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Books published by publisher The Bowen-Merrill Co

  • The little mixer

    Lillian Nicholson Shearon

    Hardcover (The Bobbs-Merrill Co, March 15, 1922)
    Book breaths love tolorance and charity.Text is clean and mark free.Binding is tight and corners and edges are unblemished.Dustjacket has chips at edges.There is an owners inscription on front endpaper.
  • THE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE By EMERSON HOUGH 1902

    Emerson Hough, 1 color & 6 b/w ill / plts

    (Bowen-Merrill, July 5, 1902)
    OUR COPY HAS THE SAME COVER AS STOCK PHOTO SHOWN. SCUFFING, MINOR FADING AND SOME EDGE WEAR ON COVERS AND SPINE. INSCRIPTION DATED 1903 ON FIRST PAGE. OTHERWISE NO MARKING OR WRITING NOTED WITHIN BOOK. AGE RELATED TANNING INSIDE COVERS AND ON PAGES, BUT PAGES INTACT AND CLEAN. MILD MUSTY ODOR.
  • The man in the brown derby,

    Wells Southworth Hastings

    Hardcover (The Bobbs-Merrill Co, March 15, 1911)
    Decorated American trade binding (signed binding - monogram of Earl Stetson Crawford on cover). Brown cloth boards with black lettering and decoration on cover, black lettering and very small brown derby on spine. Slight wear to spine corners. Tiny spot on front board, smaller than a pea. Binding is tight, hinges are sound - no cracking. Pages and edges are clean with clean endpapers (previous owner name and date written flamboyantly in pencil on front free endpaper). Illustrations by Herman Pfeifer, including frontispiece with tissue guard. 346 pages.
  • The young immigrunts

    Ring Lardner

    Unknown Binding (The Bobbs-Merrill Co, March 15, 1920)
    None
  • Lazarre

    Mary Hartwell Catherwood

    Hardcover (Bowen Merrill, March 15, 1901)
    G/-, PURPLE COVER, 436 PAGES PLUS ADS
  • Little Saint Sunshine

    Illus. Goss, Charles Frederic; Virginia Keep

    Hardcover (Bowen Merrill, March 15, 1902)
    None
  • The unlived life of little Mary Ellen

    Ruth McEnery Stuart

    Unknown Binding (The Bobbs-Merrill Co, Jan. 1, 1910)
    About a little girl and her doll.
  • Afterwhiles

    James Whitcomb Riley

    Hardcover (Bowen-Merrill, Jan. 1, 1894)
    Green hardcover, some scuff marks on covers, name and date written on inside cover page, older binding, No Creasing.
  • Hearts Courageous

    Hallie Erminie Rives, A. B. Wenzell

    Hardcover (Bowen-Merrill Company, Jan. 1, 1902)
    The Revolutionary War and the incidents leading to it, are told in this colonial novel, set in Virginia. Among the incidents is the signing of the Declaration of Independence, described in a dramatic manner. The characterization of Patrick Henry is outstanding. Some other historical individuals are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Fairfax, Lord Cornwallis, Tarleton, General Lee, and General Gates. Underlying these historic events, the reader is treated to a beautiful subtext full of romance and adventure, as they experience the love story of Frenchman Charles Armand and the beautiful Anne Tillotson.
  • WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON YOUNG TIPPECANOE

    HOWARD PECKHAM

    Unknown Binding (THE BOBBS-MERRILL CO. 1951, March 15, 1951)
    Story of one of our presidents
  • Songberd's Grove

    Anne Barrett, N. M. Bodecker

    Hardcover (The Bobbs-Merrill, Jan. 1, 1957)
    None