51. White Wolf's Pack. New York: Chelsea House. (1929).
First Edition. Western Novel. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, light stain to lower half of spine, lower right corner of front panel clipped, about two square inches. Item #10086
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52. Broadway, A Play. New York: George H. Doran. (1927).
Early Edition. Baskerville dustjacket art. A play that served as the basis for the Universal Picture starring Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent and Merna Kennedy of a naive young dancer in a Broadway show who innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with spine faded, shallow chipping to top spine end, and general shelf wear. Item #14715
53. Chad Hanna. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1940.
First Edition. Forrest Orr dustjacket art. Adventure novel set in the Mohawk Valley during the American Revolution. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few scrape marks to rear panel, lower rear panel corner with cm sized chip. Item #14444
54. The Beverages We Drink. London: Ideal Publishing Union Limited, 1898.
First Edition. Original green cloth, octavo, 220 pages plus two pages of ads. An uncommon treatise on consumable liquids, including chapters on Beer, Malt Liquors, Wines and Spirituous Liquors, as well as Cocoa, Coffee, Tea, Milk and Waters. The two chapters concerned with liquors covers spirit history, Brandy, Rum, Whiskey, Gin, Absinthe, and Arrac. Uncommon. Very Good attractive copy, old previous owner signature at front endpaper. Item #37667
55. The Oh Ball. New York: Harper and Row. (1966).
First Edition. Signed and Inscribed by author on front free endpaper. A Picture tale about a prince who discovers a bouncing ball in his courtyard and decides to tie a string to it so it does not escape. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with 2.25 price at front flap, lower front flap corner clipped, mild spine edge wear, and general age toning to white of jacket. Item #13983
56. in, Perspectivas Dos Estados Unidos. Lisboa: Portugalia Editora, [1950].
n.d. (1950's) Anthology of American fiction including Faulkner, Frost, Carson MacCullers, Robert Lowell, E. B. White, etc. Original printed wraps. Very Good-Near Fine bright copy with mild bumping to wraps. Item #17145
57. Baron Fritz. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, (1930).
First Edition. E. F. W. dustjacket art. Translated by Donald Douglas. Novel of a young German officer, "the gayest, most attractive figure of the war. An indomitable figure, on his prancing horse - on various fronts, in various boudoirs, in camp and in chateau, he shows war to be a grim, a fantastic joke." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #22227
58. Personality Plus. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, (1914).
First Edition. James Montgomery Flagg dustjacket art and illustrations. An Uncommon Ferber title. Jock McChestesney, just out of college, serene in his English fitting suit and the perfection of his shirt, tie, collar and scarf-pin. Jack went looking for a job with an advertising agency. Jock dazzles them with his keen business sense and exemplary work ethic, but goes overboard on the charm and ends up alienating clients, unnerving his boss, and even patronizing his business-savvy mother. Ferber, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Show Boat and Giant, achieved her first great success with a series of stories featuring Emma McChesney: a smart, stylish, divorced mother who in a mere twelve years rose from stenographer to traveling sales representative to business manager and partner of the T. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat Company. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and top front panel, some fairly small internal chips at lower spine area ('mended' at verso with clear tape), modest soiling and wear. Item #32696
59. The Gate Swings Open. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1932.
First Edition. Harry L. Timmins dustjacket art. Contemporary romance novel "of young Jennifer who wanted to experiment with love and David who loved an ideal". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, spine color lightly faded, few small edge chips and light wear, top front panel with dime sized chip. Item #15603
60. Cream of the Jug, An Anthology of Humorous Stories. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1927.
First Edition stated. Very uncommon anthology to be found in original dustjacket. Includes Wodehouse's The Custody of the Pumpkin and Fitzgerald's The Pusher in the Face. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, but with about three inches of closed tears at upper spine edges. Item #32500
61. Gentlemen All. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1930.
First Edition. Stuart Eldredge dustjacket art. Virginia-set novel of “the intense struggle of an ambitious young lawyer to forge a career instead of falling into the easy rut of the happy-go-lucky Southern landed gentleman.” Very Good plus with adhesive stains from dustjacket to rear cover and endpapers, rear inner hinge bit cracked, in Nearly Very Good dustjacket with 2 inch deep, 1 cm wide chip to top edge of rear panel, yellowed scotch tape at verso of jacket near chip, spine ends, and flap edge, few closed tears, shallow loss to spine ends and flap corners else modest edge wear. Item #19517
62. American Dream. London: Constable. (1937).
First Edition. Novel of three generations of an Irish immigrant family in America. Near Fine but for some foxing to page edges, in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #14904
63. The Finger Points. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1931).
First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Warner Brothers film starring Richard Barthelmess. Based on the original screenplay by John Monk Saunders. Story about a reporter who tries to expose the Chicago Underworld. Near Fine in attractive Very Good dustjacket with shallow loss at top spine end, flap corners with few tiny chips. Item #22362
64. Woman of this Earth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1934.
First Edition. Prentiss Taylor dustjacket art. Poetry collection "representing six parts of a woman's life". Uncommon title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #26299
65. A. W. A Memory [Adelia Williams]. Boston: John Wilson and Son Press, 1878.
First Edition. Original cloth gilt stamped, with photographic portrait tipped-in as frontis. Narrative primarily of a woman's travels in Europe. Presentation copy from Adelia ( A. W.) and David N. Williams to Elizabeth Cotton. Very Good plus, some fading to spine. Item #17116
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66. Forward From Babylon. New York: Farrar and Rinehart, (1932).
First American Revised Edition (first published in 1921 without revisions by Moffat, Yard and Company). Harry Brown dustjacket art. A revised edition of the author's first book. Jewish themed novel "less tinged by idealism. He renders the tragedy more poignant by presenting old Reb Morrash and his companions as the bigots that they are. He gives us the extra agony of their efforts to acclimatize themselves spiritually to the strange atmosphere of the Gentile world, and shows too the nobility of their lives, their astonishing fidelity to principle in a world grown slack with self-indulgence". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with snag tear at lower front panel, associated creases, scotch tape mend at verso. Item #23987
67. The Road to Marrakesh. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1932.
First Edition. Quinn dustjacket art. Hubin listed Morocco set romance and adventure novel of an English girl kidnapped by brigands but rescued by a "tall Arab chieftain". Near Fine in attractive Very Good dustjacket. Item #35007
68. The Woman in the Alcove. New York: A. L. Burt and Co., (1906).
Reprint Edition. Arthur I. Keller dustjacket art and illustrations. Uncommon title to be found with original 1909 dated dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, creasing to spine, shallow chips at spine ends, wide scotch tape at verso of spine ends. Item #26841
69. Love Under Cover: Attitudes of Love. Mexico: Nueva Voz, 1947.
First Mexican Edition. Signed an Inscribed by author. With two authorial text changes. Cover design and illustrations from the original watercolors by the author. Softcover, Illustrated wraps with glassine covers. Love poetry. Very Good, some light soiling to few pages, light wear to glassine edges. Item #18315
70. When A Girl Loves. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1929).
First Edition. Skrenda dustjacket art. Contemporary romance: "Should she marry a penniless artist - or listen to the tempting proposals made by men of wealth?" One of a fairly limited number of true first editions published by Grosset during the 1920's. Near Fine but for front free endpaper removed, in Very Good dustjacket, spine colors modestly faded, centimeter chip at lower front panel. Item #20070
71. East Lynne. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1931).
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Fox film featuring Ann Harding and Clive Brook. Romance story set in London, about a young woman living in an unhappy marriage but who then discovers true love. Very Good, spotting to cloth, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chips and short closed tears, centimeter chip to mid-front spine edge. Item #19116
72. Red Macaw. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1934.
First Edition. Historical adventure novel set in the Portuguese mastered Brazilian jungle, of "birds and animals, the superstitions of the Negroes, and the magic of the marsh at night". Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket, small chip at lower front panel. Item #11755
73. What of This Friend. New York: Claude Kendall, Inc, (1935).
First Edition. Arthur Hawkins Jr. dustjacket art. Historical novel, "the stirring story of Vitellius, Governor of Syria, in the first century when the pagan world was dying and the old gods had failed. It is also the story of his wife, Dia, the beautiful Greek maiden who blindly follows the strange teachings of the humble Galilean and who vainly strives by the aid of her husband's influence to prevent the Crucification". Very Good in Very Good modestly soiled dustjacket, shallow edge chips and modest wear. Item #23110
74. Royal Purple, The Story of Alexander and Draga of Serbia. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., (1935).
First Edition. Laune dustjacket art. An accurate historical novel of the last members of the Obrenovitch dynasty in Serbia at the turn of the twentieth century. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with small chips at top spine end, mild shelf wear. Item #5715
75. Phantom. New York: B. W. Huebsch. 1922.
First American Edition and First English language edition. A man of questionable sanity recounts his affairs of murder. Basis for the 1922 black and white German silent film adapted to the screen by Thea Von Harbou, directed by F. W. Murnau of Nosferatu fame, and starring Alfred Abel and Grete Berger. Near Fine, contemporary address at front free endpaper, in Very Good plus dustjacket, tiny chips at spine ends. Item #14911
