First Edition, Advance Review Copy with press release laid in. P. R. M. dustjacket art. Novel of a woman whose life is tarnished by the local gossip machine. Includes a one page ad listing this title and a carbon page press announcement for this title from the publisher. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to spine ends, spine lightly faded, and short closed tear to mid spine. Item #14364
First Edition. Novel of a smart, wealthy and alluring lady who was “mixed up in one shameful scandal after another.” Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #37790
First Edition. Contemporary and perhaps risqué romance novel of "young scoundrels and their adventures in politics, rascality - and love". Seldom encountered Depression era publisher. Near Fine in Very Good plus price-clipped dustjacket. Item #16899
First Edition Thus. Tall octavo, original decorative cloth and dustjacket. "Privately printed in a strictly limited edition for members of the Society of Sophisticates." Nine faux gilt-foil upon black tipped in plates with risque themes. Near Fine in Very Good or better dustjacket, with original publisher's box, top of box lacks 3 of 4 edges, wear to edges, lower box complete but with splitting at corners. Item #27030
Limited Edition, 1000 copies. Author's first novel written in 1896, translated from the French. A depiction of courtesan life in Alexandria. Very Good in a goldfoil dustjacket, Very Good but for several-inch closed tear to top of rear panel, quarter sized chip to lower edge of rear panel, shallow chipping to top endpapers and lower rear spine end. Item #17766
Limited Edition, number 3 of 1000 copies. Author's first novel written in 1896, translated from the French. A depiction of courtesan life in Alexandria. Very Good but for crayon drawings to rear pages, in a gold foil dustjacket, Very Good but for several short closed tears and accompanying creases to edges, very shallow chipping to spine ends and flap corners. Item #24363
First Macaulay Edition. Risqué novel of a Spanish woman who exploits her power over men using "intricate allurements [and] diabolical inventions". Translated by Arthur Symons and illustrated by J. Yunge. Near Fine, contemporary bookplate, in Very Good plus dustjacket, small chips to top spine end. Item #13410
Second Printing. Small octavo, 25pp. Humorous short story, a risqué tale of a "rural character" whose favorite occupation was "husbandry". Extremely scarce in original fragile illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, couple inch closed tear at lower front panel mended at verso with thick piece of scotch tape. Item #26089
First Edition. Peter Sefton Purdey dustjacket art. "Forced to commit suicide after a life of appalling debauchery, in the records of Roman vice and crime the notorious Messalina stands supreme". Near Fine, hay barn smell will dissipate, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping, nickel sized chip at top front flap edge, wear at flap edges. Item #26010
First Edition, Limited Edition # 719 of 1050 copies. Hans Flato dustjacket art. "The most brilliant and audacious book that has yet come from Paul Morand, his gayest and most exotic series of excursions into the night life of European capitals." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with nickel sized chip at top spine end. Item #21065
Second Printing. LT dustjacket art. Novel of a "fallen man", who starts life off as an Oxford golfer, but after being rung through the financial ringer, turns to the life of a gigolo, known from Monte Carlo to Cavaliere as the Little Green Apple. Very Good plus with wear to cloth along bottom edges in Very Good plus dustjacket with tape to verso of dustjacket at spine ends and top and bottom of flap edges, wear to edges, and mild darkening to spine. Item #14171
First Edition. L T dustjacket art. Novel of a "fallen man", who starts life off as an Oxford golfer, but after being rung through the financial ringer, turns to the life of a gigolo, known from Monte Carlo to Cavaliere as the Little Green Apple. Very Good plus with a crease to spine, in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow edge chips and modest wear to edges. Item #20079
Early Reprint Edition. An early novel to tackle Asian and Anglo inter-racial marriages, in this case between an English naval officer and a Japanese orphan. Rebecca West writes of the novel, "There is real terror about the picture of secretive little yellow people plotting to break up the marriage with complete heartlessness." Kimono was Paris's first novel and one that also tackled the institution of Yoshiwara, Japan's official houses of prostitution. Fantastic dustjacket art of sophisticated yet scantily clad Japanese women. Very Good but for contemporary glamour magazine cut-outs pasted to front end papers, title, copyright, and contents page, in Very Good dustjacket, three inch closed tear at lower front panel, shallow chips at top spine end. Item #9544
First Edition. Uncommon early novel dealing with white slavery. "In the preparation of this novel, the author gathered his own materials even though it required him to visit the slums of most of our large cities, and to follow the trail into old Mexico. The story is concerned with the struggle between a father who is a white slave dealer and a son who falls in love with one of his father's victims. The son goes from one end of the country to the other in his endeavors to rescue the girl." Minnesota author. Near Fine, ownership stamp at front endpaper, in Very Good printed dustjacket, modest soiling, few fairly shallow edge chips. Item #24661
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First Edition. Novel about a woman who "struggles to free herself from the bondage of a tyrant husband who treats her as a slave and a persecuting mother in law". Near Fine, book sharing list glued to front free endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, small edge chips, modest shelf wear, surface wear to front flap edge. Item #16834
First Edition. C. C. S. dustjacket art. Risqué novel of a single mother who rediscovers love with "first, a shy, appealing scholar, next, an engaging Jew with a keen intellect, then finally there comes a brilliant doctor who challenges both her mind and her passions". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #24793
First Edition. C. C. S. dustjacket art. Risqué novel of a single mother who rediscovers love with "first, a shy, appealing scholar, next, an engaging Jew with a keen intellect, then finally there comes a brilliant doctor who challenges both her mind and her passions". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends and flap corners. Item #25668
First American Edition. E. F. dustjacket art. Novel by winner of the Prix Goncourt about a "sex-tortured girl", set in the provincial English town of Plymouth. A novel somewhat exotic in nature, where in one night Elsie's "long virtue, so jealously preserved, was immolated without regret, in the fever of a moment, in one evening's folly". Savignon attempts to analyze the emotional lives of Jazz Age women. Wonderful dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #13038
First Edition. Risqué contemporary novel of a woman who cheats on her husband while he's in the military. "When Marie Trevor's husband Bert was inducted into the army, she felt doubly cheated - betrayed both by the government which had drafted him, and the husband who was leaving her an 'army widow'. Drink helped drown her sorrow, until one night suddenly everything went black - and she woke up in her bed, with a man beside her. The human, absorbing story of a wife who had to learn to get along without a soldier husband, but could not learn to get along without love". Near Fine but for small retirement home stamp at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, some nicks and wear at edges. Item #24867
First Edition. "An imaginative portrait of Casanova as he figures in one last imaginary amorous intrigue". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping, vertical abrasion at front panel. Item #22098
First Edition. Political novel of the history of a fictional American president, raised by a Southern preacher "of the straight and narrow ante-bellum school... the little girls who first aroused his sense of erotic pleasure, and the bold little tart who lured him out at night to meet her down on the river bank, started a conflict between strong natural impulse and moral rectitude that tormented his whole life and colored his actions". Schwabacker wrote the screenplay for the first film appearance of Batman in 1943. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and few flap corners. Item #21408
Early Printing. Signed and Inscribed by author to literary critic and editor Gary Seibel, who first published Mary Roberts Rinehart in a newspaper. Story recording the 'debauchering life of the African tropics,' its history as the dumping ground for Europe's undesirables and the continual struggle for life in the unhealthy climate. Good with front cover torn to webbing, frontis page torn, page ends worn, spine ends and lower edge worn, with some surface wear, lacking dustjacket. Item #18148
First Edition. Based on the play " Les Avaries" of Brieux, concerning the mystery of sexual immorality. Basis for the 1937 film Damaged Goods directed by Phil Goldstone. Illustrated with photographic frontis featuring actors from the play. Very Good plus with signature in ink that bled unto front flap of jacket in Very Good dustjacket with light chipping to spine ends, shallow chipping to top edges, small chip at mid rear spine edge, and general shelf wear. Item #15711
First Edition. Nat Falk dustjacket art. A young woman can not control her inexplicable impulses. 'Only one man has the strength to keep her within the bounds of proper restraint'. Very Good appearing book, with clean cloth, but with lending library markings and abrasions at pastedowns, in lovely Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Item #41067
First Edition. JDY dustjacket art. 'When Dora Drummond came to him with the suggestion that he provide her with a mate for a eugenic baby, the resourceful practitioner was baffled. The method by which he supplied her needs was ingenious, to say the least.' Near Fine in Near Fine or Fine bright dustjacket. Item #34171
