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By: Blaker, Richard
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Carrick & Evans: (c.1938)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8999
(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'--diff... View more info
By: Blaker, Richard
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: (c.1928)
Edition: 1st Edition (stated)
Seller ID: 17653
(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 Eng... View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1940)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 8961
[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... View more info
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1937)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22085
[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 info
By: Blasco Ibañez, Vicente (translated from the Spanish by Frances Douglas)
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.: 1911
Edition: 1st U.S. edition
Seller ID: 18240
(no dust jacket) [moderate overall wear and external soiling, dust-soiling to top page edges, light bumping at several corners, one-time owner's name on ffep, bottom half-inch of spine cloth looks like it might have glued back in place after having been ripped a bit at the bottom spine corners]. (color frontispiece, 3 color plates) The first American publication of Blasco Ibañez's classic novel of the rise and fall of a great matador, later the basis for two outstanding... View more info
By: Blodgett, Ruth
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: (c.1929)
Edition: Unstated edition
Seller ID: 13243
[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... View more info
By: Bloom, Ursula
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1932
Edition: 3rd printing
Seller ID: 19632
[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... View more info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright: (c.1925)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23084
(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... View more info
By: Boggs, Winifred
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, Herbert Jenkins Limited: 1925
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 19875
(no dust jacket) [moderate external wear, a bit of soiling to page edges, spine slightly turned, spine cloth somewhat darkened; withal a solid copy, with binding intact, and internally quite clean]. Novel about the titular family, "a fine, stalwart race of men and splendid women," and their conflict with their heredity enemies, "their neighbours, the Helsmuths, a race of dark and eveil men and wayward women. Julia Ashmorland, to her cost, allied herself to ... View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The Mohawk Press: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12219
[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 ... View more info
By: Bonner, Margerie
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1946
Edition: 1st Edition (A)
Seller ID: 15869
[moderately worn book, some discoloration to endpapers, small stain on bottom edge; jacket is heavily edgeworn, a little paper loss at both ends of spine, several small closed tears] Very scarce mystery novel set in Laguna Beach, California, just prior to World War II. There's a bit of a Hollywood (or at least motion picture) angle to the story: "Paul Vincent, wealthy California sportsman, playboy, and philanderer, was stabbed to death with a carving knife while a l... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Lee Furman, Inc.: (c.1936)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21999
(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 contempora... View more info
By: Borden, Mary
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1920
Edition: 4th printing
Seller ID: 19261
[minimal shelfwear to book, very faint spotting to fore-edge; jacket soiled and edgeworn, spine darkened and missing about a 1-1/2" piece from bottom of spine]. The author's first novel, "the personal story of a Chicago heiress who married into the British military aristocracy, [which] presents an authentic study of the growth and factors of social distinction in young, raw, crude Chicago and in contrast an authentic study of the cultured and debilitated English... View more info
By: Borden, Mary
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1930
Edition: 5th printing
Seller ID: 19294
[book is clean, tight and virtually flawless, vintage price sticker (from the famous San Francisco department store The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket somewhat discolored (or dust-soiled) along top and right edges of front panel, with a couple of short closed tears at bottom of rear panel, light soiling overall]. "Hunting, drinking, lovers, cards, money. Caroline Merryweather had them all. At sixty, alone in a cold little New England farmhouse, she writes h... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York/London, G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press: 1920
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20546
(black and gilt decorated cover; no dust jacket) [front hinge starting, light dampstaining to covers, offsetting to endpapers, spine cloth a bit faded, gilt spine lettering rubbed but still readable]. Novel about a small-town girl who becomes a stage actress. A contemporary publisher's ad called it "a brilliant novel of stage life, with an unusual and unconventional heroine," also noting that it featured "a frankly daring discussion of the sex problem."... View more info
By: Bowers, Penelope
Price: $75.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd.: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20560
[moderate shelfwear, soiling to top edge of text block, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, small vintage bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith "Acres of Books," Long Beach, California) on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn with various chips, tears, creasing, etc.] Described as "an English story written in India" in the jacket blurb, its theme deals with "reincarnation and fate." The first of just two novels by this British author, ... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, The Dial Press: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14433
[nice-looking copy, tight and clean, very light wear to book extremities; jacket shows minor wear at corners]. "This is a basic love story, woven into a tapestry of the glitter, intrigue and violence, of immense courage and over-mastering avarice against a background of 16th Century France and America. Pierre and Marguerite are caught in the age-old struggle of love against the arbitrary powers which band to separate them. They are both orphans, scions of great ho... View more info
By: Boyd, Madeleine
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16630
[a bit of spotting/soiling to page edges, light shelfwear to bottom edge, minor fading to cloth near top of spine; jacket shows some edgewear, darkened with age, various tiny nicks here and there]. A particularly fine example of a "novel of retribution," this roman a clef was penned by a French-born New York translator and literary agent (known as the person who first brought Thomas Wolfe to the attention of Max Perkins at Scribner's) after she had separated fro... View more info
By: Boyden, Polly
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Truro MA, Pamet Press: (c.1942)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22084
DETAILS NEEDED. World War II-era political parable, somewhat in the vein of "Animal Farm" -- "a story that is, at one and the same time, both symbol and adventure, actual and romantic, satirical and completely engaging." Oh, and did I mention that all the characters are birds? The hero is Roderick Robin Jr., marked as a rebel from birth due to his having hatched out of a pink egg; in the course of the narrative he defies his family and gets involved in ... View more info
By: Braby, Ion
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1951
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3416
[moderate overall wear to book, some foxing on page edges, small rip in binding at top of spine; jacket worn at corners with some paper loss, chipping across top edge, a few small tears here and there]. A novel set in Berlin at the end of World War II and during its occupation by Allied forces in the postwar period. Striking jacket illustration by Dorothea Broby. View more info
