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1. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Vital Message. New York: George H. Doran Co. (1919). First American Edition, First Issue. Original green cloth, octavo. Early Spiritualism title in which the front panel of the jacket states: “Are the dead really dead?” “I have seen father, mother and dead soldier son photographed together. I have seen scores of spirit photographs- exact images of the dead.” Near Fine, contemporary address at front pastedown, in Very Good printed dustjacket, some modest soiling to white panels, few tiny chips and general shelf wear. $300.00

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2. [CHEEVER, John]. New York City Guide, American Guide Series. New York: Random House. (1939). First Edition. “In collaboration with the Federal Writers’ Project of New York, Random House presents the Project’s crowning achievement”. Editorial staff includes John Cheever and Richard Wright. Includes folding map at rear of book and wrap-around band advertising contents “With Full Details of the 1939 World’s Fair”. Rarely found in such attractive condition and with original band. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few nicks at 1 top spine end, centimeter sized chip at top rear panel. $350.00

3. [NARCOTICS MYSTERY] ATKEY, Bertram. The House of Strange Victims. New York: D. Appleton and Co. 1930. First Edition. H. T. dustjacket art. Hubin listed mystery in which “Sir Morgan Greare, well-known surgeon, is discovered to be exacting huge fees from his wealthy patients, who live in willing subservience to his every command”. An uncommon mystery with horror elements of a deranged doctor who turns his patients into his personal “slaves” by exposing them to a narcotic gas of his own invention. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow edge chipping. $450.00

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4. HUGO, Victor. Les Miserables. New York: A. L. Burt and Co. [1935]. First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the 20th Century Picture and United Artists feature starring Fredric March, Charles Laughton and Sir Cedric Hardwicke. Includes photographic scene from the film at front dustjacket panel and title page. An extremely scarce oversized, 715 page, photoplay edition to 3 be found in attractive condition. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny chips at spine ends, top half of spine with pink color modestly faded $400.00 5. BIGGERS, Erle Derr. The Great Detective Mystery Game. Springfield, Mass.: Milton Bradley Company. (1937). First Edition. 21.75x22” gameboard has “Offices Of Charlie Chan Inspector Of Police” center with various city establishments. Game appears to be played similar to that of Clue. Instruction folder included with “Crime” cards, 33 “Go” cards (lacking two) and 64 “Evidence” cards (complete). Game includes tiny painted counters in 4 colors, uncounted. Lacks die. Gameboard has nice image of Charlie Chan entering apartment that shows signs of a struggle. “The Great Charlie Chan Detective Mystery Game” is founded upon the world famous character of Charlie Chan, created by Earl Derr Biggers, appearing in ‘The House Without A Key, The Chinese Parrot, Behind That Curtain, , Charlie Chan Carries On, The ’ (Serialized In The Saturday Evening Post And Published In Book Form By The Bobbs-Merrill Co.) And The Use Of The Character By The Milton Bradley Co. Is By Special Arrangement With The Owner Of The Various Copyrights.” Very Good condition, some splits at top cover corners, some wear, board in Very Good condition. $425.00

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6. [NAUTICAL FICTION] STACPOOLE, 7. STACPOOLE, H. DeVere. Goblin Market. New 8. STACPOOLE, H. De Vere. Eileen of the H. DeVere. Pacific Gold. New York: Sears York: George H. Doran Co. (1927). First Edition. Trees. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran Publishing Co. (1931). First Edition. Dorothy Interesting contemporary novel of a man who chases and Co. 1929. First Edition. M. E. Morris dustjacket Owen dustjacket art. Romance novel of a young his dreams, who “met in with the goblin folk, how he art. “When Pat, the sporting heir of Compton woman rejected by Hollywood who meets Captain attended their market, what he bought there and how Fleury Manor, kidnapped the violet eyed nursery Trimmins who takes her on an adventure on the it served him”. Not listed in Bleiler, but perhaps a border governess of the horrid Skrines, as she was on sea. “Romance stepped aboard when they picked line fantasy novel. Stacpoole’s most well-known her way to get her employer a jug of beer- and one up a young American, Bud Eustiss, in a small novel is The Blue Lagoon, basis for the scintillating has to admit that the young lady seemed perfectly boat in mid-ocean. Then commenced the most Brook Sheilds’ film. Fantastic stylized dustjacket art. willing to be kidnapped- he began a series of wonderful adventure of all, glamorous, dramatic, Near Fine in bright Near Fine dustjacket. $250.00 amazing and entertaining adventures that carried enthralling, set amid the luxuriant majesty of the dismay all the way to Australia”. Near Fine in Pacific”. Almost Near Fine, some soling to spine, in lovely Near Fine or Fine dustjacket. $250.00 a lovely Near Fine dustjacket. $175.00 9 10 11 12

9. [AFRICAN AMERICAN INTEREST] Wide Publishing Co. [1929]. First American 14. ANGELLOTTI, Marion Polk. Three MCGEE, Alice E. Black America Abroad. Edition, Photoplay Edition, with plug for the Black Bags. New York: Century Co. 1923. Boston: Meador Publishing Co. 1941. First film at title page, not printed with stills. An early First Edition, Publisher’s File Copy with stamp Edition. Uncommon travel experience of Alfred Hitchcock directed film and first talkie at front free endpaper and # sticker at spine. Mary Ann Tillman, “a refined, intelligent produced in England. Near Fine, yellowing to G. W. Gage dustjacket art. International midwestern... non-Aryan girl” who traveled to pages, in Very Good dustjacket, chipping at mystery novel set in France and Germany and Nazi Germany to study despite concerns for spine ends and flap corners. $150.00 involving a “beautiful and resourceful American her safety. Illustrated with photographs. Near girl”. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, nicking to with shallow edge chips. $275.00 spine ends and flap corners. $250.00 12. ALLAIN, Marcel. Fantomas Captured. Philadelphia: David McKay Co. (1926). First 15. ANONYMOUS. Before the Curtain American Edition. H. Dixon dustjacket art. Falls. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1932). 10. ALAIN-FOURNIER (Henri Fournier). Translated by A.R. Allinson. Hubin listed mystery First Edition. A thrilling and biased account The Wanderer. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. and part of the Fantomas Detective Series. Near of the American Intelligence Department, 1928. First Edition. Jack Perkins dustjacket art. Fine but for remnants of bookplate at front free “the excesses of patriotic organizations and Hailed as a masterpiece in French Literature endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, darkening political corruption in America”. Near Fine by Havelock Ellis in his 32 page introduction to spine and rear panel, shallow chipping at in Very Good dustjacket with some short to this work, Alain-Fournier here puts forth his spine ends and flap corners. $350.00 closed edge tears and wear, wrapper with story of rural French life on the eve of the First mild moisture wrinkling. $75.00 World War. The author served as a lieutenant during the war and was killed in battle. The novel would eventually be made into a French film, Le Grand Meaulnes, in 1967, directed by 13. ALLINGHAM, Margery. The Gyrth 16. ANONYMOUS. Good Housekeeping’s Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, and starring Brigitte Chalice Mystery. Garden City, New York: Book of Recipes and Household Fossey and Jean Blaise. Great dustjacket Doubleday, Doran and Co, for The Crime Discoveries. New York: Good Housekeeping art by Perkins. Near Fine in attractive Very Club. (1931). First Edition. Rare mystery Magazine. (1920). First Edition. Collection of Good plus dustjacket. $250.00 novel featuring Albert Campion. Very Good recipes and techniques developed at the Good plus, with some fading to spine and some Housekeeping Department of Cookery “which light whitish splashes to front and rear tests recipes and evolves new methods of cover, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some cookery in a well-equipped laboratory kitchen. 11. ALEXANDER, Ruth (Charles BENNETT). shallow edge chips and closed tears, lower The recipes set forth in this book represent the Blackmail, from Charles Bennett’s Play front spine edge with four inch closed tear favorites submitted by Good Housekeeping and All-Talkie British Film. New York: World that turns horizontally. $150.00 readers all over the country”. Near Fine in Very

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Good edge chipped dustjacket, inch sized a college campus and of a young professor First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Novel chip at lower rear panel. $250.00 who investigates the startling events. Near Fine of a ‘Yankee’ wife in South Carolina. This in an almost Near Fine dustjacket but for a few copy nicely inscribed and signed by Basso small abrasions at front panel and tiny chip at front endpaper, “For Emma Carr, the / at top rear flap corner. rebel minority of ex-Buckeye / Point, with 17. ANONYMOUS [Doris Langley $125.00 all good wishes / from Hamilton Basso / MOORE]. The Technique of the Love Affair October 9, 1941”. Near Fine in a dustjacket by A Gentlewoman. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. 1928. First Edition. “Nearly all 20. BARRETTO, Larry. Old Enchantment. chipped at spine ends and modestly faded at women can carry on love affairs successfully if New York: John Day Co. 1928. First Edition. spine, general edge wear. $75.00 they know how to go about it. This book tells F. E. Warren dustjacket art. This copy inscribed how.” Uncommon Jazz Age ‘how to guide’ on and signed by Barretto at front endpaper successful affairs, with such chapter headings to Isabel [Mary] Paterson, founder of the Libertarian Party and author of The God of the as “The need for a woman to become the 23. BAUM, Vicki. Martin’s Summer. New object of constant pursuit; and the uses of an Machine. New York set novel of aristocratic twins who cast aside their heritage and join York: Cosmopolitan. 1931. First Edition. E old admirer in obtaining new ones”. Near Fine S H dustjacket art. Baum’s novel of an all but for newspaper shadow at front endpaper, the “new social order”. Very Good but for split at binding at title page, in modestly soiled and too attractive male and the “ladies stalking in Very Good dustjacket. $325.00 their prey.” Striking pastel dustjacket art by edge chipped dustjacket. $85.00 E. S. H. is a highlight in dustjacket design for the period. Near Fine but for some soiling to cloth and top page edge, in a 18. AUBRY, Octave. Emperor Falls in Love. 21. BARRETTO, Larry. Walls of Glass. lovely crisp Near Fine dustjacket that had New York: Harper and Brothers. 1928. First Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1926. First been stored separate from the book, vertical Edition. Historical novel of Napoleon and why Edition. Contemporary romance novel of a crease mark at mid-spine. $175.00 “the greatest conqueror of our age was a beaten, destitute woman who is induced toward a and what the world calls a dishonored, man in relationship with “Martin Greer, wealthy horse- the realm of the affections”. Near Fine in Very owner with an insane wife”. Near Fine but Good plus dustjacket, some mild darkening, for personal library stamp at rear endpaper, small chip at top spine end. $75.00 some surface wear to fore-edge of pages, in 24. BECHDOLT, Jack. The Front-Page Girl. Very Good dustjacket, $85.00 New York: Chelsea House. (1929). First Edition. Newspaper business romance novel of a 19. AUGUST, John. Troubled Star. Boston: woman who takes a job at a paper in New York Little, Brown and Co. 1939. First Edition. Lois 22. BASSO, Hamilton. Wine of the Country. City, love triangle ensues. Near Fine in attractive Clarke dustjacket design. Mystery novel set on New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. (1941). Very Good plus dustjacket. $150.00

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25. BEDEL, Maurice. Jerome or the bewildering to her as it was uninvited”. Near foxing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket Latitude of Love. New York: Viking Press. Fine in Very Good dustjacket with centimeter but for a few inch abrasion at top front panel, 1928. Second Printing. Bedel’s Goncourt chip at top front panel. $100.00 few shallow edge chips. $250.00 prize winning novel of a young playwright, a cold daughter of Norway and skiing. Near Fine, in Very Good plus dustjacket, blue color 29. [BOOK INTO FILM] BELLAMANN, 31. BRIDGE, Ann.. The Ginger Griffin faded at spine, some very light spotting stains Henry. King’s Row. New York: Simon and (HORSE RACING FICTION). Boston: Little, to verso of front panel. $85.00 Schuster. 1940. First Edition. Novel of “two Brown and Co. 1934. First Edition. Romance decades in the life of a Midwestern town... novel set in China involving a young English Parris Mitchell dominates the picture of this woman coming to live with her diplomatic 26. BENTLEY, Phyllis. Inheritance. New town that was out to get anyone who would uncle in Peking and experiencing the Chino- York: MacMillan Co. 1932. Fourth Printing. not conform”. Basis for the 1942 Warner European society of cocktail parties and horse- Brother’s box-office hit and black and white racing. Very Good plus, with some fading to Novel of the changing English society over feature film directed by Sam Wood and edges in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge gen3ood plus, with some fading to edges in starring Ann Sheridan, Ronald Reagan, Robert chips to spine and corners, front spine and flap Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chips to Cummings, Charles Coburn, Claude Rains edge with some abrasions. $45.00 spine and corners, front spine and flap edge and Judith Anderson. Near Fine but for small with some abrasions. $45.00 contemporary bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good plus dustjacket, few short closed tears and light wear. $250.00 32. BRIFFAULT, Robert. Fandango. New York: Scribner’s Sons. 1940. First Edition. W. 27. BENTLEY, Phyllis.. Sleep in Peace. dustjacket art. Novel of espionage and intrigue in New York: Macmillan Co. 1938. First Edition. Artzybasheff dustjacket art. Novel of a which the heroine’s father is murdered by Nazis 30. [BOOKS INTO FILM] BRUCE, George. forcing her to seek safety in Paris where “she generation in the textile trade. Near Fine in Very Navy Blue and Gold. New York: William Good plus dustjacket. $75.00 mingles with spies, demimondaines and the Caslon Company. (1936). First Edition. Novel riff-raff of the Parisian underworld..” Near Fine of the Annapolis football team and three in Very Good plus dustjacket. $75.00 players from different walks of life. Basis for 28. BLODGETT, Ruth. Easter Holiday. the hugely popular 1937 Metro Goldwyn New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1935). Mayer black and white film directed by Sam First Edition. David Berger dustjacket art. Wood and starring James Stewart, Robert 33. [BUSINESS FICTION) FOWLER, Gene. “Story of a New York family...” of a woman Young, Billie Burke and Lionel Barrymore. A Shoe the Wild Mare. New York: Horace whose husband dies and who eventually finds very uncommon Book Into Film genre title to Liveright. (1931). Second Printing, same month herself involved in a love affair “which is as find in original dustjacket. Near Fine, some as First. Siwek dustjacket design. Author’s

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second novel, of a woman who leaves her title in attractive condition. Near Fine, but Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes husband, known as, Little Napoleon of Pine for small bookplate at front pastedown, in from the Paramount film starring Lois Wilson Street “because he executed his financial Near Fine dustjacket. $75.00 and William Powell. Original color illustrated coups with brutal brilliance, because he held his wrappers. An attractive New York themed short self as did the military hero.. and because photoplay with gangland elements, set in he was the great millionaire who wanted to be both the Bowery and at the top echelons of 36. CAREY, Arthur A. Memoirs of a Murder called a Napoleon” for a prize fighting boxer. s3stjacket from the Republic Serial starring Man. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, “What happens to the Titan of finance when he Doran and Co. 1930. Presumed Second Herman Brix. Bleiler listed Science Fiction finally faces himself, what happens to the boxing Edition, without “first edition” statement but Fantasy novel about an English boy being raised champion when he meets his own knockout with matching dates at title and copyright page. by natives in Siberia. “ The boy grows up to be blow, makes a story that is tensely dramatic”. An uncommon True Crime title, the exploits of chief of his tribe, half savage, half civilized..and Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, Inspector Carey, “for nearly forty years he had how he comes to love a white girl. First of the chipping to spine ends. $125.00 the task of bringing New York’s killers to justice.. Kioga novels. Near Fine, lower book corners and gives us the inside story of the Dot King mildly bumped in almost Near Fine, bright and case, the Elwell case, the Ruth Snyder-Judd attractive dustjacket. $275.00 34. [BUSINESS FICTION] STERNE, Elaine. Gray case and many others.” Almost Near Fine The Road of Ambition. New York: Britton in the rare illustrated dustjacket, Good with Publishing Co. (1917). First Edition. Ray N. chipping to flap corners, wear along front spine 41. CHRISTIE, May. Love’s Ecstasy. New Jackson dustjacket art and illustrations. A edge, top spine end chipped an inch deep, half York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1928). True First contemporary drama, adventure and romance inch chip to lower spine end. $85.00 Edition. Skrenda dustjacket art. Romance surrounding a Steel Mill, its manager, and big novel of a young stenographer dueling her business. Basis for the 1920 black and white wits against a millionaire’s daughter for the directed by William P. S. Earle and love of one man. Near Fine in Very Good plus 37. CHAMBERLAIN, George Agnew. Knoll starring Conway Tearle, Florence Dixon and dustjacket, few closed tears, mild wear, some Island. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. (1943). Gladden James. Near Fine in Very Good Stated First Edition. Novel of World War Two spotting to front panel. $85.00 modestly soiled dustjacket, some shallow edge era Merchant Marines. Near Fine in Very chips and short closed tears. $75.00 Good plus dustjacket. $100.00 42. CLARKE, Donald Henderson. The Chastity of Gloria Boyd. New York: Vanguard Press. 1932. First Edition. Vincentini dustjacket 35. CALDWELL, Taylor. Dynasty of Death. 38. CHAMBERS, Barbara and Becky New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1938. art. Contemporary novel of a risque nature, GARDNER. “New York”. New York: First Edition. Novel of a family involved in Jacobsen, Hodgkinson Corp. 1927. First of Gloria “who early revealed a magnetic hold armament manufacturering. A scarcely found upon men - old and young. Her mother’s lover

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seduced her; her life included several men and the heroine to her lover’s point of view”. Author’s Omnibus. London: Hodder and Stoughton. she was the cause of a murder.. It was not by scarce first book. Near Fine in a nearly Very (1934). First Edition. 575 pp. Anthology chance that every man who met her called her Good dustjacket, spine ends heavily chipped, collecting twelve stories by Helen Ashton, Phyllis ‘baby’.” Near Fine but for a fairly large music splitting along front spine edge mended at Bentley, George Birmingham, G. B. Stern, Kate themed contemporary bookplate at front free verso with archival tape. $175.00 O’Brien, Denis Mackail, G. D. H. and Margaret endpaper, small inked ownership inscription Cole, J. J. Connington, Storm Jameson, Jane dated 2000, in a Very Good price-clipped England, Sheila Kaye-Smith, and L. A. G. dustjacket, few small chips and wear at top 45. [COCKTAILS] DUFFY, Patrick Gavin. Strong. First book printing of stories originally spine end and few corners. $150.00 The Official Mixer’s Manual, The Standard published in the English newspaper, The News Guide for Professional and Amateur Chronicle. Missed by Hubin, but including Bartenders Throughout the World. New several mystery stories including Connington’s After Death the Doctor. Near Fine but for 1940’s 43. CLARKE, Donald Henderson. Female. York: Halcyon House. (1940). Reprint Edition. gift inscription at front free endpaper, in Very New York: Vanguard Press. (1933). First Rare cocktail recipe book of over 900 drinks Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine Edition. Vincentini dustjacket art.” From the including the Zombie. Original red cloth end and few flap corners. $175.00 back alleys of a New England town to Park with spiral binding. Near Fine in nearly Very Avenue in the metropolis is no easy climb. Good dustjacket with three closed tears On her way Margy Kane sojourned in the each a few inches long, mended at verso underworld and sold her favors to men.. with scotch tape, some chipping along 48. CONQUEST, Joan. The Hawk of One genuine love came to Margy, but it was lower rear flap edge. $75.00 Egypt. New York: Macaulay Co. (1922). shattered when a private detective revealed First Edition. G. W. Gage dj art. Adventure her past to her fiance”. Near Fine in Very Good and romance in the deserts of Egypt, “the dustjacket, tiny chips at spine ends, wear 46. CONNINGTON, J. J. Grim Vengeance. land mysterious, brooding, weaving its visible along front flap edge. $150.00 Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1929. First love madness into the hearts of men and Edition. Mystery surrounding the murder women”. Near Fine in attractive and bright of two South Americans. Nice deco style Very Good plus dustjacket, with modest edge wear, few nicks. $85.00 44. CLARKE, I [Isabel C.]. Prisoners’ dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Good plus Years. New York: Benziger Brothers. 1912. dustjacket, very shallow chipping at top spine First Edition. “This is a story of modern life, in end and top rear panel $225.00 which the hero forfeits, by his own deliberate 49. [COOK BOOK] Anonymous. The conscientious action a goodly heritage and great Original Picayune Creole Cook Book - possessions. The later scenes are laid in Italy 47. CONNINGTON, J. J.; L. A. G. STRONG Ninth Edition - Reprinted from the Fifth and North Africa, and the gradual conversion of [Edited by Helen Gosse]. The First Class Edition, Containing Recipes Using Wines

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and Liquors Customary Before Prohibition. 52. CRAWFORD, F. Marion. The White Edition, remaindered copy, with Clode title New Orleans: The Times-Picayune Publishing Sister. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1923). page and dustjacket, but with A. L. Burt imprint Co. (1942). Ninth Edition. Collection of Creole First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes at cloth spine. ECC dustjacket art. Hubin recipes. Uncommon in yellow illustrated from the Inspiration Pictures feature starring listed mystery title containing a collection of dustjacket. Very Good, with some discoloration Lillian Gish. Near Fine in Very Good plus mystery and romance short stories set in San to cloth at lower edge, in Very Good dustjacket dustjacket, only mild edge wear, some tiny nicks Francisco’s Chinatown. This title dubbed as with some shallow chips. $75.00 along lower front flap edge. $65.00 being the “American Limehouse Nights”. Near Fine in Very Good Plus dustjacket with some very shallow edge chips. $300.00 53. DAWSON, Captain A. J. Back to Blighty. 50. COONEY, Carroll T. Jr. David, London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1917. First A Novel. New York: Howell, Soskin, Edition. Collection of World War One battle 56. DRAGO, Harry Sinclair. Suzanna, Publishers. (1943). First Edition. Novel of a stories recorded by Dawson and illustrated by A Romance of Early California. New family break up as seen through the eyes Captain Bruce Bairnsfather. Extremely scarce in York: Macaulay Company. (1922). First of a child. A scarce title. Near Fine in Very original illustrated dustjacket. Very Good, front Edition, in dustjacket with advertisements Good plus dustjacket. $125.00 inner hinge cracked but firm, pages yellowing, for books published in 1923 at rear wrap. G. in nearly Very Good dustjacket, pieces of W. Gage dustjacket art. Author’s first book. scotch tape at spine ends and flap corners, Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, inch sized chip at lower front panel, nickel sized chipping at spine ends. $300.00 51. COPPLESTONE, Bennett. The Silent chip at lower spine end. $250.00 Watchers, England’s Navy during the Great War What it is, and What we Owe to It. New York: E P Dutton and Co. (1918). 54. DAWSON, Peter. Gunsmoke Graze. New 57. DUMAS, Alexander. The Three First Edition. Scarce work concerning the York: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1942. First Edition. Musketeers, or The Three Guardsmen. English Navy, “at once a record, an explanation Western romance and adventure, winner of the New York: Grosset and Dunlap. [1928]. First and an appreciation, this remarkable book Prize Western contest and story of a cowboy Theatre Edition, with artist rendering of Dennis affords the American reader practically his with a murder charge hanging over his head. King at front dustjacket panel, with caption first opportunity to realize the spirit and the Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with mild “Dennis King / Star of / Florenz Ziegfeld’s / meaning of that vast unsleeping power, the cup stain at top rear panel. $125.00 The Three Musketeers”. King starred in this British navy, and what it has meant to the broadway musical production in 1928, the world during the present war”. Near Fine in a show ran an amazing 318 performances and is Very Good dustjacket, few shallow chips, front 55. DE BRA, Lemuel. Ways That Are Wary. notable for having lyrics by P. G. Wodehouse. panel with ‘oxidizing’ spotting. $150.00 New York: Edward J Clode. (1925). First Attractive Grosset printing of this classic

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adventure novel with original cover art for this 60. EATON, Harold. Famous Poison Trials. 62. EIDLITZ, Walther (translated by Eric edition. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, London: W Collins Sons and Co. (1923). Sutton). Zodiak. New York: Harper and top spine end chipped. $75.00 First Edition, Review Copy impression stamp Brothers. 1931. First Edition. A contemporary at title page. Aubrey Hammond dustjacket review of this work states “Machinery, and art. “Mr. Eaton examines here five famous the spell which it throws over the minds of poison trials, in which five different poisons people today, forms the chief source of interest 58. DUPLAY, Maurice. Our Doctors. New are used aconitine, antimony, arsenic, in “Zodiak.” The protagonist of the novel, York: Harper and Brothers. 1926. Presumed hyoscin, and strychnin.” Near Fine in edge fascinated by modern engineering is ultimately Early Printing, with code G-A at copyright chipped dustjacket, top front panel with repulsed by its use in creating machines of page. Gifford dustjacket art. Jazz Age themed three inch sized chip. $75.00 war, including a giant Russian airplane, Zodiak, novel of incorruptible surgeon who struggles which spreads Communist propaganda. Near to conquer an insidious disease. Near Fine in Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few shallow dustjacket with several inch closed tear at rear chips at top spine end. $350.00 panel, else Very Good. $65.00 61. EDINGTONS, A. C. and Carmen Ballen. Tundra (Romance and Adventure on Alaskan Trails). New York: Century Co. (1930). First Edition. Narrative of mysteries 63. [FAULKNER, William [edited by Blanche Colton Williams]. O Henry 59. EAGAN, Alberta Stedman. The Driven. investigated in remote Fairbanks, Alaska as Memorial Award, Prize Stories of 1931. New York: The Daily Mirror Newspaper. (1929). told to the authors by Deputy U. S. Marshal Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and First Edition, Advance Promotional Copy, small A. H. ‘Bert’ Hansen. “With his champion dog Co. 1931. Second Edition. Scarce anthology octavo, approx. 20 pages, original illustrated teams he mushed more than sixty thousand which includes Faulkner’s story, Thrift, as well wrappers. Scarce promotional ‘pamphlet’ miles through every part of the country, with the as titles by Oliver La Farge, Katharine Brush, published by The Daily Mirror Newspaper thermometer often sixty below zero tracking Florence Ryerson and Colin Clements. Near who published this novel serially. Contains criminals, saving lives, once even crossing Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow approximately 20 pages of excerpts and the great frozen tunda all the way to the Arctic chips and closed tears. $75.00 illustrations from this interesting Jazz Age Ocean in a desperate mush to bring back the themed novel of a young woman who is shamed body of a white prospector supposed to have by a divorce and who is subsequently drugged been murdered by Indians”. This copy inscribed by “white slavers” and kidnapped to New York and signed by Marshall Hansen and his dog 64. FEUCHTWANGER, Lion. Paris Gazette. City where she becomes a cabaret dancer, Tundra, who has made his paw mark with blue New York: Viking Press. 1940. First Edition. until eventually she regains her good name. ink. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket Feuchtwanger’s 800 plus page novel of life An extremely uncommon novel. Very Good in with modest edge chipping and wear, some in France in Nazi influenced Europe of 1935. wrappers, with expected wear. $250.00 spotting and fading to spine. $150.00 “Soon the reader faces international intrigue, an

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abduction, curious liaisons, conspiracies and First Edition. Harry Deitch dustjacket art. 70. [GAMBLING NOVEL] GARRETT, betrayals, life in palaces and under bridges”. Murder mystery in which three young women Oliver P. Street of Chance. New York: Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket but are found dead in England, each deemed Jacobsen Publishing Co. (1930). First Edition. for some scattered small brown droplet to be accidental. Near Fine in Very Good Photoplay Edition, based on the Paramount stains to front panel. $65.00 plus price-clipped dustjacket, some edge Picture starring William Powell and Jean nicks and modest wear. $175.00 Arthur. Novel of a gambling addict whose attempt to quit is thwarted by his brother. Original illustrated wrappers. Very Good, 65. FIELD, Peter. Dry-Gulch Adams. New modest edge wear, extreme top of fore-edge York: William Morrow and Co. 1934. First 68. FREEMAN, H. W. Hester and Her page corners nicked. $250.00 Edition. Uncommon Colorado set western Family. New York: Henry Holt and Co. romance and adventure novel. “From the (1935). First Edition. J. J. Lankes dustjacket moment young Adams, absentee owner of the art. Contemporary Suffolk set novel of a Little Bear Ranch came on a slim red-headed woman, “an illegitimate child, born in a work 71. GARDNER, Erle Stanley. The D A girl horsewhipping a Mexican, he stepped into house, later employed as hired girl on a farm, Draws A Circle. New York: William Morrow trouble”. Near Fine in Very Good modestly married at nineteen to a religious fanatic.. and Co. 1939. First Edition. R. E. Falconer edge chipped dustjacket. $200.00 [who comes into her own] with Charlie dustjacket art. Nice pre-war Gardner Fulcher, an itinerant tradesman and race- title. Near Fine, in Very Good dustjacket, track gambler whose zest matched hers”. some nicks and edge wear, vertical 66. FLETCHER, J. S. Behind the Monocle. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, crease at down front panel. $125.00 Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and spine mildly darkened. $75.00 Co. 1930. First Edition. Collection of mystery stories, including The Slant-Eyed Chinaman. Near Fine but for signs of use to boards, in an 72. GATES, H. L. [Henry Leyford GATES]. almost Fine bright dustjacket that had been 69. FREEMAN, H. W. Pond Hall’s Progress. Even the Rich Girl. New York: Macaulay stored separately from the book, (from the looks New York: Henry Holt and Co. (1933). First Company. (1934). First Edition. Alec Redmond of it, the jacket was put away when the book was Edition. Suffolk set novel set after the First World dustjacket art. Adventure and romance novel published). Uncommon thus. $150.00 War of an English veteran who brings his Italian of Bostonian rich girl shipwrecked on an island wife back home. “An added interest in this novel with two men. “This shipwreck romance uses because of the presence of an exotic figure, an none of the old tricks of shipwreck romances. Italian peasant among English peasants”. Near Even the island’s native savages have learned 67. FLYNN, Brian. The Ladder of Death. Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at something about canned goods, cigarettes, Philadelphia: Macrea-Smith-Company. 1935. top spine end and top edge. $85.00 bank notes, and how to kidnap a white girl

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profitably. The dainty Bostonian in a semi- Macaulay Company. (1935). First Edition. 78. GREY, Vivian. Tender Melody. Paradise with two men on her hands and Rare medical themed novel listed as a New York: Chelsea House. (1933). First only a few shreds of civilized clothing learns marginal mystery in Hubin of “college and Edition. Contemporary romance novel of an exciting lesson in love and neutrality.” Near medical school life, and the courageous, a manicurist who crashes a glamourous Fine but for some spotting at top page edge, if illegal, act of a brilliant student in conflict party for the smart set and falls in love in Very Good or Near Fine attractive dustjacket with self-righteousness”. Near Fine but for with “wealthy and socially prominent Gavin with some mild crease lines. $150.00 small personal bookplate at front endpaper, Arden”. Near Fine in attractive Very Good to in lovely Near Fine dustjacket with some Near Fine dustjacket. $150.00 minor creasing and wear. $300.00

73. GIBBS, A Hamilton. Undertow. Boston: Little, Brown and Co. 1932. First Edition. 79. GREY, Zane. Fighting Caravans. F. M. dustjacket art. Contemporary novel New York: Harper and Brothers. 1929. First 76. GREEN, Walton. Corsair. New York: Edition. R. Rogers dustjacket art. Western of an undermaster in a second-rate boys’ Grosset and Dunlap. (1931). First Photoplay that served as the basis for the Paramount school who is “eager for life and romance Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Picture film starring Gary Cooper. Very and watching his youth slip away from him United Artists Picture starring Chester Morris. Good to Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, without having tasted either”. Near Fine but Mach Tey dustjacket art. Something of a shallow chipping to spine ends, inch sized for some foxing to page fore-edge, in Very nautical crime novel in which a well-to-do chip at top front panel. $150.00 Good attractive dustjacket, some soiling Long Islander is a socialite when on land but and foxing to panels. $45.00 a pirate of illegal liquor smugglers when out on the sea. Near Fine but for mild cocking in Very Good plus dustjacket, some mild wear, 80. GRISWOLD, Latta. Deal Woods. New light darkening to spine. $85.00 74. GIVENS, Charles G. The Devil Takes York: MacMillan Co. 1915. First Edition. Maurice a Hill Town. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Co. L. Bower dustjacket art and illustrations. (1939). First Edition Stated. Humorous novel of Contemporary novel of boy’s preparatory a small town rivalry set in East Tennessee with school life, including football. A contemporary bigotry as a central theme. Near Fine in a Very 77. GREGOR, Elmer Russell. Three Sioux review of the novel states, “In Deal Woods Good plus dustjacket. $75.00 Scouts. New York: D Appleton and Co. are reflected the vigor, the excitement, the 1922. First Edition. Adventure novel intended love of contest and the appreciation of nature for young adults of Native American life in which have characterized its predecessors”. the American west. Near Fine but for mild Near Fine in scarce Very Good dustjacket, 75. [GOOCH, R. H.] pseudonym of L. C. cocking, in a Very Good dustjacket with modest edge chipping, top spine end with Douthwaite. Black Chalice. New York: modest edge chipping. $125.00 centimeter sized chip. $150.00

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81. GROVES, Ruth Dewey. When A Girl and Britton Co. (1913). First Edition. F. Fox spine end and top front panel, modest edge Loves. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. illustrations. Adventure and intrigue novel wear, small light stain at lower rear panel, some (1929). First Edition. Skrenda dustjacket “of the tropics; hot air, luxuriant vegetation, scotch tape mends at verso. $150.00 art. Contemporary romance “Should work, play, bananas, manana, burnt sienna, she marry a penniless artist - or listen to accompanied by the usual whimsies of fortune the tempting proposals made by men of and a sprinkling of vicissitudes.. with a dash 86. HEROLD, Don. Bigger and Better. New wealth?” One of a fairly limited number of financial finesse, a sprightly love story; the York: E P Dutton and Co. (1925). First Edition. of true first editions published by Grosset whole mingled together with tropical prodigality Don Herold dustjacket art and illustrations. during the 1920’s. Near Fine but for front free and truly American generosity”. Near Fine in Humorous collection of anecdotes in which endpaper removed, in Very Good dustjacket, Very Good dustjacket. $125.00 the author discusses “waffles, Pomeranians, spine colors modestly faded, centimeter tea rooms, ten cent stores, dirty looks, dialect chip at lower front panel. $85.00 stories, art collecting, opera, traffic cops, 84. HAY, Ian. Housemaster. Boston: etc” Near Fine in a modestly edge chipped Houghton Mifflin Co. 1937. First American Very Good dustjacket. $65.00 82. HARRIS, Credo. Where the Souls of Edition. “delightful story of English Men are Calling. New York: Britton Publishing school life, [a teacher who] finds himself Co. (1918). First Edition. John R. Neill handicapped by the unexpected appearance frontispiece. “The first big love story to come 87. [HOLLYWOOD FICTION] WINSTON, in his bachelor household of feminine out of the war zone - founded on fact more Alvin. Pleasure Before Marriage. New assistants of a charming, but nevertheless strange, more powerful than fiction. The author, York: Phoenix Press. (1936). First Edition. embarrassing sort”. Uncommon American Lt. Credo Harris, stationed in France with the Risque contemporary romance novel that printing of this novel. Very Good plus in International Red Cross is a Kentuckian. His asks the question, “Can a man who is the Very Good dustjacket with few chips to story starts with the entrance of America into idol of feminine America be satisfied with one edges, centimeter in size. $65.00 the war and ends on the firing line of France. woman? Gloriana thought no, and avoided A very uncommon World War One novel to the advances of Harold Craig, the reigning be found in original illustrated dustjacket. star of Broadway and Hollywood, when she Near Fine but for small Christmas calling card 85. HERBST, Josephine. Money for Love. met him on board the ship to Bermuda. When pasted to front free endpaper, in Very Good New York: Coward-McCann. 1929. First Edition. a storm threw her into his arms she still did dustjacket, modest edge wear and chips, small T. L. dustjacket art. Romance of a young not yield, but when he saved her from being chip at top spine end. $175.00 woman entranced by the power of money. attacked, the madness of the tropic night Wonderful deco style dustjacket artwork. overwhelmed her. He insisted on marriage Author’s uncommon second novel. Near Fine but she would not let their night of pleasure 83. HARTE, Emmet F. Honk and Horace in a Good only dustjacket, with inch of top change her determination not to marry a ladies or, Trimming the Tropics. Chicago: Reilly spine end chipped, nickel sized chip at lower man..” Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket,

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shallow chipping to top spine end, dime sized 90. HUEBNER, S. S. The Stock Market. New illustrated with scenes from Herbert Brenon’s abrasion at top front panel. $300.00 York: D Appleton and Co. 1928. Ninth Printing. production. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, An important pre-crash work on the stock few nicks and edge wear. $65.00 market. This copy in original printed dustjacket. Near Fine but for contemporary gift inscription at 88. HORAN, Kenneth. I Give Thee Back. front endpaper, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, 94. IZACHAK. The Marriage of Hosea, New York: E P Dutton and Co. 1942. First chipped along top edge, lower spine end A Passion Play in Three Acts. New York: Edition. Convoluted romance novel set in with quarter sized chip. $150.00 small Michigan city and concerning a woman Halcyon Publishing Co. 1929. First Edition. M. who is bent on her adopted son becoming a Kish dustjacket art. An uncommon theatrical doctor. When her son falls for a woman from play set in Samaria in 735 B. C., of the Hebrew the other side of the tracks she sees all her 91. HUGHES, Dorothy B. Dread Journey. prophet Hosea and a harlot. Near Fine in an work toward making him socially accepted slip New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce. (1945). edge chipped dustjacket, few inch sized away. Mid-Western woman author educated at First Edition. Scarce war time mystery novel. chip at top rear panel. $150.00 Vassar. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, small some short closed tears and edge wear, light chips at top spine end and front flap corner, cm sized chip at top front panel. $75.00 stain to verso of spine. $75.00 95. JOHNSTON, Mary. To Have and To Hold. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1900). First Photoplay edition, illustrated with scenes from the Paramount Picture. 89. HOUGH, Emerson. The Covered 92. HUMPHRIES, Adelaide. Business [1925]. Enon B. Thompson dustjacket Wagon. New York: D Appleton and Company. Marriage. New York: Chelsea House. (1933). art. Uncommon photoplay issue with both 1922. 14th Printing, but early Photoplay First Edition. Romance novel of a young stills and plug for film at dustjacket spine. Edition, with plug and illustration advertising woman who flees to Bermuda because her A story of Virginia in the Colonial Days. Near the Paramount Picture at rear dustjacket panel. childhood sweetheart marries someone Fine but for usual spotting to cloth, in Very An uncommon Appleton published photoplay else. Somehow before the boat docks in Good plus dustjacket, few small edge chips edition. Novel of California pioneers, and basis Bermuda, she finds herself married to a and short closed tears. for the 1923 Paramount Picture directed by playwright in a business only manner. A very $125.00 James Cruze and starring J. Warren Kerrigan, complex lovers’ triangle ensues. Near Fine in Lois Wilson, and Alan Hale, filmed on location. Near Fine dustjacket. $250.00 Very Good or Near Fine with mild cocking 96. KATAEV, Valentine. Time, Forward. New and foxing to page edges, in Very Good York: Farrar and Rinehart. (1933). First Edition. dustjacket, shallow edge chips, nickel sized 93. HURST, Fannie. Lummox. New York: A Proletariat Novel “of one day in Russia under chip at top spine end. $65.00 L Burt and Co. (1923). First Photoplay Edition, the Five-Year Plan”. Near Fine in Very Good

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plus dustjacket, few shallow chips, “reduced life and romance. Basis for the 1920 black and leaves it at manhood. He and his friends price” stamp at front panel. $150.00 and white silent film directed by Wallace march through the pages of the book in pictures Worsley and starring Charles Clary and Irene of tender color and vivid reality.. this book Rich. Near Fine, contemporary inscription, portrays with gaiety and charm that prism-like in Very Good modestly edge chipped thing called youth, happy and mirthful, foolish 97. KAUFMAN, George S. and Edna dustjacket, modest wear. $75.00 and wise- always endearing. By the author FERBER. The Royal Family. Garden City, of the Martha books. Near Fine in Very Good New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. 1928. dustjacket, some shallow edge chips, top rear First Edition. Comedy play about the madness panel with dime sized chip. $85.00 of show folk and the “Fatal glamour of the 100. KNIGHT, Eric. This Above All. New footlights”. Near Fine but for some faded areas York: Harper and Brothers. (1941). Dramatic at spine ends, and two glue marks at front novel of England’s evacuation of Dunkirk pastedown where presumably a bookplate and the Battle over Britain. By the author of 103. MACGRATH, Harold. The Green was removed, in Very Good plus dustjacket Lassie. Great dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Complex. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, with modest edge wear. $175.00 Good plus, attractive dustjacket, few nicks Doran and Co. 1930. First Edition. Walter and wear to top edge. $125.00 Buehr dustjacket art. Humorous mystery novel of “Handsome from Park Avenue and Porky, the ex-crook from the Bowery invaded 98. KELLEY, Leon. Margherita. New York: Paris. A.W.O.L. they blithely walked into a G P Putnam’s Sons. 1927. First Edition. 101. KYNE, Peter B. Kindred of the Dust. series of adventures that were the agitated L. Mabie dustjacket art. Jazz Age novel of New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation. concern of others besides the military how New York and Boston gossips almost 1920. First Edition. Dean Cornwell wrap- police”. Near Fine but for contemporary gift ruined a girl whose mother was an Italian around dustjacket art. Novel of the American inscription at front endpaper, in lovely Near singer and father a rich New Englander. Near Northwest and of a young man who falls in love Fine or Fine dustjacket. $250.00 Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow with a pregnant woman. Near Fine in Very Good chips at lower spine end. $75.00 plus attractive dustjacket. $75.00

104. MACMAHON, Henry and Jeanie Macpherson. The King of Kings. New York: 99. [KING, Basil] Anonymous. The 102. LIPPMANN, Julie M. Flexible Grosset and Dunlap. (1927). First Photoplay Street Called Straight. New York: Harper Ferdinand. New York: George H Doran Co. Edition. Based on Cecil B. De Mille’s Motion and Brothers. 1912. First Edition. Orson (1919). First Edition. L. Pern Bird dustjacket Picture by Jeanie Macpherson. Illustrated with Lowell dustjacket art and illustrations. art. Contemporary novel of America’s youth. scenes from the film. Fiction about the Man of Contemporary novel of American aristocratic “Flexible Ferdinand enters the story at seven Nazareth and Mary Magdala. Near Fine but for

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some moisture discoloration at lower rear cover, 107. MARSH, Philip M. Rebel. Portland, photo pastedown at cover. Very Good firmly in very attractive Near Fine dustjacket with few Maine: Falmouth Book House. 1938. First bound volume, darkening to spine, some nicks short closed tears and some moisture darkening Edition. Novel of an idealist millionaire with and wear at spine ends. $200.00 to verso of lower rear panel. $65.00 plans to reorganize civilization and who is hunted to the ends of the earth for his daring. Inscribed and Signed by author at front free endpaper. Dustjacket artwork appears to 110. MAXWELL, W. B. We Forget 105. MARQUIS, Don; A. A. MILNE. As be depicting a factory being bombed by a Because We Must. Garden City, New York: printed in, The Week-End Library Issue plane. This copy signed by the author at Doubleday, Doran and Co. 1928. Presumed of 1927. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, front free endpaper. Near Fine in bright Very Early Printing, without First Edition statement Doran and Co. 1927. Early Printing, lacking ‘first Good plus dustjacket. $65.00 at copyright page. Contemporary Jazz edition’ statement at copyright page. Anthology Age novel of a woman who must accept for summer reading including works by Don a changing world and the fast lane life her Marquis, A. A. Milne, Christopher Morley, Booth children choose. Nice stylized and perhaps Tarkington, Edna Ferber and Franklin P. Adams 108. MASON, A. E. W. The Four Feathers. art-deco designed dustjacket art. Near Fine . Nice deco-styled wrap-around dustjacket London: John Murray. 1939. First Photoplay in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket, some art. Near Fine, in Very Good dustjacket with Edition, illustrated with scene from the soiling at rear flap edge. $125.00 few small edge chips. $75.00 Alexander Korda film starring Ralph Richarson, John Clements and June Duprez at front panel of wrap-around band. Near Fine in Very Good 106. MARSH, George. The Valley of Voices. plus dustjacket, some tiny chips at lower 111. MCVICKAR, Henry Goelet and New York: Penn Publishing Co. (1924). First spine end, wrap-around band with few inch Percy COLLINS. A Parish of Two. Boston: Edition. Horror novel not found in Bleiler in closed tear at rear panel. $175.00 Lathrop Publishing Co. (1903). First Edition. which a doomed fur post is terrorized by The Contemporary novel told in a series of letters Windigo, “beast of Indian fable [whom] stalks concerning two lovers and one woman. A the footsteps of the frightened hunters.” contemporary review states: “In this story the Romance ensues when “Denise St. Onge, 109. MATHEWSON, Christy. Won in the Man of the world seems to have been unhappily lovely, mysterious, Paris-bred, daughter of the Ninth. New York: R J Bodmer Co. 1910. wedded to a lady whose greatest fault appears trader, causes Steele [American ethnologist] First Edition. Rare baseball themed novel by to have been a fatal propensity for saying the to enlist his fortunes with those at the the “famous pitcher of the New York Giants”. wrong thing at the right, time. Because of this beleaguered post”. Near Fine in Very Good Illustrated by Felix Mahony. “The first of a series unpleasant habit her husband, Douglas, packs dustjacket with lower spine end chipped a of stories for boys on sports to be known as his grip and goes, to Palm Beach and Aiken.” little less than an inch. $150.00 The Matty Books”. Original green cloth with In Aiken he falls for a woman married to an

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abusive husband. After the husband’s death 114. MILBURN, George. Catalogue. New 117. MONTGOMERY, Ione. The Golden the woman does not fall straight into Douglas’s York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. (1936). Second Dress. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co, arms, but instead takes time away from it all, Printing. Novel of rural Southwestern America for The Crime Club. 1940. First Edition. Mystery where she meets Douglas’s friend to whom with a cast of characters including a bootlegger, novel of woman murdered over her inheritance. he’s been writing letters to about his new love. a rich Indian, a wayward girl, and a taxi driver. This copy signed and inscribed by the author at However Douglas does not reveal the woman’s Author’s first novel. Near Fine in Good to Very front free endpaper. Near Fine, lightly soiled cloth, name and his friend very innocently falls for her. Good plus dustjacket. $125.00 in Very Good plus dustjacket. $125.00 Incrimination and death from a broken heart ensues. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with modest soiling to white panels, shallow 115. [MODELING FICTION] PUTNAM, Nina chipping at top spine area. $150.00 118. MOSS, Geoffrey. Little Green Apples. Wilcox. Lynn, Cover Girl. New York: Julian New York: Brewer and Warren. (1931). First Messner, Inc. (1950). First Edition. Uncommon Edition. L T dustjacket art. Novel of a “fallen modeling themed romance novel of a young man”, who starts life off as an Oxford golfer, woman who goes to New York intent on but after being rung through the financial ringer, 112. MEHERIN, Elenore. A Sequel To becoming a magazine cover girl model. “How turns to the life of a gigolo, known from Monte “Chickie”. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. she fought her way against heart breaking Carlo to Cavaliere as the Little Green Apple. (1925). First Edition. True First Printing by obstacles to the top of her field, and discovered Very Good Plus with a crease to spine, in Very Grosset of this Jazz Age romance and sequel to that she was the girl of Lanky’s dream, is a love Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips Meherin’s popular novel, Chickie, which served story to thrill all girls today”. Near Fine in Very and modest wear to edges. $200.00 as the basis for the First National Picture starring Good plus dustjacket. $65.00 Dorothy Mackaill. Near Fine, in an almost Near Fine crisp dustjacket. $75.00

116. MONTAGUE, C. E. Action and Other 119. MUSSOLINI, Benito. The Cardinal’s Stories. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Own Mistress. New York: Albert and Charles Doran and Co. 1929. First Edition. Collection Boni. 1928. First American Edition. Italian 113. MELVILLE, Herman. Moby Dick of short stories which includes Judith, a dictator’s own romance novel of the “licentious Or The White Whale. New York: Grosset World War One spy thriller overlooked by Renaissance”. Great stylized dustjacket art of and Dunlap. (1925). First Photoplay Edition, Hubin, and which served as the basis for swooning woman, artist unknown. Near Fine illustrated with scenes from the Warner Bros. the 1929 talking Fox film directed by James but for signs of a removed bookplate at front film starring John Barrymore. Near Fine in Tinling and starring George O’Brien and Lois free endpaper, in Very Good plus dustjacket Very Good dustjacket with soiling to spine, Moran. Near Fine in a Very Good modestly with some shallow edge chips and mild soiling. few shallow edge chips. $200.00 age toned dustjacket. $85.00 Uncommon in dustjacket. $175.00

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120. [NAUTICAL FICTION] GRAHAME, Wagnalls Co. 1939. First Edition. Stephen J. dustjacket art. Murder mystery with a fabulous Gordon Hill. The Golden Galleons of Voorhies dustjacket art. Novel based on a real dustjacket design by des Rosiers. Near Fine in Caribbee. London: Hodder and Stoughton. nautical episode in which an abandoned ship Very Good plus dustjacket, white of spine and [1925]. First Edition. Nautical adventure discovered by the Japanese was discovered rear panel modestly darkened, few inch closed novel of 17th Century America, Spanish and to contain 40 Chinese coolies in its hold, tear at top front panel. $125.00 English rivalry, Native Americans and pirates. signs of a battle, and twelve thousand dollars Near Fine, in Very Good dustjacket, usual worth of treasure onboard. The novel pieces mild darkening to white of panels, shallow together the events that led to this discovery. chips at lower spine end, top spine end Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow 125. OURSLER, Fulton. The Great Jasper. with dime sized chip. $75.00 chipping at spine ends. $85.00 New York: Grosset & Dunlap. (1930). First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Radio Picture film starring Richard 121. [NAUTICAL FICTION] MCFEE, Dix at front dustjacket panel. Story of a man William. Pilgrims of Adversity. London: whose “lust for living, for shapely girls and 123. O’KELLY, Seumas. The Golden William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. First Edition. tasty food and strong old Sherwood rye” led Barque. New York: G P Putnam’s Sons. 1920. Philip Simmonds dustjacket art. Something of him to adventures at odds with the morals of First American Edition. Rare collection of two a nautical adventure novel of a “thrilling talk of his wife and the world, when he tries to save novellas by this Irish author and revolutionary insurrection in a Central American Republic, his son from a future as a clergyman and finds killed by British soldiers in 1918. Includes against which highly-coloured background himself in a fantastic career in Atlantic City. “The Weaver’s Grave” described at front matter of fact James Wishart, the young Near Fine, gift inscription at front endpaper, dustjacket panel as “a remarkable achievement Scotch Engineer of the old tramp steamer, in Very Good dustjacket, mild soiling to in the grotesque”. Not found in Bleiler. ‘The Candelshoe, wrestles with the perplexities spine, mild edge wear. $150.00 Weaver’s Grave’ is generally regarded as of love and life. The dramatic solution of his his masterpiece” [Cleeve’s Dictionary of Irish problems is unexpectedly found in a small Writers, p. 107]. Near Fine in Very Good hotel kept by a queer, unrespectable English plus printed dustjacket. $300.00 widow in disreputable Puerta Balboa, where 126. PACKARD, Frank L. The Miracle the deep undercurrents of expanding American Man. New York: A L Burt and Co. (1914). business activities and local political aspirations First Photoplay Edition, illustrated at front converge in turmoil.” Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket panel from still from the Paramount plus bright dustjacket. $75.00 124. OPPENHEIM, E. Phillips. The Picture starring Sylvia Sidney, Chester Morris, Fortunate Wayfarer. Boston: Little, Brown Irving Pichel and Robert Coogan. Near Fine in and Co. (1928). First Edition, “Special nearly Very Good dustjacket, edges and front 122. [NAUTICAL FICTION] WHITEHORNE, Presentation Edition for the members of the flap edge with shallow chipping, top spine end Earl. Supercargo. New York: Funk and American Booksellers Association”. des Rosiers with dime sized chip. $40.00

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127. PARKER, Austin. Here’s To the Gods. Original illustrated wrappers and plastic ring work. Every character is original in conception New York: Harper and Brothers. (1923). First binding. 46pp. An early anthology of potty and even the minor ones, the blind blacksmith, Edition. Jazz Age novel of a young man whose humor illustrated with wonderfully inventive the tipsy landlady, and Torchlight, the Canadian “nature will not permit him to play safe with life... toilets by Jimmie Strang. Very Good, top soldier, are unforgetable”. Almost Near Fine in youth bedeviled by a sense of the futility of life rings broken at binding. $45.00 nearly Very Good, extremely scarce, printed as they find it since the war, and seeking relief in dustjacket, with chipping at spine ends, reckless, feverish pursuit of excitement”. Near corners, and along front spine edge with Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket with modest splitting along the same edge mended with soiling, shallow edge chips and short tears, 130. PROPPER, Milton M. The Ticker Tape archival tape at verso. $125.00 lower rear panel with half dollar sized chip, front Murder. New York: Harper and Brothers. 1930. panel with small “30B” in ink. $150.00 Fourth Printing. Wall Street set murder mystery. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, general shelf wear, nicks to edges. $75.00 133. RINEHART, Mary Roberts. Temperamental People. New York: George H 128. PARKMAN, Sydney. Out From Doran. (1924). First Edition. Dustjacket artwork Shanghai. New York: Harper and Brothers. by Ludlum. A collection of short stories told from (1935). First Edition. Hubin listed marginal 131. RHODE, John. Grave Matters. New the point of view of the main character, from mystery and nautical adventure novel with a York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1955). First Edition. cowboys to Queens. Near Fine in Very Good “high-voltage plot. Derek Bentley, some time of Kus Anderson dustjacket art. Uncommon dustjacket with fairly mild stain to lower spine Cambridge University, more recently of Chung later mystery novel by Rhode featuring Dr. area, shallow edge chips. $75.00 Kee’s grogshop on a small East Indian island, Priestley. Near Fine but for a few scotch tape takes a job on a sinister Chinese tramp steamer. shadows to front and rear pastedowns, in The story of his gradual discovery that the real lovely almost Near Fine dustjacket but for a few business of the tramp is murder and piracy is nicks at top spine end. $250.00 134. ROBERTS, Morley. Rachel Marr. told with constantly mounting excitement and New York: Alfred A Knopf. 1926. First Edition an explosive denouement”. Near Fine, in Very thus. FM dustjacket art. First published in Good plus dustjacket, very shallow chips at semi-classic, semi-curious books...which for spine ends and flap corners. $250.00 132. RICHARDS, H. [Harold] Grahame. one reason or another have enjoyed great Shadows, A Love Story. New York: Dodd, celebrity but little actual distribution.” This story Mead and Co. 1917. First Edition. Scarce is “a very vivid and very modern unveiling of World War One themed romance novel that a great and tragic love story.” Near Fine in 129. [POTTY HUMOR] LOOS, Cascara. includes scenes of trench warfare, gas attacks an Almost Near Fine dustjacket, lightly soiled Reserved Seats. Carmel, California: at Ypres and the home front of England. with few short closed tears and 2 cm closed Loos Publishing Co. (1939). First Edition. “Shadows is preeminently a finished piece of tear to top spine end. $225.00

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135. ROCHE, Arthur Somers. The Age of 138. SACHS, Emanie N. The Octangle. 141. STRIBLING, T. S. East is East. New Youth. New York: Sears Publishing Co. (1930). New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith. York: L Harper Allen Company. (1928). First First Edition. “Ultra-modern romance with a (1930). First Edition. “The story of a murder in Edition. A. Egea-Lopez cover art. Original rich bachelor of early middle age... [gets] a which a group of eight people are involved. cloth. Arguably Stribling’s scarcest publication, letter from the gold-digger district of New York The interest lies more in their psychology a cheaply produced pulp novel of north African saying that the writer is a young woman who and in their history than in the identify of the romance and adventure by this obscure and will, if he advances to her $25,000, guarantee to murderer because it is their personalities as short lived New York publishing house. This marry a millionaire and become an established well as events in their lives which have led to title, Stribing’s third novel, was presumably member of society within two years”. Near Fine the crime and to the effects of it afterwards”. originally published in a magazine as the in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow chips Very Good with mild stain to lower fore-edge copyright was previously held by Frank A. and short closed tears. $125.00 page corners, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, Munsey Co. in 1922. Stribling, a native of chipped at spine ends and corners, top front Alabama and Tennessee, is best known for his panel with quarter sized chip. $125.00 socially critical novels of Southern life including The Store which won the Pulizer Prize in 1933. 136. ROLLAND, Romain. A World in Birth. A truly uncommon Stribling title, this copy in the New York: Henry Holt Co. (1934). First Edition. 139. SHAW, Charles G. Heart in a less alluring drab cloth and not the illustrated Final volume of The Soul Enchanted series. Hurricane. New York: Brentano’s. (1927). boards sometimes seen on other copies. Near “A World in Birth opens with the honeymoon First Edition. Ralph Barton dustjacket art and Fine, without dustjacket. $600.00 of Marc and Assia. The life together of these illustrations. Fabulous Jazz Age themed novel stormy individualists was anything but easy”. of a young cad who “after post-graduate Near Fine in Very Good plus price-clipped work at Ciro’s, the Savoy and the cafes of the dustjacket, few edge nicks. $75.00 Riviera, returns to Newport and New York for 142. STRINGER, Arthur. The Wife Traders: his final degree of Doctor of Leisure”. Near A Tale of the North. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket, Co. (1936). First Edition. Interesting novel of an 137. ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Hunting Trips shallow chips at spine ends. $85.00 adventurer who is compelled to winter with an on the Prairie and in the Mountains. New Eskimo tribe and then decides to stay on, and York: G P Putnam’s Sons. 1902. Early Printing. marry an Innuit wife. “But back in New York, An early printing of Part II, “Hunting Trips of 140. STERN, G. B. The Rueful Mating. where he has been given up for dead, a returned a Ranchman”, exceptional for retaining the New York: Alfred A Knopf. 1932. First Edition. explorer’s filmshots of a walrus-hunt reveal the original publisher’s printed dustjacket. An early Romance novel of a modern day Romeo lost Winslow. His wife, Celina, sends her oldest Roosevelt title to be found thus. Very Good and Juliet. Near Fine with mild fade to spine friend to bring the truant back..” Very Good, but for cloth at covers rather discolored, in a in Very Good plus dustjacket, centimeter some spotting to cloth and modest wear, in Very Good dustjacket. $100.00 chip at top spine end. $45.00 an almost Near Fine bright dustjacket that had

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been stored separate from the book, few short of World War One battle stories. Near Fine in and few edges, very modest fading to pink of closed tears and light wear. $85.00 Very Good plus dustjacket. $45.00 spine and front panel. $250.00

143. SWITZER, Maurice. Letters of a Self- 146. WELLS, Carolyn. Ptomaine Street, 149. WILLIAMS, William Carlos. White Norfolk, Conn: New Directions. 1937. Made Failure. Boston: Small, Maynard and Co. the Tale of Warble Petticoat. Philadelphia: Mule. (1914). First Edition. Frank Godwin dustjacket J B Lippincott Co. 1922. First Edition. Jazz First Edition, “Review Copy / Publication Date” art and illustrations. Humorous business Age novel and parody of Sinclair Lewis’s Main stamped at front free endpaper. First novel themed novel and presumably something of a Street. Near Fine but for small bookplate in the “Stecher” trilogy, the story of “a plain parody of George Lorimer’s classic Letters of at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, American family of immigrant origin in pre-War New York.” Williams was an American poet a Self-Made Merchant to His Son. In this work shallow edge chips. $125.00 “A self-made failure, who has found success associated with modernism and Imagism. in a different field writes to his younger brother Near Fine in a Very Good Plus dustjacket, who is beginning his business career in New few nicks at top spine end, some modest York”. Signed by author at front endpaper. 147. WESTCOTT, E. N. David Harum. darkening to white panels. $300.00 Near Fine in scarce Very Good plus dustjacket, New York: Grosset and Dunlap. [1915]. with nicking to edges. $300.00 First Photoplay Edition. Illustrated with scenes from the Famous Players Film 150. WILSON, Margaret. Trousers of Taffeta Company starring William Crane. Near A Novel of the Child Mothers of India. Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge New York: Harper and Brothers. 1929. First 144. THAYER, Lee. The Key. Garden chips and wear, top and lower spine ends Edition. Uncommon novel dealing with India’s City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. with dime sized chip. $35.00 women, “child wives, matriarchs, concubines 1924. First Edition. Early Peter Clancy and slave girls. Like colored, captive birds they mystery novel of a man murder with an flutter in the cages set by conventionality.” Italian dagger from his own collection. Near Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, Fine in Very Good dustjacket, nickel sized 148. WHARTON, Edith. The Mother’s few shallow edge chips. $65.00 chip at lower spine end. $250.00 Recompense. New York: D Appleton and Co. 1925. First Edition, First Issue. Contemporary novel of New York City society, of “the love of a mother and a daughter - and the man 151. WINTER, William West. Millions in 145. WARD, Franklin Wilmer. Between who came between them”. Near Fine in Very Motors A Big Business Story. New York: the Big Parades. New York: Frederick M Good plus fragile pink and gold ‘thin paper’ Chelsea House. (1924). First Edition. Edgar Waterbury. 1932. Second Printing. Collection dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end Franklin Wintjack dustjacket art. “A tense

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drama of modern American industry...the [car] Dugan and The Show-Off. This presumed to be Publishing Co. (1929). First Edition. H. L. builder, a man of humble origin, suddenly finds his first book. Very Good, some spotting and Ridgaway dustjacket art. “A gay novel- a that he is famous and the success of his car wear to cloth, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow comedy of commotion. When France meets is assured”. Very Good, modest dampstaining edge chipping, dime sized abrasion to top front America on American soil, all manner of things to cloth at covers, in Very Good dustjacket, panel, few short closed tears. $200.00 are bound to happen, especially when the shallow edge chips and wear $200.00 Frenchman is seeking an American wife”. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at 154. WOODWARD, Edward. The House top spine end, spine soiled, few inch closed 152. WINSLOW, Thyra Samter. Show of Terror. New York: The Mystery League. tear at lower front spine edge. $125.00 Business. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1926. 1930. Stated first edition. Gene dustjacket Third Printing. John Austen dustjacket art. Jazz artwork. A murder mystery. Near Fine but era fiction about a young woman from a small for mild drip stain to front inside cover in 158. [YMCA] CHELEY, F. H. Buffalo Roost. mid-western town who ends up in the chorus pristine Fine dustjacket that had been stored Cincinnati: Jennings and Graham. (1913). of a Broadway revue, and the lifestyle of one- separately from the book. $85.00 First Edition. Illustrated with photographs. night stands and New York night life. Near Fine Fictionalized narrative of an extended with inch closed tear to front free endpaper in camping trip of a troop of boys. “A story of a Near Fine dustjacket, spine darkened, with 155. WRIGHT, S. Fowler. Arresting Delia. a Young Men’s Christian Association Boys’ only modest soiling to white of dustjacket, New York: Macaulay Company. (1933). Department” stated at title page. Near Fine in few tiny closed tears. $150.00 First Edition. Mystery novel of an elusive Very Good dustjacket with shallow chipping murderess. Near Fine, with mild cocking, at spine ends and flap corners, modest in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow chips soiling to white of panels. 153. WOLFF, William Almon. The Path of $150.00 and modest edge wear. Gold (HAITI NOVEL). New York: Reynolds $75.00 Publishing Co. 1920. First Edition. C. B. Falls illustrations. An uncommon Haitian 159. YOUNG, Stark. Feliciana. New York: set adventure novel despite the misleading 156. YATES, Dornford. And Berry Came Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1935. First Edition, ‘western genre’ dustjacket art. The dustjacket Too. New York: G P Putnam’s Sons. (1936). Advance Review Copy with publisher’s slip copy reads: “Left penniless by his sometime First Edition. Another novel of Major Berry laid in. Sandro Girard dustjacket art. This copy millionaire father, Stephen Thayer enters the Pleydell. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, inscribed and signed “S. Y.” to “I. M. P.” believed employ of his fathers’ closest friend. There in his few edge nicks and light wear. $125.00 to be Isabel Mary Paterson, founder of the first job he fails miserably. He is given another Libertarian Party and author of The God of the chance in faraway Haiti”. The author is perhaps Machine. Collection of short stories dealing with better known for his novelizations of popular 157. YATES, Elizabeth Hall. Ah, The the American South. Near Fine in very attractive contemporary plays including The Trail of Mary Delicate Passion! Philadelphia: Penn Near Fine dustjacket. $225.00

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160. DOYLE, Arthur Conan. The Black Doctor, The Croxley Master, The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, The Great Keinplatz Experiment, The Last of the Legions, The Man from Archangel. New York: George H. Doran Co.. 1919. (1919 - 1922). True First Editions, Publisher’s colophon at copyright pages, red bindings, multicolored checkered patterned dustjackets. A scarce collection of six volumes, complete, of Doyle’s non-Sherlock Holmes stories published in this smaller octavo format. The rear jacket panel describes this set as “This the first collection of the best of A. Conan Doyle’s stories apart from the Sherlock Holmes Tales. Seventy-seven stories, the foundation of the great fame of this writer, are gathered in these six volumes. They range in subject from mystery and detective plots to adventure, piracy, sport and spiritism”. All volumes Near Fine in Very Good dustjackets, Captain Sharkey with some shallow edge chips and few closed tears, Great Keinplatz with chip at lower spine end, Croxley Master with few narrow internal chips at spine, some general soiling at spines. $650.00

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161. PRESLAND, John (pseudonym of Gladys 163. VANCE, Louis Joseph. The Lone Wolf 164. (POLO FICTION) FERGUSON, W. M. Skelton). Mosaic. New York: D. Appleton and Returns. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1923). Thoroughbred. New York: Phoenix Press. (1935). Co.. 1929. First Edition. Pat dustjacket art. First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes First Edition. Rather uncommon romance novel Uncommon Jazz Age romance novel of a woman from the Columbia Production starring Billie Dove with a Polo theme, in which a Polo player falls as seen through the eyes of three men “one who and Bert Lytell. Crime novel and photoplay of a in love with a restaurant hostess and because loves her, one who hates her, and one completely sophisticated Paris criminal. Near Fine in crisp of her “he is able to ride War Parade in the East- indifferent to her... Nadine herself, the central Near Fine (or dare we say Fine) dustjacket, mild West polo match”. Near Fine in Very Good character, stands out as a figure to seize irresistibly rubbing to rear panel. $250.00 dustjacket with several short closed edge tears on the imagination. She is a primitive woman mended at verso with old archival tape. $175.00 cast into a conventional social world”. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with few edge chips and short closed tears. $150.00 Babylon Revisited Rare Books & Yesterdays Gallery, ABAA

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