BETWEEN THE COVERS 112 Nicholson Rd Rare Books, Inc. Gloucester City, NJ 08030 (856) 456-8008 www.betweenthecovers.com Catalog 178: A Summer Romance [email protected] It’s been a while since the last Between the Covers Romance Catalog. confined. These novels 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 book 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 printings, 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 libraries, 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 lists of books 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 Dean Cornwell Matt Clark Seth Kress Moor Bip Pares Eric Pape Delos Palmer, Jr. Maxwell Skrenda Boris Artzybasheff Erick Berry James Reid Mead Schaeffer 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 edition. Offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket New York: 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 novel, about young men and York: Macmillan Company 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. Vanity press collection 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. Boston: 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. Chicago: 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. Indianapolis: 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 Publishing (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 bookmark attached to the front flap (generally missing).