26. The Invaders. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937.
First Edition. George Salter dustjacket art. Depression Era novel of the Southwest farmers and the Marxist 'invaders' who come to organize them. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #34845
First Edition. George Salter dustjacket art. Depression Era novel of the Southwest farmers and the Marxist 'invaders' who come to organize them. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #34845
Second Printing (same month as first). Polly Hill dustjacket art. Uncommon mid-western set romance novel in which a virgin woman selling flowers to motorists off the highway meets a tramp whom she nurses back to health, and who turns out to be a despondent aristocrat. 'Crowded with people from all ranks of life, millionaires, vagabonds, bandits, sports champions, and prostitutes'. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, colors modest faded. Item #41021
First Edition. Roese dustjacket art. Collection of short stories set in the American Mid-West by author Edna Ferber's sister and creator of the Fannie Farm cookbooks. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, mild fading at spine, some shallow edge chips. Item #14721
Second Edition, one month after First. American Midwest set historical adventure novel of settlers and Native American warriors under Chief Black Hawk. Characters include Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. Near Fine in scarce dustjacket with some large chips, but mostly complete. Item #22411
First Edition. Leon V. Solon illustrations. Octavo, original cloth, decorative dustjacket and illustrated publisher's box. Unsigned decorative cloth and matching dustjacket. "A town in the Middle West, pinched with poverty, decides that it will have no Christmas as no one can afford to buy gifts. How this was found to be simply and wholly impossible, how the Christmas joys and Christmas spirit crept into the little town..." Extremely scarce in original jacket and publisher's box. Near Fine bright copy, in Very Good dustjacket, split at front spine edge (mended at verso with archival tape), dime sized chips at spine ends, in Good but modestly worn box. Item #25406
Second Printing but in presumably First Issue dustjacket. Comedy of American life set in a small western town which served as the basis for Gale's own theatrical version that was the winner of the Columbia University Pulitzer Prize, as the best American Play of the year. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end and front flap corner. Item #34276
Early Printing. Nice vintage edition of this scarce Pulitzer Prize for Biography title. Near Fine, contemporary previous owner inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #40853
First Edition. A midwestern young woman spends the summer in small town New England. 'Puritanism and religion, acceptance and revolt, New England as it was and is, gaunt old houses, elm trees and conventions giving way before the inroads of modern apartments, gasoline filling stations, paved streets, and new ideas'. Very scarce. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips and wear. Item #41726
First Edition. MacDonald dustjacket art. Murder at Sunset Lake. "A party of friends on a fishing trop in the North woods of Minnesota". Very Good, some discoloration to cloth likely from moisture exposure, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends. Item #39770
First Edition. Politzer dustjacket art. Novel of a Midwestern river town and tangled lives of a violin player, composer, and his daughter. Great Politzer dustjacket art of a steamship. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small stain at top spine end. Item #25687
First Edition. Politzer dustjacket art. Novel of a Midwestern river town and tangled lives of a violin player, composer, and his daughter. Great Politzer dustjacket art of a steamship. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, crease lines at spine. . Item #6648
First Edition. Nashoba, Ohio set novel concerning workers who strike at a factory resulting in the death of the owner. Hatcher was the director of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio, helping to oversee the production of various regional guides, and he was also the editor of The Ohio Guide. Very scarce. Near Fine in Very Good attractive dustjacket. Item #35386
First Edition, yellow cloth variant. Collection of short stories of the American mid-west during the Great Depression. Includes an introduction by Hemingway. Very Good, very light stain at lower front cover, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #22071
First Edition, First Issue. Collection of short stories of the American mid-west during the Great Depression. Includes an introduction by Hemingway. Scarce in such attractive condition. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, with only mild shelf wear and red color mildly faded at spine. Item #10813
First Edition, First Issue in blue cloth. Collection of short stories of the American mid-west during the Great Depression. Includes an introduction by Hemingway. Scarce in such attractive condition. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, with only mild shelf wear. Item #13398
First Edition, First Issue in blue cloth. Collection of short stories of the American mid-west during the Great Depression. Includes an introduction by Hemingway. Scarce in such attractive condition. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, spine colors moderately faded, nicks and rubbing at spine ends and flap corners. Item #19036
First Edition. Convoluted romance novel set in small Michigan city and concerning a woman who is bent on her adopted son becoming a doctor. When her son falls for a woman from the other side of the tracks she sees all her work toward making him socially accepted slip away. Mid-Western woman author educated at Vassar. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some short closed tears and edge wear, light stain to verso of spine. Item #20088
First Edition. Illustrated by M. Leone Bracker and Edmund Frederick. Romance novel of the American mid-west with elements of mystery with chapter headings such as, On Parole, The Enemy, the Turncoat, the Artful Gentleman from Kentucky. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, very shallow chips at spine ends, minor soiling and wear. Scarce in dustjacket. Item #17291
First Edition. James Montgomery Flagg frontis. Author's first book of short stories. [Smith. American Fiction, 1901-1925] "the life of a small middle western town with all its humor, its comedy, its pathos and its drama." Very Good, foxed at page edges, in Very Good dustjacket, tiny chips at edges. Item #32310
First Edition. Small octavo, original red cloth with cover art in white, green and blue, original dustjacket. Uncommon collection of tales, poems and music about Idaho and the state's fishing and hunting. Holme, F. & Hynes, R. M. (illustrator). First Edition. Smith 4825. Near Fine, bit of foxing to page edges, in Good dustjacket, modestly darkened panels, few centimeter chip at top spine end, inch closed tear at top front panel, small stain at spine. Item #25742
First Edition. "A tale of love and adventure in Idaho." Good plus with staining to cloth on rear cover all around edges and to front fore edge, in Very Good dustjacket with large stain along front flap edge and Light staining to lower rear edge and top rear flap edge. Still scarce to be found in dustjacket. Early example of dustjacket. Item #13122
First Edition. Arthur William Brown illustrations. Contemporary novel of Middle West life, the Louisiana swamps and bayous and small town life on the Iowa Reserve. Near Fine, with a bit of cloth wear at lower front cover, in scarce fragile printed dustjacket, with splitting at rear spine edge and flap edges. Item #8834
First Edition. O. Stewart Hort dustjacket art. Scarce Dakota set novel of "a little old-fashioned child of ten, making her way across the frozen snow to her uncle's home, she wins unfailing love and admiration" Very Good, signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, trimmed slightly shorter than book, nicking at spine ends. Item #25250
First Edition, Limited to 600 copies signed by author. Nebraska set novel of a "tempestuous youngster's passion for the young wife of an elderly farmer". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow edge chips and short closed tears, small chip at lower rear spine edge. Item #20582
First Edition. Paul Laune dustjacket art. Uncommon Wisconsin set novel. "The Cherry Bed is an indictment of small town middle-class people written in the vernacular. It bites. They live in all their shallowness, meanness and would be sophistication". Kelm (1908-1987) was born in Portage, Wisconsin and would go on to publish over fifty short stories and two books. In the 1930s, Kelm and his brother were the editors of their own literary magazine, the Dubuque Dial. Near Fine in dustjacket split at rear spine edge and mended at verso with thick clear tape, else Very Good. Item #25679