51. Revelry. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1926.
Ninth Edition. Thrilling novel of Washington politics and the life of a president. Near Fine, foxing to page ends, in Very Good Plus dustjacket, small nicks to flap corners. Item #24594
Ninth Edition. Thrilling novel of Washington politics and the life of a president. Near Fine, foxing to page ends, in Very Good Plus dustjacket, small nicks to flap corners. Item #24594
First Edition. Frank E. Schoonover illustrations. Rare Hubin listed murder mystery set on the New England seacoast and featuring detective Professor Chester Kent. Includes elements of astrology and spiritualism. Extremely rare in original publisher dustjacket with wraparound artwork. Very Good or Near Fine with few small light stains at rear cover, in Very Good dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, top rear panel with few inch closed tear and accompanying creases, flap edges with surface wear. Item #17370
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. Novel of a man who trod on the devotion of a woman who loved him. 'Handsome, cruel, blind with strength, Jason trod her devotion under foot, learning too late that she alone held sway over his heart'. Near Fine, some spotting to cloth, previous owner signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at top rear panel. Item #37491
Later Printing. "Come-on thinks he has inherited two millions and with Mr. Teeters as private secretary, goes to New York to find that his financial reputation had beat him there. With ten thousand available cash and credit based on fanciful inherited millions, Charley owns Broadway and various side streets adjacent thereto. One after another the different brands of bright boys with gold bricks to sell rally around Charley and supply, much to their amazement, the opportunities that he has heretofore lacked. For the last chapter in this breezy, humorous and often exciting story is entitled Charley Get His Million." Near Fine in a Very Good, modestly soiled and edge chipped dustjacket. Item #20267
First Edition. "Come-on thinks he has inherited two millions and with Mr. Teeters as private secretary, goes to New York to find that his financial reputation had beat him there. With ten thousand available cash and credit based on fanciful inherited millions, Charley owns Broadway and various side streets adjacent thereto. One after another the different brands of bright boys with gold bricks to sell rally around Charley and supply, much to their amazement, the opportunities that he has heretofore lacked. For the last chapter in this breezy, humorous and often exciting story is entitled Charley Get His Million." Near Fine in dustjacket lacking lower inch and half of rear panel, nickel sized chip at lower front panel, else Very Good. Item #21413
Second Printing. Gluyas Williams dustjacket art. Sentimental history of the "old time saloon", opulent places like the Waldorf and the Knickerbocker, as well as dives on the corner or roadhouses. "Its all here even to the pictorial adornments of the early nineties, the swinging doors, the dilapidated pool table, and the long-suffering bartender ready to either weep or fight, according to the mood of his customers. Illustrations by Williams, John Held Jr., James Montgomery Flagg, Herb Roth, and Harrison Fisher. Near Fine but for small ink address at front endpaper, Good dustjacket, dime sized chip at top front panel, mid-rear panel with quarter sized chip, light staining to spine area. Item #25783
First Edition stated. Unsigned cover decoration and dustjacket art. Illustrated by John T. McCutcheon. Collection of humorous short stories all illustrated by McCutcheon which reference drinking often and other human foibles. Very uncommon in dustjacket. Near Fine in attractive Very Good dustjacket. Item #39933
First Edition. T. L. dustjacket art. Egyptian novel depicting "the struggle of genius against the forces of the world, against the material desires of self-centered man and ambitious women. Flesh as a bait against spirit draws man's deepest emotions to the surface". Very Good, some paper residue to covers, in Good dustjacket, staining to verso, shallow edge chips. Item #24381
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. Collection of contemporary verse edited by this African American author. This copy inscribed and signed by Adoff in year of publication at front free endpaper. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, some edge chipping, light stain to lower spine, price-clipped. Item #12851
First Edition (Limited Edition, First Imprint 1936 Edition, Unnumbered) Original blue cloth, illustrated and stamped in gilt, 7 1/4 by 5 inches, 125 pages. A rather comprehensive collection of cocktail recipes with almost every page including a color illustration of a drinking scene. No copies found on WorldCat, though this title is listed in the bibliography of numerous cocktail blogs. A nearly Very Good firmly bound volume, cheap cloth worn at edges. Item #37675
First Edition. Quarto, original cloth and printed dustjacket, illustrated with color chromolithographs. Very scarce in original publisher's dustjacket. Contents include: "Odds and Ends" by The Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, M.P. "Salmon fishing in the Spey" by Lady Evelyn Cotterell. "On Sea Trout" by the Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Grey, Bart., M.P. "Dapping on Lough Derg" by Sir Thomas Gratton Esmonde, Bart., M.P. "Salmon Failures and Successes" by the Hon. A.E. Gathorne-Hardy. "Salmon and Sea Trout memories in many lands" by Sir Henry Seton-Karr, C.M.G. "How to make trout-fishing" by The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart. "Tarpon Fishing in the Pass" by Lord Desborough. "The Big Game Fishes of California" by Charles Frederick Holder LL.D. "Memories of Mahseer" by Lieut.-Col. P.R. Bairnsfather. "Coarse-Fishing Memories" by H.T. Sheringham. "Days with Bass in East and West" by F. G. Aflalo. Very Good, cloth bright and attractive, some webbing showing at inner hinges, a spilled ink jar has left a black stain to fore-edge of pages but hardy affecting page margins, in Very Good dustjacket, ink stain at rear flap edge, chipped at spine ends, quarter sized chip at lower spine area. Item #27069
Original bent steel piping, bakelite head with hoop earrings, twelve drink coasters. Stands 5 1/2 inches, coasters 3 1/2 inches in diameter. Derogatory depiction of African or African-American for the use of holding drink coasters. Unusual item. No date or printed information, we assume the 1930's, but possibly earlier. Very Good, one coaster with two square centimeter of loss to edge. Item #32826
First Edition. Design and decorations by Edward Larocque Tinker. "A sensitive and delightful record of the intimate life of the Negroes of Gretna, Louisiana, a rural town on the banks of the Mississippi River, opposite New Orleans." Very Good, covers mildly bowed, some spotting to cloth, in extremely fragile and rare original dustjacket of 'pressed wood' appearance, Very Good, with few scuffs at spine, few tiny chips. Item #22156
First Edition. Original blue cloth, octavo. Rare Hubin listed mystery novel of a tangle of circumstantial evidence. Very Good, mild cocking, webbing showing at rear inner hinge. Item #20522
Octavo 3/4 cloth and leather bound journal with marbeled edges. Writen in a small neat hand, entries dated 1872-1874. This may be a writing book kept for school assignments. Topics range from "Winter Flowers" to a book review of "Virgil's Enied" and a "Day in the Laboratory." Front inner hinge broken. Item #34143
First Edition. Octavo, one quarter tan cloth over green paper, illustrated dust jacket, black and white frontispiece, black and white illustrations throughout, signed and inscribed in Hebrew by author at front facing endpaper. Short novel about "nine pious men plus Hananiah, a wondrous fellow, [who] set out on a journey from their East European home to the Holy Land and Jerusalem;" winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Very Good, some rust staining from a paper clip on a few pages, in Very Good dust jacket, light foxing, slight edgewear. Item #250877
Third Edition. Original green wrappers, 28 pages, 8 by 8 5/8 inches, two copper binder clips. Collection of alcohol lore and cocktail recipes produced by this famous resort south of the border. Very Good. Item #40638
First Edition. An uncommon title by known gangster and jailbird describing ways to commit various crimes, includes drug dealing. Very Good, tiny cloth break at top spine end, in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at lower spine end and flap corners, centimeter deep chipping at top spine end. Item #32916
First Edition. "His first collection of short stories, introduces a deft, if conventional, craftsman with a taste for domestic psychodramas in the mode of Anton Chekhov and Katherine Mansfield, his prime influences. The title story, Lawrencean in its adroit probing of feminine behavior, derives significant energy from a misogynist vantage. Its weakest stories, including "The Dark City," "By My Troth, Nerissa!," and "Smith and Jones," a thin philosophical allegory as unconvincing as Poe at his most tendentious, foreshadow the difficulties Aiken would always experience when straying too far from autobiography or attempting to explore psyches too remote from his own. "Strange Moonlight" and "The Last Visit," the most effective performances in Bring! Bring!, are also the most personal." Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #29594
Later Printing. Small Octavo, Original illustrated cloth and dustjacket. Illustrations and dustjacket art by Dorothy Craigie. Ainsworth's best known character, a young boy of African decent who gets himself into humorous situations. This copy signed by Ainsworth at title page. Near Fine in Very Good to Near Fine price-clipped dustjacket. Item #12462
First Edition. Lucius W. Hitchcock dustjacket art and illustrations. Humorous crime novel missed by Hubin. A scarce title by this author and screenwriter whose work includes 'How to Marry a Millionaire', and 'The Old Maid' - a Pulitzer Prize play. "A bright, breezy comedy sort of story with a charming widow, Kitty Davenant, as the heroine, and her old friend and lawyer, Jamison, as the hero. Things happen around Kitty, she keeps things and people moving; and presently she is in a fierce contest which involves millions of dollars and a burglary". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some shallow chipping at spine ends and edges, lower rear panel with inch sized chip. Item #24459
First Edition. Octavo, original gray cloth over boards, black and white dust jacket with green lettering. Mystery novel in which a woman attends a house party at the house of her former fiancé. Near Fine, previous owner gift inscription at front facing endpaper, stamp at bottom edge, pages 63/64 and 65/66 torn, in Very Good dust jacket, tiny chip at top front panel, small discolorations at rear panel, slight edgewear. Item #250161