Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

Peckover

By: Beresford, J.D.

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons : (c.1935)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 15668

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

(price-clipped) [solid copy, only light shelfwear but quite a bit of fading to cloth at edges and spine, slight soiling to bottom page edges; jacket edgeworn, with a few small tears, scuffing/rubbing to front panel, very faded at spine (although title, decoration, and publisher's name still stand out)]. The story of a henpecked husband who, for twenty years, "suffered the tortures of a shrill, petty and bullying wife" -- until one evening, he lost his memory! "The adventures which then befell him, his meeting with the healthy, jovial Minnie Guest, his success in business, and grad...
View More...

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

By: Butler, Gerald

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart : (c.1946)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 24868

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[moderately shelfworn, light staining along bottom edge of front cover, slight fading to cloth here and there; jacket lightly edgeworn, tiny bits of paper loss at several corners, a number of old internal tape repairs/reinforcements]. Suspense novel about "a man whose moral code is based on expediency, [which] can include the necessity to slug, rob and kill." When he does just that -- kills a man in a brawl in a pub -- he finds himself on the run, and takes refuge (by force) in the room of a shop-girl. Basis for the 1948 film of the same name, starring Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine.
View More...

Barbary Brew: A Romantic Novel

By: Charters, Zelda Stewart

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Stackpole Sons : (c.1937)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13476

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[solid copy, some wear to the lower extremities (slight fraying at bottom corners and base of spine), light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket has minor tears at a couple of corners, small nick at fore-edge of front panel, slight paper loss around top of spine (no text affected), moderate soiling]. Historical romance set against the backdrop of the American war with Tripoli (1801-1805). "The infant American Republic had no navy with which to fight pirates at the beginning of the nineteenth century -- and that is how the young American physician, who is the hero of [this book], came to be c...
View More...

Player of the Year: Roman Gabriel's Football Journal [SIGNED]

By: Gabriel, Roman, with Bob Oates

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York/Cleveland, The World Publishing Company : 1970

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 17803

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[solid copy, a bit of wear to covers at top and bottom edges, light offsetting to endpapers, light soiling to top page edges; jacket lightly soiled and spotted both internally and externally, and a previous owner saw fit to "reinforce" it with scotch tape along the top and bottom edges]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED ("To John") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Gabriel, the All-Pro quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams -- (an interlude, while you try to remember when the Rams played in L.A., or when any pro football team played in L.A., for that matter) -- "opens his dia...
View More...

Uncle Wiggily and the Littletails

By: Garis, Howard R.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Platt & Munk Co. Inc. : (c.1942)

Edition: Later Printing

Seller ID: 12341

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[moderately worn, light spotting to cloth, two small tape marks on each pastedown, bottom corner of ffep torn away; jacket edgeworn but quite presentable, small piece missing from bottom right-hand corner of front panel, old tape reinforcement across both ends of spine, two small tape marks on each jacket flap]. (color frontispiece; no illus. in text) The story of Sammie and Susie Littletail, "two little bunny rabbits who lived with their Uncle Wiggily [and] were good little rabbits, and they had wonderful fun and adventures with their Uncle Wiggily." This title is the last of 8 Wiggily title...
View More...

The Stubborn Wood

By: Harvin, Emily

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Chicago, Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. : (c.1948)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13725

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[moderate shelfwear, a couple of lightly-bumped corners, slight dust-soiling to top edge, "compliments of the publisher" label on ffep; jacket edgeworn, tears at top of spine internally tape-repaired (minimal paper loss), miscellaneous other tiny tears and chips]. A novelized version of an (apparently) true case of a woman whose husband had her committed to a private asylum, thus kicking off her two-year ordeal in the clutches of the Snake Pit-like mental health system. The author assumed a pseudonym "to protect certain factual asylum officials (whose ill treatment of patients she...
View More...

Haunted Hollywood

By: Holzer, Hans

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. : (c.1974)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27018

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, otherwise a nice clean copy; jacket lightly soiled, with some wear and a few little nicks along the top edge, small surface-scar on front panel, minor paper loss at a couple of corners]. (B&W drawings) "The glamor, extravagance, and flamboyance of Hollywood's golden age live on -- in the haunted houses of former movie stars and of the ordinary people of Los Angeles. [The author] takes the reader on a tour of mansions in Beverly Hills, cottages in Westwood, and garden apartments in Hollywood where spirits of the dead continue to make their presence known ...
View More...

Prophet by Experience

By: Iams, Jack

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow and Company : 1943

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 7260

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

(price-clipped) [solid copy, top edge a little dust-darkened, top corners moderately bumped; jacket worn along top/bottom edges, various tiny tears, minor chipping at spine ends]. Satirical novel about a cave-dwelling hermit who takes a subscription to a weekly news magazine and eventually writes them a letter of appreciation, after which all hell breaks loose.
View More...

Portrait in Two Colours

By: Jackman, Stuart B.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1949

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2426

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear to book, a little soiled on top edge; jacket heavily rubbed w/some wear at edges & corners]. Story of a British veteran who returns from World War II experience in the Persian Desert, and finds himself afflicted with a "mental and physical crisis" brought on by "something at the back of this young man's mind -- something forceful and insistent, that never sleeps." (Today we'd call that PTSD.)
View More...

Watching at the Window

By: Johnson, Charlotte Payne

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. : (c.1955)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20194

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[slight fraying to cloth at base of spine, a bit of dust-soiling to top page edges; jacket edgeworn, small tears at several corners, spine faded, a few tiny tears and minor paper loss at top of spine]. First (and apparently only) novel by this Southern-born author, about a young black man who develops a fascination for a white prostitute who regularly passes through the town's "Negro quarter" as she crosses to the other side of town in search of customers. The man, Milo, is psychologically scarred from his boyhood experience of having been sent home after his mother had attempted to ...
View More...

Skippy Bedelle: His Sentimental Progress from the Urchin to the Complete Man of the World

By: Johnson, Owen

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company : 1922

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26386

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[a good sound copy, light soiling and faint foxing to top of text block, white spine lettering nearly all rubbed away (although the white & black front cover illustration is virtually unblemished), vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Lute Hutton, San Diego, California); jacket is chipped at top of spine (extending just a bit into both the front and rear panels), spine age-toned and lightly spotted, small chips at upper corners, one tiny chip at top of rear panel]. (B&W frontispiece + 5 B&W illustrated plates) The final entry in the author's famed "Lawrenceville Stories," this one pr...
View More...

The Ballad of the Sad Café: The Novels and Stories of Carson McCullers

By: McCullers, Carson

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1951

Edition: Book Club Edition

Seller ID: 27829

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[modest shelfwear, slight bumping to lower corners, a couple of tiny rips in cloth at head of spine; the jacket is edgeworn, with small bits of paper loss at several corners, light dampstaining at upper and lower flapfolds]. Omnibus volume incorporating all three of McCullers's previously-published novels -- "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," "Reflections in a Golden Eye," and "The Member of the Wedding" -- plus the title story (a novella) and six additional short stories (which are somewhat disingenuously blurbed as "new" on the jacket, when in fact only one had not been previously published). ...
View More...

Why I Am So Beat

By: Miller, Nolan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons : (c.1954)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[light bumping to all corners, a bit of dust-soiling to top of text block, literary agency label (MCA Artists, Ltd.) on ffep; jacket badly faded at spine, a little surface scuffing/soiling, small closed tear at bottom front hinge, minor paper loss at top of spine, tiny tear at top right corner of front panel]. "Here is a slice of college life recreated with a mastery of idiom and psychology that only a born writer can display. It is the story of one crazy, funny, mixed-up week end in which a number of people learn a great deal about life."
View More...

The Temptation of Roger Heriott

By: Newhouse, Edward

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co. : 1954

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 4202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[mild shelfwear, lower corners bumped; jacket has some wear at edges/corners, some paper loss at top of spine]. Jacket blurbs about the author by Dylan Thomas, Arthur Mizener and George Orwell. And here's an interesting bibliographic note -- the author's first two "proletarian" novels, published in the 1930's (which earned him a citation in Rideout's "The Radical Novel in the United States"), are curiously absent from the list of his published works in this volume. (Or maybe not so curiously, as Rideout also notes that Newhouse had "broken with the [Communist] Party" ...
View More...

The Blossom-Print

By: Nicholl, Louise Townsend

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. : 1938

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26337

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

(price-clipped) [book is modestly shelfworn, some discoloration to endpapers, a little dust-darkening to top of text block; jacket shallowly chipped along top of front panel, with a few other tiny edge-chips, light soiling, some uneven fading along spine and edges of rear panel, some scrape marks on the spine, and signs of some surface insect-nibbling in lower right corner of front panel]. "In this brief piece of fiction, an intense biography of mind and spirit, Miss Nicholl has written a story of youth, from earliest memories to that moment of maturity when one looks back into the mind of ch...
View More...

Death of a White Witch

By: Oellrichs, Inez

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc. for The Crime Club : 1949

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27748

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

(price-clipped) [shelfwear to bottom edge, spine slightly turned, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown (concealed beneath rear jacket flap); the jacket has a ragged closed tear at the upper front hinge, a small piece torn away from the lower right corner of the front panel, edgewear and creasing along the top edge of the front panel, and a little array of scrape marks at the bottom of the rear panel]. One of the author's numerous "Matt Winters" mysteries, in which the New Jersey milkman-cum-amateur sleuth saves a young woman from a suicid...
View More...

The Eppworth Case

By: Patterson, Innis

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar & Rinehart : (c.1930)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27723

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[moderate shelfwear, very slight fraying to upper corner of spine, slight bump to lower rear corner, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on front endpaper, plus a brief reference to a content element; the jacket has a 3-inch ragged split (with old tape-repair) at the bottom rear hinge, minor paper loss at the spine ends, age-toning to the spine]. "Sebald Craft, the great detective" -- a pretty obvious Philo Vance knock-off ("a society man, a friend of the police commissioner, and a detective by hobby") -- steps in to solve the murder of a billionaire at his Westchester ...
View More...

Pudoria

By: Pease, Tom

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Lyle Stuart : (c.1961)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2409

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[some fading to book covers at top/bottom edges, pages browned at edges; mostly-white jacket shows overall soiling & edgewear, a few small tears]. Utopian literature, of sorts, set in a mythical South American country -- "What happens when a country's censors forbid all talk of money -- and sex becomes the national pastime!" "The narrative of a very moral young man from Iowa. He finds himself in an undiscovered country in South America full of busty, shapely, friendly women and tolerant, generous friendly men. But there is something especially different about the country. Its inhab...
View More...

Afterglow

By: Porter, Rebecca N.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Pageant Press Inc. : (c.1963)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 2423

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

(price-clipped) [book moderately shelfworn; white/yellow jacket shows soiling, edge/corner wear, a couple of chips at top of spine]. Nostalgic vignettes of life on the ranch, by this well-known regional California author.
View More...

Gun in Cheek: A Study of "Alternative" Crime Fiction

By: Pronzini, Bill

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan : (c.1982)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16346

ISBN-13: 9780892969005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj

[nice tight copy, minimal wear, would be Near Fine except for large "P" (probably a remainder mark) stamped on top edge; jacket a little curled along top edge, with one two-inch tear that's been rather amateurishly tape-repaired]. "A unique crash course in the worst English and American crime fiction of the twentieth century. [The author], in what can only be called a labor of love, discusses, digests, and shares the best of the worst -- adding a wonderfully comprehensive bibliography for advanced and dedicated devotees."
View More...

$0.00 (0 Items)

Condition: Very Good in Very Good- dj