Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

Of Blood and Oil: With the Israeli Underground [SIGNED]

By: Arnovitz, Erwin

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, Exposition Press : (c.1951)

Edition: First Edition

Inscription: Signed by Author

Seller ID: 8944

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[book just moderately worn, small tear in cloth at top of spine; jacket somewhat tattered, separated at front hinge (held together by Brodart cover), large piece missing at lower left of front panel]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep. Novel about an idealistic young American physician who goes to Israel to participate in "the birth pangs of a new nation." Since the author himself was a young American physician, who like his protagonist studied at the University of Pittsburgh, one might speculate that this book was at least semi-autobiographical (which of course is not u...
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They Had to See Paris [Photoplay Edition]

By: Croy, Homer

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap : [1929] (c.1926)

Edition: First Edition Thus

Seller ID: 27031

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[a decent copy, some deterioration to binding along both joints, slight bumping/fraying to several corners; the jacket, though, is heavily worn at edges and corners, with some staining to the rear panel and spine, a sizeable piece missing from the upper left corner of the rear panel, additional paper loss at the upper spine corners (taking part of the title with it), and, rather strangely, the lower couple of inches of the jacket spine seem to have had a piece of a different jacket "spliced" in]. (4 B&W film stills) Another rendition (probably not the first and definitely not the last) of th...
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Misalliance

By: Fawley, Wilbur

Price: $35.00

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

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 9020

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [decent copy, fading to cloth at top/bottom edges, bottom corners a bit frayed (boards exposed), previous owner's signature and address on front pastedown; jacket is only Fair, well-worn, missing several pieces (2-inch triangular piece at lower right corner of front panel, jagged piece about 1-1/2" deep at top of spine, various smaller bits here and there), although the front jacket panel illustration of a bunch of well-dressed swells is not too badly compromised]. Slightly trashy novel with a sophisticated air, in the best Macaulay manner, a "romantic-realistic novel...
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Those Torn from Earth

By: Hollander, Frederick

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York, Liveright Publishing Corp. : (c.1941)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 21485

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[solid copy, light shelfwear, ffep roughly torn out; jacket heavily worn with numerous chips and tears, creasing, etc.]. The first and only novel by the noted German-born film composer and songwriter. In some sense it's a "Hollywood novel," in that several of its main characters are involved in the movie industry, but it's really more than that, dealing as it does with four refugees from Nazi Germany (one a prominent conductor, another a filmmaker). Preface by Thomas Mann.
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This Porcelain Clay

By: Jacob, Naomi

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company : 1939

Edition: 1st U.S. edition

Seller ID: 11996

ISBN: NO

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

(price-clipped) [ex-lending library book, worn but intact, markings confined to pocket on front pastedown and remnants of label on ffep; jacket heavily edgeworn, moderately soiled, top 1-1/2" of spine missing (but not affecting spine text), torn and ragged along top edge (more so to rear panel); see note about wrap-around cover]. "The author of the famous novels of Jewish life, the Claudia and Gollantz books, has this time written the story of a man who was not a Jew, but who pretended to be one because he felt it would be an asset in business." (NOTE that this copy has an interes...
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Adventures with a Lamp: The Story of a Nurse

By: Partridge, Ruth Louise

Price: $50.00

Publisher: New York, E.P. Dutton & Company : 1939

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 16061

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[moderate shelfwear, some soiling to covers, discoloration to gutters/endpapers, original owner's name/address on front pastedown; jacket heavily worn, separated at rear hinge, tears at most corners with occasional paper loss (including part of title at top of spine), horizontal tear in mid-spine, etc., none of this helped by a previous owner's sloppy attempts at internal tape repair (now mostly removed)]
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Family Album

By: Rothery, Agnes

Price: $100.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company : 1942

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 26781

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[a good sound book, but with rather heavy shelfwear to the bottom edge (boards exposed at several points), very slight bumping to a couple of corners, faint foxing/discoloration to endpapers, a little soiling to bottom of text block; the jacket is heavily edgeworn, with bits of paper loss here and there at edges and corners, long diagonal closed tear in upper left area of front panel, fading to spine, etc.]. (B&W photographic plates) The first of two autobiographical reminiscences by this popular author, primarily known as writer of travel books. Spanning a period of fifty years, it's the tr...
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Kilometer 95

By: Russcol, Herbert, and Margalit Banai

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company : 1958

Edition: First printing

Seller ID: 1804

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[book shows wear at top corners and top of spine, a couple of tiny dents at bottom; jacket heavily worn, with various small tears, small missin pieces, back cover heavily rubbed, etc.]. "The first novel to have come straight from inside the Israel of the late fifties, and to shed light on the border clashes leading up to the Sinai War between Israel and Egypt. It provides a moving, fascinating picture of life as it is right now, today, in Tel Aviv and on the Gaza border."
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Prelude to Night

By: Stoddart, Dayton

Price: $350.00

Publisher: New York, Coward-McCann, Inc. : (c.1945)

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 18415

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[book is in decent but not spectacular condition, with a small dent in the top of each cover, a touch of wear at all corners, slight bumping to top corners, vintage bookseller's label (Newbegin's, San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket is a bit of a mess, with significant paper loss at both ends of spine, numerous other tears and small chips, etc.]. The only novel by this one-time newspaper reporter and theatrical press agent, the saga of the "rise [of] a poor Boston youth to wealth and power in New York, via Harvard, snobbery, and magnetic ruthlessness," set against "the panora...
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Furious Young Man

By: Wylie, I.A.R. [Ida Alexa Ross]

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown & Company : 1936

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 6030

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj

[solid copy, with some mild dampstaining to exterior cloth, interior mostly unaffected except for an occasional light stain; jacket well-worn at edge/corners, wrinkled, soiled, dampstaining visible on rear panel, numerous chips and small edge-tears, tape repair along top edge, a little paper loss -- but for all that, not too bad-looking in a new Brodart cover]. A Londoner is seized with the spirit of radicalism; at a communist rally, he gets into a scrape with the authories and, with the help of a Russian compatriot, emigrates to the Soviet Union and joins the ranks of the workers. "Becaus...
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Condition: Very Good- in Fair dj