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Books in the Fiction - Novel genre:

Growth (1927)

This collection of three novels, TheTurmoil, The Magnificent Ambersons, and The Midlander (National Avenue), chronicle the transformation of a Midwestern city by the industrial revolution.... View More

Author(s): Booth Tarkington
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Kris and Kristina (1927)

A Christmas story starring Kris Kringle and Kristina.

Author(s): Marie Bruce
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

Love Lies Dreaming (1927)

A writer’s story of courtship and marriage.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Love Lies Dreaming (1927)

A writer’s story of courtship and marriage.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Michael Strogoff A Courier of the Czar (1927)

Unusual for Verne, this is a straight adventure story. Michael is sent by the Czar to warn the governor of Irkutsk of the presence of a traitor on his staff. On the Trans-Siberian railway Michael finds a wife. Unfortunately, at least in this translat... View More

Author(s): Jules Verne
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

The Midnight Folk (1927)

Kay Harker must battle his wicked governess and her coven to find the long lost treasure of Santa Barbara Cathedral, but has the aid of the Midnight Folk.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): None

The Midnight Folk (1927)

Kay Harker must battle his wicked governess and her coven to find the long lost treasure of Santa Barbara Cathedral, but has the aid of the Midnight Folk. This is the signed limited edition.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): None

The Midnight Folk (1927)

Kay Harker must battle his wicked governess and her coven to find the long lost treasure of Santa Barbara Cathedral, but has the aid of the Midnight Folk.

Author(s): John Masefield
Illustrator(s): R. C. N. Barton

Mopsa the Fairy (1927)

Jack comes to the aid of a fairy who takes him on a wonder voyage.

Author(s): Jean Ingelow
Illustrator(s): Dugald Stewart Walker

Mopsa the Fairy (1927)

Jack crawls into a fairy’s nest and is soon off on a fantastic journey.

Author(s): Jean Ingelow
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

One Wonderful Week (1927)

Bank clerk Harold Altridge enters on a week of cataclysm after cataclysm -- a phantasmagoria of adventure, romance and mystery -- that leaves him half dead and the reader holding his sides with laughter.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

The Princess and Curdie (1927)

In this sequel to The Princess and the Goblin, Curdie and his beasts restore Irene’s King-Papa to his throne.

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Skipping Village: A Town of Not So Long Ago (1927)

Life in a small town in Ohio at the end of the nineteenth century. Based on the author’s own childhood.

Author(s): Lois Lenski
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Small Bachelor (1927)

George Finch comes into some money and decides to move to New York and be a painter. He soon falls in love with Molly Waddington, but she comes with complicated relations, and there are crooks hovering around with their eye on her pearls. Read online... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): G. Hartmann

The Small Bachelor (1927)

George Finch comes into some money and decides to move to New York and be a painter. He soon falls in love with Molly Waddington, but she comes with complicated relations, and there are crooks hovering around with their eye on her pearls. Read online... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Frank Marston

The Splendid Spur (1927)

A picaresque tale of English civil war.

Author(s): Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
Illustrator(s): James Daugherty

The Story of a Bad Boy (1927)

The story of the author’s youth in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The highlights include the snowball battle on Slater’s Hill and the celebration of the glorious 4th.... View More

Author(s): Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Illustrator(s): Edwin John Prittie

Tom Cringle’s Log (1927)

This is a sea story of the British Navy in the Caribbean in the nineteenth century. It centers on action and runs pell-mell.

Author(s): Michael Scott
Illustrator(s): Mead Schaeffer

The White Company (1927)

Alleyne Edricson joins The White Company of English mercenaries and serves as squire to Sir Nigel Loring during their campaigns in France and Spain under the Black Prince.

Author(s): Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s): Frank Schoonover

The Wind in the Willows (1927)

This is the third fully illustrated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s story of Mole, Rat, Toad and Badger. It was not published in America.

Author(s): Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s): Wyndham Payne

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