First Edition. John Austen dustjacket Art. An American power broker conquers the jungles of Mexico in this Jazz Age tale of Big Business. Basis for the 1933 Columbia Pictures film, retitled Woman I Stole, starring Jack Holt and Fay Wray, directed by Irving Cummings. Very Good, some speckling to spine cloth, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end, few closed tears at top front panel (a few inches in length). Item #23285

First Edition. John Austen dustjacket Art. An American power broker conquers the jungles of Mexico in this Jazz Age tale of Big Business. Basis for the 1933 Columbia Pictures film, retitled Woman I Stole, starring Jack Holt and Fay Wray, directed by Irving Cummings. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few tiny chips at top spine end and top flap corners, spine lightly darkened. Item #7910

First Edition. Novel set in the tropics of Mexico about business and such. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket with some staining to panels, general shelf wear, wear to spine ends, and darkening to spine. Item #11897

First Edition. Hawkins dustjacket art. Depression Era novel of a young traveling salesman with a wife and child trying to survive on $25 a week. 'Crawford is not a heavy drinker or a glad hand artist, simply an ordinary American who gets the best job he an to support his family'. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, two inch closed tear at lower front panel. Item #37364

Early Reprint Edition. Paul Stahr wrap-around dustjacket art. Business and romance themed novel set among the social elite of New York with considerable stock market and banking content. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end, half inch chip at lower spine end. Item #23264

First Edition. Snell dustjacket art. Novel of an American salesman who visits the "lethargic and lovely island of Capri" in the Mediterranean. "Once in Capri, the young American forgets his salesman's crusade to put a bathtub in every Italian home. Layer by layer, all that made a typical up-and-coming young American business man sloughs off. He leaves the tourists, and plunges into the real Capri, - the world of the natives". Very Good, rear inner hinge partially cracked (but still firm) in Very Good dustjacket, spine lightly faded, top spine end chipped a half inch deep. Item #23167

First Edition. Mary Briggs dustjacket art. Business themed novel of "the executive colony of a large industry". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, closed tear at lower rear panel, light stain to lower spine end. Item #23727

First Edition. Martinot dustjacket art. Novel of a man who goes to Boston to become an interior decorator. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few small chips, closed tears and creasing, soiling mid spine. Item #19776

First Edition. George Brent dustjacket art, W. B. King illustrations and color frontis. Hubin listed mystery of business intrigue, underhanded Chinatown deals, and theft. Basis for two early black and white silent films, a 1916 Universal feature directed by Jack Conway and a 1923 version under the direction of Robert F. Hill. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small edge chips, shallow chips at lower spine end and top flap corners. Item #16525

First Edition. James Montgomery Flagg dustjacket art and illustrations. Contemporary novel of a young man determined to make it in the stock market. Uncommon in original dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with modest chipping along top edge, some spotting and darkening at spine. Item #21285

First Edition. C. H. Taffs dustjacket art and illustrations. Contemporary women's studies novel, in which a young wife of a "New York business man, [who] has wealth, beauty, sensibility, and - at first - ideals, but the growing need of mental excitement and emotional stimulus which her life of idle luxury creates, leads her farther and farther into a world where the one aim is to seek amusement." Near Fine, foxing to top page edge, in Very Good dustjacket, narrow chip at mid-rear spine edge, some foxing to spine area. Item #17353

First Edition. John A. Coughlin dustjacket art. "Seven men in their early twenties agreed to buy a sugar plantation on the Island of Martinique. At the end of fifty years they were to assemble and each was to claim his share of the millions of dollars which the estate would be worth by that time". Basis for the 1925 silent film directed by Whitman Bennett, and featuring Jane Novak, James Rennie and Henry Sands. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, nickel sized chip at top rear panel, light stain at lower spine area, pen squiggle at rear panel. Item #26668

First Edition. "Exciting and romantic side of the fire insurance business... A terrible destruction by flame is the climax of this rapidly moving story, but the events which lead up to it - the business intrigues, the plots, counterplots, and the love interest - are no less gripping". Rare in fragile illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine, white lettering flecked at spine, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, edges with wear, spine ends and few edges with shallow chipping, closed at spine area mended at verso with archival tape. Item #16850