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It’s been a while since the last Between the Covers Romance Catalog. confined. These shed light on contemporary views of marriage, We’ve continued to buy and sell these sorts of books privately, but frankly adultery, out of wedlock birth, and other social “conditions.” And mostly it has taken us a considerable amount of time to gather another good crop they are just fun to find, buy, read, and collect. in what we consider to be proper collectible condition. These books have Recently, more attention has been paid by bibliographers and other become scarcer, and increasingly we have encountered books we do not historians to dustjackets and the artists who designed them. We suspect want to aquire or offer: later , inferior copies, books with tattered, this will continue to be the case. To begin to justly acknowledge the strangely altered, or supplied dustwrappers. While we might throw in the talented and often uncredited jacket artists, we have noted them when occasional reprint, we mostly try to avoid those copies. possible, more so than in our previous catalogs. You will find many well- We’ve already explained in previous catalogs why you should want these known artists represented here, as well as many names that are less familiar, books. Generally they weren’t preserved by institutional , or even to jacket art aficionados. A few of these are listed below. In the future private collectors, because they were deemed below the literary stan- we might try to compile with jackets designed by specific dards that either of these categories of collectors would require. When artists, but as they become scarcer that might become impractical. Feel free the books themselves were preserved, the dustjackets, often wonderfully to contact us if you’d like us to look out for books by certain artists, that designed and illustrated, were usually discarded. The content of the books represent certain geographical regions, occupations, or other categories often reveals unique and/or vernacular viewpoints of women in various that might appeal to you: you’ll only be making it more fun for us to go geographic locations, and in the occupations to which they were mostly looking for them! In this catalog you will see dustjackets by: A.N. Simokin desRosiers Harold E. Snyder Louis A. Kudlik R.W. Arthur Rouse Albert Vargas E.R. Lee Thayer Harry L. Timmins M. deV. Lee Ralph Crosby Smith Annand Edmund Dulac Harry Peitch Mabel L. Humphrey Raymond Thayer Bek Files Edward C. Casswell Cory Kilvert Maginal Wright Barney Richard A. Loederer Ben Adlep Elbert C. Taylor Matt Clark Seth Kress Moor Bip Pares Eric Pape Delos Palmer, Jr. Maxwell Skrenda Erick Berry James Reid Stafford Good C. Waters FM John Drew Modest Stein Van Doren C.B. Falls Frank McIntosh Juan Oliver Morris of Paris Walter Stewart Carl W. Bertsch Gorska Karl S. Woerner Paul Laune William Fisher Charles Zingaro Guy Arnoux Kenneth W. Thompson R.J. Cavaliere William Van Dressel Cleonika H. Rossman Kliem R.S. George

1 ABBE, George. Voices in the Square. & Co. (1922). First . Offsetting to the from the jacket : Coward-McCann 1938. First edition. Fine flaps else near fine in very good dustwrapper with tiny chips and a in very good plus dustwrapper horizontal tear on the spine. Scarce romance stories. with some rubbing, and short [BTC #355395] tears on the spine. Poet’s first 3 ADAMS, Katharine. Midwinter. New , about young men and York: Macmillan 1927. First edition. women in a New England town. Illustrated by Eric Pape. Very near fine in very good [BTC #85664] dustwrapper with a chip at the base of the spine and 2 ABBOTT, Eleanor Hallowell. Fairy rear panel. Beautiful woman kidnapped by Lapps. Prince and Other Stories. New York: E.P. Dutton Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #98384] Terms of Sale Images are not to scale. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or email. All items subject to prior sale. Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their require- ments. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and DISCOVER, and PayPal. Domestic orders please include $7.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Members ABAA, ILAB. Cover art by Tom Bloom © 2012 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. Larger pictures of all available books can be seen on our website.

4 AHEARN, Danny. Charity Girl. New York: The Macaulay Traveling salesman marries beautiful woman, they get rich, Company (1936). First edition. Fine in an attractive, Depression comes, they get poor. Uncommon. [BTC #85622] near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Novel of a 10 ATKIN, E. Deborah. Of Love and Lovers. New York: beautiful fundraiser, set loose among the Vantage Press (1952). First edition. Pages a trifle “philandering philanthropists” by a former gangster wavy, thus very good in near fine dustwrapper with a and ex-con. Some of Ahearn’s stories, both fiction couple of tiny nicks and tears and the tiny word and non-fiction, were used by Hollywood as the “received” on the rear panel. Copy of a review from basis for the films Bulldog Edition (1936) and Escape the New York Post laid in. of from Crime (1942). He was also the author of the short stories about love. One of the few books of classic How to Commit a Murder. [BTC #322552] vanity press fiction that seems to have been critically well-received. Scarce. [BTC #322151] 5 ALLEN, James Lane. The Sword of ATTENBOROUGH, G.M. The Little Youth. New York: The Century Company 1915. 11 Virgin. First edition. Illustrated by John Wolcott Adams. Neat New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company owner’s name on the front fly, and slight offsetting on 1933. First edition. A trifle soiled on the front board the front fly from a clipping, else fine in fine and a small, old bookstore stamp on the front dustwrapper. Last surviving son of a Kentucky family pastedown, near fine in good only dustwrapper with announces his intention to join the army; his mother chipping and tears on the spine, and other modest and sweetheart are dismayed. A beautiful copy. wear. A sophisticated novel of an unsophisticated [BTC #275554] young woman, pursued by an apprehensive lover. Uncommon. OCLC locates six copies. 6 ANDERSON, Isabel. Polly the [BTC #85780] Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters. : The Page AUSTIN, Anne. Rival Wives: A Company 1922. First edition. Foreword by Basil 12 Powerful, Swift Moving Story of Badly Tangled King. Color frontispiece by DeWitt Lockman. Fine Lives. : The White House Publishers in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of faint (1929). First edition. A small ink checkmark on the spots on the front panel. American woman has an front fly, else about fine in a moderately worn, near affair with a European aristocrat. Scarce in jacket. very good dustwrapper. Attorney’s private secretary [BTC #85659] adores him, but he worships his selfish wife. Things 7 ANDREWS, Mary Raymond change. Uncommon. [BTC #98712] Shipman. The Marshal. : Bobbs- 13 (Automobiles). PEPLE, Edward. An Auto-Biography: A Merrill (1912). First edition. Gift inscription, else Tale of Truth - and Ruth. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company 1915. fine in a nice dustwrapper that would be just about First edition. A little foxing, else fine in a just about fine dustwrapper fine but for some unneeded tape repairs. Novel of (illustrated by E.R. Lee Thayer) with a faint stain and Napoleonic intrigue. [BTC #86104] other mild wear. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 Anonymous. Surrender! The Romance of throughout with automobile-themed vignettes. a Woman’s Soul. New York: Macaulay Company (1924). First edition. Housed in an older, handmade paper dustwrapper, Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Delos Palmer, probably not original, but old enough for us to Jr. Owner’s name on the front fly and some wear to preserve (not shown.) Advance copy, so stamped on the bottom of the rear board, very good in an the front fly. Humorous novel of an automobile attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a caught in the middle of a romance. Uncommon, and small hole on the spine and other light wear. Wife in remarkable condition. [BTC #304132] refuses to have children, drives husband into an affair 14 AYRES, Ruby M. Charity’s Chosen. New York: Grosset with a dancer – who is guiltier, wife or the mistress and Dunlap (1926). Reprint. Neat gift inscription who sacrifices all for passion? on the front fly, slight offsetting to the half- [BTC #85660] title from a small clipping, else fine in near fine 9 ASH, Peter. His Own Rooftree. dustwrapper with slight age-toning to the spine. Philadelphia: Penn (1933). First Innocent orphan meets penniless rotter. Originally edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus published by Doran, this reprint is uncommon (one dustwrapper with modest chips at the corners of copy in OCLC). [BTC #85600] the crown and complete with the attached to the front flap (generally missing). 15 —. Changing Pilots. Garden City: 22 BARNES, Charles R. The Poison Lady. [New York]: Doubleday Doran 1932. First edition. Near fine in Phillips Publishing Co. / The Winthrop Press an attractive, lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. 1914. First separate edition. Stapled illustrated Married woman longs for her first husband. wrappers. 2" x 2½". Near fine. The first separate [BTC #85513] of this romantic story that originally appeared in a magazine. Very scarce. OCLC locates 16 BACHELLER, Irving. no copies. [BTC #344116] Keeping Up With Lizzie. New York: and 23 BARNES, Margaret Ayer. Brothers (1911). First edition. Wisdom’s Gate. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Fine in attractive pictorial boards, in near fine Company 1935. First edition. dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. Foxing to the endpapers and a small hole on the Humorous romance set around automobile travel. rear hinge, else near fine in a very good, slightly Bacheller was a reporter who founded the first spine-faded dustwrapper with foxing on the flaps newspaper syndicate in America in 1884. After and other light wear. A sequel to the author’s selling his business he became a popular humorist and novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Years of Grace, about a wrote several best-selling novels in the first decades of the century. woman’s dilemma when her husband is true to her [BTC #316668] in spirit but not in body. [BTC #91312]

17 BAILEY, Temple. Fair as the Moon. 24 BARNES, Margaret Philadelphia: Penn Publishing (1935). First edition. Campbell. Mary of Carisbrooke. Modest wear to the boards, very good or better in Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Company 1956. a nice, near fine dustwrapper. Complimentary slip Reprint of the American edition. Fine in a very affixed to the front fly, Signed by the author. Young slightly rubbed, easily fine dustwrapper. Historical woman whose father remarries gets revenge by novel of the imprisonment of Charles I as seen by entertaining the attentions of a bachelor. the housekeeper’s niece. [BTC #323980] [BTC #85623] 25 BEACH, Rex. Don 18 —. Tomorrow’s Promise. Philadelphia: Careless and Birds of Prey. Penn Publishing (1938). First edition. Owner’s New York: Harper & Brothers 1928. First edition. name and address, a modest abrasion to the edge of Fine in a just about fine dustwrapper. Two novels. a few pages, and a little spotting to the front board, The first, Don Careless, was the basis for the little- else near fine in fine dustwrapper with art by known 1950 film The Avengers, directed by John H. “Duer.” A lovely copy of this romance about a Auer and featuring John Carroll in the title role. A nineteen year-old who doesn’t trust love when she very nice copy, and scarce thus. [BTC #98403] finds her fiancé has been married before. —. Beyond Control. New York: Farrar & [BTC #85597] 26 Rinehart (1932). First edition. A little foxing in 19 BAILY, F.E. A Woman’s Privilege: A Romantic Novel. New the text, very good in good dustwrapper with a York: Macaulay (1936). First edition. A trifle faded spine and small nicks and tears. darkened in the gutters, else near fine in an [BTC #313352] attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with short BEAMISH, Noel de Vic. Fair Fat parallel tears on the front panel and a faint stain on 27 Lady. London: Ivor Nicholson the rear panel. Woman who grows up in a sleepy & Watson 1937. First edition. East African seaport wants to go to England because Offsetting to the endpapers she thinks the men will be superior to the white from the jacket flaps, else near fine in very good traders she has known in Africa, changes her mind. dustwrapper, illustrated by Bip Pares, with some [BTC #85653] modest spine-fading and short tears. Queenie 20 BALDWIN, Faith. Love’s A Puzzle. New York: Grosset and Malone, derived from a Jewish mother and an Irish Dunlap (1933). Reprint. A couple of smudges to the father, never thinks about her figure until she falls foredge, else near fine in a nice, very good or better for a tenor. Scarce. [BTC #319235] dustwrapper with some shallow chipping. A BEAUCLERK, Helen. The Mountain cautionary tale for those scouting first editions – 28 and the Tree. New York: Coward-McCann 1936. despite being a Grosset and Dunlap reprint, this copy First American edition. Jacket art by Edmund Dulac. retains the Farrar and Rinehart logo on the copyright Fine in fine dustwrapper. Novel about the page that usually would indicate that this was a first relationship between men and women, from the edition. Nice jacket art by Tom Stone Age to the Third Century. [BTC #98394] Webb. [BTC #86333]

21 —. Temporary Address: Reno. New York: Farrar and Rinehart (1941). First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel. Three different women come to Reno to shed their husbands and find happiness. An attractive copy. [BTC #85521] 29 BEDEL, Maurice. “Philippine”: A near fine dustwrapper with a stain on the front Satirical Romance. New York: E.P. Dutton (1932). panel. Jacket art by Carl W. Bertsch. A lovely First American edition. Translated from the French by copy. Foppish folly by an Irish writer. Very scarce Samuel Middlebrook. Fine in very good dustwrapper in jacket. [BTC #98512] with several very small chips at the extremities. 37 BLACK, Alexander. Beautiful daughter of a wealthy French department Jo Ellen. New York: Harper & store magnate and disciple of Mussolini distracts the Brothers (1923). First edition. Fascist’s true believers when she visits Rome. Spine lettering slightly dull, very [BTC #98521] good or better in very good 30 BEERS, Lorna. The Mad Stone. New York: E.P. Dutton dustwrapper with small chips and tears. Secretary in (1932). First edition. Toning in the gutters, near Manhattan looks for love and liberty. Scarce in jacket. fine in an age-toned, near fine dustwrapper with a [BTC #98410] few small tears. Romance novel set in Minnesota. 38 BLOOM, Ursula. Marriage in Very scarce. Jacket art by Kliem. Heaven. London: Robert Hale (1949). Reprint [BTC #300721] (first published in 1943). Owner’s name and gift 31 BENOIT, Pierre. Jacob’s Well. New inscription, foredge and first few pages foxed, very York: International Publishers good in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper. The 1926. First American edition. title says it all. [BTC #316481] Fine in a just about fine 39 BOILEAU, Ethel. The Box of dustwrapper with a few short tears, one internally Spikenard. New York: George repaired. Novel of a Jewess prostitute, selling her H. Doran (1923). First edition. A wares in a Levantine port city, who throws in with little foxing on the endpapers else very near fine in a an idealistic Zionist colonist in Palestine. Jacket lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with some art by “HG.” [BTC #324021] small tears (and illustrated by Cory Kilvert). Wife 32 BENSON, Stella. pours her passion onto unresponsive husband. Scarce. Pipers and a Dancer. New York: Macmillan [BTC #85633] 1924. First American edition. Bookplate on the 40 BOOTH, Roy. Sin Suits front pastedown, some modest foxing, else fine in Me. New York: Godwin, very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks and Publishers (1935). First edition. Near fine in good tears. Woman goes to China to marry. plus dustwrapper with some modest chipping, [BTC #87026] mostly on the front panel and at the crown. 33 BENTLEY, Phyllis. Rejected by her lover, a beautiful woman lures men Environment. New York: with her paganesque practices. Very uncommon. Hillman-Curl [1936?]. First American edition. OCLC locates no copies. [BTC #85580] Neat, contemporary gift inscription else fine in a 41 BOYER, Pamela nice, very good dustwrapper with some tears and (Angela). Blonde Flames. New York: Key small chips. A novel about a young Englishwoman Publishing (1956). First edition. Fine in fine who tries to rise above her modest station, and the dustwrapper. Novel about a burlesque queen. romance that ensues. Jacket art by “Annand.” [BTC #279015] [BTC #85578] 42 BRADLEY, Mary BERESFORD, J.D. Love’s Illusion. 34 Hastings. The Fortieth London: W. Collins Sons & Co. (1930). First Door. New York: D. Appleton edition. A slight stain at the foot and spine gilt a and Company 1920. First edition. Fine in near fine little tarnished else very good in good or better dustwrapper with a faint, barely visible stain on the dustwrapper with some small stains on the front front panel. Exotic romance set in Egypt. Ardent panel, tanning on the spine, and a few tears. Scarce young American tries to attract a captive woman. By in jacket. [BTC #286488] the mother of the author James Tiptree, Jr., this 35 BIDDLE, Livingston, Jr. Debut. novel was the basis for a 1924 film directed by New York: Julian Messner George B. Seitz with a cast that included Allene Ray, Bruce Gordon, (1952). First edition. Very good plus in very good David Dunbar, and Anna May Wong. [BTC #85632] dustwrapper with small nicks and tears and a 43 BRANT, Neil. Fountain Boy. New York: Vanguard (1933). couple of splash marks on the rear panel. Inscribed First edition. Fine in a moderately spine-faded, very by the author to fellow prominent Philadelphian, good plus dustwrapper. Soda jerk, dancer, G. Malcolm Laws, Jr., longtime professor of millionaire, and an artist are thrown together in the English at the University of Pennsylvania, and a spring whirl in Manhattan. Inscribed by the author leading American scholar of ballads and folk songs. to a noted Hollywood publicist: “To Jimmy Starr, [BTC #87374] who composes fiction daily – Neil Brant. June 11, 36 BIRMINGHAM, George A. Fed Up. Indianapolis: 1933.” Excellent jacket art. [BTC #87758] Bobbs-Merrill (1931). First American edition. Fine in a bright and 44 BRENER, Marguerite. Love Knows No 52 —. When Beggars Choose. Philadelphia: Holiday. New York: The Macaulay Company (1933). Macrae-Smith 1937. First edition. Small rental First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a stamp on the front fly else fine in a crease tear on the rear panel. Jacket art by “Maxwell.” modestly rubbed, very good or better dustwrapper. Love on a transatlantic liner: lovable, redheaded torch Woman strategically changes the names of her four singer seeks a wealthy husband, is sidetracked by true daughters, and unleashes them on her estranged love. OCLC locates but two copies (and two copies of husband’s family. Jacket art by Harry Peitch. a 1939 reprint). [BTC #347442] [BTC #85665]

45 BRIDGE, Ann. Four- 53 BURTON, Beatrice. Part Setting. Boston: Chatto and Windus / The Petter. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1927). Little, Brown 1939. First edition. Tiny gift First edition. Fine in an age-toned, very good inscription, a little spotting to the boards, and a dustwrapper with a bit of spotting. Jazz age lovely little mustiness, a good only copy in an attractive, allows men to take liberties; becomes a business very good dustwrapper illustrated by H. Rossman. woman. [BTC #88538] [BTC #89588] 54 CALDWELL, Taylor. The Arm and the 46 BROWN, Vera. Wild. Darkness. New York: Charles New York: Grosset and Dunlap Scribner’s Sons 1943. First edition. A small stain on (1933). First edition (published serially under the the front fly else fine in a slightly spine-faded, very title The Million-Dollar Girl). Tiny owner’s name good or better dustwrapper with rubbing and small on the front pastedown, fine in near fine nicks and tears. Romance set amongst the French dustwrapper with several short tears. Heiress leaves and Huguenot struggles during the time of Cardinal her Long Island estate to try out life as a dime-a- Richelieu. Scarce wartime novel in much better than dance girl, meets man. Very scarce, OCLC locates usual condition. [BTC #277878] four copies. [BTC #89585] 55 CANNON, Cornelia James. Heirs. 47 BROWNE, Eleanor (pseudonym of Boston: Little, Brown 1930. First edition. Owner’s J. Gloria Goddard). Tomorrow Comes name and date on the front fly else near fine in a Never. New York: Arcadia House 1939. First fresh and bright, near fine dustwrapper with a couple edition. A stain at the foot, very good in near fine of tiny tears. Young school teacher becomes involved dustwrapper with a faint corresponding stain. Holly with the mill owner’s son in a New England factory gets the glamour boy she wanted, learns to regret it. town. Second novel by the St. Paul, Minnesota-born Jacket by Charles Zingaro. [BTC #294878] graduate of the Radcliffe Class of 1899. Scarce in nice condition. [BTC #86679] 48 BUCK, Howard. A Woman in Exchange. New 56 CAREW, Dudley. York: Macaulay (1936). First edition. Fine in a Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. New York: spine-faded, else near fine dustwrapper. Romance Frank-Maurice 1927. First edition. White label and mystery set in Russia and revolving around the covering an owner’s name on the front free disappearance of a valuable miniature. , near fine in near fine dustwrapper with [BTC #85510] shallow chipping at the spine ends. Disillusioned poet, tired of life at the age of 22, discovers a muse. BULGER, Helen M. 49 [BTC #339139] Inviolable. New York and Cincinnati: Benziger Brothers 1932. First edition. Fine in a rubbed, near 57 CARFRAE, Elizabeth. Rhapsody in fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear Green. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons (1941). First panel. Romance novel from a religious publisher – edition. A few small spots on the boards, near fine in two Catholics enter into an unloving marriage, but a nice, price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with can’t divorce because of their faith. Very scarce, slight wear at the bottom of the front panel. German- OCLC locates three copies. [BTC #279867] born man is torn between his loyalty to his English wife and his desire to rescue his relatives from Nazi BUNNER, H.C. A Sisterly Scheme. 50 Germany. Meets with his Nazi ex-girlfriend to this [New York]: The Winthrop Press 1914. First end, marital problems ensue. Very scarce. separate edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x [BTC #85656] 2½". Very good or better. The first separate printing of this romantic story that originally appeared in the 58 CARMAN, Dorothy Walworth. collection Short Sixes. Very Chickens Come Home to Roost. New York: scarce. OCLC locates no copies. Harper & Brothers 1927. First edition. Fine in very [BTC #344114] near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the foot of the spine. Richest and meanest man in the BURT, Katharine Newlin. Cock’s 51 county marries the prettiest girl. A battle of wills Feathers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company ensues. Jacket art by John Drew. Very scarce in 1928. First edition. Contemporary owner’s name jacket. [BTC #369243] else near fine in a slightly soiled but bright, near fine dustwrapper. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #86818] 59 CARROLL, A.P. The Moon and the 66 CLAYTON, Petronilla. Dancing Desire. Wind. New York: Green Circle Books 1937. First Cleveland: International Fiction Library (1931). First edition. Very near fine in an attractive, very good edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears and a two small chips on the rear panel. Dancer makes bit of wear at the flap folds. Printer’s file copy, so good, gets three boyfriends. [BTC #85567] stamped on the front fly. Man has three goals: CONQUEST, Joan. The Village leave the woman in his life, write a symphony, and 67 Pompadour. New York: The go fishing, so he buys a gadget-filled trailer. He Macaulay Company (1932). First finds a woman and a dog stowed away in the edition. A vertical crease and some trailer’s folding bed, romance ensues. Surely one of browning at the edge of the front fly, thus very good the first trailer novels. Scarce. [BTC #366267] in a price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with some 60 CAUFFMAN, Stanley Hart. The small scuffed marks on the front panel. Modern Adventures of Polydore. Philadelphia: Penn Madame de Pompadour (improbably named Publishing Company (1930). First edition. Penciled Honour Bright) leads the male population of her owner’s name else fine in a very good dustwrapper village on a merry chase. [BTC #85642] with a chip at the foot of the spine. Middle-aged COOK, W. Victor. The Keys of England. New York: The man in Colonial times called upon to rescue his 68 Dial Press 1929. First American edition. A little lovely niece. [BTC #85583] sunning at the spine, else near fine in an about 61 CHARLES, Frances. very good, price-clipped dustwrapper (with art by The Siege of Youth. Boston: Little, Brown, & Karl S. Woerner) with some edgewear and several Company 1903. First edition. Illustrated by Harry small chips and tears. Historical romance set in E. Townsend. Fine in a pleasing, very good medieval England. [BTC #85887] dustwrapper with toning on the spine and some COOPER, Elizabeth. Living Up to chipping, mostly at the crown. The loves of three 69 Billy. New York: Frederick A. women in San Francisco. Very scarce in jacket. Stokes (1915). First edition. [BTC #316932] Slight spotting on the boards, and endpapers 62 (Children). STEEL, moderately foxed, a near fine copy in an attractive, Flora Annie. The Law of the Threshold. very near fine embossed dustwrapper with a small New York: Macmillan Company 1924. First chip at the bottom of the front panel. Jacket art by edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two Mabel L. Humphrey (sister of suffragette and artist small nicks at the corners of the crown. Very scarce. Maud Humphrey, and aunt of Humphrey Bogart). Beautiful Indian woman educated in the West dancing girl keeps her head above returns home to purify a tantric cult, encounters water in order to support her adorable nephew. Scarce in jacket. intrigue. Very scarce. [BTC #98385] [BTC #323956]

63 (Civil War Fiction). 70 CORBETT, Elizabeth. The Far Down. LAGARD, Garald. Leaps the Live New York: D. Appleton-Century Company 1939. Thunder. New York: William Morrow 1955. First First edition. Fine in very good plus, price-clipped edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy dustwrapper with a few little tears. Epic tale of an of this romance novel about a Confederate Irish-American family, led by two sisters. cavalryman and a traveling circus. Surprisingly scarce in jacket, which is unsigned but [BTC #88722] bears resemblance to work by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. [BTC #85796] 64 CLARKE, Donald Henderson. The Housekeeper’s Daughter. 71 CULVER, Jane. So Stood I. Boston and New York: New York: Vanguard Press (1938). First edition. A Houghton Mifflin Company 1934. First edition. small scrape from a sticker removal on the front fly Very near fine in very good dustwrapper with several else near fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. Author’s first novel, by a New some tiny nicks and chips. Reporter rents a room York resident, Wisconsin-native, about a young from a reverend in Greenwich Village, makes eyes at woman with a stern, religious father and a frivolous the curvaceous daughter of the reverend’s and gay mother, who tries to throw off the bonds of housekeeper. Basis for the 1939 film directed by Hal religious tyranny to become a self-sufficient woman. Roach, which featured Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, and Victor Jacket art by Cleonika. [BTC #85579] Mature in his film debut. [BTC #87801] (also see item 220) 72 CULVER, Kathryn [pseudonym of 65 CLAY, Robert Keating. Carmen Davis Dresser]. Girl Alone. New York: Gramercy Publishing Co. Sheila. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company (1939). First edition. A trifle soiled else near fine in very good or better 1929. First edition. Slight spotting on the spine, dustwrapper with very light wear. “When a pretty, vivacious girl has to near fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with advertise for an escort, there’s something wrong somewhere. So Phil light rubbing. Two gentlemen soldiers thrown into a Hilton was considerably intrigued when redheaded Peggy Moran came web of intrigue in Spain with the beautiful Carmen. into the Miami newspaper office to insert a ‘man wanted’ announcement [BTC #86103] in the Personal column. He took the ad -- and decided instantly that he would be the escort.” Complications ensue in this “refreshingly different romance about two young moderns.” The last of the bottom of the boards, else near fine in an attractive, six pulp romance novels written by Dresser (a.k.a. near fine dustwrapper. Jacket art by Nanki(?). mystery author “Brett Halliday”) under the Culver [BTC #279658] pseudonym. [BTC #368310] 80 DeLEON, T[homas] C. A Novelette 73 DALE, Perry. You Trilogy. A Bachelor’s Box: How He Got In and Scratch My Back. New York: How He Was Gotten Out; A Jealous Boar’s Head Books 1952. First God: The Story of Hereditaments; The Christus Sonate: A Romance edition. Near fine in very good of the Rhine and the Hudson. dustwrapper. Two Southern men London and New York: F. Tennyson share wives and try to get ahead. [BTC #88151] Neely 1897. First edition. Pictorial cloth. Pencil gift 74 DANE, Clemence [pseudonym of inscription, slight rubbing to the boards, a very good Winifred Ashton]. First the Blade. New York: or better copy. Not in Wright. [BTC #277396] Macmillan Company (1918). First 81 DELL, Ethel M. The Obstacle Race. American edition. Boards a trifle sunned else fine in New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1921. First edition. A chip to the near fine dustwrapper, with art by William Van corner of page 55, affecting no text, else fine in Dressel, with some tiny nicks and tears, and slight very near fine dustwrapper with a very small chip fading of the spine lettering. Author’s second book, at the crown. Young woman flees from the a romantic comedy. Ashton was an actress who, after madding whirl of the social world to a remote her health failed, alternated between writing novels, fishing village, has other problems. A very nice plays, and screenplays (including Anna Karenina, copy of a scarce title. [BTC #85610] , and many others). For several decades she was adjudged one of the best serious writers among English 82 —. A Man Under Authority. New York: G.P. women. A very nice copy and scarce in jacket. [BTC #85531] Putnam’s Sons 1926. First American edition. Slight foxing 75 DAVID, Lawrence. The Spindrift of Youth. London: on the endpapers, still fine in a very nice, near fine Leonard Parson (1927). First edition. Foxing and dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. A the edges of several pages are bumped and have beautiful woman with modern ideas upsets the small tears, a good copy in very good dustwrapper. equanimity of a small village. [BTC #369238] Nautical adventure novel by an ex-seaman, boxer, and founder of a shortlived utopian colony. Scarce. 83 —. The House of Happiness and Other OCLC and COPAC find five copies between them, Stories. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1927. First all in the British Isles. [BTC #110225] edition. A tiny bookstore stamp on the front fly, still fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with 76 DAVIS, Elmer. Strange Woman. New a few tiny chips near the spine ends. A collection of York: Robert M. McBride 1927. First edition. Some stories, the title story concerns the eldest of three erosion to the cloth at the top of the boards, thus beautiful sisters who is betrayed with ensuing very good in good or better dustwrapper with tragedy. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #86483] overall soiling and several chips and tears, mostly on the front panel. Novel of a woman of forty, 84 —. Honeyball Farm. New wondering what to do with the next ten years of York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1937. her life. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #85797] First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some 77 DAYTON, Katharine. Loose Leaves. minor nicks and tears, and some modest splitting at Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company 1923. the bottom of the front flap fold. Daughter of the First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a cruel owner of a coastal farm fights to create a life split at the front spine fold and a chip, both archivally among the shifty inhabitants of the farm, is assisted repaired, and with slight age-toning at the spine. Short by mysterious but handsome motorboater. stories of the Jazz Age. Author’s first book. From the [BTC #85651] library of Carter Burden. [BTC #347870] 85 DELL, Floyd. An Old Man’s Folly. New 78 DE GOURMONT, Remy. Dream of a York: George H. Doran (1926). First edition. Front Woman [Le Songe D’une Femme]. New York: board a bit discolored, thus about very good in near Boni and Liveright 1927. First fine dustwrapper with very light wear. Massachusetts American edition. Translated by man explores his two greatest passions – women and Lewis Galantiere. A little fading to the boards, very his own image of himself. [BTC #86479] good plus in an at least very good dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel and other light wear. 86 DENNIS, Geoffrey. Novel of a woman experiencing the torment of Mary Lee. New York: Simon desire, and four entangled love affairs set in a Paris and Schuster 1931. Second American edition, studio, two country houses, and the Normandy published nine years after the English edition. A little coast. Uncommon in jacket. [BTC #85608] spotting to the boards, else near fine in a lightly worn, very good or better dustwrapper. Controversial novel 79 DEKOBRA, Maurice. Serenade to the Hangman. with sexual content that received critical acclaim but New York: Payson and Clarke 1929. First edition. Rubbing to the little success. Scarce issue. [BTC #284216] 87 DERLETH, August. The Shield of the 94 EARLY, Eleanor. Whirlwind. Chicago: Valiant. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1945. The White House (1930). First edition. An owner’s First edition. A small name stamp on the bottom name on the front fly else fine in near fine page edge, and a small, very faint date stamp on the dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. Convo­ title page, else a fine copy in a fine and fresh luted novel about a headstrong woman who marries dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the front panel, and a man she meets on a steamer to Havana. a minuscule nick at the crown. Nicely Inscribed by [BTC #85522] the author. A lovely copy of this novel in the author’s EATON, Evelyn. “Sac Prairie Saga” cycle, about a banker who falls in 95 Restless Are the Sails. love with a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. Melbourne: Cassell (1942). First Australian edition. [BTC #89270] Gift inscription, slight spotting on the boards and a 88 —. Evening in Spring. Sauk City: Stanton little foxing, else near fine in fine dustwrapper. and Lee 1964. First edition thus. Fine in near fine, Swiss-born writer’s historical novel about the early price-clipped dustwrapper with a little rubbing. French settlers of Nova Scotia. Eaton worked in Novel of first love. [BTC #89269] France translating scripts for Paramount, published two books in England (one the novel John-Film 89 DIVER, Maud. Lonely Star) and moved to Nova Scotia. Her first novel in the U.S., Quietly My Furrow. Boston and New York: Captain Waits, was a surprise . [BTC #316475] Houghton Mifflin Company 1923. First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper 96 —. In What Torn Ship. New York: Harper & with a small chip and internally repaired tears. Brothers (1944). First edition. A nice, near fine copy English couple living in India after WWI have a in a very slightly spine-sunned dustwrapper with a difficult marriage because of their wildly diverse little rubbing and tiny nicks. Historical romantic novel feelings about the country. Jacket art by R.W. set in 18th Century Corsica. [BTC #93270] Arthur Rouse. [BTC #85889] 97 EDGINTON, May. Stolen Honeymoon. 90 DOMBROWSKI, Katharina von [a.k.a. Käthe Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Olshausen-Schönberger]. Land of Women. 1943. First edition. Near fine in Boston: Little, Brown 1935. First American edition. slightly worn, very good or better dustwrapper Fine in an about very good dustwrapper with modest with a creased tear on the front panel. Woman loss at the spine and a triangular chip on the front marries a wealthy man. Jacket art by R.J. Cavaliere. panel. German historical novel of Paraguay in the [BTC #85605] 1860s, translated into English by its author. Dictator, EIKER, Mathilde. egged on by his Irish-born mistress, embarks on war 98 Over the Boat-Side. Garden with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Jacket art by City: Doubleday, Page and Company 1927. First Christa(?) Kemp. [BTC #87060] edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a 91 DRYDEN, Bridget. Whither I Must. couple of tiny nicks and tears. A romance with some New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1932. First edition. feminist pretensions. A wonderfully attractive jacket. Very slightly cocked thus near fine in near fine [BTC #309517] dustwrapper with a small internal repair. A day in ETON, Robert [pseudonym of the life of a passionate woman on a visit to New 99 Laurence W. Meynell]. Not in Our Stars. York City. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #85611] London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson 1937. First 92 DU JARDIN, Rosamond. All Is Not edition. Boards a bit mottled, thus good in near fine, Gold. Philadelphia: J.B. price-clipped dustwrapper. Idealistic pacifist buys a Lippincott (1935). First edition. Old circulating private island, flees to it with his friends to escape the library copy, with an owner’s name and stamp on the horrors of a coming war, but then a beautiful front preliminaries, thus a good copy in good aristocrat crashes her plane on the island, and so forth. dustwrapper which has been backed with brown OCLC locates a single copy in Australia; COPAC adds paper and affixed to the pastedowns by the flaps. a second copy in Ireland. [BTC #275503] Two beautiful sisters, one wants glamour and riches, FABIAN, Warner [pseudonym of Samuel Hopkins the other is looking for treasures of the heart. First 100 Adams]. Sailors’ Wives. New York: Boni & book, preceding the author’s much better known Liveright (1924). First edition. Boards a little soiled children’s books. OCLC locates three copies, two of them at the Library and a faint sliver of staining along the bottom edge of Congress. [BTC #99207] of the first several leaves, else near fine in an 93 DWYER, Eileen. The Kindly Gods. attractive, good or better dustwrapper with some New York: Macaulay (1935). First edition. Fine in chips at the spine ends and front panel. Jacket art near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing and tiny by A.N. Simokin. A Jazz Age novel in which the tears at the crown. Wild young Mexican must heroine, with her doom impending, decides to live experience the new craze: “companionate marriage” out her life in a frenzy of revelry and hectic with an American beauty. [BTC #85537] pleasures. Basis for the 1928 featuring Mary Astor and directed by D.W. Griffith-protégé Joseph Henabery. [BTC #279861] 101 FAIR, Philip. Sondra: A Love Story. New Brown, and Company 1927. First edition. Fine in fine York: Chelsea House (1935). First edition. Fine in a dustwrapper with a very faint stain at the crown. trifle rubbed, fine dustwrapper. Farm girl goes to Novel of southern Appalachian mountain folk, loving family, becomes beautiful, finds love, her past particularly the rivalry between two friends for a haunts her, other things happen. spoiled mountain beauty. [BTC #347871] [BTC #85549] 109 GADDIS, Peggy as Joan Sherman. 102 FARNOL, Jeffery. Harlot’s Return. New York: Godwin, Publishers Charmian Lady Vibart. 1937. First edition. Ex-rental library Boston: Little, Brown, and book, with staining to the boards, Company 1932. First edition. Owner’s name and fair only in a wrinkled, good or better dustwrapper address on the front fly, and a bookplate on the front slightly trimmed along the edges, and internally pastedown, else near fine in an attractive, very good backed with brown paper, still bright and attractive. dustwrapper with some very slight chipping and “On one side the wife to whom he owed his loyalty, modest wear. Son challenges a famous duelist who and a daughter whom he worshipped; on the other speaks slightingly of his beautiful mother. side, the woman in whose arms he had known an [BTC #86101] ecstasy beyond anything he had ever dreamed. To which of these did he owe the greatest debt?” The Georgia-born Erolie FITZGERALD, Sheila. Hungarian 103 Pearl Gaddis Dern wrote under her maiden and married names, as well Rhapsody. New York: Harper & Brothers 1935. as under several pseudonyms. OCLC locates three copies. First edition. A tiny pencil name on the front fly, a [BTC #368308] bookstore label on the front pastedown, and a little foxing to the boards, thus very good in very good 110 — as Peggy Dern. Spring Harvest. New plus dustwrapper with a little spotting and age- York: Arcadia House 1941. First edition. Jacket toning. First novel, about two generations in postwar flaps were once pasted to the pastedowns, and a few Hungary, and their various romances and marriages. numbers on the rear pastedown marked over, thus Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #85602] only about very good in near fine dustwrapper. Lovely caretaker for a Georgia plantation confronts (Football Fiction). TUNBERG, Karl. While the Crowd 104 the avaricious heir to the estate. An attractive copy. Cheers. New York: Macaulay Company (1935). [BTC #89051] First edition. Fine in a spine toned, very good dustwrapper. Novel of an ex-football star and the 111 — as Peggy Dern. Gallant Harvest. New woman he marries. Tunberg was a major York: Arcadia House 1943. First edition. Fine in screenwriter, although curiously this novel doesn’t near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with very light seem to have been filmed. Among his screenplays wear. Four college-age girls work on a farm during were Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Ben-Hur, A Yank the war: an orphan, a war widow, a disillusioned in the R.A.F., Beau Brummell, and many others. showgirl, and a woman trying to teach her husband [BTC #347874] a lesson. The owner of the farm, a wounded air hero, opens the farm to other injured aviators, and FORD, Sewell. Trilby May Crashes In. 105 sparks fly. This copy Inscribed by the author to her New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers 1922. First sister and brother-in-law: “To Goldie & Mr. Wyatt, with our love. edition. Illustrations by Marshall Frantz. Fine in an Peggy Dern 1943.” A nice association in an attractive copy. OCLC attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some locates a single copy. [BTC #90002] modest stains. Humorous novel of an idiosyncratic and zany couple; the husband crashes into the 112 — as Peggy Dern. Heart’s Home. New theatre. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #347493] York: Arcadia House 1946. First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with very light FORRESTER, Izola. 106 wear. The world of a widower’s daughter is thrown The Remittance Man. [New York]: Frank A. into an uproar when her father plans to remarry Munsey Co. / The Winthrop Press 1912. First and she falls for the owner of a pet farm. This copy edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Inscribed by the author to her sister and brother- Near fine. Presumably the first separate printing in-law: “To Goldie & Alfred, with my love, Peggy.” of a magazine story. Very scarce. OCLC locates A nice association in an attractive copy. [BTC #90004] just two copies. [BTC #344107] 113 — as Peggy Gaddis. The Joyous Hills. FREEDMAN, David. 107 New York: Arcadia House (1946). First edition. Fine The Intellectual Lover and Other Stories. in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with slight New York: Harper & Brothers (1940). First fading at the spine. Big city department store edition. Upper corner dented, else near fine in an executive is forced to take a break in the Northern about very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with Georgia hills, she meets a big city lawyer who has small chips. A collection of short stories by the adapted to life in the hills. This copy Inscribed by top radio scriptwriter of the era. Many of his the author to her sister: “To Goldie with my love – stories were adapted for the screen as well. because she asked for a book dedicated to Sherm for [BTC #292951] her bedside table – Lovingly, Peggy (Peggy Gaddis Dern Mrs. Sherman 108 FURMAN, Lucy. The Lonesome Road. Boston: Little, Dern).” A nice association in an attractive copy. [BTC #90006] 114 — as Gail Jordan. Dark Passion. New foxing on the foredge that encroaches a little on a few York: Phoenix Press Publishers 1950. First edition. of the pages, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a Young woman arrives home after a cruise to find that couple of chips at the crown, and a tear on the front her father intends to remarry, she sets out to find panel. New England school mistress cuts loose on a happiness for herself. OCLC or COPAC trip to the Carolina mountains, finds a lover, has locates copies. [BTC #275464] adventures. [BTC #85520] 123 GOODRICH, Arthur. 115 — as Peggy Gaddis. The Balance of Power. New Peacock Hill. New York: York: The Outing Publishing Company 1906. First Arcadia House (1960). Second printing. Fine in edition. Illustrated by Otto Toaspern. Owner’s name, fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Arrival of a and top corners a little bumped, thus near fine, devastatingly beautiful young widow shakes up a lacking the dustwrapper. Romance novel featuring western North Carolina mountain community. This several American archetypes. [BTC #98573] copy Inscribed by the author to her brother-in-law: “To my dear friend & brother-in-law, Alfred G. 124 GORDON, Irwin L. Wyatt, with loving good wishes for his health and What Allah Wills: A Romance of the Purple happiness. Lovingly Peggy Gaddis Dern.” A nice association in an Sunset. Boston: The Page Company 1917. First attractive copy. [BTC #90003] edition. Illustrated (and dustjacket art) by Modest Stein. Fine in a modestly soiled, very good or better 116 GAINES, Charles Kelsey. Gorgo: A dustwrapper with a few small chips on the rear Romance of Old Athens. New York: Grosset and panel. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #343259] Dunlap [circa 1930]. Reprint (originally published in 1903). Illustrated by George Varian. Near fine in 125 GRAHAM, Dorothy. The French near fine dustwrapper with small chips at the crown. Wife. New York: Frederick A. [BTC #277258] Stokes 1928. First edition. Bottom corners a little bumped and some modest foxing, else near fine in 117 GALLIZIER, Nathan. very good or better dustwrapper with a few small and The Hill of Venus. Boston: L.C. Page and unobtrusive chips. American woman marries a Company 1913. First edition. Bookseller’s stamp on Frenchman and re-invents herself as a Frenchwoman. the front pastedown else fine in fine dustwrapper. Very scarce. [BTC #87244] Signed by the author. Romance set in the 13th Century. A lovely copy. [BTC #93265] 126 GRAY, James. Wake and Remember. New York: Macmillan 1936. First edition. 118 GILKYSON, Walter. The Lost Endpapers a bit heavily foxed, else about fine in an Adventurer. New York: attractive, spine-faded, very good plus dustwrapper Charles Scribner’s Sons 1927. First edition. with small chips at the crown, with jacket art by Bookplate, very good in very good dustwrapper with Boris Artzybasheff. Young widower lawyer meets a age-toning, small nicks at the extremities, and a few woman at a Minnesota resort town that was faint stains on the front panel. Jacket art by Juan previously a logging camp. [BTC #92639] Oliver. The story of a man from a small town in Pennsylvania who becomes involved in the Spanish 127 HALL, Charles Revolution in 1869. [BTC #279023] Everett. Some Honey­ moon! Cleveland and New York: International 119 GLASS, Montague. The Impromptu Fiction Library (1918). Reprint. Pages browned, a Cousin. [New York]: Frank A. Munsey Co. / The little soiling to the boards, a very good copy in near Winthrop Press 1910. First edition. Stapled fine dustwrapper with a faint stain on the spine. Wall illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Very good or a little Street magnate on his honeymoon gets in silly better. Presumably the first separate printing of a adventures. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #87062] magazine story. Very scarce. [BTC #344109] 128 HAMILTON, Cosmo. Gilded Halo. 120 [GLYN, Elinor]. Daybreak. New York: New York: & Richard R. Smith, Inc. Macaulay (1913). First edition. 1932. First edition. Some foxing on the boards, Owner’s name else near fine in endpapers, and foredge, very good in very good very good, photographically-illustrated dustwrapper dustwrapper illustrated by Gorska, with small chips with shallow loss at the spine ends. Scarce in jacket. at the spine ends. American woman with inherited [BTC #279028] wealth meets British man who is as immoral as he is charming. Scarce in jacket. 121 —. The Philosophy of Love. Auburn, NY: The Author’s [BTC #365002] Press (1923). First American 129 —. The Splendor of Torches. New York: edition. A light stain on the front board else near Robert M. McBride 1934. First edition. A little fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper scattered foxing, else very near fine in near very good with several very small chips. [BTC #88007] dustwrapper (unsigned but likely by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.) with considerable rubbing, and shallow 122 GOLDIE, Mrs. Barre. Raven. London: Ward, Lock & Co. (1936). First edition. Some chipping at the spine ends. The author was a successful playwright and the author of many breezy and comic modern about fine dustwrapper. Disgraced woman and her lovely daughter set novels. This is a particularly uncommon title. [BTC #88756] tongues a-wagging when they move into town. [BTC #348579]

130 HAMILTON, Harry. All Their Children Were Acrobats. 137 HAYWARD, Rachel. The Hippodrome. London: William Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1936). First edition. A faint Heinemann 1913. First edition, colonial edition crease on the front fly else fine in a price-clipped, (with “Australasian Edition” printed on the spine). very good, Skrenda-illustrated dustwrapper with Owner name at the top of the first page of text, some rubbing and small nicks and tears at the foxing to the page edges and intermittently in the extremities. Family of circus acrobats are fearless and text, else near fine in very good dustwrapper (with professional while performing, but a mess in art by C. Waters) with a few tears, the most relationships. [BTC #85525] pronounced at the top of the front panel. Beautiful young woman performs. Very scarce. OCLC locates —. Thunder in the 131 two copies, at Stanford and one in Germany; Wilderness. Indianapolis and COPAC adds three in the British Isles. [BTC #275538] New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1949). First edition. Fine in a slightly rubbed, else 138 HEWLETT, Maurice. The Little Iliad. Philadelphia: J.B. fine, Paul Laune-illustrated dustwrapper. American Lippincott 1915. First edition. Light wear to the boards, a small historical romance. [BTC #322293] rubberstamp on the front fly, very good plus in about very good dustwrapper with soiling, and 132 HARDING, Bertita. Royal Purple: The Story of Alexander and shallow loss at the spine ends. A romance set in Draga of Serbia. Indianapolis Scotland, England, and Australia, in which four and New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1935). First brothers fall in love with a modern Helen of Troy – edition. A tiny bookstore label on the front the Austrian wife of a Nietzschean egomaniac. Very pastedown else fine in a price-clipped, near fine scarce in jacket. [BTC #89236] dustwrapper with a couple of very modest chips. 139 HICHENS, Robert. The Bacchante: Historical novel of royal love in Serbia. The Story of a Brief Career. [BTC #86118] New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation 1927. First American edition. Penciled owner’s name, a HARRADEN, 133 little foxing and light wear to the page edges, near Beatrice. Spring Shall Plant. New York: fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper George H. Doran (1921). First American edition. illustrated by desRosiers with some tears and small Pages very slightly browned, near fine in near very nicks. “Beautiful woman who fights a devil in her good dustwrapper with rubbing, and several modest soul” in Bohemian London. [BTC #364973] chips and tears. Unruly English schoolgirl is the despair of her family until she takes up with a 140 HILL, Al. Preface by violin master. [BTC #85897] Jim Tully. Easy Pickings. New York: Brentano’s 1931. First edition. Preface by Jim Tully. Fine in a HAUCK, Louise 134 price-clipped, about very good dustwrapper with a Platt. Bill Had an Umbrella. Philadelphia: chip on the front panel. Autobiographical novel The Penn Publishing Company (1934). First about an acrobat and petty crook who has a sordid edition. A faint private stamp on the love affair in an opium den. Jacket art by Richard front fly, a sound, very good copy in very good A. Loederer. [BTC #85630] dustwrapper with soiling and a few small nicks and tears. Original publisher’s attached bookmark (on 141 HILL, Grace Livingston. Ariel the perforated front flap) still present. Woman Custer. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company absconds with a man’s umbrella, they meet, you 1925. First edition. Owner’s neat name on the front know the rest. Scarce in the jacket, which features fly, front hinge restored, slight wear at the art by Harold E. Snyder. [BTC #99123] extremities, very good in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the spine ends and —. Whippoorwill House. Philadelphia: The 135 corners. Hill was a beloved popular author whose Penn Publishing Company (1936). First edition. Faint career stretched from before the turn of the century private lending library stamp on the front fly, a slightly to after the Second World War. Still collected today, cocked, very good copy in very good or better first editions in acceptable dustwrappers are quite uncommon. dustwrapper with a crease and a few tiny tears. [BTC #342896] Original attached publisher’s bookmark (on the perforated front flap) still present. Woman marries a 142 —. Blue Ruin. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott brilliant young architect in order Company 1928. First edition. General light wear to keep him from being to the boards, pencil name, very good in good, overwhelmed by his successful parents. Scarce in the edgeworn dustwrapper with small chips and tears, jacket, which features art by Ralph Crosby Smith. mostly at the spine ends. [BTC #342893] [BTC #99124]

136 HAVILAND-TAYLOR, Katharine. The Nine Hundred Block. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1932. First edition. Owner’s neat name, spine slightly cocked, near fine in a just 143 —. Duskin. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1929. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. [1923]. First edition. Very slight First edition. Small, penciled owner’s name and a offsetting to the endpapers, fine in very good dustwrapper with two trifle foxed on the endpapers, near fine in a nice, very chips, both on the front panel near the spine. OCLC locates but two good dustwrapper with tiny chips at the spine ends. copies. [BTC #85566] [BTC #322400] 152 HOLLAND, Rupert Sargent. The 144 —. The Patch of Blue. Chateau of the Swan. New York: Farrar and Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Rinehart (1939). First edition. Illustrated by Elinore (1932). First edition. A tiny gift Blaisdell. Offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket inscription on the front fly, still flaps, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Historical romance fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny nick where the novel, centered around Napoleon and two women, by front panel meets the crown, with jacket art by a Louisville, Kentucky native. [BTC #277159] Walter Stewart. Depression provides an opportunity 153 (Hollywood novel). STILES, Pauline. for romance for a poor girl and a formerly wealthy Lovers Must Live. Garden City: Doubleday boy. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #91355] Doran 1933. First edition. Owner name, and some 145 —. The Substitute Guest. Philadelphia: spotting to the endpapers, else near fine in a price- J.B. Lippincott (1932). First edition. Neat and clipped, very good or better dustwrapper with slight contemporary owner’s name on the front fly else chipping at the spine ends. Harry L. Timmins near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with jacket art. Spanish lothario pursues three women in some modest chipping at the spine ends. Man finds Depression-era Hollywood. [BTC #85534] both romance and the old-fashioned Christmas he 154 HOPKINS, William J. Those Gillespies. was longing for. [BTC #322401] Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 146 —. White Orchids. 1916. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Novel set Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1935). First edition. among Boston’s Back Bay and Beacon Hill society, Fine in near very good dustwrapper (with jacket art about a whimsical family and their tangled love affairs. by Walter Stewart) with a triangular chip at the Hopkins was best known for his books on nautical crown, and a few tiny nicks and tears. Unassuming themes and whaling. A beautiful copy and exceptionally modern girl courted by a millionaire’s son. scarce in jacket. [BTC #347875] [BTC #85628] 155 HOYT, Nancy. Cupboard 147 —. Homing. Philadelphia Love: A Park Avenue Novel. New York: Caxton and New York: J.B. Lippincott (1938). First House 1939. Reprint edition. Neat owner’s name on edition. Gift inscription else fine in very good the front fly and a very small stain on a few pages, dustwrapper with a modest chip at the crown, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Unscrupulous affecting the title. Orphan shop girl catches a but beautiful British aristocrat causes havoc in the break when a handsome lawyer suspects she may lives of a happily married Park Avenue couple. be an heiress. Jacket art by Walter Stewart. Scarce [BTC #84960] in jacket. [BTC #342897] 156 HUGHES, Rupert. The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities 148 —. Stranger within the Gates. Philadelphia: and Shipyards. New York: Harper and Brothers J.B. Lippincott (1939). First edition. Contemporary (1919). First edition. Illustrated by Henry Raleigh. gift inscription, and a little rubbing at the extremities, Tipped-in plates. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very else fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at slight wear. Novel by a prolific early screenwriter the crown and small holes at the flap folds. who was the uncle of . This novel [BTC #275829] was the basis for the 1920 T. Hayes Hunter-directed film featuring Helene Chadwick, Rockliffe Fellowes, —. The Street of the City. 149 and Frank Leigh. Very scarce in jacket. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1942. First edition. Just [BTC #85627] about fine in very good dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown eliminating most of the word “the,” 157 —. The Old Home Town. New York: Harper and some modest rubbing. Lovely young thing turns & Brothers 1926. First edition. Top edge a little to the goofily-named Valiant Willoughby for help soiled, else about fine in very good plus dustwrapper when her mother collapses. with some shallow, small chips (and with art by [BTC #85575] John Drew). Iowa town is turned upside-down when a hoard of young engineers converge to build HILTON, Joseph. That French Girl. 150 a dam on the Mississippi. Very New York: Frederick Fell (1960). scarce in jacket. [BTC #90710] First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper 158 —. Stately Timber. New York: Charles with a few tiny tears. Scandal in Scribner’s Sons (1939). First edition. A trifle age- Connecticut when a woman kills toned on the boards, near fine in very good or a man she lured into her boudoir. better dustwrapper with very slight rubbing at the [BTC #277223] extremities. Novel of a young man in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1650s. Scarce in jacket. 151 HOCKING, Silas K. The Lost Lode. [BTC #89033] 159 HUME, Cyril. Cruel Fellowship. New chips and tears. Psychological romance. Scarce. [BTC #89339] York: George H. Doran (1925). First edition. Fine in 167 JORGENSON, George and Nora. very near fine dustwrapper. Novel about a sensitive Pottery: The Moulding of a Love Child. Newark, Yale man and poet, and the lives and loves of the Jazz N.J.: Authors International Publications, Inc. Age generation. Hume was a novelist turned (1934). First edition. Slight scrapes to the endpapers screenwriter whose credits included Tarzan the Ape where the jacket flaps were probably attached, else Man (1932 – casting Johnny Weissmuller was very good without dustwrapper. Lurid novel from a Hume’s suggestion), The Great Gatsby (1949), and short-lived publisher whose entire production seems Forbidden Planet (1956). [BTC #98454] to have gone to rental libraries, and few of which 160 HURST, Fannie. Hallelujah. New York: were preserved. Very scarce. We’ve seen no other Harper and Brothers (1944). First edition. Very copies; OCLC locates two copies ( and State). near fine in a lightly worn, near fine dustwrapper [BTC #343524] with a small chip near the crown. Woman has that 168 KAYE-SMITH, Sheila. Tamarisk Town. special something, marries a man from St. Louis. New York: E.P. Dutton (1920). First American [BTC #86326] edition. Fine in good plus dustwrapper with a chip 161 HURST, Vida. The on the front panel and an internal repair. Greater Love. New York: Interestingly, both jacket flaps are printed with the Grosset & Dunlap (1927). First edition. Boards a designation “First Edition.” Man builds a town in trifle soiled, else near fine in near very good 1850s Sussex, later a woman competes for his passion. dustwrapper with rubbing, small nicks and tears, [BTC #85882] and a modest chip at the crown. Snobbish Virginia 169 —. Green Apple woman versus selfless mother of her fiancé. Harvest. New York: E.P. Dutton (1921). First [BTC #85652] American edition. Near fine in very good plus 162 HUTCHENS, Paul. This Is Life. Grand dustwrapper with very small chips at the spine ends, Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing and internal tape repairs. Village swain becomes the Co. 1937. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. town preacher in rural Sussex. Very scarce in jacket. Religious romance. A lovely copy. [BTC #88553] [BTC #89053] 170 KEATING, E.P. Come to My Arms. 163 IRWIN, Inez Haynes. New York: The Macaulay Company 1934. First Gertrude Haviland’s edition. Fine in an about fine, price-clipped Divorce. New York: A.L. Burt (1925). Reprint. dustwrapper with a little soiling and a tiny nick at Fine in near fine dustwrapper with small tears, the crown. Young woman receives a fortune from a soiling, and a small “remainder stock” rubber man found murdered, tries to alleviate the horror stamped on the front panel. Loving wife forced to of her life in a series of romances, most notably make a new life when her husband wants a divorce. with a successful Broadway playwright. Very scarce. Preceded by a Harper and Brothers edition. Scarce [BTC #85561] in jacket. [BTC #85793] 171 KENNEDY, G.A. Studdert. I Pro­ 164 IRWIN, Wallace. Mated. New York: G.P. nounce Them: A Story of Man and Wife. New Putnam’s Sons 1926. First edition. A small York: George H. Doran (1927). First American bookstore stamp on the front pastedown else fine in edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown, a modestly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a offsetting from a small clipping on the title page, else small chip at the crown. Girl grows up afraid of a nice, near fine copy in an attractive, near very good commitment because of the wreckage of her parents’ dustwrapper with a tape repair on the spine. Jacket marriage. A serious novel by an author better art by Elbert C. Taylor. Novel about the possibility of known as a humorist. [BTC #347869] the survival of Christian marriage by a noted clergyman and chaplain to the King of England. [BTC #85661] 165 ISRAELS, Josef, II. The Sea and the Land. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran 1931. First 172 KLOCK, M[artha] S.A. T[immerman]. edition. Owner’s name and name stamp on the A Leap-Year Frolic: A Story of Facts and front fly else fine in very good dustwrapper with Fiction. [No place]: E.L. Adams, Publisher 1896. some shallow chipping and tears at the extremities. First edition. Dark red cloth. 324pp., frontispiece, Young daughter of a German plantation owner in illustrated with several plates, two of which are Ethiopia meets a gun runner fold-outs. Some spotting to from Harlem, adventures and the boards, hinges a little romance follow. tender, and slight erosion to [BTC #85022] the cloth on the spine, a very good copy of this JARRETT, Cora. Return in December. 166 Victorian romance novel, New York: Rinehart & Co. 1951. First edition. produced in a decidedly Corners a little bumped, very good or better in very amateur fashion and very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with several small scarce. Not in Wright. OCLC locates four copies. [BTC #331986] 173 KNIPE, Emilie Benson and Alden (1914). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight fading Arthur KNIPE. The Shadow Captain. New at the spine. Modern novel inspired by the life of Joan of Arc. Very York: Dodd, Mead 1925. First edition. scarce in jacket. (Not shown) [BTC #98398] Contemporary owner’s name else near fine in good 181 LEIGH, Ursula. Chinook. London: John or better dustwrapper with some spotting and light Heritage [1932]. First edition. A small stain at the stains on the spine. Pirate novel, with some base of the spine else near fine in near fine romance thrown in. Scarce in the Mead Schaeffer- dustwrapper but for a long, internally repaired tear on illustrated jacket. [BTC #277239] the front panel. Front flap is clipped, but price 174 KYNE, Peter B. The Pride of Palomar. New York: appears on the spine. Author’s first novel, about a Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (1921). woman who struggles to rehabilitate her reputation in First edition. Illustrated by H.R. Ballinger the Canadian wilderness. OCLC locates four copies. and Dean Cornwell. A gift inscription on [BTC #275453] the front fly else very near fine in near fine 182 LINCOLN, Joseph C. The Aristocratic dustwrapper, illustrated by Cornwell, with Miss Brewster. New York: D. Appleton & an internally repaired tear. Novel about an Company 1927. First edition. Fine in good plus Irishman drawn by love to a Spanish dustwrapper with a tear along and across the spine, mission in California. Basis for at least one which is nevertheless not very noticeable. Daughter film, directed by in 1922 of a prominent family whose wealth has diminished, with Forrest Stanley and Marjorie Daw. [BTC #86481] astonishes her neighbors by going into business, then 175 —. They Also Serve. New York: finds romance with a self-made man. Scarce in jacket. Cosmopolitan Book Corporation 1927. First edition. [BTC #87090] Illustrated by C. Leroy Baldridge. Decorations by 183 LINFORD, Madeline. Broken Paul Brown. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with Bridges. New York: George H. Doran [circa several modest tears. Love story set in World War I 1924]. First American edition. Foredge a little soiled and narrated from the viewpoint of a cowboy- else near fine in an age-toned, very good turned-soldier’s horse. [BTC #97657] dustwrapper with shallow loss along the crown. 176 LAMBERT, Reita. Young girl crosses through childhood into romance. When Next We Meet. Philadelphia: Macrae- Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #89072] Smith 1942. First edition. Fine in very near fine, 184 LOCKE, William J. lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Mona always gets what The Mountebank. New York: John Lane she wants, which is Tommy. Her desires have tragic Company 1921. First edition. Just about fine in consequences. [BTC #85638] very good dustwrapper with a little discreet staining 177 LARRIMORE, Lida. and small nicks at the spine ends. Sequel to The Tarpaper Palace. New York: Beloved Vagabond, about a man who marries for love Grosset & Dunlap (1928). Early reprint. Owner’s rather than position. Features a clown illustration name on the front fly, else fine in a very near fine on the jacket. [BTC #275474] dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the crown. Young 185 —. The Coming of Amos. New York: woman lives in a deserted tarpaper shack on an Dodd, Mead & Company 1924. First edition. Gift island, which gets better when the handsome young inscription else fine in an attractive, near fine owner shows up. Jacket art by “FE.” Scarce. dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the corners, the price [BTC #85560] marked over, and an internally repaired tear on the 178 —. No Lovelier Spring. Philadelphia: rear panel. Contemplative middle-aged painter in Macrae-Smith 1935. First edition. Contemporary Cannes falls in love with one of his subjects, a owner’s name on the front fly else about fine in refugee Russian princess. Basis for the 1925 film near fine dustwrapper with some slight rubbing at directed by Paul Sloane, and with a cast that featured the spine ends. Young woman comes to New York Rod La Rocque, Jetta Goudal, and Noah Beery. [BTC #86107] to live with her mother, a prominent actress, and 186 —. Stories Near and Far. New York: Dodd, falls in love with her mother’s fiancé. Jacket art by Mead & Company 1927. First edition. Fine in near James Reid. [BTC #328239] fine dustwrapper (illustrated by desRosiers) with a 179 —. Faraway Haven. small chip at the crown. A collection of short stories. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith 1950. First edition. A [BTC #278998] small, neat owner’s name stamp on the front fly else 187 LOFTS, Norah. A Calf fine in a very slightly spine-sunned, else fine for Venus. Garden City: dustwrapper. Woman returns from finishing school to Doubleday 1949. First American her Mississippi home to the man she is supposed to edition. Near fine in very good or better, slightly marry; goes North, meets someone else, experiences spine-tanned dustwrapper with some very small indecision. Scarce. [BTC #98363] nicks and tears. [BTC #89359] 180 LAUGHLIN, Clara E. Everybody’s Birthright: A Vision of Jeanne d’Arc. New York: Fleming H. Revell 188 LORING, Emilie. Give Me One printing of a magazine story. Very scarce. OCLC locates just a single copy. Summer. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing [BTC #344108] Company (1936). First edition. Fine in a just about Biblio-Novel fine dustwrapper. Includes the original perforated 195 MANN, F.O. Albert Grope: The Story of and detachable bookmark. A lovely copy of this a Belated Victorian. London: Faber and Faber 1931. romance set in Maine. Loring was a very popular First edition. Foxing to the foredge, and the easily romance author of the Grace Livingston Hill- susceptible green cloth is faded, thus very good in school. She wrote over fifty novels. Scarce in jacket. very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with small [BTC #368324] chips, mostly at the crown. Cockney lad makes his 189 —. As Long As I Live. Philadelphia: Penn way through the world, finds wife. Publishing Company (1937). First edition. Fine in [BTC #275886] a just about fine dustwrapper with a short, creased 196 MARSHALL, Bruce. Children of this tear. Includes the original perforated and Earth. New York: Macaulay Company (1930). First detachable bookmark. Rich man distrusts women edition. Fine in a spine-faded, very good and romance because of his late brother’s marriage dustwrapper with a small chip at the top of the front to an unscrupulous actress, meets one he likes panel. Conscientious curate, despite the attentions of better. The first edition is scarce in jacket. many women, marries a girl of the streets, is [BTC #368325] ostracized to Paris, and tries to turn his sin-hardened 190 —. Where Beauty Dwells. Boston: Little, wife into a godly woman. [BTC #347433] Brown and Company 1941. First edition. Very near 197 MARSHALL, Edison. fine in an about very good dustwrapper with a split The Land of Forgotten Men. London: Hodder at the bottom of the front spine fold, and some and Stoughton (1923). First English edition. Foredge small chips and tears. M. deV. Lee-illustrated jacket. and endpapers quite foxed, good or better in near Romance set in Maine. [BTC #342903] very good dustwrapper with general wear. Alaskan 191 LUCAS, Audrey. Friendly Relations. adventure-romance. [BTC #322469] New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1936. First 198 MARTIN, George V. Mark It with a edition. A bit cocked else near fine in very good Stone. New York: Frederick Fell dustwrapper with moderate chips at the corners of (1947). First edition. Boards a the crown, affecting a few letters. little soiled, still very good in a modestly spine-faded, [BTC #368519] thus very good dustwrapper. By the author of For 192 LUCAS, St. John. Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. Jacket art by “J.C.W.” April Folly. London: Methuen [BTC #93858] & Co. (1916). First edition, 199 McCLURE, Robert colonial issue. Endpapers are E. Lady in Marble. Garden used as a catalog for Methuen’s Colonial Library. City: Doubleday, Doran & Page edges heavily foxed, some foxing and small Company 1928. First edition. Modest wear at the tears at the edges of some leaves, a good copy in very crown and the edges of the boards, else very good good dustwrapper with some foxing. Novel, set in or better in good dustwrapper (illustrated by Guy Bohemian London, about a romantic musician. Arnoux) with a chip at the crown, removing part Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of the London edition, whether of of the word “Lady,” and some short tears. the colonial issue or not is unclear. [BTC #275880] American girl sets out to establish herself in Paris. 193 LYON, Mabel Dana. Retaliation: Love’s Kickback. Newark, Scarce in jacket. [BTC #323358] N.J.: Authors International Publications, Inc. 200 McCONNAUGHEY, Susanne. Tropic (1934). First edition. Jacket flaps attached to the of Doubt. Philadelphia: Westminster Press (1953). pastedowns, rental library stamps on the front First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper endpapers, else about very good in remnants of the with some creases and small chips. Warmly Inscribed dustwrapper, lacking the spine, but with the racy by the author. Protestant missionary sails for Tahiti front panel art by Louis A. Kudlik intact. Lurid in 1796, experiences lust. [BTC #98442] novel about a woman who marries for revenge – she weds the widower who made her dead best 201 McGERR, Patricia. friend miserable. From a short-lived publisher The Missing Years. Garden whose entire production seems to have gone to rental libraries, and few City: Doubleday 1953. First edition. Fine in fine of which were preserved. Very scarce. We’ve seen dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Woman copes with no other copies; OCLC locates a single copy at the return of her missing husband. Very scarce in Ohio State. [BTC #343526] this condition. The author was best known for her mysteries. [BTC #321224] 194 MACFARLANE, Peter Clark. The Discernment of Sergeant McCarty. [New York]: Phillips Publishing / The Winthrop Press 1914. First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Near fine. Presumably the first separate 202 McHUGH, Vincent. Sing Before 209 MILLS YOUNG, F.E. The Long Path. Breakfast: Figures, Yacht and Island. New York: London: Hodder and Stoughton [1923]. First Simon and Schuster 1933. First edition. Fine in an edition. Foxing, particularly to the foredge, thus attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint about very good in fair only dustwrapper with a ring stains on the front panel and slight fading at the large chip on the rear panel, and some other spine. Jacket art by Kenneth W. Thompson. The smaller chips. [BTC #343659] second novel by a New York-based critic, a risqué MITCHELL, Mary. romance. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #347877] 210 Servants of the Future. 203 McKENNA, Stephen. Melbourne: Methuen & Co. / The Way of the Phoenix. New York: Dodd, Hicks, Smith & Wright (1947). First Australian Mead & Company 1932. First American edition. edition. Pages a bit browned else near fine in a Near fine in very good dustwrapper with some pretty much fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny modest tanning to the spine. Very nicely Inscribed tears. Aristocratic woman loves a young farmer but by the author. Love dies away, comes back later. is forced to marry her wealthy cousin. He fumes [BTC #86492] and goes to Australia, becomes a big shot. His ex- girlfriend is forced to take her sickly husband to Australia for the McPHERSON, 204 climate, etcetera. [BTC #316460] G[ertrude]. Grey Cottage. New York: Macmillan Company 1933. First edition. Fine in very good or 211 MORAND, Paul. Nothing but the better dustwrapper with light wear. Artist surrounds Earth. New York: Robert M. McBride 1927. First himself with beauty and solitude, two women American edition. Very slightly rubbed, near fine in intrude. McPherson was an artist living in China. near fine dustwrapper with a little fading on the spine. Jacket art by Gorska. Scarce. [BTC #279019] [BTC #99103]

205 MEREZHKOVSKY, 212 MORESBY, Elizabeth Dmitri. Akhnaton. New York: E.P. Dutton Louisa as E. Barrington. 1927. First American edition. Very near fine in good The Exquisite Perdita. New York: Dodd Mead dustwrapper with several splits and tears. Crisis in 1926. First edition. Fine in good plus, price-clipped ancient Egypt set against the love affair of Akhnaton dustwrapper with light chipping and tears. Jacket and the virgin priestess Dio. Jacket by R.S. George. by Edward C. Casswell. A novel about the beautiful [BTC #279002] actress Perdita Robinson, mistress to George IV. Moresby was Canada’s first prolific, female fantasy MERREL, Concordia. 206 writer. She wrote romances using variations of her The Three Graces. Garden own name as well as E. Barrington, and mystical fantasies and occult City: Doubleday, Doran 1930. First American studies under the name L. Adams Beck. Scarce in jacket. edition. Penciled owner’s name on the front fly, [BTC #86102] bottom corners a little bumped, near fine in a bright, very near fine dustwrapper with a crease on the spine. 213 — as Louis Moresby. Captain Java. Attractive young woman wins the British National Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran 1928. Movie Contest, becomes a star, receives attention, First edition. Light edgewear, near fine in very good both wanted and otherwise. Scarce in jacket. dustwrapper with a little loss at the extremities and [BTC #86896] wear to the edges. South Seas adventure set on the appropriately named Paradise Island. MILLARD, Ruth Tracy. Road to the Stars. Philadelphia: 207 [BTC #338750] Penn Publishing Company (1940). First edition. A bookplate on the front fly and a bookmark from 214 — as E. Barrington. The Duel of the the book affixed to the front pastedown, very good Queens: A Romance of Mary, Queen of Scotland. in a slightly short, good or better dustwrapper New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company 1930. which is internally reinforced with brown paper. First edition. Very near fine in near fine dustwrapper Woman attempting to become a stage actress with some light wear. Jacket by Stafford Good. A throws herself into it when the man she loves novel about the lives of and rivalry between Mary, marries another. Scarce. [BTC #98381] Queen of Scots and Elizabeth, Queen of England. By the author of Glorious Apollo, The Divine Lady, 208 MILLER, Alice Duer. Gowns By Roberta. New York: and The Chaste Diana. [BTC #85896] Dodd, Mead and Company 1933. First edition. Fine, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. Basis for the film Roberta which starred 215 MORTON, Frederic. Asphalt and Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Fred Astaire and Desire. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company Ginger Rogers (in their third film together), and a (1952). First edition. Slight foxing to the young Lucille Ball as an extra. It featured the endpapers else fine in a very near fine dustwrapper memorable songs “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes,” “I with two tiny nicks on the rear panel. Advance Won’t Dance,” and “Lovely to Look At.” The Review Copy with slip tipped in. A young college 1952 remake starring Kathryn Grayson and Red grad in New York City is determined to get a job Skelton has the questionable distinction of being and a man. [BTC #91277] Zsa Zsa Gabor’s debut. A lovely copy, from the Library of Carter Burden. [BTC #294375] 216 MOSK, Lona. In a Nazi Garden. worn and price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper. New York: Vanguard Press (1934). First edition. Locked room mystery with Sir Henry Merrivale. Foxing to the spine, near fine in a just about fine [BTC #291293] dustwrapper. Romance between a Jewish American 224 (Mystery). ESTAUNIE, Edouard. newspaperwoman and a “pure-blood” German Madame Clapain. New York: lawyer. Interesting pre-war subject treatment. D. Appleton 1933. First edition. [BTC #279012] Translated from the French. Gilt 217 (Mystery). AUGUST, spine lettering rubbed but John [pseudonym of readable, foredge a bit foxed, else Bernard DeVoto]. The Woman in the near fine in very good dustwrapper with several small Picture. London: Selwyn & Blount (1944). First chips, mostly on the front panel. Psychological English edition. Fine in a slightly soiled thriller about a mysterious woman who moves to a dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the crown. An French village and commits suicide, her story is then espionage story. Scarce in jacket. unraveled for the reader. Basis for the 1943 French film Le Secret de [BTC #85164] Madame Clapain directed by André Berthomieu. [BTC #85645]

218 (Mystery). BAILEY, 225 (Mystery, Hollywood). STILGEBAUER, H.C. The Fool. New York: E.P. Dutton & Edward. The Star of Hollywood. Cleveland Company (1927). First American edition. Fine in / New York: International Fiction Library (1929). an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some First American edition. Translated from the German modest chips along the upper extremities. Novel by E.E. Wilson. Owner’s name, near fine in very about the court fool who achieved great power good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears at the during the reign of Henry II, by the prolific spine ends, and a large but not very noticeable stain author of the “Mr. Fortune” detective series. Very on the rear panel. Hollywood actress, playing a scarce in jacket. [BTC #316627] slave in a film about Cleopatra, places the asp at the breast of the famous star playing the queen and pierces her with a (Mystery). BORDEN, Mary. The Black 219 syringe full of morphine. The author’s only title Virgin. London: William Heinemann (1937). First listed in Hubin. [BTC #277225] edition. A small spot on the front board else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small nick at the 226 (Mystery). JORDAN, Elizabeth. Red crown. Convoluted mystery-romance set in an Riding Hood. New York: The Century Company English country house. [BTC #275461] (1925). First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with some edgewear and tiny nicks. (Mystery). CLARKE, 220 Waif answers an advertisement at the home of a Donald Henderson. A mysterious New York City feminist philanthropist. Lady Named Lou. New York: [BTC #308382] Vanguard Press (1941). First edition. Small bookstore label on the front pastedown else fine in 227 (Mystery). MASON, A.E.W. Musk fine dustwrapper. Lady from the wrong side of the and Amber. Garden City: Doubleday Doran tracks who can’t sing or dance becomes a song and and Company 1942. First edition. Fine in an dance sensation because of her overwhelming about fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. A attractiveness to men. [BTC #275473] very attractive copy. “A full-blooded novel of Italy (also see item 64) under the Inquisition.” [BTC #314786]

221 (Mystery). COHEN, Octavus Roy. 228 (Mystery). PERTWEE, Romance in the First Degree. New York: Roland. Such an Enmity. Macmillan 1944. First edition. A trifle sunned at the Boston: Little, Brown and extremities, very near fine in very good dustwrapper Company 1936. First edition. A small tear on one with slight loss at the spine ends and a little page else fine in a trifle rubbed, else fine dustwrapper edgewear. Wounded war vet investigates three with art by Raymond Thayer. A mystery-romance murders in the Park Avenue high life. A scarce about a man living on the French Riviera who is wartime title. [BTC #279851] cursed by a gypsy. A beautiful copy. [BTC #347476] 222 (Mystery). DAWSON, Coningsby. The Vanishing Point. Toronto: Copp Clark Co. 229 (Mystery). RUCK, Berta. The Pearl (1922). First Canadian edition. Illustrated by James Thief. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company 1926. Montgomery Flagg. Foxing to the foredge, very near First American edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on fine dustwrapper with a few short, internally repaired the front panel. Mystery featuring a woman who is tears. Famous pearl necklace is stolen, life turns either the wickedest woman in the world, or a upside down for a jewelry shop clerk. Ruck’s only candidate for sainthood. [BTC #86482] mystery. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #87744]

223 (Mystery). DICKSON, Carter. The Cavalier’s Cup. New York: William Morrow and Company 1953. First edition. Owner’s name on the front fly, near fine in a lightly 230 (Mystery). TRAIN, Arthur. Ambition. 237 (Oil Field Romance). PATTERSON, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1928. First Norma and Crate DALTON. Out of the edition. Brief gift inscription, near fine in an Ground. New York: Farrar and Rinehart (1937). attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a First edition. A small bookstore stamp else fine in a shallow chip on the front panel. Woman sprains spine-faded, very good dustwrapper with small her ankle, meets a lawyer. A nice copy. chips at the corners of the crown. Romance set in [BTC #343654] the oil fields of Texas, by a husband and wife team. [BTC #347483] 231 NEVILLE, James M. Ladies Under Glass. 238 OSTENSO, Martha. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott (1938). There’s Always Another Year. New York: First edition. Owner’s name, fine in near fine Dodd, Mead & Company 1933. First edition. Fine dustwrapper with some rubbing and very short tears, in near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the and with art by Van Doren. An attractive copy of front panel, and a couple of very small tears. this novel, set in Newport and concerning three Heroine with the unlikely name of Silver Grenoble women of the Palmerston family, all in the market returns after a long journey to Mexico and for love. By a journalist who was a Princeton Alaska(?!) to find her true love at home on the graduate and ex-resident of Newport who settled in Beverly Hills. Dakota plains. [BTC #85540] [BTC #85612] 239 PEARSALL, R.J. Chits and a 232 NICHOLSON, Meredith. Old Chinaman. [New York]: Doubleday Page & Familiar Faces. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. / The Winthrop Press 1913. First edition. (1929). First edition. Spine lettering tarnished and Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Near fine. corners a bit worn, thus very good or better in an Presumably the first separate printing of this attractive, near fine dustwrapper. A collection of story. Very scarce. OCLC locates two copies. essays by a well-known author of romances. Scarce [BTC #344110] in jacket. [BTC #86681] 240 PERCY, Edward. 233 NOLAN, Jeannette Covert. New Eastward Drift. New York: H.C. Kinsey and Days, New Ways. New York: Company 1932. First edition. Corners a little Green Circle Books (1936). First edition. Owner’s bumped, else near fine in a bit worn, good name on the front pastedown and a gift inscription dustwrapper with wear, particularly along the front on the front fly, else fine in near fine dustwrapper flap fold, and several scattered tears. Advance with several very tiny tears and small nicks, and a Review Copy with a slip affixed to the front fly. small, modest stain on the front panel. The [BTC #300058] question of motherhood and how it affects the life PHILLPOTTS, Eden. The Lovers. New and romances of a young woman in a Midwestern 241 York: Rand McNally & Company (1912). First college town. [BTC #85639] American edition. Fine in an attractive, good or 234 NORRIS, Charles G. Zelda Marsh. better dustwrapper with some chipping at the top New York: E.P. Dutton (1927). First edition. of the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher’s Bottom of the boards rubbed else fine in fine slip affixed to the front fly. Romance of American dustwrapper. Poor girl with a magnetic personality sailors captured by the British during the American has romances, becomes a star of the theatre. Revolution, and the English maidens whom they Endpapers and jacket art by C.B. Falls. A lovely woo. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #307675] copy. [BTC #278141] 242 —. Three Maidens. New York: Richard R. Smith 1930. First 235 NORRIS, Kathleen. American edition. Some of the usual mottling to Treehaven. Garden City: Doubleday Doran the green cloth, thus very good in near fine 1932. First edition. Slightest of sunning, very near dustwrapper with light creases on the rear panel and fine in a moderately soiled, very good or better spine, possibly from the jacket being folded into the dustwrapper. Youngest of four sisters raised in book at one time. The lives of three women. Very isolation on a ranch south of San Francisco looks scarce in jacket. [BTC #86981] eagerly towards life, but falls in love with a married (Photoplay edition). MILES, Allie man. Jacket art by Matt Clark. [BTC #85641] 243 Lowe. Adapted by Bess Meredyth [from the 236 —. Three Men and Diana. Garden City: novel by Abbe Prevost]. When a Man Loves. The Story of a Doubleday, Doran 1934. First edition. Fine in a Deathless Passion Based on the Motion Picture price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with two Story. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1927). First short tears. Girl grows up on the wrong side of the edition, a photoplay edition. Owner name, spotting tracks, thinks she’ll never marry, ends up pursued on the boards, a very good copy in an attractive, by three men. [BTC #87796] very good dustwrapper with some tanning, and tiny chips on the spine. Novelized by Miles from Meredyth’s adaptation of Abbe Prevost’s novel, the 1927 Alan Crosland-directed film featured John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, and Warner Oland. Illustrated with stills from the film, and with frontispiece and jacket art with minimal wear. Heiress Elizabeth Dennison craves from paintings. [BTC #85555] adventure and romance, and sets her mind on an elopement. She enlists Jazz Hennessy in her effort and (Photoplay Spoof). TRAPROCK, Walter E. [pseudonym 244 sets off a scandal. Rath produced several breezy and of George Shepard Chappell]. Sarah of the amusing comic novels. Very scarce in jacket. A Sahara: A Romance of Nomads Land. New York: beautiful copy. [BTC #347872] G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1923. First edition. Seventeen full-page illustrations from photographs. A little wear 251 REA, Ella M. Castaways of the Yukon. to the boards, near fine in a rubbed, very good Boston: Meador Publishing dustwrapper with a couple of tears on the front Company 1936. First edition. panel. A novelistic spoof of pot-boiling Valentino- About fine in an age-toned, very good dustwrapper. type romances, illustrated with “stills” from a non- Vanity press novel of romance during the Alaska existent film, supposedly released by the All-for-Art Gold Rush of 1898. Scarce. [BTC #279018] Production Company of Derby, Connecticut and directed by the author, 252 RECK-MALLECZEWEN, Fritz. the intrepid pseudonymous Traprock. Chappell was a Yale-educated Woman in Flight. New York: Boni and Liveright architect who wrote several humorous publications, often under the 1928. First American edition. Traprock name and often in collaboration with notable artists including Translated by Jenny Covan. Fine in a lovely, near , Otto Soglow, and John Held, Jr. While not necessarily fine example of the dustwrapper with a short tear the only mock-photoplay every produced, it may be and is certainly a on the front panel and a touch of sunning to the very unusual attempt. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #99119] spine. Melodramatic German novel about a young 245 PIPER, Warrene. The Sun in His Swedish woman in Germany who is seduced by her Own House. Boston and New York: Houghton brother-in-law. [BTC #85775] Mifflin Company 1931. First edition. Gilt lettering 253 REED, Meredith. on the boards a little tarnished, else fine in near Fallow Ground. Philadelphia: fine dustwrapper. Novel of a complicated family. Penn Publishing (1936). First edition. Fine in near Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #343171] fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. 246 PORTER, Eleanor H. Woman deprived of education because her father is Dawn. New York: Grosset and a doctor who never sends out bills, marries an Dunlap (1919). Reprint. Fine intense young sculptor who goes off to war. in fine dustwrapper. By the author of Pollyanna. [BTC #85544] Scarce in this condition. [BTC #98542] 254 RICE, Alice Hegan. The Honorable 247 POST, Emily. Parade: Percival. New York: The Century Co. 1914. A Novel of New York Society. First edition. Pictorial cloth. Fine in an attractive, New York: Dodd, Mead & very good dustwrapper with a couple of small Company 1925. Second printing, two months after chips and a small, faint stain on the front panel. the first. Owner’s name on the front fly, a trifle [BTC #347453] rubbed, near fine in an attractive, good plus RICHMOND, Grace S. dustwrapper with some modest chips and tears at 255 High Fences. Garden City: the extremities. A novel by the ultimate etiquette Doubleday Doran 1930. First maven about two generations of Long Islanders and edition. Former owner’s name and a small bookseller New Yorkers – the parents bewildered by their young Jazz Age progeny. stamp, both on the front pastedown, slight fading to [BTC #87714] the spine, else near fine in very good, price-clipped 248 RAEF, Laura C. Symphony in the dustwrapper with sunning and small chips at the Sky. New York: Avalon Books 1970. First edition. spine. Jacket art by Maginal Wright Barney. A novel Fine in a bit wrinkled, very good dustwrapper with of town and country, set partially in Connecticut, and the publisher’s original Plasti-Kleer mylar jacket featuring competing authors who fall in love. [BTC #85787] (the cause of the wrinkling). Romance novel of RIDDELL, Florence. Kismet in Kenya. airline stewardesses Cheryl, Jan, and Vicki. 256 Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1932. First American Warmly Inscribed to flight attendant “Vicki” edition. Penciled owner’s name, near fine in near fine “whose refreshing personality was always before me dustwrapper with a small stain on the rear panel. as ‘Vicki’ in my book.” [BTC #343243] Woman saved from the jaws of a lion in Kenya – 249 RANDOLPH, Ellen. The Castle on loses beauty but finds a man. [BTC #85512] the Hill. New York: Avalon Books, Thomas RIVERS, Dorothy. Bouregy and Company, Inc. (1964). First edition. 257 Bird in the Bush. London: Owner’s name else fine in very near fine Herbert Jenkins [1944]. First dustwrapper. Romance of a Canadian playwright edition. Foxing and light tape shadows on the and an American girl. Most copies went to endpapers, very good or better in near fine libraries and unmarked copies are uncommon. dustwrapper. Woman passes up engagement with a [BTC #362887] wealthy man to pursue a dream. Uncommon 250 RATH, E.J. Elope if You Must. New wartime title. [BTC #316456] York: G. Howard 1926. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper 258 —. Tangled Web. London: Herbert Jenkins 265 SANBORN, Pitts. Greek Night. New York: Lincoln Mac (1946). First edition. Foxing and light tape Veagh / Dial Press 1933. First edition. A trifle shadows on the endpapers, else near fine in a price- darkened at the very edge of the spine else fine in clipped, near fine dustwrapper. As the title a slightly chipped, very good or better indicates, an extremely convoluted romance set dustwrapper with art by Seth Kress Moor. Briefly partially in Scotland. Uncommon wartime title. Inscribed by the author. Young western man [BTC #316464] throws a decadent New York family into disarray. Very scarce. [BTC #92263] 259 ROOFER, Roof [pseudonym of Rufus 266 SAWYER, Topliffe. Randell]. Lolita of Los Angeles and The Cavalryman. Philadelphia: Elopement Coach. London: Gay and Hancock Penn Publishing Company (1939). First edition. 1925. First edition. Printed blue cloth. Penciled Corners slightly bumped else fine in an attractive, owner’s name, some foxing to the first and last few near fine dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the pages, a tiny hole on the edge of two leaves, and a crown, with art by M. deV. Lee. Novel of the large chip on page 185-186 removing several peacetime cavalry. Adventurous cavalryman words, thus at best a good copy without brought low by too much peace, perks up when dustwrapper. Two novellas. Very scarce. OCLC the General’s niece arrives on post. locates a single copy, at the British Library. [BTC #321065] [BTC #313690]

260 ROSMAN, Alice Grant. Protecting 267 SCHIFF, Pearl. Scollay Square. New Margot. New York: Minton Balch 1933. First York: Rinehart and Company (1952). First edition. American edition. Lacks front endpapers, some Boards a trifle rubbed and a little foxing to the spotting to the boards, near very good in very good endpapers, else near fine in a lightly rubbed, near dustwrapper with modest chips and tears, mostly on fine dustwrapper. Love and lust in the “liberty town” the rear panel. Woman, abandoned early on by her section of Boston. [BTC #274881] husband, deals with a number of busybody relatives. (Science-Fiction). Attractive jacket art. [BTC #85791] 268 TEMPLE, William F. Four- 261 —. Somebody Must. Sided Triangle. New York: Frederick Fell (1951). New York: Minton Balch (1934). First American First American edition. Literary agent’s stamp on the edition. A trifle foxed on the endpapers, near fine in a title page, corners slightly worn, else near fine in a price-clipped and lightly rubbed, near fine rubbed, very good dustwrapper with a chip on the dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears. Brother and rear panel removing a couple of words from the ads. sister separated at birth, encounter each other as Love triangle solved when the men involved invent a adults. Oxford-educated girl called upon to preserve machine that will replicate the woman they both her family. Novel by an Australian native writing in desire. Basis for the 1953 Terence Fisher-directed Hammer Films England. Attractive jacket art. [BTC #85590] adaptation featuring Barbara Payton, James Hayter, and Stephen Murray. [BTC #92166] 262 RUCK, Berta. Gentle Tyrant. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1949). First edition. A 269 SHANKS, Edward. The Enchanted trifle foxed on the first and last few leaves and the Village. London: Macmillan 1933. First edition. A jacket flaps, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in a touch of rubbing. Mother tries to keep her son tied modestly spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper with to her apron strings by unscrupulous means. small chips and tears. Lively country party in a Surprisingly scarce. [BTC #277885] lovely English village draws envious Londoners. [BTC #275539] 263 RUTHERFORD, Gay. The Old Red Barn. New York: Phoenix Press (1937). First 270 SHAW, Charles G. Heart in a edition. A trifle rubbed, else fine in very near fine Hurricane. New York: Brentano’s (1927). First dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. Love edition. Drawings by Ralph Barton. Fine in near triangle: young woman returns from Paris and fine dustwrapper but for a small chip at the foot of starts her own company; she can’t decide between the spine. A nice copy of the adventures of I. a feckless employee and a successful and wealthy Rupert Twombley who, after undergraduate work suitor. Very scarce, the books from this publisher at the cafes of London, Paris, and the Riviera, tend to be both amusing and uncommon. “returns to Newport and New York for his final [BTC #337159] degree of Doctor of Leisure.” [BTC #318539] 264 SALTUS, Edgar. Daughters of the Rich. New York: Mitchell Kennerley (1909). First 271 SHEA, Margaret. The Gals They Left edition. Old library stamp on the top of the page Behind. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc. (1944). edges, a few stains on the bottom page edge, else First edition. Fine in a lightly spine-faded, very near fine in a near fine example of the uncommon good or better dustwrapper with a couple of tiny dustwrapper. BAL 17169. [BTC #347425] nicks and short tears. A fish-out-of-water WWII novel of two women, a frail Southern belle and a rugged New England Yankee, moving in together in the city while their husbands are overseas. Nice jacket art by Bek Files. 277 SMITH, Chard Powers. Ladies Day. Scarce. [BTC #322659] New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons 1941. First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper 272 SHERMAN, Charles. A Wise Son. with a light pencil mark on the front panel. A novel Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company (1914). First about men in pursuit of business, and women in edition. Frontispiece by . pursuit of “society,” set in the American 1880s and Contemporary gift inscription, white paint titles ’90s. A very nice copy. [BTC #84970] on the boards are rubbed, thus very good in near fine dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. Jacket 278 SMITH, Helen Zenna art by A.P. Nikolaki(?). A romance which was the [pseudonym of Evadne basis for the 1925 film Wandering Footsteps directed Price]. “Not So Quiet...” Stepdaughters of War. by Phil Rosen, and featuring Alec B. Francis and London: Albert E. Marriott Ltd (1930). First edition. Estelle Taylor. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. [BTC #98375] Front board foxed, else fine in fine dustwrapper. A recently discovered feminist classic, something SHERWOOD, Cleo and Julian HEILBRON. : 273 between a memoir and a novel An underworld Romance. Newark, New Jersey: Authors Publications, about the women ambulance Inc. (1935). First edition. Ex-rental library copy drivers and nurses of World War with a label in the rear, and some scrapes on the I. A beautiful copy. [BTC #277156] pastedown from the jacket flaps being removed where they had been affixed, thus good only in 279 — same title. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. good dustwrapper that has been trimmed, and has (1930). First American edition. Near fine in an remnants of an old jacket protector at the about very good, price-clipped dustwrapper. extremities. Author listed as Cleo Sherwood on the [BTC #369165] jacket, but as Julian Heilbron on the title-page. 280 SMITH, Lady Good girl from Minneapolis falls for underworld Eleanor. Red Wagon. New York: Grosset and figure and heads to Los Angeles, and then to San Francisco, in a novel Dunlap (1930). Reprint edition, preceded by that is self-described as “gripping, realistic, dramatically sexual.” Jacket art Gollancz and Bobbs-Merrill editions. Owner name, by Ben Adlep (also signed, in much smaller letters, as “Kudlum” or some offsetting to a couple of pages from some “Kudlim”). Scarce. Not in OCLC, which lists no books by either author, clippings, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper and only three other books from this publisher. Every copy of every (with art by Skrenda). Subtitled on the jacket as from this publisher that we’ve seen has had rental library “The Romance of a Traveling Circus.” Basis for the markings and it seems likely that the short-lived publisher’s entire output 1933 film directed by Paul L. Stein and featuring was thus consigned. [BTC #343167] Charles Bickford. [BTC #85595] 274 SIMS, Marian. Memo to Timothy Sheldon. Philadelphia 281 ST. JOHN-LOE, Eve. Who Feeds the and New York: J.B. Lippincott (1938). First edition. Tiger... London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson 1935. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very slight First edition. Boards badly faded, good only in a nicking at the spine ends. Signed by the author. price-clipped, very near fine dustwrapper. Young love Epistolary novel consisting of a series of letters from flourishes in a sleepy English cathedral town when a quiet and cerebral wife vacationing in the North an old house is bought by a wealthy widow. Carolina mountains, where she thinks she has met Wonderful jacket illustration. Neither OCLC or her perfect match in the person of a professor of COPAC locate copies. [BTC #275457] English, to her outgoing and outdoorsy husband. Uncommon signed. [BTC #85533] 282 STEELE, Wilbur Daniel. Taboo. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company (1925). First SINCLAIR, May. Far End. 275 New York: edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a The Macmillan Company 1926. First edition. Neat, short tear and a little toning. Romance novel that contemporary owner’s name and slight offsetting to explores racial taboos. [BTC #347867] the endpapers from the jacket flaps, still fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few insignificant tears. 283 STERRETT, Frances Novelist marries, leaves his country home for R. The Amazing London, and is beguiled by the charms of another. Inheritance. New York: D. Sinclair was a popular author who enjoyed some Appleton 1922. First edition. critical success; sadly she is little remembered today. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very slight fading Unsigned wrap-around jacket art. [BTC #84718] on the spine. Department store clerk moons after the owner’s son, then inherits an island. William Fisher SKARIATINA, Irina. In Your Glad 276 jacket art. [BTC #85589] Heart, Tamara. Melbourne: Cassell (1943). First edition. Boards a bit bleached, foxing, mostly on the 284 STEVENSON, D.E. foredge and endpapers, an about very good copy in The Four Graces. New York: Rinehart and near fine dustwrapper. Russian princess with gypsy Company (1946). First American edition. Slight blood is forced to marry a drunken prince, her gypsy tanning in the gutters else fine in near fine relatives help her to escape from the Bolsheviks. dustwrapper. The trials and tribulations of the four [BTC #316476] unmarried daughters of the Reverend Grace. [BTC #98497] 285 STINE, Buena Vista. Loud with 292 THOMPSON, Maravene. The Secret Laughter. Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co. Love House. New York: Macaulay (1926). First (1943). First edition. Boards a little bowed, else near edition. Owner’s name on the front fly else fine in a fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow lightly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper with some chipping, mostly near the foot of the spine. First fading at the spine. Aristocrat, expected to marry in novel by a Missouri-born Hollywood gossip order to burnish the family escutcheon, must partake columnist. Advance Review Copy (noted as such in in love only as a secret indulgence, meets woman who ink). Inscribed by the author. [BTC #322535] might do both. [BTC #85523]

286 STONG, Phil. Week-End. New York: 293 TRAVIS, Emma A., Harcourt, Brace and Company 1935. First edition. A bookplate on the M.D. The Cobbler. New York: The Outing front pastedown else fine in an attractive, very good Publishing Company 1908. First edition. White or better dustwrapper with a few very small chips at decoration on the spine somewhat worn, else near the extremities. Novel of a weekend and its effects fine. Romantic novel by a woman doctor. Very on the lives of guests at a Connecticut house party. scarce. OCLC locates no copies. Nice jacket art, almost certainly by Arthur [BTC #98564] Hawkins, Jr., and reminiscent of his art from the TUTTLE, Louise previous year for the jacket of John O’Hara’s 294 Jennings. Acres of Appointment in Samarra. [BTC #91280] Beauty. New York: Fortuny’s (1936). First edition. 287 STREET, Granville. Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with a couple Peter Was Married. New York: G.P. Putnam’s of tears. Very scarce novel, a love story set among Sons 1924. First edition. Very near fine in a spine- the warm and friendly people of a small North faded, very good dustwrapper with a small chip. Carolina town. [BTC #369159] Clergyman moves to a gritty industrial parish, his TYRRELL, Mabel L. socially conscious wife objects, divorce is likely. 295 The Affairs of Nicholas Culpeper. New Scarce in jacket. [BTC #279863] York: Macrae-Smith Company 1946. First 288 STURDY, Carl. Suburban Doctor. New American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Jacket York: Phoenix Press (1941). art signed “Robbie.” Historical romance about a First edition. Contemporary owner’s name on the doctor and herbalist in 17th Century London. front pastedown and foxing to the endpapers else Welsh author’s sixth novel, but her first published near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a in the U.S. A lovely copy, and scarce in jacket. light crease on the spine and foxing on the rear [BTC #323937] panel. Novel of a doctor in the New York suburbs. VAIZEY, Mrs. George de Horne. [BTC #322551] 296 Flaming June. London: Cassell and Company 289 STURGES-JONES, Marion. In Ltd [1927]. First edition. Neat prize inscription, Wedlock Wake. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons foxing on the foredge and scattered throughout, (1946). First edition. Illustrated by the author. Near else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper fine in very good dustwrapper lacking the top ½"of with slight loss at the crown. From “The Girl’s the spine. Romance novel set in a thinly disguised Favorite Library” series. Scarce in jacket. Haddonfield, New Jersey. [BTC #152942] [BTC #323160]

290 SWINNERTON, Frank. The Young 297 VANDERCOOK, John W. Empress Idea. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & of the Dusk: A Life of Theodora of Byzantium. Company 1930. First American New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1940). First edition. A trifle rubbed else fine edition. A tiny name stamp on both pastedowns in very good dustwrapper with else fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with a a small triangular chip at the base of the spine and few short tears. Novelized life of a girl of the streets the rear spine fold internally reinforced. Cockney who for a time ruled an empire. store clerk wishes to believe in something beautiful. [BTC #87059] Jacket by Morris of Paris. A nicer than usual copy. VON HUTTEN, Bettina. The Halo. New [BTC #277224] 298 York: Dodd, Mead and Company 1907. First 291 SYLVANUS, Paddy. Too Saucy with American edition. Attractive, very good or better copy the Gods. New York: D. Appleton and Company 1931. First with a little light wear. Penciled ownership signature American edition. Gift inscription, and the foredge of noted architect Richard Kelly. a little soiled, thus very good in good only [BTC #296102] dustwrapper with chips and internal repairs. A WALDO, Harold. Stash of the Marsh novel of young English people before the World 299 Country. New York: George H. Doran (1921). First War, revolving around the romance of a madcap edition. Endpapers browned else near fine in a heroine with her cousin, who is in the diplomatic moderately edgeworn, about very good dustwrapper service. Scarce. [BTC #86494] with a few small chips. Romance novel set around the Detroit area. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #86105] 300 WALL, Evans. Lovers Cry for the little worn at the crown, else near fine in an Moon. New York: The Macaulay Company (1935). attractive, very good dustwrapper with several very First edition. Very near fine in an edgeworn, about small tears. Western romance. Woman ranch very good dustwrapper with small chips, mostly at the owner hooks up with a man that others accuse of crown. Various couples dally in love, both in and out being a murderer and philanderer. Scarce in jacket. of marriage, in Florida and New Orleans. Uncommon [BTC #322404] romance by a Mississippi author, very scarce in jacket. 308 (Western). ROSS, locates eight copies. [BTC #347878] OCLC Nancy Wilson. Westward 301 WALPOLE, Hugh. the Women. New York: Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Alfred A. Knopf 1944. First edition. Fine in a Macabre. New York: George H. Doran (1925). moderately age-toned, very good dustwrapper with First American edition. A slight bump on the small chips at the spine ends. Wagon train full of spine, still fine in very near fine dustwrapper with women looking for husbands heads west to sex- some tiny nicks. [BTC #314796] starved California, must fight off the unwanted advances of their escort party as well as threatening WASSON, Mildred. 302 natives. Apparently the uncredited basis for the 1951 film directed by The Big House. Boston and William Wellman and starring Robert Taylor and Denise Darcel, some New York: Houghton Mifflin of whose racy dialogue in her native French would not have been 1926. First edition. Owner’s name, fine in very approved by the Hays Office if they had been more conversant in the good or a little better dustwrapper with slight language. [BTC #322669] tanning and nicks to the spine. Young woman inherits the family manse from her grandfather, has 309 (Western). YOUNG, Gordon. Days of adventures and conflicting romances. Very scarce. ’49. New York: George H. Doran (1925). First [BTC #85591] edition. Contemporary gift inscription else fine in a price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper. Promotional WAUGH, Alec. “Sir!” She Said. New 303 advertisement for the book laid in. Romance and York: Farrar & Rinehart (1930). First American gunplay set against the background of the Gold edition. Near fine in a near very good dustwrapper Rush. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #329203] with several small chips and tears. Romance in Tahiti and the tropics. [BTC #88544] 310 [WICKES, Edward Michael]. Kinks: Meaning Love - Money - Mystery. New York: WEIR, F. Roney. 304 Adelaide Ambrose, Inc. 1927. First edition. Just Colinette of Redmoon. about fine in near fine dustwrapper with a number Boston: Small, Maynard of small chips and tears at the extremities. Beautiful (1921). First edition. Owner’s name on the front and ambitious young girl tries to make a go of it in fly, fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a small New York. First novel by the pseudonymous chip at the crown. Resourceful young woman “puts Wickes, a turn of the century songwriter. The it over” on the petty and backbiting population of publisher, a female native of Kansas, issued only one a small country town. Scarce in jacket. other title. Jacket art by Albert Vargas long before his WWII pinups and [BTC #339642] later work in a similar vein. [BTC #322546] 305 (Western). DUFFUS, R.L. Jornada. New 311 WILDING, Lawrence [pseudonym of York: Covici-Friede (1935). First edition. Faint Louise Ward]. Storm Star. London: Besant & “discard stamp” on the front and rear free endpapers Co. 1929. First edition in cloth boards. Foredge else very near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Western foxed, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. romance. The exotic wife of a wagon train leader Publisher’s promotional card laid in. A romance dallies with a handsome young greenhorn on the set in Hawaii, and an exceptionally scarce book – trip to Santa Fe. Scarce in jacket. Unsigned OCLC lists no copies, and we could find no wraparound jacket art. [BTC #322408] mention of either this title or the author in other 306 (Western). LEHMAN, Paul Evan. Only conventional sources. [BTC #279043] the Brave. New York: Samuel Curl 1947. First edition. A bookplate 312 WILLIAMS, Roswell [pseudonym of on the front pastedown else fine in an attractive, Frank and Ethel Owen]. Madonna of the very good dustwrapper with two long, internally Damned. New York: Macaulay (1935). First repaired tears on the rear panel. Vigilantes hang an edition. Slight wear, near fine in very good innocent man, the leader makes amends by dustwrapper with a couple of creased tears. Dessa adopting the hanged man’s son, they become Dornay attracts the attention of a famous, sadistic romantic rivals. A very scarce first edition from an German surgeon who enjoys the sufferings of his obscure publisher (Curl had several partnerships and patients and gets special satisfaction when Germany founded the Mystery House imprint, but published passes sterilization laws. Very scarce, pre-war Nazi only about two dozen books under this name). atrocity novel, with a love story thrown in. OCLC locates four copies in [BTC #98515] the U.S., two of them at the Library of Congress. [BTC #87063] 307 (Western). MANN, E.B. Shootin’ Melody. New York: William Morrow 1938. First edition. Bookplate on the front fly, a 313 WILLIAMSON, C.N. and A.M. The 320 WYLLARDE, Dolf. Experiment. New Lightning Conductor Discovers America. York: The Macaulay Company 1933. First edition. New York: Doubleday Page and Company (1916). A small, round sticker on the spine of both the First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very book and the jacket, else near fine in near fine near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. foot. Charming woman travels America in a Husband and wife tire of each other. She leaves to motorcar. A novel, but book and jacket are be a nurse on a cruise ship, he to live the Bohemian curiously illustrated with photos of many of the life of an author. [BTC #85528] New England locations the female protagonist WYNNE, Pamela. visits by motor car including East Hampton, Southampton, Tarry­ 321 Honey-Colored Moon. New York: H.C. Kinsey town, South Shore, the Long Island countryside, the White Moun­ (1940). First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine tains, the Maine coast (one labeled “Golf in Maine”), the shores of dustwrapper with just a few tiny nicks at the the Hudson River, and many other locales. [BTC #295496] extremities. Three lonely people inherit money, 314 WILSON, J. Turner. Every Inch a Man. allowing them to change their lives. By the author of Anderson, : Warner Press (1937). First Ann’s an Idiot. [BTC #85519] edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with YOUNG, Francis light overall wear. Romance of Jimps and Linn, two 322 Brett. My Brother clean-living Christian kids. [BTC #98406] Jonathan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1928. First 315 WILSON, Margaret. edition, apparently preceding the English edition. Trousers of Taffeta: A Novel Fine in very good plus dustwrapper (with art by of the Child Mothers of India. Frank McIntosh, signed “F.M.”) with some small New York: Harper & Brothers nicks and tears. Novel of a doctor in the English 1929. First edition. Slight fading to the cloth, very Midlands. Basis for the 1948 film directed by near fine in an attractive, very good plus Harold French and featuring Michael Denison and dustwrapper with some modest fading on the spine Dulcie Gray. Signed by the author. [BTC #87855] and light wear at the extremities. Novel about the cloistered wives of an Indian rajah, seen through 323 — same title. London: William Heinemann the eyes of an American missionary doctor, by the Iowa-born Wilson. (1929). First English edition. Slight offsetting to Her first novel, The Able McLaughlins, won both the Harper Prize in the endpapers from the jacket flaps, otherwise fine 1923 and the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. Scarce. [BTC #85594] in near very good dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine, and tiny nicks and tears. 316 WORMSER, Anne. Parents [BTC #87854] Permitting. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith- Company 1941. First edition. Good plus with 324 —. Black Roses. London: moderate wear but no overwhelming flaws in good William Heinemann (1929). dustwrapper with a paint splash on the spine and First trade edition. Fine in very some nicks and tears. Young couple burdened with good dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine, supporting her mother and his father. Scarce. and tiny nicks at the crown. Novel of a half- [BTC #341560] English, half-Italian man, and his first love. [BTC #87853] 317 WORTHINGTON, Marjorie. Come, My Coach! New York: 325 —. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf 1935. First edition. Two blanks Pennington. London: William roughly opened with some disturbance to the paper Heinemann (1931). First edition. Fine in very good over the hinges, else fine in near fine dustwrapper dustwrapper with some overall age-toning, and with very slight wear. American woman of a certain tanning to the spine. A novel set in the English age indulges in a grand passion from her seclusion Midlands, where Mrs. Pennington sets up as an on the French Riviera. Very scarce. English Madame Bovary with a sense of humor. [BTC #277884] [BTC #87852]

318 WRIGHT, Gene. Pandora La Croix. 326 —. A Man about the House. New York: Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1924. First edition. Reynal and Hitchcock (1942). First American Fine in near fine, lightly edgeworn dustwrapper. edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with a Lovely half-savage woman is manhandled in a little soiling to the spine. Comic novel about two Tahitian bar, is rescued, sort of. spinsters living in obscurity in England who are [BTC #339255] singled out for a romantic adventure. Basis for the little known but enjoyable 1947 film directed by 319 WYLIE, Max. Hindu , with a mostly forgettable cast that Heaven. New York: Farrar included a young Gina Lollobrigida in her first and Rinehart (1933). First edition. Fine in a English-language film. [BTC #85494] spine-faded, else crisp and near fine dustwrapper with jacket art by Erick Berry. Novel of “religion, sex and violent emotion” set in India. [BTC #347487]