51. Land Of Women. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1935.
First Edition. Novel of Paraguay set in the 1860's. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with creasing to front top edge and small chip to inside front flap. Item #15902
First Edition. Novel of Paraguay set in the 1860's. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with creasing to front top edge and small chip to inside front flap. Item #15902
Second Printing. Presumed Malaga Grenet dustjacket art. Adventure and romance novel set in Argentina, of two women who vie for the love of one man. Wast was one of Argentina's most popular authors, who is remembered today mostly for being anti-Semitic. Very Good, mild cocking, some surface wear to page edges, in Very Good dustjacket, few small chips. Item #25423
Third Printing. Presumed Malaga Grenet dustjacket art. Adventure and romance novel set in Argentina, of two women who vie for the love of one man. Wast was one of Argentina's most popular authors, who is remembered today mostly for being anti-Semitic. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with chip at top spine end. Item #24416
Third Printing, same month as First. Malaga Grenet dustjacket art. Adventure and romance novel of a recently freed prisoner set in Argentina's gaucho country, and winner of the Argentine National Prize for Literature. Dustjacket copy reads: "To this region comes Rogue Carpio, free after twenty years in Tierra del Fuego, the frigid prison province of the Argentine. Tremendous in Physical Strength, once a landowner, he is now a social outcast. In the sand at the edge of a brook, he sees the print of a girl's foot; later , when he sees the girl herself, he falls violently in love with her. What is impossible to win by persuasion he attempts to win by force". Wast was one of Argentina's most popular authors, who is remembered today mostly for being anti-Semitic. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket but for a vertical closed tear along entire rear panel mended at verso with scotch tape, another several inch closed tear at rear panel with piece of scotch tape at exterior. Still an attractive dustjacket for a very scarce title. Item #15738
First Edition. Malaga Grenet dustjacket art. Adventure and romance novel of a recently freed prisoner set in Argentina's gaucho country, and winner of the Argentine National Prize for Literature. Dustjacket copy reads: "To this region comes Rogue Carpio, free after twenty years in Tierra del Fuego, the frigid prison province of the Argentine. Tremendous in Physical Strength, once a landowner, he is now a social outcast. In the sand at the edge of a brook, he sees the print of a girl's foot; later , when he sees the girl herself, he falls violently in love with her. What is impossible to win by persuasion he attempts to win by force". Wast was one of Argentina's most popular authors, who is remembered today mostly for being anti-Semitic. Very Good, small ink price at front endpaper, front endpaper likely removed, in almost Near Fine dustjacket, with wrap-around band promoting the book as the Argentine National Prize. Item #40999
First Edition. Malaga Grenet dustjacket art. Novel of South America and "a girl of the people, told with the beauty of an idyl and a poignant truth that startlingly tore the mask of hypocrisy from the pretentious and unfeeling upper class". Wast was one of Argentina's most popular authors, who is remembered today mostly for being anti-Semitic. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow edge chips, few inch closed tear at top front panel, lower rear panel with about an inch sized abrasion. Item #20586
First Edition. Kurt H. Welanetz dustjacket art. Hubin listed South American jungle set mystery and adventure novel of a man hired to do battle with unscrupulous manganese miners. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some nicking at spine ends and flap corners. Item #23094
First Edition. Novel of the Caribbean, the "American tropics", "a thriller, a psychological study of violence and folly, a rollicking adventure of Americans in a West Indian 'hot country'." The author traveled Central and South America "combing the republics afoot, afloat and aflight, and aboard the hurricane deck of many a razorback mule". Near Fine in Very Good, modestly edge worn dustjacket, nicking and rubbing, few small edge chips. Item #23573
First Edition. "Hot-blooded Cuban of noble stock and uncompromising ideals comes to Boston and, by a still more playful trick of chance, marries a hired girl of Nordic descent, attractive body and limited intellect and morals. The mingling of the dominant traits of the two, which Honora inherits stamps her with the rhythm of the poet, the recklessness of the Spanish bravado... the freeborn woman of today". This copy signed by Wolf at front endpaper. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips. Item #25126
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