(no dust jacket) [solid reading copy, but that's about it: worn/bumped at top and bottom corners (boards exposed), several deteriorated spots on spine cloth, etc.] INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the half-title page: "To 'Fraulein' / at Black [Torkey?] / from / Eardley Beswick / Xmas '38." Novel set in and around Lancashire, England, with the action taking place before, during and after World War I. It's in rough enough condition that I probably wouldn't offer it for sale but for the authorial inscription -- I mean, it just might be the only extant Eardley Beswick signature! S... View More...
(no dust jacket) [reading/reference copy only; moderate external wear, spine turned, large pieces of both ffep and half-title page torn out]. Scarce novel with a Los Angeles setting, described by California fiction bibliographers Baird & Greenwood thusly: "A tense story (but not a detective novel) in which a psychopathic composer works his influence upon a group of people, fueling a violent situation, resulting in murder." View More...
[book is tight and clean, no discernible wear, light age-toning to page edges; jacket is almost flawless, with just a couple of tiny tears and associated horizontal creasing at top of front panel and front flap]. Novel set on the moors of Devon and in "sophisticated London," about the relationship between a father and daughter, the latter an unwanted child born to the moralistic father and his good-time-loving wife. Per the jacket blurb, the author "pits the modern tendency to self-absorption and indulgence against the Puritan ideal of self-denial, and works out the dramatic confl... View More...
(no dust jacket) [sharp-looking copy, tight and square, paper spine label browned, light dust-soiling to top edge; slight fraying to cloth at bottom front corner]. The author's fourth book (and third story collection), dedicated "To Jean Cocteau." The eldest child of Herbert Henry Asquith (British Prime Minister from 1908-1916) and the sister of film director Anthony Asquith, Elizabeth was somewhat the Chelsea Clinton of her day, thrust into the public eye at an early age; her 1919 marriage to Romanian Prince Antoine Bibesco brought her into the circle of his pal Marcel Proust, who i... View More...
[nice clean book, minor shelfwear, slight bumping/fraying at top rear corner, vintage price sticker (from San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a bit edgeworn, light soiling to rear panel]. "A bitter feud was raging on the Manitoba prairies. On one side were grim, brawny frontiersmen, turning the wild prairies into splendid wheat ranches; on the other side a colony of swaggering young-bloods who only stirred up trouble. Into the frontiersman group came a fine, determined young man, straight from Cambridge -- and promptly fell in love with a beautiful ... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; jacket shows minor wear at lower extremities and spine ends, old price sticker at upper corner of front flap]. "This is the chilling story of an attempted prison break. The prisoners are not the usual convicts; they are teen-age delinquent boys. The prison is no ordinary prison; 'The Castle' is a reform school in New England, where the systematic practice of violence and vice, repression and abuse, has driven the young inmates to the breaking point." Kirkus Reviews, although opining that "this book will never be accused o... View More...
(no dust jacket) [a good solid copy with only light wear, but unfortunately some dimwit, years ago, picked the book up after daubing his or her fingers in white paint, leaving several white finger-smudges on the front cover and spine, and some additional white paint stains along the edge of the rear cover; small bookseller's rubber-stamp on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Book Store, Long Beach, Calif.)]. Not nearly as kinky as its title might suggest, this is an English novel, set largely in London and dealing with "the post-war clash of the generations," which The Observer's crit... View More...
(no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book with various stamps and a small label remnant on the ffep, minor bumping and light wear to extremities, moderate external soiling, a bit of wear along front joint]. A highly-regarded novel of the First World War, considered one of the first major works to be based on an author's personal combat experiences. Blaker (1893-1940), a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery during the war, was gassed while serving as a forward observer and never fully recovered. Although he turned out a dozen or so books in the 1920s and 1930s and even did a bit of sc... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice copy, mild shelfwear, very light water-spotting on top edge (interior not affected); jacket a bit worn at corners, some soiling/spotting on spine]. "In this unusual story of a man's struggle against his life-long desire to escape reality, [the author] has written a brilliant novel which adds to the stature of his already distinguished reputation as a writer of uncommon versatility. Major Kenneth Creswell--he was soon to drop the ' Major'--differed from most of us only in degree. His War record was brilliant but so was that of many others; he had great charm of manne... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, dust-soiling and age-toning to page edges, hinges a little weak but still fully intact, 1928 birthday gift inscription on half-title page; paper label on front cover is soiled but intact, but the corresponding spine label is a bit chipped, is peeling off a little at one corner, and has faded almost to the point of unreadability]. Novel about an English schoolboy, following him from early boyhood in India to later adolescence in England. According to a contemporary reviewer, the reader "is able to overlook the steady volley of English slang, the cut-... View More...
[light shelfwear to bottom edges, spine moderately turned; jacket shows wear at edges and corners, some scuffing to front panel, dog-earing at top of spine, tiny tear and associated creasing at bottom of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page to fellow screenwriter Daniel Taradash: "To Dan / for the many lunches; / the good talk; the years / that passed too swiftly / Mike / December 1962." Blurbed as "an elegy on the many kinds of love: first, last, normal, abnormal, and -- impossible," this novel, set primarily in Beverly Hills and Paris, "chall... View More...
[good solid copy, light shelfwear, date and place of an earlier purchase in ink on ffep; jacket has a small chip at upper left corner of front panel, minor paper loss at several other corners]. First novel by the later-blacklisted screenwriter, set during World War I and telling the story of the friendship that develops between a German officer and an American spying for the British (in the guise of a German officer). View More...
[decent reading copy, ex-lending library book but marked as such with only one stamp; the problem is the jacket, which has been trimmed slightly along top/bottom edges, and is encased in one of those old-fashioned jacket protectors with the black strips along top/bottom, then is additional glued AND taped to the endpapers, permanently I'm afraid; there's also some paper loss at base of spine, but it hardly matters]. The author's second novel, set during the Spanish Civil War. View More...
[solid but shelfworn copy, top corners bumped/cracked (boards exposed), bottom corners less so, some discoloration to first few pages and last few pages of book, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown; jacket worn, various small tears, soiling to rear panel, minor paper loss (no text affected) at spine ends]. "Young and self-confident, Rosanne is transplanted from her native New York to New England. She has married into the Porter family, and with good-natured curiosity she examines her new relatives -- sound New England stock from north of Boston, whose reliability and well-being a... View More...
[minor wear to spine ends, otherwise a tight clean book, apparently unread, vintage price sticker (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket shows a little wear along bottom edge and at top corners]. "The story of a man who was a pack mule for women," whatever the hell that means. Oh, I see: the protagonist's "idealistic sense of duty towards women swept him inexorably from one woman to another -- the prey of every woman who entered his life. Escaped from the tyranny of his mother, prohibited from marrying the girl he loved, he married Belle, an actress, who... View More...
[moderate wear to spine ends, spine slightly turned, small previous owner's signature and date on ffep; jacket somewhat age-toned, shallow chipping to base of spine]. "A pungent satire of university life," the first (and only) novel by the noted American historian of philosophy, who over a long and distinguished academic career (primarily at Johns Hopkins University, from 1921 to 1956) wrote over a dozen books, including "The Inquiring Mind," "The Limits of Reason" and "Vox Populi." Boas received his education primarily at Brown University and UC-Berkeley (earning his Ph.D. at the latter in ... View More...
(no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, some darkening to spine cloth, light bumping at corners, 1925 gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep]. Early novel by Bodenheim, then a leading figure of the Greenwich Village literary scene. Despite some pre-publication expurgation by publisher Horace Liveright (who initially found Bodenheim's manuscript "filthy"), the book's depiction of its titular heroine's sexual adventures raised the ire of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, which led to a grand jury indictment of the publisher on obscenity charges. In the ensuing trial, ... View More...
[light wear to book at extremities, a touch of soiling to top of text block, small bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.); jacket very worn, with tears and paper loss at several corners, more pronounced at spine ends]. The author's second novel, set in the community of American expatriates in Buenos Aires, where (per the jacket blurb) she had "made her home for many years" (and where part of her first novel, "The Restless" (1946), also took place). Although she continued to contribute short fiction to various... View More...
[solid enough copy, but has taken some moisture at bottom at some point in its history, leaving light dampstains on the fore-edge and bottom edge, and the bottom part of the text block is a bit rippled and very lightly stained throughout the book; the jacket is intact but edgeworn and heavily soiled, with minor paper loss at several corners]. "A typical small town is the background against which the author has placed his American characters. The scene opens in 1897 with the Canterburys at their peak -- socially, spiritually and financially. Their life is healthily robust. Then Spooner, a... View More...
(no dust jacket) [decent reading/research copy, moderate wear to extremities, lightly bumped at several corners, a bit more so at top corner of front cover, some soiling to edges of text block, spine very slightly turned, hinges a little tender]. Novel set in a small fishing community on the outer coast of Nova Scotia, about an American musician who comes into town, ingratiates himself with the residents, and seduces a local girl, with unhappy consequences. A contemporary reviewer observed that the book "successfully captures the atmosphere and tempo and character of life in a remote prov... View More...
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