JARNEGAN.
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. Gilt cloth. Top edge dusty, spine faded, but a good reading copy, lacking the dust jacket. First edition of the author's third book, considered to be one of the earliest significant Hollywood novels.
20th Century American Social Fiction
THE TASKMASTERS.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. Dark blue cloth, with pictorial designed in gray, lettered in white. Corners, edges and spine stamping a bit rubbed, early review tipped to verso of table of contents, but a good copy. First edition, published in the "First Novel Series." A fictional depiction.....
SPIDER BOY A SCENARIO FOR A MOVING PICTURE.
New York: Knopf, 1928. Gilt sateen cloth, top-edge stained black. First U.S. edition, trade issue. Backstrip and lettering a bit damp-dulled, bookseller's label on front pastedown, else a sound copy in an imperfect, worn dust jacket.
THE DISINHERITED.
London & New York: Longmans, 1929. Cloth. Binding somewhat edgeworn and soiled, but a sound copy. First edition. Inscribed by the author to a London Journalist in the year of publication. "Problems of an American Jew married to a Gentile" - Hanna.
NIGHT RIDER.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1939. Cloth. First edition of the author's first novel, the HM Fellowship winner of its year. Five small ink spots on upper cover, otherwise a good, tight copy in bit edgeworn dust jacket with old internal strengthening at edges and a few other small ink spots. Obviously.....
THE WALLS OF JERICHO.
Philadelphia & New York: Lippincott, [1947]. Gilt cloth. A very good, bright copy in modestly shelfworn spine-sunned dust jacket. First edition. Inscribed and signed by the more westerly of the Wellman brothers "... with the regards of the author Paul I Wellman March 4, 1947." "A reformer battles political corruption.....
IN THE MONEY.
[ London]: MacGibbon & Kee, [ 1965]. Cloth. First British edition (2000 copies). Top edge dusty, else a nice copy in lightly sunned dust jacket with small edge nick.
THE WOODS COLT A NOVEL OF THE OZARK HILLS.
New York: Harcourt, [1933]. Cloth, paper labels. Woodcut frontis, endsheets and illustrations by Raymond Bishop. First edition. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with tiny sticker shadow at one corner and a couple small edge tears and a minor chip.
BABES AND SUCKLINGS.
New York: Knopf, 1929. Patterned cloth. First edition, third book. Spine a bit cocked, else very good, lacking the dust jacket. "Life and love in New York's Greenwich Village" - Hanna.
OPUS 21 DESCRIPTIVE MUSIC FOR THE LOWER KINSEY EPOCH OF THE ATOMIC AGE A CONCERTO FOR A ONE-MAN BAND SIX ARIAS FOR SOAP OPERAS FUGUES, ANTHEMS & BARRELHOUSE.
New York: Rinehart & Company, [ 1949]. Gilt purple cloth. First edition. Light wear at spine ends, otherwise very good, in shelfworn price-clipped dust jacket with several small chips and tears at edges and a closed tear across spine panel.
JADIE GREENWAY.
New York: Crown, [1947]. Cloth. Fine in very slightly edge-tanned dust jacket with a few tiny nicks. First edition of the author's first novel. "Adolescence of a negro girl in the slum areas of Brooklyn" - Hanna. The (Caucasian) writer taught and served as administrator in the Brooklyn schools.