Condition: Good in Very Good dj

The Road to Glory: A Biographical Novel of Napoleon

By: Austin, F. Britten

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : (c.1935)

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 19869

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover 2nd Printing (stated)

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[front hinge cracked, otherwise a solid copy with minimal shelfwear, some fading to cloth at top edge and base of spine, offsetting to endpapers in gutters, one-time owner's name and date of original purchase at top of ffep; jacket has a small ragged tear at top rear hinge, light edgewear and a couple of tiny nicks here and there]. "This is an amazing novel of the thrilling and little-known first act in Napoleon's marvelous career -- seen exclusively through the eyes of the 26-year-old Bonaparte, with almost the vividness of actual presence." Set during his first Italian campaign, th...
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Martin Dies' Story [SIGNED]

By: Dies, Martin

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Bookmailer : (c.1963)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 27075

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[front hinge partially cracked, extensive brown stain on bottom of text block (no penetration onto pages, however); jacket shows moderate edgewear, tiny chip at bottom front corner of front panel, and a little discoloration along the top edge and along both flapfolds]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "To a staunch and courageous / American with my best wishes / always. / Martin Dies." Self-serving memoir by one of the premiere commie-witch-hunters of the McCarthy Era -- who probably went to his grave resenting that it wasn't called the "Dies Era," since as the co-fo...
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Bride of the Night

By: Gerard, Louise

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : (c.1930)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20279

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[spine turned, moderate shelfwear, probably an ex-rental library book (business stamp and large marker obliteration on ffep, remnant of removed label on rear fep); jacket has a little paper loss at several corners and top of spine, light soiling]. "Because her father desecrated the altar of an ancient African tribe, an English girl inherits their hatred. The half-white sultan of the tribe, living in magnificent jungle splendor, contrives the exquisite revenge of taking her for his bride. How fate intervenes and how a small band of British soldiers battle with the natives and their hyena...
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Strictly from Brooklyn

By: Heuman, William

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1956

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 14257

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [ex-library book with only moderate wear but a full complement of stamps (including big DISCARD stamp on top edge), tapes marks to boards and endpapers, light scarring/remnants to endpapers from label removal; the jacket has fared a little better, showing no signs of its library passage, although there is a pinky-sized chunk missing from the top of the spine and a few small nicks here and there]. Humorous novel, narrated by a working stiff who's in a pretty much constant wrangle with his family -- taking the missus (against his better judgment) to Ladies' Day at Ebbets Field; ...
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Method -- or Madness?

By: Lewis, Robert

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York/Toronto/Hollywood, Samuel French, Inc. : (c.1958)

Edition: 3rd printing

Seller ID: 23087

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [minimal external wear, but with quite a bit of underlining and occasional margin notation in the second half of the book, also some light dampstaining to lower rear cover, one-time owner's name and address on ffep; jacket has a few tiny chips, light edgewear, similarly (but very lightly) dampstained at lower rear panel]. (B&W photo plates, fold-out chart) From Harold Clurman's introduction: "These informal lectures delivered by [the author] to an audience of professional actors constitute a kind of codicil to the classics of the subject, the three books by Constantin Stanislav...
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Fire Will Freeze

By: Millar, Margaret

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1944)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24317

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[ex-rental library book (marked as such only by a large stamp on the ffep), well-worn, soiling to edges of text block; jacket is slightly trimmed (i.e. just a bit shorter than the book itself), backed with brown paper, tape-stained along edge of front flap and down the middle of the rear flap (with a little loss of text on the latter), but still and all pretty clean and attractive]. Murder mystery set at a run-down chateau in the wilds of Quebec, the author's fifth novel in as many years. The rear-jacket biography of Mrs. Millar is a nice reminder that she was already well established as a w...
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Gruesome Cargoes

By: Thomson, Christine Campbell, ed.

Price: $850.00

Publisher: London, Selwyn & Blount (1928) Ltd. : 1930

Edition: 4th printing

Seller ID: 27663

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[modest wear to extremities, pages tanned with age, but generally a good sound copy of a cheaply-manufactured book; former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written along edge of rear pastedown (concealed by rear jacket flap); the jacket is a bit soiled on the rear panel, with a handful of tiny nicks and edge-tears, minor paper loss at a couple of corners, and a vertical crease along the left edge of the front panel]. ("Not at Night" series, No. 4) Series An early printing of the fourth entry in the long-running "Not at Night" horror-fiction anthology series. By the time this copy...
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Tycoons and Locusts: A Regional Look at Hollywood Fiction of the 1930s

By: Wells, Walter

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Carbondale/Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press : (c.1973)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24650

ISBN-13: 9780809306060

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Very Good dj

[ex-library book, ffep removed, library stamp on top edge, "withdrawn" stamp inside, tape stains on covers and rear endpaper; the jacket is pretty nice-looking, minimal wear, spine has slight residue from removed call number label]. (Crosscurrents/Modern Critiques) Analysis of the major "Hollywood novels" of the 1930s (and 1940s), considered through the lens of regional fiction. Books discussed in detail are the usual suspects of the genre: "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (James M. Cain), "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?" (Horace McCoy), "Hope of Heaven...
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Condition: Good in Very Good dj