Condition: Good in Fair dj

A Woman's Woman

By: Bartley, Nalbro

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : 1919

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 26951

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[a good sound copy with intact binding, some soiling to edges of text block and offsetting to endpapers; the jacket is pretty rough, with small tears and bits of paper loss at all extremities, split and nearly separated along front hinge, spine panel mottled and soiled, etc.]. Novel about a 35-year-old married mother of two who decides to liberate herself from the drudgery of her domestic life: "Little by little she emerges from her home-keeping shell and joins one woman's club after another. She is sent as [a] delegate to conventions, starts a woman's exchange and finally becomes one of the...
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The Brave and the Blind

By: Blankfort, Michael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Indianapolis, The Bobbs-Merrill Company : (c.1940)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8961

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[decent reading copy, ex-lending library book but marked as such with only one stamp; the problem is the jacket, which has been trimmed slightly along top/bottom edges, and is encased in one of those old-fashioned jacket protectors with the black strips along top/bottom, then is additional glued AND taped to the endpapers, permanently I'm afraid; there's also some paper loss at base of spine, but it hardly matters]. The author's second novel, set during the Spanish Civil War.
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The Loaf and the Lilies

By: Bowers, Penelope

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann Ltd. : 1948

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20560

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[moderate shelfwear, soiling to top edge of text block, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep, small vintage bookseller's rubber stamp (Bertrand Smith "Acres of Books," Long Beach, California) on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn with various chips, tears, creasing, etc.] Described as "an English story written in India" in the jacket blurb, its theme deals with "reincarnation and fate." The first of just two novels by this British author, who trained as an actress and apparently had a brief stage career in the 1930s prior to going to the Sudan (during the first ...
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The Ninth Wave

By: Burdick, Eugene

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1956

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 27540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[reading copy only, a sound but quite shelfworn book, with bumping/fraying to cloth at most corners; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with numerous small tear and chips, most notably at the upper spine]. Novel about a guy who "rose to power by a series of almost mathematical calculations in which he used people's emotions instead of numbers," ultimately becoming "the biggest man in one of the biggest states in one of the biggest countries in the world." (All of which sounds like a chillingly modern premise for a book written during the supposedly buttoned-down 1950s.) This was the author's fi...
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The Night Before Murder (A Clue Club Mystery)

By: Fisher, Steve

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Hillman-Curl, Inc. : 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18514

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[solid book with not much actual wear, BUT: (a) its one-time owner went absolutely bonkers with his ownership rubber-stamp, using it on all endpapers, the bottom edge, and a couple of other places; and (b) the dust jacket, heavily worn, is firmly glued down at the flaps]. Early mystery novel by Fisher, as he was still clawing his way up out of the pulps (his breakthrough novel, "I Wake Up Screaming," was just two years in the future), about a washed-up actress whose life "had become dull, barren and incredibly stupid, and [who] had become obsessed with the idea of death. So she dec...
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Behold This Woman

By: Goodis, David

Price: $200.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17749

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[just a bit of wear to book, but with soiling/spotting/browning to page edges, one-time owner's signature at top of ffep; alas, the jacket's a mess, heavily edgeworn, with a ragged diagonal tear across the front panel (pretty much held together by the jacket protector) and various other small deprecations]. Goodis's next-to-last hardcover novel, prior to his descent (and I mean that in the nicest possible way) in the netherwold of paperback originals, where he did much of his best work. As noted by Francis M. Nevins Jr., this novel displays "many of the character types, settings, and mot...
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Forty-Two Years in the White House

By: Hoover, Irwin Hood (Ike)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1934

Edition: 7th Impression

Seller ID: 27612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[moderately shelfworn book, front hinge cracked but still holding, light soiling/browning to edges of text block, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is kind of a mess, internally reinforced/repaired with clear tape along all edges and folds, with various small nicks and chips and general wear, one larger chip at top of front panel]. (frontispiece portrait, B&W photographs) Posthumously-published memoirs by the man who joined the White House staff at the age of 19 as an electrician in 1891, and eventually rose to become Chief Usher, es...
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There Were Giants: A Story of Blood and Steel

By: Jones, Grover, and William Slavens McNutt

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, M.S. Mill Co., Inc. : (c.1939)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25941

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[ex-rental library book ("Boulevard Book Shop" stamped on front pastedown, handwritten circulation slip on rear endpaper), the book itself only moderately worn; the jacket, however, is firmly affixed to the book at both flaps, has been unevenly trimmed by about 1/8"-1/4" along the bottom edge, and has suffered some paper loss to the upper spine extremities and the top right corner of the front panel]. The only published novel by this noted screenwriting team, a legendary (though now largely forgotten) duo who were the epitome of the fast-thinking, seat-of-the-pants story-pitchers of Hollywood...
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Christopher Strange

By: McKee, Ruth Eleanor

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc. : 1941

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22814

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[shopworn copy, binding solid but with slight fraying to cloth along bottom edge and at top of spine, some discoloration to endpapers; jacket is well-worn, small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, faded at spine, old external tape reinforcements across both ends of spine extending into front and rear panels]. Historical novel, set from 1853 through 1901, centering around a Massachusetts minister and his young lawyer son who catch California fever, "the pull of the pioneering spirit," and set off for the West. "In a sweeping, panoramic novel of the turbulent years of gr...
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Born to Trouble

By: Nye, Nelson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : (c.1951)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26682

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[moderate shelfwear, bumped corners, tape stains on pastedowns, numerous agency stamps inside (see notes); jacket has shallow chipping along top and bottom edges and at spine ends, 1-1/2" triangular piece missing at top left rear panel (no loss of content), front flap separated (held in place by new mylar jacket cover), spine faded/color-shifted, tape remnants on both flaps]. Western novel set in an Arizona mining town just after the turn of the 19th century, "an action-packed saga of the days when life was the cheapest thing in 114,000 square miles of hell." The prolific author (who also wr...
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There Will Be Fighting [original title: "The Knife"]

By: O'Donnell, Peadar

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York/London, G.P. Putnam's Sons/The Knickerbocker Press : 1931

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 24819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[book's covers are stained along the bottom edge of the front cover and in the middle of the rear cover, apparently from the jacket having been wet at one point and partially adhered to the book, otherwise the book is is only moderately shelfworn; the jacket shows quite a bit of internal staining (mostly the rear panel and spine), with some bleed-through on the spine, but considerable rubbing elsewhere, a few small nicks and tiny chips, etc.]. "A pulsating, deeply exciting novel of the Irish Rebellion," by an author who had himself been an important participant. A socialist and labor organiz...
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Nine Lives Are Not Enough [SIGNED]

By: Odlum, Jerome

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Sheridan House : (c.1940)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 25894

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[moderate shelfwear, cloth slightly worn through at a couple of corners, spine turned, soiling and age-toning to edge of text block; jacket heavily worn and soiled, split almost the entire length of front hinge, several scrape-tears to rear panel, dampstain along bottom edge of rear panel, etc.]. INSCRIBED -- "Best wishes to my / friend and banker / George Hellen" -- and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Mystery novel set in Minneapolis, with the protagonist, "a canny, tough and ready newspaperman, a fighting Irishman, who has just enough softy in him to make him goofy about a lady in distre...
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The Furnace

By: Poling, Dan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company : (c.1925)

Edition: 2nd printing ("B")

Seller ID: 21097

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

(in Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket) [shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, soiling to top edge of text block, general age-toning elsewhere, contemporary (1926) Christmas gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket heavily edgeworn, a couple of chips at top of front panel, additional shallow chipping at base of spine and at bottom of front panel, a few closed tears, etc.]. "An epic of love, steel, and war," centering around the difficulties faced by three men -- a soldier, a chaplain, and a laborer -- returning home after World War I, "to be plunged into a bitter conflict which t...
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Shadows on the Wall

By: Reisner, Mary

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27779

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[book is shelfworn, with bumping and slight fraying to lower extremities and at top of spine, former owner's initials, date/place of purchase and brief editorial comment written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket itself is heavily edgeworn, with various little bits of paper loss at several corners, small chip at upper left corner of spine panel (taking part of the book's title with it), light dampstain at lower right corner of front panel, and an old internal and external tape-repair that runs the length of the front hinge and is starting to gi...
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Sleep No More: Twelve Stories of the Supernatural

By: Rolt, L.T.C.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London, Constable : 1948

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28166

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[book is shelfworn, bumping to lower corners, a little fading to cloth at both ends of spine, previous owner's ink notations regarding the author on front pastedown, small ink check-marks next to each title in table of contents, same owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink at edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap), spine slightly turned but binding solid; the jacket is in pretty rough shape, with heavy edgewear, and has been internally repaired and patched by a previous owner]. Collection of twelve stories by this author, who was better-known as a biographer ...
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A Likeness to Voices

By: Savage, Mary

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company (A Torquil Book) : (c.1963)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[a serviceable reading copy with various depredations: the book is only moderately shelfworn, but the front endpaper has been removed with consequent weakening of the front hinge, which has also contributed to a split in the binding between the first and second signatures (i.e. between pages 8 and 9); the jacket is edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears, a bit of paper loss at the spine ends, and a wide but shallow chip along the top edge of the rear panel -- but it had also apparently gotten wet at some point (at the rear panel and rear flap only) and some of the color from the blue cloth ...
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Life and Limb: An Account of the Career of Melvin M. Belli, Personal-Injury Trial Lawyer [SIGNED by Belli]

By: Wallace, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. : 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 7713

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[book only moderately worn, but front hinge split and front cover hanging on by webbing only; jacket is worn, internally damp-stained, various tears and chips, paper loss at spine extremities]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Melvin Belli on the ffep. Signed by Biographee
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Back to Virtue, Betty

By: Widdemer, Margaret

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart : (c.1934)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26486

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[worn but intact copy, apparently an ex-rental library book (although marked as such only by the rubber-stamped name "James Pharmacy" on both endpapers); the jacket shows quite a bit of wear (creasing, soiling, etc.), and has a chip at the top of the front panel and another (patched crudely with white paper) at the lower right corner; in addition, the jacket has been reinforced with tape along the top and bottom edges; oh, and the front flap is also firmly affixed to the front pastedown, which unfortunately makes it impossible to put a mylar protector on the jacket]. This "up-to-the-minute rom...
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The Loud Literary Lamas of New York

By: Woodford, Jack

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Vantage Press : (c.1950)

Edition: Unstated ed

Seller ID: 6033

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Fair dj

[exterior dampstain along bottom edge (pages not affected), moderate overall wear; jacket well-wron at corners and edges, paper loss at both ends of spine, one-inch triangular chunk missing at top left front panel, a few tears, etc.]. Ever the iconoclast, the cantankerous and prolific hack novelist tells it like it is (was) with regard to the publishing Establishment.
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