First Edition. The story of a young girl brought up in California by a delightful charlatan whose business methods are humorous if not exactly ethical. When still quite young she is placed by a welfare society in a convent in France. She makes her escape in a boat to England, then falls in love with a young man before her charlatan father turns up and creates additional confusion by an attempt at blackmail. Very uncommon title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chips, some clear tape mends at verso. Item #35815

First Edition. Romance novel of young woman who moves to the city in order to become an artist. In order to pay the bills, she compromises her dream and becomes an artist's model. Basis for the 1931 Columbia Pictures black and white talkie film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Mae Clarke and James Hall. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with general shelf wear and shallow chipping to spine ends and few flap corners, panels mildly darkened. Item #15568

First Edition. No date, but possibly published in the same year as the inscription. An extremely scarce novel concerning a woman's journey from medical school, through the years of the First World War to her position at a mental hospital. This copy inscribed in 1934 'with the author's love'. Very Good, some short cloth splits at spine edges, in Very Good fragile dustjacket, small abrasion at rear panel. Item #30720

First Edition, stated. Scarce North Country adventure novel. Very Good in fragile pulp wrappers with general shelf wear, few small chips at spine edges, ink "No. 18" at spine, color pictorial cover still bright. Item #20843

First Edition. G. Patrick Nelson dustjacket art and illustrations. Proletariat novel of the conditions of contemporary American life, social and industrial, and the nobility and dignity of work. Dustjacket split along front spine edge held with scotch tape, with discoloration to book from dampness to spine. Item #18147

First Edition. Stuart Boyle dustjacket art and illustrations. Short novel set in southern California, "that region, where all men are displaced persons". Basis for the 1965 film directed by Tony Richardson, screenplay by Terry Southern, and starring Robert Morse, Milton Berle, James Coburn, Liberace, John Gielgud, Dana Andrews, Tab Hunter, Roddy McDowell, and Jonathan Winters. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, top spine end chipped inch deep. Item #23203

First Edition. E. C. Caswell wraparound dustjacket art. "The story of these two girls, their friendships and frolics, and their influence on each other, during one long and happy summer". Novel by prolific American writer and poet, and wife of Hadwin Houghton, the heir to the Houghton-Mifflin company. Wells was the collector of much American poetry, and bequeathed her rare and extensive Walt Whitman collection to the Library of Congress. Near Fine bright copy in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips. Item #25994

First Edition. Contemporary pink cloth, blue stamping at cover, in original illustrated dustjacket. Fabulous contemporary work on "how, when and why to serve civilized people with: cocktails, Gin, Liqueurs, Rum, Beer, Whiskey, Brandy, Wines, Champagne, Punches and Cups. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, some shallow edge chipping, fading at spine and top front panel. Item #37160

First Edition. Hollywood novel of a French prince and a young socialite who travel to America to break into the movies. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some mild darkening, few tiny edge chips, few scotch tape mends at verso. Item #20002

First Edition. C. B. Falls illustrations. An uncommon Haitian set adventure novel despite the misleading 'western genre' dustjacket art. The dustjacket copy reads: "Left penniless by his sometime millionaire father, Stephen Thayer enters the employ of his fathers' closest friend. There in his first job he fails miserably. He is given another chance in faraway Haiti". The author is perhaps better known for his novelizations of popular contemporary plays including The Trail of Mary Dugan and The Show-Off. This presumed to be his first book. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, less than centimeter deep chipping at top spine end, small chips at few flap corners. Item #14909

First Edition. J. Nadejen dustjacket art. Novel of a half German and half African prophet. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, modest soiling, shallow chips to top spine end, few closed tears. Item #20001

First American Edition. Translated from the Hungarian by George Halasz. Novel about a Hungarian man who survives the first World War. Near Fine with bookplate to front inside cover in Very Good plus dustjacket with creasing to lower edges, spine end wear, and paper backing to verso of front edges. Item #13061