First Edition, in dustjacket with advertisements for books published in 1923 at rear wrap. G. W. Gage dustjacket art. Author's first book. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, chipping at spine ends. Item #20186
First Edition. Original illustrated green wrappers, 8 1/4 by 5 1/2 inches, 32 pages. Uncommon post-Prohibition cocktail recipe guide that includes a section of drinks for ladies and for cold days. Nice cover art of a woman bathing in a martini glass. WorldCat locates one library holding. Very Good, but for two newspaper clipped recipes glued onto title page and obstructing part of the title, some modest wear to spine and edges. Item #32758
First Edition, despite stamped 'popular priced edition' at top flap of dustjacket. Buttera dustjacket art. Novel of a how a husband's insane jealousy drives his wife into the arms of another man. Near Fine in Very Good-Near Fine dustjacket. Item #9308
First Edition. Fabulous contemporary romance and 'Lost Race' novel of a young woman who answers an advertisement for "A blond stenographer, a stenographer with long blond hear". The jacket copy continues: "Her shrewdly mad employer had chosen her to be a goddess in the jungles of Brazil. New York and the jungle, airplanes and manborne hammocks, machine guns and sacrificial knives - all have their place in this dramatic, fast-moving story of contrasts, of mystery and love". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, spine modestly faded, small tear and abrasion to mid-front panel. Item #23521
Early Reprint Edition. Romance novel about a young woman who pretends to be from a wealthy family in order to marry well. In turn she snags a young man who is looking to "marry well" so also is pretending to be something he is not. So convinced she has found all she has dreamed of in the money aspect she cast aside the love that has been developing with another young man, what she does not know is that he is the rich one. Instead blindly she turns to the other and marries him in turns into the opposite of what she sold herself for. Near Fine, contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #24192
First Edition. Wenck dustjacket art. Romance novel of a Russian princess who survives the Russian Revolution and must live under more modest means. Near Fine, contemporary inscription, in Very Good dustjacket, few small spine end chips, general shelf wear, few inch closed tear at top rear panel. Item #14520
n.d. (1880's). Number 41 of the Foreign Tourists' Series, compiled by Mrs. E. H. Thompson. Small 8vo. Original printed rust wrappers. 16 pp. Scarce Eliot and Stowe contributions, Consisting of short statements by both on Geneva. Near Fine with small square shadow at front wrapper. Scarce. First Edition. Item #17074
'New and Revised Edition'. Tall octavo, original yellow cloth and BLW designed dustjacket. The very rare First English printing of this classic cocktail guide. Very Good, some foxing to half-title and title page, small gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, bit of foxing, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners. Item #34779
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the film "Far Horizons". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #20220
First Edition. "The literary star known as “L.E.L.,” pen name of the British poet, novelist, and critic Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838), rose to prominence around 1824. But after her death in 1838 in Africa, her fame went into occultation, and her works were largely lost from public view until the last two decades. It is a tantalizing mystery, in many respects. Why, with her brief but impressive career, did Letitia Landon fade so quickly and utterly from the literary world? The story of L.E.L.’s life and work offers an object lesson in the power of cultural forces to create, and then destroy, an artistic reputation." [Francis J. Sypher] Very Good, frontis detached but present, in scarce Good dustjacket, soiling and edge chipped, lower spine end with inch and half chip, few closed tears. Item #22488
First Edition. Ferber's picturesque romance of 1880's New Orleans and Saratoga served as the basis for the 1945 black and white film directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Fine bright copy in exceptionally bright Fine dustjacket. Scarce in such attractive condition. Item #5792
First English Edition. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chip at top spine end. Item #34944
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
Later Printing. Novel of small town life written in dialect. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by Gale at front endpaper. Very Good in Good but soiled dustjacket. Item #34915
![Friendship Village [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]. Zona GALE.](/pictures/medium/34915.jpg?v=1549851071)
Presumed First Japanese Edition. With introduction and notes by Torajirô Sawamura. Very scarce. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends. Item #27858
True First Edition. Prayer speeches from 10 - 9 -1947 to 30 - 1 1948. Very Good, light stain to lower spine area, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends. Item #34981
First Edition. Uncommon and early Perry Mason mystery novel which features a man with six artificial eyes. Near Fine but for modest cocking, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, some short closed tears at edges with accompanying creases, small chips at spine ends and few flap corners, top rear panel with inch sized chip, soiling to rear panel. Item #23769
First Edition. Perry Mason mystery novel which features a lost California mine. This copy with nice inscription signed in full by Gardner at front endpaper. "To / Jean / who has kept / the fiction factory / running for the / last seven years / love from / The Boss (?) / Erle Stanley Gardner / August / 1943". Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #23767
![The Case of the Drowsy Mosquito [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]. Erle Stanley GARDNER.](/pictures/medium/23767.jpg?v=1433779538)
First Edition. Uncommon political mystery featuring Douglas Selby. Very Good but for spine end cloth worn down, in Good only dustjacket, long horseshoe shaped closed tear to front panel with shadows of former scotch tape mending apparent to exterior, few small chips at spine ends, crease down spine. Item #23770
First Edition. A suspense and mystery novel of an inheritance and murder; or was it suicide? Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, spine colors a bit faded, small chip at lower spine end, few short closed tears. Item #18482
Early or First Edition. A. D. Rahn dustjacket art. A Mediterranean set romance novel. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket to Near Fine. Item #14818
First Edition. Romance novel about a lonely young woman in Venice who is thirsty for love when she discovers a message in a bottle about a man who is a prisoner in Venice and wishes to be found. Very Good, light stain to top fore-edge corner of pages, in Very Good dustjacket with very mild stains at lower edge and rear panel, shallow loss at top spine end. Item #20569
First Edition. Novel of an American G.I. who "knows all the angles", how to avoid combat and work the system for cigarettes, gasoline, dollars, and girls. An unusual perspective of GI's during World War Two. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few short closed tears and creases to rear panel. Item #17147
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. Herbert Gurschner dustjacket art and illustrations. Bleiler listed fantasy novel of a village in the Tyrolean mountains whose inhabitants mistakenly accept a yellow haired youth as the second Christ. "When witless fanaticism had put him to death, they expected to see him rise from his grave no later than the third day". Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, few shallow edge chips and wear. Item #22771
