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1. PLUTARCH'S LIVES. Translated from the Greek with notes by John and William Langhorne. Lupton. Avon edition. Blue cover shows some wear, gold leaf on spine.

2. AUNT CHARLOTTE'S STORIES OF BIBLE HISTORY. 1940. Charlotte Yonge. Designed for the 52 Sundays of the year. Over 100 stories from the Holy Book embracing instructive events from the Old and New Testaments. Red, oversize, paste-down David and Goliath pic on front. Illustrated in color and b&w. Missing-word review page (for entire book) bound into back of book.

3. THE CAT OF BUBASTES with dust jacket! Hurst. No date. Pictorial cover under jacket (one corner bent up). G.A. Henty. Egypt.

Antique books introduce4. THE QUIET KING. 1896 A Story of Christ. Caroline Atwater Mason. American Baptist Publication Society. Gold design and title on cover and spine. Frontispiece is loose. "The Rider on the White Horse" -nicely rendered sepia engraving in a modernistic style. Other engravings throughout.

5. THE HEART OF A DOG 1924 (text). Albert Payson Terhune. Newer Junior Deluxe edition.

6. THE SIMPLE LIFE. 1904. Charles Wagner. Chapters on Our Complex Life, The Essence of Simplicity, Simplicity of Thought, Simple Duty, Simple Needs, Simple Pleasures, Simple Beauty and more.

7. DWIGHT L. MOODY. HIS LIFE AND LABORS. 1899 Memorial Volume. The World's Greatest Evangelist. Includes discourses, pithy saying, tributes to his life. Sermons on love, hope, the clean heart, love can conquer, and much, much more.

8. GLEANINGS FROM THE ENGLISH POETS. Inscription dated 1882. From Chaucer to Tennyson with biographical notices of the authors by Robert Inglis. UK edition. Beautiful red and gold cover and spine. Shows some wear, etc.

9. JULIUS 1874 Collectible boy's author Horatio Alger. Pictorial cover. The Street Boy Out West. Winston pub.

10. WITH LEE IN VIRGINIA. Henty Series. Donohue.

11. FURTHER ADVENTURES OF LAD. 1922. Albert Payson Terhune. Blue. Cover wear, slight soiling.

12. THE EYES OF THE VILLAGE. 1922. Anice Terhune. (Mrs. Albert Payson Terhune) Frontispiece by John Ellison Brown. Excerpt: I do not believe in any 'Angry God.' The God I believe in is He whose Son said 'Believe on me and ye shall be saved-I go to prepare a place for you-if it were not so, I would have told you.' Worn.

13. EGERMEIER'S BIBLE STORY BOOK 1922 The author labored "prayerfully and conscientiously" to present the stories and truths of the Bible. 608 pages. Oversized. Beautiful color, also b/w illus.

14. PRUE AND I George William Curtis. Lupton Publishing. Attractive smaller book, with gold leaf on spine. Browning of pages.

15. YOUNG ACROBAT 1900 Collectible. Boy's author Horatio Alger. Pictorial cover.

16. ELSIE'S WOMANHOOD. 1903. Sequel to Elsie's Girlhood. Dodd, Meade & Company. Dark red book with embossed cover and gold leaf title on spine. Some wear.

17. ELSIE'S MOTHERHOOD. 1904. The fifth volume of the series. Dodd, Meade & Company. Dark red book with embossed cover and gold leaf title on spine.

18. MY FRIEND THE DOG 1926. Albert Payson Terhune. Some cover wear, spotting. Green.

19. YOUNG & FIELD LITERARY READERS 1914. Book 4. With excerpts from classic authors. Poor condition.

20. PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. John Bunyan. Red-orange cover with black design, title and author.