76. The Soft Spot. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1933.
First Edition. Contemporary novel of a traveling Englishman. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few tiny edge chips. Item #21427
England & Ireland
77. The Uncertain Trumpet. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1929.
First American Edition. Jazz Age comic drama of small town English life with sinners of the flesh and sinners of the spirit. The author confesses that the characters for this title were developed while in the trenches of World War One. Great dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #17702
78. The Uncertain Trumpet. London: Hodder and Stoughton. (1929).
No Date, First Edition. Jazz Age comic drama of small town English life with sinners of the flesh and sinners of the spirit. The author confesses that the characters for this title were developed while in the trenches of World War One. This copy inscribed and signed by author at front endpaper. Lacking dustjacket, else Very Good, mild crease to top front cover. Item #17706
79. Here Comes a Candle. New York: MacMillan Co., 1939.
First Edition (no printing statement). Novel of a London rooming house and its characters: an unscrupulous night club owner, a cabinetmaker, a young woman in love, a drunk, renegade doctor, and two prostitutes. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #23279
80. 3 Three Against the World. New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., (1929).
First American Edition published under this title (published by Lippincott in 1914 as The Three Furlongers). H. R. dustjacket art. "Story of a sister and brother living with their older farmer brother on a Sussex farm - the sister, an Amazon typical of Sheila Kaye-Smith's strong woman, the brother, a violinist, a tormented sensitive idealist whom a tragedy had returned to adolescence". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest wear to edges. Item #29096
81. The Feast. New York: Rinehart and Company, (1950).
First Edition, Advance Review Copy with publisher's slip laid in. John O'Hara Cosgrave, II dustjacket art. Novel set at an English coast resort hotel. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #20199
82. Orangefield. Indianapolis: Bobbs Merrill Co., (1938).
First Edition. Novel of "the career of a strangely fascinating and self-centered woman in a great English country house." Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with wear to front and spine edges. Item #14652
83. Panic Among Puritans. London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1936).
First Edition. Malcolm Easton dustjacket art. London set novel including a character who is a chorus girl at the Bird Cage Theatre. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with a darkened spine with moisture spotting. Item #21369
84. Aaron's Rod. London: Martin Secker, (1922).
First English Edition. A misanthropic flautist ditches his working class roots to travel England and play for the bourgeois. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, five inch closed tear to front panel, mended at verso with old clear tape, some chipping to spine ends and edges, few additional tape mends at verso. Item #39995
85. Royal William, The Story of a Democrat. New York: MacMillan Co., 1941.
First Edition. "From his adventures in the cockpit of a man-o'-war and later in the dressing rooms of Drury Lane Theatre, this is the full story of England's 'Sailor King, Willaim IV". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end. Item #21592
86. London Bridge is Falling. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1934.
First Edition. Murray Levin dustjacket art. Novel of 15th Century London, "Grocers, mercers, widows, wenches, shoemakers, goldsmiths, monks, nuns, heretics, outlaws, soldiers and beggars". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow edge chips and wear. Item #22297
87. The Bull Calf [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]. London: Joiner and Steele, 1932.
First Edition. K dustjacket art. Stephen Lynch, a small farmer's son whose purchase of a bull calf leads to a series of events which sets him out on an Odyssey through the English shires in company with a traveling fair. Love of woman and love of earth provide the essential conflict in Stephen's nature, but woman cannot divert his passion for the earth". This copy nicely inscribed by Lindsey to one of the publishers. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, green of spine faded, chipped at top spine end. Item #28550
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88. Sea Change. London: Lovat Dickson Limited, (1934).
First Edition. Novel of young people in London who are rammed and almost drowned in the Thames by a motor boat. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #29031
89. The Kingdom of Theophilus. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1927.
First Edition. Des Rosiers wrap-around dustjacket art. Novel of a middle aged Englishman "uncomfortably married to a woman whose political activities and ambitions made herself ridiculous and her home impossible". Near Fine in Good edge chipped dustjacket. Item #23231
90. Unhappy in Thy Daring. New York: G. P. Putnam's. 1916.
First Edition. Mary Horsfall dustjacket art. Novel set in Ireland of a husband and wife's growing estrangement which is being nurtured by the wife's sister. Near Fine-Fine bright copy in Very Good plus dustjacket with some nicks and rubbing to spine ends, small chip at lower front flap corner. Item #5540
91. My Tower in Desmond. New York: MacMillan Co., 1925.
First Edition. Ireland set novel with elements of nationalism, the Boer War, Gallipoli and the Easter Rebellion. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21726
92. Potterism. New York: Boni and Liveright. (1920).
First American Edition. Novel of postwar British life. Author's breakthrough novel. Very Good plus in nearly Near Fine dustjacket. Item #12717
93. The Square Circle. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1931.
First Edition. Novel that lowers the microscope on the lives of the aristocratic residences of London's Tiverton Square. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, some nicking, soiling and wear. Item #32424
94. Fairy Gold. New York: George H. Doran Company, (1926).
Presumed Early Printing with publisher’s device at title page. FN dustjacket art. A Scarce Title. Romance set on the Island of Merg, a fictionalized Crevichon, which was the author’s own islet off the island of Herm in the Channel Islands. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket, only light edge wear. Item #19524
95. Rogues and Vagabonds. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1927).
First Edition. Novel of English middle-class contrasting the temperaments of Latin and Anglo-Saxon. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, inch chip at top spine end, darkening to spine, closed tear at top front panel. Item #24687
96. The Vanity Girl. London: Cassell and Co, (1920).
Early Printing. Leo Bates dustjacket art. Novel of a young woman who realizes the limitations of a West Kensington middle-class life and seeks a life on the London stage. Very Good attractive copy, minor bumping to lower fore-edge of pages, bookseller stamp at front endpaper, in Good dustjacket, inch chip at top spine end, small chip at lower spine end, mid-rear panel with half-dollar sized chip. Item #21835
97. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1895.
Second Edition. Extremely popular novel of rural Scottish life. Basis for the Paramount Picture film starring Donald Crisp and Mary Glynne. Uncommon in original publisher's dustjacket with design that matches the cloth. This copy with publisher's advertising for Doctor of the Old School by Maclaren laid in. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some darkening to spine, small chip at top spine end and at mid spine. Item #26831
98. Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1895.
First or Early Printing, 1895 at title page but with 1894 at copyright. George Wharton Edwards dustjacket cover and dustjacket art. Extremely popular novel of rural Scottish life. Basis for the Paramount Picture film starring Donald Crisp and Mary Glynne. Uncommon in original publisher's dustjacket with design that matches the cloth. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, small chips at lower spine end, top spine end chipped an inch deep. Item #40867
99. The Mirror in the Dusk. London: Sampson, Low, Marston and Co. Ltd, 1928.
First Edition. John Morton-Sale dustjacket art. Uncommon novel by this Irish actor and playwright. Novel that 'charts the careers of four young people who choose to marry for reasons that accord with lower middle class Catholic expediency rather than fore romantic love, and whose choices return to haunt them, as they find themselves unable to do without true human love and fulfillment. Financial imperatives mean that three of the protagonists marry unhappily and one of the three ends up murdered as a result.' (Oxford Handbook on Modern Irish Fiction) Very Good, some spotting to cloth in Good edge chipped dustjacket, small stain at lower spine end, piece of scotch tape at top spine end. Item #37863
100. Four People, A Comedy in Three Acts. New York: Payson and Clarke Lmtd, (1928).
First Edition. Short humorous play set in the West End of London. Near Fine, ink name at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chips at top spine end and top rear panel, color mildly faded at spine. Item #21833
