1950 – 1959 books Mystery, First editions, Medical, Fiction

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THE SCARLET LAKE MYSTERY A RICK BRANT SCIENCE ADVENTURE STORY, BY JOHN BLAINE, 1958, VOLUME 13 PENCILLED NAME HAS BEEN ERASED FROM PICTORIAL MAP ON THE ENDPAPER, NAME PENCILLED ON SECOND PAGE AND PENNED ON THE THIRD PAGE, BINDING IS INTACT, CORNERS ARE DINGED AND COVERS ARE SCUFFY BUT LEGIBLE 

The Black Cat’s Clue; A Judy Bolton Mystery # 23 Sutton, Margaret book 

Grosset & Dunlap, 1952. First Edition. 210 pages. dust jacket, tattered edges. brown silouette end papers and cloth boards, no internal writing, original price sticker from 1952 seller on ffend, 

The Healing Woods book 1952 Martha Reben, Crowell 

pictorial map end papers, clean, no rips, no tears, all pages intact, previous owner name on the first free endpaper 

The Angry Hills Leon M. Uris 1st edition, 3rd printing, 1955 book 

Red cloth boards with gold gilt printing on the spine, binding is intact with no loose pages, no writing, dustjacket is missing a chunk at the bottom of the spine edge, not price clipped, 249 pages, 

The Bizarre Sisters Walz Jay & Audrey 1950 book, 371 pages, 

Red cloth hard covers black titles, dust jacket is ragged, binding is intact with no loose pages, dust jacket is not price clipped original price $3.50, no writing 

The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure 1932 Reprint approx 1952, 245 pages, Lizette Edholm 

Listed third of four Merriweather Girls titles. Bet, Shirley, Joy and Kit begin this adventure on a Pullman car railroad train. 

Condition , BINDING is intact with no loose pages, previous owner name inside front cover dated 1952, some bumps to the corners and shelf wear, dustjacket is ragged around the edges with chips missing 

Gift From the Sea book 1955 Anne Morrow Lindbergh 

Book is in excellant condition, slip case is scuffed and worn but intact 

Dictionary of Midwifery & Public Health G. B. Carter and G. H. Dodds, Faber and Faber, 1953, 686 pages 

Book sellers Green adhesive label “FOYLES” inside the front cover 

Condition: No writing, NO RIPS, NO TEARS, BINDING intact with no loose pages, some shelf wear, No DUSTJACKET 

Fahrenheit 451 1950 Ray Bradbury book, MacMillan, this edition is 1968 

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as one of his best works, the novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and “firemen” burn any that are found. The book’s tagline explains the title as “the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns”: the autoignition temperature of paper. The lead character, Guy Montag, is a fireman who becomes disillusioned with his role of censoring literature and destroying knowledge, eventually quitting his job and committing himself to the preservation of literary and cultural writings. 

People have used this novel to focus on the historical role of book burning. Bradbury himself was inspired by the Nazi book burnings and by ideological repression in the Soviet Union. In a 1956 radio interview, Bradbury said that he wrote Fahrenheit 451 because of his concerns at the time, during the Second Red Scare, about the threat of book burning in the United States. In later years, he described the book as a commentary on how mass media reduces interest in reading literature, and, in a 1994 interview, stated that the book was more relevant during this time than in any other because of political correctness which he described as “the real enemy these days”, and as “thought control and freedom of speech control”. 

In 1954, Fahrenheit 451 won the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature and the Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal. It later won the Prometheus “Hall of Fame” Award in 1984 and a “Retro” Hugo Award in 2004. Bradbury was honored with a Spoken Word Grammy nomination for his 1976 audiobook version. 

ex school library, dating book to 1960’s and 70’s, no rips, no tears, binding is intact with no loose pages, covers show some ink marks, inside front cover is the library checkout record 

Death at Cedar Ridge, Walter John Smyth 1952 

192 pages, London, England: Frederick Muller 

Ex library, with markings, no rips, no tears, binding is intact with no loose pages, blue covers with embossed black lettering and logo on spine
Please consider photos as part of the description 

A Lamp is Heavy, Russell, Sheila MacKay, Published by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1950, 257 pages 

“You are about to take your places in a profession where you will faithfully serve as those who have gone before you have served – “. This is a wonderful vintage book with fun illustrations dispersed throughout the text. 

dust jacket is intact,no writing, no rips, no tears, binding is intact with no loose pages, 

FROM BAGPIPES TO FOGHORNS BOOK, AN ORPHAN’S ADVENTURE BETWEEN TWO WORLDS, PUBLICATION YEAR: 1953, JOSEPHINE TAFT BANIS, 239 PAGES, 

Life presented few happy aspects to five- year-old Josephine Taft when she entered the Bears Den School for Orphan Girls, in Scotland, after the death of her mother. The orphanage, like similar institutions in the novels of Dickens, seemed to have but one purpose-to discourage the spirit of the little girls. Discipline came before everything else. For two weeks, every summer, the girls were taken to the seaside on vacation, and a great part of the other fifty weeks of the year was spent in memories of the last vacation and anticipation of the next. Nevertheless, Josephine learned to sew and cook, and when she was fourteen she was sent as maid-of-all-work to a Scottish family, but still under the remote control of the orphanage. With the exception of one kindhearted couple, her new life in service was as unhappy, although for different reasons, as her life in the orphanage. 

Release finally came with emigration to the United States, although the sister who had come to fetch her to America was forced to stay in England as there wasn’t enough money for both to. make the trip. ‘ There were other sisters in America to re- join, and her father, a seafaring man, who put in occasional appearances but could never become reconciled for long to life ashore. The next few years of Josephine’s life took her to Boston, New York, and Florida, working for one family or another as a private cook. Her experiences during this period are graphically described and her observations on servant life in the households of the newly rich are both amusing and mordant. 

Finally marriage came and a trip to Maine. Both she and her husband fell in love with the Maine coastline, its pines, its rocky shores, its bracing, salty air, and its people. There they settled, and after almost pioneer efforts in modernizing an old farmhouse now run it as a summer resort. Throughout her story, Mrs. Banis conveys the feeling of a woman who refuses to be daunted, who is cheerful withal in overcoming adversity, and manages her tasks in life with humor, understanding, and tolerance. In a sense, her story is an immigrant saga of the girl-who-makes-good type but it is much more unusual than most such chronicles and holds interest from start to finish. 

SOME EDGE WEAR, NO WRITING, BINDING INTACT, THE DUST JACKET HAS NUMEROUS NICKS AND EDGE TEARS ALONG WITH SUN FADING, THE BOOK HAS A WATER STAIN ON THE FRONT COVER, THE COVERS LOOK STREAKY (GREEN/YELLOW) BUT I’M NOT SURE THAT IT WAS NOT MADE THAT WAY? THERE IS AN UNDATED NEWSPAPER CLIPPING RELATIVE TO THE BOOK AFFIXED INSIDE THE FRONT COVER 

Till We have Faces CS Lewis 1st Edition book dustjacket reads 2nd impression, 1956 

Ex vintage Library with mylar cover and usual library stampings attachments 

All pages intact and legible, dustjacket unclipped, book is very good for spine but has tape marks on covers, some brown spotting