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1937réf. 014849Farrar & Rinehart 1937. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy In a Very Good Plus Jacket Small Chip in Heel. First Edition $2.00 on Flap. Very Rare Biblio-Mystery Excellent Fresh copy. Loosely Based on Ben Abramson and the Argus Bookshop of Chicago. Farrar & Rinehart Hardcover books
réf. 001276Crown 1992 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:0-517-58767-X. Crown, 1992 Paperback books
réf. 001275Atheneum 1993 Book. As New. Soft cover. F. As New/As New. First Edition. Galley/Proof. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ISBN:1-56282-425-2. Atheneum, 1993 Paperback books
1942réf. 4611341942. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A collection of five books from the poet Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. They included two Inscribed association copies one Signed copy of an unpublished poetry collection and a rare promotional flyer. All are first editions. Three are hardcovers with original or contemporary dustwrapers and two are paperback originals. Overall very good with moderate wear and some with dampstaining or soiling. Vilas 1878-1955 was a poet and playwright who graduated from Lewis Institute in Chicago and authored five collections of poetry and 14 plays. She read and lectures across the county and on radio in the Washington DC where she lived with her husband who was a prominent Milwaukee lawyer served on the Federal Trade Commission. The works here appear to have come from the Palmer family of Bethesda Maryland with three books inscribed or signed to them and two of them with notes from Vila in the text adding background or explaining the inspiration behind various poems. An interesting collection of poetry from a successful but now overlooked poet. List: Fiat Lux Let There Be Light: A Modern Mystery Play. New York: Samuel French 1922. Acting edition. Octavo. 26pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Good only with dampstain at the edges oxidation at the staples and splitting at the spine ends. The Drummer of Fyvie and Other Verse. New York and Reader Editions Inc. 1926. First edition. Octavo. 95pp. Very good gray boards with paper label in very good homemade marbled dust wrapper with the title in silver. Inscribed by the author: ‘To our dear new old friends The Palmer Family – This book. Please accept it as “the Guerdon of a grateful quest’ - Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. January 1942 Betheda -Maryland-.” Aromancy and Other Verse. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Company 1929. First edition. Octavo. 71pp. Near fine black cloth boards with gilt lettering in very good printed dustwrapper with some toning small stain and edgewear that including nicks and tears. Inscribed by the author: “For Richard Palmer with my affection and admiration Faith Van Valkenburgh Vilas. This little volume with notes in the margins!!! The last day of 1942-.” The text is marked in more than nine places with corrections notes or comments on the origin of the poem or the person who inspired it. Certificate of Flight. New York: Loker Raley 1939. First edition. Octavo. 79pp. Brown cloth boards with gilt lettering and spider web patterned acetate dustwrapper. Near fine with a tidemark affecting bottom corner of the text block in about very good dustwrapper toning chipping and splitting at the front flap fold. A collection of verse. OCLC locates two copies Yale and University of Miami. Flyer: Faith Vilas. New York: Helen M. Fowles 1942. Single quarto sheet folded once to make four pages. Near fine with horizontal crease and contemporary ink corrections. A flyer providing a biography of Vilas along with blurbs for “Certificate of Flight and Fiat Lux and a note listing her poetry readings on WWDC radio in Washington DC. Suggested Titles For Book. Rye New York: Mrs. Charles A. Vilas no date. Small quarto. Perfectbound in printed wrappers. 46pp. Fair condition with heavily spoiling several interior pages trimmed and rear wrap detached but present. A preliminary collection of previously published poetry for an intended book. The front wrap lists six possible titles and the first page is Signed by Vilas who has also annotated 10 pages. hardcover books
1935réf. 202567Grosset & Dunlap 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Brown cloth boards with black lettering & decoration under Baldridge illustrated dust jacket. Very clean copy; DJ is faded at spine with some rubbing to rear panel. Early reprint from the plates of the first edition. Grosset & Dunlap hardcover books
1920réf. 79922Ottawa: J. De Labroquerie Tache. Very Good. 1920. Softcover. This bulletin is soft-bound in gray wrappers with black printing on the upper cover. The covers show light toning/soiling and light edge-wear. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with illustrations some in color. . J. De Labroquerie Tache paperback books
1974réf. 619008Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company Inc 1974. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Richard Cuffari. 100pp. Light foxing on page edges near fine in a near fine lightly rubbed dust jacket. Doubleday & Company Inc hardcover books
1965réf. 2031291965. unbound. 2 pages front and back 11 x 8.5 inches no place no date circa 1965. Typed on plain paper with numerous handwritten corrections in part: ".This story you told me has no plot. And knowing WFB from old and his interest in young love and new plot and plenty of action I am rather alarmed. So if this doesn't suit the magazine no hard feelings." Signed "Faith" with handwritten postscript regarding a story submission. Natural folds paperclip impression in the top margin and a tiny chip on the upper left corner. Very good- condition. unknown books
1940réf. 52591940. unbound. 2 pages front and back on plain typing paper 11 x 8.5 inches no place dated "Tuesday" no year circa 1940. Half-typed half-penciled autographed letter signed "Faith" discussing her difficulties with a particular assignment in part: ".You mustn't mind saying I don't think I can do a good John Smith out of this one. Its sic just that I did it the one way I saw it and feel sort of empty about it. And my personal feelings about how wise we were to go to war last time for ideals unrealized and how wise we would be this time save in defense of our country are still too mixed up and uncertain.But I am honest enough to know that I can't turn em out unless I feel em." unknown books
réf. 90044hardcover. illus. 100pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; pp. dogeared. Doubleday 1974. unknown books
1967réf. 59709Norwalk CT: Silvermine 1967. First American edn. Large 8vo pp. 93. Includes index and bibliography. Rust cloth stamped in gilt on spine. A nice copy in price-clipped and little chipped and soiled dj. Silvermine unknown books
1983réf. 53534Westport CT: Lawrence Hill 1983. First printing. 8vo pp. xiv 376. Notes index. Black cloth. Edges of cover slightly faded o/w a nice copy in little chipped and soiled dj. Lawrence Hill unknown books
1966réf. 52561Bloomington IN: Indiana University 1966. First Edition. 4to pp. 106. Suggested reading. Copiously illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Ivory cloth stamped in black. With two clippings laid in. Cover spotted and browned o/w a VG tight copy. Indiana University unknown books
1950réf. 47125NY: Dover 1950. Reprint of 1937 edition. 4to pp. 133. Illustrated with photographs by William F. Winter. Paper wraps. Cover and edges soiled o/w a VG tight copy. Dover unknown books
1974réf. 44994Greenwich CT: New York Graphic Society 1974. First printing. Large 8vo pp. 224. Notes bibliography index. Copiously illustrated with photographs and drawings. Ex library with bookplate and pocket removed. A VG tight copy in some scuffed and chipped dj. New York Graphic Society unknown books
1922réf. 7300Cambridge: University Press 1922. First edn. 8vo Pp. 267. VG copy. A novel of a "new" woman attempting to integrate an emancipated consciousness with an old fashioned society. University Press unknown books
1967réf. 32683NY: Dover 1967. Reprint of 1937 edition. 4to pp. 133. Illustrated with photographs by William F. Winter. Paper wraps. Cover little faded o/w a nice copy. Dover unknown books
1980réf. 618582Garden City New York: Doubleday & Company 1980. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Remainder spray on the bottom page edge and toning on the board edges thus very good in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with shallow chips tears and creasing. Doubleday & Company hardcover books
1980réf. 584995London: Black Ink Collective 1980. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 64pp. Very good or better with some rubbing toning and creases to the corners. Black Ink Publications produced five volumes featuring the poems short stories and plays of English teenagers of African and Caribbean descent starting in 1978. This volume is made up of poetry short stories and art by members of the Black Writer's Workshop in Brixton: Faith A. Barham Jawiattika Blacksheep Jah Rastafari Barbie Francis and Lyford. Judith Sulchi Ellis Rowland Inyang Hehshaw and Leslie Anthony Gaffe. Black Ink Collective unknown books
1926réf. 591156Cambridge Massachusetts: Undergraduates of Radcliffe College 1926. Softcover. Near Fine. Volume I No. 2. Slim octavo. 24pp. Stapled wrappers. Light wear and a tiny bit of label residue inside the front cover near fine. Radcliffe undergraduate lit mag with contributions by Constance Wellman Faith Kenniston Dorothea Parker Sally Matthews Margaret Kahn "Lucy Hodge Gr." and Kate Henry. Issues seem to be extremely uncommon; OCLC locates one serial entry in the collection of Radcliffe publications at Harvard. Undergraduates of Radcliffe College unknown books
1951réf. 593221New York: Rinehart 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Light foxing on page edges wear along bottom edge of boards tiny nick on the spine very good in a very good dust jacket with several chips and tears at the extremities and a sunned spine. Briefly Inscribed by the author on the front fly. Rinehart hardcover books
1934réf. 562200New York: International Magazine Company 1934. Softcover. Very Good. Quarto magazine in wrappers. 174pp. Lacking the rear wrapper corners curled about very good. Containing Part Two of "Thank You Jeeves!" by P.G. Wodehouse; "Mickey Mouse Meet Your Maker!" by Sidney Skolsky; "Bread Upon the Waters" by Edith Wharton and more. International Magazine Company unknown books
1937réf. 413669New York: Farrar & Rinehart 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Near fine in very good or better dustwrapper with slight fading and a short tear on the spine .Inscribed by Baldwin on the front endpaper to crime novelist Mignon Eberhart: "Love to Mignon From Faith." The friendship between Baldwin and Eberhart is well documented with Eberhart considered the founder of the modern romance suspense or mystery novel. Baldwin was one of the most popular romance novelists of her day. Farrar & Rinehart hardcover books
1937réf. 413672New York: Farrar and Rinehart 1937. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. A bit of foxing and bumping on the boards very good in very good spine-faded dustwrapper. Inscribed by Baldwin on the front endpaper to mystery writer Mignon Eberhart and her husband: "Minnie and Alan with much love Faith." The friendship between Baldwin and Eberhart is well documented with Eberhart considered the founder of the modern romance suspense or mystery novel. Baldwin was one of the most popular romance novelists of her day. Farrar and Rinehart hardcover books
1938réf. 413665New York: Farrar & Rinehart Inc 1938. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Fine in slightly spine sunned near fine dustwrapper. with tiny tears. A story of two women and a man fighting against the feudalism of ex-State Senator Sutton and their fast-lived escapades. Baldwin was immensely popular in her day for her romance-themed novels. Signed presentation from Baldwin on the front endpaper to mystery writer Mignon Eberhart and her husband: "Minnie and Alan with Love from Faith." The friendship between Baldwin and Eberhart is well-documented with Eberhart considered the founder of the modern romantic suspense novel was occasionally referred to as mystery's Faith Baldwin. She was one of the leading female crime novelists and among the first to introduce female heroines. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc hardcover books
