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 to Near Fine dustjacket with only darkening to flap edges. Item #16596

First English 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 #16284

First Edition. Long Island set murder mystery. Basis for the 1935 James Whale directed film Remember Last Night? starring Edward Arnold, Robert Young and Constance Cummings. Near Fine in Near Fine or Fine dustjacket. Item #39864

First Edition. M. Leone Bracker illustrations. Third in author’s trilogy on America, other volumes being “54-40 or Fight,” and “Purchase Price.” This volume was criticized as being propaganda for liberal Republicans and Democrats, because of its condemnation of protective tariffs and its consistently negative portrayal of money-driven characters. Near Fine in a Very Good plus ,scarce dustjacket, few short closed tears and shallow nicks. Item #19861

True First Edition. Skrenda dustjacket art. At twenty seven Janice Meade decided that life was incomplete without live. For seven years, although ever lacking in men friends, she had been too busy creating a successful business career to think about marriage. Then Janice found there were no thrilling men out of bondage. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, nicked at top spine end. Item #32711

First Edition. Hutchinson's temporal novel that tries to answer the question: Can a married woman have a business career and still do her duty by her husband and her children? Basis for the 1923 black and white silent film directed by Denison Clift and starring Fay Compton and Clive Brook. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends. Item #19033

First Edition. Martinot dustjacket art. Novel of a man who goes to Boston to become an interior decorator. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by the author at front free endpaper. Near Fine but for mild cocking in Very Good dustjacket, with shallow chipping to jacket edges. Item #21386

Second Impression. Novel of American economic, social and intellectual revolution. Nice stylized dustjacket art of a fist in front of a cityscape. Near Fine, North Carolina Historical Commission bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #41041

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