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Michael Arlen; Irwin R. Franklyn; E. M. Hull; Matthew Finch; Glendon Swarthout - 1929-1960 5vol a Collection of Romance Novels

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London; New York, The Universal Library Co.; WM Collins Sons & Co. Ltd; Hutchinson & Co.; Dennis Dobson; Random House, 1929-1960. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of very scarce romance novels from Arlen, Franklyn, Hull, Finch, and Swarthout. Five volumes. Very scarce. Dated from the British Library. This set includes: Young Men in Love, c1929. One hundredth thousand. Written by Michael Arlen, a British essayist, novelist, playwright, scriptwriter, and short story writer. Flight: An Epic of the Air, 1930. Written by Irwin Richard Franklyn, an American film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, and publicist. The Forest of Terrible Things, 1939. Written by Edith Maud Hull, a British writer of romance novels credited with the revival of "desert romance." Dentist in the Chair, 1955. First edition. Written by Matthew Finch, an English writer. Where the Boys Are, 1960. First edition. Written by Glendon Swarthout, an American writer and novelist, many of his novels were adapted into motion pictures. In the original full cloth binding other than Where the Boys Are which is bound in quarter cloth with paper covered boards. Externally, very smart with light shelf wear to the extremities and the odd mark to the board. Joints tender to Flight. Original unclipped dust wrappers are also smart with light shelf wear and minor chipping. Sunning to the spine and the odd mark to the board. The odd small closed tear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper of Dentist in the Chair. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.
GBP 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 175.25 US$ 201.78 | JP¥ 29471] Book number 873T43

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