First Edition, Limited First Edition. Scarce collection of psychedelic art or ‘trip art’ by sixteen artists. Distributed by Melonly Melonely and the Psychedelic Shop in San Francisco. Front Cover lettering by Peter Spoeker, Drawings by Charlie the Tuna and Stern Paull. Title Page and Artist’s Names by Rick Shubb. Inside Back cover by Phil Harper. Back Cover, figure by Jim Gulyas. Quarto, printed paper wraps, stiff grey wrappers, black and white illustrations. Near Fine, some light soiling and mild yellowing to covers, minor wear to lower edge of few pages, small red ‘x’ to top corner of rear inside cover. Very Scarce, attractive copy. Item #19204

First Edition. Biography of Claude Williams, a Presbyterian minister active in civil rights, labor advocacy, and race relations, written by an English author, socialist, and KGB agent. Belfrage joined the Communist Party briefly in 1937, but withdrew after a few months. He was a cofounder and writer for the “National Guardian,” a radical leftish independent weekly newspaper. Belfrage was questioned by the FBI in 1947, summoned to appear before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953, and deported in 1955. He continued to write until his death in 1990. Very Good to Near Fine with modest foxing to cloth and yellowing and mild spotting to endpapers, in a Very Good plus dustjacket with spine ends worn, light edge and surface wear, and few instances of soiling and foxing to white of flaps and rear panel. Item #19266

Presumed First Edition, but publisher did not indicate later printing. Ownership signature at front free endpaper date 1913. HBM dustjacket art. Near fine with light foxing to endpapers, scarce dustjacket is mostly split along spine edges, mended at verso with archival tape, with flap edges worn and chipped. Item #19292

Second Printing, but First Published under author’s real name. American novelist, poet and playwright’s novel originally written under the name Martin Redfield. This edition printed in the same year that she was awarded a $10,000 prize in Winthrop Ames’s play contest. Near Fine with clean bright text in a Near Fine dustjacket but for fading to spine and top edge of rear panel and few small nicks and shallow 1 cm chip. Item #19189

First Edition. W. E. Lefferts dustjacket art. Peru set adventure novel involving a young woman with the secret of the Rio del Morte disclosed to her from her father’s deathbed, and a young Englishmen she is pledged to marry. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket, with shallow chipping and nibbling to rear panel, few surface abrasions, and light edge wear. Item #19309

First Edition. Very Scarce and early romance dealing with the airline industry. Almost Very Good, lacks front free endpaper, with remnants of brown paper tape at spine, in Good or better edge creased dustjacket, some abrasions to verso from removal of brown paper-tape, few remnants of of brown paper-tape at verso, scotch tape to exterior of top and lower edges. Item #19317

First Edition. Adventure story and romance set in the frozen North, involving a trader’s exploits, an “Indian fight,” and unsolved secrets. Near Fine but for rubbing to spine ends and very light surface wear, in a Very Good dustjacket, edges reinforced with scotch tape at verso, shallow chipping and modest surface wear. Item #19371

First Edition.Thrilling novel about “that tremendous sex impulse, fierce, savage, and blind, that is sometimes called love at first sight,” involving a woman who runs off with a near stranger the night before her wedding and finds herself with a desperate criminal. Very Good plus with spine faded, spotting to covers and light foxing to endpapers, in a Very Good plus dustjacket with scotch tape at verso mending splits along rear spine edge and front flap edge. Item #19164

First American Edition, published in England under the title, “Tassell-Gentle.” Rare title. Novel set in the London literary scene involving an aloof novelist and playwright and his love affairs with three women: an American girl who organizes a successful but oppressive literary career, a passionate lover with whom marriage is unsuccessful, and a cold and possessive young woman. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket with light surface wear, modest edge wear, rubbing to spine ends and flap corners, few short closted tears and creases. Item #19161

First Edition, Advance Review Copy in original printed wrappers. Nautical and drug theme novel of “the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era,” set in the city of Salem, Massachusetts and involving an aristocratic Manchu woman, riches of the East Indies, and the purchase, allure, and use of a case of opium. Very Good, lower spine end lacking lower inch and half of wraps, modest edge wear. Item #19071

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Arrow Picture starring Violet Heming, Anna Rosemond, and Frank Hall Crane. Near Fine, with ownership inscriptions to front endpapers and foxing to page ends, in a Very Good to Near Fine dustjacket with only shallow edge wear, two inch short closed tear to front spine edge. Item #19310

Early Printing, two months after the first. Rare in dustjacket. Romance and basis for the 1917 silent Harma Photoplay in black and white, directed by F. Martin Thornton and starring James Knight, Joan Legge, and Minna Grey. Near Fine with light wear to cloth at edges, in a Very Good plus dustjacket, spine with closed tears, nicks, and creasing, shallow wear to edges, few light stains to front panel. Item #19248