Condition: Good in Good dj

In For a Penny

By: Anderson, Oliver

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1950

Edition: 1st (U.S.) edition

Seller ID: 12994

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[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...
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Birds Got to Fly; a novel in six parts

By: Blodgett, Ruth

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace and Company : (c.1929)

Edition: Unstated edition

Seller ID: 13243

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[solid but shelfworn copy, top corners bumped/cracked (boards exposed), bottom corners less so, some discoloration to first few pages and last few pages of book, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown; jacket worn, various small tears, soiling to rear panel, minor paper loss (no text affected) at spine ends]. "Young and self-confident, Rosanne is transplanted from her native New York to New England. She has married into the Porter family, and with good-natured curiosity she examines her new relatives -- sound New England stock from north of Boston, whose reliability and well-being a...
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The Fanatics

By: Bonner, Charles Jr.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, The Mohawk Press : 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 12219

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[solid enough copy, but has taken some moisture at bottom at some point in its history, leaving light dampstains on the fore-edge and bottom edge, and the bottom part of the text block is a bit rippled and very lightly stained throughout the book; the jacket is intact but edgeworn and heavily soiled, with minor paper loss at several corners]. "A typical small town is the background against which the author has placed his American characters. The scene opens in 1897 with the Canterburys at their peak -- socially, spiritually and financially. Their life is healthily robust. Then Spooner, a...
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Speaking of Store Teeth

By: Breeden, Marshall

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Dorrance and Company : (c.1926)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[moderately worn book, with the binding separating between the second and third signatures; the jacket is well-worn, with soiling, shallow chipping, etc., and is stamped "Literary Editor / Please Send Review" at the top of the front panel]. (cartoon illustrations) Dental-themed humor that will give its readers "much to chew over," per the jacket blurb. The author, a California-based newspaper publisher/editor and writer of magazine stories, was also the author of a number of books for children, with such scintillating titles as "Samuel Stomach, King of Healthy Happiness" and "The Funny Story...
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The Case of the Chinese Gong

By: Bush, Christopher

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Triangle Books : 1940 (c.1935)

Edition: 3rd Tower Books edition

Seller ID: 28100

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[shelfworn book, slight exposure of boards at lower corners, minor fraying at both ends of spine, pages age-toned as typical with these cheap reprints, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket is heavily edgeworn, faded at spine, numerous old internal tape-repairs at edges and fold-points]. "At precisely 7:30, when a servant announced dinner by striking a Chinese gong, Mr. Greeve became the late and unlamented Mr. Greeve -- with a bullet hole through his head. One of his guests had shot him...
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Strange Gift

By: Bushnell, Adelyn

Price: $18.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. : (c.1951)

Edition: First Edition

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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A Girl of the Klondike

By: Cross, Victoria

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : [n.d.; ca 1920]

Edition: 1st U.S. ed

Seller ID: 7671

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[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...
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Smart Cookie

By: Dauphine, Claude, and Laura Aumont

Price: $15.00

Publisher: [New York], Elite Books, Inc. : (c.1961)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20183

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[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,...
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All-Wool Morrison

By: Day, Holman

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1920

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20472

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[book and binding are sound, but with considerable foxing to the page edges and the first few pages, slight deterioration to cloth along the front hinge, and the original owner's name and town scrawled broadly across both the front pastedown and the ffep; the jacket is moderately edgeworn, with small tears and minor paper loss at several corners, soiling to the rear panel, light pencil scribbling on front panel]. Novel about a good-guy businessman/politician, the proprietor of a big woolen mill (and mayor of the town in which it's located) whose "passion was to make water power -- the 'wh...
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Hollywood Saga [SIGNED by both William and Cecil]

By: de Mille, William C.

Price: $400.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. : (c.1939)

Edition: 1st Edition (2nd printing jacket)

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 22429

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[front hinge cracked, rear hinge weak, but otherwise with just light shelfwear and moderate age-toning to edges of text block; unpersonalized "Ex Libris" bookplate on front pastedown, plus small stamped bookstore name (Larry Edmunds Cinema Bookshop); jacket has a half-dozen or so shallow chips, some scuffing and general wear]. (B&W photographs) SIGNED and generically inscribed ("Sincerely") by the author on the title page, and additionally SIGNED (and also generically inscribed, "Greetings from") by his more famous brother, producer-director Cecil B. DeMille, on the fac...
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Prisoners in The Riff

By: Fairchild, Garet

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Exposition Press : (c.1956)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20896

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[considerable shelfwear to bottom edge, fading to cloth at top edge; jacket is edgeworn, with a tiny chip at the top front hinge, and had apparently gotten wet along the spine at some time, with some resulting dampstaining along the left edge of the front panel (obscured a bit by the jacket design) and some internal staining at and adjacent to the spine]. Obscure vanity-press novel, "narrated against the background of the rebellion of Riffian tribesmen in Spanish Morocco," which "captures the suspense and adventure of colonial warfare and the exotic atmosphere in Morocco." The...
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The Establishment of Madame Antonia

By: Georgie, Leyla

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : (c.1932)

Edition: Reprint? (see note)

Seller ID: 15829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[Good only, book is worn and moderately soiled at page edges, both hinges weak (rear due to removed endpaper); jacket worn at edges and corners, quarter-sized chip at top rear hinge (taking part of the title with it), soiling and scuffing to rear panel]. The story of a brothel in Northern Germany, where "fashionable women came to sight-see and sip champagne [and] fashionable men were frequent callers." The book is structured as a series of chapter-vignettes about each of the nine women who work there (this being the joint's m.o.: "There were only nine girls, never more, and all o...
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Out of the South: The Life of a People in Dramatic Form

By: Green, Paul

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/London, Harper & Brothers : 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[ex-library (the M-G-M Reading Department, with various stamps and a card pocket on the ffep), bumping at corners, fading and a tiny rip to spine cloth at top of spine; jacket heavily worn at edges, browned at spine and edges, small chunk detached at top rear hinge (held in place by new jacket protector), just fragile in general]. "From a longer list of [his] writings, Paul Green has selected and revised fifteen plays dealing with certain representative phases of Southern life. They are plays of a rural region, a region of violent contradictions, or startling beauty and blinding ugliness, an...
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The Way of a Man [Photoplay Edition]

By: Hough, Emerson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : [1924] (c.1907)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21090

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[hinges weak (cracked but not separated), nasty pull-tear in page 125 (no loss of text), otherwise reasonably clean and sound; jacket edgeworn and age-toned, a bit of paper loss at spine ends, small chip at top of front panel (affecting two letters of the title)]. (8 B&W photographic plates) According to the rear jacket panel, this film was "produced both as a feature production and as a ten-chapter Pathé-serial -- but this may well be a spurious claim, as none of the standard silent-film reference sources turn up any reference to a feature version. In any event, it's obvious that the pr...
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Smoking Altars

By: Loe, Gladys St. John

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Claude Kendall Inc. : (c.1936)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8895

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[moderate shelfwear, spine turned, some soiling/smudging to page edges; jacket intact but heavily worn, various small tears/chips, pencil scribbling all over rear panel]. "This stirring story of an Englishman's exile in Kenya, contrasted with the appeal of his native home and family associations, depends for its drama upon the distracting [!] problem of a hereditary taint of a homicidal mania. Is a man, who believes himself to have inherited an irresistible impulse to murder, justified in handing on his fatal legacy to a child? Is he therefore condemned to a life of celibacy, or, at the...
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Beyond Hell

By: McKenna, Stephen

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[water-staining along fore-edges of front and rear covers (interior of book not affected), otherwise just lightly shelfworn; jacket shows staining (internal but with some bleed-through) matching stains on book, a few small chips along bottom edge, a number of scratches on front panel, a bit of wrinkling and very shallow chipping along top edge, internally tape-reinforced along top edge]. Novel set in the then-slightly-near future (1940), about "a sociologist with radically advanced ideas" who had set up a penal colony on a remote Pacific island, with an inmate population comprised of ...
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Living Spaces

By: Nelson, George, ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Whitney Publications, Inc. : (c.1952)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25802

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

(price-clipped) [ex-library book (date-due slip and pocket on ffep, stamped "withdrawn" in several places, call number in ink on bottom of text block), moderately shelfworn, a couple of small nicks in cloth at bottom edge of rear cover, small tape marks/remnants at top and bottom edges of both covers; the jacket, despite some creating and shallow chipping along the top edge, and a few old internal tape repairs (one of which neatly repairs a long horizontal tear in the front panel), is in pretty decent shape, all things considered]. (Interiors Library, 1) Series (B&W photographs, floor plans) ...
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The Last Round

By: O'Rourke, Frank

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1956

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17919

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[ex-library book with typical markings (including pocket and remnants of date-due slip on rear fep, small "withdrawn" stamp on copyright page), rear hinge weak, some black-gunk staining at edges of ffep and front pastedown; jacket is clean and attractive, but has been unevenly trimmed along top and bottom edges and is now about 3/8" shorter than the book itself]. Novel about one of "the kids and punks in thousands of little towns throughout America" who dream of glory in the ring. "Joey Samuels was a wiry young Texan who was born to fight [and] seemed to have the makings of a real pro. And ...
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Summer of Good Hope

By: Philips, Georgiana

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons : 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 11774

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[ex-lending library book, worn but reasonably solid, not much in the way of markings (just a remnant of a removed label on the ffep), but with the jacket flaps securely glued down in that special lending-library way; the jacket is also internally reinforced with brown paper and well-worn at all edges]. "The Henry family's Vermont summer supplies the setting for this gay and discerning modern novel, which captures for the first time in American literature some of the flavor of Enid Bagnold's National Velvet. Caroline Henry, a young and pretty divorcee, has accepted a house, rent free, from...
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S-w-o-o-p [Swoop]

By: Prince, Don

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Julian Messner, Inc. : (c.1941)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18417

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dj

[book is "Good" only, with heavy wear to cloth at top and bottom edges, slight fraying to bottom corners, some small tape marks and various other traces on both pastedowns which suggest that this is an ex-library book although there are no library markings per se; jacket is serviceable but heavily worn, with old internal tape reinforcements at all folding points, light stain along left edge of front panel, etc.]. (B&W line drawings) Very uncommon satirical fantasy-farce about a young New Yorker who discovers one day that he can fly, and the many compensations and complications this ab...
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Condition: Good in Good dj