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1 Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. 112 Nicholson Rd Gloucester City, NJ (856) Catalog 178: A Summer Romance mail@betweenthecovers.com It s been a while since the last Between the Covers Romance Catalog. We ve continued to buy and sell these sorts of books privately, but frankly it has taken us a considerable amount of time to gather another good crop in what we consider to be proper collectible condition. These books have become scarcer, and increasingly we have encountered books we do not want to aquire or offer: later printings, inferior copies, books with tattered, strangely altered, or supplied dustwrappers. While we might throw in the occasional reprint, we mostly try to avoid those copies. We ve already explained in previous catalogs why you should want these books. Generally they weren t preserved by institutional libraries, or private collectors, because they were deemed below the literary standards that either of these categories of collectors would require. When the books themselves were preserved, the dustjackets, often wonderfully designed and illustrated, were usually discarded. The content of the books often reveals unique and/or vernacular viewpoints of women in various geographic locations, and in the occupations to which they were mostly In this catalog you will see dustjackets by: A.N. Simokin Albert Vargas Annand Bek Files Ben Adlep Bip Pares Boris Artzybasheff C. Waters C.B. Falls Carl W. Bertsch Charles Zingaro Cleonika desrosiers E.R. Lee Thayer Edmund Dulac Edward C. Casswell Elbert C. Taylor Eric Pape Erick Berry FM Frank McIntosh Gorska Guy Arnoux H. Rossman Harold E. Snyder Harry L. Timmins Harry Peitch Cory Kilvert Dean Cornwell Delos Palmer, Jr. James Reid John Drew Juan Oliver Karl S. Woerner Kenneth W. Thompson Kliem confined. These novels shed light on contemporary views of marriage, adultery, out of wedlock birth, and other social conditions. And mostly they are just fun to find, buy, read, and collect. Recently, more attention has been paid by bibliographers and other book historians to dustjackets and the artists who designed them. We suspect this will continue to be the case. To begin to justly acknowledge the talented and often uncredited jacket artists, we have noted them when possible, more so than in our previous catalogs. You will find many wellknown artists represented here, as well as many names that are less familiar, even to jacket art aficionados. A few of these are listed below. In the future we might try to compile lists of books with jackets designed by specific artists, but as they become scarcer that might become impractical. Feel free to contact us if you d like us to look out for books by certain artists, that represent certain geographical regions, occupations, or other categories that might appeal to you: you ll only be making it more fun for us to go looking for them! Louis A. Kudlik M. dev. Lee Mabel L. Humphrey Maginal Wright Barney Matt Clark Maxwell Mead Schaeffer Modest Stein Morris of Paris Paul Laune R.J. Cavaliere R.S. George R.W. Arthur Rouse Ralph Crosby Smith Raymond Thayer Richard A. Loederer Seth Kress Moor Skrenda Stafford Good Van Doren Walter Stewart William Fisher William Van Dressel 1 ABBE, George. Voices in the Square. New York: Coward-McCann First edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper with some rubbing, and short tears on the spine. Poet s first novel, about young men and women in a New England town. [BTC #85664] 2 ABBOTT, Eleanor Hallowell. Fairy Prince and Other Stories. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. (1922). First edition. Offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps else near fine in very good dustwrapper with tiny chips and a horizontal tear on the spine. Scarce romance stories. [BTC #355395] 3 ADAMS, Katharine. Midwinter. New York: Macmillan Company First edition. Illustrated by Eric Pape. Very near fine in very good dustwrapper with a chip at the base of the spine and rear panel. Beautiful woman kidnapped by Lapps. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #98384]

2 Terms of Sale Images are not to scale. All books are returnable within ten days if returned in the same condition as sent. Books may be reserved by telephone, fax, or . All items subject to prior sale. Payment should accompany order if you are unknown to us. Customers known to us will be invoiced with payment due in 30 days. Payment schedule may be adjusted for larger purchases. Institutions will be billed to meet their requirements. We accept VISA, MASTERCARD, AMERICAN EXPRESS and DISCOVER, and PayPal. Domestic orders please include $7.00 postage for the first item, $2.00 for each item thereafter. Overseas orders will be sent airmail at cost (unless other arrangements are requested). All items insured. NJ residents please add 7% sales tax. Members ABAA, ILAB Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc. Larger pictures of all available books can be seen on our website. Cover art by Tom Bloom 4 AHEARN, Danny. Charity Girl. New York: The Macaulay Company (1936). First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Novel of a beautiful fundraiser, set loose among the philandering philanthropists by a former gangster and ex-con. Some of Ahearn s stories, both fiction and non-fiction, were used by Hollywood as the basis for the films Bulldog Edition (1936) and Escape from Crime (1942). He was also the author of the classic How to Commit a Murder. [BTC #322552] 5 ALLEN, James Lane. The Sword of Youth. New York: The Century Company First edition. Illustrated by John Wolcott Adams. Neat owner s name on the front fly, and slight offsetting on the front fly from a clipping, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Last surviving son of a Kentucky family announces his intention to join the army; his mother and sweetheart are dismayed. A beautiful copy. [BTC #275554] 6 ANDERSON, Isabel. Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters. Boston: The Page Company First edition. Foreword by Basil King. Color frontispiece by DeWitt Lockman. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of faint spots on the front panel. American woman has an affair with a European aristocrat. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #85659] 7 ANDREWS, Mary Raymond Shipman. The Marshal. Indianapolis: Bobbs- Merrill (1912). First edition. Gift inscription, else fine in a nice dustwrapper that would be just about fine but for some unneeded tape repairs. Novel of Napoleonic intrigue. [BTC #86104] 8 Anonymous. Surrender! The Romance of a Woman s Soul. New York: Macaulay Company (1924). First edition. Frontispiece and jacket illustration by Delos Palmer, Jr. Owner s name on the front fly and some wear to the bottom of the rear board, very good in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a small hole on the spine and other light wear. Wife refuses to have children, drives husband into an affair with a dancer who is guiltier, wife or the mistress who sacrifices all for passion? [BTC #85660] 9 ASH, Peter. His Own Rooftree. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing (1933). First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with modest chips at the corners of the crown and complete with the bookmark attached to the front flap (generally missing). Traveling salesman marries beautiful woman, they get rich, Depression comes, they get poor. Uncommon. [BTC #85622] 10 ATKIN, E. Deborah. Of Love and Lovers. New York: Vantage Press (1952). First edition. Pages a trifle wavy, thus very good in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and tears and the tiny word received on the rear panel. Copy of a review from the New York Post laid in. Vanity press collection of short stories about love. One of the few books of vanity press fiction that seems to have been critically well-received. Scarce. [BTC #322151] 11 ATTENBOROUGH, G.M. The Little Virgin. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company First edition. A trifle soiled on the front board and a small, old bookstore stamp on the front pastedown, near fine in good only dustwrapper with chipping and tears on the spine, and other modest wear. A sophisticated novel of an unsophisticated young woman, pursued by an apprehensive lover. Uncommon. OCLC locates six copies. [BTC #85780] 12 AUSTIN, Anne. Rival Wives: A Powerful, Swift Moving Story of Badly Tangled Lives. Chicago: The White House Publishers (1929). First edition. A small ink checkmark on the front fly, else about fine in a moderately worn, near very good dustwrapper. Attorney s private secretary adores him, but he worships his selfish wife. Things change. Uncommon. [BTC #98712] 13 (Automobiles). PEPLE, Edward. An Auto-Biography: A Tale of Truth - and Ruth. New York: Moffat, Yard and Company First edition. A little foxing, else fine in a just about fine dustwrapper (illustrated by E.R. Lee Thayer) with a faint stain and other mild wear. Illustrated with a frontispiece and throughout with automobile-themed vignettes. Housed in an older, handmade paper dustwrapper, probably not original, but old enough for us to preserve (not shown.) Advance copy, so stamped on the front fly. Humorous novel of an automobile caught in the middle of a romance. Uncommon, and in remarkable condition. [BTC #304132] 14 AYRES, Ruby M. Charity s Chosen. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1926). Reprint. Neat gift inscription on the front fly, slight offsetting to the halftitle from a small clipping, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight age-toning to the spine. Innocent orphan meets penniless rotter. Originally published by Doran, this reprint is uncommon (one copy in OCLC). [BTC #85600]

3 15. Changing Pilots. Garden City: Doubleday Doran First edition. Near fine in an attractive, lightly soiled, near fine dustwrapper. Married woman longs for her first husband. [BTC #85513] 16 BACHELLER, Irving. Keeping Up With Lizzie. New York: Harper and Brothers (1911). First edition. Fine in attractive pictorial boards, in near fine dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. Humorous romance set around automobile travel. Bacheller was a reporter who founded the first newspaper syndicate in America in After selling his business he became a popular humorist and novelist and wrote several best-selling novels in the first decades of the century. [BTC #316668] 17 BAILEY, Temple. Fair as the Moon. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing (1935). First edition. Modest wear to the boards, very good or better in a nice, near fine dustwrapper. Complimentary slip affixed to the front fly, Signed by the author. Young woman whose father remarries gets revenge by entertaining the attentions of a bachelor. [BTC #85623] 18. Tomorrow s Promise. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing (1938). First edition. Owner s name and address, a modest abrasion to the edge of a few pages, and a little spotting to the front board, else near fine in fine dustwrapper with art by Duer. A lovely copy of this romance about a nineteen year-old who doesn t trust love when she finds her fiancé has been married before. [BTC #85597] 19 BAILY, F.E. A Woman s Privilege: A Romantic Novel. New York: Macaulay (1936). First edition. A trifle darkened in the gutters, else near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with short parallel tears on the front panel and a faint stain on the rear panel. Woman who grows up in a sleepy East African seaport wants to go to England because she thinks the men will be superior to the white traders she has known in Africa, changes her mind. [BTC #85653] 20 BALDWIN, Faith. Love s A Puzzle. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1933). Reprint. A couple of smudges to the foredge, else near fine in a nice, very good or better dustwrapper with some shallow chipping. A cautionary tale for those scouting first editions despite being a Grosset and Dunlap reprint, this copy retains the Farrar and Rinehart logo on the copyright page that usually would indicate that this was a first edition. Nice jacket art by Tom Webb. [BTC #86333] 21. Temporary Address: Reno. New York: Farrar and Rinehart (1941). First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a tear on the front panel. Three different women come to Reno to shed their husbands and find happiness. An attractive copy. [BTC #85521] 22 BARNES, Charles R. The Poison Lady. [New York]: Phillips Publishing Co. / The Winthrop Press First separate edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Near fine. The first separate printing of this romantic story that originally appeared in a magazine. Very scarce. OCLC locates no copies. [BTC #344116] 23 BARNES, Margaret Ayer. Wisdom s Gate. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Foxing to the endpapers and a small hole on the rear hinge, else near fine in a very good, slightly spine-faded dustwrapper with foxing on the flaps and other light wear. A sequel to the author s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Years of Grace, about a woman s dilemma when her husband is true to her in spirit but not in body. [BTC #91312] 24 BARNES, Margaret Campbell. Mary of Carisbrooke. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith Company Reprint of the American edition. Fine in a very slightly rubbed, easily fine dustwrapper. Historical novel of the imprisonment of Charles I as seen by the housekeeper s niece. [BTC #323980] 25 BEACH, Rex. Don Careless and Birds of Prey. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Fine in a just about fine dustwrapper. Two novels. The first, Don Careless, was the basis for the littleknown 1950 film The Avengers, directed by John H. Auer and featuring John Carroll in the title role. A very nice copy, and scarce thus. [BTC #98403] 26. Beyond Control. New York: Farrar & Rinehart (1932). First edition. A little foxing in the text, very good in good dustwrapper with a faded spine and small nicks and tears. [BTC #313352] 27 BEAMISH, Noel de Vic. Fair Fat Lady. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson First edition. Offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else near fine in very good dustwrapper, illustrated by Bip Pares, with some modest spine-fading and short tears. Queenie Malone, derived from a Jewish mother and an Irish father, never thinks about her figure until she falls for a tenor. Scarce. [BTC #319235] 28 BEAUCLERK, Helen. The Mountain and the Tree. New York: Coward-McCann First American edition. Jacket art by Edmund Dulac. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Novel about the relationship between men and women, from the Stone Age to the Third Century. [BTC #98394]

4 29 BEDEL, Maurice. Philippine : A Satirical Romance. New York: E.P. Dutton (1932). First American edition. Translated from the French by Samuel Middlebrook. Fine in very good dustwrapper with several very small chips at the extremities. Beautiful daughter of a wealthy French department store magnate and disciple of Mussolini distracts the Fascist s true believers when she visits Rome. [BTC #98521] 30 BEERS, Lorna. The Mad Stone. New York: E.P. Dutton (1932). First edition. Toning in the gutters, near fine in an age-toned, near fine dustwrapper with a few small tears. Romance novel set in Minnesota. Very scarce. Jacket art by Kliem. [BTC #300721] 31 BENOIT, Pierre. Jacob s Well. New York: International Publishers First American edition. Fine in a just about fine dustwrapper with a few short tears, one internally repaired. Novel of a Jewess prostitute, selling her wares in a Levantine port city, who throws in with an idealistic Zionist colonist in Palestine. Jacket art by HG. [BTC #324021] 32 BENSON, Stella. Pipers and a Dancer. New York: Macmillan First American edition. Bookplate on the front pastedown, some modest foxing, else fine in very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears. Woman goes to China to marry. [BTC #87026] 33 BENTLEY, Phyllis. Environment. New York: Hillman-Curl [1936?]. First American edition. Neat, contemporary gift inscription else fine in a nice, very good dustwrapper with some tears and small chips. A novel about a young Englishwoman who tries to rise above her modest station, and the romance that ensues. Jacket art by Annand. [BTC #85578] 34 BERESFORD, J.D. Love s Illusion. London: W. Collins Sons & Co. (1930). First edition. A slight stain at the foot and spine gilt a little tarnished else very good in good or better dustwrapper with some small stains on the front panel, tanning on the spine, and a few tears. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #286488] 35 BIDDLE, Livingston, Jr. Debut. New York: Julian Messner (1952). First edition. Very good plus in very good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears and a couple of splash marks on the rear panel. Inscribed by the author to fellow prominent Philadelphian, G. Malcolm Laws, Jr., longtime professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and a leading American scholar of ballads and folk songs. [BTC #87374] 36 BIRMINGHAM, George A. Fed Up. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1931). First American edition. Fine in a bright and near fine dustwrapper with a stain on the front panel. Jacket art by Carl W. Bertsch. A lovely copy. Foppish folly by an Irish writer. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #98512] 37 BLACK, Alexander. Jo Ellen. New York: Harper & Brothers (1923). First edition. Spine lettering slightly dull, very good or better in very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears. Secretary in Manhattan looks for love and liberty. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #98410] 38 BLOOM, Ursula. Marriage in Heaven. London: Robert Hale (1949). Reprint (first published in 1943). Owner s name and gift inscription, foredge and first few pages foxed, very good in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper. The title says it all. [BTC #316481] 39 BOILEAU, Ethel. The Box of Spikenard. New York: George H. Doran (1923). First edition. A little foxing on the endpapers else very near fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with some small tears (and illustrated by Cory Kilvert). Wife pours her passion onto unresponsive husband. Scarce. [BTC #85633] 40 BOOTH, Roy. Sin Suits Me. New York: Godwin, Publishers (1935). First edition. Near fine in good plus dustwrapper with some modest chipping, mostly on the front panel and at the crown. Rejected by her lover, a beautiful woman lures men with her paganesque practices. Very uncommon. OCLC locates no copies. [BTC #85580] 41 BOYER, Pamela (Angela). Blonde Flames. New York: Key Publishing (1956). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Novel about a burlesque queen. [BTC #279015] 42 BRADLEY, Mary Hastings. The Fortieth Door. New York: D. Appleton and Company First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a faint, barely visible stain on the front panel. Exotic romance set in Egypt. Ardent young American tries to attract a captive woman. By the mother of the author James Tiptree, Jr., this novel was the basis for a 1924 film directed by George B. Seitz with a cast that included Allene Ray, Bruce Gordon, David Dunbar, and Anna May Wong. [BTC #85632] 43 BRANT, Neil. Fountain Boy. New York: Vanguard (1933). First edition. Fine in a moderately spine-faded, very good plus dustwrapper. Soda jerk, dancer, millionaire, and an artist are thrown together in the spring whirl in Manhattan. Inscribed by the author to a noted Hollywood publicist: To Jimmy Starr, who composes fiction daily Neil Brant. June 11, Excellent jacket art. [BTC #87758]

5 44 BRENER, Marguerite. Love Knows No Holiday. New York: The Macaulay Company (1933). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a crease tear on the rear panel. Jacket art by Maxwell. Love on a transatlantic liner: lovable, redheaded torch singer seeks a wealthy husband, is sidetracked by true love. OCLC locates but two copies (and two copies of a 1939 reprint). [BTC #347442] 45 BRIDGE, Ann. Four- Part Setting. Boston: Chatto and Windus / Little, Brown First edition. Tiny gift inscription, a little spotting to the boards, and a little mustiness, a good only copy in an attractive, very good dustwrapper illustrated by H. Rossman. [BTC #89588] 46 BROWN, Vera. Wild. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1933). First edition (published serially under the title The Million-Dollar Girl). Tiny owner s name on the front pastedown, fine in near fine dustwrapper with several short tears. Heiress leaves her Long Island estate to try out life as a dime-adance girl, meets man. Very scarce, OCLC locates four copies. [BTC #89585] 47 BROWNE, Eleanor (pseudonym of J. Gloria Goddard). Tomorrow Comes Never. New York: Arcadia House First edition. A stain at the foot, very good in near fine dustwrapper with a faint corresponding stain. Holly gets the glamour boy she wanted, learns to regret it. Jacket by Charles Zingaro. [BTC #294878] 48 BUCK, Howard. A Woman in Exchange. New York: Macaulay (1936). First edition. Fine in a spine-faded, else near fine dustwrapper. Romance and mystery set in Russia and revolving around the disappearance of a valuable miniature. [BTC #85510] 49 BULGER, Helen M. Inviolable. New York and Cincinnati: Benziger Brothers First edition. Fine in a rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. Romance novel from a religious publisher two Catholics enter into an unloving marriage, but can t divorce because of their faith. Very scarce, OCLC locates three copies. [BTC #279867] 50 BUNNER, H.C. A Sisterly Scheme. [New York]: The Winthrop Press First separate edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Very good or better. The first separate printing of this romantic story that originally appeared in the collection Short Sixes. Very scarce. OCLC locates no copies. [BTC #344114] 51 BURT, Katharine Newlin. Cock s Feathers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Contemporary owner s name else near fine in a slightly soiled but bright, near fine dustwrapper. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #86818] 52. When Beggars Choose. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith First edition. Small rental library stamp on the front fly else fine in a modestly rubbed, very good or better dustwrapper. Woman strategically changes the names of her four daughters, and unleashes them on her estranged husband s family. Jacket art by Harry Peitch. [BTC #85665] 53 BURTON, Beatrice. The Petter. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1927). First edition. Fine in an age-toned, very good dustwrapper with a bit of spotting. Jazz age lovely allows men to take liberties; becomes a business woman. [BTC #88538] 54 CALDWELL, Taylor. The Arm and the Darkness. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. A small stain on the front fly else fine in a slightly spine-faded, very good or better dustwrapper with rubbing and small nicks and tears. Romance set amongst the French and Huguenot struggles during the time of Cardinal Richelieu. Scarce wartime novel in much better than usual condition. [BTC #277878] 55 CANNON, Cornelia James. Heirs. Boston: Little, Brown First edition. Owner s name and date on the front fly else near fine in a fresh and bright, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Young school teacher becomes involved with the mill owner s son in a New England factory town. Second novel by the St. Paul, Minnesota-born graduate of the Radcliffe Class of Scarce in nice condition. [BTC #86679] 56 CAREW, Dudley. Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. New York: Frank-Maurice First edition. White label covering an owner s name on the front free endpaper, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with shallow chipping at the spine ends. Disillusioned poet, tired of life at the age of 22, discovers a muse. [BTC #339139] 57 CARFRAE, Elizabeth. Rhapsody in Green. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons (1941). First edition. A few small spots on the boards, near fine in a nice, price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with slight wear at the bottom of the front panel. Germanborn man is torn between his loyalty to his English wife and his desire to rescue his relatives from Nazi Germany. Meets with his Nazi ex-girlfriend to this end, marital problems ensue. Very scarce. [BTC #85656] 58 CARMAN, Dorothy Walworth. Chickens Come Home to Roost. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the foot of the spine. Richest and meanest man in the county marries the prettiest girl. A battle of wills ensues. Jacket art by John Drew. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #369243]

6 59 CARROLL, A.P. The Moon and the Wind. New York: Green Circle Books First edition. Very near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears and a bit of wear at the flap folds. Printer s file copy, so stamped on the front fly. Man has three goals: leave the woman in his life, write a symphony, and go fishing, so he buys a gadget-filled trailer. He finds a woman and a dog stowed away in the trailer s folding bed, romance ensues. Surely one of the first trailer novels. Scarce. [BTC #366267] 60 CAUFFMAN, Stanley Hart. The Adventures of Polydore. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company (1930). First edition. Penciled owner s name else fine in a very good dustwrapper with a chip at the foot of the spine. Middle-aged man in Colonial times called upon to rescue his lovely niece. [BTC #85583] 61 CHARLES, Frances. The Siege of Youth. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company First edition. Illustrated by Harry E. Townsend. Fine in a pleasing, very good dustwrapper with toning on the spine and some chipping, mostly at the crown. The loves of three women in San Francisco. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #316932] 62 (Children). STEEL, Flora Annie. The Law of the Threshold. New York: Macmillan Company First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with two small nicks at the corners of the crown. Very scarce. Beautiful Indian woman educated in the West returns home to purify a tantric cult, encounters intrigue. Very scarce. [BTC #98385] 63 (Civil War Fiction). LAGARD, Garald. Leaps the Live Thunder. New York: William Morrow First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy of this romance novel about a Confederate cavalryman and a traveling circus. [BTC #88722] 64 CLARKE, Donald Henderson. The Housekeeper s Daughter. New York: Vanguard Press (1938). First edition. A small scrape from a sticker removal on the front fly else near fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks and chips. Reporter rents a room from a reverend in Greenwich Village, makes eyes at the curvaceous daughter of the reverend s housekeeper. Basis for the 1939 film directed by Hal Roach, which featured Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, and Victor Mature in his film debut. [BTC #87801] (also see item 220) 65 CLAY, Robert Keating. Carmen Sheila. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company First edition. Slight spotting on the spine, near fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with light rubbing. Two gentlemen soldiers thrown into a web of intrigue in Spain with the beautiful Carmen. [BTC #86103] 66 CLAYTON, Petronilla. Dancing Desire. Cleveland: International Fiction Library (1931). First edition. Fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with two small chips on the rear panel. Dancer makes good, gets three boyfriends. [BTC #85567] 67 CONQUEST, Joan. The Village Pompadour. New York: The Macaulay Company (1932). First edition. A vertical crease and some browning at the edge of the front fly, thus very good in a price-clipped, very good dustwrapper with some small scuffed marks on the front panel. Modern Madame de Pompadour (improbably named Honour Bright) leads the male population of her village on a merry chase. [BTC #85642] 68 COOK, W. Victor. The Keys of England. New York: The Dial Press First American edition. A little sunning at the spine, else near fine in an about very good, price-clipped dustwrapper (with art by Karl S. Woerner) with some edgewear and several small chips and tears. Historical romance set in medieval England. [BTC #85887] 69 COOPER, Elizabeth. Living Up to Billy. New York: Frederick A. Stokes (1915). First edition. Slight spotting on the boards, and endpapers moderately foxed, a near fine copy in an attractive, very near fine embossed dustwrapper with a small chip at the bottom of the front panel. Jacket art by Mabel L. Humphrey (sister of suffragette and artist Maud Humphrey, and aunt of Humphrey Bogart). New York City dancing girl keeps her head above water in order to support her adorable nephew. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #323956] 70 CORBETT, Elizabeth. The Far Down. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company First edition. Fine in very good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with a few little tears. Epic tale of an Irish-American family, led by two sisters. Surprisingly scarce in jacket, which is unsigned but bears resemblance to work by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. [BTC #85796] 71 CULVER, Jane. So Stood I. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Very near fine in very good dustwrapper with several small nicks and tears. Author s first novel, by a New York resident, Wisconsin-native, about a young woman with a stern, religious father and a frivolous and gay mother, who tries to throw off the bonds of religious tyranny to become a self-sufficient woman. Jacket art by Cleonika. [BTC #85579] 72 CULVER, Kathryn [pseudonym of Davis Dresser]. Girl Alone. New York: Gramercy Publishing Co. (1939). First edition. A trifle soiled else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with very light wear. When a pretty, vivacious girl has to advertise for an escort, there s something wrong somewhere. So Phil Hilton was considerably intrigued when redheaded Peggy Moran came into the Miami newspaper office to insert a man wanted announcement in the Personal column. He took the ad -- and decided instantly that he would be the escort. Complications ensue in this refreshingly different

7 romance about two young moderns. The last of the six pulp romance novels written by Dresser (a.k.a. mystery author Brett Halliday ) under the Culver pseudonym. [BTC #368310] 73 DALE, Perry. You Scratch My Back. New York: Boar s Head Books First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper. Two Southern men share wives and try to get ahead. [BTC #88151] 74 DANE, Clemence [pseudonym of Winifred Ashton]. First the Blade. New York: Macmillan Company (1918). First American edition. Boards a trifle sunned else fine in near fine dustwrapper, with art by William Van Dressel, with some tiny nicks and tears, and slight fading of the spine lettering. Author s second book, a romantic comedy. Ashton was an actress who, after her health failed, alternated between writing novels, plays, and screenplays (including Anna Karenina, Fire Over England, and many others). For several decades she was adjudged one of the best serious writers among English women. A very nice copy and scarce in jacket. [BTC #85531] 75 DAVID, Lawrence. The Spindrift of Youth. London: Leonard Parson (1927). First edition. Foxing and the edges of several pages are bumped and have small tears, a good copy in very good dustwrapper. Nautical adventure novel by an ex-seaman, boxer, and founder of a shortlived utopian colony. Scarce. OCLC and COPAC find five copies between them, all in the British Isles. [BTC #110225] 76 DAVIS, Elmer. Strange Woman. New York: Robert M. McBride First edition. Some erosion to the cloth at the top of the boards, thus very good in good or better dustwrapper with overall soiling and several chips and tears, mostly on the front panel. Novel of a woman of forty, wondering what to do with the next ten years of her life. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #85797] 77 DAYTON, Katharine. Loose Leaves. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a split at the front spine fold and a chip, both archivally repaired, and with slight age-toning at the spine. Short stories of the Jazz Age. Author s first book. From the library of Carter Burden. [BTC #347870] 78 DE GOURMONT, Remy. Dream of a Woman [Le Songe D une Femme]. New York: Boni and Liveright First American edition. Translated by Lewis Galantiere. A little fading to the boards, very good plus in an at least very good dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel and other light wear. Novel of a woman experiencing the torment of desire, and four entangled love affairs set in a Paris studio, two country houses, and the Normandy coast. Uncommon in jacket. [BTC #85608] 79 DEKOBRA, Maurice. Serenade to the Hangman. New York: Payson and Clarke First edition. Rubbing to the bottom of the boards, else near fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper. Jacket art by Nanki(?). [BTC #279658] 80 DeLEON, T[homas] C. A Novelette Trilogy. A Bachelor s Box: How He Got In and How He Was Gotten Out; A Jealous God: The Story of Hereditaments; The Christus Sonate: A Romance of the Rhine and the Hudson. London and New York: F. Tennyson Neely First edition. Pictorial cloth. Pencil gift inscription, slight rubbing to the boards, a very good or better copy. Not in Wright. [BTC #277396] 81 DELL, Ethel M. The Obstacle Race. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons First edition. A chip to the corner of page 55, affecting no text, else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a very small chip at the crown. Young woman flees from the madding whirl of the social world to a remote fishing village, has other problems. A very nice copy of a scarce title. [BTC #85610] 82. A Man Under Authority. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons First American edition. Slight foxing on the endpapers, still fine in a very nice, near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. A beautiful woman with modern ideas upsets the equanimity of a small village. [BTC #369238] 83. The House of Happiness and Other Stories. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons First edition. A tiny bookstore stamp on the front fly, still fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a few tiny chips near the spine ends. A collection of stories, the title story concerns the eldest of three beautiful sisters who is betrayed with ensuing tragedy. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #86483] [BTC #85651] 84. Honeyball Farm. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some minor nicks and tears, and some modest splitting at the bottom of the front flap fold. Daughter of the cruel owner of a coastal farm fights to create a life among the shifty inhabitants of the farm, is assisted by mysterious but handsome motorboater. 85 DELL, Floyd. An Old Man s Folly. New York: George H. Doran (1926). First edition. Front board a bit discolored, thus about very good in near fine dustwrapper with very light wear. Massachusetts man explores his two greatest passions women and his own image of himself. [BTC #86479] 86 DENNIS, Geoffrey. Mary Lee. New York: Simon and Schuster Second American edition, published nine years after the English edition. A little spotting to the boards, else near fine in a lightly worn, very good or better dustwrapper. Controversial novel with sexual content that received critical acclaim but little success. Scarce issue. [BTC #284216]

8 87 DERLETH, August. The Shield of the Valiant. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. A small name stamp on the bottom page edge, and a small, very faint date stamp on the title page, else a fine copy in a fine and fresh dustwrapper with a tiny tear on the front panel, and a minuscule nick at the crown. Nicely Inscribed by the author. A lovely copy of this novel in the author s Sac Prairie Saga cycle, about a banker who falls in love with a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. [BTC #89270] 88. Evening in Spring. Sauk City: Stanton and Lee First edition thus. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little rubbing. Novel of first love. [BTC #89269] 89 DIVER, Maud. Lonely Furrow. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a small chip and internally repaired tears. English couple living in India after WWI have a difficult marriage because of their wildly diverse feelings about the country. Jacket art by R.W. Arthur Rouse. [BTC #85889] 90 DOMBROWSKI, Katharina von [a.k.a. Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger]. Land of Women. Boston: Little, Brown First American edition. Fine in an about very good dustwrapper with modest loss at the spine and a triangular chip on the front panel. German historical novel of Paraguay in the 1860s, translated into English by its author. Dictator, egged on by his Irish-born mistress, embarks on war with Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay. Jacket art by Christa(?) Kemp. [BTC #87060] 91 DRYDEN, Bridget. Whither I Must. New York: Frederick A. Stokes First edition. Very slightly cocked thus near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small internal repair. A day in the life of a passionate woman on a visit to New York City. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #85611] 92 DU JARDIN, Rosamond. All Is Not Gold. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1935). First edition. Old circulating library copy, with an owner s name and stamp on the front preliminaries, thus a good copy in good dustwrapper which has been backed with brown paper and affixed to the pastedowns by the flaps. Two beautiful sisters, one wants glamour and riches, the other is looking for treasures of the heart. First book, preceding the author s much better known children s books. OCLC locates three copies, two of them at the Library of Congress. [BTC #99207] 93 DWYER, Eileen. The Kindly Gods. New York: Macaulay (1935). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing and tiny tears at the crown. Wild young Mexican must experience the new craze: companionate marriage with an American beauty. [BTC #85537] 94 EARLY, Eleanor. Whirlwind. Chicago: The White House (1930). First edition. An owner s name on the front fly else fine in near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. Convoluted novel about a headstrong woman who marries a man she meets on a steamer to Havana. [BTC #85522] 95 EATON, Evelyn. Restless Are the Sails. Melbourne: Cassell (1942). First Australian edition. Gift inscription, slight spotting on the boards and a little foxing, else near fine in fine dustwrapper. Swiss-born writer s historical novel about the early French settlers of Nova Scotia. Eaton worked in France translating scripts for Paramount, published two books in England (one the novel John-Film Star) and moved to Nova Scotia. Her first novel in the U.S., Quietly My Captain Waits, was a surprise bestseller. [BTC #316475] 96. In What Torn Ship. New York: Harper & Brothers (1944). First edition. A nice, near fine copy in a very slightly spine-sunned dustwrapper with a little rubbing and tiny nicks. Historical romantic novel set in 18th Century Corsica. [BTC #93270] 97 EDGINTON, May. Stolen Honeymoon. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith First edition. Near fine in slightly worn, very good or better dustwrapper with a creased tear on the front panel. Woman marries a wealthy man. Jacket art by R.J. Cavaliere. [BTC #85605] 98 EIKER, Mathilde. Over the Boat-Side. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and tears. A romance with some feminist pretensions. A wonderfully attractive jacket. [BTC #309517] 99 ETON, Robert [pseudonym of Laurence W. Meynell]. Not in Our Stars. London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson First edition. Boards a bit mottled, thus good in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Idealistic pacifist buys a private island, flees to it with his friends to escape the horrors of a coming war, but then a beautiful aristocrat crashes her plane on the island, and so forth. OCLC locates a single copy in Australia; COPAC adds a second copy in Ireland. [BTC #275503] 100 FABIAN, Warner [pseudonym of Samuel Hopkins Adams]. Sailors Wives. New York: Boni & Liveright (1924). First edition. Boards a little soiled and a faint sliver of staining along the bottom edge of the first several leaves, else near fine in an attractive, good or better dustwrapper with some chips at the spine ends and front panel. Jacket art by A.N. Simokin. A Jazz Age novel in which the heroine, with her doom impending, decides to live out her life in a frenzy of revelry and hectic pleasures. Basis for the 1928 silent film featuring Mary Astor and directed by D.W. Griffith-protégé Joseph Henabery. [BTC #279861]

9 101 FAIR, Philip. Sondra: A Love Story. New York: Chelsea House (1935). First edition. Fine in a trifle rubbed, fine dustwrapper. Farm girl goes to loving family, becomes beautiful, finds love, her past haunts her, other things happen. [BTC #85549] 102 FARNOL, Jeffery. Charmian Lady Vibart. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company First edition. Owner s name and address on the front fly, and a bookplate on the front pastedown, else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some very slight chipping and modest wear. Son challenges a famous duelist who speaks slightingly of his beautiful mother. [BTC #86101] 103 FITZGERALD, Sheila. Hungarian Rhapsody. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. A tiny pencil name on the front fly, a bookstore label on the front pastedown, and a little foxing to the boards, thus very good in very good plus dustwrapper with a little spotting and agetoning. First novel, about two generations in postwar Hungary, and their various romances and marriages. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #85602] 104 (Football Fiction). TUNBERG, Karl. While the Crowd Cheers. New York: Macaulay Company (1935). First edition. Fine in a spine toned, very good dustwrapper. Novel of an ex-football star and the woman he marries. Tunberg was a major screenwriter, although curiously this novel doesn t seem to have been filmed. Among his screenplays were Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Ben-Hur, A Yank in the R.A.F., Beau Brummell, and many others. [BTC #347874] 105 FORD, Sewell. Trilby May Crashes In. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers First edition. Illustrations by Marshall Frantz. Fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with some modest stains. Humorous novel of an idiosyncratic and zany couple; the husband crashes into the theatre. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #347493] 106 FORRESTER, Izola. The Remittance Man. [New York]: Frank A. Munsey Co. / The Winthrop Press First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Near fine. Presumably the first separate printing of a magazine story. Very scarce. OCLC locates just two copies. [BTC #344107] 107 FREEDMAN, David. The Intellectual Lover and Other Stories. New York: Harper & Brothers (1940). First edition. Upper corner dented, else near fine in an about very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with small chips. A collection of short stories by the top radio scriptwriter of the era. Many of his stories were adapted for the screen as well. [BTC #292951] 108 FURMAN, Lucy. The Lonesome Road. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a very faint stain at the crown. Novel of southern Appalachian mountain folk, particularly the rivalry between two friends for a spoiled mountain beauty. [BTC #347871] 109 GADDIS, Peggy as Joan Sherman. Harlot s Return. New York: Godwin, Publishers First edition. Ex-rental library book, with staining to the boards, fair only in a wrinkled, good or better dustwrapper slightly trimmed along the edges, and internally backed with brown paper, still bright and attractive. On one side the wife to whom he owed his loyalty, and a daughter whom he worshipped; on the other side, the woman in whose arms he had known an ecstasy beyond anything he had ever dreamed. To which of these did he owe the greatest debt? The Georgia-born Erolie Pearl Gaddis Dern wrote under her maiden and married names, as well as under several pseudonyms. OCLC locates three copies. [BTC #368308] 110 as Peggy Dern. Spring Harvest. New York: Arcadia House First edition. Jacket flaps were once pasted to the pastedowns, and a few numbers on the rear pastedown marked over, thus only about very good in near fine dustwrapper. Lovely caretaker for a Georgia plantation confronts the avaricious heir to the estate. An attractive copy. [BTC #89051] 111 as Peggy Dern. Gallant Harvest. New York: Arcadia House First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with very light wear. Four college-age girls work on a farm during the war: an orphan, a war widow, a disillusioned showgirl, and a woman trying to teach her husband a lesson. The owner of the farm, a wounded air hero, opens the farm to other injured aviators, and sparks fly. This copy Inscribed by the author to her sister and brother-in-law: To Goldie & Mr. Wyatt, with our love. Peggy Dern A nice association in an attractive copy. OCLC locates a single copy. [BTC #90002] 112 as Peggy Dern. Heart s Home. New York: Arcadia House First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with very light wear. The world of a widower s daughter is thrown into an uproar when her father plans to remarry and she falls for the owner of a pet farm. This copy Inscribed by the author to her sister and brotherin-law: To Goldie & Alfred, with my love, Peggy. A nice association in an attractive copy. [BTC #90004] 113 as Peggy Gaddis. The Joyous Hills. New York: Arcadia House (1946). First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with slight fading at the spine. Big city department store executive is forced to take a break in the Northern Georgia hills, she meets a big city lawyer who has adapted to life in the hills. This copy Inscribed by the author to her sister: To Goldie with my love because she asked for a book dedicated to Sherm for her bedside table Lovingly, Peggy (Peggy Gaddis Dern Mrs. Sherman Dern). A nice association in an attractive copy. [BTC #90006]

10 114 as Gail Jordan. Dark Passion. New York: Phoenix Press Publishers First edition. Fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with a couple of chips at the crown, and a tear on the front panel. New England school mistress cuts loose on a trip to the Carolina mountains, finds a lover, has adventures. [BTC #85520] 115 as Peggy Gaddis. Peacock Hill. New York: Arcadia House (1960). Second printing. Fine in fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. Arrival of a devastatingly beautiful young widow shakes up a western North Carolina mountain community. This copy Inscribed by the author to her brother-in-law: To my dear friend & brother-in-law, Alfred G. Wyatt, with loving good wishes for his health and happiness. Lovingly Peggy Gaddis Dern. A nice association in an attractive copy. [BTC #90003] 116 GAINES, Charles Kelsey. Gorgo: A Romance of Old Athens. New York: Grosset and Dunlap [circa 1930]. Reprint (originally published in 1903). Illustrated by George Varian. Near fine in near fine dustwrapper with small chips at the crown. [BTC #277258] 117 GALLIZIER, Nathan. The Hill of Venus. Boston: L.C. Page and Company First edition. Bookseller s stamp on the front pastedown else fine in fine dustwrapper. Signed by the author. Romance set in the 13th Century. A lovely copy. [BTC #93265] 118 GILKYSON, Walter. The Lost Adventurer. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. Bookplate, very good in very good dustwrapper with age-toning, small nicks at the extremities, and a few faint stains on the front panel. Jacket art by Juan Oliver. The story of a man from a small town in Pennsylvania who becomes involved in the Spanish Revolution in [BTC #279023] 119 GLASS, Montague. The Impromptu Cousin. [New York]: Frank A. Munsey Co. / The Winthrop Press First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Very good or a little better. Presumably the first separate printing of a magazine story. Very scarce. [BTC #344109] 120 [GLYN, Elinor]. Daybreak. New York: Macaulay (1913). First edition. Owner s name else near fine in very good, photographically-illustrated dustwrapper with shallow loss at the spine ends. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #279028] 121. The Philosophy of Love. Auburn, NY: The Author s Press (1923). First American edition. A light stain on the front board else near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with several very small chips. [BTC #88007] 122 GOLDIE, Mrs. Barre. Raven. London: Ward, Lock & Co. (1936). First edition. Some foxing on the foredge that encroaches a little on a few of the pages, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Young woman arrives home after a cruise to find that her father intends to remarry, she sets out to find happiness for herself. Neither OCLC or COPAC locates copies. [BTC #275464] 123 GOODRICH, Arthur. The Balance of Power. New York: The Outing Publishing Company First edition. Illustrated by Otto Toaspern. Owner s name, and top corners a little bumped, thus near fine, lacking the dustwrapper. Romance novel featuring several American archetypes. [BTC #98573] 124 GORDON, Irwin L. What Allah Wills: A Romance of the Purple Sunset. Boston: The Page Company First edition. Illustrated (and dustjacket art) by Modest Stein. Fine in a modestly soiled, very good or better dustwrapper with a few small chips on the rear panel. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #343259] 125 GRAHAM, Dorothy. The French Wife. New York: Frederick A. Stokes First edition. Bottom corners a little bumped and some modest foxing, else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a few small and unobtrusive chips. American woman marries a Frenchman and re-invents herself as a Frenchwoman. Very scarce. [BTC #87244] 126 GRAY, James. Wake and Remember. New York: Macmillan First edition. Endpapers a bit heavily foxed, else about fine in an attractive, spine-faded, very good plus dustwrapper with small chips at the crown, with jacket art by Boris Artzybasheff. Young widower lawyer meets a woman at a Minnesota resort town that was previously a logging camp. [BTC #92639] 127 HALL, Charles Everett. Some Honeymoon! Cleveland and New York: International Fiction Library (1918). Reprint. Pages browned, a little soiling to the boards, a very good copy in near fine dustwrapper with a faint stain on the spine. Wall Street magnate on his honeymoon gets in silly adventures. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #87062] 128 HAMILTON, Cosmo. Gilded Halo. New York: Ray Long & Richard R. Smith, Inc First edition. Some foxing on the boards, endpapers, and foredge, very good in very good dustwrapper illustrated by Gorska, with small chips at the spine ends. American woman with inherited wealth meets British man who is as immoral as he is charming. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #365002] 129. The Splendor of Torches. New York: Robert M. McBride First edition. A little scattered foxing, else very near fine in near very good dustwrapper (unsigned but likely by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.) with considerable rubbing, and shallow chipping at the spine ends. The author was a

11 successful playwright and the author of many breezy and comic modern novels. This is a particularly uncommon title. [BTC #88756] 130 HAMILTON, Harry. All Their Children Were Acrobats. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1936). First edition. A faint crease on the front fly else fine in a price-clipped, very good, Skrenda-illustrated dustwrapper with some rubbing and small nicks and tears at the extremities. Family of circus acrobats are fearless and professional while performing, but a mess in relationships. [BTC #85525] 131. Thunder in the Wilderness. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1949). First edition. Fine in a slightly rubbed, else fine, Paul Laune-illustrated dustwrapper. American historical romance. [BTC #322293] 132 HARDING, Bertita. Royal Purple: The Story of Alexander and Draga of Serbia. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill (1935). First edition. A tiny bookstore label on the front pastedown else fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a couple of very modest chips. Historical novel of royal love in Serbia. [BTC #86118] 133 HARRADEN, Beatrice. Spring Shall Plant. New York: George H. Doran (1921). First American edition. Pages very slightly browned, near fine in near very good dustwrapper with rubbing, and several modest chips and tears. Unruly English schoolgirl is the despair of her family until she takes up with a violin master. [BTC #85897] 134 HAUCK, Louise Platt. Bill Had an Umbrella. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company (1934). First edition. A faint private lending library stamp on the front fly, a sound, very good copy in very good dustwrapper with soiling and a few small nicks and tears. Original publisher s attached bookmark (on the perforated front flap) still present. Woman absconds with a man s umbrella, they meet, you know the rest. Scarce in the jacket, which features art by Harold E. Snyder. [BTC #99123] 135. Whippoorwill House. Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing Company (1936). First edition. Faint private lending library stamp on the front fly, a slightly cocked, very good copy in very good or better dustwrapper with a crease and a few tiny tears. Original attached publisher s bookmark (on the perforated front flap) still present. Woman marries a brilliant young architect in order to keep him from being overwhelmed by his successful parents. Scarce in the jacket, which features art by Ralph Crosby Smith. [BTC #99124] 136 HAVILAND-TAYLOR, Katharine. The Nine Hundred Block. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company First edition. Owner s neat name, spine slightly cocked, near fine in a just about fine dustwrapper. Disgraced woman and her lovely daughter set tongues a-wagging when they move into town. [BTC #348579] 137 HAYWARD, Rachel. The Hippodrome. London: William Heinemann First edition, colonial edition (with Australasian Edition printed on the spine). Owner name at the top of the first page of text, foxing to the page edges and intermittently in the text, else near fine in very good dustwrapper (with art by C. Waters) with a few tears, the most pronounced at the top of the front panel. Beautiful young woman performs. Very scarce. OCLC locates two copies, at Stanford and one in Germany; COPAC adds three in the British Isles. [BTC #275538] 138 HEWLETT, Maurice. The Little Iliad. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott First edition. Light wear to the boards, a small rubberstamp on the front fly, very good plus in about very good dustwrapper with soiling, and shallow loss at the spine ends. A romance set in Scotland, England, and Australia, in which four brothers fall in love with a modern Helen of Troy the Austrian wife of a Nietzschean egomaniac. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #89236] 139 HICHENS, Robert. The Bacchante: The Story of a Brief Career. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation First American edition. Penciled owner s name, a little foxing and light wear to the page edges, near fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper illustrated by desrosiers with some tears and small nicks. Beautiful woman who fights a devil in her soul in Bohemian London. [BTC #364973] 140 HILL, Al. Preface by Jim Tully. Easy Pickings. New York: Brentano s First edition. Preface by Jim Tully. Fine in a price-clipped, about very good dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel. Autobiographical novel about an acrobat and petty crook who has a sordid love affair in an opium den. Jacket art by Richard A. Loederer. [BTC #85630] 141 HILL, Grace Livingston. Ariel Custer. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company First edition. Owner s neat name on the front fly, front hinge restored, slight wear at the extremities, very good in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the spine ends and corners. Hill was a beloved popular author whose career stretched from before the turn of the century to after the Second World War. Still collected today, first editions in acceptable dustwrappers are quite uncommon. [BTC #342896] 142. Blue Ruin. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company First edition. General light wear to the boards, pencil name, very good in good, edgeworn dustwrapper with small chips and tears, mostly at the spine ends. [BTC #342893]

12 143. Duskin. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott First edition. Small, penciled owner s name and a trifle foxed on the endpapers, near fine in a nice, very good dustwrapper with tiny chips at the spine ends. [BTC #322400] 144. The Patch of Blue. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1932). First edition. A tiny gift inscription on the front fly, still fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny nick where the front panel meets the crown, with jacket art by Walter Stewart. Depression provides an opportunity for romance for a poor girl and a formerly wealthy boy. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #91355] 145. The Substitute Guest. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1932). First edition. Neat and contemporary owner s name on the front fly else near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with some modest chipping at the spine ends. Man finds both romance and the old-fashioned Christmas he was longing for. [BTC #322401] 146. White Orchids. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1935). First edition. Fine in near very good dustwrapper (with jacket art by Walter Stewart) with a triangular chip at the crown, and a few tiny nicks and tears. Unassuming modern girl courted by a millionaire s son. [BTC #85628] 147. Homing. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott (1938). First edition. Gift inscription else fine in very good dustwrapper with a modest chip at the crown, affecting the title. Orphan shop girl catches a break when a handsome lawyer suspects she may be an heiress. Jacket art by Walter Stewart. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #342897] 148. Stranger within the Gates. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1939). First edition. Contemporary gift inscription, and a little rubbing at the extremities, else fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown and small holes at the flap folds. [BTC #275829] 149. The Street of the City. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott First edition. Just about fine in very good dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown eliminating most of the word the, and some modest rubbing. Lovely young thing turns to the goofily-named Valiant Willoughby for help when her mother collapses. [BTC #85575] [BTC #277223] 150 HILTON, Joseph. That French Girl. New York: Frederick Fell (1960). First edition. Fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a few tiny tears. Scandal in Connecticut when a woman kills a man she lured into her boudoir. 151 HOCKING, Silas K. The Lost Lode. London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co. [1923]. First edition. Very slight offsetting to the endpapers, fine in very good dustwrapper with two chips, both on the front panel near the spine. OCLC locates but two copies. [BTC #85566] 152 HOLLAND, Rupert Sargent. The Chateau of the Swan. New York: Farrar and Rinehart (1939). First edition. Illustrated by Elinore Blaisdell. Offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Historical romance novel, centered around Napoleon and two women, by a Louisville, Kentucky native. [BTC #277159] 153 (Hollywood novel). STILES, Pauline. Lovers Must Live. Garden City: Doubleday Doran First edition. Owner name, and some spotting to the endpapers, else near fine in a priceclipped, very good or better dustwrapper with slight chipping at the spine ends. Harry L. Timmins jacket art. Spanish lothario pursues three women in Depression-era Hollywood. [BTC #85534] 154 HOPKINS, William J. Those Gillespies. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Novel set among Boston s Back Bay and Beacon Hill society, about a whimsical family and their tangled love affairs. Hopkins was best known for his books on nautical themes and whaling. A beautiful copy and exceptionally scarce in jacket. [BTC #347875] 155 HOYT, Nancy. Cupboard Love: A Park Avenue Novel. New York: Caxton House Reprint edition. Neat owner s name on the front fly and a very small stain on a few pages, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Unscrupulous but beautiful British aristocrat causes havoc in the lives of a happily married Park Avenue couple. [BTC #84960] 156 HUGHES, Rupert. The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards. New York: Harper and Brothers (1919). First edition. Illustrated by Henry Raleigh. Tipped-in plates. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight wear. Novel by a prolific early screenwriter who was the uncle of Howard Hughes. This novel was the basis for the 1920 T. Hayes Hunter-directed film featuring Helene Chadwick, Rockliffe Fellowes, and Frank Leigh. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #85627] 157. The Old Home Town. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Top edge a little soiled, else about fine in very good plus dustwrapper with some shallow, small chips (and with art by John Drew). Iowa town is turned upside-down when a hoard of young engineers converge to build a dam on the Mississippi. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #90710] 158. Stately Timber. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons (1939). First edition. A trifle agetoned on the boards, near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with very slight rubbing at the extremities. Novel of a young man in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1650s. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #89033]

13 159 HUME, Cyril. Cruel Fellowship. New York: George H. Doran (1925). First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Novel about a sensitive Yale man and poet, and the lives and loves of the Jazz Age generation. Hume was a novelist turned screenwriter whose credits included Tarzan the Ape Man (1932 casting Johnny Weissmuller was Hume s suggestion), The Great Gatsby (1949), and Forbidden Planet (1956). [BTC #98454] 160 HURST, Fannie. Hallelujah. New York: Harper and Brothers (1944). First edition. Very near fine in a lightly worn, near fine dustwrapper with a small chip near the crown. Woman has that special something, marries a man from St. Louis. [BTC #86326] 161 HURST, Vida. The Greater Love. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1927). First edition. Boards a trifle soiled, else near fine in near very good dustwrapper with rubbing, small nicks and tears, and a modest chip at the crown. Snobbish Virginia woman versus selfless mother of her fiancé. [BTC #85652] 162 HUTCHENS, Paul. This Is Life. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Religious romance. A lovely copy. [BTC #89053] 163 IRWIN, Inez Haynes. Gertrude Haviland s Divorce. New York: A.L. Burt (1925). Reprint. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with small tears, soiling, and a small remainder stock rubber stamped on the front panel. Loving wife forced to make a new life when her husband wants a divorce. Preceded by a Harper and Brothers edition. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #85793] 164 IRWIN, Wallace. Mated. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons First edition. A small bookstore stamp on the front pastedown else fine in a modestly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Girl grows up afraid of commitment because of the wreckage of her parents marriage. A serious novel by an author better known as a humorist. [BTC #347869] 165 ISRAELS, Josef, II. The Sea and the Land. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran First edition. Owner s name and name stamp on the front fly else fine in very good dustwrapper with some shallow chipping and tears at the extremities. Young daughter of a German plantation owner in Ethiopia meets a gun runner from Harlem, adventures and romance follow. [BTC #85022] 166 JARRETT, Cora. Return in December. New York: Rinehart & Co First edition. Corners a little bumped, very good or better in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with several small chips and tears. Psychological romance. Scarce. [BTC #89339] 167 JORGENSON, George and Nora. Pottery: The Moulding of a Love Child. Newark, N.J.: Authors International Publications, Inc. (1934). First edition. Slight scrapes to the endpapers where the jacket flaps were probably attached, else very good without dustwrapper. Lurid novel from a short-lived publisher whose entire production seems to have gone to rental libraries, and few of which were preserved. Very scarce. We ve seen no other copies; OCLC locates two copies (Library of Congress and Ohio State). [BTC #343524] 168 KAYE-SMITH, Sheila. Tamarisk Town. New York: E.P. Dutton (1920). First American edition. Fine in good plus dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel and an internal repair. Interestingly, both jacket flaps are printed with the designation First Edition. Man builds a town in 1850s Sussex, later a woman competes for his passion. [BTC #85882] 169. Green Apple Harvest. New York: E.P. Dutton (1921). First American edition. Near fine in very good plus dustwrapper with very small chips at the spine ends, and internal tape repairs. Village swain becomes the town preacher in rural Sussex. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #88553] 170 KEATING, E.P. Come to My Arms. New York: The Macaulay Company First edition. Fine in an about fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a little soiling and a tiny nick at the crown. Young woman receives a fortune from a man found murdered, tries to alleviate the horror of her life in a series of romances, most notably with a successful Broadway playwright. Very scarce. [BTC #85561] 171 KENNEDY, G.A. Studdert. I Pronounce Them: A Story of Man and Wife. New York: George H. Doran (1927). First American edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown, offsetting from a small clipping on the title page, else a nice, near fine copy in an attractive, near very good dustwrapper with a tape repair on the spine. Jacket art by Elbert C. Taylor. Novel about the possibility of the survival of Christian marriage by a noted clergyman and chaplain to the King of England. [BTC #85661] 172 KLOCK, M[artha] S.A. T[immerman]. A Leap-Year Frolic: A Story of Facts and Fiction. [No place]: E.L. Adams, Publisher First edition. Dark red cloth. 324pp., frontispiece, illustrated with several plates, two of which are fold-outs. Some spotting to the boards, hinges a little tender, and slight erosion to the cloth on the spine, a very good copy of this Victorian romance novel, produced in a decidedly amateur fashion and very scarce. Not in Wright. OCLC locates four copies. [BTC #331986]

14 173 KNIPE, Emilie Benson and Alden Arthur KNIPE. The Shadow Captain. New York: Dodd, Mead First edition. Contemporary owner s name else near fine in good or better dustwrapper with some spotting and light stains on the spine. Pirate novel, with some romance thrown in. Scarce in the Mead Schaefferillustrated jacket. [BTC #277239] 174 KYNE, Peter B. The Pride of Palomar. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation (1921). First edition. Illustrated by H.R. Ballinger and Dean Cornwell. A gift inscription on the front fly else very near fine in near fine dustwrapper, illustrated by Cornwell, with an internally repaired tear. Novel about an Irishman drawn by love to a Spanish mission in California. Basis for at least one film, directed by Frank Borzage in 1922 with Forrest Stanley and Marjorie Daw. [BTC #86481] 175. They Also Serve. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation First edition. Illustrated by C. Leroy Baldridge. Decorations by Paul Brown. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with several modest tears. Love story set in World War I and narrated from the viewpoint of a cowboyturned-soldier s horse. [BTC #97657] 176 LAMBERT, Reita. When Next We Meet. Philadelphia: Macrae- Smith First edition. Fine in very near fine, lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Mona always gets what she wants, which is Tommy. Her desires have tragic consequences. [BTC #85638] 177 LARRIMORE, Lida. Tarpaper Palace. New York: Grosset & Dunlap (1928). Early reprint. Owner s name on the front fly, else fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the crown. Young woman lives in a deserted tarpaper shack on an island, which gets better when the handsome young owner shows up. Jacket art by FE. Scarce. [BTC #85560] 178. No Lovelier Spring. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith First edition. Contemporary owner s name on the front fly else about fine in near fine dustwrapper with some slight rubbing at the spine ends. Young woman comes to New York to live with her mother, a prominent actress, and falls in love with her mother s fiancé. Jacket art by James Reid. [BTC #328239] 179. Faraway Haven. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith First edition. A small, neat owner s name stamp on the front fly else fine in a very slightly spine-sunned, else fine dustwrapper. Woman returns from finishing school to her Mississippi home to the man she is supposed to marry; goes North, meets someone else, experiences indecision. Scarce. [BTC #98363] 180 LAUGHLIN, Clara E. Everybody s Birthright: A Vision of Jeanne d Arc. New York: Fleming H. Revell (1914). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight fading at the spine. Modern novel inspired by the life of Joan of Arc. Very scarce in jacket. (Not shown) [BTC #98398] 181 LEIGH, Ursula. Chinook. London: John Heritage [1932]. First edition. A small stain at the base of the spine else near fine in near fine dustwrapper but for a long, internally repaired tear on the front panel. Front flap is clipped, but price appears on the spine. Author s first novel, about a woman who struggles to rehabilitate her reputation in the Canadian wilderness. OCLC locates four copies. [BTC #275453] 182 LINCOLN, Joseph C. The Aristocratic Miss Brewster. New York: D. Appleton & Company First edition. Fine in good plus dustwrapper with a tear along and across the spine, which is nevertheless not very noticeable. Daughter of a prominent family whose wealth has diminished, astonishes her neighbors by going into business, then finds romance with a self-made man. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #87090] 183 LINFORD, Madeline. Broken Bridges. New York: George H. Doran [circa 1924]. First American edition. Foredge a little soiled else near fine in an age-toned, very good dustwrapper with shallow loss along the crown. Young girl crosses through childhood into romance. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #89072] 184 LOCKE, William J. The Mountebank. New York: John Lane Company First edition. Just about fine in very good dustwrapper with a little discreet staining and small nicks at the spine ends. Sequel to The Beloved Vagabond, about a man who marries for love rather than position. Features a clown illustration on the jacket. [BTC #275474] 185. The Coming of Amos. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Gift inscription else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks at the corners, the price marked over, and an internally repaired tear on the rear panel. Contemplative middle-aged painter in Cannes falls in love with one of his subjects, a refugee Russian princess. Basis for the 1925 film directed by Paul Sloane, and with a cast that featured Rod La Rocque, Jetta Goudal, and Noah Beery. [BTC #86107] 186. Stories Near and Far. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper (illustrated by desrosiers) with a small chip at the crown. A collection of short stories. [BTC #278998] 187 LOFTS, Norah. A Calf for Venus. Garden City: Doubleday First American edition. Near fine in very good or better, slightly spine-tanned dustwrapper with some very small nicks and tears. [BTC #89359]

15 188 LORING, Emilie. Give Me One Summer. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company (1936). First edition. Fine in a just about fine dustwrapper. Includes the original perforated and detachable bookmark. A lovely copy of this romance set in Maine. Loring was a very popular romance author of the Grace Livingston Hillschool. She wrote over fifty novels. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #368324] 189. As Long As I Live. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company (1937). First edition. Fine in a just about fine dustwrapper with a short, creased tear. Includes the original perforated and detachable bookmark. Rich man distrusts women and romance because of his late brother s marriage to an unscrupulous actress, meets one he likes better. The first edition is scarce in jacket. [BTC #368325] 190. Where Beauty Dwells. Boston: Little, Brown and Company First edition. Very near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with a split at the bottom of the front spine fold, and some small chips and tears. M. dev. Lee-illustrated jacket. Romance set in Maine. [BTC #342903] 191 LUCAS, Audrey. Friendly Relations. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc First edition. A bit cocked else near fine in very good dustwrapper with moderate chips at the corners of the crown, affecting a few letters. [BTC #368519] 192 LUCAS, St. John. April Folly. London: Methuen & Co. (1916). First edition, colonial issue. Endpapers are used as a catalog for Methuen s Colonial Library. Page edges heavily foxed, some foxing and small tears at the edges of some leaves, a good copy in very good dustwrapper with some foxing. Novel, set in Bohemian London, about a romantic musician. Scarce. OCLC locates three copies of the London edition, whether of the colonial issue or not is unclear. [BTC #275880] 193 LYON, Mabel Dana. Retaliation: Love s Kickback. Newark, N.J.: Authors International Publications, Inc. (1934). First edition. Jacket flaps attached to the pastedowns, rental library stamps on the front endpapers, else about very good in remnants of the dustwrapper, lacking the spine, but with the racy front panel art by Louis A. Kudlik intact. Lurid novel about a woman who marries for revenge she weds the widower who made her dead best friend miserable. From a short-lived publisher whose entire production seems to have gone to rental libraries, and few of which were preserved. Very scarce. We ve seen no other copies; OCLC locates a single copy at Ohio State. [BTC #343526] 194 MACFARLANE, Peter Clark. The Discernment of Sergeant McCarty. [New York]: Phillips Publishing / The Winthrop Press First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Near fine. Presumably the first separate printing of a magazine story. Very scarce. OCLC locates just a single copy. [BTC #344108] Biblio-Novel 195 MANN, F.O. Albert Grope: The Story of a Belated Victorian. London: Faber and Faber First edition. Foxing to the foredge, and the easily susceptible green cloth is faded, thus very good in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with small chips, mostly at the crown. Cockney lad makes his way through the used book world, finds wife. [BTC #275886] 196 MARSHALL, Bruce. Children of this Earth. New York: Macaulay Company (1930). First edition. Fine in a spine-faded, very good dustwrapper with a small chip at the top of the front panel. Conscientious curate, despite the attentions of many women, marries a girl of the streets, is ostracized to Paris, and tries to turn his sin-hardened wife into a godly woman. [BTC #347433] 197 MARSHALL, Edison. The Land of Forgotten Men. London: Hodder and Stoughton (1923). First English edition. Foredge and endpapers quite foxed, good or better in near very good dustwrapper with general wear. Alaskan adventure-romance. [BTC #322469] 198 MARTIN, George V. Mark It with a Stone. New York: Frederick Fell (1947). First edition. Boards a little soiled, still very good in a modestly spine-faded, thus very good dustwrapper. By the author of For Our Vines Have Tender Grapes. Jacket art by J.C.W. [BTC #93858] 199 McCLURE, Robert E. Lady in Marble. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company First edition. Modest wear at the crown and the edges of the boards, else very good or better in good dustwrapper (illustrated by Guy Arnoux) with a chip at the crown, removing part of the word Lady, and some short tears. American girl sets out to establish herself in Paris. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #323358] 200 McCONNAUGHEY, Susanne. Tropic of Doubt. Philadelphia: Westminster Press (1953). First edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with some creases and small chips. Warmly Inscribed by the author. Protestant missionary sails for Tahiti in 1796, experiences lust. [BTC #98442] 201 McGERR, Patricia. The Missing Years. Garden City: Doubleday First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a tiny tear. Woman copes with the return of her missing husband. Very scarce in this condition. The author was best known for her mysteries. [BTC #321224]

16 202 McHUGH, Vincent. Sing Before Breakfast: Figures, Yacht and Island. New York: Simon and Schuster First edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple of faint ring stains on the front panel and slight fading at the spine. Jacket art by Kenneth W. Thompson. The second novel by a New York-based critic, a risqué romance. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #347877] 203 McKENNA, Stephen. The Way of the Phoenix. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First American edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with some modest tanning to the spine. Very nicely Inscribed by the author. Love dies away, comes back later. [BTC #86492] 204 McPHERSON, G[ertrude]. Grey Cottage. New York: Macmillan Company First edition. Fine in very good or better dustwrapper with light wear. Artist surrounds himself with beauty and solitude, two women intrude. McPherson was an artist living in China. Jacket art by Gorska. Scarce. [BTC #279019] 205 MEREZHKOVSKY, Dmitri. Akhnaton. New York: E.P. Dutton First American edition. Very near fine in good dustwrapper with several splits and tears. Crisis in ancient Egypt set against the love affair of Akhnaton and the virgin priestess Dio. Jacket by R.S. George. [BTC #279002] 206 MERREL, Concordia. The Three Graces. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran First American edition. Penciled owner s name on the front fly, bottom corners a little bumped, near fine in a bright, very near fine dustwrapper with a crease on the spine. Attractive young woman wins the British National Movie Contest, becomes a star, receives attention, both wanted and otherwise. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #86896] 207 MILLARD, Ruth Tracy. Road to the Stars. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company (1940). First edition. A bookplate on the front fly and a bookmark from the book affixed to the front pastedown, very good in a slightly short, good or better dustwrapper which is internally reinforced with brown paper. Woman attempting to become a stage actress throws herself into it when the man she loves marries another. Scarce. [BTC #98381] 208 MILLER, Alice Duer. Gowns By Roberta. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company First edition. Fine, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. Basis for the film Roberta which starred Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers (in their third film together), and a young Lucille Ball as an extra. It featured the memorable songs Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, I Won t Dance, and Lovely to Look At. The 1952 remake starring Kathryn Grayson and Red Skelton has the questionable distinction of being Zsa Zsa Gabor s debut. A lovely copy, from the Library of Carter Burden. [BTC #294375] 209 MILLS YOUNG, F.E. The Long Path. London: Hodder and Stoughton [1923]. First edition. Foxing, particularly to the foredge, thus about very good in fair only dustwrapper with a large chip on the rear panel, and some other smaller chips. [BTC #343659] 210 MITCHELL, Mary. Servants of the Future. Melbourne: Methuen & Co. / Hicks, Smith & Wright (1947). First Australian edition. Pages a bit browned else near fine in a pretty much fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Aristocratic woman loves a young farmer but is forced to marry her wealthy cousin. He fumes and goes to Australia, becomes a big shot. His exgirlfriend is forced to take her sickly husband to Australia for the climate, etcetera. [BTC #316460] 211 MORAND, Paul. Nothing but the Earth. New York: Robert M. McBride First American edition. Very slightly rubbed, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little fading on the spine. [BTC #99103] 212 MORESBY, Elizabeth Louisa as E. Barrington. The Exquisite Perdita. New York: Dodd Mead First edition. Fine in good plus, price-clipped dustwrapper with light chipping and tears. Jacket by Edward C. Casswell. A novel about the beautiful actress Perdita Robinson, mistress to George IV. Moresby was Canada s first prolific, female fantasy writer. She wrote romances using variations of her own name as well as E. Barrington, and mystical fantasies and occult studies under the name L. Adams Beck. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #86102] 213 as Louis Moresby. Captain Java. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran First edition. Light edgewear, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a little loss at the extremities and wear to the edges. South Seas adventure set on the appropriately named Paradise Island. [BTC #338750] 214 as E. Barrington. The Duel of the Queens: A Romance of Mary, Queen of Scotland. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company First edition. Very near fine in near fine dustwrapper with some light wear. Jacket by Stafford Good. A novel about the lives of and rivalry between Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth, Queen of England. By the author of Glorious Apollo, The Divine Lady, and The Chaste Diana. [BTC #85896] 215 MORTON, Frederic. Asphalt and Desire. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1952). First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers else fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with two tiny nicks on the rear panel. Advance Review Copy with slip tipped in. A young college grad in New York City is determined to get a job and a man. [BTC #91277]

17 216 MOSK, Lona. In a Nazi Garden. New York: Vanguard Press (1934). First edition. Foxing to the spine, near fine in a just about fine dustwrapper. Romance between a Jewish American newspaperwoman and a pure-blood German lawyer. Interesting pre-war subject treatment. [BTC #279012] 217 (Mystery). AUGUST, John [pseudonym of Bernard DeVoto]. The Woman in the Picture. London: Selwyn & Blount (1944). First English edition. Fine in a slightly soiled dustwrapper with a tiny tear at the crown. An espionage story. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #85164] 218 (Mystery). BAILEY, H.C. The Fool. New York: E.P. Dutton & Company (1927). First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some modest chips along the upper extremities. Novel about the court fool who achieved great power during the reign of Henry II, by the prolific author of the Mr. Fortune detective series. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #316627] 219 (Mystery). BORDEN, Mary. The Black Virgin. London: William Heinemann (1937). First edition. A small spot on the front board else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small nick at the crown. Convoluted mystery-romance set in an English country house. [BTC #275461] 220 (Mystery). CLARKE, Donald Henderson. A Lady Named Lou. New York: Vanguard Press (1941). First edition. Small bookstore label on the front pastedown else fine in fine dustwrapper. Lady from the wrong side of the tracks who can t sing or dance becomes a song and dance sensation because of her overwhelming attractiveness to men. [BTC #275473] (also see item 64) 221 (Mystery). COHEN, Octavus Roy. Romance in the First Degree. New York: Macmillan First edition. A trifle sunned at the extremities, very near fine in very good dustwrapper with slight loss at the spine ends and a little edgewear. Wounded war vet investigates three murders in the Park Avenue high life. A scarce wartime title. [BTC #279851] 222 (Mystery). DAWSON, Coningsby. The Vanishing Point. Toronto: Copp Clark Co. (1922). First Canadian edition. Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg. Foxing to the foredge, very near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the front panel. Mystery featuring a woman who is either the wickedest woman in the world, or a candidate for sainthood. [BTC #86482] 223 (Mystery). DICKSON, Carter. The Cavalier s Cup. New York: William Morrow and Company First edition. Owner s name on the front fly, near fine in a lightly worn and price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper. Locked room mystery with Sir Henry Merrivale. [BTC #291293] 224 (Mystery). ESTAUNIE, Edouard. Madame Clapain. New York: D. Appleton First edition. Translated from the French. Gilt spine lettering rubbed but readable, foredge a bit foxed, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with several small chips, mostly on the front panel. Psychological thriller about a mysterious woman who moves to a French village and commits suicide, her story is then unraveled for the reader. Basis for the 1943 French film Le Secret de Madame Clapain directed by André Berthomieu. [BTC #85645] 225 (Mystery, Hollywood). STILGEBAUER, Edward. The Star of Hollywood. Cleveland / New York: International Fiction Library (1929). First American edition. Translated from the German by E.E. Wilson. Owner s name, near fine in very good dustwrapper with small nicks and tears at the spine ends, and a large but not very noticeable stain on the rear panel. Hollywood actress, playing a slave in a film about Cleopatra, places the asp at the breast of the famous star playing the queen and pierces her with a syringe full of morphine. The author s only title listed in Hubin. [BTC #277225] 226 (Mystery). JORDAN, Elizabeth. Red Riding Hood. New York: The Century Company (1925). First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with some edgewear and tiny nicks. Waif answers an advertisement at the home of a mysterious New York City feminist philanthropist. [BTC #308382] 227 (Mystery). MASON, A.E.W. Musk and Amber. Garden City: Doubleday Doran and Company First edition. Fine in an about fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. A very attractive copy. A full-blooded novel of Italy under the Inquisition. [BTC #314786] 228 (Mystery). PERTWEE, Roland. Such an Enmity. Boston: Little, Brown and Company First edition. A small tear on one page else fine in a trifle rubbed, else fine dustwrapper with art by Raymond Thayer. A mystery-romance about a man living on the French Riviera who is cursed by a gypsy. A beautiful copy. [BTC #347476] 229 (Mystery). RUCK, Berta. The Pearl Thief. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First American edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with a few short, internally repaired tears. Famous pearl necklace is stolen, life turns upside down for a jewelry shop clerk. Ruck s only mystery. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #87744]

18 230 (Mystery). TRAIN, Arthur. Ambition. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. Brief gift inscription, near fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a shallow chip on the front panel. Woman sprains her ankle, meets a lawyer. A nice copy. [BTC #343654] 231 NEVILLE, James M. Ladies Under Glass. Philadelphia & New York: J.B. Lippincott (1938). First edition. Owner s name, fine in near fine dustwrapper with some rubbing and very short tears, and with art by Van Doren. An attractive copy of this novel, set in Newport and concerning three women of the Palmerston family, all in the market for love. By a journalist who was a Princeton graduate and ex-resident of Newport who settled in Beverly Hills. [BTC #85612] 232 NICHOLSON, Meredith. Old Familiar Faces. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill (1929). First edition. Spine lettering tarnished and corners a bit worn, thus very good or better in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper. A collection of essays by a well-known author of romances. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #86681] 233 NOLAN, Jeannette Covert. New Days, New Ways. New York: Green Circle Books (1936). First edition. Owner s name on the front pastedown and a gift inscription on the front fly, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with several very tiny tears and small nicks, and a small, modest stain on the front panel. The question of motherhood and how it affects the life and romances of a young woman in a Midwestern college town. [BTC #85639] 234 NORRIS, Charles G. Zelda Marsh. New York: E.P. Dutton (1927). First edition. Bottom of the boards rubbed else fine in fine dustwrapper. Poor girl with a magnetic personality has romances, becomes a star of the theatre. Endpapers and jacket art by C.B. Falls. A lovely copy. [BTC #278141] 235 NORRIS, Kathleen. Treehaven. Garden City: Doubleday Doran First edition. Slightest of sunning, very near fine in a moderately soiled, very good or better dustwrapper. Youngest of four sisters raised in isolation on a ranch south of San Francisco looks eagerly towards life, but falls in love with a married man. Jacket art by Matt Clark. [BTC #85641] 236. Three Men and Diana. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran First edition. Fine in a price-clipped, near fine dustwrapper with two short tears. Girl grows up on the wrong side of the tracks, thinks she ll never marry, ends up pursued by three men. [BTC #87796] 237 (Oil Field Romance). PATTERSON, Norma and Crate DALTON. Out of the Ground. New York: Farrar and Rinehart (1937). First edition. A small bookstore stamp else fine in a spine-faded, very good dustwrapper with small chips at the corners of the crown. Romance set in the oil fields of Texas, by a husband and wife team. [BTC #347483] 238 OSTENSO, Martha. There s Always Another Year. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the front panel, and a couple of very small tears. Heroine with the unlikely name of Silver Grenoble returns after a long journey to Mexico and Alaska(?!) to find her true love at home on the Dakota plains. [BTC #85540] 239 PEARSALL, R.J. Chits and a Chinaman. [New York]: Doubleday Page & Co. / The Winthrop Press First edition. Stapled illustrated wrappers. 2" x 2½". Near fine. Presumably the first separate printing of this story. Very scarce. OCLC locates two copies. [BTC #344110] 240 PERCY, Edward. Eastward Drift. New York: H.C. Kinsey and Company First edition. Corners a little bumped, else near fine in a bit worn, good dustwrapper with wear, particularly along the front flap fold, and several scattered tears. Advance Review Copy with a slip affixed to the front fly. [BTC #300058] 241 PHILLPOTTS, Eden. The Lovers. New York: Rand McNally & Company (1912). First American edition. Fine in an attractive, good or better dustwrapper with some chipping at the top of the spine. Advance Review Copy with publisher s slip affixed to the front fly. Romance of American sailors captured by the British during the American Revolution, and the English maidens whom they woo. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #307675] 242. Three Maidens. New York: Richard R. Smith First American edition. Some of the usual mottling to the green cloth, thus very good in near fine dustwrapper with light creases on the rear panel and spine, possibly from the jacket being folded into the book at one time. The lives of three women. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #86981] 243 (Photoplay edition). MILES, Allie Lowe. Adapted by Bess Meredyth [from the novel by Abbe Prevost]. When a Man Loves. The Story of a Deathless Passion Based on the Motion Picture Story. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1927). First edition, a photoplay edition. Owner name, spotting on the boards, a very good copy in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with some tanning, and tiny chips on the spine. Novelized by Miles from Meredyth s adaptation of Abbe Prevost s novel, the 1927 Alan Crosland-directed film featured John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, and Warner Oland.

19 Illustrated with stills from the film, and with frontispiece and jacket art from paintings. [BTC #85555] 244 (Photoplay Spoof). TRAPROCK, Walter E. [pseudonym of George Shepard Chappell]. Sarah of the Sahara: A Romance of Nomads Land. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons First edition. Seventeen full-page illustrations from photographs. A little wear to the boards, near fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with a couple of tears on the front panel. A novelistic spoof of pot-boiling Valentinotype romances, illustrated with stills from a nonexistent film, supposedly released by the All-for-Art Production Company of Derby, Connecticut and directed by the author, the intrepid pseudonymous Traprock. Chappell was a Yale-educated architect who wrote several humorous publications, often under the Traprock name and often in collaboration with notable artists including Rockwell Kent, Otto Soglow, and John Held, Jr. While not necessarily the only mock-photoplay every produced, it may be and is certainly a very unusual attempt. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #99119] 245 PIPER, Warrene. The Sun in His Own House. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company First edition. Gilt lettering on the boards a little tarnished, else fine in near fine dustwrapper. Novel of a complicated family. Very scarce in jacket. [BTC #343171] 246 PORTER, Eleanor H. Dawn. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1919). Reprint. Fine in fine dustwrapper. By the author of Pollyanna. Scarce in this condition. [BTC #98542] 247 POST, Emily. Parade: A Novel of New York Society. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company Second printing, two months after the first. Owner s name on the front fly, a trifle rubbed, near fine in an attractive, good plus dustwrapper with some modest chips and tears at the extremities. A novel by the ultimate etiquette maven about two generations of Long Islanders and New Yorkers the parents bewildered by their young Jazz Age progeny. [BTC #87714] 248 RAEF, Laura C. Symphony in the Sky. New York: Avalon Books First edition. Fine in a bit wrinkled, very good dustwrapper with the publisher s original Plasti-Kleer mylar jacket (the cause of the wrinkling). Romance novel of airline stewardesses Cheryl, Jan, and Vicki. Warmly Inscribed to flight attendant Vicki whose refreshing personality was always before me as Vicki in my book. [BTC #343243] 249 RANDOLPH, Ellen. The Castle on the Hill. New York: Avalon Books, Thomas Bouregy and Company, Inc. (1964). First edition. Owner s name else fine in very near fine dustwrapper. Romance of a Canadian playwright and an American girl. Most copies went to libraries and unmarked copies are uncommon. [BTC #362887] 250 RATH, E.J. Elope if You Must. New York: G. Howard Watt First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with minimal wear. Heiress Elizabeth Dennison craves adventure and romance, and sets her mind on an elopement. She enlists Jazz Hennessy in her effort and sets off a scandal. Rath produced several breezy and amusing comic novels. Very scarce in jacket. A beautiful copy. [BTC #347872] 251 REA, Ella M. Castaways of the Yukon. Boston: Meador Publishing Company First edition. About fine in an age-toned, very good dustwrapper. Vanity press novel of romance during the Alaska Gold Rush of Scarce. [BTC #279018] 252 RECK-MALLECZEWEN, Fritz. Woman in Flight. New York: Boni and Liveright First American edition. Translated by Jenny Covan. Fine in a lovely, near fine example of the dustwrapper with a short tear on the front panel and a touch of sunning to the spine. Melodramatic German novel about a young Swedish woman in Germany who is seduced by her brother-in-law. [BTC #85775] 253 REED, Meredith. Fallow Ground. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing (1936). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Woman deprived of education because her father is a doctor who never sends out bills, marries an intense young sculptor who goes off to war. [BTC #85544] 254 RICE, Alice Hegan. The Honorable Percival. New York: The Century Co First edition. Pictorial cloth. Fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a couple of small chips and a small, faint stain on the front panel. [BTC #347453] 255 RICHMOND, Grace S. High Fences. Garden City: Doubleday Doran First edition. Former owner s name and a small bookseller stamp, both on the front pastedown, slight fading to the spine, else near fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with sunning and small chips at the spine. Jacket art by Maginal Wright Barney. A novel of town and country, set partially in Connecticut, and featuring competing authors who fall in love. [BTC #85787] 256 RIDDELL, Florence. Kismet in Kenya. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott First American edition. Penciled owner s name, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small stain on the rear panel. Woman saved from the jaws of a lion in Kenya loses beauty but finds a man. [BTC #85512] 257 RIVERS, Dorothy. Bird in the Bush. London: Herbert Jenkins [1944]. First edition. Foxing and light tape shadows on the endpapers, very good or better in near fine dustwrapper. Woman passes up engagement with a wealthy man to pursue a dream. Uncommon wartime title. [BTC #316456]

20 258. Tangled Web. London: Herbert Jenkins (1946). First edition. Foxing and light tape shadows on the endpapers, else near fine in a priceclipped, near fine dustwrapper. As the title indicates, an extremely convoluted romance set partially in Scotland. Uncommon wartime title. [BTC #316464] 259 ROOFER, Roof [pseudonym of Rufus Randell]. Lolita of Los Angeles and The Elopement Coach. London: Gay and Hancock First edition. Printed blue cloth. Penciled owner s name, some foxing to the first and last few pages, a tiny hole on the edge of two leaves, and a large chip on page removing several words, thus at best a good copy without dustwrapper. Two novellas. Very scarce. OCLC locates a single copy, at the British Library. [BTC #321065] 260 ROSMAN, Alice Grant. Protecting Margot. New York: Minton Balch First American edition. Lacks front endpapers, some spotting to the boards, near very good in very good dustwrapper with modest chips and tears, mostly on the rear panel. Woman, abandoned early on by her husband, deals with a number of busybody relatives. Attractive jacket art. [BTC #85791] 261. Somebody Must. New York: Minton Balch (1934). First American edition. A trifle foxed on the endpapers, near fine in a price-clipped and lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears. Brother and sister separated at birth, encounter each other as adults. Oxford-educated girl called upon to preserve her family. Novel by an Australian native writing in England. Attractive jacket art. [BTC #85590] 262 RUCK, Berta. Gentle Tyrant. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company (1949). First edition. A trifle foxed on the first and last few leaves and the jacket flaps, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. Mother tries to keep her son tied to her apron strings by unscrupulous means. Surprisingly scarce. [BTC #277885] 263 RUTHERFORD, Gay. The Old Red Barn. New York: Phoenix Press (1937). First edition. A trifle rubbed, else fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks. Love triangle: young woman returns from Paris and starts her own company; she can t decide between a feckless employee and a successful and wealthy suitor. Very scarce, the books from this publisher tend to be both amusing and uncommon. [BTC #337159] 264 SALTUS, Edgar. Daughters of the Rich. New York: Mitchell Kennerley (1909). First edition. Old library stamp on the top of the page edges, a few stains on the bottom page edge, else near fine in a near fine example of the uncommon dustwrapper. BAL [BTC #347425] 265 SANBORN, Pitts. Greek Night. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh / Dial Press First edition. A trifle darkened at the very edge of the spine else fine in a slightly chipped, very good or better dustwrapper with art by Seth Kress Moor. Briefly Inscribed by the author. Young western man throws a decadent New York family into disarray. Very scarce. [BTC #92263] 266 SAWYER, Topliffe. Cavalryman. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company (1939). First edition. Corners slightly bumped else fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with a shallow chip at the crown, with art by M. dev. Lee. Novel of the peacetime cavalry. Adventurous cavalryman brought low by too much peace, perks up when the General s niece arrives on post. [BTC #313690] 267 SCHIFF, Pearl. Scollay Square. New York: Rinehart and Company (1952). First edition. Boards a trifle rubbed and a little foxing to the endpapers, else near fine in a lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper. Love and lust in the liberty town section of Boston. [BTC #274881] 268 (Science-Fiction). TEMPLE, William F. Four- Sided Triangle. New York: Frederick Fell (1951). First American edition. Literary agent s stamp on the title page, corners slightly worn, else near fine in a rubbed, very good dustwrapper with a chip on the rear panel removing a couple of words from the ads. Love triangle solved when the men involved invent a machine that will replicate the woman they both desire. Basis for the 1953 Terence Fisher-directed Hammer Films adaptation featuring Barbara Payton, James Hayter, and Stephen Murray. [BTC #92166] 269 SHANKS, Edward. The Enchanted Village. London: Macmillan First edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in a modestly spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears. Lively country party in a lovely English village draws envious Londoners. [BTC #275539] 270 SHAW, Charles G. Heart in a Hurricane. New York: Brentano s (1927). First edition. Drawings by Ralph Barton. Fine in near fine dustwrapper but for a small chip at the foot of the spine. A nice copy of the adventures of I. Rupert Twombley who, after undergraduate work at the cafes of London, Paris, and the Riviera, returns to Newport and New York for his final degree of Doctor of Leisure. [BTC #318539] 271 SHEA, Margaret. The Gals They Left Behind. New York: Ives Washburn, Inc. (1944). First edition. Fine in a lightly spine-faded, very good or better dustwrapper with a couple of tiny nicks and short tears. A fish-out-of-water WWII novel of two women, a frail Southern belle and a rugged New England Yankee, moving in together in

21 the city while their husbands are overseas. Nice jacket art by Bek Files. Scarce. [BTC #322659] 272 SHERMAN, Charles. A Wise Son. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company (1914). First edition. Frontispiece by Arthur William Brown. Contemporary gift inscription, white paint titles on the boards are rubbed, thus very good in near fine dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. Jacket art by A.P. Nikolaki(?). A romance which was the basis for the 1925 film Wandering Footsteps directed by Phil Rosen, and featuring Alec B. Francis and Estelle Taylor. Exceptionally scarce in jacket. [BTC #98375] 273 SHERWOOD, Cleo and Julian HEILBRON. Murphy: An underworld Romance. Newark, New Jersey: Authors Publications, Inc. (1935). First edition. Ex-rental library copy with a label in the rear, and some scrapes on the pastedown from the jacket flaps being removed where they had been affixed, thus good only in good dustwrapper that has been trimmed, and has remnants of an old jacket protector at the extremities. Author listed as Cleo Sherwood on the jacket, but as Julian Heilbron on the title-page. Good girl from Minneapolis falls for underworld figure and heads to Los Angeles, and then to San Francisco, in a novel that is self-described as gripping, realistic, dramatically sexual. Jacket art by Ben Adlep (also signed, in much smaller letters, as Kudlum or Kudlim ). Scarce. Not in OCLC, which lists no books by either author, and only three other books from this publisher. Every copy of every volume from this publisher that we ve seen has had rental library markings and it seems likely that the short-lived publisher s entire output was thus consigned. [BTC #343167] 274 SIMS, Marian. Memo to Timothy Sheldon. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott (1938). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very slight nicking at the spine ends. Signed by the author. Epistolary novel consisting of a series of letters from a quiet and cerebral wife vacationing in the North Carolina mountains, where she thinks she has met her perfect match in the person of a professor of English, to her outgoing and outdoorsy husband. Uncommon signed. [BTC #85533] 275 SINCLAIR, May. Far End. New York: The Macmillan Company First edition. Neat, contemporary owner s name and slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, still fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few insignificant tears. Novelist marries, leaves his country home for London, and is beguiled by the charms of another. Sinclair was a popular author who enjoyed some critical success; sadly she is little remembered today. Unsigned wrap-around jacket art. [BTC #84718] 276 SKARIATINA, Irina. In Your Glad Heart, Tamara. Melbourne: Cassell (1943). First edition. Boards a bit bleached, foxing, mostly on the foredge and endpapers, an about very good copy in near fine dustwrapper. Russian princess with gypsy blood is forced to marry a drunken prince, her gypsy relatives help her to escape from the Bolsheviks. [BTC #316476] 277 SMITH, Chard Powers. Ladies Day. New York: Charles Scribner s Sons First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dustwrapper with a light pencil mark on the front panel. A novel about men in pursuit of business, and women in pursuit of society, set in the American 1880s and 90s. A very nice copy. [BTC #84970] 278 SMITH, Helen Zenna [pseudonym of Evadne Price]. Not So Quiet... Stepdaughters of War. London: Albert E. Marriott Ltd (1930). First edition. Front board foxed, else fine in fine dustwrapper. A recently discovered feminist classic, something between a memoir and a novel about the women ambulance drivers and nurses of World War I. A beautiful copy. [BTC #277156] 279 same title. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. (1930). First American edition. Near fine in an about very good, price-clipped dustwrapper. [BTC #369165] 280 SMITH, Lady Eleanor. Red Wagon. New York: Grosset and Dunlap (1930). Reprint edition, preceded by Gollancz and Bobbs-Merrill editions. Owner name, some offsetting to a couple of pages from some clippings, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper (with art by Skrenda). Subtitled on the jacket as The Romance of a Traveling Circus. Basis for the 1933 film directed by Paul L. Stein and featuring Charles Bickford. [BTC #85595] 281 ST. JOHN-LOE, Eve. Who Feeds the Tiger... London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson First edition. Boards badly faded, good only in a price-clipped, very near fine dustwrapper. Young love flourishes in a sleepy English cathedral town when an old house is bought by a wealthy widow. Wonderful jacket illustration. Neither OCLC or COPAC locate copies. [BTC #275457] 282 STEELE, Wilbur Daniel. Taboo. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company (1925). First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a short tear and a little toning. Romance novel that explores racial taboos. [BTC #347867] 283 STERRETT, Frances R. The Amazing Inheritance. New York: D. Appleton First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with very slight fading on the spine. Department store clerk moons after the owner s son, then inherits an island. William Fisher jacket art. [BTC #85589] 284 STEVENSON, D.E. The Four Graces. New York: Rinehart and Company (1946). First American edition. Slight tanning in the gutters else fine in near fine dustwrapper. The trials and tribulations of the four unmarried daughters of the Reverend Grace. [BTC #98497]

22 285 STINE, Buena Vista. Loud with Laughter. Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co. (1943). First edition. Boards a little bowed, else near fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow chipping, mostly near the foot of the spine. First novel by a Missouri-born Hollywood gossip columnist. Advance Review Copy (noted as such in ink). Inscribed by the author. [BTC #322535] 286 STONG, Phil. Week-End. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company First edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in an attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with a few very small chips at the extremities. Novel of a weekend and its effects on the lives of guests at a Connecticut house party. Nice jacket art, almost certainly by Arthur Hawkins, Jr., and reminiscent of his art from the previous year for the jacket of John O Hara s Appointment in Samarra. [BTC #91280] 287 STREET, Granville. Peter Was Married. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons First edition. Very near fine in a spinefaded, very good dustwrapper with a small chip. Clergyman moves to a gritty industrial parish, his socially conscious wife objects, divorce is likely. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #279863] 288 STURDY, Carl. Suburban Doctor. New York: Phoenix Press (1941). First edition. Contemporary owner s name on the front pastedown and foxing to the endpapers else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with a light crease on the spine and foxing on the rear panel. Novel of a doctor in the New York suburbs. [BTC #322551] 289 STURGES-JONES, Marion. In Wedlock Wake. New York: G.P. Putnam s Sons (1946). First edition. Illustrated by the author. Near fine in very good dustwrapper lacking the top ½"of the spine. Romance novel set in a thinly disguised Haddonfield, New Jersey. [BTC #152942] 290 SWINNERTON, Frank. The Young Idea. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company First American edition. A trifle rubbed else fine in very good dustwrapper with a small triangular chip at the base of the spine and the rear spine fold internally reinforced. Cockney store clerk wishes to believe in something beautiful. Jacket by Morris of Paris. A nicer than usual copy. [BTC #277224] 291 SYLVANUS, Paddy. Too Saucy with the Gods. New York: D. Appleton and Company First American edition. Gift inscription, and the foredge a little soiled, thus very good in good only dustwrapper with chips and internal repairs. A novel of young English people before the World War, revolving around the romance of a madcap heroine with her cousin, who is in the diplomatic service. Scarce. [BTC #86494] 292 THOMPSON, Maravene. The Secret Love House. New York: Macaulay (1926). First edition. Owner s name on the front fly else fine in a lightly rubbed, very good plus dustwrapper with some fading at the spine. Aristocrat, expected to marry in order to burnish the family escutcheon, must partake in love only as a secret indulgence, meets woman who might do both. [BTC #85523] 293 TRAVIS, Emma A., M.D. The Cobbler. New York: The Outing Publishing Company First edition. White decoration on the spine somewhat worn, else near fine. Romantic novel by a woman doctor. Very scarce. OCLC locates no copies. [BTC #98564] 294 TUTTLE, Louise Jennings. Acres of Beauty. New York: Fortuny s (1936). First edition. Fine in a very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tears. Very scarce novel, a love story set among the warm and friendly people of a small North Carolina town. [BTC #369159] 295 TYRRELL, Mabel L. The Affairs of Nicholas Culpeper. New York: Macrae-Smith Company First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Jacket art signed Robbie. Historical romance about a doctor and herbalist in 17th Century London. Welsh author s sixth novel, but her first published in the U.S. A lovely copy, and scarce in jacket. [BTC #323937] 296 VAIZEY, Mrs. George de Horne. Flaming June. London: Cassell and Company Ltd [1927]. First edition. Neat prize inscription, foxing on the foredge and scattered throughout, else near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with slight loss at the crown. From The Girl s Favorite Library series. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #323160] 297 VANDERCOOK, John W. Empress of the Dusk: A Life of Theodora of Byzantium. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock (1940). First edition. A tiny name stamp on both pastedowns else fine in a nice, near fine dustwrapper with a few short tears. Novelized life of a girl of the streets who for a time ruled an empire. [BTC #87059] 298 VON HUTTEN, Bettina. The Halo. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company First American edition. Attractive, very good or better copy with a little light wear. Penciled ownership signature of noted architect Richard Kelly. [BTC #296102] 299 WALDO, Harold. Stash of the Marsh Country. New York: George H. Doran (1921). First edition. Endpapers browned else near fine in a moderately edgeworn, about very good dustwrapper with a few small chips. Romance novel set around the Detroit area. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #86105]

23 300 WALL, Evans. Lovers Cry for the Moon. New York: The Macaulay Company (1935). First edition. Very near fine in an edgeworn, about very good dustwrapper with small chips, mostly at the crown. Various couples dally in love, both in and out of marriage, in Florida and New Orleans. Uncommon romance by a Mississippi author, very scarce in jacket. OCLC locates eight copies. [BTC #347878] 301 WALPOLE, Hugh. Portrait of a Man with Red Hair: A Romantic Macabre. New York: George H. Doran (1925). First American edition. A slight bump on the spine, still fine in very near fine dustwrapper with some tiny nicks. [BTC #314796] 302 WASSON, Mildred. The Big House. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin First edition. Owner s name, fine in very good or a little better dustwrapper with slight tanning and nicks to the spine. Young woman inherits the family manse from her grandfather, has adventures and conflicting romances. Very scarce. [BTC #85591] 303 WAUGH, Alec. Sir! She Said. New York: Farrar & Rinehart (1930). First American edition. Near fine in a near very good dustwrapper with several small chips and tears. Romance in Tahiti and the tropics. [BTC #88544] 304 WEIR, F. Roney. Colinette of Redmoon. Boston: Small, Maynard (1921). First edition. Owner s name on the front fly, fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the crown. Resourceful young woman puts it over on the petty and backbiting population of a small country town. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #339642] 305 (Western). DUFFUS, R.L. Jornada. New York: Covici-Friede (1935). First edition. Faint discard stamp on the front and rear free endpapers else very near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Western romance. The exotic wife of a wagon train leader dallies with a handsome young greenhorn on the trip to Santa Fe. Scarce in jacket. Unsigned wraparound jacket art. [BTC #322408] 306 (Western). LEHMAN, Paul Evan. Only the Brave. New York: Samuel Curl First edition. A bookplate on the front pastedown else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with two long, internally repaired tears on the rear panel. Vigilantes hang an innocent man, the leader makes amends by adopting the hanged man s son, they become romantic rivals. A very scarce first edition from an obscure publisher (Curl had several partnerships and founded the Mystery House imprint, but published only about two dozen books under this name). [BTC #98515] 307 (Western). MANN, E.B. Shootin Melody. New York: William Morrow First edition. Bookplate on the front fly, a little worn at the crown, else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with several very small tears. Western romance. Woman ranch owner hooks up with a man that others accuse of being a murderer and philanderer. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #322404] 308 (Western). ROSS, Nancy Wilson. Westward the Women. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Fine in a moderately age-toned, very good dustwrapper with small chips at the spine ends. Wagon train full of women looking for husbands heads west to sexstarved California, must fight off the unwanted advances of their escort party as well as threatening natives. Apparently the uncredited basis for the 1951 film directed by William Wellman and starring Robert Taylor and Denise Darcel, some of whose racy dialogue in her native French would not have been approved by the Hays Office if they had been more conversant in the language. [BTC #322669] 309 (Western). YOUNG, Gordon. Days of 49. New York: George H. Doran (1925). First edition. Contemporary gift inscription else fine in a price-clipped, else fine dustwrapper. Promotional advertisement for the book laid in. Romance and gunplay set against the background of the Gold Rush. Scarce in jacket. [BTC #329203] 310 [WICKES, Edward Michael]. Kinks: Meaning Love - Money - Mystery. New York: Adelaide Ambrose, Inc First edition. Just about fine in near fine dustwrapper with a number of small chips and tears at the extremities. Beautiful and ambitious young girl tries to make a go of it in New York. First novel by the pseudonymous Wickes, a turn of the century songwriter. The publisher, a female native of Kansas, issued only one other title. Jacket art by Albert Vargas long before his WWII pinups and later work in a similar vein. [BTC #322546] 311 WILDING, Lawrence [pseudonym of Louise Ward]. Storm Star. London: Besant & Co First edition in cloth boards. Foredge foxed, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. Publisher s promotional card laid in. A romance set in Hawaii, and an exceptionally scarce book OCLC lists no copies, and we could find no mention of either this title or the author in other conventional sources. [BTC #279043] 312 WILLIAMS, Roswell [pseudonym of Frank and Ethel Owen]. Madonna of the Damned. New York: Macaulay (1935). First edition. Slight wear, near fine in very good dustwrapper with a couple of creased tears. Dessa Dornay attracts the attention of a famous, sadistic German surgeon who enjoys the sufferings of his patients and gets special satisfaction when Germany passes sterilization laws. Very scarce, pre-war Nazi atrocity novel, with a love story thrown in. OCLC locates four copies in the U.S., two of them at the Library of Congress. [BTC #87063]

24 313 WILLIAMSON, C.N. and A.M. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America. New York: Doubleday Page and Company (1916). First American edition. Fine in an attractive, very near fine dustwrapper with a small chip at the foot. Charming woman travels America in a motorcar. A novel, but book and jacket are curiously illustrated with photos of many of the New England locations the female protagonist visits by motor car including East Hampton, Southampton, Tarrytown, South Shore, the Long Island countryside, the White Mountains, the Maine coast (one labeled Golf in Maine ), the shores of the Hudson River, and many other locales. [BTC #295496] 314 WILSON, J. Turner. Every Inch a Man. Anderson, Indiana: Warner Press (1937). First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with light overall wear. Romance of Jimps and Linn, two clean-living Christian kids. [BTC #98406] 315 WILSON, Margaret. Trousers of Taffeta: A Novel of the Child Mothers of India. New York: Harper & Brothers First edition. Slight fading to the cloth, very near fine in an attractive, very good plus dustwrapper with some modest fading on the spine and light wear at the extremities. Novel about the cloistered wives of an Indian rajah, seen through the eyes of an American missionary doctor, by the Iowa-born Wilson. Her first novel, The Able McLaughlins, won both the Harper Prize in 1923 and the Pulitzer Prize in Scarce. [BTC #85594] 316 WORMSER, Anne. Parents Permitting. Philadelphia: Macrae-Smith- Company First edition. Good plus with moderate wear but no overwhelming flaws in good dustwrapper with a paint splash on the spine and some nicks and tears. Young couple burdened with supporting her mother and his father. Scarce. [BTC #341560] 317 WORTHINGTON, Marjorie. Come, My Coach! New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Two blanks roughly opened with some disturbance to the paper over the hinges, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with very slight wear. American woman of a certain age indulges in a grand passion from her seclusion on the French Riviera. Very scarce. [BTC #277884] 318 WRIGHT, Gene. Pandora La Croix. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott First edition. Fine in near fine, lightly edgeworn dustwrapper. Lovely half-savage woman is manhandled in a Tahitian bar, is rescued, sort of. [BTC #339255] 319 WYLIE, Max. Hindu Heaven. New York: Farrar and Rinehart (1933). First edition. Fine in a spine-faded, else crisp and near fine dustwrapper with jacket art by Erick Berry. Novel of religion, sex and violent emotion set in India. [BTC #347487] 320 WYLLARDE, Dolf. Experiment. New York: The Macaulay Company First edition. A small, round sticker on the spine of both the book and the jacket, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small chip on the rear panel. Husband and wife tire of each other. She leaves to be a nurse on a cruise ship, he to live the Bohemian life of an author. [BTC #85528] 321 WYNNE, Pamela. Honey-Colored Moon. New York: H.C. Kinsey (1940). First edition. Fine in an attractive, near fine dustwrapper with just a few tiny nicks at the extremities. Three lonely people inherit money, allowing them to change their lives. By the author of Ann s an Idiot. [BTC #85519] 322 YOUNG, Francis Brett. My Brother Jonathan. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition, apparently preceding the English edition. Fine in very good plus dustwrapper (with art by Frank McIntosh, signed F.M. ) with some small nicks and tears. Novel of a doctor in the English Midlands. Basis for the 1948 film directed by Harold French and featuring Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray. Signed by the author. [BTC #87855] 323 same title. London: William Heinemann (1929). First English edition. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, otherwise fine in near very good dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine, and tiny nicks and tears. [BTC #87854] 324. Black Roses. London: William Heinemann (1929). First trade edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some tanning to the spine, and tiny nicks at the crown. Novel of a half- English, half-italian man, and his first love. [BTC #87853] 325. Mr. and Mrs. Pennington. London: William Heinemann (1931). First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with some overall age-toning, and tanning to the spine. A novel set in the English Midlands, where Mrs. Pennington sets up as an English Madame Bovary with a sense of humor. [BTC #87852] 326. A Man about the House. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock (1942). First American edition. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with a little soiling to the spine. Comic novel about two spinsters living in obscurity in England who are singled out for a romantic adventure. Basis for the little known but enjoyable 1947 film directed by Leslie Arliss, with a mostly forgettable cast that included a young Gina Lollobrigida in her first English-language film. [BTC #85494]