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The Lowlife

By: Baron, Alexander

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Yoseloff: 1964 (c.1963)

Seller ID: 23672

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[minimal shelfwear, slight fading to cloth near top of spine; jacket lightly edgeworn, spine slightly sun-browned, minor abrasions at top of spine]. Novel set in London's East End, centering around Harryboy Boas -- a quick-buck hustler in the mold of Pal Joey and Sammy Lee (it sez here) -- "combining the ear of a Damon Runyon, attuned to the sounds of Soho as Runyon was to Broadway, with the clear eye and warm heart of a compassionate observer." According to the jacket blurb, a movie adaptation was "now being filmed and the picture is expected to be released next fall" -- and...
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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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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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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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Far Morning [SIGNED]

By: Bell, Mary Hayley

Price: $60.00

Publisher: London/Melbourne/Toronto, Heinemann: 1962

Seller ID: 23698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[bottom corners bumped, boards bowed slightly outwards; jacket has a ragged closed tear and tiny chip at top left of front panel, a couple of tiny nicks at bottom of rear panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "For ______ / For beside his bed / sometimes! / With love / Mary." Uncommon book, which resembles a children's book but isn't. It tells the story of a five-year-old boy who "goes to a world above the clouds, across the River of Analgesia, where he meets other 'Chooldren' -- children who have returned across the River, or who have not yet been born," an...
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The Breed of Basil

By: Bell, Thomas

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Robert M. McBride & Company: 1930

Seller ID: 19408

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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 ...
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Dancing Lady

By: Bellah, James Warner

Price: $100.00

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

Seller ID: 21610

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[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 hard-drinking tabloid newspaperman, the theatrical impresario, the millionaire playboy. Basis for the 1933 MGM film starring Jo...
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Before the Storm

By: Belloc Lowndes, Mrs. [Marie]

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Longmans, Green and Co.: 1941

Seller ID: 18945

Binding: Hardcover

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.
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Category: Fiction: Vintage