Books published by publisher NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Very Good; New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1920. First Edition and First Printing, with dates on title page and copyright page matching and last page of textblock bearing the numeral one at the end of the text. Large-ish 12mo, green cloth with gilt imprinting on cover and spine and blind-stamped cover illustration of the abode in the story, 324 pp. with last page being in fact numbered with a 1 as noted above, that being Appleton's first-printing designation. A nice copy, with almost no spine fade, moderate corner bumping, front hinge starting, penciled previous owner's names on ffep and front pastedown. Bright gilt and cloth, sturdy feel. A solid Very Good or better. The Fortieth Door, a romance/adventure set in Egypt, was made into a George B. Seitz film of the same name - which has since famously joined the ranks of "lost" films; there are no known extant copies of it. Here - a worthy example of an almost equally rare Bradley first edition - especially so as the first printing. L-28

The University of Nebraska Press described this book as: First published in 1928, A Lantern in Her Hand has outlasted literary fashions to touch generations of readers. In this classic story of a pioneer woman, Bess Streeter Aldrich modeled protagonist Abbie Deal on her own mother, who in 1854 had traveled by covered wagon to the Midwest. In A Lantern in Her Hand, Abbie accompanies her family to the soon-to-be-state of Nebraska. There, in 1865, she marries and settles into her own sod house. The novel describes Abbie's years of child-raising, of making a frontier home able to withstand every adversity. A Disciplined writer knowledgeable about true stories of pioneer days in Nebraska, Bess Streeter Aldrich conveys the strength of everyday things, the surprise of familiar faces, and the look of the unspoiled landscape during different seasons. Refusing to be broken by hard experience, Abbie sets a joyful example for her family—and for her readers.

"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (commonly shortened to "Alice in Wonderland") is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.It tells of a girl named Alice falling through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world populated by peculiar, anthropomorphic creatures. The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children.It is considered to be one of the best examples of the literary nonsense genre.Its narrative course and structure, characters and imagery have been enormously influential in both popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre.