Murder Without Make-up
by Benjamin, Edla
New York: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1940). First Edition. Hardcover. [a nice clean book, light shelfwear, spine just a bit turned; jacket moderately faded along spine, otherwise colorful and attractive with minor wear only]. Quite uncommon murder mystery about a killing that occurs on opening night of a Broadway play and "involves, before its solution, the most important figures in the whole production -- the rich producer, equally famous in... Read More
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At a Venture
by Bennett, Charles A.
New York: Harper & Brothers. Very Good+ in Fair dj. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid copy, light shelfwear to bottom edge, dust-soiling and rubbing to red topstain; jacket has numerous chips (especially at spine, including loss of most of book title), and is split at rear hinge, but front panel is substantially complete and still attractive]. (20 full-page line drawings) Humorous essays by "a philosopher by profession, a humorist by nature, a New Englander... Read More
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Murder Unleashed
by Bennett, Dorothy
New York/Chicago: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good in Fair dj. (c.1935). Reprint. Hardcover. [moderately shelfworn book, binding solid, no markings in text; jacket is well-worn, with numerous small tears and chips (including a quarter-size piece missing at lower right corner of front panel), spine heavily faded, some paper loss at top of spine (taking away part of title), a handful of old internal tape-mends]. Mystery novel about "the curious murder of the 'White Flower'... Read More
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Seasons
by Bennett, Edith Wilson
New York/Paris: Empire Books. Very Good+ in Fair dj. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear to book, top edge of text block a bit dust-soiled, small bookseller's rubber stamp at bottom corner of front pastedown (Bertrand Smith Acres of Books, Long Beach, California); jacket is worn and moderately soiled, with a small ragged chip at right side of top edge, and a large-ish chunk torn out of the rear panel (unfortunately taking quite a bit... Read More
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Bright Yellow Gold
by Bennett, Horace W.
Philadelphia: John C. Winston Company. Very Good in Fair dj. 1935. 1st (unstated). Hardcover. [book has a bit of corner/edge wear, tiny nick in cloth near top of spine, gift inscription on ffep; jacket worn with various chips/tears, 1-1/2" piece missing at fore-edge)]. (color plates) "This book is a biography and historical novel and romance from the discovery of Pikes Peak by Zebulon Pike to the present date." .
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Son of the Typhoon
by Bennett, James W.
New York: Duffield & Company. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . [minor shelfwear, small faded spot at base of spine cloth; jacket has a few small tears, some soiling/rubbing, small chip at base of spine, tiny chip at bottom of rear panel]. "A powerful story of modern China," centering around the mixed-race son born of a forced marriage between a Chinese woman and an American sea-captain. "With character and... Read More
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Birds; a play in two acts [*SIGNED*]
by Bennitt, Caroline
London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.. Very Good-. 1979. First Edition. Softcover. [some visible wear along edges and spine, short diagonal crease at top corner of rear cover]. Trade PB INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the playwright on the half-title page: "for ___ & _____ / with love from / Caroline / Christmas 1981." (Also laid in is a Christmas card from the playwright, with a brief note to the recipients.) "A free adaptation of Aristophanes'... Read More
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Jacob's Well
by Benoit, Pierre (translated from the French by Angelo S. Rappoport)
New York: International Publishers. Poor. 1926. First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a reading/reference copy only, heavily worn, front hinge cracked, boards exposed at bottom corners, missing ffep, need I go on?]. Novel about "a Jewess born in the slums of a Levantine seaport [who] becomes a courtesan, selling her favors in the shabby cabarets of Eastern ports." The book was filmed under the title A DAUGHTER OF ISRAEL in 1928, a... Read More
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Salt Lake
by Benoit, Pierre (translated from the French by Florence and Victor Llona)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Good. 1922. 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid enough book with binding intact, but should be considered a reading copy only due to external wear and bumping, an unsightly beverage-ring scar on the front cover (see scan), and internal tape repait to a page that had been ripped in half]. Uncommon novel, originally published in France in 1921. It's "historical fiction" in a sense, but as the... Read More
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R.F.K.: A Photographer's Journal
by Benson, Harry
Brooklyn NY: powerHouse Books. Fine in Near Fine dj. 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean as-new copy, the book is flawless; the jacket shows just a touch of surface wear]. (B&W and color photographs) An eyewitness (and camera-eyewitness) account, by the world-renowned photojournalist, of Robert F. Kennedy's ill-fated campaign for the 1968 Democratic Presidential nomination, which came to a shattering end at Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 6, 1968. Benson's photographs and... Read More
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Meet Me in St. Louis
by Benson, Sally
Cleveland/New York: The World Publishing Company. Very Good+. 1944 (c.1942). Forum Books Edition Second Printing. Mass Market Paperback. (no dust jacket) [good sound copy, albeit with some age-toning to the pages due to cheap wartime manufacture; minor bumping to lower tips, small white stain at lower left corner of rear cover]. The second printing (March 1944; the first was January) of the Forum Books edition Benson's semi-autobiographical quasi-novel about a St. Louis family during the... Read More
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Strictly Private
by Benson, Therese
New York/Chicago: A.L. Burt Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. (c.1931). 3rd printing (stated). Hardcover. [lightly shelfworn, slight deterioration to binding at spine ends, front endpaper rather carelessly razored out; the jacket is edgeworn, with minor paper loss at the spine ends]. "This delightfully clever tale recounts the sudden disappearances of Miss Muffet, a golden-haired child whom everybody wants; some because they love her, some because they hate her, and some because they... Read More
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Retreat: A Novel of 1918
by Benstead, C.R.
New York/London: The Century Co.. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1930). 2nd printing. Hardcover. [solid copy with minor wear to the extremities, light dust-soiling to top edge of text block; the jacket has a shallow triangular chip at the bottom of the front panel, a half-dollar-size chunk torn away from the base of the spine, and a couple of tiny chips along the top edge]. "The story of an English priest who goes to war... Read More
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Janie
by Bentham, Josephine
New York: Dial Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dj. (c.1940). First Edition. Hardcover. [slight bumping to several corners, tiny stain on bottom of text block, one-time owner's signature on top of front pastedown; jacket is quite nice, with just a bit of wear at the spine ends]. A weirdly "lost" novel about "a real American girl -- her magnificent day-dreams, her jealous boyfriends, her strange enthusiasms, her searing disappointments, her tolerant but puzzled... Read More
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Janie; a comedy in three acts
by Bentham, Josephine, and Herschel Williams
New York/Los Angeles: Samuel French. Very Good. (c.1943, 1944). First Edition Thus. Softcover. [light external soiling and moderate age-toning, small closed tear at bottom of front cover; front endpaper stamped "Return to Story Dept. / Paramount Pictures Inc.," and there is also an old paper clip affixed to the top of the front endpaper which has caused the page to tear at that point so is better left in place]. (B&W photographs) The published script... Read More
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Trent's Own Case
by Bentley, E.C., and H. Warner Allen
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good+ in Good dj. (c.1936). Reprint (stated 2nd printing). Hardcover. [good sound copy, minor shelfwear, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase written in ink at top of front endpaper; the jacket is lightly soiled and presents well in new mylar, but is extensively tape-reinforced on the verso (along all edges and seams), and has been both touched-up and filled-in with black ink to conceal some paper loss... Read More
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Trent's Last Case
by Bentley, E.C.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Good in Good dj. [ca.1939](c.1930). Reprint. Hardcover. [a sound copy with light shelfwear and a slightly turned spine, rated "Good" only on account of staining and some white residue on the rear cover, apparently from the jacket having gotten wet and been stuck to the book at some point; one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink on front endpaper; the jacket is internally reinforced with clear tape... Read More
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Trent Intervenes
by Bentley, E.C.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good- in Good dj. (c.1938). Reprint. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [good sound copy, light wear to extremities, dust-soiling to top edge of text block, one-time owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper, with an additional text-related note below, ink check-marks next to all titles in the table of contents; the jacket has been unprofessionally "restored" by way of internal tape-reinforcement (along all edges... Read More
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Out of Bondage: The Story of Elizabeth Bentley
by Bentley, Elizabeth
New York: The Devin-Adair Company. Very Good in Very Good dj. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. [modest shelfwear, tiny dent in top edge of front cover, apparently an ex-library book but marked as such only by the remnants of a removed circulation slip on the rear endpaper; the jacket is moderately worn at the edges and corners, with some mild scuffing to the front panel, small tape mark at bottom of rear flap]. Hoo-boy, how to... Read More
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A Modern Tragedy
by Bentley, Phyllis
New York: The Macmillan Company. Near Fine in Very Good dj. 1934. First American Edition. Hardcover. [light shelfwear only, faint soiling to bottom edges of covers; jacket a bit edgeworn, with some wrinkling and minor paper loss at spine ends, tiny pull-tear near bottom of spine panel, light soiling to rear panel]. Depression-era tale set against the backdrop of the textile business in Yorkshire, this novel tells of the tribulations of an ambitious young man... Read More
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Around the World in New York
by Bercovici, Konrad
New York/London: D. Appleton-Century Company. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1938. 4th printing. Hardcover. [a nice clean book with minimal shelfwear; the jacket has a bit of edgewear, some creasing near the bottom edge of the front panel, and some fading along the spine]. (pen and ink drawings) "A travel book written by one who has traveled slowly and fondly through the city, lived in almost every district, studied at first hand every foreign quarter.... Read More
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Dust of New York
by Bercovici, Konrad
New York: Boni & Liveright. Poor. 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [heavily worn, fraying to cloth at spine extremities, hinges a little loosey-goosey, soiling to covers, etc; bookplate of Donn Byrne on front pastedown]. (line drawings) A rare early work by this Romanian-born author, who began his literary career as a journalist in Montreal and later New York in the 1910s, whose stories often focused on immigrant and impoverished communities. (Upon... Read More
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Iliana: Stories of a Wandering Race
by Bercovici, Konrad
New York: Boni and Liveright. Very Good+. 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [nice tight clean book, light shelfwear and very minor deterioration to cloth along bottom edge, gilt lettering slightly rubbed on spine but strong and bright on front cover]. Eleven stories of gypsy life, by this Romanian-born author who spent much of his youth living among them, and drew upon that experience throughout his subsequent literary career. He once wrote: "There is not a gypsy in the... Read More
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The Marriage Guest
by Bercovici, Konrad
New York: Boni & Liveright. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. 1925. 3rd printing. Hardcover. [a nice copy with only minimal shelfwear; the jacket has a short closed tear at the bottom of the front panel, a little nick at each end of the spine, which is also slightly browned]. The Romanian-American author's first novel, following half a dozen collections of short stories (overwhemingly about Gypsy life, the subject with which his name will always... Read More
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Peckover
by Beresford, J.D.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Very Good in Very Good- dj. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [solid copy, only light shelfwear but quite a bit of fading to cloth at edges and spine, slight soiling to bottom page edges; jacket edgeworn, with a few small tears, scuffing/rubbing to front panel, very faded at spine (although title, decoration, and publisher's name still stand out)]. The story of a henpecked husband who, for twenty years, "suffered the... Read More
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