First Edition. Octavo, original printed wrappers. Play about a woman and her illegitimate child who was raised by other people. Very Good, with cocking, very light foxing to endpapers, fading to edges of wrappers, and spine faded and wrinkled. Item #18653

First Edition stated. Steele dustjacket art and frontispiece. Original blue cloth, red cover decoration and illustrated dustjacket. Novel of a young lady. Martin is a pseudonym of Georgia May Madden, a member of the "Author's Club," that had been based in Louisville, Kentucky in the 1890's. Other members included authors Alice Hegan Rice and Annie Fellows Johnston. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and some edges, mild soiling to panels. Item #22759

First Edition. Intrigue novel of English political and social life. Cynthia Daventry is the adopted daughter of a rich and childless couple. Her father, James Challoner was the profligate son of an old English family, whose wife had been killed by an earthquake. Until Cynthia’s seventeenth birthday she is ignorant of her parentage and then her dissolute father appears and claims her. The Daventrys, who love Cynthia as their own, flee with her to England. After three years the elderly couple die, leaving Cynthia heiress to a large fortune. Captain Harry Rames, an Arctic explorer, realizes he must marry money to further his career. Cynthia consents to Rames’s conducting an expedition which will take him from her for three years, though the parting causes her deep sorrow. Uncommon in dustjacket. Near Fine bright copy, some foxing to page edges, in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and flap corners, top rear panel with two square inch sized chip. Item #26853

First Revised Edition, with new introduction by Maugham. An uncommon printing of Maugham's Mrs. Croddock which was originally published in 1902 with many passages that were too 'shocking' to print. This revised edition is taken from the original manuscript and includes passages left out of the original printing as well as some revisions by the author. Scarce in original illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow spine end chips, red print at spine faded. Item #24660

First Edition. Contemporary Jazz Age novel of a woman who must accept a changing world and the fast lane life her children choose. Nice stylized and perhaps art-deco designed dustjacket art. Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket, few edge nicks. Item #17377

Reprint Edition. C. W. Gage dustjacket art. Mid-Western set romance novel of an easterner, a spoiled young woman, who inherits a land claim in western Kansas and who travels out west "with the intention of managing the estate herself - only to find that it has become a 'blow out' land. But on the edge of these acres and acres of sand she meets romance!" A contemporary newspaper advertisement for the novel pinned to the front free endpaper describes the book as a Kansas courtroom drama, in which a young woman is accused of being a thief. Not listed in Hubin but perhaps contains criminal elements. McCarter was a Topeka, Kansas resident for most of her life. Near Fine, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #18995

First Edition. Ralph L. Boyer illustrations. "The story of an American girl on her way up through the critical 'teens. It is a daring, mirthful excursion into the mind of a young woman, but every young man will read it with curious interest". Very Good, contemporary inscription at front endpaper, few top page edges bumped, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping and wear. Item #23195

First Edition. 'Lebanon Fairgale, dark beauty of the Georgia lowlands'. Signed by Miller at half-title. Uncommon title signed. Near Fine but for front endpaper having been removed, in Good dustjacket, some chips and closed tears to spine area. Item #40829

First Edition. Uncommon themed novel of an unloved wife who cheats on her husband with a Chinese man. "A boorish husband, a wife starved for love, and a lover out of the East, exotic, passionate, and chivalrous". Stylized dustjacket art work. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, some scotch tape mends at verso. Item #22790

First Edition stated. Margaret Trafford dustjacket art. Successful author of Singing in the Rain tells her inspiring personal story, "a girl's struggles with the problems and trials and hardships that confront us all, and her triumph over them". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21737

First Edition. Lopke dustjacket art. A romance of untraditional love, and a young woman who forsook a life of sheltered ease and perfection in search of love in Bohemian Philadelphia. Very Good but for soiling to page edge and mild soiling to spine, in a Good to Very Good dustjacket with two-inch sized chip to rear panel and wear to spine ends and top panel edges. Item #17536

First Edition. Signed by author on front free endpaper. Author's second novel of a young woman living in Pittsburgh trying to make it as an artist. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with spine and flap edges darkened, chipping to spine ends, and wear along top flap edge. Item #14170

Third Printing. Contemporary novel of young women in rebellion. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket with nickel sized chip to top edge of front panel near spine, few smaller chips and small nicks, wear to flap corners. Item #18354