Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

Jenny Heysten's Career

By: Ammers-Küller, Jo van (translated from the Dutch by H. van Wyhe)

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. : (c.1930)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 23694

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[minor shelfwear, short tape stain at bottom of front pastedown; jacket edgeworn, with some shallow chipping along top and bottom edges, small surface-peel scar on front panel (probably from old price-sticker removal), a somewhat larger surface-peel scar on rear panel, general soiling and scuffing, old tape reinforcement across base of spine "One of the dangers of a stage career -- of how an actress confused her 'role life' with her real life and imperilled both, is the theme of this uncompromising novel." The author (1884-1966) began her writing career as a playwright, living and wo...
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Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley

By: Bentley, Elizabeth

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, The Devin-Adair Company : 1951

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 24987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

(price-clipped) [moderate wear to spine end and book's corners, discoloration to ffep, one-time owner's signature on front and rear pastedowns; jacket heavily edgeworn, a few nicks and tiny chips, a bit of paper loss at spine extremities and several corners]. Hoo-boy, how to even begin to summarize the convoluted saga of Elizabeth Bentley, who spied for the Soviets from roughly 1935 to 1945, then turned on them and began spilling her guts to the FBI, ratting out dozens of her former comrades. The Soviets got onto her game pretty quickly, though, and when it became apparent that her prospects ...
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Dwell in the Wilderness

By: Bessie, Alvah C.

Price: $250.00

Publisher: New York, Covici-Friede : (c.1935)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

DETAILS NEEDED. The future blacklistee's first novel, "a book that goes straight to the heart of America." It's a multi-generational saga centering around a Michigan family, a mismatched husband and wife (he a gentle but ineffectual sort, she a religious zealot) and their four children, three boys and a girl. One boy becomes an alcoholic and another a money-worshipping status-seeker, but the more interesting pair are the sister (an aspiring actress) and the youngest brother (who's gay), who migrate to New York along with brother's lover, where they all cohabit and attempt to form a theatrica...
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Against Heaven's Hand

By: Bishop, Leonard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1963)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13334

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[solid copy, light spotting to top edge, minor shelfwear; jacket worn at edges and extremities, a few tiny tears, some wrinkling/creasing at top of front panel]. "The plane, like all planes, had two sharply separate groups: the crew and the passengers. This plane was even more sharply separated -- the passengers were blind. When the plane crashed in the wilds of the Northwest, most of the passengers and all of the crew were killed. The seven passengers who were left were blind."
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The Baby Lamb

By: Boley, Jean

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. : (c.1948)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[light wear to book at extremities, a touch of soiling to top of text block, small bookseller's rubber-stamped name on front pastedown (Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, Long Beach, Calif.); jacket very worn, with tears and paper loss at several corners, more pronounced at spine ends]. The author's second novel, set in the community of American expatriates in Buenos Aires, where (per the jacket blurb) she had "made her home for many years" (and where part of her first novel, "The Restless" (1946), also took place). Although she continued to contribute short fiction to various...
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Mr. Mergenthwirker's Lobblies and Other Fantastic Tales

By: Bond, Nelson

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. : (c.1946)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22584

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[a bit of shelfwear to bottom edge, slight exposure of board at bottom front corner; jacket is edgeworn with various small tears, ragged diagonal tear at top of front panel (with some bleed-through staining from old internal tape-repair), narrow strip torn away at top of rear panel, extending a bit into top of spine]. Collection of 13 fantasy/SF-ish stories, the first book by this prolific pulp-fiction writer who later branched out into radio and television. The title story, about a milquetoasty little man and his invisible compansions, was Bond's first big success; it originally appeared in...
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The Pink Egg

By: Boyden, Polly

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Truro MA, Pamet Press : (c.1942)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22084

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

DETAILS NEEDED. World War II-era political parable, somewhat in the vein of "Animal Farm" -- "a story that is, at one and the same time, both symbol and adventure, actual and romantic, satirical and completely engaging." Oh, and did I mention that all the characters are birds? The hero is Roderick Robin Jr., marked as a rebel from birth due to his having hatched out of a pink egg; in the course of the narrative he defies his family and gets involved in the Sparrow Movement, which is fighting for a new social order that involves the redistribution of apple seeds. As radical w...
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Six Curtains for Natasha [original title: Six Curtains for Stroganova]

By: Brahms, Caryl, and S.J. Simon

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Philadelphia/New York, J. B. Lippincott Company : (c.1946)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 7921

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

(price-clipped) [solid copy, some wear (board exposed) at bottom rear corner; jacket wrinkled/creased along top edge of front panel, some paper loss at corners and spine ends]. Satirical novel set against the backdrop of the Russian ballet; the fourth (and last) in the authors' series about the wacky misadventures of the Vladimir Stroganoff ballet company. (Sergei Diaghilev features throughout the story, alongside the fictional characters.) Originally published in England, in 1945, as "Six Curtains for Stroganova."
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Let's Have a Baby

By: Buck, Howard

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, The Macaulay Company : (c.1934)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16726

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[minor wear to extremities, spine slightly turned, ex-rental library but marked as such by only a single stamp, on the ffep; jacket edgeworn, minor paper loss at a few corners, a couple of scrapes to spine, small chip at top of spine, soiling to rear panel]. A young Manhattan couple, anticipating the arrival of their first child, relocate to an apartment community "way uptown" in search of more space, sunshine, and fresh air. However, their lives are soon complicated by the arrival of spinster Aunt Anastasia, "the female relative in charge of the coming diapered event."
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The Furies

By: Busch, Niven

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, The Dial Press : 1948

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 17761

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[very light bumping to bottom corners, spine very slightly turned, one-time owner's signature at top of front pastedown; jacket well-worn at edges and corners, some paper loss at both ends of spine, crease down middle of spine, soiling to rear panel]. Another "novel of violence and primitive passions," although it's hard to imagine the author having had much of that left over after his earlier novel, "Duel in the Sun." "Sun," of course, was made into one of the most famously overheated movies of the Forties (or any decade, really), whereas the film of "The Furies,&...
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Darkness at Noon [SIGNED]

By: Carlisle, Harry

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Horace Liveright : 1931

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 22133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[very slight bumping/cracking to bottom corners, otherwise a very nice copy with only minimal shelfwear; jacket edgeworn, especially along spine joints, miscellaneous creasing, a few small tears, minor paper loss at spine corners]. INSCRIBED to the noted film star Richard Arlen and his wife ("Dick and Joby Arlen") and SIGNED by the author on the ffep, additionally DATED in his hand Mar. 24, 1931. The author's only book (at least that we know about), a novel derived from his own experiences as a coal miner in England. As explained in the jacket bio, and further confirmed by the inscr...
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Heavens Above!

By: Claxton, Oliver

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, The John Day Company : (c.1933)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20312

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[some foxing to fore-edge, otherwise a solid clean book; jacket edgeworn and age-toned, internally reinforced along spine with brown paper tape, tiny chip at bottom of front panel Satirical novel "of how two shades, Charles Dewclark and one Duffy, release themselves from a penance of wandering in space before entering the gates of Heaven. Their many adventures concern their effort to avoid the boredom of eternity, and at the same time accomplish an escape from the punishment of humanity." The first and only novel by this onetime journalist and sometime-New Yorker staffer; his only o...
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Remember me [original U.K. title: Honey Out of the Rock]

By: Collard, Barbara

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Company : (c.1954)

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 23567

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[light wear to book's extremities, a little age-toning to edges of text block; jacket chipped at top of spine and at lower left corner of front panel, with light staining and a bit of edgewear]. The first book by this British writer, about the intense friendship between two very different women, one of whom is thrust into a deep and devastating introspection after the other meets a violent death. Per the jacket blurb, the author had had a somewhat unsettled childhood, but had wanted to be a writer since the age of twelve, and had "consigned a number of tentative books and plays to the dus...
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The Believers

By: Conklin, Gary

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Carlton Press / A Geneva Book : (c.1973)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 13498

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[minimal shelfwear, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket heavily rubbed/scuffed, but no tears]. Brief fantasy tale (71 pages) about a small-town girl, Jane, who comes to New York City and is picked up at the bus terminal by "a friendly visitor from the spirit world who lives, of all places, in Central Park! Little by little Jane gets to know the handful of New Yorkers who still 'believe.' Included in this select group is a wealthy widow, two aged brothers (particularly well portrayed), and a middle-aged couple who live near Coney Island, and who still maintain the tender affection tow...
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The Red-Haired Lady

By: Corbett, Elizabeth

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. : 1945

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 23766

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[lightly shelfworn, some age-toning and light spotting to edges of text block; jacket is presentable, but appears to have been insect-nibbled all along the bottom edge, and is somewhat faded at the spine]. "A novel of a woman who traded love and security for independence," set in New York City in the 1920s. "Cassandra Blake, red-haired, dynamic, ambitious, descended on New York in the days of a booming stock market and nights of speak-easy life determined to take the place by storm. Steering a precarious path through love affairs, marriage, and her writing career, she carried her independen...
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On a Note of Triumph [SIGNED]

By: Corwin, Norman

Price: $75.00

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster : (c.1945)

Edition: 2nd printing

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 26350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

(price-clipped) [modest wear to spine ends and bottom edge; jacket chipped along top edge (both front and rear panels), small chip at bottom of front panel (somewhat disguised by paper backing of mylar jacket protector), tiny hole mid-spine, one-time sales price scrawled in light blue ink at upper right corner of front panel] INSCRIBED and SIGNED (in 1985) by the author on the front endpaper. Corwin's "first experiment with the translation of a radio work into a form expressly intended for the eye. As an innovation in book-making, it is much easier to describe by telling what it isn't that wh...
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The Misted Mirror

By: Daniel-Rops, Henry (pseud. for Henri Petiot); translated from the French by R.H. Mottram

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf : 1931

Edition: First American Edition

Seller ID: 26778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[light external soiling and a bit of wear to extremities; jacket has several small chips along top and bottom edges, browned at spine, several tears that are internally tape-repaired]. Novel about a young man and his travails as part of that generation in France who came of age in the decade following World War I -- a generation which, not old enough by a few years to have taken part in the War, suffered all the spiritual, mental and moral strain of that time. The New York Times critic was unimpressed, likening its protagonist to Julien Sorel (of The Red and the Black), deriding him as one o...
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The Auctioning of Mary Angel

By: Dawson, Coningsby

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Garden City NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. : 1930

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16418

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

(price-clipped) [light shelfwear and minor bumping to bottom edge, age-toning and light dust-soiling to page edges; jacket is edgeworn, with various small tears, minor paper loss at spine ends (no loss of text)]. This "romance of the modern marriage market" mostly takes the form of a discussion between debutante Mary and her bachelor uncle, who is permitted to read her diary, and struggles mightily to understand this ultra-modern girl's explanations of how she "taught her fleshy graces to mirror virtue and mask ribald deeds with the simper of innocence." (I hate it when they d...
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Point of Order!: A Documentary of the Army-McCarthy Hearings

By: de Antonio, Emile, and Daniel Talbot

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. : (c.1964)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26196

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[minor shelfwear, but hinges are slightly sprung; jacket edgeworn and a bit soiled, with a sticker-removal scar near top of spine (unfortunately taking most of the author's names with it)]. (B&W photographs) Essentially a transcription of the documentary film, which was assembled from CBS-TV news footage of the 1955 Army-McCarthy Hearings, "a frightening spectacle and at the same time an entertaining one."
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Maybe You're Not Crazy: An Introduction to Psychiatry

By: de Ovies, Raimundo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York/Atlanta, Tupper and Love, Inc. : 1947

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25753

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj

[good solid copy, some age-toning and light spotting to top of text block, but just minimal shelfwear; jacket shows wear along spine, small tears and minor paper loss at several corners and top of spine, chipping to top and bottom of rear panel (no loss of text)]. "Although written for the layman and lightened by flashes of humor, [this book] is a sound text book for medical students, trained nurses, social workers, teachers and ministers of religion; and it is an easily understood introduction to psychiatry." The author was Dean of the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta, and had held numer...
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Condition: Very Good+ in Good dj