[light wear at spine extremities, spine slightly turned, light browning to page edges; jacket shows some wear along top and bottom edges, minor chipping at top of spine, a couple of small closed tears]. "Beau Tremaine -- a most handsome and cynical, middle-aged Libertine -- when desperate for money for his many diversified pleasures, organizes a bunch of glamorous and exciting females and males into a so-called 'health resort,' but which was nothing else, in reality, but a good excuse for a sex camp in wild and turbulent Reno, Nevada -- the gambling mecca of the entire country." Lest... View More...
[a good sound copy, minor shelfwear, light surface deterioration of cloth near bottom of front cover, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block; the jacket is a bit worn at edges and spine extremities, with a one-inch scrape/indentation mark on the spine, and a long diagonal closed tear (and associated crease) at the top of the front panel (which is quite unobtrusive and might have been expertly repaired at some point)]. The story of a horse-loving English farm boy who serves in the British Army during World War I, but whose disillusionment upon his return to civilian life in London leads hi... View More...
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear and minor bumping to bottom edge, age-toning and light dust-soiling to page edges; jacket is edgeworn, with various small tears, minor paper loss at spine ends (no loss of text)]. This "romance of the modern marriage market" mostly takes the form of a discussion between debutante Mary and her bachelor uncle, who is permitted to read her diary, and struggles mightily to understand this ultra-modern girl's explanations of how she "taught her fleshy graces to mirror virtue and mask ribald deeds with the simper of innocence." (I hate it when they d... View More...
[book and binding are sound, but with considerable foxing to the page edges and the first few pages, slight deterioration to cloth along the front hinge, and the original owner's name and town scrawled broadly across both the front pastedown and the ffep; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, soiling to the rear panel, light pencil scribbling on front panel]. Novel about a good-guy businessman/politician, the proprietor of a big woolen mill (and mayor of the town in which it's located) whose "passion was to make water power -- the 'wh... View More...
[good solid book, light shelfwear and minor soiling to bottom edges of covers, very slight bumping at top corners; jacket has shallow ragged chip at base of spine, tiny nick at top of spine, light wear at extremities]. Epic novel set "against the ever shifting background of the Great Boer Trek into the Transvaal," focused on the fortunes of Teda van der Weg, "a character who would have been accepted as an equal by the women of America who carried their gentleness and spiritual greatness across the early American frontier." The American-born author (a graduate of Smith College)... View More...
[solid clean copy, light wear to extremities; jacket has a tiny bit of paper loss at top of spine, short closed tear and associated diagonal crease at bottom of rear panel]. The author's third novel, set in "a little seashore town in California called Carnival-by-the-Sea, notable chiefly for its amusement park," and concerns the interactions of an embittered and sadistic wheelchair-bound old woman, her alcoholic stepson, and her mentally disturbed daughter (an escapee from an asylum). Ms. de Lima was educated at Barnard College and Columbia University, and worked as a journalist before turni... View More...
DETAILS NEEDED. (B&W sketches, decorations) "A boorish husband, a wife starved for love, and a lover out of the East, exotic, passionate, and chivalrous. Then Fate and a senseless betrayal. Who shall blame the downtrodden French bourgeois wife for preferring the most delicate of lovers to her hum-drum existence, especially since he proves to be a highly sensitive Mandarin of China? People may be shocked and perhaps dismayed by the intense love story that is complicated by a question of race feeling. Yet every one will be charmed by the manner and style of M. de Miomandre, who writes wi... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate external wear, some dust-soiling to page edges, light foxing to fore-edge, one-time owner's initials and date and place of purchase all floridly-rendered in pencil on ffep; hinges and binding fully intact]. A collection of 25 stories by the Irish author (1863-1932), who wrote under this pseudonym for nearly half a century. According to her obituary, sixteen of her plays were produced in London and New York between 1887 and 1913; she also wrote dozens of novels, among which the best known was probably "The Dop Doctor" (1910), a novel of the Boer War. Another ... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice solid copy, minor wear to bottom edge; jacket a little faded at spine, horizontal creasing at top of front panel, still bright and colorful]. "Who was Nadia Brasiloff? What was her past? To all appearances she was the companion to Madame Brenney, Andre's mother. But she was more than that. Deep fires smouldered within the warm beauty of this woman; greed, ambition, passion and courage. To a dying man she gave undying pleasure and swift, killing cruelty. With all the artistry of a famous courtesan she lured him, frenzied him, and exalted him -- but never sated hi... View More...
[light shelfwear to bottom edge, a few spots of fading on both front and rear covers, minor soiling near bottom of front cover; jacket lightly worn along top and bottom edges, short closed tear and very slight paper loss at top right corner of front panel]. The narrative device for this novel of small-town life, set on a small island off the New England coast, is the use of personal-news items in the local newspapers as chapter headings. The author then "takes these notes, dull on the surface, and backward and forward, retrospect and present, weaves her picture of the town, its romance and t... View More...
[a solid clean copy, modestly shelfworn on bottom edge and at top of spine, one-time owner's name and address on front pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along top edge, light dampstain to upper part of spine, extending a bit onto the rear panel]. (cartoon illustrations) Sub-titled (on the jacket) "the SCREAM-LINE correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend," this is an amusing and topical entry in the primarily American sub-sub-genre of the epistolary comic novel that might be described as "letters from a (not-so) dumb gal (or guy)." (The same well was notably tapped by Ring La... View More...
(blue cloth with paper label on front cover; no dust jacket) [spine a little turned, modest wear to spine ends, light foxing on endpapers]. "The SCREAM-LINE correspondence of a radio charmer and her girl friend" (per the jacket blurb, not present on this copy), this is an amusing and topical entry in the primarily American sub-sub-genre of the epistolary comic novel that might be described as "letters from a (not-so) dumb gal (or guy)." (The vein was notably tapped by Ring Lardner ("You Know Me Al"), and really started flowing after the success of Anita Loos' "Gent... View More...
(price-clipped) [good solid copy, moderate shelfwear; jacket edgeworn, a bit soiled, mild chipping along top edge, minor paper loss at top of spine, one small closed tear at top of front panel]. "The scene is an isolated village on the coast of Maine. The life of the villagers is narrow; seldom do they leave the community, and they have little interest in what takes place elsewhere. Sis Forrest, the minister's son, is cast in a different mold. Sensitive, and better educated than his neighbors, he is filled with a desire to see the world, to get away from petty bickerings, gossip and jealou... View More...
(price-clipped) [moderately shelfworn but still solid copy, previous owner's name taped to ffep, top edge dust-darkened; jacket edgeworn, moderately soiled, spine sunned, minor paper loss at top of spine and top left corner of front panel]. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. " The thrilling adventures of a daring youth in the cities and jungles of Peru," this being "Pancho Bustamonte, a student at the Colegio of Callao [ who] mingles with Indians,foreigners, revolutionaries, and all the other people who find a refuge in the South American country." The author "s... View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid reading copy, moderate external soiling, some deterioration to cloth on rear cover, 3-inch split to cloth along front joint; humorous contemporary gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, along with attractive vintage bookplate of one Marianna V. Hover]. Novel set in the Lake District of northern England (Cumberland, specifically), telling the tale of a couple of poachers, Red Ike and Will Moffatt, who run afoul of a powerful and not-very-nice landowner -- a situation complicated by the fact that Will and the landowner's daughter are in love. (And Red Ike is in love ... View More...
[light shelfwear to book, age-toning and light spotting to top edge of text block, front hinge starting; jacket has a large-ish chip at upper left corner of front panel (extending a bit onto the top of the spine) and a closed tear that extends into the upper middle section of the jacket, also a little paper loss at base of spine (which is also a bit age-browned); tiny chip and diagonal closed tear at top of rear panel]. "Though [the author] has of necessity leaned heavily upon the Dialogues and has been as faithful as possible to the historic facts, her interest is that of the novelist rat... View More...
VG+ in VG+ dj [book mildly shelfworn; jacket spine browned, minor chipping at spine ends, a bit of scuffing/soiling to rear panel, one tiny tear at top corner of rear panel, front panel clean and very attractive]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half- title page. A novel of Florida politics, in which a powerful political boss views his son, newly home from college, as the heir to his position of power and influence -- but unfortunately the son has other ideas. Signed by Author View More...
[nice solid copy, some dust-soiling to top edge but otherwise just minimal shelfwear, faint bookstore stamp at bottom of front pastedown; jacket has a couple of small chips along top edge, a few small tears, soiling to rear panel]. The author's first novel, set in Labrador, where (per the jacket copy) she had spent a couple of miserable winters. "This is Alec Hardy's story. Part Welsh, part Indian, he clings to his wilderness life and trapper and fisherman. The call of the land is in his blood. He is deeply suspicious of an Empire-at-war. Yet his love for Flora [and] his brother's enl... View More...
[book is nice and clean, minimal shelfwear, vintage bookseller's label (Daniels and Fisher Book Shop) at top of rear pastedown; jacket is a bit mangled at top of spine, one small tear at top of front panel, internally tape-mended across top of spine, otherwise just modestly edgeworn and lightly rubbed]. "The scene of [the novel] is England; the chief character, Sylvia Lyndon, who lives in a London flat and has a secret desire for the country and for an opportunity to bring up children." She finds an opportunity to fulfill that dream at age 44, when she falls in love with and marries ... View More...
[moderate shelfwear, light soiling to endpapers, bottom corners slightly bumped, a couple of numbers stamped on rear fep; jacket soiled and spotted, wear and slight paper loss at most corners]. "Mrs. Diver's new novel carries on the story of Sir Roy Sinclair, a man of vision and genius, who dominated her last book, 'The Singer Passes,' in which his fate was left uncertain. Here, too, she again reveals her insight into Eastern character through the mental and emotional problems of Sher Afzul Khan, a commissioned officer in a frontier regiment who belongs neither to the Anglo-Indian world h... View More...
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