First Edition. F. M. dustjacket art. Bleiler listed fantasy novel of a savage tribe of troglodytes living in what would become California. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest soiling to panels, small chip at top spine end. Item #29628
First Edition. John Alan Maxwell dustjacket art. Adventure novel with an unlikely affair between the princess and the King's fool. Totheroh had eleven film credits to his name, including a script credit for both The Dawn Patrol, starring Errol Flynn, and the 1934, Count of Monte Cristo, with Robert Donat. Great cover art. Very Good plus copy in Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow chipping to top spine end. Item #10870
First Edition. Herbert E. Fouts dustjacket art. Mystery novel set amongst the aristocracy of Scotland. Great stylized and colorful dustjacket art by Fouts. Very Good, lending library stamp at front pastedown, hint of a stain at top rear inside cover, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end and flap corners. Item #35834
Second Printing. CKS dustjacket art. Hubin listed mystery novel. "The story of mistaken identity, based on a marvelous resemblance between two men". Basis for the 1925 Famous Players-Lasky black and white silent film 'Irish Luck' directed by Victor Heerman and starring Thomas Meighan and Lois Wilson. Near Fine in Very Good fragile dustjacket with chipping at spine ends and some edges. Item #24788
First Edition. Mystery novel featuring "Scotland Yard's mobile unit in radio cars". An American crime czar raises havoc in London using information from 'bugged' taxis. An uncommon title by the pseudonym of John Robert Stuart Pringle. Near Fine, some rubbing at spine tips, in Very Good dustjacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, few centimeter chip at upper rear flap corner. Item #23475
First Edition. R. F. dustjacket art. The murder of Horace Tom Tickler, burglar, who is taken for a ride in the best Chicago fashion and then delivered to Scotland Yard in a stolen cab. Basis for the 1961 Gerard Glaister directed film starring Lyndon Brook, Patrick Cargill and Finlay Currie. Near Fine, small previous owner signature at front endpaper, in Near Fine bright price-clipped dustjacket. Item #39733
By Henry Francis Walling. Very good wall map with rollers published by Hanson in 1851. 36 inches wide by 46 inches long (92.0 x 117.0 cm). Very scarce wall map professionally conserved by Green Dragon Bindery, including cleaning and backing on new linen. Very attractive. Item #27503
First Edition. Novel about "two beings who felt themselves enthralled by the intense religious consciousness of a narrow sect..." Very Good plus in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to top spine end, age toning spots to front panel and edge wear and a few short closed tears to rear edges. Item #14424
First Edition. Contemporary romance novel of wealthy builder of "huge buildings" but who was inarticulate with women. When he proposes to a woman he does not love "life suddenly loses its glamour. Business is at a standstill. Shard becomes morose and dictatorial. He quarrels with his younger brother, who joins a rival organization". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with few shallow edge chips, lower spine end with nickel sized chip. Item #21060
First American Edition. C. Allan Gilbert dustjacket art. Interesting contemporary novel dealing with the effects of the First World War on the Catholic Church. Near Fine in scarce Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends, mild edge wear, small chip at lower rear panel, small spot at spine. Item #9876
First Edition. Cecil W. Quinnell dustjacket art. Novel of contemporary upper-class romance and intrigue. Extremely uncommon in original illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine in Near Fine, lovely example of the dustjacket, printed a half of a centimeter shorter than the book. Item #29060
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Famous Players Film starring William H. Crane. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #11521
First Edition. Novel of New Orleans and based on the true life of John McDonogh whose legacy was free schools for children of all castes and creeds. Whitman also published a book under the auspices of the WPA. Very Good in Very Good soiled dustjacket. Item #25320
First Edition. C. W. Wood dustjacket art. South Pacific set Hubin listed adventure and detective novel. Very Good, ownership signature at inside front pastedown, in Good only dustjacket, edge chipped, light stain and piece of cloth tape at lower front panel, top spine with two inch chip. Item #22188
First Separate Edition. Quarto newspaper illustrated 'wrappers', 15 pages, unbound. Color illustrations by Weinert. A very scarce romance novel of a doctor who believed he was endowed with super powers complete in this 'Sunday Novel' section of the Philadelphia Inquirer for June 23rd, 1935. First published in Redbook Magazine in the same year. Very Good. Item #22409
First Edition. Cueva del Rio dustjacket art. Urban adventure novel of a Native Mexican who moves to the city and discovers "the Mexico of fiestas and superstitions, religious pageantry and cock fights and revolutions..." where he falls in love with a Mestizo, who in the end he deserts because of their differing heritages. An early novel, or perhaps as the dustjacket copy states, the first novel of Mexican natives. Very Good, some soiling or spotting to cloth, in Very Good dustjacket, abrasion and closed tears at mid front spine edge, some nicking and wear. Item #39817
Gorska dustjacket art. "A murder committed in a theatre, and brings in a number of easily recognizable Broadway characters". Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest edge wear, dime sized chip at top front panel, shallow chipping at spine ends. Item #26743
First Edition. Sugar dustjacket art. "Rum, roulette and racing; sugar, cigars and senoritas - these are the ingredients of this effervescent picture of what the tourist does in Cuba, what he sees, and what he drinks. First, as to what he drinks. Mr. Woon gives the real recipe of the Daiquiri as given to him by Facundo Bacardi himself, maker of 'the rum that cured a king and pickled a nation'. He tells you that there are seven thousand places in Havana where alcohol is sold, and helpfully lists the names of the best bartenders, and the drinks that made them famous". Illustrated with photographs. This highly sought after cocktail book and Cuba guide is basically unknown in a dustjacket. This copy is offered with an imperfect but mostly complete example of the scarce illustrated jacket. Very Good to Near Fine in Good only dustjacket, lacking lower two inches of spine, top spine end and top edge chipped, several inch closed tear at top front panel mended with archival tape, small chips and wear at front flap edge. Item #21037
Fourth Printing. Leadlein dustjacket art. Adventure romance novel about a "Modern Day D'Artagnan", who is also a dictator of a small Central American republic. Near Fine in Very Good plus price clipped dustjacket with light chipping to spine ends, creasing to spine edges and dime size chip along rear spine edge. Item #13059
First Edition. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering and illustration at spine and front cover. Part of the Muses' Library. Early Yeats publication with a substantial introduction by the author poet. Very Good tight copy, with tiny puncture at mid-spine, short cloth tear and some rubbing to top spine end. Item #16915
23 single sheets; typed in blue; fastened with two brads at top. The left side of the pages have holes and at one time, this journal may have been kept in a 2-ring-binder but the pages have been made into a rolled scroll for many years. A first person account by young woman from Worcester, Massachusetts who accompanies her Aunt Lidia and Uncle Jerome to Paris for the opening of the Exposition Universelle of 1889 (the World's Fair where the Eiffel Tower was unveiled). The uncle is an engineer and appears to have been involved with one of the American exhibits. This account is typed (in blue ink) on paper watermarked Paper Co Holyoke Mass with a watermarked date of 1898, so this may be a transcription of a handwritten journal kept during the trip (which spanned from May 29, 1889 to July 17, 1889). The pages are clean and easy to read. The paper is supple. The first page is detached from the group and has some additional wear to the bottom edge. The journal recounts the voyage from NYC to Liverpool on the S. S. City of New York which she describes as ... a magnificent steamer! Someone called it a floating palace. She recounts how they make their way from Liverpool to Paris in the company of other engineers and luminaries; and her impressions of the Exposition, staying at the Grand Hotel, and the Eiffel Tower. Item #31361
Third Printing. A Romance of “devotion and treachery, ambition and expiation, laid in one of the lone outposts of white civilization in the heart of East Africa.” Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket, three-centimeter closed tear to top edge of front panel, mild surface wear, few short closed tears to edges. Item #18149
Presumed Second Edition, first published in 1936. An early theatrical play by Yutang, an important Chinese author. This copy perhaps unique for retaining the original printed Chinese publisher's dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, short closed tear at mid-spine and top rear panel. Item #20669
Second American Printing. Original red cloth, printed dustjackets. Two volume set. Near Fine but for foxing to early pages of both volumes, in Very Good dustjackets, some shallow edge chipping. Item #29536
First Photoplay Edition. Illustrated with scenes from the all talking R.K.O. film starring Chester Morris. The film was based on an actual event during the First World War where an escaped Russian soldier was recaptured by the Germans and condemned to death for spying. Near Fine in Very Good to Near Fine dustjacket, small nick at lower front panel. Item #14628
