(no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, dust-soiling to top edge, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, spine lettering dulled, old label on front pastedown, along with one-time owner's signature and date (April 1930, the publication month)]. Novel about an ex-con who joins the circus in order to escape the entrapments of the criminal/gang life in the city. The author had two fields of deep knowledge -- crime and the circus -- and this draws on them both. View More...
(no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, minor bumping to rear corners, very slight browning to spine cloth; a couple of pages roughly opened near end of book, with resultant ragged fore-edges]. Religion-themed novel about a Yorkshire clergyman and his passage (per a contemporary review) "from enthusiasm to doubt and, falteringly, from doubt to faith." The same reviewer commented that the book was "written honestly and interestingly enough, and with more than a dash of humour." In England, it reportedly won a publisher's prize, from a field of four hundred entrants. The author (1... View More...
[shelfwear to bottom edges and top corners of paper-covered boards (slight exposure of boards at a few points), otherwise a solid clean copy that appears to have never been read; jacket shows some edgewear, with a few small closed tears, shallow chip at bottom of rear panel, slight fading to spine]. "Pauline is a young girl, jilted in love, who goes to the Italian Riviera to find solace and forgetfulness along that fascinating littoral of blue-watered beaches. But the friends that she soon makes at the pension where she stays won't allow her to maintain her 'once bitten, twice shy' attit... View More...
(no dust jacket) [reading copy only; an ex-rental library book, stamped as such on all endpapers, with heavy wear to bottom edge (boards exposed), front hinge cracked, moderate soiling to page edges]. Novel about a successful New York businesswoman, owner of her own interior decoration firm. "There was more to this business than just picking out nice lamp-shades, and matching the draperies to the rug. Sometimes she wished she had married young and gone to California to live. Sometimes she wished she had picked out a nice easy job like scrubbing floors." View More...
[lightly shelfworn, some age-toning and light spotting to edges of text block; jacket is presentable, but appears to have been insect-nibbled all along the bottom edge, and is somewhat faded at the spine]. "A novel of a woman who traded love and security for independence," set in New York City in the 1920s. "Cassandra Blake, red-haired, dynamic, ambitious, descended on New York in the days of a booming stock market and nights of speak-easy life determined to take the place by storm. Steering a precarious path through love affairs, marriage, and her writing career, she carried her independen... View More...
[lovely copy, tight and clean, with just minimal wear to book and jacket]. "An unusually charming romance set in one of the most beautiful parts of the world, the emerald foothills of the German mountains." There's a rather fulsome rear-jacket blurb about the author and her "hard road to success" -- orphaned as a child, had to sell her first novel secretly over the objections of her husband, became a best-selling author but lost her fortune when the German economy crashed in 1923, etc. But "fortunately, she still had her imagination, her publishers and her reading public,... View More...
[spine considerably turned, but otherwise very little wear to book; the very attractive jacket has a few teensy-tiny nicks along top edge, spine sun-browned, light soiling to rear panel]. (pen & ink drawings) Novel with rather a weird premise: during World War I, while serving in France with the Canadian Army (as did the author), the protagonist of this tale has occasion to apparently kill the same German officer twice, and then to encounter him yet a third time, and witness his execution as a spy -- all of which has the cumulative effect of driving him stark raving mad. He eventually recove... View More...
[ffep removed, otherwise quite a decent copy, with light shelfwear; jacket has a bit of paper loss at spine ends (no loss of text), a couple of tiny tears at edges of rear panel]. Novelization, of sorts, based on the TV series of the same name which starred Cox as "that most undominant of men," mild-mannered high school science teacher Robinson J. Peepers. The show ran for three years on NBC, ending its run the same year this book appeared, and in its low-key way seems remarkably modern when viewed today. View More...
[generally a solid clean copy, very slight bumping at a couple of corners, some roughness to cloth along rear hinge (binding flaw?), vintage bookseller's label (from Newbegins, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket edgeworn with small tears and minor paper loss at most corners, worn at front fold and split about two inches up from bottom, various other small tears and nicks, some soiling to rear panel]. "A dramatic novel of human character set in a small seaside town in Cuba dominated by American sugar interests." Cozzens, a future Pulitzer Prize-winner, had lived in Cuba for several year... View More...
[front hinge starting to give just a bit at the lower end but otherwise a good sound copy, possible ex-library of some sort (with minimal traces, however), moderate wear to extremities, tiny spot on front cover, small bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith "Acres of Books," Long Beach, California); the jacket, unfortunately, has a large piece torn away from the bottom left area of the front panel (see image), along with sundry other small chips, tears and general wear]. "Sarah was the daughter of Jezebel, Cornelia Curtois, the sculptress who careened across the w... View More...
[a solid clean copy, nice and tight with only minimal wear, but with considerable fading to cloth at spine and edges of covers; jacket moderately faded at spine, otherwise just lightly worn at edges]. Is there any literary icon we Americans are more enamored of than the alcoholic writer? It takes some effort to think of a major 20th Century author whose life wasn't touched (or hammered) by John Barleycorn, including the author of "John Barleycorn" himself. (Look it up.) Poe, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Parker, Chandler, Kerouac, Capote, Bukowski -- that hardly scratches the surface, and ... View More...
[about as nice a copy as you could hope to find, with just a trace of shelfwear to bottom edges, short diagonal creases to a couple of top page corners, vintage price sticker (from the famous San Francisco department store The White House) on the rear pastedown; the jacket shows slight age-toning, minor surface wear and a couple of tiny unobtrusive smudges/stains on the spine]. World War I-set novel with a national-identity theme: the protagonist is a "sensitive, intelligent boy of mixed German and English blood, [who] grows up in Chile and reaches young manhood at the outbreak of the Wor... View More...
(price-clipped) [light shelfwear, a bit of spotting to top edge of text block, gift inscription on half-title page; jacket has very shallow chipping along top edge, minor paper loss at bottom corners of front panel, about a 1" split at both top and bottom front hinge]. Oh my dear, oh dear -- this white lady author wants the reader to know all about "the Negroes whom I have come to know well in the twenty-two years I have lived in the deep South. They mow my lawn, wash my clothes and work in my kitchen. I have been much impressed by their simplicity, their humorous philosophy, and the great ... View More...
[solid copy, but with some edge-soiling, a little insect-chewing along front hinge, small nicks at bottom of first dozen or so pages, "A81" written in ink at top of dust jacket and top of ffep; jacket soiled and stained, internally reinforced with brown paper, somewhat wrinkled (from moisture?) but not at all bad- looking]. Front panel illustration features a tough-looking woman in a fur hat and vest, standing in a barroom, wearing a holster with a pair of six- shooters. (Note that I am indicating this as a first U.S. edition based on the statement in the book: "A Girl of the Klond... View More...
(no dust jacket) [good only; a reading copy, shelfworn, soiling to covers and top edge, stains on spine, lettering on spine and front cover almost completely rubbed away; the hinges are intact but a little weak, and the book is internally clean]. Depression-era novel about a young businessman who loses his job in the 1929 Stock Market crash, and is reduced to working as the manager of a run-down New York rooming-house in Greenwich Village, near Washington Square. There he encounters and interacts (Grand Hotel-style) with an assortment of characters: a Japanese communist, an artist, an ex-act... View More...
(no dust jacket) [nice solid copy, some mild soiling to top page edges, a little wrinkle in cloth at base of spine, old bookstore stamps on front pastedown]. A novel of the Irish Rebellion, which begins in Dublin on Easter Monday of the year 1916. "It is important to state that this is not merely another novel about the Trouble in Ireland; for [this book] has a universal application wholly apart from the incident of the Irish Rebellion." View More...
[nice solid copy, minor shelfwear, a couple of pages ragged at fore-edge from having been carelessly cut; jacket shows mild edgewear, a bit of soiling/rubbing, a couple of tiny edge-tears, ragged pull-tear across across mid-spine (no text affected)]. "This is a story of Kentucky of the eighties, of an exalted society that worshipped beauty in women and blood in horses, whose lives were ordered and arranged by the rules of a chivalry now half-forgotten. Into the quiet lives of the blue-grass aristocracy there penetrates a drama of passion, of love, whose effect is devastating and profound.... View More...
[a decent, solid copy, bumped at corners but otherwise only lightly shelfworn; jacket is pretty rough, with heavy edgewear, a split about halfway up from the bottom along the front hinge, small piece missing from lower right corner of front panel, various other tears/creasing, etc.]. "A novel of backstage, written with inner knowledge and sophisticated wit by an important new author." The author, a Chicago native, had begun her career as a film and drama critic in Chicago, but gave that up when she starting writing magazine fiction. This, her first novel, was followed by two more, &#... View More...
[light wear to bottom edges and spine ends, slight fading to cloth at top of spine; jacket lightly soiled, tiny puncture-tear in spine (internally tape-repaired), a couple of little edge-nicks]. A novel of English society, "peopled with a group of characters as fresh and original as the story itself" -- all English types except for a "crafty Italian peasant," Rosa Moro, "the villainess of the piece but not very villainous. This London-born author's first novel, "The Ants' Nest," was well-reviewed in 1938, but this one (her second) seems to have also been her last;... View More...
[front hinge starting to crack, otherwise a decent copy with only minor wear to extremities; jacket heavily edgeworn, short diagonal tear at upper left corner of front panel, a few other tiny tears and nicks, inverted-V-shaped wrinkle in front panel]. Trashy novel about "a girl who personifies sex," who flees from a rooming house in the slums of New York to Miami Beach to escape her sadistic stepfather and another abusive tenant, but soon discovers that "the exciting Playland of Glamour and Enchantment" is less glamorous and enchanting than she'd counted on. But not to worry,... View More...
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