First Edition. Edmund Frederick dustjacket art and illustrations. Very scarce romance by Glyn. Countess Zara is recently widowed and poor. She has a half brother that she is responsible for and her uncle persuades her to marry a man she doesn't know so that this half brother will be taken care of with her uncle's riches. But she is very much against the marriage and considers it to be a degradation to sell herself in this way. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, less than half inch of loss at lower spine end. Item #27446

First Edition. Tall Octavo, original black and copper patterned boards, blue cloth spine with gilt lettering, in original Kurt Wiese illustrated dustjacket, black and white illustrations throughout. Anecdotal accounts of New York's night life by British journalist, travel-writer, essayist and novelist. Chapter include, "Broadway," "A Rooming House in Speak-Easy Street," "The Bowery," "A Speakeasy Under the Sky," "Harlem," and "Bleecker," among many more. This title is referenced in a number of books concerning New York's prohibition and Jazz Age era. Very Scarce. Very Good in Good craft paper reinforced dustjacket, chip at top front panel. Item #28950

First Edition. Mystery novel featuring The Shadow. Very Good in illustrated boards, modest wear, few tiny chips to fore-edge of cheap pages. Item #21094

First Edition. Ellis Silas dustjacket art. Brittany set novel (listed in Hubin as a moderate mystery) of romance and intrigue in which a young woman is transferred from a country vicarage to brilliant social surroundings. Three men love her, but one, a hereditary prince, self willed and self indulgent, uses intrigue and treachery to get her under his power. Very scarce title. Very Good, a list of books that the owner possibly read is glued to rear endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #29598

First Edition. The memoirs of Eddie Guerin, famous international criminal who escaped from the French penal colony of Maroni, near Devil's Island. Near Fine, contemporary bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end and flap corners. Item #20564

First Edition. R. Book dustjacket art. British fugitive runs from justice to New Mexico. Very Good, light stain to rear panel, in Very Good dustjacket, some staining to rear panel. Item #25234

First Edition. "The adventures of an American girl who stowed away in an [airplane] aeroplane on an Atlantic flight, landed in England and had immense success with the simple minded people, particularly the men, among whom she found herself". Near Fine but for foxing to page edges, in Very Good dustjacket, some nicking and wear. Item #30655

First Edition. John R. Neill frontispiece. "The first big love story to come out of the war zone - founded on fact more strange, more powerful than fiction. The author, Lt. Credo Harris, stationed in France with the International Red Cross is a Kentuckian. His story starts with the entrance of America into the war and ends on the firing line of France. A very uncommon World War One novel to be found in original illustrated dustjacket. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow loss at spine ends, modest shelf wear. Item #32704

First Edition. Boris Artzybasheff dustjacket art. Signed and Inscribed by author at front free endpaper. Novel of struggle for wealth and success, set in a nineteenth century coastal New England town. Near Fine with page ends modestly foxed, in a Very Good, modestly soiled dustjacket with shallow chipping and wear to spine ends and flap corners, modest surface wear. Item #19751

First Edition. Original brown embossed cloth. Scarce early poetry collection by Hayne, who served as a colonel in the Confederate army, and became known as the "Laureate of the South". Very Good, some general shelf wear and spotting to cloth, few tiny nicks to mid-spine. Item #12889

Limited Edition of 50 copies. Signed by all authors. Octavo, original gray boards with white spine, gilt lettering at spine, lettering on sticker at front cover. Four one-act plays including Double Demon, St. Simeon Stylies, Thirty Minutes in a Street, and Pan in Pimlico by Herbert, Smith, Mayor and Simpson, respectively. Selected for publication by the Reading Committee of the British Drama League. Very Good with small puncture to lower spine edge at rear, bumping to corners, spine ends worn, some soiling. Item #18322

First Edition. Novel of an American Doctor in China. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with spine lightly faded. Item #14291

First Edition. Uncommon biblio-mystery in which a famous mystery author is found murdered on a park bench (or is it suicide?). Author's third mystery. Almost Near Fine in nearly Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, fairly light stains at flap edges, shallow edge chips and modest wear. Item #23375