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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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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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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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Past All Dishonor

By: Cain, James M.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1946

Seller ID: 26047

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dj

(price-clipped) [moderately worn book, some dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket is edgeworn, minor paper loss at spine ends and most corners]. "This book deals with the West of the silver boom," per the author's note in the front of the book, which represented Cain's first serious effort in the realm of historical fiction.
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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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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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Open Then the Door

By: Carousso, Dorothee

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company: 1942

Seller ID: 21794

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[modest shelfwear, very faint dampstain on top edge of text block, one-time owner's neat signature and date of purchase on ffep; shallow chipping at spine ends, a couple of other little edge-nicks]. The author's first (and apparently only) novel, set in Flushing, N.Y., about a young couple struggling to make it through the Depression after the husband loses his job as a magazine editor. The New York Times reviewer called it "a really appealing first novel [that] is light, modest in scale, not startlingly original, but [having] a quality of warmth and truth and naturalness that is rather rare...
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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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Category: Fiction: Vintage