Reprint Edition, likely First Halcyon printing. Rare cocktail recipe book of over 900 drinks including the Zombie. Original red cloth with spiral binding. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some fairly shallow chips at spine ends. Item #34773

First Edition. Romance novel of a young woman who marries a much older man. Due to her infacuation with wealth and his of youth their marriage starts to fall apart and she turns to a glamorous young man. Very Good plus with light staining to cloth at front top edge in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to top spine end, wear to edges, and staining to verso of dustjacket at tip front edge and spine. Item #14636

True First Edition. Mach Tey dustjacket art. Mystery novel of a nightclub dancer accused of murdering a prominent architect. Found in Hubin. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some darkening to spine, general shelf wear, penny sized chip at top front panel, rear panel with inch closed tear. Item #12302

First Edition. New York City set novel concerning its vast social strata. "No novel has ever been written that more delightfully portrays the contrasts in the social fabric of the world's metropolis".Basis for the black and white silent film directed by William Desmond Taylor and starring Mary Miles Minter and Jay Belasco. Film summary: "When a young woman's great romance is interrupted by the influence of her lover's parents, she turns to her art as a violinist to console herself. As she is about to achieve her highest triumph, she is suddenly confronted by the return of the man she loves, and she must make a choice." Scarce. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipping at spine ends. Item #24778

First American Editon. Joseph Fannell dustjacket art. Novel of London high society and an actress. Very Good with cloth wear and weakened hinges in Good plus dustjacket with chipping to spine ends, half dollar size chip to front top edge, quarter size chip to rear bottom edge, and moderate edge wear. Item #15932

First Edition. "Mystery moves from a quiet village on the southern coast of England to the sophisticated casinos of Monte Carlo". Near Fine but for 1980's ownership inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end, modest wear. Item #27128

First Edition. Rare Hubin listed mystery. "Only a slip of faded parchment held the clue to the hiding place of the most famous jewels in Western Europe, including the wonderful Leopard's Eye. One half of the parchment was in the hands of the Searchers, a band of desperate Italians who followed the jewel trail to Scotland". Almost Near Fine, modest cocking, innocuous previous owner stamp exhorting borrowers to return book after 5 days at front pastedown and front endpaper, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, quarter sized chip at lower front panel, few small edge chips and wear. Item #20523

First Edition Thus. Tall octavo, original black cloth with gilt titles and illustration to front cover and spine, blue pictorial endpapers, Frank C. Pape illustrations throughout, in original illustrated dustjacket. Translated by Frederic Chapman. Early novel by winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and member of the Académie française, known for his witty and skeptical tone. Near Fine with contemporary bookplate, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #24138

First Edition. Bleiler-listed Oriental fantasy based around the “experiences that have come in contemplating the landscape, flowers and figures in Chinese pictures and on their porcelain.” Author’s second novel. Near Fine with discreet ownership stamp to front free endpaper, in a Very Good dustjacket with two 2-inch plus closed tears to top edge, else modest edge wear. Item #19842

First Edition. Maxwell dustjacket art. Furman's only Hubin listed mystery novel of city government corruption, scandal, suicide and a public defender who tries to confront the machine. With fantastic Maxwell dustjacket art depicting scenes of prisoners, a struggle and an embrace. Near Fine, bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good plus dustjacket, colors at panels mildly faded, some nicking and shelf wear. Item #29054

Fourth Impression. "An intensive study of a kept woman. The most intimate emotions and thoughts of Josephine Demayne, and draws a sensitive picture of a certain development, in her life, which is rare in fiction". A contemporary reviewer writes: "The novel is ugly and sordid, redeemed only by several bits of very clever characterization, hung upon an unconvincing plot that rises to a ridiculously melodramatic climax. Josephine Demayne, a widow with one small daughter, Sonia, is caught in the meshes of hopeless poverty. Pictured at first as a slovenly, rather unattractive creature, she blossoms into a veritable siren when she sets herself the task of capturing the fancy of Robert Burnett, father of the small boy for whom she is acting as nursery governess. This is the way out which Josephine, chooses to take. Her motives appear decidedly mixed; at one moment the reader is led to believe she really loves Robert, at another that she is merely seeking a life of ease; another that she'ss concerned for her daughter. Devoid of apparently any moral sense, alternately adoring and neglecting her child, she never appears in any but a repellant light. Robert is described by the author as "a man who could not be judged by ordinary standards of right and wrong. His intelligence, naturally far below the average, had been completely submerged by sex obsession. He was a slave to this Instinct, following it blindly, never pausing to analyze his emotions, entirely devoid of self-control." Truly it is difficult to discover the "spires" to the pigsty resulting from this alliance. Here is an age-old story, molded by novelists and dramatists into varying forms lime without end. If Georgina Garry had merely acknowledged that she was presenting a little cross-section of life, with all its mixed motives and ugliness, one might have accepted it, but when she attempts to ram a moral down one's throat it is much too much. It is the childhood of Sonia that does much to redeem the novel. Here the writer has created an unforgettably pathetic and moving character in the person of this neglected, lovable child." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at lower spine end, inch closed tear at lower front spine edge, small accordion tear at mid front panel. Item #31194

First Edition. F.M. dustjacket art. Contemporary novel of an undermaster in a second-rate boys' school who is "eager for life and romance and watching his youth slip away from him without having tasted either". This copy inscribed and signed by the author at front free end paper. A bright copy with mild vertical cocking, else Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with stain to spine noticeable at verso, shallow spine end chipping. Item #12130