Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

Le Décor de la Maison

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Paris, Le Décor d'Aujourd'hui : 1949

Seller ID: 27227

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[modest shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, small bookseller label (Jean French) on front pastedown; jacket somewhat edgeworn, crinkling and minor paper loss at top of spine, spine panel a bit faded]. (B&W photographs, tipped-on color plates) A profusely-illustrated visual guide to all parts of the well-appointed postwar French home (although a number of the examples are from American publications, e.g. Better Homes & Gardens), from the salon to the library to the bar, the kitchen, the bathroom -- you name it. Hundreds of black-and-white photographs and drawings, plus 28 tipped-on color pla...
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Mrs. Goudie's Tea Pairty [SIGNED(?); see notes]

By: "Uncle Tom" [pseud.]

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, Andrew Elliot : 1934

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27565

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped?) [boards slightly bowed, top rear corner bumped; jacket clipped at both corners of front flap, spine slightly faded/rubbed, modest overall soiling]. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper ("To / James Donald, Esq. / with kindest / regards -- / 18th July, 1937") and SIGNED on the half-title page, presumably by the author. (The first initial of the signature is clearly a "T," but the remainder defies easy interpretation; possibly "Furillie." The real name of this author seems to be unrecorded; perhaps this signature is an important clue. See the second scanned image with this listin...
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Grey Towers: A Campus Novel

By: (Anonymous)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Chicago, Covici-McGee Co. : 1923

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 16688

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[spine slightly turned, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge, a couple of lightly bumped corners, one-time owner's address label on front pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, spine browned, small chip at top of rear panel; jacket a teensy bit shorter than the book, apparently made that way]. "A novel of protest, written by a young apostle of revolt, against the present system of education in the colleges." Although the author is not identified by gender, the book seems to have a definite feminist slant, telling of the travails of a young graduate student teaching Freshman English whil...
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The Pajama Game; a new musical comedy

By: Abbott, George, and Richard Bissell (book); Richard Adler & Jerry Ross (music and lyrics)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1954)

Edition: Fireside BCE

Seller ID: 26828

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[slight bump to upper rear corner, minor dust-soiling to top of text block, one-time owner's name and address (screenwriter Mel Shavelson) neatly printed on front pastedown; jacket typically browned at spine, short tear at lower front foldover with short diagonal crease at lower right corner of front panel]. (two B&W photographs) Based on Bissell's novel "7-1/2 Cents," about a labor dispute in a New England factory; basis for the 1957 film of the same name (co-directed by Abbott and Stanley Donen). [This edition lacks a printing statement, but seems to be one of the earliest Fireside Theatre...
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Chaos in Asia

By: Abend, Hallett

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York, Ives Washburn, Inc. : (c.1939)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 25656

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[a nice solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge and at top of spine, one-time owner's name scrawled at top of ffep; jacket has a couple of tiny chips at top of front panel, a few nicks elsewhere along top and bottom edges, very shallow paper loss at spine ends]. "Written out of deep understanding and with the authority of over 13 years first-hand knowledge of the situation in East Asia, this book by the famous New York Times correspondent is hugely informing and definitely exciting. [The author] knows personally and intimately the leaders of both countries in the Chinese-Japanese conflict...
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Valley Forge; a play in three acts

By: Anderson, Maxwell

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Washington DC, Anderson House : 1934

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22027

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[front hinge a little weak, slight fading to cloth at edges of covers and spine, attractive full-page vintage bookplate on half-title page; jacket spine is browned, jacket has some shallow chipping along top and bottom edges, minor paper loss at corners]. (endpaper maps) Historical drama about the difficulties endured by General George Washington's army during the Winter of 1777-78, "the dark days [when] the fortunes of the rebellious colonists were at their lowest ebb and defeat at the hands of Great Britain's trained mercenaries seemed inevitable." After a month or so of out-of-tow...
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Tea and Sympathy [M-G-M File Copy]

By: Anderson, Robert

Price: $40.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1953)

Edition: 2nd printing

Seller ID: 26987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[the book is just lighly shelfworn, but the front endpaper bears a library pocket (which has actually come detached, leaving behind a large glue stain), and is stamped several times "FILE COPY," with an additional label proclaiming it to be the M-G-M Script Department copy no. 2, and additional "Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library" stamping on all three edges of the text block; the dust jacket, which has two small chips at the top of the front panel, is additionally stamped "FILE COPY" twice on the front panel, as well as with a catalog/inventory number]. (B&W photographs by Slim Aarons) A one-time ...
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Though Time Be Fleet

By: Andrus, Louise

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston/New York, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard : 1937

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 8994

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [nice tight copy, minor wear at extremities, light dust-soiling to top edge; jacket shows some wear at edges/corners, a few small tears, minor chipping at top of spine]. "Whatever else it might have been, Marcia Ellsworth's life certainly was not dull. Being born and brought up in a small Middle Western town was not exactly an idea start for a colorful life, but Marcia was a woman of resource and pluck; she had a way of dominating circumstances. Hers is a richly varied career, highlights and shadow, ecstasy and grief, fulfillment and desolation, success and catastrophe. Not o...
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Image for These Charming People; being a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries and general activities of Shelmerdene (that lovely lady), Lord Tarlyon, Mr. Michael Wagstaffe, Mr. Ralph Wyndham Trevor and some others of their friends [etc.]

These Charming People; being a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries and general activities of Shelmerdene (that lovely lady), Lord Tarlyon, Mr. Michael Wagstaffe, Mr. Ralph Wyndham Trevor and some others of their friends [etc.]

By: Arlen, Michael

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, George H. Doran Company : (c.1924)

Edition: 2nd printing ("B")

Seller ID: 18342

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[solid copy, light shelfwear, minor fading to cloth; jacket shows wear along top and bottom edges, a few shallow chips and tiny tears, horizontal crease near top of front panel]. "The author calls his book 'a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries of a certain lovely lady and her friends and companions in this tale.' ... Mischievousness, then, is the delicate and all-important ingredient in this account of some fashionables of Mayfair." A collection of interconnected short stories (a few with fantasy/horror elements), it was published in England in 1923, a year be...
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Journey to a War

By: Auden, W.H., and Christopher Isherwood

Price: $300.00

Publisher: New York, Random House : (c.1939)

Edition: 1st American Edition (see Notes) Early Printing

Seller ID: 25654

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[minor shelfwear, slight wear to cloth at top of spine, vintage bookseller's label on rear pastedown (Larry Edmund's [sic] Book Shop, Hollywood); jacket has some shallow chipping along top edge of front panel (slightly impacting the title), a few other little edge-nicks, and a little fading along the spine]. (B&W photographs, endpaper maps) Auden and Isherwood's journal of their trip through war-torn China, undertaken in 1938 at the joint request of their English and American publishers. "Their itinerary included Hong-kong, Canton, Hankow, Shanghai, the Yellow River war zone, and the Southeas...
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The Secrets of Reading Character at Sight: How to Measure Your Powers and Increase Your Income

By: Balkin, Harry H.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: New York, Blue Ribbon Books : 1941

Edition: Reprint

Seller ID: 23252

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[a touch of wear to extremities, pocket on rear pastedown (see notes), generally a nice clean copy; jacket shows edgewear and light rubbing, minor paper loss at both ends of spine]. (pen and ink drawings) "This book explains simply the famous Balkin system of reading character at sight scientifically. It will show you exactly how to judge others accurately and tell at a glance whether they are dishonest, stubborn, generous, sensitive, thick-skinned, impatient, etc. and how to deal with them. Learn here how to make friends and how to know the people you meet every day; how to judge your own ch...
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The Longest Second

By: Ballinger, Bill S.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, Max Reinhardt : 1958

Edition: 1st U.K. edition

Seller ID: 26711

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[bottom corners bumped, light dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket spine a little faded, some tanning/soiling to rear panel]. Suspense novel about a man trying to rediscover his past after waking up in hospital with no memory, and also rendered mute by having had his throat cut.
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The Wife of the Red-Haired Man

By: Ballinger, Bill S.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Max Reinhardt : 1957

Edition: 1st U.K. edition

Seller ID: 26655

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[only lightly shelfworn with a couple of very slightly bumped corners, but downgraded a bit due to dust-soiling to the top edge of the text block; jacket shows some wear at edges and extremities, one tiny closed tear and associated short diagonal crease at top of rear panel, light soiling to rear panel, "RED-HAIRED" on spine somewhat faded but still readable]. Thriller about a woman who, believing her husband to have been killed in the war, remarries -- only to have her husband (the red-haired man, now an escaped convict) reappear on the scene, and promptly murder her new husband -- after whic...
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Love at the Mission

By: Baptist, R. Hernekin (pseud. for Ethelreda Lewis)

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown and Company : 1938

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 19448

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[ex-department store library book, but marked as such only by multiple small library and "withdrawn" stamps on both pastedowns and endpapers, and with so little wear as to suggest that nobody ever actually checked it out and read it; the jacket is a bit edgeworn, with a few small tears, a rough surface-peeled spot near base of spine, a tiny stain on the front panel, and a vintage price-sticker (from City of Paris, San Francisco) on the rear flap]. "To the three rapidly maturing daughters of Pastor Oguey, isolation in a small mountain parish in South Africa meant the slow, relentless frustrati...
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Death in the Virgins

By: Barbour, R[alph]. H[enry].

Price: $125.00

Publisher: New York/London, D. Appleton-Century Company : 1940

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 20316

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[light wear to spine ends; jacket edgeworn, with some soiling/staining at internal edges of flaps]. Mystery novel set in the Virgin Islands. The main character is a writer "who has been living on St. Thomas for many years and who knows all about the permanent residents there, the natives, the tourists from the States, and the island's history and traditions." The author was a prolific writer of (mostly) juvenile fiction, often with sports-related themes, and often (I'm really just guessing here) quite a few virgins involved as well. (Sometimes I really just can't help myself.)
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The Protagonists

By: Barlow, James

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers : [1958] (c.1956)

Edition: Later Printing?

Seller ID: 23987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [minor shelfwear to bottom edge, tiny dent in top of rear cover; jacket moderately scuffed and edgeworn, light soiling to rear panel]. Sort of a Rashomon-style murder mystery, with the story told three times, each from the perspective of a different character: a woman who is seduced and then murdered; her killer (whose p.o.v. is descibed as that of "the self-centered, sex-ridden pride of the all-conquering male"); and finally as revealed to the police superintendent who investigates the murder. The author adopts a different narrative voice for each section of the book...
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The Lovomaniacs

By: Barrett, Rona

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Nash Publishing : 1972

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 890

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[solid clean book, light age-toning to page edges, minor shelfwear; jacket has various tiny nicks along top edge, 1/4" triangular chip at base of spine, spine slightly color-shifted]. The only novel by "Miss Rona," at the time one of Hollywood's best-known columnists/commentators. Film historian/ bibliographer Anthony Slide writes in his bibliography, "The Hollywood Novel: A Critical Guide to Over 1200 Works": "In view of the author's background, one would be tempted to dismiss the book as a typical trashy Hollywood novel. One would be very, very wrong. The Lovomaniac...
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The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950's

By: Bartley, Numan V.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press : (c.1969)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 22621

ISBN-13: 9780807108482

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear to book, previous owner's commercial bookplate on front pastedown; jacket a little edgeworn, a bit of paper loss at both ends of spine, light soiling to rear panel]. (B&W photographs) A history of the early Civil Rights era in the South, focusing not directly on the movement itself but rather on the fight put up against it by the segregationist/white supremacist elements in the region. In the book, blurbed as "the first scholarly work to deal definitively with the politics of southern resistance to public school desegregation," "the author view...
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It Was All Quite Different: The Memoirs of Vicki Baum

By: Baum, Vicki

Price: $150.00

Publisher: New York, Funk & Wagnalls Company : (c.1964)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 27275

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

(price-clipped) [moderate shelfwear, light foxing to bottom edge of text block, one-time owner's name (in pencil) at top of half-title page; the jacket is a little worn along the top and bottom edges, with some minor paper loss at the top of the spine, a bit of light soiling]. (B&W photographs) Posthumously-published memoir by the Vienna-born author of "Grand Hotel," but who (per the jacket blurb) "emerges from this autobiography [as] no mere one-title author." (I'll say! She wrote more than fifty books, and a couple dozen movies were adapted from her novels and stories. She herself worked...
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In Another Country

By: Bayley, John

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-Mccann, Inc : 1955

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9451

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj

[solid copy, slight dust-darkening to top edge, top of spine lightly bumped/faded, faint bookseller's stamp on front pastedown; jacket worn along hinges, a few tiny tears/chips, slight paper loss at top of spine and at a couple of corners, old price sticker on rear flap]. The author's first novel, set in Germany during the Allied occupation immediately following World War II, and dealing with conflicts between the members of a British Intelligence Unit. The author was the devoted husband of the late Iris Murdoch, whose literary fame ultimately eclipsed his own, and has published a pair of mo...
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Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dj