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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
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good
(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 Hollywood films, both using the more marquee-friendly title BLOOD AND SAND: a 1922 silent version starring the gorgeous Rudo... View more info
By: Blodgett, Ruth
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: (c.1929)
Edition: Unstated edition
Seller ID: 13243
Condition: Good in Good dj
[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 info
By: Bloom, Ursula
Price: $50.00
Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1932
Edition: 3rd printing
Seller ID: 19632
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[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 info
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright: (c.1925)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 23084
Condition: Good
(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 info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: New York, The Mohawk Press: 1932
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 12219
ISBN: NO
Condition: Good in Good dj
[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 info
By: Bonner, Margerie
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1946
Edition: 1st Edition (A)
Seller ID: 15869
Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj
[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 little group of his intimate friends -- and one deadly enemy -- watched a motion picture of Paul's skiing prowess at Sun Valle... View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Lee Furman, Inc.: (c.1936)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 21999
Condition: Good
(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 info
By: Borden, Mary
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1920
Edition: 4th printing
Seller ID: 19261
ISBN: NO
Condition: Near Fine in Good dj
[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 upper class." (Front-panel jacket quote from Burton Rascoe of The Chicago Tribune). It is not in the least bit coincid... View more info
By: Borden, Mary
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1930
Edition: 5th printing
Seller ID: 19294
ISBN: NO
Condition: Fine in Very Good dj
[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 her story as she interprets it through the life of Maggie Dawson, the one friend she had really loved." A primary characte... 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
ISBN: NO
Condition: Good
(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." The author was the second wife (and widow) of British actor Aubrey Boucicault, the youngest child of the famed Irish actor/... View more info
By: Bowers, Penelope
Price: $75.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd.: 1948
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20560
Condition: Good in Fair dj
[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, who trained as an actress and apparently had a brief stage career in the 1930s prior to going to the Sudan (during the first ... View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, The Dial Press: 1953
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14433
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
[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 houses, immured after the custom of 16th Century France, she in a lonely castle and he in the adjacent monastery." She's g... View more info
By: Boyd, Madeleine
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 16630
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj
[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 from her husband, Irish-born critic and essayist Ernest Boyd. In the novel she is "Nicole," a middle-class French girl ... View more info
By: Boyden, Polly
Price: $100.00
Publisher: Truro MA, Pamet Press: (c.1942)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 22084
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj
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 the Sparrow Movement, which is fighting for a new social order that involves the redistribution of apple seeds. As radical w... View more info
By: Braby, Ion
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton & Co.: 1951
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 3416
Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj
[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
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, The John Day Company: 1926
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13758
Condition: Good
(no dust jacket) [worn but intact copy, moderate exterior soiling, front hinge a little loosey-goosey but not split or detached; spine cloth dulled, gilt rubbed off but lettering still readable; altogether a respectable reading copy, but no more]. Novel about a rich small-town widow, who devotes her energy and fortune to the task of making good marriages for her daughters -- complicated by the fact that they're Irish, y'see, and thus not "Society." The third of five novels by this one-time New Yorker drama critic, who subsequently decamped for Hollywood, where he found success as a sc... View more info
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By: Brahms, Caryl, and S.J. Simon
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J. B. Lippincott Company: (c.1946)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7921
Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj
(price-clipped) [solid copy, some wear (board exposed) at bottom rear corner; jacket wrinkled/creased along top edge of front panel, some paper loss at corners and spine ends]. Satirical novel set against the backdrop of the Russian ballet; the fourth (and last) in the authors' series about the wacky misadventures of the Vladimir Stroganoff ballet company. (Sergei Diaghilev features throughout the story, alongside the fictional characters.) Originally published in England, in 1945, as "Six Curtains for Stroganova." View more info
By: Brahms, Caryl, and S.J. Simon
Price: $12.00
Publisher: London, Michael Joseph: 1964
Edition: 3rd impression
Seller ID: 10543
ISBN: NO
Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj
[good solid copy, light browning to page edges, shallow dent at top of rear cover; jacket slightly browned at spine, minor edgewear, one tiny tear at top of rear panel]. Satirical novel set against a backdrop of the Russian ballet; the fourth (and last) in the authors' series about the wacky misadventures of the Vladimir Stroganoff ballet company. (Sergei Diaghilev features throughout the story, alongside the fictional characters.) Originally published in 1945; the U.S. edition (1946) was entitled "Six Curtains for Natasha." View more info
By: Brahms, Caryl, and S.J. Simon
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart: (c.1940)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 14395
Condition: Good+
(no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, spine turned, spine cloth faded and white spine lettering rubbed; attractive small label (like a miniature bookplate) on front pastedown]. (line drawings) One of this writing team's scarcer works, a satirical novel about a young Englishman who falls in with a group of down-and-out White Russian emigres in Paris, who have banded together in a kind of anti-socialist social club known as the White Elephants. Its philosophy is explained by one of its members: "We serve no useful purpose. We have no place in the struggle for existence. We refuse to con... View more info
By: Brebner, Winston
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Rinehart & Company, Inc.: (c.1956)
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 20539
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj
[shelfwear and bumping to bottom corners, age-toning to edges of text block (typical of Rinehart books in this period), overall a clean and solidly bound book; jacket moderately edgeworn, light rubbing/soiling, small pull-tear in rear panel]. Novel -- sorry, "magical tale" -- about "a man in an unnamed city, holding down an unrewarding job in a wonderfully bureaucratic organization called simply The Agency, returning each evening to his dissatisfied and unsatisfying wife." His miserable existence is leavened only once a year, "at Holiday time, [when] he assumes his secret... View more info
