House.

4. The Chautauquan: A Monthly Magazine. Vol. XIII April 1891- Sept. 1891. Published by The T. L. Flood Publishing House.

5. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly with Illustrations. Vol. 59. June- Aug. 1910. Published by Chautauqua Press.

6. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 61. Dec-Feb. 1911. Published by Chautauqua Press.

7. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 60. Sept-Nov. 1910. Published by Chautauqua Press.

8. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 62. Mar-May 1911. Published by Chautauqua Press.

9. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 64. Sept-Nov 1911. Published by Chautauqua Press.

10. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 63. June-Aug 1911. Published by Chautauqua Press.

11. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 57. Dec-Feb 1909. Published by Chautauqua Press.

12. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 56. Sept.-Nov. 1909. Published by Chautauqua Press.

13. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 69. Dec- Feb. 1913. Published by Chautauqua Press.

14. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 68. Sept- Nov. 1912. Published by Chautauqua Press.

15. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 67. June- Aug. 1912. Published by Chautauqua Press.

16. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 70. Mar-May. 1913. Published by Chautauqua Press.

17. The Chautauquan: Issued Monthly With Illustrations. Vol. 54. Mar-May. 1910. Published by Chautauqua Press.

18. Messages and Papers of the Presidents. Vol. 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 1899. Published by Authority Of Congress.

19. Inaugural Adresses of the Presidents of the United States from Washington to Polk. 1906 Edited by John Cheney. Published by Reilly & Britton Co.

20. Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from Taylor to Roosevelt. 1906. Edited by John Cheney. Published by Reilly & Britton Co.

21. On The Field of Glory By Henryk Sienkiewicz. 1906. 1st Edition. Published by Little, Brown, and Co.

22. Life's Handicap Being Stories of Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling. 1912. Published by Doubleday, Page & Co.

23. Actions & Reactions by Rudyard Kipling. 1909. Published by Doubleday, Page & Co.

24. Art And Artists of Our Time by Clarence Cook. 1888. Vol. 1,2,3 Published by Selmar Hess

25. History of the World by John Ridpath. Vol. 1,2, 3,5, 6. 7, 8, 9, 1911. Published by Jones Brothers.

26. The Works of William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Midsummer Night's Dream, Poems and Sonnets. Vol. 2 Published by Jefferson Press.

27. Poems Here At Home by James Whitcomb Riley. 1893. Published by Century Co.

28. Set of 3. The Story of Orchestral Music and Its Times by Paul Grabbe. The Story of One Hundred Symphonic Favorites by Paul Grabbe. The Story of a Hundred Operas. 1940, Published by Grosset Dunlap.

29. Rules of Proceeding and Debate in Deliberative Assemblies by Luther Cushing. 1866. Published by Taggard & Thompson.

30. Joyful Memories by Everett Thornton Brown. 1912. Published by Acmegraph Co.

31. A Waif of The War or the History of the Seventy-Fifth Illinois Infanty, Embracing The Entire Campaigns of the Army of The Cumberland by Wm. Sumner Dodge. 1866. 1st Edition. Published by Church and Goodman.

32. Ladies' Work For Pleasure and Profit by Addie Heron. 2nd Edition. 1894. Published by Home Manual Company.

33. The Westminster Question Book 1892. Published by Presbyterian Board of Publication.

34. Encyclopedia of Needlework by Th. De Dillmont. Early 1900's. Published by DMC Library.

35. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. John Tennial Illustrations. Published by Avenel Books.

36. Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1902. Published by Houghton Mifflin and Co.

37. Master of the Strong Hearts.. A Story Of Custer's Last Rally by Elbridge Brooks. 1931. Published by E. P. Dutton & Co.

38. Illuminated Manuscripts by J. A. Herbert. 1911. 1st Edition. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

39. The Tribune Almanac and Political Register. 1888, 1887, 1886, 1885, 1884, 1880, 1879, 1878, 1877.

40. The Psalms and Their Story by William Barton. Complete in 2 Volumes. 1898. 1st Edition. Published by Pilgrim

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Black Friday Sale!

We are having our own Black Friday sale! We will accept 40% off offers on books that are under 499.99. Anything 499.99 and over will not be included on the sale.

Coming on the 23rd!

Dixon Public Library- List 15:
1. The History of the Reign of the Emperor Charles The Fifth by William Robertson with An Account of The Emperor's Life After His Abdication by William Prescott. Complete in 3 Volumes. 1884. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company.

2. The Women of the Confederacy by Rev. J. L. Underwood. 1906. 1st Edition. Civil War. Published by The Neale Publishing Company.

... 3. The Life and Letters of John Hay by William Roscoe Thayer. 1915. 1st Edition. Civil War. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

4. Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's by T. C. De Leon. 1906. Published by G. W. Dillingham Company.

5. Recollections of Pioneer and Army Life by Matthew Jamison. 1911. 1st Edition. Published by Matthew Jamison.

6. The Sleeping Beauty Ilustrated by Roland Pym. 1951. A Peepshow Book. Published by Folding Books.

7. Under The Trees And Elsewhere by Hamilton Mabie. 1904. Published by Dodd, Mead & Co.

8. The Camp Fire Girls At The Seashore by Jane Stewart. 1914. Published by Saalfield Co.

9. The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss. 1925. Published by MacMillan.

10. Secrets of The Vatican by Douglas Sladen. 1911. 1st Edition. Published by J. B. Lippincott Company.

11. National Patriotic and Typical Airs of All Lands with Copious Notes by John Philip Sousa, Band Mater, USMC. 1890. 1st Edition. Published by H. Coleman.
12. Gleanings From Old Shaker Journals by Clara Endicott Sears. 1916. 1st Edition. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

13. Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling. 1911. Ilustrated by Arthur Rackham. Published by Doubleday, Page & Company.

14. The Sonnets, Triumphs, And Other Poems of Petrarch by Thomas Campbell. 1893. 1st Thus. Published by George Bell & Sons.

15. George Eliot Scenes and People in Her Novels by Charles Olcott. 1910. 1st Edition. Published by Thomas Crowell.

16. The Psalmody of the Church by W. H, Parker. 1889. 1st Edition. Published by Hack & Anderson.

17. Nantucket Scraps by Jane Austin. 1892. Published by Houghton, Mifflin Company.

18. The Jacksonian Epoch by Charles Peck. 1899. 1st Edition. Published by Harper & Brothers.

19. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 Under The Auspices of the Peary Artic Club by Robert Peary. Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt. 2nd Edition. 1910. Eight Full Page Illustrations Reproducing Photographic Enlargements Colored by Hand, One Hundred Illustrations In Black & White From Photographs, and with a Map In Colors by Gilbert H. Grosvenor. Published by Frederick A. Stokes Company.

20. My Attainment of The Pole Being The Record of the Expedition That First Reached The Boreal Center 1907-1909 with the Final Summary of The Polar Controversy by Dr. Frederick A. Cook. 1911. 1st Edition. Published by The Polar Publishing Co.

21. My Attainment Of The Pole Being The Rocord of The Expedition That First Reached The Boreal Center 1907-1909 with the Final Summary Of The Polar Controversy by Dr. Frederick A. Cook. 1911. 1st Edition. Published by The Polar Publishing Co.

22. The Pioneer Mothers Of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green. Complete in 3 Volumes. 1912. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

23. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist by Theodore Roosevelt. 1910. 1st Edition. Published by Charles Scribners Company.

24. How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures, and Discoverie Africa, including anaccount of Four Months' Residence With Dr. Livingstone by Henry M. Stanley. 1887. Published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

25. Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb. Early 1900's. Published by Henry Altemus.

26. Writings of Thomas Paine. Complete in 10 Volumes. 1915. 1st Edition. Published by Vincent Park & Company.

27. Illustrated World War II Encyclopedia. 1972. Complete in 24 Volumes. Published by H. S. Stuttman Inc.

28. Scientific American Volume 106, Jan-June 1912

29. Scientific American Volume 105, July-Dec 1911

30. Scientific American Volume 107, July-Dec 1912

31. Scientific American Volume 108, Jan-June 1913

32. Scientific American Volume 109, July-Dec 1913

33. Scientific American Volume 104, Jan-June 1911

34. Scientific American Volume 110, Jan-June 1914

35. Scientific American Volume 111, July-Dec 1914

36. Scientific American Volume 114, Jan-June 1916

37. Scientific American Volume 115, July-Dec 1916

38. Scientific American Volume 112, Jan-June 1915

39. History of Greece Volume 1-5. by Dr. Ernest Curtius. 1892. Published by Scribners.

40. Set of 5 Rudyard Kipling. Actions and Reactions, Songs From Books, The Seven Seas, Many Inventions, Life's Handicap. 1914. Published by Review of Reviews.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Christmas Season Is Approaching!

If you are interested in any books, dont wait too long, books are selling fast!

We will be adding Priority Mail as a shipping option in addition to Media Mail.

If interested in Overnight, please contact us.

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Dixon Public Library Historical Collection Books- available Nov. 4th, 14th listing

14th Grouping- Dixon Public Library

1. Leslie’s Weekly Vol. 101 July-Dec 1905

2. Leslie’s Weekly Vol. 105 July-Dec 1907

3. Leslie’s Weekly Vol. 108 Jan-June 1909

4. Leslie’s Weekly Vol. 109 July-Dec 1909

5. Leslie’s Weekly Vol. 114 Jan-June 1912

6. Leslie’s Weekly Vol. 112 Jan-June 1911

7. Leslie’s Weekly Vol. 92 Jan-June 1901

8. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. 54 May-Oct- 1902

9. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. LII Nov-1901- April -1902

10. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. 59 Nov-1904-April -1905

11. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. 60 May-1905-Oct- 1905

12. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. 57 Nov-1903-April-1904

13. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. 58 May -1904-Oct-1904

14. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. 65 May-1903-Oct-1903

15. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. 52 May-1901-Oct-1901

16. Leslie’s Magazine Vol. 51 Nov-1900-April-1901

17. Leslie’s Magazine Vo. 55 Nov-1902-April 1903

18. Glimpses of Fifty Years by Frances E. Willard. 1889. 1st Edition. Published by Women’s Temperance Publication Association

19. My Experiences in the World War by John Pershing. 1931. 1st Edition. Complete in 2 Vol. Published by Frederick Stokes.

20. The History of France From Earliest Times to 1848 by M. Guizot & Madame Guizot De Witt. 1885. Complete in 8 Volumes. Published by John Alden.

21. Wisconsin The Americanization of a French Settlement by Reuben Gold Thwaites. 1908 1st Edition. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.

22. Westminster by Sir Walter Besant. 1895. 1st Edition. Published by Frederic Stokes Company.

23. Stories of the Badger State by Reuben Gold Thwaites. 1900. 1st Edition. Published by American Book Company.

24. Famous Adventrures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by C. W. Cable. 1898. Published by The Century Company.

25. The Rise of American Civilization by Charles Beard. 1927. 1st Edition. Complete in 2 Vol. Published by MacMillan Company.

26. The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe with nearly one hundred original drawings and decorations done from sketches made in the tropics specially for this work by The Brothers Louis and Frederick Rhead. 1900. Published by Harper and Brothers.

27. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells. 1910. 1st Edition. Published by Duffield & Company.

28. Christina Alberta’s Father by H. G. Wells. 1925. 1st American Edition. Published by MacMillan.

29. The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells. 1915. 1st American Edition. Published by MacMillan.

30. The Soul of a Bishop by H. G. Wells. 1917. 1st American Edition. Published by MacMillan.

31. The Bulpington of Blup by H. G. Wells. 1933. Published by MacMillan.

32. Tono-Bungay by H. G. Wells. 1909. 1st American Edition. Published by Duffield.

33. Massachusetts Beautiful by Wallace Nutting. 1923. 1st Edition. Published by Old America Company.

34. New Hampshire Beautiful by Wallace Nutting. 1923. Published by Old America Company.

35. Connecticut Beautiful by Wallace Nutting. 1923. 1st Edition. Published by Old America Company.

36. Bug Jargal by Victor Hugo. 1866. Early Edition. Published by Carleton Publisher.

37. Ladies Home Journal. 1886-1889. Bound series of magazines.

38. Dictionary of American Biography. 1943. Complete in Vol. 1-22 & Supplement Books. Missing Vol. 8. Published by Charles Scribner’s Sons.

39. Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 1967. Complete in 8 Vol. Published by MacMillan Company.

40. Harper’s Weekly. 1864-1865. Published by Harpers.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Dixon Public Library Historical Collection Books- available now 12th list

Christian Ballads by Arthur Cleveland Coxe, 1865. 1st Edition. Leather. Published by D. Appleton.


The International Library of Music, 1936. Published by University Society. 14 Vol. Complete.

Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1897. Complete in 20 Vol. Published by the Bureau of National Literature.

The Works of John Burroughs, Vol 1-22. 1916. Published by Houghton Mifflin.


Arrow of Gold by Joseph Conrad, 1919. 1st Edition. Published by Doubleday, Page & Co.

A Horse's Tale by Mark Twain, 1907. 1st Edition. Published by Harper & Brothers.

Farewell Miss Julie Logan by J M Barrie, 1932. 1st Edition. Published by Scribner.
The Triumphant Progress of a Great Nation Being A Standard History of the United States by Henry Davenport Northrop, 1891. 1st Edition.


The Works of Edgar Allan Poe In Ten Volumes. Missing Vol. 9 1904. Published by Funk and Wagnalls.



Maria Chapdelaine A Tale of the Lake St. John Country, 1924. 1st Illustrated Edition. Published by Macmillan Co.

A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens, late 1800's. Published by Donohue. Book Supply Co.

The Breaking Of The Deadlock by J. McCan Davis, 1904. 1st Edition. SIGNED by the Author. Published by Henry Shepard Co.


Rockwellkentiana Few Words and Many Pictures by R. K. and By Carl Zigrosser, 1933. 1st Ed. Published by Harcourt Brace and Co.

The Wandering Heir by Charles Reade, 1893. Published by F. M. Lupton.


Boosey's Cabinet Operas by Verdi. Late 1800's. Published by Boosey and Co.


Modern French Masters: A Series Of Biographical and Critical Reviews by American Artists. Edited by John C. Van Dyke. 1896. Published by The Century Co.


American Primitive Music by Frederick R Burton, 1909. Published by Moffat Yard and Co.


My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass, 1855. 1st Edition. Published by Miller, Orton and Mulligan.



George Eliot's Life by J. W. Cross, 1885. 1st Edition. Published by Harper & Brothers. 3 Vol. Complete.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Edition Pictorial History of the Second World War, 1948. Complete in 4 Vol. Published by Wm. Wise Co.


Currier & Ives by Harry T. Peters, 1942. 1st Edition. Published by Doubleday Doran.

Bright Eyes, early 100's. Published by Donohue Co.

The World In His Arms by Rex Beach, 1946. Published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.


Complete Works of William Wordsworth, 1909. Introduction by John Morely. Published by Macmillan.


Betty Alden A Story of the Pilgrims by Jane Austin, 1891. 1st Edition. Published by Houghton Mifflin.


For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, 1940. 1st Ed. 1st Print. Published by Charles Scribner.


Men At War by Ernest Hemingway, 1942. 1st Edition/1st Printing. Published by Crown Publishers.



Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen, 1950. Published by J M Dent


Lady Susan The Watsons Letters of Jane Austen Vol 1 & 2 Complete by Jane Austen. 1906.S Published by Dana Estes & Co.


Mansfield Park in 2 Vol. Complete by Jane Austen. Early 1900's. Published by Dana Estes & Co.


Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen. Early 1900's. Published by Dana Estes & Co.




Henry Ford Collection: The Truth About Henry Ford by Sarah T Bushnell, 1922. 1st Ed. , The Triumph of an Idea:The Story of Henry Ford by Ralph Graves, 1934. 1st Ed. , Henry Ford: The Man and His Motives by William Stidger, 1923. Couple of paperbacks about Henry Ford, The Book of Greenfield Village, 1953, softcover, Michigan History, Sept. 1953, with article about Henry Ford. Young Henry Ford by Sidney Olson, 1963. Hardback with nice DJ with it. A couple pamphlets about Ford also.

Modern Music and Musicians Encyclopedia: Vol. 1-3. 1912. Edited by Louis Elson. Published by The University Society.