51. Willow Creek. New York: Grosset and Dunlap. (1924).
True First Edition. Romance novel of small town American life. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few nicks and short closed tears. Item #13318
True First Edition. Romance novel of small town American life. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few nicks and short closed tears. Item #13318
First Edition. Herman Pfeifer dustjacket art and illustrations. Novel of contemporary rural America from the author of Red Pepper Burns. Near Fine but for small chips at spine gutters, in rare dustjacket, with few inch closed tear at front panel and three unfortunate inch sized abrasions to front panel. Item #9550
First Edition. Worch dustjacket art. Post World War One upstate New York. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at some edges. Item #27441
First Edition. Very scarce novel of a “country boy with a pronounced idealistic strain, [who] develops a sturdy determination to break away from the narrow confines of a small town,” and who falls in love with a dream girl far out of his life. Near Fine in a Very Good to Near Fine dustjacket but for modest soiling and spine darkened. Item #19334
First Edition. Novel of a Florida town after the boom is over and the "stranded hangers-on, black, white and yellow, tainted with get-rich quick standards... the cheap, older doctor turned abortionist, his harlot wife and lovely daughter, all struggling to escape the deadly environment". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with few small edge chips and mild wear. Item #20538
First Edition stated. Important and uncommon Stegner title. Very Good in nearly Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, shallow loss to spine ends, nicking to flap corners, edges with wear. Item #32974
First Edition. Fiction about the bustle of America from Congress to the daily newspaper. Very Good plus in Very Good dustjacket with moderate wear to edges. Item #16272
First Edition. Lucius W. Hitchcock illustrations. Basis for two black and white silent films produced in 1916 and 1921. Original red, gilt printed, cloth and original printed dustjacket. Novel of rural small-town American life. Very Good, small library stamp at front endpaper, minor signs of removed bookplate at rear pastedown, in Good dustjacket, closed tears at lower spine area, chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #25340
First Edition. Lucius W. Hitchcock illustrations. Basis for two black and white silent films produced in 1916 and 1921. Original red, gilt printed, cloth and original printed dustjacket. Novel of rural small-town American life. Near Fine, spine ends a bit faded, in Good to Very Good dustjacket, chipping to spine ends and flap corners, modest wear, some pencil notes at rear panel, few inch closed tear at top front panel. Item #14190
First Edition. Uncommon collection of short stories of contemporary American life. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at lower front panel, few shallow edge chips. Item #21243
First Edition. Uncommon novel set in upstate New York and based on the residents ('degenerative Dutchmen') of Middleburgh in Schoharie County, who sued White for defamation. White was an interesting character to say the least, a socialist and controversial minister who ended up in prison for six months for 'disorderly conduct'. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, chipping and closed tears at edges, nickel sized chip at lower rear panel. Item #40708
Second Printing (though very likely the first printing, as no other copies seen state first printing). William Leipse dustjacket art. Contemporary novel of Central New York state by the author of "Tess of the Storm Country" which was adapted to the screen more than once. Very Good, contemporary previous owner gift inscription at front endpaper, bit of vertical crease at spine, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #40736
First Edition. First novel in the “Stecher” trilogy, the story of “a plain American family of immigrant origin in pre-War New York.” Williams was an American poet associated with modernism and Imagism. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket, modest wear. Item #19684
First Edition. Novel of contemporary life by the author of The Able McLaughlins, which won the Pulitzer Prize as the best American novel of 1923. Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket, tiny chip at lower spine end. Item #20478
First Edition stated. Galdone dustjacket art. Uncommon collection of short stories of small town life. "The cowboy beau, Mrs. Zabriski who gave the firemen tea, Ruby Moon the glamorous harlot..." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chips at spine ends and flap corners, light soiling, inch sized abrasion at lower spine area. Item #22021