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The Age for Love

By: Pascal, Ernest

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & Company: (c.1930)

Seller ID: 11717

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [Good only, a moderately worn copy with bumped corners, external soiling; the binding is intact, however, and there are no markings in the text]. A novel about the romantic foibles of the literary set. Basis for the 1931 film with Billie Dove and Charles Starrett, produced by Howard Hughes' Caddo Company for United Artists release.
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If It Prove Fair Weather

By: Paterson, Isabel

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons: (c.1940)

Seller ID: 16414

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice copy with light shelfwear, a bit of spotting on endpapers; jacket has a few small edge-tears and associated creasing, very shallow chipping at spine ends (no loss of text), a bit of fading to spine, light soiling to rear panel]. From the jacket blurb: "Isabel Paterson knows women, knows their secret vanities, their loyalties, their thoughts of men, their thoughts of one another, the very logic of their unreasonableness." This book, described as a love story about a woman "who loves her man and can't get him," was the last of her eight novels. She subsequ...
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Gas Buggy

By: Paterson, Robert

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Napier & Noyes: 1933

Seller ID: 17476

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[solid copy, a little dust-soiling to top edge, very minor bumping at a couple of corners, offsetting to endpapers; jacket worn and moderately soiled, shallowing chipping along top and bottom edges but no loss of text anywhere, various small tears at edges, 2-inch chip at top of rear panel held in place by jacket protector]. A novel, "the story of the first automobile and its offshoot and their development, of Alan McDonald, of Hattie Sawyer, of the uncouth, greedy Sawyer clan, traced in the larger magnitude of the history of the motor vehicle in the United States."
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The Man I Love

By: Patterson, Norma

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: (c.1940)

Seller ID: 18814

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[light shelfwear only, faint age-darkening to top page edges; jacket shows a little edgewear, minor chipping (no loss of text) at top corners of spine, slight fading to spine] "High romance and swift action in a country rich with wild beauty. This is Dixie's story -- clear-thinking, straight-shooting Dixie -- told against the background of America's last frontier, the land of the great cattlemen who still hold fast to a rigid code of right and wrong." Dixie's life crisis comes about when the man she loves, Kirk Shannon, marries an "Eastern girl." (So much for the rigid code...
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Gold is the Colour of Blood

By: Patterson, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: London, Frederick Muller Limited: 1961 (c.1960)

Seller ID: 22473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice book, with no discernible wear, one-time owner's signature on ffep is the only blemish; jacket very lightly spotted on front panel]. Thriller about a newspaperman who tracks a Nazi spy after the latter is released from prison, in the belief that he will lead him to a million dollars that was stashed away by the Nazis during World War II.
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Fine Tooth Comb

By: Paul

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1947

Seller ID: 2428

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[book well-worn, corners heavily bumped, bookseller's rubber-stamp on front pastedown; jacket has numerous tears & chips, edgewear, rubbing/scuffing, etc.]. "A novel of New York and a young man's search for identity."
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The Amazon

By: Paul, Elliot

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright, Inc.: 1930

Seller ID: 16622

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dj

[book itself is solid with minimal shelfwear, very light dust-darkening to top edge; jacket looks pretty good, but the spine has a little paper loss at the top and is actually in three pieces (separated by two lateral tears, held together by a couple of tiny pieces of tape, internally applied), and also has a 2-inch split at bottom front hinge; all holding together very well in its jacket protector, however]. A novel about female soldiers in World War I. "This Signal Corps of American girls fought side by side with men in the trenches, lived as men in the mud and the vermin and the ribald...
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The Reverend Ben Pool

By: Paul, Louis

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce: (c.1941)

Seller ID: 11713

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice copy, very minor soiling to page edges, light fading/bumping at top of spine; jacket a bit faded at spine, very shallow chipping at top of spine (no text affected), faint soiling/scuffing]. "A novel of modern New York with the O. Henry touch, [this book] tells of a young Congregationalist clergyman, who, increasingly conscious of the spiritual inadequacy for him of formal religion, leaves his small-town church and seeks in the anonymity of New York the reason for his being. He lives in an obscure rooming house, devoting himself selflessly to the logders he finds ther...
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Image for The Jinx Ship: The Dark Mystery That Befell Tod Moran When He Shipped as Fireman Aboard the Tramp Steamer "Congo," Bound out of New York for Caribbean Ports

The Jinx Ship: The Dark Mystery That Befell Tod Moran When He Shipped as Fireman Aboard the Tramp Steamer "Congo," Bound out of New York for Caribbean Ports

By: Pease, Howard

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Co., Inc.: 1946 (c.1927)

Seller ID: 16928

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

(price-clipped) [solid copy, light shelfwear, one-time owner's signature on half-title page; jacket is worn, small piece missing at bottom right-hand corner of front panel, several closed tears and associated creasing, long zigzag tear in rear panel with old (yellowed) tape repair]. (illustrated endpapers) What, you want more? "The Dark Adventure That Befell..." [see above].
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Children of the Wind

By: Peel, Doris

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1927

Seller ID: 19860

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [a nice solid copy, would grade Near Fine but for some wear to the bottom of the rear cover that's resulted in about a one-inch exposure of the board through the worn cloth at the bottom edge; the jacket is somewhat age-darkened, with light to moderate wear at extremities, 1-1/2" split (closed) at top front hinge]. A "delightful and soundly constructed story of family life," the author's first novel, written when she was 19, that per the jacket blurb achieves "that rarest of things in any novel, that almost unheard-of thing in a first novel -- true penetration ...
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Coucou

By: Pember, Evelyn

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company: 1929

Seller ID: 19445

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[nice clean book, light shelfwear, spine slightly turned; a little paper loss to jacket at several corners, a few small tears]. "The Grand Hotel de Provence was comfortably filled with a most variegated and interesting assortment of visitors [including] Coucou -- red head and red dress, brown bare arms and legs, the vitality of an untamed tiger cub." The author's first novel, it launched her fairly short-lived career: three more books followed in rapid succession, and the rest was silence.
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The Needle's Eye

By: Pember, Timothy

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Reynal & Hitchcock: (c.1947)

Seller ID: 3520

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[moderate overall wear to book, slight fraying of cloth in a few spots; jacket worn at edges/corners, a few small edge tears, chipping at spine extremities]. "A brilliant, subtle study of the growth of character in a group of people living in England in the middle thirties." The jacket blurb optimistically states this to be "the work of a finished and mature writer, so much so that comparison with E.M. Forster and Henry James is not in the least extravagant." (Really. Not in the least. Hm. The Kirkus review of Pember's next -- and apparently final -- novel closes with th...
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The Twain Tradition

By: Perrot, Irene

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Pageant Press: (c.1952)

Seller ID: 11719

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[book and jacket are only moderately worn, but for some reason the rear panel of the jacket is thorougly stuck to the book (making it impossible to apply a new Brodart cover, sorry); one bottom corner bumped, otherwise a nice solid copy; small bookseller's stamp at bottom of front pastedown]. "The Twain family has a great tradition to uphold, and Dr. Steven Twain, himself a distinguished surgeon, takes it for granted that his handsome and gifted son, Christopher, would follow in his footsteps. But for young Chris, the decision is not so simple. As talented in art as he is in medicine, he...
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The World Next Door

By: Peters, Fritz

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar Straus and Company: 1949

Seller ID: 23533

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear and minor soiling to bottom edges, very slight fraying of cloth at top rear corner; jacket a little faded at spine, approximately 1/2-inch piece missing at top of spine, extending a bit into upper left corner of front panel, tiny chip at base of spine, slight insect-nibbling damage at bottom of front flap]. The author's first novel, "based on actual experience" (per the jacket blurb), is narrated from the point of view of a man confined to a VA hospital, and afflicted by what we would today recognize as PTSD. "It is a direct report on a mental hos...
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Museum

By: Phelan, James L.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1937

Seller ID: 2411

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [spine somewhat turned, moderate wear and edge-soiling, discoloration of endpapers/pastedowns]. "A novel of a furious mind unfettered by a world of chains." Novel about a "lifer" in a British prison, written by an Irish Republican while incarcerated.
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Summer of Good Hope

By: Philips, Georgiana

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1939

Seller ID: 11774

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[ex-lending library book, worn but reasonably solid, not much in the way of markings (just a remnant of a removed label on the ffep), but with the jacket flaps securely glued down in that special lending-library way; the jacket is also internally reinforced with brown paper and well-worn at all edges]. "The Henry family's Vermont summer supplies the setting for this gay and discerning modern novel, which captures for the first time in American literature some of the flavor of Enid Bagnold's National Velvet. Caroline Henry, a young and pretty divorcee, has accepted a house, rent free, from...
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Tryphena

By: Phillpotts, Eden

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company: 1929

Seller ID: 19752

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[very nice copy with virtually no wear to book; jacket is lightly soiled, a bit of wear along top and bottom edges, bottom corner of front flap (not price) clipped] Yet another of this astoundingly prolific author's novels, set (as are many, many others) in the Devonshire countryside. The title character is abandoned by her mother as an infant, then has her life get very complicated at the age of seventeen, when her father suddenly comes back into her life. Over the course of a half-century, Phillpotts turned out three or four novels a year; Agatha Christie was an admirer, as was Jorge Luis...
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The Prickly Pear

By: Pine, Hester

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.: (c.1940)

Seller ID: 16597

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[nice clean copy with light wear at extremities; jacket has one short closed tear at top of front panel, minor wear at spine ends]. Who the hell was this Hester Pine, anyway? She published three novels in quick succession in 1939-1940 (this was the third), added one more (with the strangely apt title "The Waltz is Over") in 1943, then poof! The jacket blurb on her first book claimed that she'd already been a ballerina, an actress, a foreign correspondent, a doctor's receptionist, a Sunday School teacher, a photographer's model, and a choir singer, and that she was "still married ...
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The Fourth Norwood

By: Pinkerton, Robert E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Reilly & Lee Co.: (c.1925)

Seller ID: 2011

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Fair dj

(corner-clipped?) [corners bumped but otherwise only mild wear, discoloration to endpapers from jacket, small spot on fore-edge; jacket very worn at edges, missing a 1-1/2" x 3/4" piece at lower left front, various smaller chunks along bottom edge, etc.]. [Note that all four corners of the jacket flaps are trimmed at about the same angles; whether it was designed this way, or thus trimmed by a previous owner, I couldn't say. ] The jacket flaps contain nice illustrations of the book's major characters -- Rod Norwood ('Trapper, hunter, fur trader; and withal a gentleman'), Marian Ransom ...
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The Furnace

By: Poling, Dan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company: (c.1925)

Seller ID: 21097

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

(in Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket) [shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, soiling to top edge of text block, general age-toning elsewhere, contemporary (1926) Christmas gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket heavily edgeworn, a couple of chips at top of front panel, additional shallow chipping at base of spine and at bottom of front panel, a few closed tears, etc.]. "An epic of love, steel, and war," centering around the difficulties faced by three men -- a soldier, a chaplain, and a laborer -- returning home after World War I, "to be plunged into a bitter conflict which t...
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Category: Fiction: Vintage