First Edition (presumably - no printing statement). Ralph Pallen Coleman dustjacket art and illustrations. Vermont set novel of how a young woman's fortune changes when she meets a gypsy caravan. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, minor loss at spine ends. Item #27659
Second Printing. Gluyas Williams dustjacket art. Sentimental history of the "old time saloon", opulent places like the Waldorf and the Knickerbocker, as well as dives on the corner or roadhouses. "Its all here even to the pictorial adornments of the early nineties, the swinging doors, the dilapidated pool table, and the long-suffering bartender ready to either weep or fight, according to the mood of his customers. Illustrations by Williams, John Held Jr., James Montgomery Flagg, Herb Roth, and Harrison Fisher. Near Fine but for small ink address at front endpaper, Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at top front panel, mid-rear panel with quarter sized chip, light staining to spine area. Item #25783
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
Presumed First Edition. 6 1/2" by 4", original illustrated wrappers, 20 pages. Collection of the most popular cocktails of the day. Nice contemporary designed front wrapper illustration. Very Good, inked 'D5' at front wrap, top front cover with mild dog ear. Item #26879
Deluxe Fourth Edition. Sextodecimo, original plastic printed covers and original printed cardboard box, spiral comb binding. 229 pages. Nice compact cocktail guide with original publisher's box. Very Good, light stain at lower title page, in Good box, couple of tears to edge of lower half of box, top half lacking one edge and with tears at other edges. Item #26990
First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 6 by 3 1/2 inches, 12 pages including wraps. Extremely scarce New Orleans produced post-prohibition brochure for this alcohol distributor, includes many recipes, including Bronx Cocktail, Ojen Cocktail, Old Fashion, Presidente, Manhattan, Tom Collins, punches, flips, etc. I can find no reference to this title anywhere. Very Good. Item #35547
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First Edition. Adams dustjacket art. Preface by Ian Hay. Collection of humorous observations about such things as Cabs, Taxis, Trams, Police, Traffic, Street Rows, Street Language, Loafers and Beggars, Pubs, and Barmaids. Very Good but for dampstaining to rear cover, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #24741
First Edition. Camilo Egas dustjacket art. The first of two novels by this Ajijic residing author. This title is better known as Popular Library paperback with cover art by Raphael Desoto. "The tempestuous and tyrannical phases of a passionate love affair form the them of this powerful novel. The agony of longing that ensues, the desperation that drives him to a marriage with the sister, Sophy, the horror of that marriage and the fatal culmination of his love for Cathy, are so movingly described". Very scarce. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at lower front panel, four inch closed tear at lower front panel. Item #27489
First Edition. Scarce play by Josephine Daskam Bacon, an American writer best known for her female protagonists, and as a pioneer of the Girl Scouts movement and compiler of the Girls Scouts’ guidebook. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears, edges modestly worn, spine with shallow loss to ends, edges, and mid spine. Item #19538
12x15. Very detailed map in lovely condition. Item #33801
12.5x15. Very detailed city plan. Small tear at right side. Item #33866
Later Printing. C. M. Relyea dustjacket art and illustrations. A later printing of this scarce football themed novel by Barbour. An English boy, "being half American, tries to model himself after the other boys in school but has a hard time of it". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few surface scrapes and wear. Item #24476
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Samuel Goldwyn picture starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon. Uncommon in original dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end, tiny edge chips. Item #25227
11.5x14.5. Beautiful, detailed and coloured map. Additionally features the Dunbarton Glass Works. Item #33929
14.5x11.5. Beautiful, detailed and coloured map. Item #33922
14.5x11.5. Beautiful, detailed and coloured map. Item #33912
First Edition. Contemporary full leather, spine label. Volume one only of two. A Very Good tight copy with spine leather well scuffed, some cracking at outer hinges, lacks front free endpapers. Item #17155
First Edition. Raymond Lufkin dustjacket art. Novel of a family living at the sea’s edge and its ever present threat against their livelihood, and the small garden that was their hope and livelihood. Near Fine in a Very Good plus price-clipped dustjacket. Item #19798
First Edition, Review Copy with "Presentation Copy" blindstamp at title page. Belloc's political satire, rarely found in any kind of dustjacket. Near Fine, some modest shelf wear, in Good dustjacket, scotch tape mend to exterior along front flap edge, rear spine edge (and small piece at front spine edge), lower third of spine lacking. Item #25946
First Edition. Collection of short stories, including the story, Carrie Snyder, which served as the Basis for 1936 film Valiant is the Word for Carrie starring Harry Carey, Gabby Hayes and Gladys George, who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. Author is considered to be one of the four finest short story writers of the 1920's listed with Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson. This is the Author's first book of short stories. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and tiny chip to rear bottom edge. A very attractive copy of this scarce title. Item #14108
First Edition. Wraparound dustjacket art with color photographs of members of the Salvation Army. Romantic story of “how the Salvation Army lassies went into the hell of the battlefields and No Man's Land with [the soldiers], and under shellfire, by day and night, ministered to them.” Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, mild shelf wear with shallow loss to upper spine end area and flap corners. Item #24424
First Edition. John Austen dustjacket art. Romance novel of the English countryside "laid against a beautifully contrived background of the old landed aristocracy; its theme is the destructive influences of their unbridled passions on the lives of three young people who love not wisely, but too well". Near Fine, contemporary ink address at front free endpaper, in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #21329
First Edition. Contemporary World War Two theatrical play of Europe's brave attempt to thwart Hitler's advances. Near Fine with pink markings to front free endpaper, in Very Good Plus dustjacket, few tiny chips and light wear to corners and spine ends. Item #24209
32.5x 33. A partial, coloured and highly detailed map of Cambridge's Ward 5 with Rice Street to the North, Orchard Street to the East, Pemberton Street to the South, and Dublin Street to the West. A proposed park is depicted near the Fitchburg Railroad. Item #34016
First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Universal Picture, Drifting, starring Mary Nolan. "China, hidden from the eyes of the world by clever little yellow men who make up the 'bosses' of its underworld. There are Americans there too, low, degenerate Americans, who have cast themselves in the life of the Chinese underworld in utter abandon. Some of these from excellent families, with much money, and whose self respect has been underminded by the use of opium or cocaine or even stronger drugs to bring about forgetfulness. All this we read and see in 'The Shanghai Lady' and we are told in a new way that good is paramount even in low opium dives and houses of ill repute". Near Fine but for contemporary ownership inscription of someone associated with Ringling Brother Circus at front endpaper, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, modest soiling and edge chipping. Item #27074
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