Author: (Appel, Benjamin)

"Property Protected" [story] (in Esquire, March 1937)

By: (Appel, Benjamin)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Chicago, Esquire, Inc. : (March 1937)

Edition: (Vol. VII, No. 3; whole No. 40)

Seller ID: 17930

ISBN: NO

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good+

[nice clean copy, binding (staples) firm, a bit of wear at spine ends, bumping and slight crinkling at upper right corner, one-time owner's name discreetly rubber-stamped in "q" of title on front cover]. (photographs, cartoons, ads, etc.) One of the harder-to-find 1930s issues of "The Magazine for Men," despite its general lack of household-name contributors (which is to say no Fitzgerald or Hemingway), due in large measure to its inclusion of the first appearance of Pietro di Donato's "Christ in Concrete," his story of Italian-American construction workers. It's acco...
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Dock Walloper

By: Appel, Benjamin

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Lion Books, Inc. (166) : 1953

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17343

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

[moderately edgeworn, light browning to page edges, hinges tender but intact]. Mass Market PB Uncommon paperback original, a collection of short pieces apparently hustled into print to capitalize on the success of Appel's previous Lion paperback, "Hell's Kitchen," which according to the possibly-hyperbolic back-cover blurb on this book had "sold nearly a million copies." This volume contains ten stories: two excerpts from the novels "Brain Guy" and "The Dark Stain"; seven reprinted from various magazines, 1933-1941; and the title story, especially written for ...
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Fortress in the Rice

By: Appel, Benjamin

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. : (c.1951)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20460

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear to book; jacket shows just a touch of edgewear, tiny chip at top of spine, small scratch mid-spine]. Novel set in the Japanese-occuped Philippines during World War II. "In this powerful, fast-moving novel of the Philippines, from Pearl Harbor to the return of the Americans, [the author] has dealt with a whole society, created a world in a fashion achieved by few American novelists. [The narrative involves] battles, love affairs, torture chambers, orgies, political machinations, [and] marches through the jungle -- each of these reflect[ing] in one way or a...
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The Power-House

By: Appel, Benjamin

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. : 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24069

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dj

[a nice tight clean copy, with minor wear to the extremities, top of spine slightly pushed; the jacket is bright and attractive with modest edgewear, some soiling to the rear panel, a shallow chip at the base of the spine, and a couple of tiny chips at the top edge of the front panel -- but also with a deep (1.5") chip at the top of the spine that has taken most of the title with it]. Very scarce novel of big-city crime and corruption, by the author that someone (I think it was me) once called "the best damn hardboiled writer you've probably never heard of." It's the middle work in Appel's "B...
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Author: (Appel, Benjamin)

"Property Protected" [story] (in Esquire, March 1937)

Dock Walloper

Fortress in the Rice

The Power-House