Jazz Age & Depression Era Literature
First Edition stated. Charles Lassell dustjacket art and illustrations. School football themed novel of how Jimmy became the "most valuable substitute the Riverbend football team ever had". Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, color faded at spine, shallow chipping at spine ends, inch sized abrasion at front panel, narrow few centimeter sized chip at mid rear spine edge. Item #22649
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Paramount Picture starring Thomas Meighan and Gertrude Astor. Humorous novel of a football coach who finds himself on a ship to Panama and who falls in love with a Spanish girl named Chiquita. Near Fine, short gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at mid rear flap edge. Item #22660
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Samuel Goldwyn picture starring Milton Sills and Doris Kenyon. Uncommon in original dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, red lettering at spine modestly faded, some nicks and edge wear. Item #22644
First Edition. Amy M. Sacker dustjacket and cover art. Original gray cloth decorated in gilt over pictorial boards stamped in gilt, green, red and black. Historical novel of 1640's New York City, known then as New Amsterdam, the Dutch West India Company and the settlers of Manhattan. This copy retains the extremely scarce original dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with nickel sized chip at lower spine end. Item #22648
First Edition. Thrilling adventure novel of personified dogs and wolves living in the San Jacinto Mountains. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow edge chips and wear, strip of scotch tape to top and bottom edge at verso. Item #22681
First Edition. B. Cory Kilvert dustjacket art. London scenes of "poverty and loneliness" and the author's struggle as a youth. "Old Quong Lee, a storekeeper in the Causeway; his one-room house with an Uncle; his adventures in the kitchen of the Big House at Greenwich where his Uncle worked; his rapturous hours in the street". Near Fine, one page signature bound slightly lower than text block, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at top spine end. Item #22643
First Edition stated. Crime novel missed by Hubin of Sir Clement Vyse, a sporting English gentleman, who "sets out to climb an unscaled peak of the Himalayas and comes back home the triumphant explorer to every one except his crushed, sensitive son and the woman he is to marry. Miss Cannan has drawn the fascinating and frightful picture of a murderer". Near Fine but for a "Rental Library" stamp at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, some nicking and short closed tears to edges, soiling to spine. Item #22650
First Edition. Ann Meredith dustjacket art. Very scarce novel of a professional dancer, "the account of her debut, first as a frightened young girl facing a sea of faces in her first solo dance - until the tremendous night when she has blasé London theatre-goers at her feet." Near Fine in Very Good modestly soiled dustjacket, few small chips at top spine end. Item #22687
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with frontis featuring a scene from the Universal Picture directed by James Whale, who had just previously directed Frankenstein, and starring Lew Ayres, Mae Clark and Una Merkel. Mantini dustjacket art. Racy Jazz Age themed New York City set novel of a maid who becomes a kept woman. The film was also Hattie McDaniel's first film appearance. Near Fine, some soiling to page edges, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends, modest wear to edges. Item #22661
First Edition. Mary Greene Blumenschein dustjacket art and illustrations. Charming Irish girl who becomes one of the best loved actresses on the American stage who joins forces with a ambitious politician trying to become governor of New York. She "makes a political speech the like of which New York had never heard". This copy nicely inscribed and signed in 1916 in New York by author at front endpaper. Very Good - Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping to edges, top rear panel with nickel sized chip. Item #22635
First Edition. Association Copy, inscribed and signed by Cowley to fellow author Edward Dahlberg at front free endpaper. Minor notations in pencil to four pages are presumably in Dahlberg's hand, twice comparing passages to Eliot. Cowley's first commercially produced book. "Here is verse that reflects the almost sterile beauty of the Pennsylvania countryside; poems of passion; poems of the city and of the sea". Near Fine but for some wear to spine ends, in Very Good dustjacket, some edge nicks, top spine end with shallow chips. Item #22711
First Edition. Small quarto, original illustrated cloth and decorative dustjacket. Wonderfully illustrated prose work by Crane with rich color illustrations at each page in the artist's distinctive style. Very Good, some spotting to cloth, pages loose from binding as usual, in Very Good original 19th Century dustjacket, few shallow edge chips, few inch closed tear at lower front flap edge. Item #22700
First Edition stated. Uncommon collection of narratives including accounts of mystery and crime missed by Hubin by this former professor of comparative philology at the University of Kharkoff and editor of Odesskia Novosti. The author states in his preface: "The stories and essays in this volume are not the fruits of imagination, but straightforward narratives of episodes that came under my observation in St. Petersburg, Vienna, Budapest, Bucharest, Paris, etc. where I represented the Daily Telegraph." Includes such titles as The Dead Hand, The Artless Monk, Among the Gipsies in Transylvania, The Most Mysterious Robbery on Record, Strychnine or Angina Pectoris?, The Story of a Diamond Necklace, etc. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends. Item #22686
Second Impression. Frederic R. Gruger dustjacket art and illustrations. Humorous novel of life in rural Maine, with dialectic speech. Despite Small, Maynard publishing information, this copy has a "McLeod and Allen" dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends. Item #22670
First Edition. Edward C. Caswell dustjacket art. Hubin listed mystery novel and adventure story of the great Northwest complete with "Flame of Fire Weed, most daring of cowgirls." Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #22603
Fourth Printing, "Office Copy" stamped at top page edge and spine of jacket. Mystery novel in which a young barrister investigates the disappearance of a lovely young woman's guardian. This copy, despite being printed a few months after the first edition, is presumably the publisher's own copy with notes on front flap of jacket with planned changes to text. Uncommon thus. Near Fine but for stamp at top page edge and some soiling to page edges, in dustjacket with about an inch of loss at both top and lower spine ends, else Very Good. Item #22673
First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Cosmopolitan picture starring Marion Davies. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and few flap corners. Item #22628
First Edition and First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Warner Brothers film starring Richard Barthelmess. Based on the original screenplay by John Monk Saunders. Story about a reporter who tries to expose the Chicago Underworld. Very Good, short gift inscription at front endpaper, mild cocking, in Very Good dustjacket with chipping at spine ends and few edges, spine darkened. Item #22624
First Edition. Romance novel set in Florida of a woman ignored by local high society who makes an escort out of a young man who is down on his luck. The novel turns into a crime novel, though missed by Hubin, which involves blackmail and murder. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, nicked at spine ends and few edges. Item #22638
First Edition. Romance novel set during the Second World War of a love triangle and war-time situations such as a ship hitting a mine and cars being shot at by bomber pilots. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, nicked at spine ends. Item #22637
First Edition. Hanson Booth illustrations and dustjacket art. Hubin listed murder mystery novel set in Connecticut. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow edge chipping, some darkening to spine. Item #22633
First Edition stated. Alan Hammer dustjacket art. "Maren Hagerthorn's life in the Sierras, defending the last remnants of a once proud Indian race, held more appeal than the sheltered campus routine of Southwestern University. Amid mountain scenes of breath-taking beauty she encounters squalor and hopeless superstition, racial distrust, greed and debauchery. Coe Hayne portrays with deep understanding the bitterest problems of a slowly vanishing race and pays tribute to the unsung labors of field workers. He gives the reader a rich cast of human characters, red and white, thrown together in a situation where the worst and best in men can have full play". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends, modest edge wear. Item #22618
Probable First American Edition, with "This edition published in January, 1905" statement at copyright page. Original printed dustjacket, "H" designed cover art. The book was first published in England in 1904 and different American printings, including the 1907 illustrated Stokes edition and the contemporary Grosset and Dunlap photoplay edition have been erroneously designated as the first American printing by previous cataloguers. This copy, with a January 1905 printing statement seems the most probable to hold the true mantle of 'First American Edition'. This copy remarkable for retaining the original printed publisher's dustjacket, with press copy by such English journals as the Daily Mirror and Punch at front panel. Rear panel advertised Hichen's three previous works, The Woman with the Fan, Felix, and Tongues of Conscience. When first published, this exciting tale of adventure in which a young English woman travels alone in the Sahara Desert was regarded as a titillating piece of literature. The Garden of Allah was the basis for three films. The first two were silent films, a 1916 production and the 1927 MGM production directed by Rex Ingram. The third was an Academy Award winner produced by David O. Selznick in 1936 and starring Marlene Dietrich, Charles Boyer, and Basil Rathbone. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips and wear, lower rear panel with about an inch sized chip. Item #22676
Early Printing, "Fourth Printing, April, 1927" statement at copyright page. Miguel Covarrubias dustjacket art. Original blue cloth. Hughes's most celebrated collection of poetry. This copy, despite being the fourth printing, has its original first issue dustjacket without blurb for Fine Clothes to the Jew. "Third Printing" plug at top front panel of jacket is the only indication of it being from a later printing. In need of archival work. Very Good, in dustjacket lacking spine material, few inches of loss at lower front panel, chipped at edges and front flap edge. Item #22591
First Edition. Johan Bull dustjacket art. Novel of a woman's "amazing journey through life". This copy nicely inscribed and signed by Hurst at front endpaper. Near Fine, some fading to cloth, in Very Good bright dustjacket, centimeter chip and scotch tape mend to lower spine end. Item #22627
