Early Reprint Edition, circa 1925. B. Cory Kilvert dustjacket art. Uncommon reprint edition. This copy with lower quarter of a letter by Wodehouse glued to front pastedown (which includes his autograph). Very Good, some fading at spine, spine ends nicked, two inch square clipped from lower fore-edge corner of half-title page, in Very Good dustjacket, couple small edge chips. Item #41457
![Item #41457 Jeeves [ SIGNED ]. P. G. WODEHOUSE](https://yesterdaysgallery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/41457.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1677698107)
First Edition. 9'6 net price at lower front flap. Abbey dustjacket art. French Revolution set romance and adventure novel. Uncommon. Very Good, some soiling to cloth, old previous owner signature at front endpaper, war-time paper yellowing, in Near Fine attractive dustjacket. Item #41456
First Edition (in dustjacket that states 'Third Edition' at lower front panel). Gold cloth and printed dustjacket. Bleiler listed fantasy of prehistoric Arctic people who precede the Eskimos. Uncommon in dustjacket. Almost Near Fine, one mis-cut page with a little extra at lower fore-edge corner, in nearly Very Good dustjacket (printed half a centimeter shorter than book), soiling or darkening to panels, wandering abrasion to rear panel affecting some text. Item #41455
First Edition. Uncommon novel by this well known Australian spokeswoman, and one time Communist, of the Australian sugar plantation strikes. Very Good, foxing to page edges, in Very Good dustjacket, red fading at spine, chipped at top spine end. Item #41453
First Edition. Author's only mystery, one which tells the tale of gangland violence in the American west. The author was a Denver detective. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few nicks and closed tears. Item #41452
First Edition. George E. Giguere dustjacket art. Adventure novel of Western expansion, Kit Carson and political intrigue. Very Good, signs of old bookplate removed from rear endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, top rear panel with narrow strip torn from top edge. Item #41451
First Edition. Novel of a battle between Steel industrialists. 'Involved with his ambition is the ambition of the laborer, of the capitalist, of the progressive, of the humanitarian, of the socialist, of the society woman, and of the woman who gives all for love'. Basis for two black and white silent films in 1916 and 1919. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #41450
![Item #41450 The Ambition of Mark Truitt [BUSINESS FICTION]. Henry Russell MILLER](https://yesterdaysgallery.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/41450.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&v=1677698050)
First Edition. Harold E. Snyder dustjacket art. Bionde's family regarded her as a marionette who would do their bidding, and, of course, marry herself to the highest bidder and recoup the family fortunes. But the flashing steel of Bionde's miraculous ice skates brought her fame and escape'. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, the verso of rear panel with some orange colored dampstaining. Item #41449
Fifth Printing, one month after First. Arthur Hawkins dustjacket art. Bronx, New York set novel in which "the movies, Chinese restaurants, and bare hallways provide the background for love, and seduction..." Near Fine, contemporary previous owner gift inscription at half-title page, in Very Good dustjacket, some nicking and wear. Item #41448
First American Edition. Scarce novel by this Jewish author and suffragist. 'Can a spiritual union between husband and wife be so strong that physical emotion may be eliminated? Belsavage is a beautiful young woman, the leader in her own Bohemian crowd of artists and writers, to whom men meant friends, never lovers. She finally becomes infatuated with a man of high ideals and is swept by him into marriage. A strange union results, for her husband, Martin, has extraordinary ideas regarding marital relations.' Near Fine in Very Good but soiled dustjacket, some nicking and wear at edges. Item #41446
Later Printing, but First with Lee Conrey dustjacket art (the 1919 edition features artwork by Joseph Clement Coll). Very scarce printing of this classic fantasy novel. Dr. David Throckmartin's scientific expedition to the South Sea Islands discovers among ancient ruins a portal into Muria, an unknown underground world. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some nicking and shelf wear. Item #41445
First Edition. Author's scarce first novel. Newman's modernist novels stunned her native Atlanta with their satire of southern culture and were banned in Boston for their allusions to sexuality. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest soiling to panels, shallow loss to top spine end, nicked at flap corners and lower spine end. Item #41444
First Photoplay Edition, with endpapers illustrated with scenes from the Paramount Picture starring Helen Hayes and Gary Cooper. The dustjacket includes a still from the film at rear panel and plug for the production at front panel. A literary and cinematic classic. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with red coloring almost faded at spine. Item #41443
First Edition. New Orleans set romance novel that poses the question - 'What is the perfect love relation between a man and a woman, within marriage or without?' Uncommon title. Almost Near Fine in similar dustjacket. Item #41442
First Edition. Betty, who works at the 5 and 10 Cent Store, dreams of a wealthy young man to marry her and take her away. 'Jim Littlefield, Betty's husky truck-driver suitor, certainly didn't look like a fairy godmother. Yet it was he who took Cinderella to the ball given by his company, where she met Prince Charming'. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #41441
First Edition. Nick dustjacket art. Scarce mystery novel in which Scotland Yard's Dr. Septimus Dodds investigates the murder of a vaudeville actress, whose body is horribly scarred by acid. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some nicks and wear, small chip at lower rear panel. Item #41440
First Edition. Unusual collection of photoplay scenarios intended for instructing others in the art of cinema plots. An early example of a text dedicated only to the art of photoplay story-lines. Includes a detective mystery scenario as well as a scenario for a voodoo doctor film. Missed by Hubin. Extremely scarce. Near Fine in Very Good printed dustjacket, some shallow edge chipping. Item #41438
Third Printing (one month after the First Printing, and almost certainly the first issue dustjacket). Very scarce Hubin listed mystery novel in which a British Colonel overhears a conversation between two women on a train that leads to intrigue and treasure hunting. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some partial splitting along front flap edge, nickel sized chip at lower spine end and at lower front flap corner. Item #41436
First Edition. True First Printing of this novelization of the play by Fulton Oursler and Lowell Brentano listed in Hubin. Illustrated with scenes from the original play production. The Spider was made into two films, a 1931 black and white talking film directed by Kenneth Mackenna and starring Edmund Lowe and a 1945 Robert Webb film starring Richard Conte and Faye Marlowe. Alternate dustjacket art by Mach Tey. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #41435
First Edition, First Printing (in early issue of dustjacket with reviews at front flap, otherwise identical to first issue jacket). Basis for the Warner Brothers Motion Picture starring Willard Louis and Carmel Myers. Very Good, foxing to top page edge, in Good dustjacket, some darkening and spotting to spine, partial splitting along front spine edge, chipped at spine ends, some shallow edge chips, lower rear panel with about an inch sized chip, couple chips at front flap edge. Item #41434
First Edition. Mystery novel of a brutal gang of criminals and murderers brought to justice by Sir William Blandyce of Scotland Yard. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #41433
First Edition. Risqué novel of contemporary youth. "To them sex has become a pagan god, enthroned by cynicism and defiled by debauchery. They isolate it, dig into it, prod it with stupidity and eroticism". Almost Near Fine, lower rear flap corner bumped, in attractive almost Near Fine dustjacket, few short closed edge tears. Item #41430
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Epoch production directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lilian Gish, John Ford, and Henry B. Walthall. Undoubtedly Griffith's most famous epic picture, and most controversial, for its positive depiction of a white supremacy group. Almost Near Fine in attractive dustjacket, trimmed slightly along top edge, otherwise Near Fine. Item #41428
First Edition stated. Woman dramatist investigates a murder. 'A girl, A midnight ride on a motorcycle with a madman.' Nice dustjacket art. Very Good, firmly bound volume, in Good dustjacket, split along front spine edge, nicks and wear to edges, half inch deep chipping at spine ends. Item #41427
First Edition stated. John Coleman Burroughs dustjacket art. "A mishap of war stranded Tarzan in the mountains of Japanese held Sumatra nearly two and one half years after the invasion. Here, in company with American fliers, natives, Dutch guerrillas, a Chinese, a Dutch girl, and the granddaughter of a Borneo head hunter, he found full scope for his marvelous, jungle trained senses". The last Tarzan story written before Burroughs died. Almost Near Fine, but of wear at spine ends, in Fine (unlaminated) dustjacket. Item #41426
