First Edition. Contemporary humorous novel of Mrs. Tome Gallien - "A tremendously wealthy, keen-minded, sharp-tongued, bed-ridden woman, who is always sending presents broadcast". Fanny Munsell dustjacket art and illustrations. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #35874
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Universal-Jewel film starring Mary Alden and Virginia Valli. A. N. Simpkin dustjacket art. Novel of a matriarch who "at the end becomes the victim of powers greater than herself". Scarce photoplay. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small chip at top spine end. Item #40819
First Edition. Lola Frank dustjacket art. "Kathie Mowrer, sensible but irresistible young business woman who believes that romance and earning a livelihood should be kept quite apart, does not know that against her will she is falling in love with Parke Gerritt. This young man has more than his share of money, good looks and personality, which he dispenses with easy recklessness." Very Good, some cracking to front inner hinge (nicely repaired) in nearly Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at top spine end, some fading to pink color of spine, inch closed tear at top spine end. Item #26812
First Edition. Original illustrated wrappers, 131 pages. Very scarce short novel concerning the life of Marian, a jazz-mad college girl who is coerced into sex, gets pregnant, has to leave home, arrested and put on trial for the death of her baby, being trapped in a Chinatown opium den and then a brothel, until she is finally saved by a friend and gives up drinking and returns to college. Very Good, bit of splitting at front cover spine edge. Item #600138
First Edition. R. R. dustjacket art. Novel of a young woman's perseverance over tragedy written by Alden when she was 87 years old. The novel is edited with a forward by Grace Livingston Hill. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips. Item #37088
First Edition, Advance Review Proof Copy. Original printed green wrappers. Very scarce title by this obscure Australian author. " If a New Zealander wrote anything near so workmanlike a job we should be told that at last the great New Zealand novelist had arrived. For competence of writing, establishment of characters, wise selection of incident, and a quality of experience “White Horses Ride Home” could well be taken as a model by New Zealand authors. The story has the suggestion of autobiography that is common in first novels, but whatever its source, it is a remarkably interesting and straightforward tale of experience, without any fussy or psychological word-spinning. The story describes what happens to a girl, brought up. under “free discipline methods” who first of all throws over her musical education for a stolid suburban love, and then is swept off her feet by the matinee idol of a touring musical comedy company. She marries her idol, and then gradually learns what discipline life itself can impose as her husband’s career goes precipitantly downhill." Very Good in wrappers. Item #28927
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First Edition stated. AVRC dustjacket art. "This is a three generation story, by one of Holland's greatest writers, showing the evolving revolt of Dutch women. Beginning with life in a cozy old Dutch household in Leyden in 1840, the settings of the three periods are picturesquely given and the recurring drama of women's chrysalizing is unfolded. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, few shallow spine end chips. Item #21076
First Edition. Laune dustjacket art. Interesting character study of a woman dying of jaundice. "The impending death of John Hughes' wife summoned him to the home which he had left a year ago at his wife's request. In this period of waiting, he realizes many things, among them the fact that he has never loved his wife, had married her from a sense of gallantry when she stood up against the whole Carter family who thought John beneath her. He learns also that she has protected him during his absence from tales of an 'indiscretion'. Her death, however, reveals the true reason for their separation and John is grief-stricken and humbled by the realization of the depth of a love which could lift an ordinary, commonplace woman to heights of courage and self-sacrifice". Near Fine but for small 'drip' stain at fore-edge of pages, in Very Good dustjacket that retains publisher's bookmark at front flap, spine colors modestly faded, few tiny edge chips, small stain at top rear flap corner. Item #24658
First Edition. Feminist literature concerning a slightly handicapped woman whose marriage is interfered with by her grandfather. Scarce in original printed dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, nicking at spine ends and flap corners. Item #16790
First Edition. Samuel Bernard Schaeffer dustjacket art. "Readers tired of heroines who are clever or efficient will joyously welcome Placidia - 'a woman more guilelessly alluring in the way of Eve never drew breath'". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, nicking and wear at edges. Item #25269
First Edition. Autobiographical novel of author's childhood and adolescence, including her mother's death, father's departure, nine years in an orphanage, her time on a farm and her eventual romance with the brother of the farmer's wife. Very Good but for water stains on page ends and two-inch chip to early page, in a Very Good dustjacket with some shallow chipping to top edges and spine ends. Item #17853
First Edition. A collection of stories set in France all concerning women "from Valserine, the smuggler's little daughter, to the old peasant woman brought to Paris against her will under stress of poverty". Very Good plus in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to spine ends and general shelf wear. Item #15170
First Edition. An early 'Jazz Age' themed novel in which a young woman, stifled by the Victorian attitudes of her upper-class surroundings, rents an apartment in New York City. "Here, with the zest of new found freedom, she moulds her life afresh, drawing about her some of the most interesting characters of recent fiction, including Adam Frear, a famous radical..." Very Good to Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end and few flap corners, few panel edges with tiny closed tears and modest shelf wear. Item #15203
First Edition. Collection of poems and prose bearing tribute to mothers. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21219
First Edition. Contemporary romance novel. "Having been twice jilted, Gareth wonders if she is really 'lost property', left unclaimed". Near Fine but for remnants of lending library bookplate at front endpaper, in near Very Good dustjacket, inch closed tear at front panel, chip at top spine end, Item #24888
First Edition. C. S. dustjacket art. Unsigned but with Inscription presumed to be by author dated on Martha’s Vineyard. Novel of three generations of American women. Very Good in a Nearly Very Good dustjacket, two centimeter chip to lower spine end, shallower edge chips, nicks to rear panel, modest staining to rear panel, and darkening to spine. Item #18753
First Edition. Scarce play by Josephine Daskam Bacon, an American writer best known for her female protagonists, and as a pioneer of the Girl Scouts movement and compiler of the Girls Scouts’ guidebook. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket, few closed tears, edges modestly worn, spine with shallow loss to ends, edges, and mid spine. Item #19538
First Edition, Advance Review Copy. Original illustrated wrappers. Novel concerning motherhood by the author of National Velvet. Very Good tight copy, spine showing stress lines, short closed tears at lower spine endges, shelf wear. Item #7796
First Edition. Romance of a young woman raised in an east African seaport who goes to England. Near Fine in Very Good to Near Fine dustjacket. Item #15577
First Edition. Romance of a young woman raised in an east African seaport who goes to England. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends. Item #39663
Reprint Edition. Arthur Hawkins Jr. dustjacket art. Jazz Age novel of a woman brought up in the North Woods and then transported into the sophisticated society of New York City. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow chips and modest edge wear. Item #22271
Early Reprint Edition. Arthur Hawkins, Jr. dustjacket art. Novel of a woman whose imagination helped her through a startling job as a companion to a “semi-invalid”. With nice Art-Deco dustjacket art. Very Good in a Very Good dustjacket, four centimeter closed tear to top spine edge, shallow edge chipping, few short closed tears. Item #17926
True First Edition. Jazz Age themed novel of women trying to make it in the modern business world. "Can the lure of easy riches, the tempting admiration of men of wealth, power and social position, the bait of worldly victory, be resisted successfully by the daring attractive young business women in this era of extravagance, dissipation, luxury and reckless standards of life?". Near Fine in near Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends and lower front panel, closed tear and creasing at lower front panel, several inch closed tear at lower spine area. Item #22540
First Edition. Part of the author's 'Airplane Girls Series', 'a new series of books about girl aviators and their marvelous accomplishments in the air'. Oddly scarce in dustjacket. Would be Very Good but for stain at lower spine end and top rear cover, in Very Good dustjacket, stain at lower spine end and top rear panel. Item #601462
First Edition stated. Baskerville dustjacket art. "Everybody knows the fox woman. She is at every club - in every set - at every resort. you see men gathered round her - you see groups of women talking about her. She is a type in the modern world of Society. Her desire is always to dominate, possess. Always exacting love, never returning it - plunging men into despair, into jealousy, finally into hatred". Scarce title. Nearly Very Good, mild crease at front board, small light stain to lower rear cover, in Very Good modestly edge chipped dustjacket, few short closed tears, dime sized area of surface erosion at mid rear panel, dime sized chip at top rear panel. Item #25211
