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THE BOSS and How He Came to Rule New York
Edition: Reprint.
New York: A. L. Burt, c.1902. Novel of Tammany Hall. Attractive edition in dark green cloth with red and white cover design, red lettering. Frontispiece.
Condition: Some wear to cloth at ends of spines and corners, front hinge cracking, but overall very good condition.
Book ID: 8065More details Price: $15.00 -
NO MOTHER TO GUIDE HER.
Edition: First paperback printing.
New York: Avon, (1961). A satire on Hollywood by the author of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes', featuring a bedevilled film star named Viola Lake whose very private diary is about to be introduced as evidence in a murder trial. Avon F-150. cover price 40c. 127 pp.
Condition: Very good (straight spine, usual toning to the pages) Note: vintage paperbacks are very fragile, the glue is often prone to failure and these books should be handled with care.
Book ID: 79850More details Price: $9.50 -
NETWORK.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Ballantine, (1975.). First edition - Ballantine Books # 24970. "The lusty inside novel of the sex and power hungry world of broadcasting." 296 pp. ISBN: 0-345249702.
Condition: Very good+ (usual toning to the pages.)
Book ID: 55608More details Price: $8.50 -
HELD TO ANSWER
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Little Brown, 1916. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated with 6 black and white plates by W. B. King.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth with gold lettering (prev owner's name & 1916, spine slightly faded, but still legible.)
Book ID: 8185More details Price: $20.00 -
ROGUES AND VAGABONDS.
Edition: First US printing, with the colophon on the copyright page.
New York: George H. Doran, 1927. Hardcover first edition - A humorous novel by this prolific Scottish writer - a story of a daughter and her mother set in early 20th century England against a background of life in the theatre. 298 pp. Bound in orange cloth with black lettering.
Condition: Very good+ (prev owner's name stamped on front endpaper, light toning to the paper, but overall a tight and clean copy.)
Book ID: 31275More details Price: $20.00 -
CHILD OF THE WILD: A Story of Alaska.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Cosmopolotan Book Corporation, 1926. Hardcover first edition - A seven year old boy is stranded alone on the Alaska coast, when the ship on which he and his mother were passengers is wrecked and the lifeboat is overturned. Three black and white illustrations by Herbert M. Stoops, including a double page center spread. 297 pp.
Condition: Very good overall in olive green cloth with gold lettering (chip to top of spine, rubbing to lettering on spine.)
Book ID: 57431More details Price: $18.00 -
ELLIOTT GRAY, JR.: A Chronicle of School Life.
Edition: Later printing by original publisher.
New York: Fleming H. Revell, (1911). Hardcover - Uncommon boy's novel of the early 20th century. 226 pp.
Condition: Very good overall in decorative beige cloth with a school pennant on front cover. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1932.
Book ID: 83974More details Price: $30.00 -
UNCERTAIN GLORY.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1944) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of unexpected heroism and sacrifice, set in Nazi-controlled France during World War II. Novelized from the Warner Bros. Production, from the screen play of the same title by Laszlo Vadnay and Max Brand. 212 pp.
Condition: Very good in a very good dust jacket featuring stills from the film (usual toning to the pages, prev owner's name, some wear to the dj at the top of the spine, .)
Book ID: 66369More details Price: $25.00 -
UNCERTAIN GLORY.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1944) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of unexpected heroism and sacrifice, set in Nazi-controlled France during World War II. Novelized from the Warner Bros. Production, from the screen play of the same title by Laszlo Vadnay and Max Brand. 212 pp.
Condition: Good in a fair only dust jacket featuring stills from the film (usual toning to the pages, several large chips to the dj.)
Book ID: 64969More details Price: $12.50 -
WRECKED ON THE BERMUDAS: The Thrilling Adventures of Three Boys, A True Story of the Present Age.
Edition: First edition.
Providence, RI: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1892. Hardcover first edition - "Charles T. Dillingham, publishers - author's edition" rubber stamped over the publication information at the bottom of the title page. pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven internal plates on glossy stock, all plates present. 292 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in red cloth with gilt lettering, illustration on front and spine in black (front endpaper missing and bookplate on front pastedown partially torn off, front hinge broken exposing the mull underneath, rear hinge cracked - but despite these flaws, the book is still holding together, still complete and readable) .
Book ID: 82999More details Price: $35.00 -
NIGHTS OF LOVE AND LAUGHTER.
Edition: Paperback original - first printing.
New York: Signet, 1955. First edition - #1246. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Described as 'the first paperbound edition exclusively devoted to to the work of one of the most dynamic, controversial and unusual living American writers.'
Condition: Overall good condition - slight spine slant with some creasing to the spine, about 1/2 inch tear along the side of the spine.
Book ID: 16345More details Price: $20.00 -
THE NAKED SWORD: A Novel of the Crusades.
Edition: Paperback (2nd printing)
New York: Popular Library, (1955.). #1601, cover price 25c. Good girl cover art and cover text emphasize this as a 'lusty' novel and a 'tormented love story'.
Condition: Near fine.
Book ID: 31305More details Price: $10.00 -
THE QUEEN AND THE CORPSE.
Edition: First thus- a pocket paperback.
New York: Dell, (c 1949). "A murder puzzle aboard ship . . A desperate killer walks the deck of the luxury liner Queen Alexandra as the ship departs from England. Soon the corpse of a pretty girl is found in stateroom 27, and the bulging briefcase she carried is missing." DELL Map Back #485. 191 pp. Cover art by Robert Stanley.
Condition: Very good (lower corner creased on a few pages) - Note: Vintage paperbacks are very fragile and need to be handled with care.
Book ID: 79281More details Price: $12.50 -
MR. WHITTLE AND THE MORNING STAR.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. dj. Hardcover first edition - World War II has ended and the future of humanity is looking bleak; Mr. Whittle, a history professor with a wife whom he loves and a 12 year old daughter, is convinced the world is coming to an end. A gentle novel, of whimsical fantasy, by the author best known for 'Portrait of Jenny.' 175 pp. Dust jacket art by Norman Reeves.
Condition: Very good+ in a good dust jacket (some rubbing and edgewear to the dj.)
Book ID: 34715More details Price: $18.50 -
THE ORCHID.
Edition: First printing.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1931.). Hardcover first edition - A gentle story which begins with the illusion of happiness brought on by spring, and follows the doings of an elderly music teacher who plays cupid as several love affairs play out around him. By the author perhaps best known for his fantasies including "Portrait of Jenny." 199 pp.
Condition: Very good in dusty rose cloth with gilt lettering on front cover (spine faded with rubbed lettering), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 83498More details Price: $15.00 -
THE LORDS OF HIGH DECISION
Edition: First printing.
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1909. dj. Hardcover first edition - Illustrated by Arthur Keller. Color frontispiece.
Condition: Very good in dark red cloth covered boards (prev owner's name on endpaper, white lettering rubbed off on spine), no dj.
Book ID: 6133More details Price: $14.00 -
ROSALIND AT REDGATE.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c 1907.]. Hardcover - Romantic suspense novel, illustrated by Arthur Keller.
Condition: Very good in gray cloth with color illustration pasted on the front cover.
Book ID: 26869More details Price: $12.50 -
THE PIT: A Story of Chicago
Edition: Reprint.
New York: A. Wessels Co., 1906. The second novel in the planned trilogy "The Epic of the Wheat." Bound in green cloth with black-edged white lettering and a small illustration of a ticker tape machine on the front cover.
Condition: Near very good - some rubbing to the cloth edges and the lettering on the spine.
Book ID: 10105More details Price: $12.00 -
THE SPELL.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. Hardcover first edition - A romantic novel set in Italy by this author who was also known as an expert on printing techniques and book design. This involves a "love triangle of Helen, Inez, and Jack, tangled up in a spell of dual personalities, in the present and in the past. 'Slowly the spell began to work upon Inez's brain. she was no longer in the present - she was a woman of Italy of four centuries back'." Illustrated by Gertrude Demain Hammond with a frontispiece and three internal plates. 352 pp.
Condition: Very good in embossed blue cloth with gold lettering (some foxing to the tissue guard of the frontispiece, rubbing to the lettering on the spine, although it is still legible)
Book ID: 80419More details Price: $25.00 -
THE LION'S BROOD.
Edition: Early vintage reprint ("Special Subscription Edition")
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1903. Hardcover - Historical novel set during the second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, when Hannibal invaded Italy. Glossy frontispiece. Originally published in 1901. A title in the Crowned Masterpieces of Modern Fiction series, bound in marbleized boards with a dark green cloth spine and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt. 361 pp.
Condition: Near fine (very light foxing to the endpapers). An uncommon early edition.
Book ID: 85666More details Price: $25.00 -
WILD GEESE.
Edition: Reprint. Photoplay edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca. 1927.). Hardcover - First novel by this Norwegian-born Canadian author, set in a Minnesota farm community - she spent many years living in Minnesota and North Dakota. Winner of the Dodd, Mead and Company Best Novel of the Year Award. This edition is illustrated with a frontispiece and 7 glossy plates of stills from the film version.
Condition: Good in gray cloth with a dark blue and orange illustration on the front cover, smaller illustration on spine (some spine slant, missing front endpaper.)
Book ID: 29422More details Price: $17.50 -
CUMNER'S SON AND OTHER SOUTH SEA FOLK
Edition: First Canadian edition.
Toronto: Copp, Clark & Co. 1910. Hardcover first edition - Unusual edition of this collection of short stories, set in various places in the Pacific (New Caledonia, Hawaii, Fiji) by this Canadian author. Frontispiece.
Condition: Front hinge cracked, corners slightly bumped; otherwise very good in decorated green cloth covers.
Book ID: 7402More details Price: $20.00 -
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DONNA ISABEL: A Romance of the Sea
Edition: First printing.
Chicago: McClurg, 1908. Hardcover first edition - A sea-going adventure story beginning in 1879 in Valparaiso, Chile. Illustrated with 4 full color paintings by Allen T. True.
Condition: Overall very good in illustrated cloth covered boards (spine darkened, some shelfwear especially at the lower edge of the spine, previous owner's name and an old price on front endpaper.
Book ID: 7460More details Price: $18.00 -
THE FASHIONABLE ADVENTURES OF JOSHUA CRAIG.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap (Appleton on title page) 1909. Hardcover - A worn copy of the last novel published during his lifetime by this successful muckraking journalists (his writings on the corruption of the US Senate were influential in the passage of the 17th amendment) - this book was responsible for his murder by a Harvard-educated musician from a prominent Maryland family who believed that the novel cast aspersions on his sister. Illustrated with a glossy frontispiece with tissue guard and 7 internal glossy plates. 344 pp plus 6 pp of about the author and his other books.
Condition: Fair condition only with rubbing and wear to the blue cloth covers, tape repairs and discoloration from the tape to several leaves, gift inscription dated Christmas 1911 on front pastedown.
Book ID: 84136More details Price: $17.50 -
THE GOOD RED EARTH.
Edition: Early vintage reprint ("Special Subscription Edition")
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1903. Hardcover - One of the Devonshire novels for which Phillpotts is best known, originally published in 1901. A title in the Crowned Masterpieces of Modern Fiction series, bound in marbleized boards with a dark green cloth spine and gilt lettering on the spine, top edge gilt. 328 pp.
Condition: Near fine (very light foxing to the endpapers). An uncommon early edition.
Book ID: 85665More details Price: $25.00 -
STUBBS AT FIFTY.
Edition: First American edition.
New York: Macmillan, 1937. Hardcover first edition - Mr Stubbs, a schoolteacher at a public school, is forced to resign for his socialist ideas, and in a dramatic change he goes to London, where he finds himself hopelessly out-of-date and makes a fool of himself to begin with. 318 pp.
Condition: Good overall in light tan cloth with dark brown lettering (some soiling to the covers, offsetting to the endpapers), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 77693More details Price: $16.50 -
MASTER OF THE VINEYARD.
Edition: 2nd printing (same month as the first)
New York: Putnam, 1910. Hardcover - A novel by this prolific writer, bound in lavender cloth in a beautiful example of Margaret Armstrong's Art Nouveau style with gilt lettering and a gilt and purple grapevine, with her monogram on the front board. Color frontispiece portrait by Blendon Campbell with a printed tissue guard. Each page has the text inside black ruled borders with red running heads. 372 pp.
Condition: Very good overall (front hinge cracked, gift inscription dated 1910).
Book ID: 75079More details Price: $20.00 -
MR OPP.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Century Co., 1909. Hardcover first edition - Early novel, the story of an "insignificant little man," rather clumsy ("If there is one person in the world that's got a talent for missing things, it's Mr. Opp."), given to enthusiams (temperance, among others), a small town newspaper publisher, etc, by this Kentucky-born author best known for 'Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.' Illustrated with a frontispiece and 5 insterted plates by Leon Guipon. 326 pp.
Condition: Good overall in illustrated green cloth with white lettering (some soiling and spotting to the covers, binding tight, contents clean.)
Book ID: 56133More details Price: $15.00 -
QUIN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Century Co., 1921. Hardcover first edition - Novel about a young man, a former ambulance driver in the Great War, making his way, by this Kentucky-born author best known for 'Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.' Frontispiece, 393 pp.
Condition: Good only in green cloth with black lettering (some soiling and spotting to the covers, binding tight, contents clean.)
Book ID: 43116More details Price: $15.00 -
OVERTAKEN.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Cosmopolitan, 1927. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel by this San Francisco born writer (for both Broadway and Hollywood, in addition to novels), who is perhaps best known for his novel 'Proud Flesh' which was made into a movie by King Vidal.
Condition: INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To Mr. Charles T. Scott, with best wishes of .." and uncommon thus. Very good+ in red cloth, lacking the dj.
Book ID: 32067More details Price: $45.00
