[spine slightly turned, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge, a couple of lightly bumped corners, one-time owner's address label on front pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, spine browned, small chip at top of rear panel; jacket a teensy bit shorter than the book, apparently made that way]. "A novel of protest, written by a young apostle of revolt, against the present system of education in the colleges." Although the author is not identified by gender, the book seems to have a definite feminist slant, telling of the travails of a young graduate student teaching Freshman English whil... View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn but still sound copy, a bit of bumping/fraying at all corners, spine cloth faded (lettering just about gone)]. Epistolary relationship/romance novel. View More...
[nice tight clean copy, minor shelfwear only; jacket very attractive, with just a touch of soiling and a couple of tiny edge-nicks]. The trials and tribulations of an unwed mother -- or, more precisely, a divorcee who gets knocked up by her lover, then refuses his half-hearted marriage proposal, and subsequently suffers "pain, hunger, want." The jacket copy really goes to town, in the best Macaulay house style: "No human experience is so profound and rich in emotion as the long crisis of pregnancy . . . and when the expected child must legally be fatherless then crisis is added upon crisis. .... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn copy, with numerous abrasions to cloth along top and bottom edges of both covers, some wear at spine ends, modest bumping at all corners, some discoloration in gutters]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To Robert Rainer[?] / With kindest regards / Frederick Hazlitt Brennan / Santa Ana, Jan. 4, 1944." One of the odder novels you'll ever run across -- as one contemporary reviewer described it, "a singularly unclassifiable mixture of whimsey, dullness, vulgarity and illuminating thought." It's kind of a fantasy-satire in which the title cha... View More...
(no dust jacket) [pretty rough condition, reading copy only; heavy external wear, all pages attached but binding weak, rear endpapers removed with consequent weakening of rear hinge, vintage bookseller's label on front pastedown]. A novel of the Vermont hill country, reissued as a Dell paperback in 1953, under the title "Go Down to Glory." View More...
(no dust jacket) [light external water-spotting (mostly to rear cover), short bends at bottom corners of first two pages] Gentle satire of the "Ex-" genre of confessional fiction that had a brief vogue in the late 1920s ("Ex-Wife" and "Ex-Mistress" being the prime examples), as a former baby looks back from the perspective of his 4th birthday, and tells all about "the memories, the joys, and the sorrows of my youth." Although no author's name appears on the book, it's attributed to novelist/screenwriter Aben Kandel (by the Library of Congress and others); the book's dedication reads "For Ste... View More...