Jazz Age and Depression Era Literature & Non-Fiction
First American Edition. Murder during an Air Raid. Very Good, store stamp at front endpaper, in Good dustjacket, fading at spine, some shallow chips and scotch tape at corners. Item #29545
First Edition. Fleming Stone investigates the murder of a New York lawyer. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chips and closed tears, top spine end with half inch deep chipping. Item #35087
First Edition. Mystery novel in which "the whole affair lay in the poor bedimmed brain of the village idiot. Well, it was up to the famous Pennington Wise and equally famous little assistant, Zizi, to find it". Uncommon in dustjacket. Near Fine, ownership signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow edge chips and modest wear. Item #25103
Third Printing (but correct 7/6 dustjacket). Wendell Galloway dustjacket art. War-chronicle of an American eight man squad at the front during the First World War. Great dustjacket art by Galloway. Very Good, contemporary ownership stamp at title page, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #35363
First Edition. New York city set romance novel in which a "lovely daughter of the old south, was adopted by a benevolent New York gentleman and went to live with him, in the days when Madison Square was 'uptown'". She marries a man but falls in love with his twin brother, and her affair is discovered. Very Good in nearly Very Good dustjacket, soiling to panels, few light stains, some shallow edge chips and wear. Item #35393
First Edition. "Percentage girls can be found in night clubs and cafes in all the larger cities. And they make something on every drink susceptible gentlemen will buy. Violet Rosebud Appleby started out serving beer in a hole in the wall place. Since she had what it takes, she ended up enticing Park Avenue's most aristocratic sons to buy champagne. Not unnaturally, some of the customers didn't understand she didn't go with the drinks.' Very uncommon barroom novel. Nearly Very Good, some tape shadows to cloth, front endpaper removed, tear to half title. Item #35383
First Edition. Chas. K. Stevens. Western-set novel involving a man uninterested in his community and neighbors but who finds himself in political life. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at top spine end, inch sized chip at top rear panel. Item #35044
First Edition. New York City set novel of luxury and poverty. Of Justin Carter, baffling product of wealth and culture and Jean Poussin, the fear driven young surgeon. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, about two square inches of loss at lower spine area, significant chipping at top half of spine. Item #35090
First Edition. E. I. dustjacket art. A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur. Their situations are changed when her family loses all their money and he wins $50,000 at a racetrack. They get married, but it's not long before she starts spending their money the way she used to spend hers. Basis for the First National Picture starring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, chipped at flap corners, centimeter deep chipping at lower spine end, top spine end with quarter sized chip, top rear panel with square inch sized chip. Item #35047
