Early Reprint Edition. Dreiser's classic novel of American realism. First published in 1900 in a very limited printing and then again in 1907. This copy is a later printing, however, vintage copies of this work in dustjacket are virtually impossible to find. Ad for Dreiser's latest book, A Book About Myself (1922) at front flap of jacket, ad for the 1922 titles of the publisher's Modern Library titles. Near Fine despite cloth appearing glazed, contemporary bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good plus dustjacket, spine lettering moderately faded. Item #20856

First Edition. Original green printed wrappers. 42pp. Scarce African publication and collection of poetry by Du Bois. Very Good plus, some fading to front wrapper. Item #12853

1st edition. Occult, ghostly episodes. 8vo, original purple cloth lettered in gold on front panel and spine, with decoration on front panel and spine in white, with fading to the spine. Lacks ffep, and there is minor loss to the paper on the front paste down near the inner edge. Also, some staining to the bottom corner of the first 5 pages. Otherwise very good, without dust jacket. Item #27793

True First Edition. Mach Tey dustjacket art. Romance novel of a young woman who recovers from a car accident with amnesia and falls in love with a young man, only to discover that she is promised to another already. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to lower spine end. Item #14334

First Edition. Original blue illustrated cloth and illustrated dustjacket. Rare novelization by Frederick R. Toombs of this extremely popular play by Thomas A. Wise and Harrison Rhodes and produced by William Brady and Joseph Grismer, with 407 performances at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway. Illustrated with eight photographic stills from the theatrical production which feature a very young Douglas Fairbanks who played Bud Haines. This is likely only the second book to feature Fairbanks' image, after a theatre edition of George Broadhurst's The Man of the Hour which was novelized by Albert Payson Terhune under the title, The New Mayor in 1907 and published by Ogilvie. A jacket for either of these first editions is unseen other than this present copy. The play and novel explore the current state of corruption in Washington politics, an honest southern senator beset by political bosses who plan to use him for their own gain. Basis for the 1914 black and white silent film directed by Harrison Garfield Rhodes and starring Thomas A. Wise, Chester Barnett and Evelyn Brent. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket with shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners, soiling and foxing to panels. Item #26302

First Edition. Collection of short stories all dealing with the Sartoris family during the American Civil War. Very Good with spine lightly darkened, some shadowing from publisher's binding glue at front hinge, in a Very Good plus dustjacket, spine darkened, moderate soiling to rear panel. Item #18987

First Edition. Murder mystery "set in the glittering background of an ultra-modern night club in San Francisco, peopled by famous stars". Almost Near Fine, spotting to cloth, modest foxing to endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips. Item #24622

First Edition. Bangley dustjacket art. Scarce northern England set novel of "Charles Darby, an egoistical man and a hard landlord who experiments in that attractive technique of living known as balanced excess. Axel Blackwood, a man of culture and principle, finds a partial self-expression in schemes for restoring prosperity to the dales and in battling against the suspicious and dogged conservatism of the dalesmen". Very Good, cocking to spine, in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow chips and wear. Item #25689

First Edition. Third and last installment of Galsworthy's Forsyte trilogy concerning postwar English life. Nice colorful wraparound dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Good-Near Fine dustjacket, with short closed tear at mid spine, few nicks at flap corners. Item #5664

First Edition. R. A. Garnett wood engravings. Bleiler listed fantasy novel. Near Fine but for narrow centimeter long chip at mid-front spine gutter, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end. Item #19639

First Edition. Arthur Hawkins Jr. dustjacket art. Novel about a talented Mexican artist who is "lured from his birthplace in San Cristobal by the recollections of an affair with an American señora, and follows her to San Francisco, where he achieves some success in artistic circles. His 'easily incited passions' get him into trouble, though, so he moves on to Paris and does quite nicely for himself until those pesky passions lead him into criminal ways, whereupon he is forced to flee Paris and return in secret to San Cristobal." The author was a brother of actor Roy D'Arcy, who enjoyed a brief if successful movie career playing villainous foreigners in the 1920s and 1930s; Arndt apparently spent much of his life in Los Angeles, probably in the dwindling (and never very large) shadow of his brother, writing plays that were given local productions but rarely made it out of town; this was his only novel. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some nicks to edges and shallow loss at top spine end. Item #23541

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