Search Results: Modern Fiction from S. Howlett-West Books (member of ABAA & ILAB)

N/a: Land's End Press. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1969. Reprint. 3-ring binder. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The first -10 pages of the text are uncut on the bottom edge. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has noticeable toning, especially around the top edges and spine and spine joints. There is one one inch depth chip to the top spine end, and seveal tears, including a two inch tear to the top front spine joint. "[Date: 1601. ] Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. Or simply 1601 is the title of a short risqué squib by Mark Twain, first published anonymously in 1880, and finally acknowledged by the author in 1906. Written as an extract from the diary of one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the pamphlet purports to record a conversation between… Read More

New York: Book of the Month Club / BOMC. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1988. Facsimile. Hardcover. This is a Facsimile of the original first edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a thin booklet laid-in with an introduction by John Updike. The dust jacket has several small tears to the top edges. "John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was an American writer who earned his early literary reputation for short stories and became a best-selling novelist before the age of 30 with Appointment in Samarra and BUtterfield 8. His work stands out among that of contemporaries for its unvarnished realism. While O'Hara's legacy as a writer is debated, his champions rank him highly among the under-appreciated and unjustly neglected major American… Read More

New York, NY: H. M. Caldwell Company. Very Good. 0. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This is a small format book (appoximately 5" by 3"). The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have paper covered boards that have been illustrated to look like wooden boards. There is a rectangular illustrated pastedown that's in very good condition - with some rubbing and weawr to the corners and edges. The book covers have some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown page, and his name inked on the front endpaper. "Holmes's fame continued through his later years. The Poet at the Breakfast-Table was published in 1872. Written fifteen years after The Autocrat, this work's tone was mellower and more nostalgic than its predecessor; "As people grow older," Holmes wrote, "they come at length to live so much in memory… Read More

Florence, Italy: R. Bemporad & Figlio. Good+. 1920. Reprint. Paperback. B&W Illustrations; This is a trade sized paperback with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The text is entirely in ITALIAN. The book is in Good+ to Near Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and edge wear. The spine joints have toning and noticeable ground-in dirt. The text pages are generally clean, but lightly toned. "Emilio Salgari (21 August 1862 – 25 April 1911) was an Italian writer of action adventure swashbucklers and a pioneer of science fiction. In Italy, his extensive body of work was more widely read than that of Dante. Today he is still among the 40 most translated Italian authors. Many of his most popular novels have been adapted as comics, animated series and feature films. He is considered the father of Italian adventure… Read More

Chicago, IL: People's Book Club. Very Good in Fair dust jacket. 1951. Book Club Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good condition and has a Fair dust jacket. The book is in generally clean, bright condition . There is some light bumping and fraying to the bottom corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There are bug poo trails to the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket has noticeable bug nibbled patches, especially to the flap joints and the rear spine joint. . The rear dust jacket flap has detatched, but is still present. "Pennsylvania, 1913. The four Wittmann brothers manufacture steel precision tools. Jochen (Joe) is a ruthless businessman who seeks to improve the bottom line at any cost. Friedrich (Fred) dabbles in Socialism but would never sacrifice his dividends. Wilhelm (Willie) prefers to collect art rather than visit the factory floor. Only Karl (Charles) , a widower, has the vision to keep the family business in the… Read More

New York: Triangle Books. Very Good+. 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers are mostly clean and bright, with a couple of small spots of fading to the front cover. The spine of the book has some beginning fading. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned, due to the acid content of the paper. There are black ink lines that have been partially erased on the front endpaper. "Eleanor Smith worked as a society reporter and cinema reviewer for some time, then as a publicist for various circus companies. In the latter role she traveled widely, and gained inspiration for her third career, writing popular novels and short stories which often provided the basis for the 'Gainsborough melodramas' of the period. These stories often had a romanticized historical or Gypsy setting, based on her own research into Romany culture (she believed one of her paternal great-grandmothers to have been a Gypsy). During her time… Read More

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers. Very Good. 1903. Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Go od condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping, rubbing and wear. The book covers and spine are illustrated with gilt, two colors of green and orange. The front cover has a smallish rectangular pictorial pastedown with a photograph of the main actor as Ben-Hur. Unfortunately, the photograph has several bits pulled / removed. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's name and date on the front pastedown page, and a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. The front pastedown page also includes a previous owner's library label, that mentions "Dinglebrink, Oakland, CA." The rear endpapers have a patch of dark purple over the spine hinge. There are tears to the top and bottom edges of the rear inner spine hinge. This book is illustrated throughout with… Read More

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good. 1945. Reprint. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback book. Book number 53 in the Pocket Books edition. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book has some light bumping, rubbing and wear to the spine ends, corners and spine joints of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a large amount of inked writing on the rear inside cover by a previous owner. "Ask any of us who jot down notes for the various gazzettes in New York our idea of a big-time, first-rate, Grade-A reporter - and eleven times out of ten, the retort will be Damon Runyon! Because, among other things, Runyon is the most exciting and spellbinding of historians - whether his assignment is the Kentucky Debry, the Madison Square Garden farces, the current murder mystery, or the sitchee-ay-shun in the Orient." "From 1939 to 1943, Runyon pursued a Hollywood career as a writer and producer at MGM, Universal and RKO.… Read More

New York: Ballantine Books. Good. 1966. 1st Edition Thus. Paperback. 0345250850 . This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have several small edge nicks and tears to the spine ends. There is an inked scribble to the top spine of the book cover and there is some light toning to the cover edges. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the inside front cover. "The story concerns a young American geologist, Stanton Laird, working in the Australian outback in the field of oil exploration. Although he is in a very remote location - beyond the black stump - in a region called "the Lunatic" in Western Australia, he is part of a crew that has a well-appointed mobile facility. He is befriended by a local farming family, the Regans, and develops a relationship with their daughter Mollie. The Regans run an enormously profitable station, but their domestic lifestyle… Read More

Chicago, IL: Donohue, Henneberry & Co.. Very Good+. N.D.. Trade Edition. Hardcover. This is a small format book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The book front cover and spine have illustrations and lettering in silver. The front inner hinge has a beginning crack. The text pages are clean, but noticeably toned, due to the acid content of the paper. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown. Included are the short stories: A Bird of Passage, At the Green Dragon, and, An Idyll of London. "Unlike the WSPU, who only welcomed women as members, the Women Writers Suffrage League welcomed men, women and members from diverse political parties. The only dictate for membership to the Writer’s League, other than having been paid for a literary work, was support of the suffragette cause. These writers were agitators demanding access to the male dominated civic and social… Read More

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1968. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one small nick to the rear foredge and some beginning rubbing to the spine ends and corners. "During the 1960s, in Virginia, while the blacks fight for their civil rights, a young white girl is kidnapped in Baltimore. Little Alice Raleigh, eleven years and blonde like corn, and heiress of an immense fortune, is held for a ransom of a million dollars. Her kidnappers, trying to make her invisible to the police officers and the federal agents searching for her, manage to brown her skin and her hair. They sequester her under an assumed name in a house held by an old black woman, near Norfolk, which turns out to be a house of prostitution. Slowly, Alice adapts… Read More

Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Company. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1958. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has rubbing, edge weawr and several small chips to the spine ends and corners. "She completed her best-known work, Sara Dane, on her 25th birthday in 1954, and it was published in 1955. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, and was made into a television mini-series in Australia in 1982. This novel is loosely based on the life of the Australian convict businesswoman Mary Reibey, whose image has appeared on the Australian $20 note since 1994. Other novels included A Falcon for a Queen (1972) and The Summer of the Spanish Woman (1977)." (from Wikipedia) .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1925. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. "After reading a story in Ladies' Home Journal about the love affair of Abraham Lincoln and Ann Rutledge, Babcock corresponded with the Illinois Historical Society and many persons who had known Lincoln personally. She became one of the country’s leading authorities on Lincoln, having conducted numerous personal interviews with his law partners and others, and published of The Soul of Ann Rutledge in 1919. This biographical novel was an international success, going through fourteen printings and translation into several foreign languages. It also was adapted into a stage play in 1934 and a radio play in 1953, when it was performed by the American Theater Wing.… Read More

New York, NY: LITTLE BROWN & CO. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1962. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and spots of rubbing and wear. The spine and front cover of the dust jacket have some light, generalized sunning / fading. .

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1902. Reprint. Hardcover. B&W Photographs; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The text block has been illustrated with several full page black and white illustrations. The dust jacket has several small edge tears, nicks and a couple of small chips. "George Barr McCutcheon (July 26, 1866 – October 23, 1928) was an American popular novelist and playwright. His best known works include a series of novels set in Graustark, a fictional East European country, and the novel Brewster's Millions, which was adapted into a play and several films. " (from Wikipedia) .

Boston, MA: Loring, Publisher. Very Good-. 1866. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. American Edition. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have some bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners. The spine ends have some tiny nicks as well. The text pages are generally clean, though the front and rear endpapers are heavily toned, and have biopredation (bug nibbles). "Edmund Hodgson Yates (1831-1894) managed to offend seriously both William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope in his work as a gossip journalist. He wrote some nineteen novels, of which this, his first, was perhaps the most popularly successful. Its most distinctive feature is its representation—sometimes fascinating but sometimes tediously knowing—of contemporary society.  “We have read it with lively interest, and we lay it aside with an agreeable sense of refreshment. ” Athenaeum, November 26, 1864. “We cannot do more than state the almost… Read More

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers. Very Good-. 1907. New Edition thus; 14th Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a copy of MacMillan's Standard Edition, published by Grosset & Dunlap. With decorations by Chas. Edw. Hooper and illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin and Charles Livingston Bull. This copy's last date imprint is June 1907 (making it a 14th printing). This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have edge wear, bumping, rubbing and wear. The front cover includes a rectangular pictorial pastedown which has noticeable wear, and several chips missing. There are spots of ground-in dirt and discoloration to the book covers. The text pages are clean, though somewhat toned due to the acid content of the paper. There is a previous owner's ink stamped name and address on the front endpaper. . This copy has been illustrated throughout by… Read More

New York: Pocket Books. Very Good-. 1976. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. This is a mass market paperback. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers There is creasing to the spine joints and spine, along with rubbing to the spine ends. The text pages are clean, but have light generalized toning. "The Casting Couch and #MeToo follows a young actress' experiences with the casting couch while searching for acting work in the 'biz'. That young actress was me – 18 years old and fresh off the boat from England- full of enthusiasm – carrying my acting portfolio in one hand and dreams of elusive stardom in the other. But soon my dreams of stardom collided with reality and the Casting Couch creeps. These creeps want nothing more than a quick release - Supply-and-demand, Give and take, Buyers and sellers. They can make or break a young actress – not only her career but also… Read More

New York, NY: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. Trade Edition. Hardcover. 039447970X . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. This is an early copy, with a 12.50 price on the front flap corner. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an inked number on the top edge of the front endpaper. The dust jacket is generally clean and bright.. There is some light bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. .

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1926. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's name and address on the front endpaper. The edges of the text block have some spots of foxing. The dust jacket has several edge tears, nicks and chips missing, along with spots of color loss that appear to be due to stickers being removed. The rear panel of the dust jacket has some generalized toning. .