First Edition. F. Walter Taylor dustjacket art and illustrations. Novel of a contemporary woman in revolt against the restrictions which bound her to the past. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow chipping to top spine end and front panel. Item #8982
First Edition. Contemporary novel of woman's life. Author's first book. This copy with signed letter from the author laid in, dated 1927. Near Fine but for scotch tape shadows at pastedowns and front and rear endpapers, in Very Good dustjacket, small chips at spine ends, some darkening to spine, scotch tape shadows at flaps. Item #15220
First Edition. Bip Pares dustjacket art. "So real are her pictures of people and places, in England, Europe and America, that it is hard to believe that she is a character created by a novelist". Very Good, some small dampstains to cloth, in Very Good dustjacket, some small edge chips, quarter sized chip at top rear panel. Item #28477
First Edition.Thrilling novel about “that tremendous sex impulse, fierce, savage, and blind, that is sometimes called love at first sight,” involving a woman who runs off with a near stranger the night before her wedding and finds herself with a desperate criminal. Very Good plus with spine faded, spotting to covers and light foxing to endpapers, in a Very Good plus dustjacket with scotch tape at verso mending splits along rear spine edge and front flap edge. Item #19164
First Edition, Review Copy with publisher's slip tipped in. Dr. Claude Payzant wraparound dustjacket art. Story of a wild and restless woman with innate artistic talent, who ran away with the gypsies in a failing effort to avoid heartache. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at top spine end, few short closed tears and modest shelf wear. Item #19090
First Edition. Novel concerning one day in the passionate life of a woman who visits New York City. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few closed edge tears, fairly shallow chipping at top spine end and flap corners. Item #19038
Presumed First Edition, no statement. Contemporary novel about a single mother who learns to love again. "It had been so long since Catherine had been anything but a wife - a cheerful, unselfish wife. But Catherine decided that things must stop. It was all too silly. To stop Christopher she would tell him about her grown daughter. She told him. Things didn't stop". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket chipped at spine ends and flap corners. Item #24698
First Edition. Scarce novel of "a month out of the lives of four women in an old Italian castle; two unselfish and with a keen sense of humor, the others selfish and with no sense of humor, produces a series of situations which only 'Elizabeth' could handle". With the publisher's original illustrated slipcase. Basis for the 1935 black and white RKO film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Ann Harding and Frank Morgan. The title was filmed again in 1992 as a BBC made for television movie. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few tiny nicks at lower spine end, small light stain at top front panel. Slipcase in nearly Very Good condition, edges sound, some staining to lower area of rear panel and lower edge of box. Item #16532
Early Reprint Edition. Crary dustjacket art. Interesting romance novel of a young woman paralyzed on her honeymoon, who is sheltered thereon from any of "life's rough edges by an adoring husband, friends, and relatives". When she recovers "after years of having been 'an effigy on a divan', and the consequent struggles of an over sensitive soul to achieve a new philosophy when she discovers the world is not made of pink icing is a story that thrills, even while it analyzes feminine souls and bares the perversity of feminine philosophy". Very Good, some dampstaining to top rear panel, in Very Good dustjacket, some chipping at rear flap edge, flap corners and spine ends, abrasion at lower rear panel. Item #23545
Second Printing (presumed First Issue dustjacket). Hubin listed mystery. "A unique heroine in a dashing novel with all the sparkle and vivacity and cosmopolitan viewpoint of the best French fiction. As baffling as a mystery story, as arresting as the most stirring novel of adventure, with a heroine all its own, at once impulsive, generous, hard, cruel, living the life of her class, with a verve all Maxa". Very Good, small closed tear at top edge of first few leaves, small dent to preliminary pages and title page, in Very Good dustjacket, nicks and soiling. Item #25883
First Edition. Novel that follows the life of a young woman through her "unhappy childhood, her romantic marriage, the disillusionment that followed it, and then her second love." Near Fine, one lower page corner torn away at margin, in Very Good dustjacket, light wear, few nicks. Item #16974
First English Edition. Ertz dustjacket art. Novel that follows the life of a young woman through her "unhappy childhood, her romantic marriage, the disillusionment that followed it, and then her second love." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, nicked at spine ends and flap corners. Item #29618
Fourth Printing. "What does love really mean to a woman. Does a woman need love? Or does happiness for her lie rather in the fact of being loved?" Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping to gold foil dustjacket. Item #26365
Fourth Printing. Bip Pares dustjacket art. Bleiler listed fantasy novel of one woman who survives a plague. Near Fine but for short tear at fore-edge of last text page, in Very Good dustjacket nicked at edges. Item #34855
First Edition. Translated from the French by J. Lewis May. English title for La Nuit. 'Widely read story of a lonely girl who faces blindness'. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips. Item #40866
First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original illustrated wrappers. "The fierce sexual compulsion between a woman who has abandoned her husband and children and a young doctor whose career is wrecked by their tempestuous love affair". An uncommon Faulkner title to be found in advance state. Almost Very Good modestly edge worn copy, light dampstain to page edges of first fifty pages, inch sized chip at lower rear panel, wear to spine edges. Item #25347
First Edition. "The Gypsy Consuelo, the beautiful, the willful, the whimsical" makes her way from dancing at fairs to Broadway. Near Fine, contemporary ownership signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at spine ends and flap corners. Item #34859
First Edition. J. Henry illustrations. Early novel to deal with a woman in business, the director of women's fashions as Featherloom Petticoat Company. Extremely scarce in original illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine but for contemporary previous owner gift inscription at front endpaper and small faded area at top spine end, in Very Good dustjacket, faded modestly at spine, chipped at spine ends. Item #41079
First Edition. “Being Some Story Beads Gathered in South China and Strung on a Thread of Memory.” Fictionalized account of a woman missionary’s account of Chinese life. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic plates. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, some spotting to front panel and spine, few small stains to front panel, shallow loss to spine ends and flap corners. Item #19491
First Edition. Landon dustjacket art. Feminist novel of sorts concerning two sisters, one who broke from her conservative family to become a stage actress, and one who conformed outwardly to her family's values, but in actuality accrued gambling debts and paid them off by becoming a mistress. When a long lost love of the actress returns from America to find her and subsequently snubs her when he finds out that she has been with men, the actress gives a long and impassioned argument against the double standard used when defining the honor of men and women. Very scarce title. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners, some staining along front flap edge, some clear tape at verso. Item #29705
First Edition. Romance novel of a young woman whose cartooning lifts her from the shabby fast set to a place amongst the literary journalistic world. Very scarce title. Very Good, foxing to page edges, two pin pricks to mid-spine, in Good only dustjacket, lacking lower two inches of spine, edge chipping and soiling. Item #32666
First Edition, Review Slip tipped in. Charles Zingaro dustjacket art. Contemporary romance novel of a woman whose financial success from artistic endeavors endangers her marriage. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few shallow edge chips and modest soiling. Item #17316
First Edition. J. J. Lankes dustjacket art. Contemporary Suffolk set novel of a woman, "an illegitimate child, born in a work house, later employed as hired girl on a farm, married at nineteen to a religious fanatic... [who comes into her own] with Charlie Fulcher, an itinerant tradesman and race-track gambler whose zest matched hers". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, spine mildly darkened. Item #20083
First Edition. Prentiss Taylor dustjacket art. Poetry collection "representing six parts of a woman's life". Uncommon title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #26299
First Edition. Original green cloth, illustrated with gilt, and illustrated dustjacket. Rare travel narrative of a Chicago physician writing from the point of view of a woman whose health requires that she travel in the American west. Illustrated with 47 photographs in the text. Wright III, 2135. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, top spine end chipped inch deep, about inch of loss at top rear panel. Item #22000
