[nice tight clean book, just a trace of shelfwear; jacket has tiny chips at spine ends, minor wear to edges and extremities, light soiling to rear panel]. Very uncommon novel about a "sensitive, cultivated woman of thirty" who lives an unobtrusive life in a small Connecticut village, appearing "outwardly sedate, spinsterish, almost forbidding" to others -- but she reads Joyce and Lawrence and Hemingway, and "in her private thoughts and dreams [is] singularly uninhibited and modern." Her quiet life is upended, however, when she writes a scandalous best-seller about an international prostitute... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice tight clean copy, with only minimal shelfwear; jacket bright and attractive, minor soiling, small stain at rear foldover]. Novel about "a lovely American woman, no longer in her youth, who suddenly found herself living through a great and passionate romance that made her want to give up everything she had." Set in an old French town on the Mediterranean coast. Wor"From the top of her carefully waved hair to the tips of her expensive French pumps, Mrs. Taylor is as representative of a certain class of American women as Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt is of a type o... View More...
(price-clipped) [minimal shelfwear, very slight fading to cloth along top and bottom edges, one-time owner's pencil signature on ffep, another (unrelated) gift inscription on 2nd ffep; jacket bright and attractive, light edgewear, 2-inch diagonal closed tear at top of front panel]. Novel about a woman who puts "all her emotions and energies into making a place for herself in the business world" – specifically by taking over a derelict women's magazine and building it into a successful enterprise, while also making herself a celebrated and powerful force in the New York fashion world. ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, light external soiling, text from front jacket flap neatly glued to front pastedown]. Novel about a woman who puts "all her emotions and energies into making a place for herself in the business world" – specifically by taking over a derelict women's magazine and building it into a successful enterprise, while also making herself a celebrated and powerful force in the New York fashion world. The author endured a marriage to the noted dipso/nutso writer William Seabrook ("Asylum") from 1935-1941, and eventually wrote a book about him, "T... View More...
(price-clipped) [book bumped at top corners, otherwise a solid clean copy; jacket has a shallow chip at top of front panel, small piece missing at bottom corner of rear panel, general edgewear and light soiling]. Novel set in post-World War I Berlin, centering around four women ? "women past their youth and bored with marriage, who lay snares for the unwary young men of more talent and charm than resources." Apparently the author's only novel; per the jacket blurb he had spent the preceding three years in Germany "contributing short stories and articles to various magazines there and in this... View More...
[nice tight copy, minimal shelfwear, just a touch of soiling/age-toning to edges of text block, vintage price sticker (from the San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket has a light diagonal smudge line (about 2 inches long) at bottom of front panel, minor surface wear here and there]. "True tales of the French Foreign Legion with all the quick-moving action, breathless adventure and desert lure that marks 'Beau Geste,'" this author's best-known work. Seventeen stories, all pre-dating the "Beau" trilogy (all of which were published in the 1920s); this collecti... View More...
[tight clean book, the slightest bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; jacket shows minor wear along top and bottom edges, tiny stain at bottom edge of rear panel, short closed tear at top front foldover]. The first and only collaboration between Harold Bell Wright, the enormously popular author of "The Winning of Barbara Worth" and "The Shepherd of the Hills," and his son Gilbert Wright, here writing as "John Lebar." An attack on "scientism," it did not sell well upon its first publication, and is considered by collectors of Wright's work to be one of the most difficult titles to find today, esp... View More...
[nice tight clean book with minimal wear, jacket lightly soiled, slightly worn at spine ends, a few tiny closed tears at edges]. Somewhat sprawling quasi-historical novel, spanning more than sixty years in the life of a New England family's matriarch (the Eudora of the title), from watching "her young husband swept into the maelstrom" of the Civil War, through helping her grandson overcome his "lethargy and sickness of soul" following World War I. Mabel Osgood Wright (1859-1934) was known for her involvement in the Audubon movement and for her extensive writings about nature ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn copy, soiling to top edge, all corners bumped to some degree; text from jacket flaps glued to front and rear pastedowns, one-time owner's name and date/place of purchase scrawled in pencil on ffep]; Agrarian novel of sorts, about a young Spanish farmer who emigrates to Cuba, "where the rising wave of a boom-period sweeps him tempestuously into the drama of Cuban life. He answers the confusion of American mines, local politics, sugar boom, and local revolution with a stubborn simplicity." (That's a quote from the jacket blurb, but note that NO jacket is present... View More...
[light shelfwear, spine slightly turned, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket slightly edgeworn and age-toned]. Agrarian novel of sorts, about a young Spanish farmer who emigrates to Cuba, "where the rising wave of a boom-period sweeps him tempestuously into the drama of Cuban life. He answers the confusion of American mines, local politics, sugar boom, and local revolution with a stubborn simplicity." The Time magazine reviewer observed that "sinister echoes of U.S. big business [and] Havana terrorism are felt only in the background of this pastoral tale of Cuban peasantry," also... View More...
[solid copy, with some mild dampstaining to exterior cloth, interior mostly unaffected except for an occasional light stain; jacket well-worn at edge/corners, wrinkled, soiled, dampstaining visible on rear panel, numerous chips and small edge-tears, tape repair along top edge, a little paper loss -- but for all that, not too bad-looking in a new Brodart cover]. A Londoner is seized with the spirit of radicalism; at a communist rally, he gets into a scrape with the authories and, with the help of a Russian compatriot, emigrates to the Soviet Union and joins the ranks of the workers. "Becaus... View More...
[good solid copy, with light deterioration to bottom edges of both covers; jacket has small chip at top right corner of front panel, spine slightly browned, a few tiny holes near top of rear panel]. A collection of 21 of the author's popular Saturday Evening Post stories (all selected from previous published collections) about the adventures of two dedicated Florida fishermen. The C&D tales, of which there were a grand total of 69, have been cited as an influence on John D. MacDonald's "Travis McGee" novels, also set in Florida. In any case, Wylie knew his milieu, having at one time... View More...
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, top corners slightly bumped; jacket shows a bit of edgewear, slight fading at spine, minor soiling to rear panel]. Twin brothers, sons of English gentry, are separated by novelistic contrivance, er, I mean, circumstances (a shipwreck, how original!), at the age of sixteen. Brother Arthur, "thrown amongst savage races," on an island somewhere off the coast of British Somaliland, "[loses] touch with civilization" but develops into a mighty warrior/hunter and eventually goes in for a bit of piracy; meanwhile, Brother Alfred is educated at Oxford... View More...
[solid copy, light discoloration to cloth along front joint, small ink stain on rear cover]. Twin brothers, sons of English gentry, are separated by novelistic contrivance, er, I mean, circumstances (a shipwreck, how original!), at the age of sixteen. Brother Arthur, "thrown amongst savage races," on an island somewhere off the coast of British Somaliland, "[loses] touch with civilization" but develops into a mighty warrior/hunter and eventually goes in for a bit of piracy; meanwhile, Brother Alfred is educated at Oxford, and despite being the melancholy and ascetic type (who... View More...
(price-clipped) [book is solid enough, but the cloth has deteriorated in several places (top and bottom edges) exposing the boards; one-time owner's signature on front pastedown; jacket and the boards exposedbeen worn (or eaten?) through in several places, exposing the boards; the jacket is edgeworn, with various small tears and shallow chipping, minor paper loss at base of spine, tiny smudge on front panel, slight fading to spine]. Wynd's scarce second novel, set during the 3-1/2-year Japanese occupation of Singapore during World War II (1942-1945), a time when the city was "teeming with... View More...
(price-clipped) [light wear to base of spine, a little soiling/spotting to top edge and fore-edge; jacket spine somewhat faded, a couple of small and unobtrusive edge-tears]. Sea-going mystery-adventure, listed in Hubin, that begins in a subterranean cafe in Marseilles, where a young English sailor falls in with a rough crowd and finds his passions inflamed by a beautiful young woman in distress. Dynamic dust jacket art by an uncredited illustrator. View More...
[nice copy, very slight wear to extremities, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has very slight paper loss at a few corners, one short closed tear and associated crease at bottom of front panel, minor scuffing]. Triangular romance story, set amidst London society, the three points of the triangle being: Lavinia, a wealthy, virginal Irish-Austrian orphaned princess; Peter, a well-bred, well-dressed young English chap; and the mysterious Princess Debelowsky (aka The Devil), a cosmopolitan, vaguely Russian woman who possesses "a poisonous fascination for men." A contemporary revie... View More...
[solid, clean copy, light shelfwear, modest bumping to lower corners; jacket is edgeworn, especially along spine, with small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, and a somewhat ragged tear along the left edge of the front panel]. Hard to top this jacket blurb: "The hot blood of a Neapolitan peasant coursed in his veins, and from his father, eccentric expatriate Englishman, he inherited the cold idealism that tempered his artistic nature. He was a curious paradox, this man -- brought up on English classics and French pornography, and thrashed with a dried cow's tail when he tried to... View More...
[light spotting to top page edges, otherwise a tight clean copy with just minimal shelfwear; jacket a little wrinkled at top of front panel, with some shallow chipping surrounding top of spine, a handful of other tiny nicks and tears, minimal paper loss at a couple of corners, water-stain along edge of rear panel]. Pulp adventure novel about a mysterious American named Don Everhard ("not his real name, you will understand, but a pseudonym which he adopted because nothing else fitted his suave, steely, direct personality"), a gun-toting gambler who lives "on the ragged edge of the ... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice solid copy, minor bumping at several corners, some offsetting to endpapers; jacket a bit edgeworn, light scuffing to front panel, a handful of tiny tears and chips, irregular paper loss (1/4"-1/2") at top of spine (no loss of text), some color-fading to spine]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in a small, neat script at the top of the ffep, and dated one week before the official publication date; the inscription is primarily a five-line quote from the Prologue to Shakespeare's "Henry VIII": "I come no more to make you laugh. [etc.]." Zara's second novel, a leisurely t... View More...
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