Babylon Revisited Rare Books

First American Edition. Octavo, original black cloth over boards, blindstamped, stamped in silver on spine, stained top edge, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. "This witty and delightful novel recounts the dilemma of Margaret WarrinerÄîmoderately attractive and immoderately intelligentÄîwho has to choose between a career in the highly respectable British Civil Service and marriage to a temperamental movie director." Very Good, sticker at front pastedown, in Very Good dust jacket, some wear to corners of flaps and spine, fading to spine, light shelf wear.

First Edition. Octavo, one quarter yellow cloth over red paper covered boards, illustrated dust jacket. Book of short stories "set on the Ermineskin Reservation in Western Canada." Near Fine, in Near Fine dust jacket.

First Edition. Octavo, one quarter maroon cloth over brown paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket. "This is the story of Georgia Murray, an American girl who thought love died with her English husband. until she became the gambit in a woman's desperate bid for happiness and found, with mounting horror, that she could not cope with the rules of the game!" Near Fine, in Very Good dust jacket, light edgewear, darkening to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth over boards, stamped in white and black, stained top edge, color illustrated dust jacket. "The side-splitting story of an intrepid task force of dedicated naval officers who made almost everything but sea duty!" Very Good, light shelf wear, boards very slightly bowed, in Very Good dust jacket, light edgewear, slight fading to spine.

First Edition Stated. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, stamped in blue, stained top edge, color illustrated dust jacket, color illustrated frontispiece and title page, black and white illustrations throughout. Historical novel about Poland, illustrated by Irena Lorentowicz. Near Fine, some discoloration to cloth, in Very Good dust jacket, slight shelf wear, plrice-clipped.

First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth over boards, silver lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, illustrated endpapers. Western novel. Very Good, light shelf wear, in Very Good dust jacket, slight edgewear, fading to spine, price-clipped.

First Edition. Octavo, one quarter brown cloth over decorative striped paper covered boards, color illustrated dust jacket. Novel about Beethoven. Very Good, light shelf wear, in Very Good, light edgewear, slight darkening to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original gray paper over boards, stamped in blue, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. "Here is the richly romantic story of three women Äî 'three tiger lilies, born under the rose' Äî who followed the bright beam of love across four decades, from an old world to a new." Very Good, light shelf wear, slight foxing to endpapers and top edge, in Very Good dust jacket, light edgewear, fading to spine, slight foxing to flaps.

First Edition. Octavo, original green paper over boards, white lettering on spine, stained top edge, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Melodrama concerning adultery. Near Fine, in Very Good, slight shelf wear.

First Edition. Octavo, original gray cloth over boards, stamped in red, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Novel of the New York City underworld. Very Good, some fading to cloth, in Very Good dust jacket, small closed tear at bottom front panel, light edgewear, fading to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth over boards, yellow lettering on spine, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Novel about "an English boy who came to the United States, and his adventures of mind and feelings in the years until he became an American citizen." Very Good, light shelf wear, in Very Good dust jacket, small closed tear at top rear panel, slight edgewear, darkening to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, black lettering, stained top edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Bip Pares dust jacket art. Novel of mystery and intrigue surrounding a German power grab. Very Good, light shelf wear, boards slightly bowed, in Very Good dust jacket, some small nicks and chips at edges, price-clipped.

First Edition. Octavo, original light blue paper over boards, stamped in dark blue. Collection of poetry. Good to Very Good, lacking front facing endpaper, soiled paper, shelf wear, a few small edge chips.

First American Edition. Octavo, one quarter yellow cloth over teal paper covered boards, stamped in red, green, and brown, stained top edge, color illustrated dust jacket. "A delightful novel filled with ironies and subtleties. Mrs. Howard has taken as her point of departure the familiar story of Americans who go to Europe." Very Good, a bit of foxing to page edges, in Very Good dust jacket, slight edgewear, small tear at top rear panel.

First Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket. Short story collection. Very Good, light edgewear, previous owner's signatuer at front facing endpaper, in Very Good dust jacket, light edgewear, darkening to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original off-white cloth over boards, stamped in black, silver, and gilt, stained top edge, illustrated dust jacket."A dramatic novel of six men on a fateful patrol in the Korean War." Very Good, some small discolorations, slightly cocked, in Very Good dust jacket, very slight edgewear.

First Edition. Octavo, one quarter red cloth over marbled paper covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, stained top edge, deckle edge, illustrated dust jacket, black and white frontispiece, black and white illustrations at the beginning of each act. "The scene of this play is laid, among the hilly border regions of southern Connecticut, in a surviving 'sleepy hollow,' more wild than the classic one of literature with lingering afterglows of strange folk life." Very Good, light shelf wear, previous owner's contemporary gift inscription on front facing endpaper, in Very Good dust jacket, chipping to corners and spine ends, slight edgewear, darkening to spine.

"Special Edition of 500 copies presented by the publisher to members and guests at the 1952 Convention of the American Booksellers Association." Octavo, one quarter orange-brown cloth over red cloth over boards, stamped in red, color illustrated dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, black and white illustrations throughout. "It is the morning of Pacote's last fight, the finale of one of the greatest careers in Spain. The posters are up, the arena has been prepared, and the great black bulls are waiting. In the cafes and on the street corners the heavy air of expectancy hangs over the city of Sevilla." Very Good, in Very Good dust jacket, light edgewear with a few small closed tears.

First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth over boards, stamped in yellow, stained top edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Novel set in a Nazi-occupied French village, concerning the murder of a Bavarian private. Near Fine, lower spine end lightly bumped, in Very Good dust jacket, edgewear, fading to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original yellow cloth over boards, black lettering on spine, stained top edge, color illustrated dust jacket. The "story of four westerners, two men and two women, wrecked on an island near Arabia." Very Good, some fading to spine, in Very Good dust jacket, light edgewear, a few small discolorations, fading to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original green cloth over boards, orange lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, black and white frontispiece, three additional black and white plates. Western novel. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket, shallow loss at bottom spine end, small split at lower front spine edge, a few small dampstains to spine, light edgewear.

First Edition. Octavo, original dark blue cloth over boards, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket. "A collection of radio and TV's most hilarious boners;" a "catalogue of unintended indiscretions before camera and microphone to lift the spirit again and put a smile on the greyest hour." Very Good, light shelf wear, fading to lettering on spine, in Very Good dust jacket, light edgewear, small closed tear at top rear spine edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early Reprint Edition. Early Reprint in Grosset & Dunlap dust jacket. Octavo, original orange cloth over boards, stamped in black, stained top edge, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Novel of "a girl who didn't know what she wanted from life." Very Good, shelf wear, ding to top corner of front board, ink stamp at front pastedown, foxing to edges of book block, in Very Good dust jacket, slightly soiled, light edgewear.

First Edition. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, stamped in gilt, stained top edge, illustrated dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, black and white illustrations throughout. Set in the Housatonic region of Connecticut, the story, spanning the years 1700 to 1930, relates the steady decline of the Oakes family and their property, as well as their tense relations with Polish immigrants. Very Good, some foxing to pages, in Very Good dust jacket, slight chipping to corners and spine ends, darkening to spine.

Circa 1920 Edition, no date. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, black lettering, color illustrated dust jacket, color plate frontispiece. Historical novel about the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, originally published in 1834. Very Good, pages lightly time-toned, in Very Good dust jacket, edgewear, small split at rear lower spine edge, darkening to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket. "This poetic, bitter book is a relentless indictment of a civilization which cannot live without war." Very Good, light shelf wear, in Very Good dust jacket, some creasing, light edgewear.

First Edition. Octavo, original tan cloth over boards, stamped in gilt and dark blue on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, black and white illustration at title page. "This is the story of a climax in a marriage and a descent into hell Äî the hell of a viciously competitive, hypocritically self-righteous, great publishing house." Very Good, light shelf wear, discolorations to cloth at spine, in Very Good dust jacket, light edgewear, darkening to spine.

Early Reprint Edition. Octavo, original blue cloth over boards, dark blue lettering, black and orange illustrated dust jacket. Western novel, "a story of action and of the wide open, dominated always by the heroic figure of Timber-Wolf." Very Good, light shelf wear, previous owner's gift inscription at front facing endpaper, in Very Good dust jacket, shelf wear, some creasing, a few small nicks and chips, dampstain at top spine end, splits at either lower edge of front panel, slight darkening to spine.

First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth over boards, decorated in blue, pink, and yellow, deckle edge, color illustrated dust jacket. Novel of the meteoric rise of a racecar driver who falls in love with an older, wealthy married woman. Very Good in Good dust jacket, a couple stains to cloth, soiling to dust jacket panels, a couple stains and loss at lower spine end, edgewear.

First Photoplay Edition. Octavo, original red cloth over boards, color illustration pasted to front cover, black lettering on spine, color illustrated dust jacket, illustrated endpapers, black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout. Novel about a young woman from a small Virginia valley town who gets tangled up with mountain people. Good, front hinge cracked, frontispiece detached, small dampstain to top edge, wear to cloth at top edges, small dampstain at bottom of pages, previous owner's contemporary gift inscription at half-title, in Very Good dust jacket, small edge chips, splitting at lower rear spine edge, some dampstaining to spine.