First Edition. Eugene Hutchinson photographs. "A fictional panorama of a great region of our country". Uncommon in dustjacket. This copy with top page edge that appears to by dyed orange. Near Fine in Good only edge chipped dustjacket, lacking top two inches of spine, split at front spine edge, scotch tape mends to exterior of lower front panel. Item #23008

First Edition. E. S. H. dustjacket art. Baum's novel of an all too attractive male and the "ladies stalking their prey." Striking dustjacket art by E. S. H. is a highlight in dustjacket design for the period. Near Fine, short contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper in Very Good lightly faded dustjacket with light splash stains to panels, few shallow chips and modest edge wear. Item #22999

First Edition. John Sloan dustjacket art and illustrations. Humorous collection of stories illustrated by John Sloan. "A complete account of the domestic life, and professional adventures of Red Whisker, Yellow Mustaches, and other noted American pirates. They stole a schoolm'am to educate them, and a servant girl to keep house for them. They were temporarily converted to total abstinence. Their rescue and adoption of a baby must ever stand to their credit, and indicates with some exceptions the spark of goodness that exists, with some exceptions, in the worst of men". Near Fine in Good plus dustjacket, chipped at edges, top spine end chipped centimeter deep, some splitting at spine edges and front flap, mended at verso with scotch tape. Item #22989

First Edition. C. S. dustjacket art. Bleiler listed fantasy novel of a big game hunter who hunts a pterodactyl in Africa but is unable to return it to England. Humorous view of English countryside life. The author is better known for his non-fiction concerning England's empire. Scarce. Near Fine, inked date at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket with soiling and surface wear, some shallow chips. Item #22922

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with frontis featuring a scene from the Universal Picture directed by James Whale, who had just previously directed Frankenstein, and starring Lew Ayres, Mae Clark and Una Merkel. Mantini dustjacket art. Racy Jazz Age themed New York City set novel of a maid who becomes a kept woman. The film was also Hattie McDaniel's first film appearance. Near Fine, in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at lower spine end, top spine end with nickel sized chip. Item #22984

First Edition. M. DeV. Lee dustjacket art. Romance novel of an orphan who is raised by a kindly small town physician and eventually hired as a secretary by a rich widow. "Gradually Lyn forgot her friends, forgot Dr. Farnsworth, and almost forgot Captain John Bigelow. Wealth and ease and soft living surrounded her now". This copy nicely inscribed and signed by Doner at front endpaper. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with some shallow edge chips. Item #22889

First American Edition. A Clue Club Mystery. First Bulldog Drummond title to have been written, at least partially, by Fairlie. Mystery novel with horror elements involving 'The Strangler', "a phantom whose only trace is the dead left in the wake of nefarious deeds". Near Fine in Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners, several scotch tape shadows at verso, some darkening from tape at exterior. Item #22886

First Photoplay Edition, illustrated with scenes from the Cosmopolitan picture starring Marion Davies. Near Fine, short contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, darkened at spine, few shallow chips at spine ends. Item #22882

First Edition. Vertis Hayes dustjacket art and illustrations. American South themed poetry by an author who dedicated his book to Memphis, "a city destined to become the industrial Mecca of the South". This copy nicely inscribed and signed by Gerend at front endpaper. The author's teaching position at LeMoyne College afforded him the opportunity to meet George Washington Carver and Langston Hughes. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, light stain to front panel. Item #22966

First Edition. Collection of 15 plays by Green representing phases of Southern life. "Plays of a rural region, a region of violent contradictions, of startling beauty and blinding ugliness, of hate and love, of wealth and degraded poverty, of soaring ambition and empty death, of exquisite culture and lewd barbarism". Near Fine but for top fore-edge cover corners mildly bumped, in Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, fairly shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners. Item #23010

First Edition, in dustjacket with "275th Thousand" plug. Original green illustrated cloth and illustrated dustjacket. Illustrated with scenes from the play produced by Lottie Blair Parker. Title served as the basis for the D. W. Griffith directed film starring Lillian Gish who portrays a New England country girl who goes to visit her fashionable relatives in the city and becomes the victim of a fake marriage. Uncommon. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with chipping at spine ends and flap corners, modest edge wear, light stain at rear flap. Item #22979

Early Printing, without colophon at copyright page. Winifred Lefferts dustjacket art. Novel of the North Carolina hill country with their " prejudices and hates". Very Good, lacking front free endpaper, gift inscription at front pastedown, in Very Good dustjacket, some soiling and wear, chips at top spine end. Item #22978

First Edition. Original wrap-around illustrated wrappers. Illustrated with stills from the theatrical production produced by William Elliott, F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest. Hobart's popular morality play of "Youth's progress from the sunlit, flowering garden, along the highway of temptation and disillusionment until, form the very colony of Lost Souls, he is recalled by an ancient miracle in the Street of Forgotten Days. Youth comes to know the pitfalls of the House of Last Resort, and haunted now by the dreadful figure of Poverty he seeks the treacherous refuge of the House of Lost Souls, where drugs are to be had and where Degradation lives with Crime". Very Good in wrappers, small chip at lower fore-edge corner of front panel, some faded writing at front panel. Item #22997