26. Four Blind Mice. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1932.
Second Printing. Novel of a man's life from age twenty to thirty-nine. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow edge chips. Item #30632
Second Printing. Novel of a man's life from age twenty to thirty-nine. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow edge chips. Item #30632
First Edition. Somewhat satirical novel involving a professor who looks more like a prize-fighter than a scholar, and his misadventures during his summer job as a tutor for an unscholarly young man and his girlfriend. Very Good but for old Maine lending library bookplate at front pastedown, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, signs of wear, shallow chipping at edges. Item #41173
First Irish Edition. Rare Gaelic language edition of this novel. "Betrayed by the woman he was to have married, Donovan Steele saw the sun go black, left old Quebec to wander like a modern Timon of Athens—cold, ruthless, soulless—to take what he wished of life without kindness or pity. Then lovely Neree Caron came into his life — Neree, who had also suffered through another, but who had kept her faith in life." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few short closed tears. Item #24382
First Edition. "Betrayed by the woman he was to have married, Donovan Steele saw the sun go black, left old Quebec to wander like a modern Timon of Athens—cold, ruthless, soulless—to take what he wished of life without kindness or pity. Then lovely Neree Caron came into his life — Neree, who had also suffered through another, but who had kept her faith in life." Near Fine in Good edge chipped dustjacket, scotch tape at verso. Item #24849
First Edition. E. A. C. dustjacket art. Novel of a man handicapped by a limp and who misses the First World War and his subsequent troubles as a father. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends, chip at mid spine. Item #35878
First Edition. Novel of a 'super opportunist, a male gold digger blessed with virile good looks' who is shuttled from Broadway, a Long Island Summer colony and Paris by adoring rich women. Uncommon title. Near Fine in Good only dustjacket, top centimeter of front panel trimmed away, and lower half inch of rear panel trimmed out. Item #37362
First Edition. Novel of one day in Joe Bendrose's perfect life, 'a story of infectious gaiety, giving an account of perfect love, perfect health, perfect weather, the perfection, indeed, of all the great essentials of human happiness'. Uncommon title. Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, some shallow edge chips, light stain to rear spine edge. Item #41198
First Edition. "A story of hunting the fields and a vision of what the future holds for sport with dog and gun." Very Good, light stain to top corner of rear cover, in Very Good dustjacket, matching stain at fore-edge top corner of rear panel. Item #27612
First Edition. Lewis dustjacket art. "Humphrey Daine had never really been dead. he had only been a man, goaded beyond endurance by his crushing debts, his wanton wife and his smothering passion for her which suddenly blazed into wild hatred. He was dead to his wife, dead to his townspeople, dead to the name he had worn for so many years - after the terrible fire he, himself, had instigated, leaving a skeleton in his own clothes to be taken for Humphrey Daine". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end, few light dampstains. Item #25768
First Edition. Contemporary novel from a husband's point of view and described by the dustjacket copy as "a brilliant study of a man's effort to understand himself while his mind, disturbed by passing events, presents him with nothing but a distorted image, as in a concave mirror." Maxwell originally wanted to be an artist and when that career did not develop he spent a number of years without occupation. During the First World War he served as a captain in the Royal Fusileirs. He has five film credits to his name, including The Devil's Garden, which starred Lionel Barrymore. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some light darkening, light rubbing and few nicks at spine ends, a diamond shape clipped out from spine where the price was printed. Item #6878
First Edition. Contemporary novel from a husband's point of view and described by the English edition dustjacket copy as "a brilliant study of a man's effort to understand himself while his mind, disturbed by passing events, presents him with nothing but a distorted image, as in a concave mirror." Near Fine, small bookplate removed at front free endpaper, in Very Good gold foil dustjacket, some nicks and shelf wear at edges. Item #12327
First American Edition. Katherine Sturgis dustjacket art. Novel of a "self-created dual personality." Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few nicks and light rubbing to spine ends, front flap corners nicked. . Item #6217
First Edition. " Mr. Raikes was a young man with an inferiority complex, who set himself a certain standard and abode by it, realizing as he did so that he was not following the dictates of his own natural impulses." Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #27439
First Edition. A study of a man who, while rising to greatness, is confronted by his own hypocrisy and deceit. Great unsigned dustjacket art. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket, few nicks at top spine end. Item #7493
First Edition. MIL dustjacket art. Translated from the Swedish by Edwin Bjorkman. Novel of a man’s “conflict between city and country, and the quest for the romance of a vanquished youth,” involving a man who leaves his wife and family in the city and returns to the soil he has repudiated in the Swedish countryside. Rare title. Near Fine, ownership signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, some nicking and wear at edges. Item #35692
First American Edition. German novelist's Rabelaisian study of a great man whom fate has forced to play the fool, "a Gargantuan but lovable Don Quixote of flaming red features, enormous girth, bellowing laughter...moved by an indomitable spirit, this tragic buffoon travels through Europe." Very Good plus, with spine tips faded, in Very Good plus dustjacket, very shallow chips at spine ends. Item #6498
First Edition, with Third Printing plug at dustjacket. R. Floethe dustjacket art. Novel of a man who knew the secret of his heritage, he had dwarf's blood in his viens. Interesting novel dealing with dwarfs. Very Good plus with some cover discoloration, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #8344
First Edition. Novel of a backwater ex-convict who attempts to change his life. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end and flap corners. Item #7994
First Edition. W. Bertsch dustjacket art. Novel of Harvery J. Buck, created by a group of men in the Cave Club in Boston for their own personal gain. "He is to be the Great Buck, the American superman, the enlightened statesman, economist, painter, composer..." Powel was past president of the Harvard Lampoon and served as a captain in 192nd Aero Squadron during the First World War. Wonderful dustjacket art by Betsch. Very Good-Near Fine, in Near Fine bright dustjacket, with purple and yellow spine colors faded. Item #8008
First Edition. Stockton Mulford dustjacket art. Small town novel of a ninety year old man who likes to control the people around him. Near Fine, contemporary ownership inscription at front endpaper, in Good dustjacket, chipped at edges. Item #25971
First American Edition. Bishop dustjacket art. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by the author at front free endpaper. Of this work the author writes, "I have cast off on Endless River and I venture far from stopping places, markings, limits, and the placidities of a tamed world". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, spine modestly faded, small spine end chips. Item #20992
First Edition. Coe dustjacket art. Novel of a peculiar man who leaves a desolate path where ever he goes. Sinister looking dustjacket art. Near Fine in dustjacket, with unfortunate shadows from papertape removed from the edges of verso. Item #7514
First Edition. Frank Reinne dustjacket art. Novel of a helpless dependent type of man. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #8023
First Edition. "The question of honour involves Jasper Merrivale, when he finds that, owing to an earlier act of self indulgence, he has to make a disastrous sacrifice which threatens to ruin his entire future happiness. This, however, is saved at the end by the wisdom and common sense of a woman". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, with 3/6 ex-libris sticker at spine. Item #31119
First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original stiff wrappers. Depression Era novel of a man who takes up farming in Ohio. Uncommon in the advance copy format. Very Good plus copy, newspaper clipping shadow to few rear pages. Item #13719