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Garden City: Doubleday, 1952. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Earl Oliver Hurst. First edition. Very good book in good dust jacket. Jacket has a large chip on spine (missing top 1 inch of spine panel including all of the title), has closed tears and wear on edges; a couple of small chips on flap folds; now in new removable protective cover. Tan cloth covered boards with green letters on spine; spine and cornes are bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked; another bookstore has added a loss prevention sticker on rear end page. Doubleday & Company hardcover with dust jacket, first edition 1952 (stated on copyright page); 222 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.25"") Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps (one of Bertie Wooster's friends) comes to New York and gets mixed up in producing a Broadway play with the usual Wodehouse results.

Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books. Inc., 1992. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine condition. Burgundy cloth covered boards with silver print on the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Buccaneer Books hard cover, no dust jacket as issued, ISBN: 9780899669397, 224 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.75"") Sequel to Auntie Mame.

Cutchogue, NY: Buccaneer Books. Inc., 1955. Hardcover. Very Good. Fine condition. Burgundy cloth covered boards with silver print on the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Buccaneer Books hard cover, no dust jacket as issued, ISBN: 9780899667263, 254 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.75"") Basis of a stage play, a film, a stage musical, and a film musical. There is a sequel: Around the World with Auntie Mame.

Sun Dial Press reprint edition. Gray cloth with black print, no dust jacket. Some soiling to boards. Book plate and gift inscription inside. Depressed and indifferent heir of a vast coffee import fortune, Peter Van Dyke finds his life and high society engagement turn upside down when his secretary, Josephine Duval, determines that she will rescue him from his horrible fate by ruining him morally. After an amusing scandal involving a nude Peter Van Dyke, Miss Duval and an ill starred burglar in a coat closet, he finds himself cast adrift in a fog with a motley crew that includes a Bishop Waller of the Episcopal Church and a former nude model named Aspirin Liz. The enterprising party lands unceremoniously on the shores of one of New York's sauciest nudist colonies, and thus is the liberation of the coffee importer set in motion. One of Smith's few comic novels in which no element of the supernatural is featured. Smith assumes the reader will know that "Jaegers" refers to a union suit (a type of single… Read More

Garden City: Garden City, 1942. hardcover. fair. Ralph Barton. Missing dust jacket. Beige cloth covered boards with gold botannical design on spine, and gold letters. Spine is somewhat darkened and gold is worn. Boards and spine are bumped. Front hinge is starting, webbing showing. Pages have no markings, but do have the occasional spot or fingerprint. Faint smoke smell. Illustrations are printed double sided on glossy paper and are tipped in. Garden City Publishing hard cover, missing dust jacket; 1942 edition, later printing (print code CL); 291 + 266 pages. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. 8vo (5.75"" x 8.5"") Edited by Ernest Boyd. This is an omnibus reprinting of a two volume edition originally printed by Liveright in 1928. French novelist and playwright Honor de Balzac (1799 -1850) was a founder of realism in European literature. An inspiration to Proust, Dickens, Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, and countless others, Balzac wrote works that were hailed for their multifaceted characters and exquisite… Read More

New York: Lippincott, 1946. hardcover. Good. Good book, missing dust jacket. Maroon cloth covered boards; black rooster on front and black printing on spine; spine faded. Prior owner's name on front free end paper and paste down. Pages clean and unmarked. Lippincott hard cover, missing dust jacket; 19th printing, Sept. 1946; 278 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.25") Classic novel of chicken farming in Washington, filmed with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert. Source of Ma and Pa Kettle series of films.

New York: Lippincott, 1946. hardcover. Good/poor. Good book in poor dust jacket. Dust jacket is in pieces with a large chip and loss at bottom left front and bottom spine; price intact ($2.75); now in new removable protective cover. Green cloth covered boards with black printing on spine and black rooster on front; spine lightly bumped but corners are sharp. Gift inscription (Christmas 1946) on front end paper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Lippincott hard cover with dust jacket, 20th printing Oct. 1946 (stated), with complete print history. 287 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8"") Classic novel of chicken farming in Washington, filmed with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert. Source of Ma and Pa Kettle series of films.

Sun Dial Press reprint edition. Gray cloth with black print, no dust jacket. Some soiling to boards. Book plate inside. Perhaps the best example of Thorne Smith's acutely sharp social humor played out against a backdrop of the Volstead Act (Prohibition). Two unrepentant reprobates are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the seduction which made the stylish Rex Pebble into an adulterer and his companion, Spray Summers, into his hard-boiled mistress. While their exasperating and alcoholic Japanese houseboy, Nakashima, plays jujitsu with the English language, the two slip into a swimming pool, the waters of which have been changed into a fountain of youth. Abandoning their clothes and modesty with their advanced years, the newfound youthfulness of their bodies puts into motion an evening of hijinks that only a seasoned and well-practiced couple of sinners could imagine.

New York: Wings, 1991. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Paul Cox. Dust jacket almost like new; now in new removable protective cover. Green boards with gold print on the spone; pages are clean and unmarked; light yellowing with age. Wings hard cover with dust jacket, 1991 edition, 8th printing. ISBN: 9780517057940. 467 pages, cover art by Paul Cox. 8vo (6.5"" x 9.5"") Collects 31 Golf stories, featuring the usual Wodehouse humour and charm.

New York: ACE, 1986. Mass Paperback. Very good. Walter Velez. Very good condition. Reading crease near spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Ace mass paperback, 1986 edition, 5th printing. ISBN: 9780441516629, 235 pages, cover art by Walter Velez. 12mo (4.25"" x 6.75"") First novel in the Ebenezum series, followed by A Multitude of Monsters. Comic fantasy at its finest, with a Wizard who is allergic to magic and Headbasher the cursed (and rented) war club.

New York: Fireside, 1960. trade paperback. fair-. Lawrence Ratzkin. Reading copy. Spine is creased and curved, and pages are tanning. Tape repair to lower rear hinge. Spine is broken at page 440. Fireside trade paperback. 1960 edition, 7th printing (undated). ISBN 9780671203498, 666 pages. Cover art by Lawrence Ratzkin. 8vo (5.25" x 8.25") 31 short stories plus the complete novel, Quick Service. This is a good introduction to Wodehouse, as it has several stories from each of his major series: Drones Club, Mr. Mulliner, Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, Lord Emsworth, Golf Stories, and Jeeves & Wooster.

New York: Ace, 1986. Mass Paperback. Very good. Walter Velez. Very good condition. Reading crease near spine, dinged corner on back. Pages are clean and unmarked. Ace mass paperback, 1986 edition, 2nd printing. ISBN: 9780441545230, 201 pages, cover art by Walter Velez. 12mo (4.25"" x 6.75"") Second novel in the Ebenezum series, preceded by A Malady of Magicks, and followed by A Night in the Netherhells. Comic fantasy at its finest, with a Wizard who is allergic to magic and Headbasher the cursed (and rented) war club.

New York: Ace, 1985. Mass Paperback. Very Good. Walter Velez. Very good condition - almost imperceptible reading crease; small corner crease on back; and pages are tight. Inside covers are tanning; pages are clean and unmarked. Ace mass paperback, 3rd printing Aug. 1985, ISBN: 9780441555208, 217 pages, cover art by Walter Velez. 12mo (4.25"" x 6.75"") Second in series of comic fantasies about bumbling magician's assistant Skeeve, and the magician Aahz (no relation to the renowned Wizard). Mass paperback reprint of Starblaze original.

Vintage book. Good condition, missing dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with black print on spine. Prior owner's bookplate on front paste down, and brief gift inscription on blank page. Pages clean and unmarked. Sun Dial Press reprint of 1931 first edition, 1939 edition, 311 pages. 8vo (5.5" x 7.75") A scientist accidentally discovers the power to turn people into stone statues, and vice versa, with hilarious and disasterous results.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1955. first. hardcover. good/missing. First edition, missing dust jacket. yellow cloth covered boards, quarter bound in black cloth with yellow and red titles on the spine. Printing on the spine is fading. Boards are worn and bumped. Rear hinge weak; webbing showing. Pages are unmarked, but have some soiling and spots. J. B. Lippincott Company hard cover, missing dust jacket; first edition (stated). 256 pages. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.5"")

Very good book in like dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked, light aging. Gramercy hard cover with dust jacket, 1983, 13th printing. ISBN: 9780517405383, 682 pages. 8vo (6.25" x 9.25") Omnibus of five novels originally published separately: The Return of Jeeves; Bertie Wooster Sees it Through; Spring Fever; The Butler Did It; and The Old Reliable.

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1948. hardcover. poor. Reading copy. Former library item, usual markings and defects; rebound and repaired by the library. No dust jacket. Title page taped in place. Pages have library stamps, dirty fingerprints and soiling, corner folds, etc. Lippincott hard cover, missing dust jacket; 2nd printing (stated). 1948. 254 pages. 8vo (5.25"" x 8"") 2nd in the author's series of humorous memoirs, preceded by The Egg and I, as she recounts her time in a sanitorium recovering from tuberculosis.

New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1915. first. hardcover. Good/missing. F. R. Gruger. First edition. Red cloth covered boards with gold print on cover and spine. Corners bumped with light wear to top and bottom of spine.Prior owner's name on front free end paper. Doubleday, Page and Company hardcover, missing dust jacket; 1st edition of 1915, illustrated by F. R. Gruger, 371 pages, 8vo ((5"" x 7.5"") All illustrations present. The basis for several film adaptations, with the Leo McCary directed version starring Charles Laughton being far and away the finest.

New York: Signet, 1972. first paperback. Mass Paperback. Very good. First paperback edition. Very good condition - almost like new, but with slight aging. Signet mass paperback, first paperback edition, first printing June 1972 (stated), ISBN: 9780451049407, Signet Y4940, 150 pages. 12mo (4.25"" x 7"") Book of humor, not sex ed. Paperback reprint of 1971 Walker hard cover first edition. Ships with signature confirmation.

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993. first thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Jeff Fisher. First printing of this edition. Dust jacket is very good; now in new removable protective cover. Beige boards, quarter bound in black cloth, with gold titles on the spine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Barnes & Noble hard cover with dust jacket, first printing 1993, complete number line. ISBN: 9781566192446. 352 pages, cover art by Jeff Fisher. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.5"") Collects 21 Wodehouse stories about the members of The Drones Club, including Barmy Fotheringay-Phipps, Pongo Twistleton-Twistleton, and Freddie Widgeon.