Category: Fiction (paperback)

ARGOSY WEEKLY, Oct./October 29, 1932,

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Frank A. Munsey Company : 1932

Seller ID: 009366

Binding: Magazine

Contains novelettes and short stories by J. Allan Dunn, J. Lane Linklater, Fred MacIsaac, Lowell Thomas, Stookie Allen, and Howard E. Morgan; serials by Will McMorrow ("Crime Exchange," Part 1 of 3), A. Merritt ("Burn, Witch, Burn!", Part 2 of 6), George Allan England ("Vikings of the North," Part 3 of 3), and J.E. Grinstead ("The Red Scalp," Part 5 of 6); and articles/features by Kenneth P. Wood, Arthur Woodward, James Montagnes, and F.W. Smith. Cover by Paul Stahr, illustrating "Shotgun Creek." Moderate edgewear/chipping common to the breed, chipping to bottom spine, tanning, light general w...
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ARGOSY, Feb./February 27, 1932

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Frank A. Munsey Company : 1932

Seller ID: 009364

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Very Good to Fine

Contains novelettes by Allan Vaughan Elston and Charles S. Verral; serials by Loring Brent, ("Outlaw's Holiday," Part 1 of 2), F.V.W. Mason ("Captain Renegade," Part 2 of 6) and A. Merritt ("The Dwellers in the Mirage," Part 6 of 6); and short stories by Eustace L. Adams, Bertrand L. Shurtleff, and Edwin L. Sabin; articles and features by C.A. Freeman, E.R. McCarthy, A.G. Preston, and Gerald FitzGerald. Cover illustrates "Outlaw's Holiday." A mild version of the usual edgewear/short tears/chipping common to the breed, slightly cocked, faint pink line near price circle, tanned pages, light gene...
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The Grand, November/Nov. 1932

Price: $20.00

Publisher: London, : 1932

Seller ID: 009367

Binding: Magazine

Condition: Good

UK magazine featuring work by Rafael Sabatini, Denis (spelled thus on front cover and the story itself, but spelled 'Dennis' on Contents Page) Mackail, Edward Hope, Achmed Abdullah, Frank Swinnerton, Oscar Schisgall, Hylton Cleaver, Jack Hulick, and Beatrice Grimshaw. Tanning, chipping to spine ends, slits along spine edges, remains of price sticker on front cover, small chips from left edge of back cover, small piece to top right corner of front cover threatening to chip off, and probably will the instant you remove it from the protective plastic where it currently lives. Internally tight. Un...
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A QUEEN AT HEART, or The Girl Who Trusted

By: Allen, Ida Reade

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Street & Smith : 1929

Seller ID: 011363

Binding: Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

Romantic fiction. A very scarce item, being #1295 in the publisher's New Eagle Series. Faint dampstain to front cover and bottom edge, tanned pages, gentle creasing to back cover, the usual spine wrinkles (printing flaw). Internally tight and clean. Fragile to begin with, not many of these Street & Smith novels are found in decent shape.
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From Tears to Smiles

By: Allen, Ida Reade

Price: $45.00

Publisher: New York, Street & Smith New Eagle Series No. 1355 : 1931

Seller ID: 011268

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

(1891). Reissues the 1899 Norman L. Munro edition. Romance. Rubbing, minor edgewear, moderate rubbing/scraping to spine edges, tanned pages, slightly darkened spine. Internally tight and clean. Fragile to begin with, these are seldom found without significant flaws, but this copy is pretty good. Scarce.
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The Selfish Girl; A Tale Of Truth

By: Anonymous

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New York, Kiggins & Kellogg

Seller ID: fic.00048

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Fair to Good

No date (circa 1840s). Third Series, No. 9. A selfish young girl learns the error of her ways. "Now I hope all little girls, who read my story, will be good too, and oblige every one, and never try to please themselves at the expense of another's pleasure." (1840s, remember. Today the little wench would have an IQ that would embarrass a moron, couldn't spell selfless, and would have a starring role in some stupid reality show.) 16 pages, stitched, illustrated. A fragile item to begin with, this copy w/light edgewear, slit from bottom spine to bottom of stitching, moderate soil.
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An AFB 5-book fiction multi-pack: The Small Back Room, Jailbait, Pomp and Circumstance, Nightmare, The Wind That Blows

By: Balchin, Nigel, William Bernard, Noel Coward, Guy Endore, F.W. Lister

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Lion Books 31, Popular Library 1392, Dell 537, Dell D183, Pocket bB19

Seller ID: 019077

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good or better

A multi-pack featuring a variety of themes, promoted on the front covers as "The story of an inadequate man," "Teen-Age Hoodlums On The Loose," a "wonderfully wicked tale of an uninhibited island paradise in the South Pacific," and the story of a woman who "led a double life -- wife to one man, wanton to many," and nothing on the Lister book, with the publishers probably figuring that the Glyn Jones cover illustration of a sailor and a painted trollop would be enough to draw in the intended audience. Everything's intact, but best nonetheless to read with care, since vintage paperbacks sometim...
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The Largest Baby in Ireland After the Famine (signed)

By: Barnett, Anne

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Virago Press : 2000

Seller ID: 018114

ISBN-13: 9781860497971

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

Set in a mid-Ulster rural community, against the backdrop of World War I, a confirmed bachelor who is Protestant becomes involved with a Catholic woman who is "a big bawdy widow with 14 children," and who doesn't give a rat's ass about local morals (always a wise position to take). Winner of the 2001 Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award for the best Irish fiction. 276 pages. Slightly cocked, reading creases to spine, light general wear. Internally still fairly tight and clean.
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An AFB 5-book fiction multi-pack: Bonnie, We Burn Like Fire, Break of Day, Uphill Runner, Selected Short Stories

By: Barron, Hugh, Will Cook, Colette, James McQueen, Arthur Quiller-Couch

Price: $10.00

Publisher: New English Library NEL 2854, Monarch 130, Avon G-1174, Penguin 7007, Penguin 1191

Seller ID: 019064

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good or better

A five-book lot of general fiction titles, the first telling the story of "the princess of the motorcycle gangs," the second about a guy "obsessed with speed" and involved with a babe "ruled by desire," the third featuring the author's "precise, tender, enchanted descriptions of sensuous pleasure," the fourth a collection of 20 stories from "One of Australia's most mature and accomplished writers of fiction," and the fifth presenting 15 stories by "a Cornishman of great character and accomplishment." Generally in pretty decent condition. Sorry, but no substitutions.
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A House of Women

By: Bates, H.E.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: London, Mayflower Dell 3825 : 1965

Seller ID: 013066

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

The story of a barmaid who marries "a farmer whose skinflint family is steeped in the tradition of its own prosperity." 284 pages. Some spine cocking, light edgewear, three grey remainder stripes across fore-edge, tanning, moderate handling wear. Uncommon edition.
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The Eskimo in the Net (signed)

By: Beirne, Gerard

Price: $25.00

Publisher: London, Marion Boyars : 2003

Seller ID: 017662

ISBN-13: 9780714530932

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Beirne's first novel, telling the story of a man who becomes obsessed with learning the identity of a dead Eskimo caught in fishing nets off the northwest coast of Ireland. 331 pages. Moderate general wear.
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The Eskimo in the Net (signed)

By: Beirne, Gerard

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, Marion Boyars : 2003

Seller ID: 017663

ISBN-13: 9780714530932

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: About Very Good

Beirne's first novel, telling the story of a man who becomes obsessed with learning the identity of a dead Eskimo caught in fishing nets off the northwest coast of Ireland. 331 pages. Rubbing/thin scratches to covers, moderate surface wear, corner wear, thin reading creases to spine.
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An AFB 5-book fiction multi-pack: Trial by Marriage, The Housekeeper's Daughter, Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal, A Certain Smile, One Man Show

By: Bell, Vereen, Donald Henderson Clarke, Lloyd C. Douglas, Francoise Sagan, Tiffany Thayer

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dell 582, Avon 503, Dell 304, Dell D206, Avon nn

Seller ID: 019220

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Various conditions

A five-title lot of general fiction, one of them a map-back ('Doctor Hudson's Secret Journal'). All are in at least G condition, with some being much better. Sorry, but no substitutions.
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THE WAY IT IS: WAITING FOR THE MAN, including The Other Foot, Gift of the Magi, The Happiest Day, The Most Dangerous Game, A Letter to God

By: Bradbury, Ray, O. Henry, Sherman Dixon, Richard Connell, and Gregorio Lopez y Fuentes

Price: $25.00

Publisher: No Place, Xerox Corporation : 1967

Seller ID: 018066

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

An uncommon collection of stories primarily of interest to collectors of Ray Bradbury material, this was "compiled by Xerox Corporation. It is part of the program THE WAY IT IS, to be used in conjunction with the Teacher Handbook, Learner Log, and accompanying phonograph records" (phonograph records????? -- must be some sort of futuristic term). Uncommon words/phrases are defined at the bottom of each page. Stapled wraps, 62 pages. Sunned spine, crinkles/impressions to covers, corner creases, sticker pull to front cover, 1/4" tear to bottom edge of back cover, general wear.
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The Brat

By: Brewer, Gil

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Greenwich, Gold Medal 708 : 1958

Seller ID: 007119

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A young woman enduring "the rotting, sun-blasted shack, the one room where they all lived, slept, made love, died," and "the sly, lustful eyes of her father's friends," is willing to use her lovely body to escape to a new life (curious how seldom it turns out that some guy can do the same thing). Spine cocked, uneven 1/4" tear to bottom edge of front cover/first end paper, some mild waviness at spine, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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SHOWDOWN and other stories (signed)

By: Brondoli, Michael

Price: $40.00

Publisher: San Francisco, North Point Press : 1984

Seller ID: 010755

ISBN-13: 9780865471528

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Brondoli's well-received first collection of eight distinctive stories, called by no less a personage than Reynolds Price, "hot as a gasoline fire and as dangerous to the general direction of American life and literature." The title story was included in the 1980 anthology, 'The Pushcart Prize V: Best of the Small Presses.' Inscription in top right corner of front end paper reads, "To xxxxxxx,/with good memories/of your visits and/admiration for the/spirited life and work/you make--/love,/Michael." Additionally, Brondoli has drawn a line through his name on the title page, then signed his name...
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The Brick Foxhole

By: Brooks, Richard

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Toronto, Studio 110

Seller ID: 017733

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Near Very Good

No date (circa 1950). Brooks's first novel, tackling the theme of homosexuality in the army, and its repercussions for one man at the hands of another just out of the service. Published before Brooks became a top Hollywood screenwriter/director, and the basis for Crossfire, a film directed by Edward Dmytryk, that starred Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, and Robert Ryan (you didn't *have* to be named Robert to star in this flick, but apparently it helped a whole helluva lot). 320 pages, cover photograph shows film close-up of Robert Ryan. Edgewear, thin/uneven crease to top right corner of front c...
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Going to the Castle (inscribed & signed)

By: Burnham, Nicole

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Silhouette 1563 : 2001

Seller ID: 015857

ISBN-13: 9780373195633

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A woman's desire to help refugees in a faraway country sees her become involved with the "pampered, fairy-tale prince" of a neighbouring country. 185 pages. Light edgewear, impressions/scratches. Internally tight and clean.
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An AFB 4-book fiction multi-pack: Tobacco Road, Peabody's Mermaid, Butterfield 8, Cress Delahanty

By: Caldwell, Erskine, Guy & Constance Jones, John O'Hara, Jessamyn West

Price: $10.00

Publisher: White Circle 257, Pocket 503, Avon 94, Pocket 1073

Seller ID: 018806

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Various conditions

A collection of four novels, three of which are pretty much standing the test of time in American literature, and the other of which looks like a delightful read to cleanse the literary palate (that would be this movie tie-in edition of 'Peabody's Mermaid,' a story that sees a man catch a mermaid, which results in such cutting, pertinent questions as "How does his wife take it?" and "How does a captive mermaid behave?"). A couple of titles have a few condition issues, but neither pages nor words are falling out of any of them, so they all have good reads left in them -- but it wouldn't hurt t...
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Dynasty of Death

By: Caldwell, Taylor

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Cardinal C-252 : 1957

Seller ID: 018604

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

An abridged version of Caldwell's 1938 novel about "a passionate business tycoon's lust for power" that left him "a lonely man hated by those who should have loved him -- his wife, his children and his friends" (his wife and children, I get, but generally aren't people who hate you called "enemies"?). 387 pages + three pages of advertisements for other Cardinal titles. Some creasing to front cover, moderate spine roll, 1/4" tear at bottom right spine edge, moderate wear to spine edges, front cover beginning to pull away at first end paper (still tight, but requiring a careful reading to preven...
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The Path to the Nest of Spiders

By: Calvino, Italo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Ace Books H192/Harborough Publishing : 1958

Seller ID: 015269

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

Calvino's first book, originally published in 1947 in Italian, and here translated from that language by Archibald Colquhoun. More often than not subsequently published as 'The Path to the Spiders' Nest.' The story of "a gutter boy's search for an ideal among the Italian partisans." 158 pages. Some edgewear, surface wear, 3/4" tears to top right spine edge and either spine edge at bottom, tanning. Somewhat scarce in this edition.
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At Fever Pitch

By: Caute, David

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Quartet 31050 : 1973

Seller ID: 014508

Binding: Paperback

Condition: About Very Good

Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and an Authors' Club First Novel award. A 20-year-old subaltern "serving with a native regiment in an African colony on the verge of independence" finds himself struggling "with his sexual needs and inadequacies." 201 pages. A bit cocked/rolled, moderate general wear.
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Now I Know (signed)

By: Chambers, Aidan

Price: $30.00

Publisher: London, Bodley Head : 1987

Seller ID: 016548

ISBN-13: 9780370307732

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Very Good

After a body is found crucified on a rusty metal cross hanging from a crane in a scrapyard, a seventeen-year-old doing research for a film about the Second Coming falls in love with a Christian feminist who is subsequently injured in a terrorist bomb blast. If your name is Stephanie, this is the book for you, because this copy is inscribed and signed ("For/Stephanie/Aidan Chambers.") on half-title. And if your name isn't Stephanie, why, you can always hang on to it for her until she shows up, and surprise the bejeebers out of her with how thoughtful you are. Or you could just pretend that you'...
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An AFB 5-book general fiction multi-pack: The Dreamers, The Golden Summer, Sailor Town, The Sleeping Mountain, It's a Free Country

By: Clark, J. Bigelow, Anne Duffield, Paul Fox, John Harris, Ben Ames Williams

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Perma M-3020, Pan 425, Bantam 813, Arrow 935, Popular Library 308

Seller ID: 018327

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good Reading Copies

All five titles are in G or better condition, with no loose or missing pages, and are offered for those who just wish to read a variety of stories, some of which may have been forgotten (or never discovered) by today's readers, or consigned to the back shelf in the closet of literary history. Sorry, but no substitutions of titles.
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Bound By a Spell

By: Conway, Hugh (pseudonym of Frederick John Fargas)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cleveland, The Arthur Westbrook Company

Seller ID: 011362

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

No date (circa 1925). #186 in Westbrook's The Hart Series. The author died of typhoid fever in 1885, at the too-young age of 38. Curiously, bound into the back of the book are the first 39 pages -- ending in mid-sentence -- of another Conway/Fargas title, "Living or Dead," which Westbrook also published in The Hart Series as #167 (was this additional material a mistake?; an attempt to hook readers on another Conway/Fargas title?; a common Westbrook practice?; an Axis of Evil plot?). Rubbing, light smudging, crosscrack, spine scrapes, vertical creases to back cover, some soil/spotting to edges...
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Power Play

By: Craig, John

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Warner 76-441 : 1974

Seller ID: 009303

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Canadian printing. Originally published in Canada as 'The Pro,' before being published in the U.S. by Dodd, Mead. In the Stanley Cup Final a team's chances to win it all take a direct hit when the captain's ex-girlfriend is responsible for a scandal that isn't going to go away. Whoever wrote the back cover copy is a mushbrain who understands exactly squat about hockey, and proves it with "To cinch the game, they opt for a power play -- and lose." In hockey, no one "opts" for a power play, Sparky. Moderate general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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An AFB 4-book classics multi-pack: An Illusion in Red and White, This Side of Paradise, The Scarlet Letter, The Prisoner of Zenda

By: Crane, Stephen, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anthony Hope

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Pocket 7, Avon G-1139, Dell D140, Pocket 551, Bantam 33

Seller ID: 019195

Binding: Paperbacks

Condition: Good or better

Four books by writers whose works have stood the test of time, and which show no sign of experiencing diminishing interest any time soon. Some show very little wear, while others will never be mistaken for new, but all remain intact and ready for another reading -- more if that reading is done carefully. Sorry, but no substitutions.
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Once Upon A Kiss (inscribed & signed)

By: Cross, Claire

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Jove Books 12300 : 1998

Seller ID: 015870

ISBN-13: 9780515123005

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A man determined to clear away brambles around a reputedly cursed castle finds himself a slumbering woman who, when awakened, demands to know what he's doing and why he's in her father's castle (coo-coo, coo-coo). 324 pages. Reading crease to spine, general handling wear. Internally tight and clean.
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The Half-Caste

By: Cushman, Dan

Price: $25.00

Publisher: New York, Dell First Edition A202 : 1960

Seller ID: 019068

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Canadian printing of a paperback original. A woman "like a tropic night -- dark, smooth, and glowing with only the most subtle hint of the savagery that lay beneath" enchants a man who probably should have given involvement with her another two or three or four second thoughts. 160 pages. Spine cocked/slightly rolled, light edgewear, impressions, light tanning. All in all a nice copy of a scarce title, and one that would grade NF if not for the cocked spine.
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An AFB 4-book general fiction multi-pack: The Mackerel Plaza, My Friends From Cairnton, The Golden Woman, Darling

By: De Vries, Peter, Jane Duncan, Eric Hatch, Frederic Raphael

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Signet S1648, Pan 02133, Gold Medal 213, Signet D2766

Seller ID: 018527

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good or better

This multi-pack features an amusing story about a young minister whose first wife has died, and who is trying to end his widower status; a title from Duncan's once-upon-a-time enormously popular My Friends series; a pulse-pounder set in Haiti, "where even a proud aristocracy had its roots deep in the primitive jungle and where human passions burst free from the confining bonds of civilization"; and a novelization for the motion picture of the same name (Darling), said film starring Laurence Havey, Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie. The De Vries title is graded as G, with the other three ranking ...
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Category: Fiction (paperback)