First Edition. Very Rare collection of shipwreck narratives with only one library holding in New Zealand listed on WorldCat. Includes The Pheonix, The Haleswell, The Nottingham Galley, The Resistance, Captain Cook, and many others. Small Octavo, original embossed green cloth, gilt lettering and ornamentation to spine, black and white portrait frontispiece. Very Good with some foxing to pages, small stain to lower corner of first few pages, neat ownership inscription to front pastedown, cloth well worn at spine ends and cover corners with some water staining to lower corner. Item #19782

First Edition. Basis for a 1930 Pathe Exchange film of the same name directed by Edward H. Griffith and starring Ann Harding, Mary Astor, and Edward Everett Horton. More notably served as the basis for the 1938 Columbia Picture directed by George Cukor and starring Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Doris Nolan. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket, but for nibbling to lower inch of rear flap edge, only modest edge wear, inch black line to front panel. Item #19797

First Printing. Wraparound dustjacket art. “The story of an English priest who goes to war in 1918 buoyed up by religious idealism... and the gradual collapse of this earnest, eager, over-sensitive priest, sinking from fear and depression, down through every degree of morbid self-torture, to madness and death.” Near Fine in a modestly soiled almost Near Fine dustjacket with few shallow nicks and short closed tears to top edges and lower spine end. Item #19978

First Edition. Fanny M dustjacket art. Story of a young woman, “a delicious blending of youth, spontaneous charm, humor, and unexpectedness, [who] invades a Virginia town whose social foundations are ancestry, [and who] had a liberal education in love affairs” by the end of the summer. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket with small chips to lower spine end and lower front flap corner, inch closed tear to top edge of rear panel near spine, dime sized light stain to lower edge of rear panel. Item #19802

First Edition. G. W. Gage wraparound dustjacket art. Historical fiction and romantic adventure of Early America, involving heavy conflict between Native Americans and American settlers. Near Fine but for front endpapers removed, coffee cup stains to front cover, in a nearly Very Good dustjacket with inch plus loss to lower spine end, some smaller chips and general edge wear. Scarce in dustjacket. Item #19816

First Edition. R. H. dustjacket art. Basis for the 1939 black and white film directed by Michael Powell and starring Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson. Near Fine in a Very Good dustjacket with half dollar sized chip to lower-mid spine, shallow chipping to edge and light scraping to front panel. Item #19818

First Edition. R. N. Burley dustjacket art. Story of a happily married mother of two children parted temporarily from her family when she serves as a nurse in the first World War. After an intimate experience with a soldier on his deathbed and death doesn’t come, she struggles to return to her normal life and marriage. Near Fine with front inner hinge bit loose, in a Very Good plus dustjacket, with shallow chipping to edges and modest shelf wear. Item #19828

First Edition. O. Soglow dustjacket art and illustrations. Humorous essays in the form of a campaign speech, by the famous American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Near Fine in a Very Good, edge worn dustjacket, with two inch closed tear to lower edge of front panel, shallow loss to spine ends and flap corners, shallow chip to tope edge of front panel. Item #19837

First Edition. Hubin-listed spy thriller surrounding a “super-plane developed by the Germans” and the murder, betrayal, political intrigue, and romance encountered by a young man in the British Secret Service and a young woman in the United States Secret Service when they are positioned at the plane’s test site. Near Fine with remnants of old lending sheet at rear free endpaper in a Very Good plus dustjacket, with a quarter sized stain at verso of front dustjacket panel, wear to spine ends and edges. Item #19845

First Edition. Three stories of a Jewish immigrant boy who works his way up at a clothing manufacturer from assistant cutter to partner in the firm. Near Fine in slightly faded, lightly foxed Very Good plus dustjacket, modest surface wear, couple tiny chips and short closed tears. Item #19777

First Edition. George Giguere dustajcket art. Publisher’s Advance Salesman Dummy. Twelve pages, 4 pages of text from the novel. Very Scarce. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket with rubbing to spine ends and flap corners. Item #19851

First American Edition. Giro dustjacket art. Translated from the Danish by W. W. Worster. Rare Icelandic novel originally published in four volumes in Denmark. Near Fine with small bookshop sticker to front pastedown, in a Very Good plus dustjacket. Item #19854