Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

Time at her Heels

By: Aldis, Dorothy

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : (c.1937)

Edition: Later Printing

Seller ID: 26033

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[a good sound book, minor bump to lower rear corner, faint dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket is heavily edgeworn, long vertical crease in spine, tears at spine extremities, a bit of paper loss at top right corner of rear panel]. "Women's fiction" with a vengeance, depicting a day in the life of a 35-year-old matron: "A sick servant, an unworldly husband, a querulous, rich uncle, the incessant demands of her children, the funeral of a friend, the importunities of a would-be lover -- these are some of the things that Mary Strong must deal with between bed and bed." (A good thing her nam...
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America Through Women's Eyes

By: Beard, Mary R., ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1933

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

(price-clipped) [a nice clean copy with just a touch of wear to the spine extremities, one-time owner's signature at top of front pastedown, small stain at lower corner of rear cover (from the jacket having apparently gotten wet at one time and sticking to the book); the jacket is irregularly clipped at both corners of front flap, very faded at spine (editor's name and part of title nearly unreadable) and along left edge of front panel, tiny bits of paper loss at all corners and at spine ends]. Although described in the jacket copy as a "fine selection from the writings of native women on nati...
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Tennessee Outpost

By: Bolton, Ivy

Price: $80.00

Publisher: New York/Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co. : 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17197

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[nice clean copy with only minimal shelfwear, vintage bookplate affixed to verso of ffep with yellowing scotch tape; jacket is bright and attractive despite some edgewear, a one-inch missing piece at top of spine (partially affecting first word in title) and several old tape-repairs along bottom hinges and at top and bottom edges of rear panel]. (line drawings) Historical fiction for juvenile readers, "a lively story of courage and patriotism" about a 16-year-old boy who "took a part in keeping Tennessee for the United States in an undeclared but bitter fight with the Spaniards.&#...
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The Moonstone -and- The Woman in White

By: Collins, [William] Wilkie

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Modern Library : (c.1937)

Edition: Later Printing

Seller ID: 27437

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[a good sound copy with minimal shelfwear, previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed by the rear jacket flap); the jacket is moderately worn and lightly soiled, internally tape-reinforced along all edges and seams, small chip at upper left corner of rear panel]. (Modern Library Giant, G33) Series Wilkie Collins's two most famous novels, collected in a single volume, with a Foreword by Alexander Woollcott, who (according to the jacket blurb) had originally championed their inclusion in the Modern Library series. The v...
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How to Write a Play: The Principles of Play Construction Applied to Creative Writing and to the Understanding of Human Motives

By: Egri, Lajos

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1942

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28144

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[nice clean book with minimal wear to the extremities, light age-toning to fore-edge, one-time owner's name on front endpaper; the jacket is worn, with some shallow chipping along the top edge, various small nicks and tiny tears along the bottom edge, diagonal creases at the top corner of the front flap and the bottom corner of the rear flap, and moderate soiling and surface wear]. The very uncommon first edition of what went on to become one of the most widely read and influential books on its subject, presenting (to quote the cover blurb of a later paperback edition) "a direct, jargon-free ...
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The History of The Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild, The Great; to which is added The Life and Actions of Jonathan Wild, by Daniel Defoe

By: Fielding, Henry [and Daniel Defoe]

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1926

Edition: First Edition Thus

Seller ID: 27539

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[nice tight clean copy, one-time owner's name at top of front endpaper, previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); jacket itself is in decent condition, although a previous owner has "patched" several chips by partially backing the jacket with a roughly-matching yellow paper, held in place by lots of tape]. Fielding's great work of high irony, a purportedly "sober biography of this capitalist among criminals," a notorious London crook of the late 17th and early 18th centuries. First published in 1743, the ...
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Of Love and Dust

By: Gaines, Ernest J.

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press, Inc. : 1967

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27024

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[slight wear to cloth at spine ends, tiny light stain on bottom of text block; jacket is worn with various small edge-tears, considerable damage to the lower spine (2-inch ragged split at front hinge, some paper loss and dog-earing), light abrasions and some minor spotting on spine]. The author's second novel, about a young black man who's sent to work on a Louisiana plantation after he's bonded out of jail while awaiting trial for murder.
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Cabbages and Harlequins

By: Gauntier, Gene

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. : 1929

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19400

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[nice tight copy with no discernible wear, appears unread, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Newbegins, San Francisco); jacket has some shallow chipping along the top edge, small tears and a bit of paper loss at most corners, general overall wear but still colorful and attractive]. Very scarce novel with a theatrical background, "about Min, who grew up among the cabbages, and married the harlequin, Lancelot Le Roy, star 'heavy' of the Julie La Verne Repertoire Company. An inexperienced country girl, Min was transplanted to the theatre of the nineties, where she became a buck ...
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My Last Million Readers

By: Gauvreau, Emile

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. : 1941

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 28146

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[book is only lightly shelfworn; the jacket, though, is in pretty rough shape, heavily edgeworn, with various tears and small chips, bits of paper loss at several corners, and the spine panel sun-browned to near-unreadability; on the plus side, though, most of the front panel is present and the rear panel (with a long bio of the author) is almost completely intact]. An autobiography by the founding editor of the notorious tabloid The New York Evening Graphic (and thus a pioneer of the "if it bleeds, it leads" school of journalism). He bailed from the Graphic in 1929, taking columnist Walter ...
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The Seesaw Log; a chronicle of the stage production, with the text, of Two for the Seesaw [SIGNED by the author/playwright and by the director]

By: Gibson, William

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1968

Edition: 4th printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 24862

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[minor shelfwear, light age-toning to top of text block, red letter "H" stamped on ffep for some reason; jacket is edgeworn, especially at spine extremities]. SIGNED on the ffep by both Gibson and Arthur Penn (the latter the director of the original 1958 Broadway production of the play), and additionally INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Gibson on the front pastedown. (Gibson and Penn were, of course, also famously associated through their tri-media collaboration on "The Miracle Worker," Gibson's best-known work; Penn was the director of the original TV production, the 1959 Broadway play, and the 1962 f...
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Susan Tells Stephen

By: Giles, Nell

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Boston, Hale, Cushman & Flint : (c.1942)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[very light shelfwear, a touch of dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket moderately edgeworn, some paper loss at spine ends and corners, a few tiny edge-nicks here and there]. (B&W drawings) "A handbook of good grooming, good clothes and good manners, and what comes of them, for young men who want more than a backward glance!"
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Mist on the Waters

By: Green, F.L.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Michael Joseph : 1948

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20821

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[minimal wear to book, tiny stain at bottom edge of ffep, bookseller's name rubber-stamped on ffep; jacket chipped at top of spine (although author's name and title are still present), horizontal tear mid-spine, minor paper loss at a few corners, slight discoloration to spine, minor staining to rear panel, short diagonal crease at top of rear flap]. "Against the background of an Irish city, [the author] tells the story of two men who become blackmailers. The men are friends, each admiring the qualities which he sees in the other. This friendship is subjected to the strain of remorse, ter...
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A Child of the Century

By: Hecht, Ben

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1954

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26990

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[the book itself is just lightly worn at the extremities, and has a bit of age-toning to the edges of the text block; the jacket, as typical with this book, has quite a bit of surface- and edge-wear, with a handful of tiny chips and tears, and a 1.5-inch split at the top front flapfold]. (B&W photographs) Autobiography of the screenwriter-playwright-novelist-journalist who was responsible for some of the Twentieth Century's finest works of popular entertainment (including "Twentieth Century" itself, both the play and the movie version co-written with his longtime partner Charles MacArthur). K...
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Today the Struggle: Literature and Politics in England during the Spanish Civil War

By: Hoskins, Katharine Bail

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Austin/London, University of Texas Press : (c.1969)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20199

ISBN-13: 9780292784116

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[minimal wear to book, light soiling to fore-edge, old price inked out on front pastedown, small label remnant on ffep; jacket a little edgeworn, 3-inch diagonal tear at upper left corner of front panel, with a small piece missing at that spot]. This book "examines the political involvement of those leading British writers who dedicated their talents to the defense of Nationalists or Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and who saw that war as symbolic of their own Right-Left dialogue." Among the literary figures discussed are William Butler Years, T.S. Eliot, Evelyn Waugh, Roy Cam...
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The Blackboard Jungle

By: Hunter, Evan

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1954

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 15564

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[the book itself is nice and clean, with just the tiniest bit of wear to the bottom corners, and a previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper; the jacket is heavily worn (especially at edges), with a small piece missing at the bottom right-hand corner of the front panel, minor paper loss at both ends of spine, some old tape-repair at bottom of spine]. The author's first mainstream success as a novelist, and the basis for the 1955 film of the almost-same name (the movie dropped the THE for some reason), directed by Richard Brooks and starring Glenn Ford as the inner-city schoolteacher wh...
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Quex

By: Jerrold, Douglas

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Cosmopolitan Book Corporation : 1928

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 19458

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[book is tight and clean, with minimal shelfwear only, vintage bookseller's label/price sticker (Newbegins, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket edgeworn and rubbed, with about a half-inch-deep chip at top of spine]. "'Genius does not go begging,' remarked Quex, that redoubtable leader of English finance. 'It goes taking.' This is the story of how the one and only Artemas Quex went taking -- first the genteel family business of Boscombe Brothers, Silk Merchants; then drug-stores run by moth-eaten, rheumatic proprietors; juicy war-office contracts; and at last -- crowning stroke of geniu...
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On Cukor

By: Lambert, Gavin

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : (c.1972)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16769

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[solid, clean copy, with only minor shelfwear to book; jacket has quite a bit of edgewear, with various small nicks and tears, tiny bits of paper loss at several corners, a ragged tear at top left corner of front panel (internally tape-repaired) with much associated creasing]. (B&W photographs) Basically an extended interview with director George Cukor, which began life as an American Film Institute oral history project; unlike some of those interviews, this one benefits from the participation of an intelligent, well-informed interviewer (who also happened to be a pretty terrific writer himsel...
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They All Sang: From Tony Pastor to Rudy Vallée

By: Marks, Edward B., as told to Abbott J. Liebling

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, The Viking Press : 1935 (c.1934)

Edition: 3rd printing

Seller ID: 16804

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[solid copy, very light shelfwear, a touch of foxing to fore-edge; jacket moderately edgeworn, marred by a rather serious triangular pull-tear in the middle of the front panel (no paper loss but considerable associated creasing/scrunching), and another much smaller triangular pull-tear where the paper has been lost (resulting in a small hole in the jacket, but fortunately in an uncritical spot); original price on jacket scratched out with new price inked over; see additional note about jacket pull-tear]. "A musical record of America through half a century, told in the lively memoirs of an old ...
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The Four Window Girl; or, How to Make More Money Than Men

By: Mead, Shepherd

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : 1959

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 4833

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[book is nice, slight darkening at page edges but no significant flaws; jacket edgeworn, chipped at spine ends, water-stained along spine and left edge of front panel, plus a sort of blotchy water stain (about 1" across) near upper right corner of front panel]. Sort of a distaff "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (by the author of same), about an ambitious career girl whose conniving, psychologizing, corporate ladder-climbing ways make "Machiavelli look like Whistler's mother."
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The Bachelors

By: Orcutt, William Dana

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : (c.1915)

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 26334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Good dj

[a solid copy with minimal shelfwear, just a touch of dust-soiling to the top of the text block, bookseller's rubber-stamp at upper left corner of front pastedown; jacket is soiled and rubbed but still presentable despite several tape-repairs (internal and external) along the top and bottom edges]. (B&W frontispiece illustration) Novel about "varying types of men affected in different ways by college ideals in meeting the world as we know it today." As explained in a contemporary review: "One of the bachelors is a self-made man without the veneer of society training; another is a polished, p...
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Condition: Near Fine in Good dj