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Love at the Mission

By: Baptist, R. Hernekin (pseud. for Ethelreda Lewis)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1938

Seller ID: 19448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[ex-department store library book, but marked as such only by multiple small library and "withdrawn" stamps on both pastedowns and endpapers, and with so little wear as to suggest that nobody ever actually checked it out and read it; the jacket is a bit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, relentle...
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At the Back of Beyond

By: Barlow, Jane

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1902

Seller ID: 8177

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

(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.
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Eyes of India

By: Baronti, Gervé

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1925)

Seller ID: 18800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[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 ...
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The Swiftest Thing in Life

By: Barre, Jean

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, H.C. Kinsey & Company, Inc.: 1932

Seller ID: 19643

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[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.
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Madam

By: Barrett, Richmond

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Liveright, Inc.: (c.1932)

Seller ID: 19290

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[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...
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Three Roads from Paradise

By: Barretto, Larry

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Caxton House, Inc.: 1939 (c.1933)

Seller ID: 20192

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Irish Beauties

By: Barrington, E. (L. Adams Beck)

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1931

Seller ID: 19832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Very Good+ dj

[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 ...
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War in Heaven

By: Barry, Philip

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 22960

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[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'...
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The Mediocrat

By: Bartley, Nalbro

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1928

Seller ID: 19572

Binding: Hardcover

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 ...
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Second Flight

By: Bartley, Nalbro

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/Chicago, A.L. Burt Company: (c.1932)

Seller ID: 25448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(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...
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The Long Walk

By: Barton, Betsey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1948)

Seller ID: 6237

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Charlotte's Row

By: Bates, H.E.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith: [1932]

Seller ID: 19266

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Catherine Foster

By: Bates, H.E.

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1929

Seller ID: 19402

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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 ...
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In Another Country

By: Bayley, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann, Inc: 1955

Seller ID: 9451

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The Intruder

By: Beaumont, Charles

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1959)

Seller ID: 16793

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Galloping Down

By: Beckwith, Brainerd

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York/London, The Century Co.: (c.1931)

Seller ID: 19570

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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The House of Dr. Edwardes

By: Beeding, Francis

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: (c.1928)

Seller ID: 16938

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Hell Let Loose

By: Beeding, Francis (pseud. for John Leslie Palmer and Hilary Aiden St. George Saunders)

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: (c.1937)

Seller ID: 13566

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Sand Castle

By: Beith, Janet

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1936

Seller ID: 15915

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Abide With Me

By: Belfrage, Cedric

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, William Sloane Associates: (c.1948)

Seller ID: 23041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[a nice clean copy, lightly shelfworn, one-time owner's signature and date at top of ffep; jacket a bit edgeworn (especially along rear hinge) with minor paper loss at spine ends, but (unusual for this book) the spine lettering is not faded]. This epic satire of the American funeral industry had the bad fortune to be published the same year as Evelyn Waugh's "The Loved One," and has lived (undeservedly) in the shadow of that more notorious work ever since. A caustic, often laugh-out-loud funny book, it recounts the saga of the Hope Family, a Midwestern undertaking dynasty, founders of "the fi...
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Category: Fiction: Vintage