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Killing a Mouse on Sunday

By: Pressburger, Emeric

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World: (c.1961)

Seller ID: 16944

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy, minimal fading at top & bottom edges of boards; jacket a little edgeworn, slightly faded at spine, a bit of scuffing and one tiny puncture-tear to rear panel]. Novel about a Loyalist hero, living in exile in France since the end of the Spanish Civil War. Basis for the 1964 film BEHOLD A PALE HORSE, starring Gregory Peck and directed by Fred Zinnemann, the making of which was reportedly not the happiest of experiences for either man. This was the first of only two novels by Pressburger, who was much better known as a filmmaker -- most notably as the writing-producing partne...
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The Old Dark House

By: Priestley, J.B.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers: 1928

Seller ID: 25447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Poor

(no dust jacket) [reading copy ONLY; both hinges fully broken, with the covers just hanging on by the webbing only, and the first few pages threatening to pull loose as well; the text block itself is unmarked and reasonably clean, so the book might be a candidate for rebinding]. Classic tale of lost travelers in a storm who find refuge in an isolated house populated by sinister eccentrics, given continued currency due to having been endlessly parodied and riffed on in all media. It was also, of course, the basis for one of the oddest movies of its day (1932), directed by James Whale at his mo...
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S-w-o-o-p [Swoop]

By: Prince, Don

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Julian Messner, Inc.: (c.1941)

Seller ID: 18417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[book is "Good" only, with heavy wear to cloth at top and bottom edges, slight fraying to bottom corners, some small tape marks and various other traces on both pastedowns which suggest that this is an ex-library book although there are no library markings per se; jacket is serviceable but heavily worn, with old internal tape reinforcements at all folding points, light stain along left edge of front panel, etc.]. (B&W line drawings) Very uncommon satirical fantasy-farce about a young New Yorker who discovers one day that he can fly, and the many compensations and complications this ab...
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Awake

By: Prior, Susan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Pharos Editions: 1932

Seller ID: 23836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[good sound copy, light soiling/age-toning to edges of text block; jacket edgeworn, soiled, with various small nicks and tears, moderate fading to spine]. I don't know if there's a genre into which one can comfortably plug this little oddity from an otherwise unknown author, but for present purposes let's just call it "Ruminative Fiction." It's the interior monologue of a modern woman in love -- or not -- with several different men, yet too troubled (in some vague undefined female way) to make up her mind just what she wants out of love, or life, or anything. Even the poor jacket-blu...
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Now, Voyager [SIGNED]

By: Prouty, Olive Higgins

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, Sun Dial Press: 1943 (c.1941)

Seller ID: 16648

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[exceptionally nice copy, especially for a cheaply-manufactured book, with just some very light wear to the bottom edge and a slight bowing to the front board; jacket is sunned a bit at the spine, with a bit of edgewear and a handful of tiny tears, still very presentable]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author (in pencil!) on the ffep, additionally dated May 12, 1945; laid in is a program from "The Annual Scholarship Tea" held in honor of Mrs. Prouty on that date, at the State Teachers College in Worcester, Massachusetts. Basis for one of the best romantic weepie movies of all time, sta...
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An Evil Spirit

By: Pryce, Richard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London/Sydney, Griffith Farran & Co. Limited: 1892

Seller ID: 24744

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(no dust jacket) [well-worn book, tears to cloth at both ends of spine, front hinge cracked, ffep detached (laid in), frontispiece and title page about half-detached, one-time owner's name and private library number(?) written on front pastedown]. An early fictional treatment of the horrors of morphine addiction by this English author (1870-1942). The plot deals with a young governess who reacts to the shock of being jilted by her fiance by resorting to morphine injections to dull the pain (the drug is the "evil spirit" of the book's title, not any kind of supernatural being). Origin...
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The Lily and the Sword

By: Pryde, Anthony, and R.K. Weekes

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company: 1929

Seller ID: 19362

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[lovely clean book, just a touch of wear to base of spine; jacket very attractive, showing only minor wear at extremities, a handful of insignificant nicks and closed tears, tiny piece missing from bottom right corner of front panel]. Ruritanian romance, "the story of Wanda Radolin and her brother Clement, last survivors of a proud but impoverished house in the principality of the cruel and fascinating Prince Heinrich, one of the lesser rulers of central Europe in the middle of the past century."
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We Have Changed All That

By: Quick, Herbert, and Elena Stepanoff MacMahon

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1928)

Seller ID: 19264

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[tiny bit of some foreign substance adhered to bottom of rear cover (you'll never notice it unless you go looking for it), otherwise a tight clean book with just the faintest trace of shelfwear; jacket has tiny tears at several corners, some wear along the top edge, one little chip at top of rear panel, some vertical creasing at the edge of the front flap]. Novel about the travails suffered by a lady of wealth and rank in "the ancient city of Kazan, the center of culture in Eastern Russia," in the wake of the Bolshevik Revolution. As explained in a Publisher's Note at the front of the...
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Radio Rocketeers [SIGNED]

By: Quintero, Jorge

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Pied-Piper Press: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 17684

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(pictorial paste-on front cover label; no dust jacket) [moderately worn book, slight fading to cloth at spine, corners lightly bumped, slight scrunching of bottom corners of a few pages; attractive vintage bookplate on front pastedown]. INSCRIBED ("To Twentieth Century Radio Productions") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. A big-business conspiracy novel, in which an intrepid maverick scientist/inventor/genius develops the most incredible radio known to Mankind -- something called the Crystal Projector Radio -- which has the potential to revolutionize the communications industry. ...
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The Gold Gauze Veil

By: Read, Opie

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Canterbury Press of Chicago: 1927

Seller ID: 13849

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dj

[good solid book, minor soiling to covers along top and bottom edges, some spotting to page edges, slight deterioration of cloth at spine ends; jacket worn at edges, corners and spine, ragged tear leading to small missing chunk at bottom of front panel, several smaller chips at edges of rear panel]. Vintage golf-themed novel, which according to the jacket blurb combines "the charm of the old Mississippi with the romance of modern youth, weaving throughout the lure of the golf course." The prolific Nashville-born author (1852-1939) was a newspaper editor and homespun humorist who turne...
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Death is So Kind

By: Redmond, Liam

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Devin-Adair Company: 1959

Seller ID: 19188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minor shelfwear to bottom edge, otherwise a nice clean book; jacket has a tiny piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, light edgewear, tiny chips at bottom corners of spine]. A "story of suspense, laid in Dublin, [with] a tragic hero, Joe Corcoran, who has two weaknesses, jealousy and an addiction to alcohol." (No stereotypes there, no sir!) The author was a well-known stage, TV and film actor, who closed out his long career with a small role in Kubrick's BARRY LYNDON.
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Better a Dinner of Herbs

By: Reece, Byron Herbert

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1950

Seller ID: 10751

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[solid, clean copy, slight fading to cloth at spine and edges, very minor shelfwear; jacket a bit edgeworn, spine sunned, a few insignificant tears and wrinkles, some surface scratching]. The first of this Georgia lyric poet's two novels, and his second published book, this is the story of the effect on a family of mountain people when a man (referred to as "the Preacher") gets "a sudden 'call' to lay aside the lusts of the flesh." Although much honored in his home state during his lifetime, the author was beset with illness (both he and his parents suffered from tuberculosis)...
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The Snake of Luvercy

By: Renard, Maurice (translated from the French by Florence Crewe-Jones)

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1930

Seller ID: 19557

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[minor wear at spine ends, top corner slightly bumped, vintage price sticker from The White House (San Francisco department store) on rear pastedown; jacket a bit edgeworn, short closed tear and associated diagonal crease at bottom of front panel, light soiling to rear panel]. (Dutton Clue Mystery) Series Mystery tale with a Parisian setting, about "a young Frenchman of good family, whose engagement to Gilberta Laval, a lovely, exquisite girl, is poisonously opposed by Madame De Prasse and her idolized and gay son Lionel." By the author of "The Hands of Orlac" and "New Bod...
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The Girl in the Turquoise Bikini

By: Resnik, Muriel

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1961

Seller ID: 16539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[a bit of wear and slight bumping to spine ends, otherwise a sound, clean copy; jacket moderately soiled and edgeworn, color-shifted at spine (all text still easily readable), small tear in spine]. "A sophisticated novel about an American couple who spent a summer in Europe in circumstances calculated to try the happiest marriage," namely following their teenage son and his girlfriend The author later scored a big success on Broadway with her 1964 play "Any Wednesday," subsequently filmed in 1966, and this book made it to the screen in 1968, as "How Sweet It Is!" with...
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I Can Lick Seven

By: Richards, Robert

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company / Atlantic Monthly Press: 1942

Seller ID: 23873

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

(no dust jacket) [nice clean book with minimal shelfwear, solid binding]. Novel set in post-Civil War Mississippi, centered on an ex-soldier's difficulties in coping with the drab and depressing realities of life in the defeated South. Despite having lost an arm in the war, he hopes to win the affections of his brother's widow (said brother having been killed at Gettysburg), but the lady's rejection of him (in favor of a Yankee, no less!) just increases his loneliness and frustration. So what's a depressed ex-Johnny Reb to do, to assuage his self-doubts and reassert his manhood? Join the Ku...
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A Strong Man Needed

By: Richardson, Maurice

Price: $60.00

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

Seller ID: 20495

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(no dust jacket) [solid reading copy, but no more, internally clean and firmly bound, but with much external wear: soiling to covers, some deterioration/fraying to cloth along hinges, slight exposure of boards at top and bottom corners]. The first novel by this English journalist and short-story writer, a rather self-consciously "madcap" satire centered around the Cadwallows, who in addition to being "one of the noblest and nuttiest families in England" are also teetering on the brink of impoverishment. Potential salvation from their financial plight arrives in the person of M...
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Perilous Love

By: Riddell, Florence

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott Company: 1932

Seller ID: 16527

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[ex-lending library book with associated label on front pastedown and stamp on ffep, no other library markings; spine slightly turned, light shelfwear, bottom front corner bumped slightly exposing board; jacket moderately worn and lightly soiled but still attractive, only library marking is a small label with a handwritten number, near top of spine (but not obscuring any text)]. A tale of the Foreign Legion -- "....and with horrible suddenness a cataclysm descended upon them -- when Aroudi discovered Derek in Vanda's room and Fenella must see Derry killed, or pay the unspeakable price Aro...
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When a Man Marries

By: Rinehart, Mary Roberts

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1909)

Seller ID: 17473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[a lovely copy, minor wear to cloth at spine extremities, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket is bright and attractive, with a little wear at corners, small tears at a couple of corners, tiny chip at bottom rear corner of spine]. (color frontis. + 2 color plates; line drawings) Rinehart had already made her name with her first two novels, "The Circular Staircase" (1908) and "The Man in Lower Ten" (1909) -- both mysteries -- when her hit Broadway farce "Seven Days" (co-written with Avery Hopwood) opened in November 1909. This novel appeared in bookstores mere weeks l...
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Roger the Lodger

By: Roberts, Elizabeth R.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Greenberg: Publisher: (c.1947)

Seller ID: 5899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [bumped corners, otherwise a solid, clean copy with a trace of edge-soiling; jacket worn/chipped along top edge, some paper loss at top of spine, one tiny tear at bottom front hinge; still an attractive jacket with amusing cartoon illustration on front panel]. "A novel (only by the skin of its teeth) that bites hilariously into the housing shortage!"
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Heat Wave

By: Robins, Denise

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press: 1930

Seller ID: 19716

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

[book is flawless, tight and clean with no discernible wear, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket shows just a touch of wear at spine ends]. "A story of the tea-planters of the Malay States -- and their wives." The author, working "with a magic pen and an eye for far countries and exotic scenery, and above all an understanding of the hearts of men and women" -- but possibly one of the worst dust jacket artists of all time -- "has made a thriller which no fiction-lover can afford to miss." Magic pens not...
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Category: Fiction: Vintage