126. Cause For Alarm. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940.
Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny edge nicks and wear. Item #24387
Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny edge nicks and wear. Item #24387
Early Printing. Florian dustjacket art. Novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny edge nicks and wear, chip at top rear flap corner. Item #25926
First American Edition in first state dustjacket. Florian dustjacket art. Hubin listed novel of mystery, espionage, and the secret police of Mussolini. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #40810
First Edition. Original illustrated cardstock, One sheet folded, 10 by 6 inches. Passenger ship's 'Get Together Dinner' menu, with fabulous cover art. Near Fine. Item #29253
First Edition. Original orange wrappers, 30 pages, 6 by 4 inches. Includes cocktails, Fizzes, Highballs, Punches and Juleps. American Factors was one of the 'big five' Hawaiian companies, wholesale and retailers of sugar. Scarce. No references found, circa 1940. Very Good, some signs of use. Item #41341
First Edition. Original white illustrated wrappers, 5 1/4" by 4 1/2", 22 pages (including inside wraps). Fabulous post prohibition cocktail guide featuring a young woman with drink in hand at front wrapper. Contemporary magazine advertisement for this publication dates it at 1935. Includes: Learn the Carioca, The Monks Teach Me New Things, Benedictine, Gin is no Sin, Those Cora Vermouth Twins, The French Know How!, I get in the Pink with Grenadine, Get High With Rye, C'mon We're Russian, Refreshing Summer Drinks, Frozen Desserts and Dainties, Fresco Lime Pies and Desserts, Limeys and Vitamin C. Very Good. Item #34804
First Edition. Original printed self-wrappers, 9 pages (one large sheet folded). Broadside of testimonials, order form, application for agency, guarantee of purity. WorldCat finds no library holdings. Very Good. Item #29269
First Edition, Advance Review Proof Copy. Original printed green wrappers. Very scarce title by this obscure Australian author. " If a New Zealander wrote anything near so workmanlike a job we should be told that at last the great New Zealand novelist had arrived. For competence of writing, establishment of characters, wise selection of incident, and a quality of experience “White Horses Ride Home” could well be taken as a model by New Zealand authors. The story has the suggestion of autobiography that is common in first novels, but whatever its source, it is a remarkably interesting and straightforward tale of experience, without any fussy or psychological word-spinning. The story describes what happens to a girl, brought up. under “free discipline methods” who first of all throws over her musical education for a stolid suburban love, and then is swept off her feet by the matinee idol of a touring musical comedy company. She marries her idol, and then gradually learns what discipline life itself can impose as her husband’s career goes precipitantly downhill." Very Good in wrappers. Item #28927
First Edition. MP dustjacket art. One volume of a series of Napoleonic romances, set when Napoleon defeated Prussia. Very Good in a Nearly Very Good dustjacket but for shallow chipping to edges and front dustjacket panel. Item #18948
First Edition. Advance Review Copy, advance unbound sheets. Author’s third novel, a contemptuous view of “abroad,” based on his own recent experiences traveling on the Continent with a young family. Near Fine, but for shadowing to rear sheet and light, very small water staining to spine edge of rear sheet and lower spine corner of front sheet. Item #19756
First Edition, stated. Parin dustjacket art. Contemporary Dutch romance novel of a woman "who wishes to be honest and intelligent in her love, though society forces her to wear a false face." Near Fine, small stain at top page edge, in Very Good plus dustjacket, few small stains at verso at spine. Item #20848
First Edition stated. AVRC dustjacket art. "This is a three generation story, by one of Holland's greatest writers, showing the evolving revolt of Dutch women. Beginning with life in a cozy old Dutch household in Leyden in 1840, the settings of the three periods are picturesquely given and the recurring drama of women's chrysalizing is unfolded. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few shallow spine end chips. Item #21076
First Edition. "The adventures of a modern Dutch Don Juan" in New York City. "This is an extremely forceful novel of the international philandering of a Dutch aristocrat" and businessman. This copy inscribed and signed to a professor "With the authors compliments" at half-title page, dated Amsterdam, January 1930. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, sticker abrasion at top front panel, modest shelf wear. Item #21762
First Edition. Illustrations by author. Children's tale of a seaman in search of a prized fish. Near Fine in Very Good plus price clipped dustjacket with moderate wear to spine ends and corners, mild surface soiling to rear panel, and general shelf wear. Item #15285
First Edition. Collection of poetry written in the dialect of the Illinois French Canadian. Near Fine in dustjacket chipped at spine ends, but otherwise Very Good. Item #30651
First Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Contains, “The Condemned: A Chapter from Our City Prison: A Tale of Truth and Horror.” Wright I 2444. Very Good, with old tape along spine. Item #18787
First Edition. Octavo, embossed brown cloth, gilt lettering and illustrations to spine. Rare Collection of short anecdotes involving the steamboat and the railroad. Only 9 library holdings listed on WorldCat. Nearly Very Good, with moderate to sever foxing to some pages, slight cocking, wear to cloth at spine ends and cover corners, some surface wear, front cover sightly bowed. Item #18772
Presumed First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 5" by 3 1/2". Little Blue Book No. 1688. An uncommon cocktail recipe book. Very Good, ink numbers at top front panel. Item #26946
Presumed First Edition. Original printed wrappers, 5" by 3 1/2". Little Blue Book No. 1688. An uncommon cocktail recipe book. Very Good. Item #37172
Presumed First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 5" by 3 1/2". Little Blue Book No. 1688. 32 pages. An uncommon cocktail recipe book. Very Good, some pages and rear cover with some roughness at fore-edge. Item #40967
Presumed First Edition. Octavo, contemporary Leather, with gilt lettering at spine, raised spine bands, gilt accents to covers. First Edition of Hans Christian Anderson to appear in English, his classic autobiographical travel book on Italy, translated from the Danish by the well known English poet and translator, Mary Howitt. Very Good, with rubbing to leather at spine edges and cover corners, some water staining and wrinkling to rear board, shadowing to endpapers and some soiling throughout. Item #18312
First Edition. A very unusual mystery title by this publisher of religious fiction missed by Hubin. Here the daughter of a stock-market gambler and murderer is being courted by a conniving imposter until she meets David who helps her accept Christ and a new life. "A thrilling, fast moving combination of mystery, romance and adventure". A curious mystery title. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some foxing to verso of spine. Item #7561
First Edition. Collection of short plays including a futuristic drama set in the year 2020. Missed by Bleiler. This copy inscribed and signed by the author at front end paper. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #10776
First Edition. Rare Samuel French edition of this play about New Mexico during the time of American expansion. Very Good tight copy with spine ends faded, some fraying to top spine cloth, in Very Good dustjacket, spine darkened with shallow chip along top spine edge. Item #5102
First Edition. A Jazz Age comedy play about a modern marriage. Basis for two films, a 1929 black and white talkie directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Lorinne Griffith and Grant Withers and the 1940 black and white directed by Vincent Sherman and starring John Garfield, Anne Shirley and Claude Rains. This copy in the visually more interesting variant of the dustjacket, with great two-tone stylized cityscape illustration. Very Good-Near Fine, some foxing at fore-edge of pages, in Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow chips at top spine end, few tape shadows at verso. Item #7357