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Pennine [SIGNED]

By: Beswick, Eardley

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London/Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd.: 1936

Seller ID: 23991

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(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...
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Original Design

By: Beswick, Eardley

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Minton, Balch & Company: 1933

Seller ID: 23994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [moderately shelfworn copy, light bumping at several corners, slight exposure of board at bottom front corner, some soiling to edges of text block, gilt lettering on spine and front cover rubbed but still readable; an ex-library book, with label remnants on spine and pocket remnant on front pastedown; descriptive text from dust jacket glued to ffep]. "This vital novel has for its subject the insecurity of life in a machine age economy, though it is in no sense a 'thesis novel.'" (Well, that's a relief.) The book's setting is a large engineering firm in the English Mi...
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Cypress Man

By: Beynon, Jane (pseud. for Jane Lewis Brandt, aka "Lange Lewis")

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1944)

Seller ID: 21470

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(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."
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On the Sixth Day

By: Bianco, Giuseppe [pseud. for Joseph White]

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1928)

Seller ID: 19318

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[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...
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The Whole Story

By: Bibesco, Elizabeth

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York/London, G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1926

Seller ID: 16500

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(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...
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The Frontiersman [original (U.K.) title: Frontiersmen]

By: Bindloss, Harold

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1929

Seller ID: 19371

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

[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 ...
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The Angry Time

By: Bishop, Leonard

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Frederick Fell, Inc.: (c.1960)

Seller ID: 23995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(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...
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Return to Bondage

By: Blackburn, Barbara

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press: 1926

Seller ID: 23989

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(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...
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On Pegasus He Rode

By: Blaker, Richard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Carrick & Evans: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 8999

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(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...
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Scabby Dichson

By: Blaker, Richard

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: (c.1928)

Seller ID: 17653

Binding: Hardcover 2nd Printing ("B")

Condition: Very Good-

(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-...
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Medal Without Bar

By: Blaker, Richard

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.: 1930

Seller ID: 23985

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

(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...
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The Brave and the Blind

By: Blankfort, Michael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1940)

Seller ID: 8961

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[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.
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I Met a Man

By: Blankfort, Michael

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1937)

Seller ID: 22085

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[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).
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Goodbye, I Guess [SIGNED]

By: Blankfort, Michael

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1962

Seller ID: 24752

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dj

[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...
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The Blood of the Arena

By: Blasco Ibañez, Vicente (translated from the Spanish by Frances Douglas)

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Chicago, A.C. McClurg & Co.: 1911

Seller ID: 18240

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Birds Got to Fly; a novel in six parts

By: Blodgett, Ruth

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: (c.1929)

Seller ID: 13243

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Pack Mule

By: Bloom, Ursula

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc.: 1932

Seller ID: 19632

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Replenishing Jessica

By: Bodenheim, Maxwell

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Boni and Liveright: (c.1925)

Seller ID: 23084

Binding: Hardcover

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, ...
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The Baby Lamb

By: Boley, Jean

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co.: (c.1948)

Seller ID: 23988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[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...
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The Fanatics

By: Bonner, Charles Jr.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Mohawk Press: 1932

Seller ID: 12219

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

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...
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Category: Fiction: Vintage