1. One year of Pierrot. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917.
First Edition. Lester G. Hornby illustrations. Novel of "motherhood and babyhood". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some foxing to panels, some shallow chips. Item #23851
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2. The Murder of Steven Kester. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, (1931).
First Edition. William Siegel dustjacket art (though signed Cravath). A schoolma'am detective investigates the murder of a music teacher at a school. Uncommon. Near Fine in Good dustjacket that suffers from some modest staining to panels. Item #41142
3. Troubled Star. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1939.
First Edition. Lois Clarke dustjacket design. Mystery novel set on a college campus and of a young professor who investigates the startling events. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, top spine end with centimeter deep chipping. Item #14536
4. Troubled Star. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1939.
First Edition. Lois Clarke dustjacket design. Mystery novel set on a college campus and of a young professor who investigates the startling events. Near Fine in an almost Near Fine dustjacket but for a few small abrasions at front panel and tiny chip at top rear flap corner. Item #20116
5. Fidelia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1924.
First Edition. An uncommon Balmer title. Love triangle at Northwestern University. Very Good, soiling to page edges, modern bookstore stamp at front endpaper, in soiled and lightly chipped dustjacket, but otherwise nearly Very Good. Item #27434
6. Candidate for the Line. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1930.
First Edition. Illustrated by A. O. Scott. Novel of preparatory school football. Octavo, original orange cloth with black lettering. Almost Near Fine, spine darkened, light wear to cloth at spine ends, corners and edges. Item #19712
7. Never Go Back, A Novel Without a Plot. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928.
First Edition. P. M. dustjacket art. "A pungent satire of University life," in which a professor tries to return to the normal life he was leading at college before having served in the First World War. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end. Item #27459
8. Never Go Back, A Novel Without a Plot. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928.
First Edition. P. M. dustjacket art. "A pungent satire of University life," in which a professor tries to return to the normal life he was leading at college before having served in the First World War. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow loss at top spine end. Item #27590
9. Never Go Back, A Novel Without a Plot. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928.
First Edition. P. M. dustjacket art. "A pungent satire of University life," in which a professor tries to return to the normal life he was leading at college before having served in the First World War. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, top spine end chipped half inch deep. Item #40714
10. Bull By the Horns. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1937.
First Edition, Advance Review Copy, with publishers slip laid in. Novel of a professor who wanders into the wilderness to find the reality beneath the complexities of modern living. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, moderate edge and shelf wear, few small edge chips, some mild scratches to front panel. Item #9794
11. Life, The Interpreter. London: Longmans, Green and Co, 1902.
First Edition. Author was a British novelist and short story writer, born in 1884 in Rochester, Kent. She studied individual psychology in Vienna and in 1924 she and her husband started a school in Kitzbuhel in Austria, as an “educational laboratory to determine how psychology and educational theory could cure the ills of nations.” Author’s first book, written when she was just 17. Explores the education of women, class division and social convention. She was paid three pounds for the story. Near Fine with ownership inscription to front free endpaper, in a Very Good plus dustjacket, with partial splitting to front spine edge of the very fragile dustjacket. Item #19293
12. The Quick and the Dead. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1933.
First Edition. Novel of an older man's childhood reminiscences. Very Good in Good to Very Good copper foil dustjacket, small edge chips, few cm chip to top front panel, few small spine end chips, modest shelf wear. Item #12110
13. Bachelors' Buttons. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company, 1912.
First Edition. Carter Housh dustjacket art. 'A college professor who came unexpectedly into some money and decided to gratify the long cherished desires of his life in spite of wide opposition'. Very scarce title. Very Good, modest shelf wear in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #41014
14. Rival Fifteens, A School Story [SIGNED AND INSCRIBED]. London: Wells Gardner, Darton and Co., Ltd, [1931].
First Edition. British school set adventure and mystery novel intended for young adults. This copy signed and inscribed by the author. Scarce thus. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #27110
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15. Old Mole, Being the Surprising Adventures in England of Herbert Jocelyn Beenham MA Sometime Sixth-form Master at Thrigsby Grammar School in the County of Lancaster. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1914.
First Edition. Interesting novel of a teacher who loses his position due to relations with a servant girl and how they strike out on the road together. Near Fine in Good but soiled dustjacket, shallow edge chipping, top spine end with half inch chip. Item #23627
16. The Professor's House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.
First Edition. C. B. Falls dustjacket art. Chronicle of the 52nd year of Godfrey St. Peter, a professor of history at an unnamed Midwestern university in the small town of Hamilton, which borders Lake Michigan. Professor St. Peter has lately finished his magnum opus, a history of the adventures of the Spanish explorers in North America, and he and his wife Lillian are in the process of moving to a new house built with the proceeds of his completed work. Professor St. Peter, however, has grown profoundly attached to his old house. Near Fine, with previous owner signature at front endpaper, in Good dustjacket, darkened at spine, several closed tears at lower spine area mended at verso with archival tape, nickel sized chip at top spine end, front flap corners with small chips, some foxing to panels. Item #35810
17. The Professor's House. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1925.
First Edition. C. B. Falls dustjacket art. Chronicle of the 52nd year of Godfrey St. Peter, a professor of history at an unnamed Midwestern university in the small town of Hamilton, which borders Lake Michigan. Professor St. Peter has lately finished his magnum opus, a history of the adventures of the Spanish explorers in North America, and he and his wife Lillian are in the process of moving to a new house built with the proceeds of his completed work. Professor St. Peter, however, has grown profoundly attached to his old house. Near Fine, with previous owner signature at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, lettering faded at spine, shallow loss at top spine end, rear panel with some hardly noticeable drip spots. Item #37421
18. Spring. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1929].
First Edition. Gladys Peto wrap around dustjacket art. Novel of upper class youth. Great art deco style dustjacket art. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, small edge chip and short closed tears. Item #28539
19. Goin' On Fourteen. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1924).
Presumed Early Printing with publisher's colophon at title page. Worth Brehm wrap-around dustjacket art and illustrations. "Cross-sections out of a year in the life of an average boy are autobiographical in the best sense of that word". Near Fine, contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, two closed tears a few inches long at front panel, some shallow edge chips. Item #25104
20. Boy. Toronto: W. J. Gage and Co, [1900].
First Edition, or Advance Copy. Original decorative wrappers. Tipped in is "Publisher's Note. This new long story is the most important volume by Marie Corelli published for some years, and the first issued since the Author's serious illness. May 31, 1900". Uncommon printing. Good, front wrap detached at spine edge. Item #25868
21. Phyllis. New York: The Century Co, 1914.
First Edition. Percy D. Johnson. Novel of a young girl living in a small southern town. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket with shallow chipping to spine ends, minor stains to lower front panel, and general shelf wear. Item #15157
22. I'll Show You the Town. New York: Robert M. McBride and Co., 1924.
Fourth Printing. Humorous novel of an assistant professor of Latin elected to show New York to three women, a rich dowdy widow, a nineteen year old millionaire and his former college sweetheart. Basis for 1925 silent Universal-Jewel film starring Reginald Denny. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket but for large pieces of scotch tape at top spine end and lower rear panel. Item #20413
23. Bloody Mary's. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1934.
First Edition. "A full-length autobiographical picture of a small Yorkshire boys' school" as it was at the turn of the century. The jacket copy states that this is one of the best books about kids ever written. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some fading to spine. Item #21350
24. Priorsford. London: Hodder and Stoughton. (1935).
Early Printing. Simpson dustjacket art. Novel of a young man and his faithful dog. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, tiny chips at top spine end. Item #8262
25. The Brief Hour. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1931.
First Edition. Burgundy set novel of "the love of Jean De Graney, a middle aged university professor, for the actress Lucie Peirrere. The characters of the two are created with the utmost subtlety and penetration." Near Fine, small hole at mid-front spine gutter, in Very Good dustjacket, black at spine modestly faded. Item #23852
