151. The Georgian House. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1932.
First Edition. Walter Klett dustjacket design. Novel of Victorian life in an English village. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #7538
First Edition. Walter Klett dustjacket design. Novel of Victorian life in an English village. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #7538
First Edition. “Story of modern life in an English suburban town,” involving the black sheep of a respectable family who becomes a grocer. Very Good with ownership stamp to front free endpaper, in a Nearly Very Good dustjacket with closed tears and inch deep or less chips to edges. Item #18934
First Edition. Eugene Hastain dustjacket art. Novel of English life. "Con and Cora, vain, restless and weak; Jane, sane and lovable; Tony, healthy and steadfast; and Clavering Jenkins, artistic villain. Uncommon. Very Good, fair amount of foxing to page edges, possibly lacking front endpaper (first leaf is half-title) in rather soiled but over all Very Good dustjacket, nicked at spine ends and flap corners. Item #29020
First Edition. 'An impulsive young American in pursuit of a runaway wife who insists on marrying a French count, is the inadvertent hero. An innocent actor in a communist riot, pursued by the police, he starts for Paris and meets two people who become his destiny. Its high moments include the epic battle of the snails in a Paris restaurant, the tremendous flight of a glider not intended to fly; the unique manner in which Mark paid highly for the pleasures of a night and unwittingly supplied the innkeeper's daughter with a dowry.' Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end. Item #39863
First Edition. K. M. Pearce dustjacket art. "There is a submerged England that is nonconformist and puritan. This England, in its stupidities and unconscious heroisms, is the theme of Mr. Thompson's new novel, which opens in the deceptive summer of Nonconformity and Liberalism, forty years ago, before their decline began". Very Good, fore-edge corners bumped, some foxing to page edges, in Very Good price clipped dustjacket. Item #29127
First Edition. Novel of contemporary English life seen through the eyes of an American. Near Fine with ownership signature to half title in near Very Good dustjacket with mild foxing, several inch long tears with accompanying creases, abrasions to front panel. Item #24221
First English Edition. D. Burroughes dustjacket art. Novel of contemporary English life seen through the eyes of an American. Near Fine with signature to front free endpaper in Very Good plus dustjacket with mild foxing. Item #13048
First Edition. Doco dustjacket art. "A powerful story of life among Irish farm folk. Mary Kirwan, pale and lovely, throbbing with an uneasy sense of life and passion, lives in drudgery with her parents." Near Fine in bright attractive Near Fine dustjacket. Item #27307
First Edition. Uncommon. "In contrast with that common topic of the modern novel, the decay of the English landed gentry, the author builds his story upon the tenacity of tradition and its conquest of the modern tendencies that would disintegrate it". Near Fine but for foxing to page fore-edge, in Very Good dustjacket, age toning to spine and rear panel. Item #29024
First Edition. Abbey dustjacket art. 'Fleur, left an orphan after the death of her French father, is fetched from her convent in Paris to live in England with her English uncle, but finds her life in his house so unbearable and tyrannical that she runs away and takes refuge with an elderly artist. Her adventures among the painters and models in Chelsea make the background for one of the most charming romances'. Very Good, some minor cloth blemishes, old name and date at front endpaper, in Fine dustjacket (having been stored separately from the book in a small collection of loose dustjackets). Item #39873
First Edition. Novel set in the cathedral town of Wells and Enoch Saint, his adventures and misadventures as chorister, soldier, and Dean's verger. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, bit toned at spine. Item #37617
First Edition. R.W. dustjacket art. Romance novel set in the Welsh Landscape of England, about a young woman who would marry and kill for her ancestral home. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with front spine edge wear, mild bubbling to front top edge, and light pink staining to rear panel. Item #13728
First Edition. Wraparound dustjacket art. Story of the sisters Janet and Rosalind Grandison, and their interweaving lives surrounding a home in the English countryside. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, few shallow tears along edges of front panel and spine, but otherwise an attractive and bright copy. Item #24259
First Edition. Allan Gilbert dustjacket art and frontis. English countryside set novel who has a love affair. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping, modest soiling to panels, quarter sized chip at top spine end. Item #32905
First Edition. Joseph Wyckoff dustjacket art. Novel of contemporary England and a young woman, a "selfish, willful girl, lovely and irresistible". Scarce in dustjacket. Near Fine bright copy, in fresh Very Good plus dustjacket, some very light spotting to spine, few small chips at mid-rear panel. Item #9873
First Edition. Jazz Age novel of contemporary England. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, scotch tape mend to exterior of top spine end and top rear panel. Item #22270
First Edition. Robb dustjacket art. Murder, mystery and suspense follow fast upon each other in this novel. A young English girl of pure blood, Ivy Myrtle, is adopted when a young baby by an Eurasian family. As she grows up she becomes very beautiful and causes much trouble by her waywardness. The various attempts made by English people to get her away, while the son of the ruling prince desires to marry her. The theft of some priceless black pearls, an outbreak of cholera, and finally, her marriage with David, half gypsy and half Scotch, all help to make this an enthralling story. The characterization is extraordinarily well done, and the contrast between he European and the Eurasian temperament is interesting. Very scarce title. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few small edge chips and wear. Item #32532
Second Printing. Scarce title. ""When Sir Robert Peel's sudden change of policy over the Corn Laws broke up his party. The story turns on a disputed succession, the disappearance and discovery of old documents relating thereto, and on the social unrest caused by Sir R. Peel's action, and presents a careful picture of some phases of life of the England of the middle forties". Very Good, vertical crease to first several leaves, in Very Good dustjacket, light stain at top spine end, some closed tears and wear at edges. Item #27350
First Edition. George Brehm dustjacket art and color illustrations. Intriguing novel of a young English nobleman whose valet turns out to be a thief, leaving the young traveler in America alone and broke, forcing him to discover his own strengths, working his way from the soup lines to industry; falling in love in the mean time with a working girl. Basis for the 1916 black and white silent film directed by Arthur Maude and starring William A. Carroll and George Clancey. Very Good, modest cocking, in dustjacket lacking top half of spine, soiling at rear panel, modest edge chipping. Item #24008
First Edition (with publisher's emblem at both title and copyright page). The impractical and inimitable Ukridge in an amusing adventure in high finance. A rather uncommon Wodehouse title. What would be a Very Good copy but for a small cloth chip at top spine end and some rubbing and nicks to spine ends, in Good or better dustjacket, closed tear the length of the front spine edge mended at verso with archival tape, some scotch tape at verso of top spine end, narrow but inch long strip of loss at upper front spine edge, some staining at lower spine end. Item #41425
First Edition. Humorous novel of Sam and Kay 'suburbanites who live and love and suffer as only Wodehouse characters can'. Near Very Good, bit of soiling to spine, cracked front inner hinge neatly repaired (but which causes some tightness when opening), some cracking to paper along rear inner hinge, Good dustjacket, some shallow chipping, soiling and wear, light stain at lower spine area. Item #34888
First Edition. Humorous novel of Sam and Kay 'suburbanites who live and love and suffer as only Wodehouse characters can'. Very Good (appears Near Fine, but with some erosion to page edges presumably from some insect's wanderings) previous contemporary owner's gift inscription at front endpaper, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, few inches of closed tears at lower spine area (now mended at verso with archival tape), some other edge nicks and wear. Item #41424
First Edition, 'Herbert Jenkins' Colonial Library' emblem at spine. Fenwick dustjacket art. Humorous novel of an English baronet looking to sell his manor house to a German princess. "Unfortunate that, at the psychological moment, America's Number One process server should arrive at the Hall to serve breach of promise papers on the Princess's younger stepson. Even more unfortunate was it that it was Sir Buckstone's secretary, Prudence who was bringing the suit". Very Good, darkened areas at spine ends, short scotch tape shadow at lower half-title, in Good dustjacket with inch of loss at lower spine end, shallow edge chipping, narrow bit of loss at front flap edge, nickel sized chip at top front panel, verso with several fairly dark scotch tape shadows. Item #24697
First Edition. Contemporary novel of "the Shires and the Welsh Marches, Mayfair and Bloomsbury, and, as an incident, the theater of war in German East Africa. Its characters range from county magnates to men of letters and the humbler citizens of a back street in London." Nice dustjacket artwork that almost appears to be chromolithographic. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket chipped at top spine end, very light stain to spine area. Item #22154
Popular Edition. Paul Laune dustjacket art. Novel of youth, first love, and the “eternal struggle for happiness,” set in Ireland. Very Good in a very Good plus dustjacket with some darkening to white of rear panel, modest wear to top spine end. Item #17789