Eden Press 2017. First edition first printing. Fine in fine dust jacket in mylar cover. Signed by the author. Eden Press, 2017. First edition, first printing. unknown books
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company. Very Good. c.1927. First Edition. Hardcover. no dust jacket solid clean copy light bumping at several corners very slight fraying to cloth at lower extremities small bookseller's rubber stamp Bertrand Smith Long Beach California on front pastedown. First novel by an author who had an intermittent output over the course of the quarter-century or so. I find four novels for her in OCLC the last in 1952; she also seems to have been involved in social work in some fashion and her name appears on several additional books in that field; she also contributed several magazine pieces on the topic of immigration to Harper's Magazine in the early 1920s. This one's a romantic-triangle potboiler about a girl who has to go to work as a "pacer" in a pickle factory at age 16 after her aunt the dressmaker becomes ill and can no longer work; she ends up in an unhappy marriage to the pickle factory owner then subsequently falls in love with a poet. From the original New York Times review: "In short the book belongs to the vast majority of the mediocre the novels 'too bad for a blessing too good for a curse.'" Ouch. Maybe that's why she didn't give up her day job. . E.P. Dutton & Company hardcover books
1952. PARADISE Viola. TOMORROW THE HARVEST. NY: William Morrow & Company 1952. 8vo. cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation from Paradise on the front endpaper: "To Fan with love Vi." Also signed in full by Paradise on the title page. Very good; few tears d/j. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1948. PARADISE Viola. TOWARD PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF CASEWORK. NY: Russel Sage Foundation 1948. Small 8vo. cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed presentation by Paradise on front endpaper: "With best wishes to Mort from Vi." Also signed by Paradise on the title page. Very Good; worn many tears & few chips d/j. $50.00. <br/><br/> hardcover books
Boston 1960. Single leaf folded. Single leaf typescript pamphlet folded in half vertically and folded horizontally; fine scarce hippie ephemera. Single leaf folded. Leaves of Grass was an underground drug culture zine produced and distributed in Boston in the late 1960s. The content pertained to trends in the scene suggestions for places to get high and music to get high to as well ways to avoid the fuzz. <br/><br/> unknown