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Mark of the Hunter [SIGNED]

By: Caesar, Gene

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, William Sloane Associates: (c.1953)

Seller ID: 8899

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj

(price-clipped) [solid clean copy, mild shelfwear, publisher's sticker on ffep indicating this to be a "specially autographed edition"; jacket moderately edgeworn, a few small tears, faint dampstain along left edge of front flap, nothing too serious]. SIGNED by the author on the half-title page. "This dynamic, contemporary novel is set against the natural background of Northern Michigan's wild hinterland. It tells of Marty Jevons' search for a purpose in life and a woman to love. [With a rifle?] Marty is a young Marine veteran. The savage streak that most of us camouflage so carefu...
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The Baby in the Icebox, and Other Short Fiction

By: Cain, James M.; edited by Roy Hoopes

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: (c.1981)

Seller ID: 23915

ISBN: 0030585015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj

[nice tight clean copy, just a touch of wear along top edge of rear cover, appears unread; jacket similarly nice, bright and colorful with just a tiny black vertical line at the left edge of the front panel, and a long vertical crease in the rear flap]. "The first book to collect the best of [Cain's] shorter work -- selected short stories and sketches together with one of his finest serials, the novella published as different times under the titles 'Money and the Woman' and 'The Embezzler.'" The ten "entertaining sketches and dialogues," written for such journalistic outlets ...
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Wife Wanted; an unusual human story [SIGNED]

By: Callahan, Robert E.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Authors Press: 1940

Seller ID: 21996

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

(no dust jacket) [worn but intact copy, slight fading to spine cloth, bumping to all corners, fraying to cloth and some exposure of boards at bottom edge, several small gouges in rear cover, small bookseller's rubber stamp inside, one-time owner's name at top of title page]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page: "To Marie Vasgard / with good luck wishes / Robert E. Callahan / 1947." As nearly as I can make out the plot of this somewhat overwrought novel, it has to do with a man who places hundreds of "lonely hearts" advertisements in newspapers around the coun...
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Beyond the Street

By: Calmer, Edgar [Ned]

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: (c.1934)

Seller ID: 23104

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [light wear to extremities, age-toning to edges of text block, silver spine lettering somewhat rubbed but still readable, attractive custom vintage bookplate (George L. Fox) on front pastedown, signature of one-time owner (Muriel Fox, Vassar) on ffep]. The first novel by this longtime journalist, set in a big New York City high school and emphasizing "its fecundity, the strangeness of its stories, the vast social strata from which its citizens are drawn." Critic Roger Austen likened the book to Anderson's "Winesburg, Ohio," and cites it for its sympathetic, "even quite sensit...
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Cry for Happy

By: Campbell, George

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company: (c.1958)

Seller ID: 21046

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice clean copy, slight wear to cloth at spine ends; jacket has a few tiny nicks and chips along the top edge, but presents very well in new jacket protector]. Novel about six U.S. Navy men (members of the Pacific Fleet Combat Camera Unit), stationed in Tokyo during the Korean War, who become partners in a geisha house -- "as wild, delightful, charming, bittersweet, and satisfying a yarn as ever was told about the United States Navy." Hollywood went a little geisha-happy in the late 1950s and early 1960s (cf. THE TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON, THE BARBARIAN AND THE GEI...
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Darkness at Noon [SIGNED]

By: Carlisle, Harry

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright: 1931

Seller ID: 22133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[very slight bumping/cracking to bottom corners, otherwise a very nice copy with only minimal shelfwear; jacket edgeworn, especially along spine joints, miscellaneous creasing, a few small tears, minor paper loss at spine corners]. INSCRIBED to the noted film star Richard Arlen and his wife ("Dick and Joby Arlen") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additionally DATED in his hand Mar. 24, 1931. The author's only book (at least that we know about), a novel derived from his own experiences as a coal miner in England. As explained in the jacket bio, and further confirmed by the inscr...
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The Blossoming Year

By: Carpenter, Bruce

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.: (c.1952)

Seller ID: 3826

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Good dj

[general overall wear, extensive pencil notes on rear fep; jacket worn at edges/corners, approx 1"x1" piece missing at top left of front panel, a little paper loss at spine ends]. "The author writes searchingly of a young girl's emotions, and entertainingly of the manners and customs of a middle-class New England family whose growing concern is to get the girls happily married." Set partially in New York, specifically Greenwich Village.
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The Duke Steps Out [SIGNED]

By: Cary, Lucian

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd.: [1930]

Seller ID: 22870

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

(no dust jacket) [a bit of soiling to covers, spine slightly turned, small black mark on top edge of text block, front hinge cracked but not split, light foxing to ffep]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To His Grace, Eddie, / Duke of Collinsville / with the compliments / of the author / Lucian Cary / December 23, 1930." Comic novel about a young prizefighter who decides to return to college, partly to please his wealthy parents and partly to win the heart of a co-ed for whom he's fallen hard. Originally published serially in The Saturday Evening Post (August 4 - Sept...
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Backstage [on jacket: Back Stage]

By: Cary, Melbert

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, House of Field Inc.: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 10171

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Poor dj

[soiling and uneven fading to cloth, soiling to page edges, ffep removed with consequent weakening of front hinge; jacket is edgeworn with various small tears, but downgraded to "Poor" due to large piece (about 1/6 of total area) missing from bottom right-hand corner of front panel (taking most of the author's name with it)]. "A love story 'tis true, but unlike any other -- not the love of man for woman, of parent for child, or friend for friend; none of these, but a passionate all-consuming love of daughter for mother, as inversion of material instinct as it were." Takes plac...
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Ladies and Gents

By: Caspary, Vera

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: [1930] (c.1929)

Seller ID: 18766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[slight deterioration to binding at spine ends, otherwise a solid clean book with only minor shelfwear; jacket has a one-inch chip at top right corner of front panel, additional chipping at bottom of rear panel, a bit of paper loss at both ends of spine, rubbing/scuffing on spine and front panel]. First novel by the Chicago-born author who turned out over twenty novels during her career (plus a bunch of plays and screenplays), but is ultimately remembered almost entirely for just one: "Laura." This early work tells "the saga of a shimmy shaker -- little Rosina Monticelli, who rose...
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Even in Laughter

By: Cassady, Constance (pseud. for Constance Wagner), and Ruth Cardwell

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1935)

Seller ID: 23993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

(no dust jacket) [a decent enough copy, but with enough external soiling (and darkening to spine cloth) to give it a somewhat grubby appearance; bumping and slight fraying to upper extremities, old bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.)]. Depression-era novel set in Chicago, examining the effects of the country's economic catastrophe on four different families from four very different levels of the city's social strata: "Rich man, poor man, beggar man and thief are in it, luxury and want, the cream of easy living and the tig...
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The Monkey God

By: Casserly, Gordon

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Sears Publishing Co.: [n.d.; ca 1933]

Seller ID: 7491

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [nice clean tight copy, mild corner wear, faint soiling to top edge, slight age-toning of pages; jacket text pasted to ffep]. Novel about an Englishman who lived in the Indian jungle with a tribe of monkeys.
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Two on Safari

By: Chamberlain, George Agnew

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company: (c.1935)

Seller ID: 10733

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [solid copy, top corners lightly bumped, slight darkening to spine cloth]. Adventure novel about an American who gets involved in leading a safari in South Africa. One of this popular author's harder-to-find books.
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What the Sweet Hell?

By: Chamberlain, Peter

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Henry Holt and Company: 1935

Seller ID: 14136

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

(no dust jacket) [decent copy, minor foxing around edges of endpapers, hinges a little tender but not cracked or split, paper spine label a bit rubbed but still completely readable, a few pages near end of book slightly scrunched at top corners]. Short stories by a British writer, in a somewhat hard-boiled vein, as the title suggests. As the New York Times critic observed, "in tone they are much more American than British. They have a vigor and directness, even an occasional brutality, which one rarely finds among the author's countrymen." The author subsequently turned out two nov...
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Joan Kennedy

By: Channon, Henry

Price: $65.00

Publisher: London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.: 1929

Seller ID: 15053

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [spine a little turned, light bumping to corners, moderate shelfwear, old bookseller's stamp on front pastedown, remnant of vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown; gilt spine lettering still strong and bright, front cover lettering is embossed and may never have had gilt (at least there's no trace of it now)]. The first of two novels (both uncommmon) by this American-born writer and, later, politician (whose nickname was "Chips"), who went to school in England and eventually came to detest American society. His views were decidedly capital-C Conservative, and h...
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Idle Hands

By: Charles, Edward (pseud. for E.C.E. Hemsted)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Lothrop, Lee and Shephard Company: 1936

Seller ID: 20519

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [light external soiling and moderate shelfwear, small vintage bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith's Book Store, Long Beach, California) at bottom corner of front pastedown]. English novel, about something or other -- artists, some kind of school, people having affairs with one another, the staff of an art magazine. (Do you have any idea how hard it is to synopsize a novel when you can't find any reviews, and the dust jacket is missing? I'd read the darn thing if I had time, but alas.) The author was a longtime educator, who taught in Japan, China, India and England; ...
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Shadow of a Hero

By: Chase, Allan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company: 1949

Seller ID: 20525

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light wear to book, slight fading to cloth along top and bottom edges, small vintage bookseller's rubber-stamp (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, California) at bottom corner of front pastedown; jacket has tiny tears at several corners, some edgewear and minor wrinkling along bottom edge, a handful of tiny nicks and closed tears]. Novel about a newspaper's book editor who starts looking into the background of Arnold Kelleher, one of his city's upstanding (and recently-deceased) citizens, regarded as a hero for his role in recovering a kidnapped child, and discovers a great dispari...
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East River

By: Chase, Borden

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company: (c.1935)

Seller ID: 14971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj

[quite a decent copy, moderately shelfworn and with some smudging and marking to the cloth (mostly on the back cover), but nice enough that's it a bit of a shock to discover (from the rear endpaper) that it was once a lending library book (see notes); jacket is lightly soiled, some wear at edges and corners, neat internal tape-reinforcement at top of spine, all in all very well-preserved and quite attractive]. First novel by this New York-born writer, who went on to a long and successful career as a Hollywood screenwriter. Derived from his personal experience as a "sandhog" working on...
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Sandhog

By: Chase, Borden

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Penn Publishing Company: (c.1938)

Seller ID: 16892

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

[light shelfwear, very slight deterioration to binding at top of spine; jacket is heavily edgeworn, soiled, shallow chipping along top edge, large chip at bottom of rear panel (no loss of text)]. The second book that the author managed to squeeze out of his experience on an East River tunnel gang. (The first, "East River," was published in 1935.) This book is often cited erroneously, by the chronologically-challenged, as the source for the 1935 Raoul Walsh film UNDER PRESSURE, which was actually based on "East River," which at one time (prior to its publication) was actually ...
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Gay Highway

By: Chase, Mary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap: (c.1933)

Seller ID: 7499

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

(no dust jacket) [ex-library book with typical markings (stamp and label on ffep, date due slip & pocket in back of book) but minimal wear (date due slip shows just one checkout); some light spotting to spine cloth and (less) on covers; no external library markings]. Uncommon novel, a romance (not gay-themed) about a young woman who goes on the road after her grandmother's death; at various points she visits a Western ranch, and gets involved with a traveling theatrical troupe. (I am uncertain about whether the author is the playwright Mary Chase ("Harvey," etc.), but I don't think so....
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Category: Fiction: Vintage