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By: Barretto, Larry
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Caxton House, Inc.: 1939 (c.1933)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 20192
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good in Good dj
[minor shelfwear, some soiling and age-toning to page edges, cute vintage bookplate on front pastedown (with light verse pleading for the book's return to its owner); jacket is worn at edges and corners, short diagonal closed tear at top right corner of front panel, some minor paper loss at spine ends (taking away part of "Three" at top of spine title)]. A tri-generational story of a New York family, beginning in "the era of gas lamps and hansom cabs," and framed in part as the story of their home, "which in the beginning is an aristocratic brownstone front on a quiet stree... View more info
By: Bartley, Nalbro
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1928
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 19572
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
(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 info
By: Barton, Betsey
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1948)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6237
Condition: Very Good in Fair dj
[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 info
By: Bates, H.E.
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith: [1932]
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 19266
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[nice tight copy, very slight bumping to bottom corners, vintage price sticker (The White House) at upper corner of rear pastedown; jacket lightly soiled, a handful of tiny nicks in bottom edge of rear panel]. An early work by Bates, "a novel of life in the poor quarter of an industrial town" in the English Midlands, the titular street being "a narrow cul-de-sac surrounded by factories, breweries, and sordid streets of houses." According to at least one critic, this was the book with which the author really began to find his voice, drawing on his family history and his own No... View more info
By: Bates, H.E.
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 19402
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[light shelfwear only, one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; jacket somewhat age-toned, with a few tiny tears and minor paper loss surrounding top of spine, short tears at bottom hinges, one additional tiny closed tear at top of front panel]. Bates's second published novel, "the story of a woman's passionate love for her husband's romantic and shiftless brother. There are three major characters, Catherine -- Charles, her husband -- and Andrew, the lover. Their story is acted out against the background of the English countryside ablaze with the beauty which Catherine sees and feels ... View more info
By: Bayley, John
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann, Inc: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9451
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[solid copy, slight dust-darkening to top edge, top of spine lightly bumped/faded, faint bookseller's stamp on front pastedown; jacket worn along hinges, a few tiny tears/chips, slight paper loss at top of spine and at a couple of corners, old price sticker on rear flap]. The author's first novel, set in Germany during the Allied occupation immediately following World War II, and dealing with conflicts between the members of a British Intelligence Unit. The author was the devoted husband of the late Iris Murdoch, whose literary fame ultimately eclipsed his own, and has published a pair of mo... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1959)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16793
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Good+ dj
(price-clipped) [slightly bumped at bottom corners, otherwise a nice clean copy with minor shelfwear; jacket has a number of small chips along top and bottom edges and at top of spine]. The fantasy author's "serious" book, a small-racist-Southern-town novel that served as the basis for a remarkably effective low-budget, shot-on-location film adaptation by Roger Corman, released in 1961, with William Shatner as a rabble-rousing outsider who comes into town and makes a whole lotta trouble for everybody. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York/London, The Century Co.: (c.1931)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19570
Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj
[very nice condition, tight and clean with no discernible wear, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges, a few tiny edge-tears along bottom edge, one-inch closed tear at top rear hinge]. Novel set in Ireland, about the revolt of a young man against the heritage represented by his father, a "stiff-necked old baron" who's the last of the Kilgannon line. "For six hundred years the Kilgannons of Ireland had leagued with the Devil and drunk to his glory. Three things they had loved, and all to... View more info
By: Beeding, Francis
Price: $350.00
Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: (c.1928)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 16938
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[solid copy, light wear to bottom edge, bumped at base of spine, spine slightly turned; jacket has tiny tears and minor paper loss at most top corners, still quite presentable]. Suspense novel set in a "private asylum for the mentally deficient." Later served as the basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 thriller SPELLBOUND, with Gregory Peck as the man whose innermost torment is expressed in a memorable Salvador Dali-designed dream sequence. Very difficult to find in any sort of a dust jacket; I believe this uses the same art as the first American (Little, Brown) edition, but I've never... View more info
By: Beeding, Francis (pseud. for John Leslie Palmer and Hilary Aiden St. George Saunders)
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: (c.1937)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 13566
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[nice copy, square and solid, faint shelfwear at top and bottom edges; jacket edgeworn, various small tears, still attractive]. "Against an authentic background of war-torn Spain, [the author] tells of a struggle for a tremendously important military secret -- pitting the secret agents of four nations against one another and ranging in his story from Madrid to Seville, from underground dugouts to airplanes above the battle lines." One of numerous thrillers by this pseudonymous authorial team to feature Colonel Alastair Granby, D.S.O., of the British Intelligence Service. View more info
By: Beith, Janet
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15915
Condition: Very Good
(no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn book, slight bumping to top corners, spine cloth a bit darkened/discolored, small bookseller's label (A.H. Esch & Co. Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta) at bottom corner of front pastedown]. Novel spanning the 1880s to the 1930s, about two brothers from the Scottish Highlands who go into commerce in the mills of Manchester. They end up falling in love with the same girl, but one of them goes off to the Boer War, so that takes care of that problem -- but with a couple of hundred pages yet to go. View more info
By: Bell, Thomas
Price: $350.00
Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19408
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[nice clean book, appears unread, a bit of wear to spine ends and bottom corners, bottom rear corner bumped; jacket has some minor chipping at spine ends, one-inch closed tear and associated creasing at top of rear panel, irregular light dust-soiling to rear panel]. "The hero of this romance is a man on horseback, vigorous young Brian, Duke of Malvern in Illyria. Illyria is the kingdom of earth, empire of the illusions essential to human happiness; the arena, therefore, of youth's battle for his dreams." The author's very uncommon first novel, a piece of pseudo-historical-fictional ... View more info
By: Belloc Lowndes, Mrs. [Marie]
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1941
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18945
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[modest shelfwear to top and bottom edges, otherwise a nice clean book; jacket a bit edgeworn, with a few nicks and scrapes, small closed tear and associated creasing at top edge of rear panel]. "Upon the dark canvas of approaching war Mrs. Lowndes paints a thrilling romance almost blacked out by robbery and attempted murder." An RAF Wing Commander, a "morganatic daughter of Leopold of Austria," a rich South African named "Golden Bull" Gatke, an Italian butler, a villainess who's also the daughter of a clergyman, and a refugee Austrian Archduchess are all involved. View more info
By: Belloc Lowndes, Mrs. [Marie]
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1933
Edition: 1st (U.S.) edition
Seller ID: 18896
Condition: Very Good in Good dj
[moderate wear at all corners, very slight fraying to cloth at bottom corners, very light foxing to page edges; jacket worn and soiled, with a few small tears, and a very amateurish tape-repair along the top edge (including a shallow chip at top of rear panel replaced with a piece of white paper, like nobody'd ever notice THAT)]. A sequel to the author's 1929 novel "Duchess Laura, Certain Days of Her Life" (published in the U.S. as "The Duchess Intervenes"), recounting more "episodes and adventures of the Duchess of Richborough, affectionately known as Duchess Laura."... View more info
By: Bennett, Arnold
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1929
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 19385
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
[book very slightly bumped at top front corner, otherwise in virtually as-new condition; jacket is similarly nice, with just some minor soiling to the spine, light browning along two edges of the rear panel]. "It was an accident that Alan Frith-Walter should have boarded the same train as his son and daughter-in-law; it was an accident that he should find them quarreling; and the track wreck itself was the climax to a series of accidents. Arnold Bennett, with urbanity and humor, has found in the train a microcosm -- 'a cargo of opulent beings of fleshly ideals and aspirings.' Out of thi... View more info
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company: 1928
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19278
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj
[minor shelfwear, small faded spot at base of spine cloth; jacket has a few small tears, some soiling/rubbing, small chip at base of spine, tiny chip at bottom of rear panel]. "A powerful story of modern China," centering around the mixed-race son born of a forced marriage between a Chinese woman and an American sea-captain. "With character and mind complicated by this conflicting blood, Hen-li develops into a leader of New China. The narrative of his passionate and all but tragic career, his vacillation between Western and Eastern viewpoints, becomes not only an unusual human do... View more info
By: Benson, Theodora
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1932
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 19688
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[light shelfwear to bottom edge of rear cover, otherwise a solid clean book that appears to have never been read; jacket shows some scraping and surface-chipping along edges and at spine ends]. Theodora Benson (1906-1968), the daughter of Godfrey Rathbone Benson (aka Lord Charnwood), a British author, academic, Liberal politician and philanthropist, the author made a name for herself in the late 1920s and 1930s for her tales of "a cynical world of failed romance, lost ideals, social foibles, and ruthless self-seeking." This novel, her fourth, revolves around "three letters, three... View more info
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Rae D. Henkle Co., Inc.: (c.1929)
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 19321
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj
[nice clean copy, minimal shelfwear, very slight bumping to top corners; jacket has small tears and occasional minor paper loss at most corners, light surface rubbing and moderate soiling]. An early novel by this English author, "a story of maternal greed and simplicity and their effect on the lives of the children of two widows." Among the quotes from British reviews lifted for the American jacket blurb is one positing the novel as "reminiscent in its passion and power of the Bronte Sisters" (what, all of them?) -- rather an interesting observation in light of the fact that ... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Covici-Friede: 1932
Edition: 1st/2nd printings before publication
Seller ID: 16903
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[solid copy despite some slight deterioration to binding at spine ends, offsetting/discoloration to gutters, minor dust-soiling to top edge, one-time owner's signature on both pastedowns and on the ffep; jacket is color-faded at spine (although black lettering and graphic are still strong) but still quite attractive, and exceptionally clean given its textured surface]. The Romanian-born author's "first full-length novel of gypsy life," although he was already well-known for his short stories about these colorful folk and their exotic folkways. Set in New York City (the East Side, spe... View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: (c.1931)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18822
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[some soiling to page edges and bottom edges of covers, tiny frayed nick at top of spine; jacket edgeworn with various tiny nicks and tears, minor paper loss at top of spine, age-yellowing to rear panel]. Novel about a young Italian-American girl, Maria Caproni, whose burning ambition is to sing at the Metropolitan Opera. Much of the action takes place in New York's Little Italy neighborhood, and the narrative is populated with all sorts of "colorful" urban characters: Connolly and Weinstein, an Irishman and a Jew (there's an original pairing!), junk-peddling partners who become mill... View more info
