First Edition. Octavo, original stamped green cloth, profusely illustrated throughout with photographs, in wraparound illustrated dustjacket. Sixty-five illustrations selected from the author's collection of photographs. Chick Evans was a star amateur golfer of the 1910s and 1920s, after being introduced to the game as a caddie at the age of eight in Chicago. He is known for being the first person to win the U. S. Open and the U. S. Amateur in the same year. Chapters include "Boyhood Days," "About Caddies," "In Fast Company at Sixteen," "Winning the Double Crown," "Shots and How to Use Them," "Clubs and How to Use Them," among others. This copy with Erle Stanley Gardner's ownership signature and date '4/3/24' at front endpaper. Gardner was an avid sportsman and this book dates back to when he was still just a lawyer and not the famous mystery author. A scarce book to be found in original illustrated jacket and with a great provenance to boot. Near Fine in Good only dustjacket lacking top quarter of rear panel. Item #23439

Second Edition. Illustrated with stills from some of Fairbank's films. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with mild soiling to panels and spine, shallow chipping to spine ends, and light stain spots to rear panel. Item #16354

First Edition. Novel of Irish country side life, fox hunting, shooting and romance. 'No heroine since Iris March has ever been so wicked'. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, lower half of rear spine edge split. Item #34202

First Edition. Play in three acts of the humorous exploits of Don Juan. Near Fine. some foxing at page edge in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends. Item #21510

First Edition stated. Norman Guthrie Rudolph dustjacket art. English regimental romance novel of "two men and a woman, and that woman the young, charming wife of the commanding officer". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #27632

First Edition. Novel set in France. This copy inscribed and signed by Fremantle at front free endpaper. Near Fine, old bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good plus dustjacket with modest wear and nicking to edges. Item #17027

First Edition. Charles Lofgren dustjacket art. Perry Mason murder mystery. Near Fine in sharp Very Good plus (price-clipped) dustjacket. Item #23552

First Edition. Extremely uncommon novelization of a play by Austin Strong set in the Paris slums and of a woman being forced into prostitution by her oppressive sister. Colorized scene from the theatrical production at front dustjacket panel in which a woman is flagellating another woman on a balcony. Basis for the 1927 black and white silent 20th Century Fox film directed by Frank Borzage starring Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell. The film garnered three Academy Awards including best actress, best director and best Screenplay. Fox produced a 1937 talking version directed by Henry King starring Simone Simon, James Stewart, and Jean Hersholt. This copy inscribed by John Golden in pencil at front free paper in large script. Very Good in Good to Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping to flap corners and top spine end, wear along flap edge, lower spine end with quarter sized chip, few spots and surface wear. Item #15517

First Edition. Morgan Dennis dustjacket art and illustrations. Novel of a London photographer who goes adventuring in a gypsy caravan. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, some modest signs of wear. Item #32911

First Edition. Introduction by Liam O'Flaherty. "The human drama of a coal-mining town in England where the miners' cottages lie back-to-back with a grimy alley between; a town of one main street beginning at the pit-head and ending at the graveyard." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some very light stains to panels. Item #27019

First Edition. C. Ruano Llopis dustjacket art. Novel of Mexico, "border-town slums, spectacular bullrings and jejune cockpits, city nightlife..." Nice dustjacket art of bull-fight. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few small spine end and flap corner chips, few short closed tears, inch closed tear at top front spine edge. Item #8514

First American Edition (stated). Lazarnick Studio designed dustjacket art. Uncommon American edition of author's first major success. 'Five people linked by the sole accident of their imprisonment together on the train. The brilliant and wealthy young Jewish fruit merchant; Dr. Richard John with his English passport and his strange accent. Coral Musker, cold and hungry and desperately poor; Josef Grunlich, a murderer with the police of Austria snarling on his trail; and Mabel Warren, a crack English journalist [and lesbian] who scented something strange'. Basis for the 1934 Fox Film directed by Paul Martin and starring Heather Angle, Norman Foster and Ralph Morgan. Almost Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket (but with the word 'price' still visible), some tiny chips at spine ends and flap corners, edges with modest wear and short closed tears. Item #40560