First Edition. Rare mystery novel missed by Hubin. A thinly veiled book of fiction which summarizes the Burdick murder of 1903, one of Buffalo's biggest murder mysteries of the 20th century, written by the lawyer who represented the widow of the murder victim. Mr. Edwin L. Burdick, a wealthy manufacturer, was found murdered in the study of his home one morning. This was followed by the tragic death, as the result of a motor car accident, of a Mr. A. D. Pennell (his wife's divorce attorney), and serious injury to Mr. Burdick's wife (called Alice), from whom he was claiming divorce. The novel's plot is based on these events. Near Fine with the top corner of the front free endpaper neatly taped to repair a full tear and some shadowing to endpapers, in a Near Fine dustjacket with light spotting to lower rear panel. Item #18533

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

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

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

First Edition. Laune dustjacket art. Novel of the problems of the "New South" and a man bent on making a sleepy North Carolina town a prosperous industrial town. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some rubbing and nicking to spine ends and flap corners. Item #22220

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