The Big Wahr's Bookstores

The Big WAHR'S Book Stores
316 South State St. and 103-104 North Main St. - - - Ann Arbor, Mich.

     A cordial invitation is extended to everybody to visit our stores and inspect our Holiday Books. Our stock is the best selected, our prices always right, and we can suit you better here than anywhere else in the middle west.

Here we quote only a few of the most popular books of fiction, all handsomely bound in full Cloth.

Merriman, Barlasch of the Guards....$1.08
Kipling, The Five Nations.....1.40
Dixon, The One Woman.....1.08
Norris, A Deal in Wheat.....$1.08
Twing, The Red Keggers.....1.08
Servis, The Boss & How He Came to N. Y......1.08
Booth Tarkington, Cherry.....1.00
Margaret De and, Dr. Lavender, People.....1.08
Fox, The Little Shepard Kingdom Come.....10.8
Davis, The Bar Sinister...$1.08
F. Hopkinson Smith, Colonel Carter's Christmas....1.08
Kirk, Good Bye Proud World.....1.08
Kate Douglas' Wiggins Rebecca....1.00
Clara Louise Burhan, Jewel.....1.08
Marchment, When I was Czar.....1.08
Paul Leicester Ford, Checked a Love Affair.....1.60
Thomas Nelson Page, Gordon Keith.....1.08
Alice Hegan Rice, Mrs. Wiggs Cabbage Patch....80c

High-Class Copyright Fiction
Handsomely Bound in Cloth and one-third of Regular Publisher's Prices.
12 mo, bound in Handsome Linen Cloth, each with an Attractive and Distinctive Cover Design. Titles on side and back. Each volume Encased in a Strong Printed Mania Jacket.
     All Published in Regular edition from $1.25 to $1.75 each. Our Price, per volume 50c.

Tom Grogan. By F. Hopkinson Smith.
Caleb West, Master Diver. By F. Hopkinson Smith,
The Celebrity. By Winston Churchill.
The Choir Invisible. By James Lane Allen.
The Sorrows of Satan. By Marie Corelli.
Ziska. By Marie Corelli.
Barabbas. by Marie Corelli.
The Prisoner of Zenda. By Anthony Hope.
A Lady of Quality. By Francis Hodgson Burnett.
In Connection With the De WIlloughby Claim. By Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Trilby (Illustrated). By George Du Maurier. By Harold Frederic.
The Market Place (Illustrated). By Harold Frederic.
Soldier Stories (Illustrated). By Rudyard Kipling.
McTeague. By Frank Norris.
Agatha Webb. By Anna Catherine Green.
The Leavenworth Case. By Anna Catherine Green.
The Jessamy Bride. BY F. Frankfort Moore.
A Dash for a Throne (Illustrated). A. W. Marchmont.
By Right of Sword. By A. W. Marchmont.
The Greatest Gift. By A. W. Marchmont.
The Gadfly. By E. L. Voynich.
A Gentleman Player (Illustrated). By Robert Nielson Stevens.
For the Freedom of the Sea (Illustrated). By Cyrus Townsend Brady.
St. Ives. By Robert Louis Stevenson.
Sentimental Tommy. By J. M. Barrie.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. By A. Conan Doyle.
The Irony of Life. By H. Sienkiewicz.
A Gentleman of France (Illustrated). By Stanley J. Weyman.
A War Time Wooing (Illustrated). By Capt. Chas. King.
The Landlord at Lion's Head. By W. D. Howells.
An Enemy of the King (Illustrated). By Robert Nielson Stephens.
A Continental Dragoon (Illustrated). By Robert Nielson Stephens.
The Road to Paris (Illustrated). By Robert Nielson Stephens.
Philip Winwood (Illustrated). By Robert Nielson Stephens.
The Maid of Maiden Lane. By Amelia E. Barr.
Via Crucis. By F. Marion Crawford.
A Singular Life. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.
The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow. By Jerome K. Jerome.
King Noanett. By F. J. Stimson.
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On the Heights. By Berthold Auerbach.
Origin of Species. By Charles Darwin.
Pathfinder, The. By James Fenimore Cooper.
Pendennis. By Wm. M. Thackeray.

For Your Own Library, or for Gifts to Your Friends.
World's Best Books. Cloth Binding.
     It is exceedingly difficult to find in the average book store perfect and clean single copies of standard books in best cloth bindings, and yet nothing makes a more acceptable gift. Perhaps you have some sets in half calf and would like to add a few more classic volumes in the same elegant style.
     Every book offered below is printed from large clear type on super calendered book paper. The binding is extra-quality. Gilt tops. Publisher's price $1.00 per volume. Our Price, only 50c per volume.
 
Alhambra, The. By Washington Irving.
Amiel's Journal. Translated by Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. By O. W. Holmes.
Bacon's Essays. By Francis Bacon.
Cloister and the Hearth. By Charles Reade.
Consuelo. By George Sand.
Corinne. By Madame de Stael.
Countess of Rudolstadt. By Geo. Sand.
Cranford. By Mrs. Gaskell.
Data of Ethics. By Herbert Spencer.
David Copperfield. By Charles Dickens.
Deerslayer, The. By James Fenimore Cooper.
Descent of Man. By Charles Darwin.
Discourses of Epictetus. Translated by George Long.
Dream Life. By Ik Marvel.
Egyptian Princess. An. By Geo. Ebers.
Emerson's Essays (Complete). By Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World. By E. S. Creasy.
First Principals. By Herbert Spencer.
First Violin. By Jessie Fothergill.
French Revolution. By Thos. Carlyle.
Henry Esmond. By Wm. M. Thackeray.
History of Civilization in Europe. By Guizot.
Holy Roman Empire. By James Bryce.
House of the Seven Gables. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Hypatia. By Charles Kingsley.
Ivanhoe. By Sir Walter Scott.
Jane Eyre. By Charlotte Bronte.
John Halifax, Gentleman. By Miss Mulock.
Kenilworth. By Sir Walter Scott.
Knickerbocker's History of New York. By Washington Irving.
Koran, The. Translated by Geo. Sale.
Last Days of Pompeii. By Bulver-Lytton.
Life of Christ. By F. W. Farrar.
Lorna Doone. By R. D. Blackmore.
Makers of Florence. By Mrs. Oliphant.
Makers of Venice. By Mrs. Oliphant.
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. Translated by Geo. Long.
Middlemarch. By George Eliot.
Mill on the Floss. by George Eliot.
Mosses from an Old Manse. By Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Newcomes, The. By William M. Thackeray.
Nicholas Nickleby. By Charles Dickens.
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Pilgrim's Progress. By John Bunyan.
Prue and I. By George Wm. Curtis.
Reveries of a Bachelor. By Ik Marvel.

Standard Five Volume Sets
     Each set contains five select books and we believe no book lover can read the list below without wanting two or three sets. Note the variety: Popular fiction, adventure, detective and sea stories. Kipling's Indian tales, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, not forgetting Henry sets for yous and Meade and Ewing for girls.
Type Extra Large, Good Book Paper, Durable Cloth Binding.
Titles are stamped on backs in genuine gold, ornamental and neat, like cut.
     These are not the common, poorly-printed and cheaply-bound sets offered on bargain counters, but infinitely superior in every respect. We guarantee every book to e honestly made, complete and perfect. Publishers price per set $3.00. Our Wholesale Price per Set (Boxed) 50c

Rudyard Kipling's Works.
Mary J. Holmes' Works.
A. Conan Doyle's Works.
W. Clark Russell's Works.
The Pride of Jennico. By Egerton Castle. 
Young April. By Egerton Castle.
Dross (Illustrated). By Henry Seton Merriman.
With Edged Tools. By Henry Seton Merriman.
The Owers. By Henry Seton Merriman.
The Damnation of Theron Ware.
R. L. Stevenson's Works.
Hall Caine's Works.
Edna Lyall's Works.
 E. Marlitt's Works.
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Works.
Marie Corelli's Works.
Rosa N. Carey's Works.
Victor Hugo's Works.
Jules Verne's Works.
The Leather-Stocking Tales. 
Cooper's Sea Tales.
Macaulay's History of England.
G. A. Henty's Works, No. 1.
G. A. Henty's Works, No. 2.
L. T. Meade's Works.
Juliana H. Ewing's Works.
AMERICAN STATESMEN. A Series of Biographies of men famous in the political history of the United States. Edited by John T. Morse, Jr. 12mo, gilt top. Publisher's price, per volume, $1.25. Our price $1.00. 
John Quincy Adams.
Alexander Hamilton.
John G. Calhoun.
Andrew Jackson.
Daniel Webster.
Albert Gallatin.
James Madison.
John Adams.
John Marshall.
Samuel Adams.
Charles Sumner.
Thaddeus Stevens.
Thomas H. Benton.
Abraham Lincoln (2 vols.)
George Washington (2 vols.)
John Randolph.
James Monroe.
Thomas Jefferson.
John Jay.
Patrick Henry.
Lewis Cass.
Gouverneuh Morris. 
Benjamin Franklin.
William H. Seward.
Salmon P. Chase.
Charles Francis Adams.
Henry Clay (2 vols.)
Martin Van Buren.
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BOLTON, MRS. SARAH K.
     Works: Illustrated, with many full-page portraits. 12mo. Pub. price, per vol., $1.50, our price $1.20.
Famous American Authors.
Famous American Statesmen.
Famous English Authors.
Famous English Statesmen.
Famous European Artists.
Famous Givers and their Gifts.
Famous Leaders Among Men.
Famous Leaders Among Women.
Famous Men of Science.