Devils Booth by Percival Wilde (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1930). First edition, first printing. "First edition" statement to the copyright page. The film story writer and prolific playwright's first novel features Molly May, who, with great ambition, rises from the slums to wealth. Some rub flecks to the rear cover, spine and front cover's fore-edge, else square, firm and about very good in black linen with red titles and rules to the spine; lacking a dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Black cloth cover has modest wear to corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. End sheets and paste downs unevenly toned with small erasure to corner of front end sheet. Pages are clean and very good. Dust jacket is heavily soiled with light wear to the extremities but in good condition. DJ flap is price clipped. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 368 pages; There is a folded, typed letter signed by Wilde tipped in after the the contents page. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Wilde had also signed the bookplate. Price clipped jacket with some soiling, rubbing and wear. ; Signed by Author.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A scarce first edition of this thrilling work of fiction by American author, Percival Wilde. This is a first edition of the work, in original publisher's cloth binding and clipped dust wrapper. This was the first novel of American writer, Percival Wilde, who was best known for his one-act plays. Wilde studied and lived in New York in the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century.This particular work follows the story of an ambitious young woman named Molly May, who stops at nothing to get what she wants. Wilde explores the lengths his character will go to in order to escape her poor upbringing. Set partly in New York in the late Nineteenth Century, and partly in a small Connecticut town in the Twentieth Century. In original publisher's black cloth binding with a clipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Slight marks to boards, mainly to the front. Age toning and the odd mark to endpapers. Dust wrapper in good condition, with chipping to the extremities and the odd closed tear. Tape to the reverse of the wrap. Slight age toning and sunning to the wrap. The odd mark to the wrap, with a small price clip on each corner of the inner flaps. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with light age toning. Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). book.…

First Edition. Novel of a woman "born in the slums, but decides to lead the social procession. Her first real lover likes her respectability. Her husband thought she was deep, mysterious. There were people who remarked on her lack of culture, of polish, but no one cared to risk her displeasure." Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket. …