1. Innocent Bystander. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, (1934).
Reprint Edition. Romance novel of a young married couple that separate. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21579
Jazz Age & Depression Era Literature
Reprint Edition. Romance novel of a young married couple that separate. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21579
First Edition. Behrman's comedic play and basis for the 1940 English film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Nova Pilbeam and Seymour Hicks. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #21500
Second Printing. Hawkins Jr. dustjacket art. Mystery novel of a "phantom secretary, a femme fatale, and handsome gigolo". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, modest shelf wear. Item #21670
Fifth Printing, same year as First. Norwegian novel of a young man raised in poverty who raises himself up to success but "dimly conscious of not having reached the heart of his own existence". Very Good, some dampstains to cloth, cloth nick to lower spine end, foxing to endpapers, in edge chipped dustjacket, few centimeters off lower spine end. Item #21720
First Edition. Interesting Anglia set novel of a handsome man consumed with greed, a true "villain", but with "conventional niceties of custom", who commits no crimes but causes death and destruction wherever he goes. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends. Item #21619
First Edition. Anti-Communist novel set in a New England factory textile town. Fine in Fine dustjacket. Item #21686
First Edition. Paul Luane dustjacket art. Business themed novel of two brothers living in London both employed in publicity work at one of London's largest shops. Near Fine in Good to Very Good soiled and edge chipped dustjacket. Item #21652
First Edition. F. C. C. dustjacket art. Western novel of a woman's experience on a ranch. Very Good but for some heavy dampstaining to fore-edge area of cover cloth, in Very Good dustjacket with mild dampstaining. Item #21516
First Leisure Library Edition. Mickwright dustjacket art. Novel of the trials of a bastard. Near Fine but for some gluing at inside edge of title page, in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21697
First Edition. Novel of "lusty battles, chivalry and villainy, in the tumultuous days of feudal England". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket chipped at top spine end. Item #21582
Early Reprint Edition. Henry Raleigh dustjacket art. Contemporary novel of a young man who wins an Heiress. Dustjacket art appears to be of a young man at a stadium catching a baseball. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket chipped at lower spine end, tiny chip at top spine end. Item #21584
First Edition. Novel of World War One. Near Fine, front inner hinge a bit tender, in Very Good dustjacket, few shallow chips at spine ends and flap corners, mild darkening. Item #21551
First Edition. No printed date. Original illustrated orange boards by Carroll Mayne. Collection of jokes by celebrities and their photographs including Eddie Cantor, Guy Lombardo, Maurice Chevalier, Helen Hayes, Lou Holtz, Ed Wynn, Fifi D'Orsay, Leslie Howard, Tony Wons, Bing Crosby, Marie Dressler, Bert Lytell, Clarence Chamberlin, Lilyan Tashman, Ben Lyon, Jimmy Durante, Edmund Lowe, Lowell Thomas, Rudy Valee, Sophie Tucker, Beatrice Lillie, Bebe Daniels, James J. Corbett, Claudette Colbert and others. Very Good. Item #21557
First Edition. R. M. Crosby dustjacket art. Adventurous romance in scarce original illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, split along front spine edge, small chip at front spine edge, shallow edge chipping, top half of rear panel torn and reattached at verso with archival tape, chipped top edge. Item #21696
Reprint Edition. Mach Tey dustjacket art. Romance novel of a young man injured in World War One who starts off as the plaything of a jazz age maven but who slowly becomes something more. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #21537
First Edition. Author's first novel and mystery of a man fascinated by the idea of immense wealth "his own poverty and futile struggles disgusted him". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow edge chipping, top front panel with nickel sized chip. Item #21534
First Edition. Novel of the Japanese-Russian war, labor and communism. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjcket. Item #21666
First Edition. Play in three acts of the humorous exploits of Don Juan. Near Fine. some foxing at page edge in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips at spine ends. Item #21510
First Canadian Edition, but with "Fortieth Thousand" plug at spine of jacket. England set novel of traditions, honor, tragedy, romance, and nobility. Near Fine in Very Good plus attractive dustjacket. Item #21734
First Edition. Vermont set novel of childhood and adolescence. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with about an inch chip at top fore-edge corner of front panel. Item #21672
First Edition. Uncommon collection of poetry including Thomas Hardy, Robert Frost, Robert Bridges, Rudyard Kipling and many others. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chip at top spine end. Item #21660
First Edition. Novel of jealousy on a small island. Near Fine in Near Fine dustjacket. Item #21550
Third Impression. Uncommon novel of English boy's school life. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, darkened spine. Item #21493
First Edition. Des Rosiers dustjacket art. Fiction about a "young woman who fights a devil in her soul". Near Fine, "Office File Copy" stamp at top page edge, in Very Good dusjacket with heavy fading to spine, chipped at spine ends. Item #21702
Early Printing. Harry Cimino dustjacket art. Novel about a young woman who tries to escape from her dreadful marriage. The pyramids serve as a background to this novel. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket few tiny chips at top spine ends, short closed tears at edges. Item #21618