126. The Moon is Down. New York: Viking Press, 1942.
First Edition, First Issue. Author's short novel of a small European town that struggles with occupation. Near Fine in bright Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Item #35856
First Edition, First Issue. Author's short novel of a small European town that struggles with occupation. Near Fine in bright Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Item #35856
First Edition. Novel about a young Spanish girl who becomes the Mother Superior of the Convent of the Poor Marys in San Juan of Hispaniola and a strange English captain that shows up at her door. Near Fine with small address label to front inside cover in Very Good dustjacket with wear along front flap edge, mild surface wear to front panel, and general edge wear. Item #13045
Second Printing. Arthur Hawkins Jr. dustjacket art. Novel of and English and French family bound together by the ties of international finance. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #25119
First Edition. The story of a few days in the lives of a set of ill-assorted English tourists who find themselves unexpectedly stranded in a sedate and ramshackle Spanish town by a bus strike. Querinda is isolated by virtue of its poverty, the widespread somnolence and the limited embrace of technology, and so the travellers are effectively imprisoned. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end, lower front panel, and top flap corner. Item #29027
First Edition. The story of a few days in the lives of a set of ill-assorted English tourists who find themselves unexpectedly stranded in a sedate and ramshackle Spanish town by a bus strike. Querinda is isolated by virtue of its poverty, the widespread somnolence and the limited embrace of technology, and so the travelers are effectively imprisoned. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end. Item #35029
First American Edition. Unusual contemporary novel of Croatian peasant life, detailing the experiences of Yella, "her mother, her husband, and her lover". Very Good, some minor cloth discoloration, in Good-Very Good dustjacket with some chipping to spine ends and flap corners. Item #5816
First Edition. Rothermel dustjacket art. Translated from the French by Elisabeth Abbott. Author's "On the terrace of a quiet farm house near Martigues in Provence there have been within thirty years a murder and five suicides. Now a new death, caused by an embolism brought on by fear!" Published in France using the title Le Mort a la Fenetre. Near Fine but for modest cocking, in Very Good dustjacket, small chip at lower spine end, some wear along front flap edge, few edge nicks. Item #26737
First Edition, Advanced Review Copy. S. Woermer cover art. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Translated from the French by Warre Bradley Wells. Story of a cultured Frenchman who takes a meager position keeping watch over a Medieval fortress on the shore, and the separation he feels from his wife in the new background of the cathedral and the villagers. Very Good with spine wrinkled, some cocking, and thin paper strip adhered to front cover. Item #18601
First Edition, Advanced Review Copy. S. Woermer cover art. Octavo, original illustrated wrappers. Translated from the French by Warre Bradley Wells. Story of a cultured Frenchman who takes a meager position keeping watch over a Medieval fortress on the shore, and the separation he feels from his wife in the new background of the cathedral and the villagers. Very Good with mild cup stain at front panel. Item #22651
First Edition. Novel that attempts to "set forth some of the main differences and contrasts between European life and standards and our own, as they would strike a person who had lived in Europe for some years". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end, some soiling and mild wear. Item #23201
First Edition stated. M. F. Aborn wrap around dustjacket art. "A round the world race by fast steamship, express train, aeroplane, and parachute - the prize, the right to marry a certain golden-haired girl - the contestants, a spoiled young millionaire and Jimmie Brandon, adventurous freelance - plus the intervention of a mysterious lady who shows herself equally skillful at handling a pistol, driving a fast airplane, or bribing a Soviet official". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #24463
Later Printing. "An intimate, penetrating, brilliant study of the French. There is also a delightful chapter on the New Frenchwoman, who is really not a new creation of the war, but a woman who has been brought into prominence by the war as her husband's real helper and partner in every phase of his life". Near Fine but for a high school bookplate at front pastedown and stamp at front and rear endpaper in Very Good dustjacket, few chips and closed tears. Item #25797
First Edition. Author's first novel, "the sensitive reactions of an intelligent American to the static culture of present day Europe. His quest for beauty in its many forms leads him to strange adventures and affairs. These too, like the mirages of European culture, leave him unsatisfied until, in the end, he turns to America - his homeland. Here is no apology for the expatriate American intellectual but a vigorous analysis and confirmation of our own world of promise". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some nicks and edge wear, few tiny chips. Item #21902
First Edition. L. D. dustjacket art. "Fate turns a professor of entomology into a proprietor of a large hotel on the Riviera, and Cinders, a maid of all work in a Pimlico boarding house, becomes his lady factotum". Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips. Item #30725
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