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  • THE DARK LADY. by Auchincloss, Louis.
    Auchincloss, Louis.
    THE DARK LADY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel spanning three decades, from the 1930s to the McCarthy era of the 1950s, set in a New York where "birth and style count nearly as much as wealth" - the world that Auchincloss grew up in. 246 pp. ISBN: 0-395254027.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (small erasure spot on the front endpaper)

    Book ID: 76191
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  • Baker, Kage.
    RUDE MECHANICALS.

    Edition: Limited, signed edition.

    Burton, MI: Subterranean Press, 2007. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A short novel of the Company set in 1934 Hollywood where a production of 'A Midsummer's Night Dream' is being staged. #157 out of 1500 deluxe copies, SIGNED and numbered on the limitation page. Illustrations and dust jacket by J. K. Potter. 114 pp. ISBN: 978-1596060876.

    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 76807
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  • NAUGHTY IN NICE. by Bowen, Rhys.
    Bowen, Rhys.
    NAUGHTY IN NICE.

    Edition: Book club edition.

    New York: Berkley, (2011.) dj. SIGNED hardcover - The fitth novel in the Royal Spyness series, set in the 1930s. and featuring Lady Georgiana, "34th in line to the throne and everyone's favorite penniless heiress." SIGNED on the title page. Historical note. 326 pp. ISBN: 978-0425227886.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 66251
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  • FOUR FUNERALS AND MAYBE A WEDDING. by Bowen, Rhys.
    Bowen, Rhys.
    FOUR FUNERALS AND MAYBE A WEDDING.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Berkley Prime, (2018) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the Royal Spyness series, set in the 1930s. and featuring Lady Georgiana, "34th in line to the throne and everyone's favorite penniless heiress." SIGNED on the title page. 291 pp. ISBN: 978-0425283523.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 87917
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  • HEIRS AND GRACES. by Bowen, Rhys.
    Bowen, Rhys.
    HEIRS AND GRACES.

    Edition: First paperback printing.

    New York: Berkley, (2013). SIGNED - A novel in the Royal Spyness series, set in the 1930s. and featuring Lady Georgiana, "34th in line to the throne and everyone's favorite penniless heiress." SIGNED on the title page. Includes a preview for the next book in the series, 'Queen of Hearts.' 292 pp. plus 4 pp publisher's ads. ISBN: 978-0425260036.

    Condition: Fine (as new)

    Book ID: 80840
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  • CROWNED AND DANGEROUS. by Bowen, Rhys.
    Bowen, Rhys.
    CROWNED AND DANGEROUS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Berkley, (2016) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A novel in the Royal Spyness series, set in the 1930s. and featuring Lady Georgiana, "34th in line to the throne and everyone's favorite penniless heiress." SIGNED on the title page. 307 pp. plus historical note. ISBN: 978-0425283486.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 83460
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  • TOUCH OF THE PAST. by Breen, Jon L.
    Breen, Jon L.
    TOUCH OF THE PAST.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Walker, (1988) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Second novel featuring Los Angeles bookstore owner Rachel Henning (although this is set in the mountains in Idylwild) "On the morning of the garage sale in which he hopes to unload the entire trove of genuine 1937 articles, Wilbur DeMarco is murdered." An author of classic detective stories, he had published in last novel in 1937, so the roots of his death was hidden deep in the past. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Stan, who may have a copy of one of Wilbur deMarco's books in his library" and dated in the year of publication. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-802757049.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 79518
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  • MURDER BY THE NUMBERS: An Eliot Ness Novel. by Collins, Max Allan.
    Collins, Max Allan.
    MURDER BY THE NUMBERS: An Eliot Ness Novel.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: St Martin's, (1993) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Eliot Ness and the Cleveland Mob Wars" Historical novel, which combines fact - the exploits of the real life lawman, Eliot Ness - with fiction. It is 1938 and the Mafia is moving in on the Black mobsters who rule the Bucket of Blood, the slum made famous by Chester Himes. SIGNED by author on title page. 210 pp. ISBN: 0-312088566.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 85676
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  • WORLD'S FAIR by Doctorow, E. L.
    Doctorow, E. L.
    WORLD'S FAIR

    Edition: Book of the Month Club edition (same size and quality as trade edition).

    New York: Random House, (1985.) dj. Hardcover - New York in the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a child in the Bronx. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394-525280.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 52441
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  • WORLD'S FAIR by Doctorow, E. L.
    Doctorow, E. L.
    WORLD'S FAIR

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - New York in the 1930s as seen through the eyes of a child in the Bronx. 288 pp. ISBN: 0-394525280.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 80968
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  • THE GODDESS AND THE AMERICAN GIRL: The Story of Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills by Engelmann, Larry.
    Engelmann, Larry.
    THE GODDESS AND THE AMERICAN GIRL: The Story of Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Oxford University Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is a combination of biography, sports history and social history, this focuses on two women who were the most responsible for the radical changes in women's tennis in the period between the two world wars, from a genteel sport to one more like that played by men. "Better known and more admired in the 1920s and '30s than any politician, movie star, or royal family member, Suzanne Lenglen, lionized by Frenchmen as 'The Goddess,' and Helen Wills, called 'The American Girl,' revolutionized tennis with their power and grace and beauty, and in the process virtually invented the concept of celebrity athlete. This dual biography -…

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    New York: Oxford University Press, (1988) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which is a combination of biography, sports history and social history, this focuses on two women who were the most responsible for the radical changes in women's tennis in the period between the two world wars, from a genteel sport to one more like that played by men. "Better known and more admired in the 1920s and '30s than any politician, movie star, or royal family member, Suzanne Lenglen, lionized by Frenchmen as 'The Goddess,' and Helen Wills, called 'The American Girl,' revolutionized tennis with their power and grace and beauty, and in the process virtually invented the concept of celebrity athlete. This dual biography - the first of either player to appear in English - follows their careers from the time they first set foot on a tennis court through their ascent and descent on the international circuit. . Lenglen became the first non-English-speaking woman to win the Wimbledon singles championship - . . Helen Wills beat Lenglen's Wimbledon record although she lost the only match in which they came face to face. In 1938, Wills set a record of eight Wimbledon wins." Photographs, sources, index. xiv, 464 pp. ISBN: 0-195043634.

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    Condition: Good only in a fair dust jacket - corners bumped, small stain to upper corner of textblock, dust jacket is missing about a 1" square piece to upper corner of front cover, smaller chip on back cover.

    Book ID: 89659
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  • HITLER'S NIECE. by Hansen, Ron.
    Hansen, Ron.
    HITLER'S NIECE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: HarperCollins, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A carefully crafted and well researched historical novel in which we see Hitler at the beginning of his rise to power through the eyes of his favorite niece - who was found dead in 1931, at age 23 in a Munich flat owned by Hitler. 310 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0194197.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 53663
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  • AFTER ELI. by Kay, Terry (1938 - 2020)
    Kay, Terry (1938 - 2020)
    AFTER ELI.

    Edition: First thus.

    Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers, (1992) dj. Hardcover - Southern author's award-winning second novel originally published in 1981. Set in the 1930s, when "strangers were rare in the town of Yale, and a recent double murder was still unsolved, but itinerant actor Michael O'Rear wins over the people of this remote Appalachian village. Intrigued by a legend of hidden money, Michael uses his actor's talents to win the empathy of the three Pettit women, as his charm and wit draw them inexorably into this drama of psychological horror that threatens the weak and unsuspecting." 271 pp. ISBN: 1-561450685.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (appears unread.)

    Book ID: 89554
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  • THE INFORMER. by Nova, Craig.
    Nova, Craig.
    THE INFORMER.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Crown / Shaye Areheart, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - Literary thriller set in 1930s Berlin - a world of espionage, betrayal, complex political entaglements - and a serial killer who is stalking prostitutes. 306 pp. ISBN: 978-0307236937.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder dot)

    Book ID: 74835
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  • THE BOOK OF NUMBERS. by Pharr, Robert Deane (1916-1989)
    Pharr, Robert Deane (1916-1989)
    THE BOOK OF NUMBERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Pharr's first and best known novel, basis for the 1973 film of the same name. The story of two men who create a numbers racket in the Black community of Richmond, Virginia in the 1930s - the two waiters, Blueboy Harris and Dave Greene, briefly achieved almost unimaginable success before seeing it all end in tragedy. When this was published, Pharr was 57 and he had spent many years working as a waiter himself, and was still doing so when the manuscript got to a publisher. His books are as relevant now as when they were published: he depicted policing as an unreformable system built to brutalize and oppress…

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    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969. dj. Hardcover first edition - Pharr's first and best known novel, basis for the 1973 film of the same name. The story of two men who create a numbers racket in the Black community of Richmond, Virginia in the 1930s - the two waiters, Blueboy Harris and Dave Greene, briefly achieved almost unimaginable success before seeing it all end in tragedy. When this was published, Pharr was 57 and he had spent many years working as a waiter himself, and was still doing so when the manuscript got to a publisher. His books are as relevant now as when they were published: he depicted policing as an unreformable system built to brutalize and oppress Black bodies and others of color. As one writer said "The very things that keep Pharr obscure - his unwillingness to pander to white readers, his focus on writing about Black life at all levels of American society in a plain-spoken way, his anger at the way Black people have been abused and murdered in different ways by this society -are the reasons we need him right now." (Christopher Smith)

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    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (slight spine slant, tear to dj at top of spine, other edgewear, price-clipped, but still a decent copy of an important but overlooked African American novel.)

    Book ID: 84178
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  • LOST IN AMERICA. by Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
    Singer, Isaac Bashevis.
    LOST IN AMERICA.

    Edition: First printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1981. dj. Hardcover first edition - Memoir by this Nobel prize winning author of his days as a young man in Poland in the 30s dreaming of getting to America, the sometimes perilous trip there, and the community he found in New York City, including his older brother, the author I. J. Singer. Illustrated with both full color paintings and black and white drawings by Raphael Soyer. A handsome production, printed on coated glossy stock, illustrated endpapers. 259 pp. ISBN: 0-385157568.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped)

    Book ID: 85832
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  • BROOMS. by Walls, Jasmine and Teo DuVall.
    Walls, Jasmine and Teo DuVall.
    BROOMS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Levine Querido, (2023). SIGNED first edition - A graphic novel telling the story of six witches - Black, Choctaw, Asian and queer - who get caught up in the excitement and danger of illegal broom racing in an alternate historical 1930s Mississippi. Teo DuVall's art is beautiful, clean and luminous but also very understated. SIGNED by Walls on the half title page. 230 pp plus a heartwarming and uplifting scrapbook-style epilogue showing the witches futures. ISBN: 978-1646142675.

    Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers with self flaps. .

    Book ID: 89223
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