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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • DEATH AND THE CONJUROR. by Mead, Tom.
    Mead, Tom.
    DEATH AND THE CONJUROR.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Mysterious Press, (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, set in 1930s London, a book which is both a locked-room mystery itself and a tribute to the classic tradition of those baffling puzzles from the Golden Age of detective novels. Celebrity psychiatrist Anselm Rees, a refugee from Austria, is found murdered in his locked study, and there seems to be no way that a killer could have escaped unseen. There are no clues, no witnesses, and no evidence of the murder weapon. George Flint, the Scotland Yard detective enlists the help of retired stage magician and now amateur sleuth Joseph Spector to help solve not only this crime, but also a theft from a locked room and a second murder. 254 pp. ISBN: 978-1613163184.

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

    Book ID: 87539
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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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