[spine slightly turned, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge, a couple of lightly bumped corners, one-time owner's address label on front pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, spine browned, small chip at top of rear panel; jacket a teensy bit shorter than the book, apparently made that way]. "A novel of protest, written by a young apostle of revolt, against the present system of education in the colleges." Although the author is not identified by gender, the book seems to have a definite feminist slant, telling of the travails of a young graduate student teaching Freshman English whil... View More...
(no dust jacket) [worn but still sound copy, a bit of bumping/fraying at all corners, spine cloth faded (lettering just about gone)]. Epistolary relationship/romance novel. View More...
[nice clean copy, binding (staples) firm, a bit of wear at spine ends, bumping and slight crinkling at upper right corner, one-time owner's name discreetly rubber-stamped in "q" of title on front cover]. (photographs, cartoons, ads, etc.) One of the harder-to-find 1930s issues of "The Magazine for Men," despite its general lack of household-name contributors (which is to say no Fitzgerald or Hemingway), due in large measure to its inclusion of the first appearance of Pietro di Donato's "Christ in Concrete," his story of Italian-American construction workers. It's acco... View More...
[solid clean copy, minor wear to extremities, very slight bump to bottom rear corner, light age-toning to edges of text block, one-time owner's name/address stamp on both pastedowns, ffep and title page (enough already!); the jacket is slightly edgeworn and lightly rubbed, with tiny tears and a teensy bit of paper loss at a couple of corners, a bit of creasing in the middle of the rear panel]. Vol. 9 The ninth volume in the RDCB series, with the Spring 1952 issue of "News of The Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club" (8 pages) laid in. This edition contains condensed versions of four p... View More...
[moderate shelfwear, light fading to cloth at edges, light discoloration in gutters; jacket a little edgeworn, spine is browned with some minor staining, a few tiny nicks here and there]. The author, a native of Dunlap, Kansas, and a then-resident of Lyons, Kansas (about 110 miles to the west, in case you were wondering), novelizes his experience at military school -- by all accounts the sort of thing you never quite get over, although it doesn't necessarily obligate you to write a book about it -- to present a "vivid and authentic account of .... the hazing, the maneuvers, the sports, the... View More...
[solid copy, minor bumping at several corners, light soiling to page edges, small faint bookseller's stamp at bottom of front pastedown; jacket heavily worn at edges, with numerous small tears, soiling, etc.] "It was just a casual impulse that sent Corporal Blackie backstage to visit his friend Joe -- an impulse which carried him into the life of Eileen, the red-haired strip-teaser. This is their story, and the story of Norman, Eileen's husband, married just a few weeks before he was shipped out to Africa, to lose both hands, win the Military Medal and fall in love with his courageous yo... View More...
(no dust jacket) [reading copy only, with considerable shelfwear to bottom edges (boards exposed in several spots), rear hinge split, vintage bookseller's label (Bert Barber's Book Store, Fort Worth) on rear pastedown]. Novel about a Dutch family, in Paris and later New York, by a writer once referred to (at least by Time Magazine) as "Holland's foremost novelist." Apparently her depiction of American life in the middle section of the book was grounded in a personal visit to this country in 1925. View More...
[worn copy, corners bumped (top rear corner heavily), light soiling to page edges, bookstore stamp on front pastedown; jacket similarly well-used, small tears at all corners, a little paper loss at spine ends]. Per the jacket blurb, the author of this "bawdy, irreverent, novel" had been "arranging a vast store of material for a series of novels [this being the first] designed to show English country life as it really is, and not as the city weekenders like to imagine it." (Judging from the jacket illustration, it seems the artist liked to imagine it somewhat along the lines of... View More...
[minimal wear to book; jacket slightly chipped at top of spine, small closed tear at upper corner of rear panel, otherwise clean and attractive]. Comic novel about a Lincolnshire native who "since infancy has dedicated himself exclusively to studying English village life, which, he maintains, is completely misrepresented in our current country literature. The rural scene, he avers, is not a cosy paradise inhabited by whimsical squires and philosophical craftsmen; it is characterised, rather, by brutal rapacity, sly animal cunning and orchidaceous vice." View More...
(price-clipped) [nice tight copy, minor wear at extremities, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows some wear at edges/corners, a few small tears, minor chipping at top of spine]. "Whatever else it might have been, Marcia Ellsworth's life certainly was not dull. Being born and brought up in a small Middle Western town was not exactly an idea start for a colorful life, but Marcia was a woman of resource and pluck; she had a way of dominating circumstances. Hers is a richly varied career, highlights and shadow, ecstasy and grief, fulfillment and desolation, success and catastrophe. Not o... View More...
[light shelfwear and minor soiling to bottom edges of covers, otherwise a very decent clean book; jacket complete but edgeworn all around, with soiling/spotting to rear panel, a few tiny scrapes to spine]. (lithographs) Having drawn from his own childhood for his first two books, "Nino" (1938) and "Golden Gate" (1939), Italian-American printmaker/author/illustrator Angelo here tells the story of a Mexican-American family living on a ranch in the Nevada desert, largely as seen through the experiences of the child Pedro. One element of the story involves another family arriving ... View More...
[nice tight clean copy, minor shelfwear only; jacket very attractive, with just a touch of soiling and a couple of tiny edge-nicks]. The trials and tribulations of an unwed mother -- or, more precisely, a divorcee who gets knocked up by her lover, then refuses his half-hearted marriage proposal, and subsequently suffers "pain, hunger, want." The jacket copy really goes to town, in the best Macaulay house style: "No human experience is so profound and rich in emotion as the long crisis of pregnancy . . . and when the expected child must legally be fatherless then crisis is added upon crisis. .... View More...
(no dust jacket) [pretty rough condition, reading copy only; heavy external wear, all pages attached but binding weak, rear endpapers removed with consequent weakening of rear hinge, vintage bookseller's label on front pastedown]. A novel of the Vermont hill country, reissued as a Dell paperback in 1953, under the title "Go Down to Glory." View More...
[solid copy, moderate wear to cloth at top/bottom edges, small nick in cloth at bottom of rear cover near spine, tiny tears/minor fraying at top of spine; jacket is just Fair, with soiling, chipping, etc.]. A trashy novel with a social conscience, it would appear, about a "dynamic young foreman in the effeminate Earle Prescott's industrial empire," who gets involved with the boss's wife (and various "other attractive females that inhabit their Southern town"), and subsequently is nominated for governor of the state, at which point he gets involved in the segregation vs. integration battle. View More...
[solid copy, light shelfwear, minor fading to cloth; jacket shows wear along top and bottom edges, a few shallow chips and tiny tears, horizontal crease near top of front panel]. "The author calls his book 'a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries of a certain lovely lady and her friends and companions in this tale.' ... Mischievousness, then, is the delicate and all-important ingredient in this account of some fashionables of Mayfair." A collection of interconnected short stories (a few with fantasy/horror elements), it was published in England in 1923, a year be... View More...
[book just moderately worn, small tear in cloth at top of spine; jacket somewhat tattered, separated at front hinge (held together by Brodart cover), large piece missing at lower left of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about an idealistic young American physician who goes to Israel to participate in "the birth pangs of a new nation." Since the author himself was a young American physician, who like his protagonist studied at the University of Pittsburgh, one might speculate that this book was at least semi-autobiographical (which of course is not u... View More...
[minor wear to cloth at spine ends, otherwise a pristine copy; jacket has a couple of tiny tears and some associated wrinkling/creasing at top of spine, one small closed tear at top of rear panel, very minor rubbing and edgewear]. Satirical novel about a couple of ex-prostitutes (one now married to a stockbroker, the other the editor of a leading fashion magazine), who find themselves responsible for the "oafish" 19-year-old daughter of their former (deceased) employer, and decide the quickest way to get her off their hands is to introduce her into New York's high society -- by blackm... View More...
[bright and clean, very slight deterioration to cloth at base of spine, spine just a teensy bit turned, small piece torn out of edge of last text page (no loss of text), vintage price label (from The White House, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket lightly edgeworn, small chip at top left corner of front panel]. "When a beautiful woman, in the prime of youth, finds herself married to a lifelong invalid and at the same time knows that love has come to her for the first time through another man, what is she to do? What of her vow, 'for better or for worse'?" Apparently the author, who wro... View More...
(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, previous owner's name and date purchased written on ffep, small stamp (a 1963 Christmas Seal) on front pastedown; jacket worn, rear panel soiled, a couple of ragged tears at top of front panel, a few other small tears]. "A novel of youth by a new writer of distinction." The novel is "the moving story of Eliza Wall, part realist, part dreamer; of her growing obsession with Claw Moreau, the outcast French Canadian; of the suspicious, disapproving Maine townsfolk, with tongues too ready to accuse and hearts too slow to forgive. Swift events foll... View More...
[nice tight copy, apparently unread, just a trace of wear to bottom edge, vintage price sticker (from the famous San Francisco department store, The White House) on rear pastedown; jacket a little rubbed and soiled, with a few tiny edge-nicks, soft diagonal crease in rear flap]. Novel about the "young, beautiful and incomprehensible ruler of the sophisticated set in a middle Western town," a woman who compensates for her unhappy marriage to a middle-aged banker by channeling her intellectual striving into the organization of a salon comprised of the local intelligentsia, such as they are. "F... View More...
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