Presumed First Edition. Original printed wrappers, 5" by 3 1/2". Little Blue Book No. 1688. An uncommon cocktail recipe book. Very Good. Item #37172

Presumed First Edition. Octavo, contemporary Leather, with gilt lettering at spine, raised spine bands, gilt accents to covers. First Edition of Hans Christian Anderson to appear in English, his classic autobiographical travel book on Italy, translated from the Danish by the well known English poet and translator, Mary Howitt. Very Good, with rubbing to leather at spine edges and cover corners, some water staining and wrinkling to rear board, shadowing to endpapers and some soiling throughout. Item #18312

First Edition. A Jazz Age comedy play about a modern marriage. Basis for two films, a 1929 black and white talkie directed by Gregory La Cava, starring Lorinne Griffith and Grant Withers and the 1940 black and white directed by Vincent Sherman and starring John Garfield, Anne Shirley and Claude Rains. This copy in the visually more interesting variant of the dustjacket, with great two-tone stylized cityscape illustration. Very Good-Near Fine, some foxing at fore-edge of pages, in Very Good plus dustjacket, shallow chips at top spine end, few tape shadows at verso. Item #7357

First Edition. Small octavo. Rare first appearance of Maxwell Anderson, well known playwright. Very uncommon in dustjacket. Near Fine in Good only dustjacket, scotch tape mends to verso, lacking half of spine material, chipped at edges. Item #25151

First Edition. Short Stories. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with fading to spine, inch closed tear to top front edge and rear top edge, shallow chipping to spine ends and mid spine, splitting along spine edges that has been mended with archival tape and lower front edge has been backed with thin white paper to verso. Item #16301

First Edition. Author's second novel. "Norman "Beaut" McGregor, a young man discontented with the powerlessness and lack of personal ambition among the miners of his hometown. After moving to Chicago he discovers his purpose is to empower workers by having them march in unison. Major themes of the novel include the organization of laborers, eradication of disorder, and the role of the exceptional man in society." This copy signed by Anderson at half title. W. H. E. designed bookplate of Harry Bacon Collamore (noted book collector, library benefactor and steel company executive) at front pastedown. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, paper tape at verso of spine, closed tears at lower spine area, soiling to panels, some shallow edge chips. Item #29597

First English Edition. Uncommon edition of this labor novel, sometimes considered Anderson's best. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, rather darkened at spine, few tiny edge chips. Item #25108

First Edition. Eugene Hutchinson photographs. "A fictional panorama of a great region of our country". Uncommon in dustjacket. This copy with top page edge that appears to by dyed orange. Near Fine in Good only edge chipped dustjacket, lacking top two inches of spine, split at front spine edge, scotch tape mends to exterior of lower front panel. Item #23008

Fourth Printing. Cameron Wright dustjacket art. Novel of southern life immediately following the Civil War by a woman who lived through the same period. An Association Copy, with author's gift bookplate at front free endpaper and inscribed to literary and drama critic Percy Hammond. Signed "A. A." and dated Jan. 1936. A Very Good tight copy with edges and spine faded in Very Good plus dustjacket, with top spine end nicked, light blue dustjacket color faded at spine and top edge of front panel. Item #6823

Early or First Edition. Great Jazz Age novel of an America stage girl who reigns in Paris as a "super-Bohemia of art and diplomacy, a Queen of unconventionality". Great colorful dustjacket art. Andrews co-authored two Broadway plays: Ladies' Night and Bluebeard's Eighth Wife. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #9373

First Edition. Illustrated by the author. "Dwarfs and Kelpies, Fairies and Elves". This copy signed and inscribed by author at front endpaper. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips. Item #26139