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MASTERS OF MEN: A Romance of the New Navy.
Edition: Early vintage reprint.
Condition: Near fine. An uncommon early edition.
Book ID: 85664More details Price: $30.00 -
BARRIERS BURNED AWAY.
Edition: Later printing.
Condition: Very good in dark green cloth with gilt lettering, white border on front cover, small decoration on spine, top edge gilt. Gift inscription dated Christmas 1904 on front endpaper.
Book ID: 87591More details Price: $25.00 -
BERTRAND RUSSELL SPEAKS HIS MIND
Edition: First printing, a pocket paperback.
New York: Avon, 1960. First edition - Transcript of a series of television shows with interviewer Woodrow Wyatt - Russell on happiness, war, religion, the H-bomb, fanaticism and more. Vintage pocket paperback - G 13.
Condition: Fine.
Book ID: 10953More details Price: $12.00 -
EASY TO MURDER.
Edition: First printing.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1951. dj. Hardcover first edition - A woman with an insatiable need for power finds her brother-in-law, a reporter, and his fiancee in her way, and determines that murder is the simplest solution to her problem,
Condition: Fair condition only in a fair dust jacket (small round indentation on front cover affecting the first few pages, rather severe toning to the pages, dust jacket is missing a large chip at the top of the spine, extending onto the back cover, other smaller chips and edgewear).
Book ID: 71936More details Price: $13.50 -
SILVER STREET WOMAN.
Edition: First paperback edition.
New York: Pocket Books, 1955. Vintage paperback - a Cardinal edition #C-172. Cover illustration by Barye Philips.
Condition: Near fine - appears unread.
Book ID: 3770More details Price: $9.00 -
THE WOMAN IN QUESTION.
Edition: First printing.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1909. Hardcover first edition - Romantic novel illustrated with a color frontispiece and two color plates by Clarence F. Underwood. 346 pp plus 5 pp of publisher's advertisements.
Condition: Good only in red cloth with gilt lettering (lettering rubbed on spine, overall edgewear and soling to the cloth covers, prev owner's name and address, 2 pp loose but present.) Uncommon.
Book ID: 42014More details Price: $15.00 -
TANTE
New York: Century, 1912. Vintage novel attractively bound in red cloth with a black embossed flower design and gold stamping on the front cover and spine.
Condition: Very good condition (prev owner's name and "Chico,1912.")
Book ID: 7759More details Price: $35.00 -
THE OLD COUNTESS.
Edition: First US printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Hardcover first edition - A romantic - and tragic - novel of an English couple living in France.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth, lacking the dj. (some rubbing to lettering on spine.)
Book ID: 22097More details Price: $12.50 -
SAINT JOAN: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue.
Edition: First thus- a pocket paperback.
Baltimore: Penguin, 1951. Penguin #3.
Condition: Edge of textblock slightly bumped, rubbing to covers, usual toning to pages. 35c price sticker on lower corner of front cover - overall in near very good condition.
Book ID: 14787More details Price: $10.00 -
SARAH AND SON.
Edition: First photoplay edition.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, ( ca 1930, c 1929). Hardcover - The story of a music hall singer whose husband steals their baby and the quest she embarks on to find her son. First photoplay edition illustrated with scenes from the Paramount Picture starring Fredric March and Ruth Chatterton - Frontispiece and five inserted glossy plates. Note from author to publisher, vii, 296 pp.
Condition: Very good minus in blue cloth with black lettering (spine sunned), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 72479More details Price: $15.00 -
COUNTRY CLUB GIRL.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1932). Hardcover - Despite being reprinted by A.L. Burt, this is quite uncommon in any edition - a story about a young woman who has just graduated from a finishing school. From the synopsis on the first page ""Life, to Gabrielle Barclay, was a champagne cocktail, a pretty bauble, until she met Michael. 'I want to live! I want to know exciting, fascinating people. Wicked people. I want a chance to prove that all the things I think are more than theories!' Gabrielle enjoyed saying to her smug and wealthy parents, to her idle girl friends, and, above all, to the boys she lured with her golden hair, silvery voice and slim white body." 255 pp.
Condition: Very good in orange cloth (stamp from a lending library on the front endpaper)
Book ID: 69416More details Price: $24.50 -
A COUNTRY LAWYER.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good in olive green cloth with gilt lettering (previous owner's name on front endpaper, lettering somewhat rubbed on the spine)
Book ID: 83012More details Price: $24.50 -
BROKE OF COVENDEN
Edition: First thus.
Boston: Small Maynard and Co, 1914. Hardcover - A story of an English gentleman and his family - 6 daughters and one son - and of their gradual disintegration as a family, by this prolific and popular novelist. Originally published in 1904, the title page has the notation "rewritten 1914." 467 pp.
Condition: Good overalll in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering (rubbing to lettering on spine, some foxing to edges of textblock, but a straight and tight copy)
Book ID: 85952More details Price: $18.00 -
THE BACKWOODSMAN: The Autobiography of a Continental on the New York Frontier During the Revolution.
Edition: Early vintage reprint ("Special Subscription Edition")
New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., Inc., 1903. Hardcover - Historical fiction - 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. 371 pp.
Condition: Very good (a bit of insect damage to cloth on spine, but still a sturdy tight copy). An uncommon early edition.
Book ID: 85689More details Price: $25.00 -
ON THE HIGHEST HILL.
Edition: First US printing.
Cleveland and New York: International Fiction Library, (1929,) dj. Hardcover first edition - A story of a forced marriage, moral cowardice, blackmail, murder, escape from a penal colony, serving in World War I and more. Notable for the striking dust jacket with an orange front panel and a face of a prisoner behind bars superimposed on a the white silhouette of a soldier. 286 pp.
Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket (toning to the pages, gift inscription dated in 1930.)
Book ID: 33269More details Price: $30.00 -
SWORD PLAY.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1926) dj. Hardcover - Described on the front cover of the dust jacket as a "romantic masterpiece" this is a swash buckling novel set in the early 17th century, by a US journalist and editor, probably best known for his Edgar Rice Burroughs-inspired science fiction
f/fantasy trilogy, "Polaris of the Snows." 301 pp plus 14 pp of publisher's ads.Condition: Very good in magenta cloth with gold lettering in a fair only dust jacket with several chips, tear to back cover.
Book ID: 83043More details Price: $20.00 -
THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN.
Edition: First edition.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in small town America. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates by Lucius W. Hitchcock. 389 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in red cloth with gilt lettering - rubbing to the covers, darkening to the spine, some foxing, especially to the margins of the plates, Binding sturdy.
Book ID: 42474More details Price: $12.50 -
TREVE.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (c 1924.). Hardcover - The adventures of a young collie on a sheep ranch in the Southwest. Frontipiece. An afterword in which Terhune describes the real dog from Sunnybank who served as his inspiration and model for Treve. 312 pp plus 6 pp of publisher's advertisements.
Condition: Good only in sage green cloth - some soiling and wear to the covers, usual toning to the pages, sturdy binding.
Book ID: 38665More details Price: $12.50 -
BUFF, A COLLIE and Other Dog Stories.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (ca 1944, c 1921.) dj. Hardcover - Despite the title, Buff was a brave and intelligent mixed breed dog, mostly collie but also part pit-terrier. Contains a notice that this was printed under wartime conditions on dust jacket flap and on title page. vii, 341 pp. Illustrated dark blue and white endpapers.
Condition: Very good in blue cloth in a fair only dustjacket (significant edgewear and chipping to the dj, but still attractive, and essentially complete.)
Book ID: 39252More details Price: $18.00 -
MARTIN MERRIVALE HIS X MARK.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Hurst and Company, nd (ca 1910, c 1854). Hardcover - Juvenile novel originally published in 1854 by this Northern writer best known for his nonfiction balanced and fair studies of the South after the Civil War, and as a friend of Mark Twain and Walt Whitman. Glossy frontispiece. 384 pp.
Condition: Very good in illustrated boards (usual noticeable age-toning to the pages)
Book ID: 65967More details Price: $13.50 -
GILBERT, OR THEN AND NOW: A Thrilling Story of the Life and Achievements of a Virginia Negro.
Edition: First edition.
Condition: Very good minus in original burgundy cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover (chip at base of spine and some rubbing to the lettering on the spine but overall a tight and sturdy copy)
Book ID: 70071More details Price: $150.00 -
THE BLUE FLOWER.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, (1911, c 1902) dj. Hardcover - A collection of nine short stories. Color frontispiece with tissue guard. A lovely vintage copy in blue cloth with a cream panel on the front cover, edged in gilt with gilt lettering, depicting a blue flower. Dark blue lettering on spine. 299 pp plus 9 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (dust jacket has only a few small chips, and it has kept the cloth covers bright and attractive.)
Book ID: 70506More details Price: $20.00 -
SPIDER BOY: A Scenario for a Moving Picture.
Edition: 2nd printing before publication.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. dj. Hardcover - Novel of the "extraordinary adventures that befell Ambrose Deacon among the moving picture stars of Hollywood". 297 pp. Great art deco/jazz era dustjacket by Ronald McRae.
Condition: Very good in light tan boards with brown decorative border on cover, lettering on spine in a fair dust jacket with a large chip to the top of the spine, other edgewear, splitting along fold of front cover, but despite these flaws it is still bright and attractive with original price of 2.50 on flap.
Book ID: 87978More details Price: $50.00 -
THE BANDBOX.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: A. L. Burt, (1912). Hardcover - A novel which "bristles with breathless adventure, mistaken identities, detective investigations, romantic developments, and startling situations... It is a rousing story, told with a stimulating style, and culminating in love rewarded" Illustrated by Arthur I. Keller with a glossy frontispiece and three inserted plates. Basis of the 1919 film of the same name. 319 pp plus 6 pp ads.
Condition: Very good in illustrated red boards with cream lettering,
Book ID: 75073More details Price: $21.50 -
TWO LITTLE MAIDS: A Tale of South Florida and CONCHITA: A Mexican Romance.
Edition: First edition.
New York: W.L. Allison Co., (1894). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Two romantic short novels in one volume. SIGNED by the author opposite the title page under this comment "If to err is human, to forgive divine/ Pass lightly over the many faults/ in this littlle book of mine!" The inscription is fairly faint, but still legible. The first novel includes a case of mistaken identity, a visit to the Everglades, and a deliberate attempt to kill the heroine by giving her a scarf infected with yellow fever. Despite the title of the second novel, it is set mostly in New York City or in Paris. Mediums and hpynotism make brief appearances. 143, 107 pp.
Condition: Good overall in brown embossed cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine - one corner bumped, toning to pages, rear hinge cracking, but still a sturdy and easily readable copy and uncommon signed.
Book ID: 77926More details Price: $75.00 -
VAN CLEVE.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Macmillan, 1913. Hardcover first edition - The third novel, a story both romantic and adventurous, by this Ohio-born author, set in the time of the Spanish-American war. 396 pp plus 5 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good only in dark green cloth with gilt panels and lettering (dampstaining to upper corner of text block, which has left tide-marks on the pages, but tightly bound, still very readable).
Book ID: 87324More details Price: $20.00 -
THE GAYWORTHYS: A Story of Threads and Thrums.
Edition: Reprint.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1890 (c. 1865.). Hardcover -
Condition: Good only in olive green cloth with gilt lettering and a black illustration of a morning glory vine (front hinge cracked, gift inscription dated Christmas 1896, small corner cut from title page, some rubbing and wear to the covers.)
Book ID: 30070More details Price: $14.00 -
A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP and Penelope's English Experiences.
Edition: First printing.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1893. Hardcover first edition - With five illustrations by Clifford Carleton.
Condition: Very good in green-gray cloth (prev owner's name and date, Xmas 1893; some wear to cloth, spine slanted, lettering on spine rubbed and no longer readable.)
Book ID: 7749More details Price: $18.00 -
SACRAMENTO WALTZ.
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, (1957) dj. Hardcover first edition - "In the sleepy middle-class world of Sacramento in 1912 lived three of the most delightful and unique women ever to grace a period piece - a beautiful widow in search of a husband; a grocery-store enchantress in search of men; and a diminutive piano teacher excluded from life's exciting experiences by her abnormally small size." 212 pp.
Condition: Near fine in a fair only dust jacket with several chips and tears..
Book ID: 68761More details Price: $16.50 -
THE FOUR EVES (original title: Assistant Wife)
Edition: Reprint.
New York: Woodford Press, (1947.) dj. Hardcover - Novel - of free love, unfettered by the conventional ties of marriage (although convention wins out in the end, since "we couldn't possibly have a home in a comfortable neighborhood if we weren't married" - originally published in 1935 by this prolific writer. 253 pp. Dust jacket art by Ric Grasso.
Condition: Very good in a good only dust jacket (usual toning to pages, prev owner's name, line to bottom edge, dj has some large chips but cover art is bright and attractive.)
Book ID: 36063More details Price: $17.50