Ohioana Collection Builders Project:
Books Funded and Acquired
View a selection of books Ohioana needs that are
currently available in the used/antiquarian market
The complete list of purchases funded by the Project to date:
She Shall Have Murder
By Delano Ames
1948
First paperback printing, “Very Good” condition
$7
For Old Crime’s Sake
By Delano Ames
NY: Perennial Library, 1983 paperback
Published in hardcover in 1959
Also released in the UK as Lucky Jane
$11
Daymares
By Fredric Brown
Lancer Books, 1968
1st edition. “Near Fine” condition
Seven strange worlds in this “scarce” title
$20
This For Remembrance
By Rosemary Clooney with Raymond Strait
Chicago: Playboy Press, 1977
1st edition. Both book and jacket in “Near Fine” condition
Signed by Clooney and Strait
$100
Time to Remember
By Lloyd C. Douglas
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951
1st edition. “Fine” condition in “Very Good” book jacket
$35
The Little Family
By Lois Lenski
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1932
1st edition. “Very Good” condition with “Good” dust jacket
A nice copy of one of Lenski’s “little” stories, which showcases
her unique child-like style, and is as appealing as ever
$125
Round the Clock at Volari’s
By W. R. Burnett
NY: Fawcett 1961
1st edition. “Near Fine” condition
Hardboiled murder mystery by the author of High Sierra
$90
Paradox Lost and Twelve Other Great Science Fiction
Stories
By Fredric Brown
NY: Random House, 1973
1st edition. “Fine” condition with “very good +” dust jacket
$100
Junket
By Anne H. White, illustrations by Ohioan Robert McCloskey
NY: Viking, 1955
1st edition, 1st printing
This tale of an Airedale who keeps busy managing humans is a
real charmer
$80
Miracle Play
By Susan Richards Shreve
NY: William Morrow, 1981
1st edition, 1st printing
1st edition. A work of fiction, this book is in “Fine” condition,
with a “Good” dust jacket
$15
Iron Butterflies
By Andre Norton
NY: Fawcett, 1980
1st edition
By the Grand Dame of Science Fiction, this mass market
paperback is signed and in “unread” condition
$35
Yesterday Will Make You Cry
By Chester Himes
NY: Norton, 1998
First edition/first printing
Complete and unexpurgarated text of Himes’s Cast the First
Stone, originally published in 1953
$40
Can Such Things Be?
By Ambrose Bierce
Citadel Press, 1990
Out of print paperback in “near fine” condition
$25
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