Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

The Weather of the Heart

By: Athas, Daphne

Price: $25.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 11964

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, previous owner's name and date purchased written on ffep, small stamp (a 1963 Christmas Seal) on front pastedown; jacket worn, rear panel soiled, a couple of ragged tears at top of front panel, a few other small tears]. "A novel of youth by a new writer of distinction." The novel is "the moving story of Eliza Wall, part realist, part dreamer; of her growing obsession with Claw Moreau, the outcast French Canadian; of the suspicious, disapproving Maine townsfolk, with tongues too ready to accuse and hearts too slow to forgive. Swift events foll...
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The Dream Gate

By: Bach, Marcus

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Indianapolis/New York, Bobbs-Merrill : (c.1949)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 5326

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

(jacket is Fair) [book nice and solid, minimal shelfwear, extensive gift inscription (from a group) covering most of ffep; jacket worn at edges/corners, spine faded, various small tears and some paper loss at top of spine]. Uncommon novel set in Old Portage Colony, a communistic community in South Dakota, dealing with their attempts to relate to the "outside world." According to the jacket blurb, the author " is one of the few 'outsiders' who have been allowed to penetrate the isolated Hutterite communes, eight of which are in South Dakota, two in Montana and nearly thirty in Canad...
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At a Venture

By: Bennett, Charles A.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : 1924

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, dust-soiling and rubbing to red topstain; jacket has numerous chips (especially at spine, including loss of most of book title), and is split at rear hinge, but front panel is substantially complete and still attractive]. (20 full-page line drawings) Humorous essays by "a philosopher by profession, a humorist by nature, a New Englander by residence, an Oxford man by education, and an Irishman by birth." (That's just one guy, not five.) The author's "topics range from the jazz orchestra of the future to the next war."
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Seasons

By: Bennett, Edith Wilson

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York/Paris, Empire Books : (c.1935)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24712

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[light shelfwear to book, top edge of text block a bit dust-soiled, small bookseller's rubber stamp at bottom corner of front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); jacket is worn and moderately soiled, with a small ragged chip at right side of top edge, and a large-ish chunk torn out of the rear panel (unfortunately taking quite a bit of the rear-jacket text with it)]. (color drawings) A curious piece of juvenile (I guess) fiction, about a little boy named Billy, who is seven years old when America enters World War I. (At least that's what the jacket blurb says; ...
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The Betty Betz Party Book

By: Betz, Betty

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : (c.1947)

Edition: 1st Edition (presumed)

Seller ID: 28120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[a bit of wear to the bottom edges and the spine extremities, one-time owner's name, address and date of acquisition filled in to supplied space on front pastedown, Christmas gift inscription from 1957 on the second front endpaper; the jacket (with the same design and illustration as the pictorial boards) is in pretty rough shape, with heavy edgewear, a diagonal closed tear extending from mid-spine to the lower mid-front panel, various other tears, some paper loss to spine, etc.]. (pen and ink drawings) "The Teen-age Guide to Social Success," providing "the lowdown on how to give and enjoy pa...
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Tales of the Undead: Vampires and Visitants

By: Blaisdell, Elinore, ed.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company : (c.1947)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27499

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[minimal wear to book, previous owner's name plus date & place & explanation of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper (six lines of writing), check marks (in both ink and pencil) next to all title in table of contents; the jacket is kind of a mess, although the worst of it is confined to the spine, in which several missing strips have been filled in by amateurish internal tape-repair (which has also been applied all across the top and bottom edges of the jacket); the front panel is substantially complete, with just some wear at the corners]. (pen and ink drawings) Uncommon anthology of und...
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The Long Goodbye [his Hollywood agent's copy]

By: Chandler, Raymond

Price: $650.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1954 (c.1953)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 15021

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[solid copy, moderate wear to cloth at top and bottom edges, agency stamp on ffep and title page (see notes), old tape marks on both pastedowns; jacket is well-worn, with several large chips, significant paper loss at spine ends (including loss of about half the title), tape marks on both flaps]. The first American edition of Chandler's last great novel (published in England the previous year), this copy bearing the stamp of Chandler's long-time Hollywood agent, H.N. Swanson, on the ffep and the title page. This would have been one of several copies that Swanson would have had on hand, with ...
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Mara

By: Christowe, Stoyan

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company : (c.1937)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20554

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[light shelfwear, tiny bump to lower rear corner, foxing/spotting to top edge of text block; the jacket is missing about 40% of the lower spine panel, with a large chip at the upper rear hinge, various other small chips, tears, etc.]. This "novel of man's struggle for bread and freedom" is set in Macedonia "during the exciting quarter of a century preceding the tragic partitioning of that country in 1912." The title character is a peasant woman whose husband has been executed as a insurrectionist by the Turks, and whose son grows up to become a fanatical revolutionist (a terrorist, essential...
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Snake Bit Jones

By: Coolidge, Dane

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. : (c.1936)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25622

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[good solid book, with light wear mostly at the spine extremities; the jacket, however, is s bit on the tattered side, with paper loss at and adjacent to the top of the spine, at the base of the spine and at several corners, considerable age-browning (especially the spine), a long split along the front flap-fold, and various other depredations (it will, of course, be enclosed in a new mylar jacket protector, which will help it maintain whatever structural integrity it still has)]. Western adventure novel set largely in California's Death Valley, domain of the title character, a veteran prospe...
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The Island in the Square

By: DuBois, William

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Company : (c.1947)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20866

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[minor wear to bottom extremities, light dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket has some paper loss at both ends of spine (about 1" at top), one tiny chip and a ragged u-shaped tear at top of front panel, general soiling and a few markings on the rear panel]. Novel about a young drama critic who's also an aspiring playwright, set "against the exciting background of the newspaper and theatrical worlds of New York in the twenties." (The photo used for the dust jacket, however, is from the late 1930s.) The protagonist's mother ran a bookshop in New Jersey.
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The Fifty-Year Decline and Fall of Hollywood [SIGNED]

By: Goodman, Ezra

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : (c.1961)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [good solid book, with just a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge; the jacket, alas, has suffered a decline and fall of its own, and is a bit of a mess -- heavily edgeworn, tape-repaired both internally and externally, some paper loss at spine extremities, etc.]. SIGNED by the author (no inscription) on the ffep. Perhaps the first major "Old-Hollywood-is-Dead" treatise, by the Hollywood correspondent for Time magazine. Described in the jacket blurb as a "verbal autopsy," the book's tone is set in the opening chapter, a pathetic portrait of D.W. Griffith in his fin...
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Maine Charm String

By: Graham, Elinor

Price: $65.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1947

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 13685

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[solid copy with minor shelfwear, slight yellowing/soiling to page edges, gift inscription (non-authorial) on ffep; jacket is somewhat tattered, with several fingertip-size chips and a bevy of smaller ones, although the front panel illustration is mostly intact, as is the spine text]. "This book is partly about a hobby -- button collecting -- and as such it will fascinate all who have felt the collector's urge. It is must more the story of Maine, and of Elinor Graham's love for her home there and for the people who are her neighbors. The author came upon her hobby unexpectedly. Digging...
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British Film Music

By: Huntley, John

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, Skelton Robinson : [1947]

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20203

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[slight bumping to spine ends, pages somewhat age-browned due to cheap paper stock employed, small bookstore stamp on ffep; jacket has some paper loss at top corners and bottom corner of rear panel, moderate soiling and general wear]. (B&W photographs) "A complete survey of Film Music in Great Britain from the earliest days of the silent picture to the present day -- how it all began, the films that mark the milestones along the road of development, a meeting with the composers, musical directors, sound engineers and orchestral players who contribute so much to our enjoyment of the cinema...
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Prematurely Gay

By: Iams, Jack

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, William Morrow & Company : 1948

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26720

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[only lightly shelfworn, lower rear corner very slightly bumped, a couple of tiny tears in cloth at top of spine, front hinge feels a little weak (not cracked); jacket has suffered about an inch-plus of paper loss at both ends of spine, with small but numerous chips at corners and edges]. (Don't get excited, it's not what you think -- "gay" in mainstream parlance didn't always mean what it means today.) This is a madcap comic novel (something of a specialty for this author), featuring "a teetotaling tycoon, his beautiful heiress-apparent and a young man of ideas -- Prince Consort ideas, as it...
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And the Darkness Falls

By: Karloff, Boris, ed.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: Cleveland/New York, The World Publishing Company : 1946

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27450

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[solid book with only light shelfwear, although somewhat internally blemished by a previous owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, plus an additional handwritten note on the verso of the title page (accompanying a small newspaper obituary taped just below), also a couple of tiny reference notes in the table of contents, and some wrinkling to the right edges of the first few pages; the jacket is kind of a mess, frankly, considerably edgeworn with various small tears and age-toning, and having been internally mended with tape and non-archival paper (including...
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Dude Ranch

By: Krims, Milton

Price: $45.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22287

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[moderate wear to bottom edges and extremities, tiny stain on bottom edge of text block, age-toning to edges of text block; jacket has numerous chips and tears, especially on the rear panel]. Comic-western novel about the owner of a failing dude ranch, stuck with "a houseful of bored guests who expect excitement and there are no Indians, cattle rustlers or cowboys to supply it." When a traveling theatrical troupe is stranded nearby, he hires them to "put on some fake Wild Western stuff," but the farce is complicated when a real gang of rum runners inserts itself into the pict...
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Psyche

By: Louÿs, Pierre; with a conclusion and notes by Claude Farrère

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Covici, Friede : 1931 (c.1928)

Edition: Later Printing

Seller ID: 23145

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[book lightly shelfworn, miniscule bumping to top front corner; jacket is a bit of a mess, with the striking front panel illustration intact but otherwise some wear and paper loss to the spine (which has also been clumsily tape-repaired along the front hinge), light soiling, a bit of paper loss at corners of rear panel]. Somewhat louche French novel (translation uncredited), "a poem in prose to the eternal beauty and ecstasy of the flesh, a romantic celebration of that physical love which approaches and merges with the sublime." The book was left unfinished at the time of the author's...
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My Life in the Russian Theatre

By: Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, Vladimir (translated from the Russian by John Cournos)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company : 1936

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25647

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[good solid clean copy, light shelfwear, slight exposure of board at bottom corner of front cover, one-time owner's signature at top left corner of front pastedown; jacket is heavily edgeworn, internally reinforced with brown paper tape, some paper loss along front hinge, at lower left corner of front panel and rear panel ("filled in" with the brown paper tape in those places), etc.]. (B&W photographs) Memoir by the co-founder (with Konstantin Stanislavsky) of the Moscow Art Theatre, pitched in the jacket blurb as "a fitting complement" to Stanislavsky's book "My Life in Art."
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Awake

By: Prior, Susan

Price: $75.00

Publisher: London, Pharos Editions : 1932

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

[good sound copy, light soiling/age-toning to edges of text block; jacket edgeworn, soiled, with various small nicks and tears, moderate fading to spine]. I don't know if there's a genre into which one can comfortably plug this little oddity from an otherwise unknown author, but for present purposes let's just call it "Ruminative Fiction." It's the interior monologue of a modern woman in love -- or not -- with several different men, yet too troubled (in some vague undefined female way) to make up her mind just what she wants out of love, or life, or anything. Even the poor jacket-blu...
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We Always Lie to Strangers: Tall Tales from the Ozarks

By: Randolph, Vance

Price: $175.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press : 1952 (c.1951)

Edition: 3rd printing

Seller ID: 23298

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [minor wear and slight discoloration to cloth at spine ends, otherwise a good solid clean book; jacket is heavily browned at edges and along spine, scuffed on front panel, large ragged piece missing from top of spine, much smaller piece missing from base of spine, several clumsily-executed internal tape-repairs]. (pen and ink drawings) One of the harder-to-find books by Randolph, described in the jacket blurb as "probably the best known collector of authentic Ozark folklore." The book brings together hundreds of tales from a wide variety of sources: many "were contributed by ...
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Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dj