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By: Baptist, R. Hernekin (pseud. for Ethelreda Lewis)
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19448
[ex-department store library book, but marked as such only by multiple small library and "withdrawn" stamps on both pastedowns and endpapers, and with so little wear as to suggest that nobody ever actually checked it out and read it; the jacket is a bit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 th... View more info
By: Barlow, Jane
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1902
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8177
(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 info
By: Barnes, Carman
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright: 1929
Edition: 5th printing
Seller ID: 16294
[light shelfwear, minor soiling to top edge; jacket well-worn, with various small tears, nicks, creasing, soiling, etc.] The first novel by Carman Barnes, based on her own experiences in various Southern boarding schools, was published when she was 16 ("just a schoolgirl herself") and helped make her into a bit of an overnight sensation. Before she hit nineteen, she had already published a second novel, collaborated on a stage adaptation of "Schoolgirl,"... View more info
By: Baronti, Gervé
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1925)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 18800
[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 star... View more info
By: Barre, Jean
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, H.C. Kinsey & Company, Inc.: 1932
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 19643
[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 info
By: Barretto, Larry
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Caxton House, Inc.: 1939 (c.1933)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 20192
[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," an... View more info
By: Bartley, Nalbro
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1928
Edition: Later Printing
Seller ID: 19572
(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 wom... View more info
By: Barton, Betsey
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1948)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 6237
[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: Basso, Hamilton
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: 1929
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20238
[good solid book, light wear at spine extremities, one-time owner's name and address on front pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, especially at spine ends]. The author's first novel, the story of a young member of "an old and cultured Creole family surprised by the new machine civilization." A journalist and an early contributor to the important New Orleans-based literary journal "The Double Dealer" (along with William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Sher... 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
[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... View more info
By: Bates, H.E.
Price: $175.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1929
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 19402
[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. Thei... View more info
By: Bayley, John
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann, Inc: 1955
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9451
[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 ... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1959)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16793
(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 ma... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: New York/London, The Century Co.: (c.1931)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19570
[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 hundre... View more info
By: Beeding, Francis
Price: $350.00
Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: (c.1928)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 16938
[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... 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
[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 th... View more info
By: Beith, Janet
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1936
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 15915
(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 p... View more info
By: Bell, Thomas
Price: $350.00
Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company: 1930
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19408
[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, there... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: New York, A.L. Burt Company: (c.1932)
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 21610
[quite a decent copy, light foxing to fore-edge, spine very slightly turned; jacket has a few tiny chips along top edge, minor soiling to rear panel, itsy-bitsy hole near right edge of front panel]. Gotta Dance!! The story of a child of the tenements, a born hoofer who "stepped and stamped her way through the night clubs and the burlesque wheel to Broadway glory," attracting all sorts of men along the way -- the vaudeville small-timer who discovered her, the har... 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
[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... View more info
