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The Firemakers: A Novel of Environment

By: Brown, Rollo Walter

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc.: (c.1931)

Seller ID: 21907

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [light external wear and a bit of scuffing to covers, light bumping to bottom corners, tiny tear in cloth at top of spine, hinges and binding solid; some previous owner got a little too enthusiastic with a black grease pen on the front pastedown and ffep, and in their misguided attempt to obliterate whatever writings or markings appeared thereon they created two big black blotches, one of which I was able to erase to a dull grey]. This novel, set in a fictional southern Ohio coal-mining town, Wiggam's Glory (based on the author's hometown of Crooksville), was the first in a s...
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Tomorrow Comes Never

By: Browne, Eleanor [Eleanore]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Arcadia House Publications: 1939

Seller ID: 16056

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Poor dj

[solid reading copy only, spine turned, spotting/soiling to page edges, original owner's name and address on front pastedown; jacket worn and soiled, large pieces missing at both ends of spine, long closed tear across front panel (internally tape-mended and not too obtrusive), various other tears but I'm sure you've got the idea by now]. Romance novel with an ambitious heroine, Holly, to whom "the green fields of far-off pastures were more alluring than her own less glamorous surroundings. And love in an easy tempo of peaceful security was something that didn't fit into her romanticized d...
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Masquerade

By: Brun, Vincent [Vincenz]

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Carrick & Evans, Inc.: (c.1939)

Seller ID: 21992

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+

(no dust jacket) [ex-rental library book, indicated as such by the "Bullock's Book Club" pocket mounted to the rear pastedown with two strips of (yellowing) tape; moderately worn, binding still fully intact, some fading to spine cloth, some soiling to edges of text block, slight exposure of boards at bottom corner of front cover]. Politcally-infused novel set in the mid-1930s about an expatriate couple, a Hungarian woman and her Austrian husband (the latter a journalist/satirist with a somewhat radical background), who hook up in Rome with a handsome young German doctor (possibly a Naz...
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Anne Kempburn, Truthseeker

By: Bryant, Marguerite

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company: 1910

Seller ID: 15095

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [nice-looking copy, light bumping at extremities, slight scrunching to bottom corners of a few pages, one letter of title on front cover slightly chipped, a few small puncture-wounds of mysterious origin to the ffep; the binding is nice and square, although the front hinge is a bit weak]. British novel, about a young woman who devotes herself to social service and charity work, and becomes involved in labor unrest in connection with her work with the Ironworkers Union in London. Some of the characters from an earlier novel by the same author, "Christopher Hibbault, Roadb...
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Let's Have a Baby

By: Buck, Howard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1934)

Seller ID: 16726

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[minor wear to extremities, spine slightly turned, ex-rental library but marked as such by only a single stamp, on the ffep; jacket edgeworn, minor paper loss at a few corners, a couple of scrapes to spine, small chip at top of spine, soiling to rear panel]. A young Manhattan couple, anticipating the arrival of their first child, relocate to an apartment community "way uptown" in search of more space, sunshine, and fresh air. However, their lives are soon complicated by the arrival of spinster Aunt Anastasia, "the female relative in charge of the coming diapered event."
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A Woman in Exchange

By: Buck, Howard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1936)

Seller ID: 21956

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [front hinge cracked but not split, a bit of scarring to both pastedowns (from label removal?), light spotting to rear cover, soiling to edges of text block]. "A Russian prince, an English dancer, an ex-guardsman, and an American heiress fall under the shadow of an ancient tradition and share in the terrifying events which follow the theft of a miniature, [which] disappears while Prince Paul is showing it to a group of friends in London." The plot thickens when the action of the novel switches to America, where the prince encounters the heiress, who's wearing the self...
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The Love Trapeze

By: Bull, Lois

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company: (c.1934)

Seller ID: 22083

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good+ dj

[light shelfwear to bottom of book, very slight deterioration of cloth at spine extremities; jacket shows some edgewear, a couple of tiny closed tears, moderate fading to spine, light soiling to rear panel]. Circus novel about "the nonchalant Mario Verona, greatest living king of the flying trapeze, [who] rose from an obscure continental performer to become the spoiled darling of America's big top," and the two women who loved him: "the famous Mavis Merton, tragic Queen of the Air, [and] Mitzi, "another aerialist, young, vivacious, loyal, and gallant." Although the jacket...
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The Mistress of the Robes; a tale of Queen Anne's days

By: Burchell, Sidney Herbert

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Hurst and Blackett Limited: 1905

Seller ID: 21994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [light foxing to edges of text block, otherwise a nice solid book with just a touch of wear to the spine ends]. Romantic folderol set in 17th century England, a period of which this British author was evidently very fond, since he employed it as the setting for much of his fiction ("The Duke's Servants," "In the Days of King James," etc.). He eventually relocated to California, and his papers came to rest at UCLA, mentioned for benefit of those who may be inspired to conduct further research into his ouevre. A pretty scarce book (only eight copies in OCLC, o...
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Say Uncle

By: Burgess, Dorothy A.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Hollywood CA, Murray & Gee Inc.: 1944

Seller ID: 2679

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[book clean & tight, a couple of pages diagonally creased at upper corner, faint pencil squiggle on fore-edge; jacket worn at edges, various chips & a couple of small pieces missing along top edge, vertical crease in front panel]. "Until you know Uncle Louie, the roguish family skeleton, Madge, the darling wife, Marlo, the scheming vampire, and John, the lovable but misled husband who gambol through the pages of [this book] you have missed one of the rarest treats that has hit the bookstalls since death stilled the inimitable pen of the late Thorne Smith." The author, whose first novel...
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The Unknown Steersman

By: Burn, Irene

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Brentano's: 1912

Seller ID: 21986

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [moderate wear to extremities and bottom edge, faint bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown, white spine lettering somewhat rubbed but still fully readable, binding solid]. Novel set in British India. According to one contemporary reviewer, the book was "chiefly concerned with the same problem as 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles,' but the author gives it a different solution." Apart from the fact that her name appears as the author of four books in the British Library catalogue (including this one), all published between 1908 and 1916, I know nothing at all a...
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This Heart, This Hunter [SIGNED]

By: Burnett, Hallie Southgate

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: (c.1953)

Seller ID: 17287

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Fair dj

[moderate shelfwear, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, light soiling/browning to page edges; jacket worn/rubbed, dampstained at spine, a few small tears, several internal tape repairs, paper loss at top of spine (no loss of text)]. INSCRIBED ("for Swanie / whose encouragement was important. / With love") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. "At seventeen, Felicia Richardson, only daughter of the president of a small Southern college, was a sheltered, innocent child, but not too much a child to love richly and completely. Then she fell in love with Victor Cardwell, a GI st...
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The Silver Eagle

By: Burnett, W.R.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press: 1931

Seller ID: 20188

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear to bottom edge, front board slightly exposed at corner, a bit of surface deterioration to cloth at spine ends, light rubbing to silver spine lettering (still easily readable), ffep removed, colorful vintage bookplate on half-title page]. Burnett's fourth published novel, by far the most obscure and hard-to-find of his early books -- and a classic example of how a work by a notable and successful author (and Burnett had become notable and successful right away, with the publication of his first book, "Little Caesar," in 1929) can fade into obscurity ...
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Romelle

By: Burnett, W.R.

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1946

Seller ID: 21391

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[a little soiling to bottom edges of covers, prior ownership information on front pastedown, signs of erasure on ffep; jacket is worn, with various tiny/shallow chips, some paper loss surrounding top of spine, and a 1-inch piece missing from base of spine]. A second-rate chanteuse in a third-rate Hollywood dive marries a charming stranger, a refined yet moody young Southern gentleman with (it turns out) a somewhat cloudy and troublesome past. Despite the geography, though, it's not a "Hollywood novel" in any sense -- the author never penned a contribution to that genre, despite long e...
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Pale Moon

By: Burnett, W.R.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Macdonald: 1957

Seller ID: 21413

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

[light shelfwear to bottom edge, faint soiling to top of text block; jacket shows a little wear along top and bottom edges, tiny tears and miniscule paper loss at several corners, small internal tape repair at top of spine]. "A novel of the South-west," a sequel to Burnett's 1953 novel "Adobe Walls," set in the same town, "San Miguel." This story tells about "a new element from the East [which] is beginning to challenge the conservatism of the 'old-timers,'" and about a murder that "touches off a bitter election feud that threatens to wreck the whole commu...
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The Same Person

By: Burr, Anna Robeson

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Duffield & Company: 1931

Seller ID: 13213

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[nice copy, spine slightly turned, top edge dust-soiled, tiny smudge at bottom edge, slight fading to cloth at top of spine to match missing pieces of dj; jacket is generally clean and attractive, with only minor wear at a couple of corners, but has a large-ish chip at upper left-hand corner of front panel, which also causes a bit of paper loss at top of spine (not affecting any text)]. The author, a member of an "old Philadelphia family," here presents "a drama of modern life." Its heroine, Lila Stanward, is "divorced from a millionaire husband, and emotionally and spirit...
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The Petter

By: Burton, Beatrice

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: (c.1927)

Seller ID: 24189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Fair dj

[decent enough copy, moderate wear to extremities, soiling to edges of text block, a few tiny bits of white paper stuck to spine and rear cover, residue from the underside of the jacket, which is extensively dampstained with some paper loss at spine corners]. The story of a young woman who got a reputation as "the petter" while still in her teens, "because of many of her light affairs with men, [and] because life seemed just a series of petting parties, she did not recognize the Real Thing when it came along." Flash forward through twenty years, during which she's become "...
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And So Dedicated: An American Novel

By: Burton, Thomas (pseud. for Stephen Longstreet)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Harrison-Hilton Books: (c.1940)

Seller ID: 21998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [good sound copy, internally clean, mildly shelfworn, light dust-soiling to top of text block, very light bumping to bottom corners]. Pseudonymous novel by Stephen Longstreet, set in the 1920s in a fictional Midwestern town, "Corinth." The plot centers around a romantic triangle that culminates in a scandalous double murder, and is set against the background of labor troubles. The author, in a note to the reader, explains that his purely-invented "Crime of the Century"-type situation "owes nothing to the real events [of the 1920s] except the pure frenzy...
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Pay the Piper [SIGNED]

By: Bushnell, Adelyn

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc.: (c.1950)

Seller ID: 9189

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dj

[solid copy, moderate shelfwear, top edge dust-soiled, tape/newspaper discoloration to pastedowns and endpapers due to supplemental materials (see notes); jacket moderately edgeworn, a few small tears, diagonal crease near bottom of front panel, minor paper loss at spine ends]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep; in her inscription, dated in the month of publication (April 1950), she describes the book as "an expose of the music racket, teachers draining pupils of money & time when pupils have nothing to offer." The novel tells the story of a talented singer who "goes ...
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Strange Gift

By: Bushnell, Adelyn

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc.: (c.1951)

Seller ID: 22832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[considerable shelfwear to bottom edge and spine ends, spine slightly turned; jacket edgeworn, small tear/chip at top of spine, vertical crease down middle of spine]. Novel, set in Massachusetts and Maine, about a young woman whose mother is a fake psychic -- while she herself is the real thing.
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For This My Mother Wrapped Me Warm

By: Caesar, Eunice Lee

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, D. Appleton-Century Company, Inc.: (c.1947)

Seller ID: 20557

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

(price-clipped) [wear to and bumping to bottom corners (exposing board at one corner), inked date on front pastedown, ffep top corner clipped; jacket has a bit of paper loss at top corners and top of spine, a few small closed tears, spotting/soiling to rear panel]. Novel about a woman torn between the two men she loves. She's engaged to "the wellbred, refined Mark Richards," but "the thought of Laramie King, moody, passionate and unkempt, lingered in her mind." It's always the unkempt ones, isn't it?
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Category: Fiction: Vintage