First Edition. C . V. Jolin dustjacket art. Business themed novel of the travel industry's pioneer, Thomas Cook. "The Cook dynasty started with Thomas Cook, teetotaler, Temperance worker, and idealist, who ran the first excursion train nearly a century ago and conducted the first world cruise. Christopher Drake, the hero of this story, who as a boy ran away with John Cook to join the gypsies and later became a Cook's agent". Near Fine but for foxing to endpapers and page fore-edge, in Very Good dustjacket, red of spine modestly faded, shallow chipping along top edge. Item #21389

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Metro-Goldwyn film starring Henry B. Walthall. This copy unique for being inscribed and signed by the cast of the later 1937 Paramount Picture starring Leo Carrillo and Jean Parker. First free endpaper with several line inscription signed by Leo Carillo in the year of production to the assistant director on the film, Ralph Slosser, who had over 50 career films to his credit. Verso of page with short inscription signed by co-star Jean Parker and signatures of fellow cast members - Otto Kruger, Robert Barrat, Sara Haden, Addison Richards, Andy Clyde (and Eugene Strong, location manager). Carrillo was a popular actor thru the 1940's playing The Cisco Kid as well as other cowboys and Signor Ferretti in the 1943 version of Phantom of the Opera. Jean Parker, an actress who appeared in over 80 films, starred in The Flying Deuces in 1939 and Little Women. Uncommon signature of actress Sara Haden who appeared in over 100 films including The Bishop's Wife (1947) and She-Wolf of London (1946), but best known as Aunt Polly in the Andy Hardy series starring Mickey Rooney. Andy Clyde featured in over 300 films during his 40 year Hollywood career including a long stretch as Hopalong Cassidy's sidekick. Otto Kruger, another well known Hollywood character actor played Judge Percy Mettrick in High Noon (1952) and appeared in Saboteur (1942) and Murder, My Sweet (1944). Robert Barrat and Addison Richards both also enjoyed prolific and long film careers. Very Good to Near Fine, lacking frontis still, in an edge chipped dustjacket, half in chip to lower spine end. Item #21392

First Edition. Pinto dustjacket art. "The stormy marital adventures of David, a young London builder's clerk, and Lucy, a commercial artist, are unfolded in this novel with all the exciting drama of deep emotional conflict". Near Fine, contemporary address at front endpaper, in bright Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #21419

First Edition stated. Interesting novel of a woman bent on keeping a farm on her own. "It is the story of a woman's struggle with the earth, with two men's love, and with herself". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipping at flap corners, centimeter deep area of loss at top front panel. Item #21446

First Edition. H. Fisk dustjacket art and illustrations. Original illustrated boards in publisher's dustjacket. Music themed short story previously printed in newspapers of a small mining town on Christmas Eve in search of a piano player. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end. Item #21422

Early Reprint Edition. Charles L. Wren dustjacket art. Modern romance novel of a young woman who must choose between a millionaire and an artist. Near Fine in Very Good lightly soiled dustjacket. Item #21453

First Edition. Original blue illustrated cloth and illustrated dustjacket. Rare novelization by Frederick R. Toombs of this extremely popular play by Thomas A. Wise and Harrison Rhodes and produced by William Brady and Joseph Grismer, with 407 performances at the Bijou Theatre on Broadway. Illustrated with eight photographic stills from the theatrical production which feature a very young Douglas Fairbanks who played Bud Haines. This is likely only the second book to feature Fairbanks' image, after a theatre edition of George Broadhurst's The Man of the Hour which was novelized by Albert Payson Terhune under the title, The New Mayor in 1907 and published by Ogilvie. A jacket for either of these first editions is unseen other than this present copy. The play and novel explore the current state of corruption in Washington politics, an honest southern senator beset by political bosses who plan to use him for their own gain. Basis for the 1914 black and white silent film directed by Harrison Garfield Rhodes and starring Thomas A. Wise, Chester Barnett and Evelyn Brent. Near Fine bright copy in Very Good dustjacket with some loss at top spine area. Item #21471

Early Printing, one month after First. H. R. dustjacket art. Jazz Age romance novel of "Paris-American life" and "a girl dashing, reckless, and with a diabolical magnetism that was dangerous to herself as well as to those whom she attracted". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow edge chips, centimeter sized chip at lower spine end. Item #21461

First Edition. Mississippi set historical novel written as if "Old Man River had witnessed the petty conflicts, the bickering, the gossip, the passion and exploitation which marked the daily lives of these people". Near Fine but for a creased spine, in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #21405

First Edition. H Baer dustjacket art. Author's extremely scarce first book of a man trying to sell tennis racquets in Jugo-Slavia. Hoff, better known by his pseudonym, William Cooper, started an English school of writing that rejected the modernist tradition in favor of naturalism, and set the prototype for later works by Kingsley Amis, John Braine, Anthony Burgess and Malcolm Bradbury. His most famous work published in 1950, Scenes from Provincial Life, was " hailed as seminal by John Braine, Malcolm Bradbury and other writers of the period, who also chose provincial, anarchic but ambitious lower middle class heroes and a low-key realist tone in what some have come to see as a reaction against Modernism. When the novel was republished in 1982, together with two sequels in the series, it was judged by one critic to be more accomplished than anything of the same genre which followed". The author wrote two other novels in the 1930's, Rhea and Lisa, both as difficult to find as this title. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow loss at spine ends and few flap corners, some mild soiling to spine. Item #21456

First Edition stated. Brewster dustjacket art. "Who is the mysterious hooded terror who haunts and eludes the Chief Inspector of Scotland yard and his assistants? Who is the invisible power forcing National Medical Supplies, Ltd., to deal illegally in narcotics?" Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and few flap corners, vertical crease at spine, closed tear at lower front panel. Item #21454

First Edition. Martinot dustjacket art. Novel of a man who goes to Boston to become an interior decorator. This copy nicely inscribed and signed by the author at front free endpaper. Near Fine but for mild cocking in Very Good dustjacket, with shallow chipping to jacket edges. Item #21386