First Edition. Very uncommon collection of newspaper stories from the previous year including stories by Walter Duranty, Louis Weitzenkorn, John Gunther, Will Irwin, Dudley Nichols, and many others. Features include such topics as the democratic convention; the Leopold-Loeb trial; Bishop Brown's heresy trial; Nellie Morse's win at the Preakness; the Carpentier-Tunney fight; the Panama Canal; Pershing; and the first Native American Senator, Charles Curtis. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow chipping, nickel sized chip at top spine end. Item #21267

First Edition. Beth Morris dustjacket art. Very scarce Hubin listed mystery by Atkey, of which jacketed copies are essentially unknown. "Smiler Bunn - genial, fat, kindly, shrewd, unscrupulous, implacable, successful, - joins the ranks of Sherlock Holmes, Raffles, Rouletabille, Secret-Service Smith, and the rest of that gallant company of intellectuals who live in fiction and subsist on crime. Like Holmes himself, the Smiler is immortal". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, spine lightly darkened. Item #21239

First Edition. M. L. Greer dustjacket art and frontispiece. Cape Cod set romance novel of a young man who invents a device to keep seaweed from catching in the propeller's of motor boats. Near Fine, publisher's complimentary bookplate at front pastedown, in Very Good plus dustjacket, small chip at top front panel. Item #21299

First American Edition. Swedish novel in which the "author has selected one single, eventful day in the annals of a little Swedish town, and between sunrise and sunset, a story is unfolded which is lacking in no element of humor, suspense and surprise". Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some soiling mostly to rear panel. Item #21301

First Edition. Paris set novel in which our heroine has only one year to live and who sets out to become a famous performer. Her reckless lifestyle causes her to be nearly raped, her attacker murdered and when it is discovered that she will live after all, she abandons her stage name and starts a new life as a married woman. "If you were young and beautiful, wealthy, daring, romantic, talented and suddenly found that you had but one year to live, what would you do?" Near Fine in a nearly Very Good dustjacket, narrow loss at front flap edge, shallow edge chipping, lower spine end with quarter sized chip. Item #21272

First Edition, Advance Review Proof Copy in original printed blue wrappers. Uncommon English advance proof edition of Burnett's third novel, a romance novel featuring a jazz pianist. Basis for the 1941 film titled, Dance Hall, starring Cesar Romero and Carole Landis. Near Fine in wraps, fading at spine. Item #21280

First Edition stated. Stina dustjacket art. World War One themed novel of "the educated civilian who dashed to the Front without pausing to ask whether he was too good for cannon-fodder - and returned to live among those who had grown fat through the asking". Near Fine in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket with short closed tears and shallow chipping. Item #21292

First American Editon. Bleiler listed collection of short stories and fantasy titles including some of De La Mare's best supernatural tales. Near Fine in attractive Near Fine dustjacket. Item #21341

First Edition. George Annand dustjacket art. Uncommon travel narrative of those "strange misty islands" of the American East Coast including Anticosti, Bird Key, Sable Island, Grand Cayman, The Dry Tortugas, Cozumel, St. Pierre, the Isle of Pines, the misty Magdalenes. "In these colorful pages Mr. England takes you with him on his solitary explorations to the islands off our coast - for they all lie near-by, either in the Caribbean or near the mouth of the St. Lawrence. He shows you the strange customs, the little-known sights, and the romantic charm of these almost inaccessible points of land". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with partial splitting at front spine edge and rear flap mended at verso with archival tape, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners. Item #21334

First Edition. "A tragic and moving story of the coming of a great sorrow into two lives, and of the differing effects it had upon two diverse natures linked together in marriage. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, four inch closed tear and accompanying creases at lower front panel. Item #21277

Early Printing 'May, 1929' letter code, but without "First Edition" statement. Very uncommon Hurst collection of short stories including Give This Little Girl a Hand, which served as the basis for the early First National Pictures talkie of a night club hostess directed by Millard Webb and starring Billie Dove and Edmund Lowe. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow edge chips. Item #21316

First English Edition, with publisher's blind stamp "Review Copy" at title page. BAL 10699, Edel & Laurence A79a. Collection of autobiography, posthumously published, and covering the early years of James' residence in Europe and his meetings with George Eliot, Tennyson and Lowell. Near Fine in Very Good illustrated dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and few flap corners. Item #21247

First Edition. James Montgomery Flagg dustjacket art and illustrations. Contemporary novel of a young man determined to make it in the stock market. Uncommon in original dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with modest chipping along top edge, some spotting and darkening at spine. Item #21285