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 but for bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners. Item #24143

First Edition. Bleiler listed fantasy novel in which a series of mysterious cosmic phenomena startles the world. Characters include "Lily, who hopes to be an opera star, Jimmy, the hash slinger at Gumby's, the wealthy socieity girl, Mocha, and Seeby, the amateur artist. Tom, militant leader of the clench fisted proletariat; and Herbie, the philosophic plumber who sees civilization as a drainage problem, Alexander Seabold, the horticultural millionaire" and others. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, tiny chip at top spine end. Item #29697

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the D. W. Griffith directed film starring Lillian Gish who portrays a New England country girl who goes to visit her fashionable relatives in the city and becomes the victim of a fake marriage. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, few inch closed tear at top front panel. Item #15474

First Photoplay Edition and True First Printing of this novelization of the Warner Brother's Vitaphone Picture written by Darryl Francis Zanuck and starring Al Jolson. Illustrated with scenes from the motion picture. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, tiny chips at lower spine end. Item #39648

First Edition. Gene dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few nicks and light wear. Item #17241

First Edition. Translated from the Swedish by Robert Emmons Lee. Hubin-listed mystery. “The central figure, Mirzl, is an international criminal who has all the acuteness and courage of a Sherlock Holmes, as well as his marvelous capacity for impersonation and mimicry.” Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket with modest surface wear, closed tears to lower spine end mended at verso with scotch tape, shorter closed tears to edges, shallow loss to flap corners and spine ends. Item #19857

First Edition. Theodore Nadejen dustjacket art. Novel of African-American life on the Virgin Islands during the Depression Era. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few nicks top spine end. Item #7451

Reprint Edition. Inscribed and signed by author at front endpaper. Illustrated with photographs by the author, edited by Eugene Lohrke. "Soldier, explorer and cinema expert, Carl von Hoffman was born in 1889 in the Baltic provinces of Russia. He is the creator of the two famous films, 'Jungle Gods' and 'From Cairo to the Cape,' and is a member of the National Geographic Society of America". Very uncommon in original illustrated dustjacket. Very Good, top corners bumped, causing tear to cloth. Item #24155

First Edition. Original embossed red cloth. Two volumes in one. Part of the publisher's Library of Choice Reading series which also included Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Very Good tight copy, some foxing to preliminaries, cloth with usual mild darkening and spine end tips worn down. Item #11465

First Edition. Rare early travel book about Japan. Small octavo, gilt lettering and black illustration to front cover, gilt and black lettering and illustration to spine, floral endpapers. Very Good, with small light stain to top page margins, modest surface wear to front cover, front inner hinge bit cracked. Item #19862

First Photoplay Edition. Illustrated with scenes from the First National Super-Special Picture starring Richard Barthelmess. Novel of a prize-fighting boxer who is drafted into the First World War and who is wounded in combat. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with light chipping to top spine end and name signed lightly along rear flap edge. Item #16544

First Edition stated. "A kaleidoscopic picture of modern New York," concerning a musician and his daughter. "Around these two revolve suitors, relatives, musicians". Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips and edge wear. Item #27007