(no dust jacket) [solid copy, bottom corners bumped, a bit of soiling to page edges, previous owner's signature on front pastedown]. Novel about a young boy from Sussex who goes to London during the reign of Charles II. View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, hinges a little weak but intact, a number of scratch marks on front cover, light bumping at several corners, vintage bookseller's label (Des Forges Books De Luxe, Milwaukee) on rear pastedown, remnants of old price sticker on rear endpaper]. Novel with an art-world background, the story "enriched by a well-sketched scene that shifts from Kansas City to New York to Paris, and involves dealers, collectors, artists, galleries and paintings, with a wealth of incidental and most astute comment on modern art." The author was involved with the Nationa... View More...
[solid copy, light spotting/soiling to page edges, discoloration to endpapers/pastedowns, one-time owner's name and address on front pastedown; dust jacket (apparently a later issue, promoting the Warner Bros. film version of the book) chipped at spine ends and top of front panel, worn/soiled at all edges, 2-inch closed tear at top of front panel]. The novel of "every woman's great adventure"(!), this is kind of a "Grand Hotel" of Pregnancy, set in "the maternity ward of a great hospital, where ten women lie waiting" for said adventure, as we, the readers, are treated t... View More...
[virtually no wear at all, remarkably nice condition considering the cheapness of its production; jacket is similarly nice, with just a touch of rubbing at the spine ends]. "Gyp Farrow as her flighty, beautiful young mother's one mistake. When she was thrust into a gay, cocktail-drinking, night-club world, she tried hard to suppress her embarrassing truthfulness and to veil her serious young gaze that had a way of awakening the protective instincts of the most hardened bachelors-about-town. Then she met David with whom she had played 'come-to-my-wedding' ten years ago." View More...
[good sound copy with only light shelfwear, spine a bit turned, dust-darkening to top edge, some offsetting to endpapers, original owner's signature on front pastedown; jacket a bit worn at edges, a handful of insignificant tears and wrinkles, light soiling]. "A story of the bondage of a girl to a shadow" -- or, less poetically, a romance novel about a young woman whose dreams of blissful future happiness with the dreamboat who's just proposed to her are rent asunder by the sudden and wholly unexpected reappearance of "the man she had married when she was only sixteen, with whom sh... View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid copy, moderate wear at extremities, some dust-soiling to top edge, spine cloth slightly faded, minor soiling to bottom edge]. Novel set in pre-Revolutionary Mexico, purportedly a manuscript completed in 1880 (per the Preface) but only discovered and translated in 1911. [There is no date on the title page or copyright page (the 1923 date is from the Library of Congress catalog); the book was first published in London in 1922.] View More...
[good solid copy, mild shelfwear, light tanning to page edges and endpapers; jacket sunned at spine, minor edgewear/chipping along top/bottom edges, a bit of paper loss (no text affected) at spine ends, one-inch closed tear near bottom left-hand corner of front panel]. "The story of a small town going to judgment," centering around a murder trial and its effect on a community. View More...
[a lovely clean copy, with no significant wear but the very faintest spotting to the bottom page edges (less squinty eyes would call it Fine with nary a pause); jacket lightly soiled at the rear panel, with some light wear and a couple of tiny tears along the top edge, very attractive nonetheless]. "A Panoramic Novel," sayeth the dust jacket -- which is another way of saying that the ever-popular Miss Baldwin (or her publishers) was not above pulling one of the oldest New-York-novelist tricks in the book, that of concocting a stew of "interrelated stories" about a wide array o... View More...
(no dust jacket) [solid copy, light wear and very slight fraying to cloth at a couple of corners, light spotting to top page edges]. Novel about a mother and daughter, set in Colorado, San Francisco, Arizona, and New York. The author had already been a well-known muralist prior to spending nearly ten years (1917-1925) working in the film industry, first as an art director for Goldwyn Pictures, later as a producer/director/writer under his own company banner. By the time this novel appeared, he had quit the movie biz and returned to his artistic endeavors; several of the murals he produced i... View More...
[ex-department store library book, but marked as such only by multiple small library and "withdrawn" stamps on both pastedowns and endpapers, and with so little wear as to suggest that nobody ever actually checked it out and read it; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with a few small tears, a rough surface-peeled spot near base of spine, a tiny stain on the front panel, and a vintage price-sticker (from City of Paris, San Francisco) on the rear flap]. "To the three rapidly maturing daughters of Pastor Oguey, isolation in a small mountain parish in South Africa meant the slow, relentless frustrati... View More...
(pictorial cover, no dust jacket) [front hinge starting, but generally a solid, if worn, copy; soiling to rear cover, a bit of white splotching on front cover and along bottom edges, one-time owner's signature on ffep]. Stories with an Irish setting. The author's other titles include "Irish Idylls," "A Creel of Irish Stories," "From the Land of the Shamrock," etc. -- you get the idea. This is one of her less common titles. View More...
[light wear to cloth at spine ends, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge, faint (mostly erased) pencil signature on ffep; jacket has one small closed tear at top of front panel, spine a bit color-shifted, minor surface wear]. "To call this really excellent novel the most accurate picture of Indian life to be published since Kipling introduced us to India is not to exaggerate. It is amazingly truthful, frank and honest -- and it presents the Eastern viewpoint with startling freshness," although "some there are who may not agree with its thesis." The author, per a New York Times ... View More...
[good solid clean book, minor shelfwear only; jacket has small tears and minor paper loss at a couple of corners, fading to spine, short closed tear and associated diagonal crease at bottom of front panel]. An Italian prince, his wild and irrepressible brother, an English beauty, her impudent and possessive American lover, an artist, and more! "A really fresh experience among romantic novels." Ten bucks off the price if you can identify the dust jacket artist. View More...
[a tight clean book, minor wear to cloth at spine ends, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco deparment store) on rear pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, a couple of tiny chips at bottom of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. "Madam is Daisy Park-Newbold Wendell, a woman who is one-third grande dame, one-third eccentric and one-third child. Heiress to millions, twice unhappily married, this woman of tremendous energy spends most of her time playing the invalid. Either at her mother's Long Island place or in a huge suite of hotel rooms, Madam spends her days i... View More...
[book is tight and fresh, with no discernible wear; jacket shows a touch of wear along top and bottom edges, some minor soiling around the edges of the rear panel] Romantic period piece about two penniless "young Irish beauties who believed in a dream and saw it changed into truth" -- the dream in question being an old woman's prophecy that they would "marry in England a little below the King and that their luck would begin with the Golden Vanity and a woman with a man's name." Both names appearing on the title page of this book were pseudonyms used by British-born Canadian author Elizabeth ... View More...
[a decent solid copy, light soiling and age-tanning to edges of text block, light shelfwear, old tape marks on endpapers; the jacket has some shallow chipping and a couple of small tears along top edge, and appears to have been slightly trimmed along the top and bottom edges (since it's about 3/16" shorter than the book itself)]. The noted playwright's only novel, about "one memorable evening in the lives of a number of vaudeville artists." He also adapted the book for a dramatic version, "Here Come the Clowns," which opened on Broadway in December 1938; although it wasn'... View More...
[a good sound copy with intact binding, some soiling to edges of text block and offsetting to endpapers; the jacket is pretty rough, with small tears and bits of paper loss at all extremities, split and nearly separated along front hinge, spine panel mottled and soiled, etc.]. Novel about a 35-year-old married mother of two who decides to liberate herself from the drudgery of her domestic life: "Little by little she emerges from her home-keeping shell and joins one woman's club after another. She is sent as [a] delegate to conventions, starts a woman's exchange and finally becomes one of the... View More...
(no dust jacket) [decent enough reading copy, binding solid, some staining to covers, age-toning to edges of text block, bumping to several corners]. Novel about a woman who remarries following a Reno divorce, and moves with her new hubby to Hooperstown, Ohio. On the basis of her first spouse's having been a movie star, this book has gotten classified as a "Hollywood novel" and included in Anthony Slide's bibliography of the genre -- even though her second marriage has already taken place on the first page of the story, and overall the book's "Hollywood" content, as such, is n... View More...
(in A.L. Burt reissue dust jacket) [minimal shelfwear, top corners a bit bumped; jacket edgeworn, a bit of paper loss at spine ends, a few small edge-tears]. Proto-feminist novel that grapples with the burning question: "Is there a new kind of woman coming to disturb our homes -- a woman who lives by making war on her kind? Has the freedom won by the 'old-fashioned suffragist' been taken over by a new 'emancipated' type who ignore women's duties while demanding women's privileges? Hilda Reynolds was forced to believe so. She had created for her husband, her three boys, and her flapper ... View More...
[some wear to book at spine ends, small bookstore stamp on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn, spine sunned, irregular fading to front panel, small pieces missing at top corner of front panel and top corner of rear panel near spine, top half-inch of spine missing, crescent-shaped stain on front panel, various small tears along bottom edge, etc.]. The author's first novel, set in a veteran's hospital. View More...
