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1916-1920 |
Year, Publisher, Cover |
Description |
Previous Printings |
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The Girl Philippa
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1916, Appleton.
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World War I. Illustrated. xi, [1], 514, 1 p. front., plates. 20 cm.
Illustrated by Frank Craig |
Published serially by Cosmopolitan |
A.L. Burt - With Frontspiece by
Frank Craig . 1916 This is a hard cover book in green cloth containing
514 pages and a frontspiece in b&w. The
historical romance of Robert W. Chambers. McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie,
New York Illustrated. 515 pages. Lavendar hardcovers with gold lettering
on spine. |
Yesterday she was but a slip of a girl leading
the uneventful life of a cashier in a little French cafe near the border
of Belgium.
Today she is deeply involved in one of the most
desperate struggles ever waged by the secret systems of Europe. Such is
the suddenness with which the "Girl Philippa" is thrust by fate
into the center of the momentous events which precede the European War.
In this splendid romance of war and love
and adventure, Mr. Chambers returns to the style of his novels of Franco-Prussian
war. An English officer, an American artist, a sister of charity, and
a "Girl Philippa" are the chief figures in the story which chronicles
the daring attempt to steal the secret of the famous Harkness shell.
Dramatic incident piles on incident with
bewildering rapidity, and there is always that delightful touch of romance
which has made Mr. Chambers a favorite. |
 
 
original frontis illustration
and the later romances edition |
Some
of Frank Craig's wonderful illustrations for The Girl Philippa
  
 
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The Better Man
Stories:
The Better Man
Carondelet
Down and Out
The Fire-Bird
The Germ of Madness
Hell's Ashes
Lucille's Legs
Lynx Peak Pastoral
Number Seven
A Nursery Tale
Ole Hawg
Owl's Head
The Progress of Janet
The Real Thing
Wildrick's Dump |
1916, Appleton.
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Romantic short stories. 7 p. l., 343, l p. front., plates. 20 cm. Illustrated
by Henry Hutt. |
Hearst's Magazine |
Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, N. Y., 1969. |
| The first 1/3 of the book is about upstate
New York. The first 5 or 6 stories are all cut from the same cloth and
suffer from juxtaposition since they are almost all the same story. Most
are about some rich man who for some reason is a game warden in up state
New York. All or almost all of them deal with beautiful women and degenerate
backwoods hunters. This is like a dry run for "The Flaming Jewel". "Hell's
Ashes" is the best of the lot maybe because it does not have a love interest.
"The Germ of Madness" is about a young man vacationing in Saratoga. He
goes a little mad because of the straight lace and answers a telegram
call that is not for him. The rest of the book deals mostly with old Southern
families down on their fortune always with a beautiful daughter and rich
men from the North going down to Florida. "Number Seven" is notable because
of Chambers' broadside of inspired writers of great art. There are some
really great Henry Hutt illustrations also. Not his best, but better than
"Barbarians". ---Larry Loc |
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The Dark Star
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1917, Appleton.
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Marginally fantastic World War I novel. Illustrated by W.D.
Stevens. New York [etc.] D. Appleton and Company, 1917.
xxv, [1], 420, 1 p. front., plates. 20 cm. |
first serialized by the International
Magazine Company (1916) |
A. L. Burt Co., N. Y., 1919, xxv, [1], 420, [1] p. front. 20 cm. |
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Barbarians
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1917, Appleton.
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World War I. Illustrated by A. I. Keller. vii, [1] p. 2. l., 353, [1]
p. front., 4 leaves of plates. 20 cm. Library of Congress Photoduplication
Service, Washington, D. C., 1985. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. |
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| Mr. Chambers deals with the early
years of the Great War. Sickened by what seems to them at that time indifference
on the part of the American Government, an odd group of men meet on the
decks of a mule transport. They have been drawn to this common rendezvous
by a desire to enter the war and purse their souls in the fight for freedom
of the world. There are 12 in the group, 8 Americans, 3 French, and a
Belgian and prominant among them is Jim Neeland. Barbarians records the
adventures of these men, not together, but singly or in groups, along
the whole western battle front. It is filled with unusual character sketches
of the lives of the men in the trenches, and of life in the little towns
just inside the lines of Battle. . |
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The Laughing Girl; a Novel
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1918, Appleton.
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Opéra-bouffe. Illustrated by Henry Hutt. ix, [1] p., 1 l., 360,
p. front., plates. 20 cm. |
This novel was not serialized before its book
publication. |
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The Restless Sex
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1918, Appleton.
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The flapper age. Illustrated. 3 p.l., ii p., 1 l., 419, 1 p. front.,
plates. 20 cm. |
Serialized in Cosmopolitan starting
in July of 1917 |
A. L. Burt Co., N. Y., 1920, 4 p.l., 419, [1] p. front.
20 cm. Adapted to the screen by Cosmopolitan Pictures
in 1920 starring Marion Davies |
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| DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY - Edited by THE MILITIA OF MERCY |
published in 1918 by the John Lane Company
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DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY - Edited by THE MILITIA OF MERCY |
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DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY - Edited by THE MILITIA OF MERCY.
Gorgeous book published in 1918 by the John Lane Company. Hardbound,
nice color print attached to front board. Loaded with beautiful color
prints, B/W and "one color" illustrations, and photos. Book
was created to lend support to the allied effort during the first World
War. Noted illustrators and writers contribuing. Artists with color
illustrations include: Childe Hassam, Jules Guerin, William De Leftwich
Dodge (2 inside plus cover), Penrhyn Stanlaws, and George Bellows. Artists
with B/W or "one color" illustrations include: Albert Sterner,
Charles Dana Gibson, E. Cesare, John S. Sargent (2, with one being of
a Black Foot Chief), George Barnard (Abraham Lincoln portrait), Walter
Hale, Joseph Pennell, and others. Photographs of Vice Admiral Willima
Sowden Sims, General Cadorna, Marshall Joffre and General John J. Pershing,
Woodrow Wilson, and more. Writers contibuting from: Belgium, China,
France, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Latin America, Portugal,
Roumania, Russia, Serbia, and the United States. American writers include:
Maurice Hewlett, Charles W. Eliot, Mary Austin, Arthur Guy Empey, Louis
Untermeyer, Robert W. Chambers, Fannie Hurst, George Barr McCutcheon,
Edna Vincent Milay, and many others. Intoductory writings by Woodrow
WIlson, Theodore Roosevelt, Lord Northcliffe, Vice Admiral SIms, and
others. Approximately 7" x 10", quite substantial a book.
Well printed and bound. 324 pages of text plus twenty-seven full-page
illustrations.
John Lane. New York: 1917., 1917. President's Edition. Small 4to. Illustrated
literary anthology "prepared to honor, to interest, to amuse and
bring good cheer to our Sailors, Soldiers and Nurses.the profits from
the sale of this book will be given to help the dependent families of
our volunteer sailors". Includes many luminaries of the time in
both illustration and literature: Theodore Roosevelt, John Galsworthy,
Anatole France, Rupert Hughes, Stephen Leacock, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes,
Robert W. Chambers, Edna Ferber, Fannie Hurst, Edna St. Vincent Millay,
John S. Sargent, Charles Dana Gibson, Childe Hassam, George Bellows,
Joseph Pennell, and many others.
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The Moonlit Way; a Novel
PROLOGUE -- CLAIRE-DE-LUNE
A SHADOW DANCE
SUNRISE
SUNSET
DUSK
IN DRAGON COURT
DULCIE
OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS
DULCIE ANSWERS
HER DAY
HER EVENING
HER NIGHT
THE LAST MAIL
A MIDNIGHT TETE-A-TETE
PROBLEMS
BLACKMAIL
THE WATCHER
A CONFERENCE
THE BABBLER
A CHANCE ENCOUNTER
GROGAN'S
THE WHITE BLACKBIRD
FORELAND FARMS
A LION IN THE PATH
A SILENT HOUSE
STARLIGHT
'BE-N-EIRINN I!
THE MOONLIT WAY
GREEN JACKETS
ASTHORE
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1919, Appleton.
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World War I. Illustrated by A.I. Keller. viii p., 1 l., 412, 1 p. front.,
plates. 20 cm. |
413 PAGES + BOOK AUTHOR ADVERTISEMENTS |
.RED HARDCOVER BOOK WITH BLACK LETTERING ON THE
FRONT AND SPINE COVER |
| THE MOONLIT WAY BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS.
WITH FRONTISPIECE BY A. I. KELLER. D. APPLETON & COMPANY. COPYRIGHT,
1919, BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS. COPYRIGHT, 1918, 1919 BY THE INTERNATIONAL
MAGAZINE CO.
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In Secret |
1919, George H. Doran, New York.
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World War I. 5 p.l., 9-322 p. pl. 20 cm
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers
edition, copyright 1919 by George H. Doran Company; copyright 1918-1919,
by International Magazine Company, has 322 pages.
New York: George H. Doran Company, (1919). Original grey
cloth decorated in red and black, with dust jacket. |
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Grosset & Dunlap, N. Y., 1919, 5 p.l., 9-322 p. 20
cm. ---
Hodder & Stoughton, circa 1924. (see cover
with eagle) |
| Mystery sited on the Swiss frontier during
the Great War... When Evelyn Erith stumbled upon the suspicious letter
that came into the hands of the Censorship office all her adventurous
spirit responded to the lure of uncovering its secret. Bred in luxury,
this beautiful girl put aside all the comforts of wealth to bear the hardships
of an extraordinary search for information which was vital to the United
States Government. Where that search led and into what unheard-of adventures
with the mysterious Kay MacKay on the Swiss Frontier is a romance which
Robert W. Chambers unfolds with a tension that grows to the final scene...
[from the jacket] - Hubin p. 74. MILITARY
/ WAR, MYSTERY / DETECTIVE (Sumner & Stillman Code:8555) American
intelligence is at work on the eve of World War II with a great secret.
But what is the Great Secret? There was one man in America who knew--at
that moment he was standing at the bar of the Hotel Astor, just sober
enough to keep from telling everything he knew to the bartenders, and
just drunk enough to talk too much in a place where the enemy always
listens.
Opening line: The case in question
concerned a letter in a yellow envelope, which was dumped along with
other incoming mail upon one of the many long tables where hundreds
of women and scores of men sat opening and reading thousands of letters
for the Bureau of P.C.--whatever that may mean.
This Circa World War I New York
and European Alpine landscapes are both backdrops for this entertaining,
exciting and imaginative Robert W. Chamber’s story of mystery, adventure
and suspense. The beautiful and intelligent Evelyn Erith is featured
as the secret-message, code-breaking heroine who gets more deeply involved
in her job than just sitting at her desk. “HE LOOKED AT HIS WRIST WATCH.
MISS ERITH HAD BEEN GONE FOR TWO HOURS. THAT MEANT THAT HER SLENDER
BODY LAY DEEP, DEEP IN ICY ISLA”!!! |
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The Crimson Tide; a Novel |
1919, Appleton.
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World War I. Illustrated by A.I. Keller. xl, 366, [1] p. front., plates.
20 cm. |
Published serially in Cosmopolitan |
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Tribute Foreward by Robert W. Chambers |
Susan Lenox Her Fall and Rise Volume I.
Phillips, David Graham. |
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1919. xi, 505pp. Portrait frontispiece.
Green cloth gilt. |
Tribute foreword by Robert W. Chambers. First volume of D. G.
Phillips's last novel. No dustwrapper. |
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| Men Who Make Our Novels by George Gordon (1919) |
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containing biographies of 47 men who are responsible for many of the
world's great novels. A listing of the novelists written about:
William Dean Howells, Booth Tarkington, William Allen White, Ernest
Poole, Joseph Hergesheimer, Rupert Hughes, Winston Churchill, Theodore
Dreiser, Meredith Nicholson, Samuel H. Adams, Hamlin Garland, Stewart
Edward White, Samuel Merwin, Allan Updegraff, Rex Ellington Beach, Upton
Sinclair, Henry Blake Fuller, James Branch Cabell, Robert W. Chambers,
Edward Lucas White, Newton A. Fuessle, Emerson Hough, Thomas Nelson
Page, Robert Herrick, Harold MacGrath, Peter Clark Macfarlane, Harry
Leon Wilson, Owen Wister, Henry Sydnor Harrison, Joseph C. Lincoln,
Freeman Tilden, Louis Joseph Vance, Harold Bell Wright, Elias Tobenkin,
Arthur Bullard, Joseph Anthony, Owen McMahon Johnson, James Lane Allen,
Sinclair Lewis, Zane Grey, Peter B. Kyne, E.W. Howe, Hermann Hagedorn,
Jr., Sherwood Anderson, George Barr Mc Cutcheon, Thomas Dixon, Basil
King. |
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A Story of Primitive Love |
1920, Haldeman-Julius.
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Romance ? |
Format: Softcover Publication Year:
-- 1920
Subject:
Fiction & Fantasy This
pamphlet-like book was published by Haldeman-Julius Publications of
Girard, Kansas (these are the people who published the well known series
of the "Little Blue Books"). |
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The Slayer of Souls
Chapters
THE YEZIDEE
THE YELLOW SNAKE
GREY MAGIC
BODY AND SOUL
THE ASSASSINS
IN BATTLE
THE BRIDAL
THE MAN IN WHITE
THE WEST WIND
AT THE RITZ
YULUN THE BELOVED
HIS EXCELLENCY
SA-N’SA
A DEATH TRAIL
IN THE FIRELIGHT
THE PLACE OF PRAYER
THE SLAYER OF SOULS |
1920, Doran.
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Horror novel. 6 p.l., 13-301 p. 20 cm.
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Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1920. The Slayer of Souls.
301pp. Blue cloth black lettering
Arno
Press, N. Y., 1978. Tom Stacey Ltd., U. K. 70's. Arno Press, N. Y.,
1978, 301 p. ; 22 cm. Reprint of the first edition. |
| Rather lurid novel involving spies, murder,
horror, supernatural, and the occult. Originally an episodic magazine
serial. The novel version retains the problems of the magazine format
with different editors for each segment. Teresa Norm, held captive for
years in the Temple of Erlik, escapes when she learns of a plot in which
her former captors plan to enslave the world. Pulp thrills and adventure
follow as Teresa slowly realizes she has acquired Oriental powers that
can help in overcoming the villains. Dust Jacket
back: A Breathless Tale of Black Magic. A new novel by Robert
W. Chambers which fonfirms the impressions created by IN SECRET that
this popular author has returned to the style of those supreme romances,
CARDIGAN, THE FIGHTING CHANCE, THE DANGER MARK.
No living writer of adventurous
love tales works with a surer hand than Mr. Chambers. Here in
one breathless sotry is caugh up the black magic of ancient China together
with the mysterious workings of a vast secret society whose tentacles
spread westward to the United States. The part played by Tressa Norne,
for years a captive temple girl in China, is undoing the plots of this
band, in a story that even Mr. Chambers would have trouble matching
in his long list of exciting tales. |
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