CALDWELL, TAYLOR (JANET MIRIAM HOLLAND TAYLOR CALDWELL )

Ceremony of the Innocent

New York: Doubleday, 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and a couple of small edge nicks / tears. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has a couple of small chips to the spine ends. The spine of the dust jacket has some generalized light toning as well. "In 1934, she began to work on the novel Dynasty of Death, which she and Reback completed in collaboration. It was published in 1938 and became a best-seller. "Taylor Caldwell" was presumed to be a man, and there was some public stir when the author was revealed to be a woman. Over the next 43 years, she published 42 more novels, many of them best-sellers. For instance, This Side of Innocence was the biggest fiction seller of 1946, spending more than six months on the New York Times Fiction Best Seller list, including nine weeks at #1. (In 1947, according to Time, her husband Marcus Reback discarded and burned the manuscripts of 140 unpublished novels. ) Her published works sold an estimated 30 million copies. She became wealthy, traveling to Europe and elsewhere, though she still lived near Buffalo. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 42388

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Fiction Taylor Caldwell Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell Politics Family Sagas

CALDWELL, TAYLOR (PSEUDONYM OF JANET M. REBACK)

The Eagles Gather

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. Early printing. Hardcover. This is an early printing, but is lacking the letter A on the copyright page, so is not a first edition. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The front and rear pastedown covers have generalized toning. The dust jacket has edge tear, nicks , wrinkles, chips and bits missing. The reverse of the dust jacket has several piece of tape placed there by a former owner. "Dynasty of Death was her first published work, a family saga lasting from 1837 to World War I, about two families in western Pennsylvania who rise to control a great armaments business. The story was continued in The Eagles Gather (1940) and The Final Hour (1944). As a writer Caldwell was praised for her intricately plotted and suspenseful stories, which depicted family tensions and the development of the U. S. From an agrarian society into the leading industrial state of the world. Caldwell's heroes are self-made men of pronounced ethnic background, such as the German immigrants in The Strong City (1942) and The Balance Wheel (1951). Her themes are ethnic, religious and personal intolerance (The Wide House, 1945) , the failure of parental discipline (Let Love Come Last, 1949) and the conflict between the desire for power and money and the human values of love and sense of family (Melissa (1948) , A Prologue to Love (1962) , and Bright Flows the River (1978). " (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 44769

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Taylor Caldwell Family Dynasty Industries Munitions

CALDWELL, JOSEPH

In Such Dark Places

New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1978. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Antonio Frasconi. Cover Art; This is the author's first novel. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light fading / sunning to the edges of the book covers and spine joints. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright, but has one small semi-closed tear to the top front spine joint, and some light bumping to the bottom spine end. "A playwright and novelist whose previous books include In Such Dark Places, The Deer at the River, Under the Dog Star, The Uncle from Rome and Bread for the Baker's Child, Joseph Caldwell has been awarded the Rome Prize for Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City and is completing The Pig Comes to Dinner and The Pig Enters Hog Heaven." (from FantasticFiction). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 46419

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: Modern Fiction First Edition Joseph Caldwell Antonio Frasconi Author's First Book Redemption

CALDWELL, TAYLOR (JANET MIRIAM HOLLAND TAYLOR CALDWELL ) AND JESS STEARN

I, Judas

New York: Atheneum, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0689108060. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has an inch long semi-closed tear to the front panel. The spine of the dust jacket has some light toning / fading. There are also a couple of small fingernail pokes to the bottom front spine joint of the dust jacket. "Judas, the myth, history's arch betrayer who sold his Lord for thirty pieces of silver and stands for all time as a figure to be rejected and reviled; Judas, the man, son of wealth and power, a young rebel, a disciple who fought to suppress the lusts of his flesh and hot-blooded pride to follow Jesus, and who became the victim of a monstrously diabilical lie when he committed the act that damned him in the eyes of the world; now the man and not the myth comes alive in the most startling and spellbinding retelling of the greatest story ever told: the ultimate triumph of the novelist who has thrilled countless millions with her magic." (from FantasticFiction). Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 42391

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0689108060 Modern Fiction First Edition Taylor Caldwell Jess Stearn Judas Iscariot The Bible Religion Historical Fiction

CALDWELL, TAYLOR

Never Victorious, Never Defeated

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc, 1954. 5th Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Walter Popp. Cover Art; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some beginning fading to the spine of the book, along with a bit of beginning bumping to the spine ends. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front endpaper. The dust jacket has edge wear, rubbing, creasing, tiny edge nicks and generalized wear.. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 44770

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Taylor Caldwell Family Dynasty Industries

CALDWELL, TAYLOR

To Look and Pass

New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1973. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book and first paperback printing. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine of the book has some toning / sunning and some light creasing. The text pages are clean and bright. "If Dan Hendricks had been born thirty or so years later, things would not have happened as they did. In a restless and mobile nation he could have escaped from the past, assumed another identity. But in the close-knit community of South Kenton at the turn of the century, he could not escape. — From his earliest years, Dan seemed marked out by fate as one of its victims. In the eyes of the small respectable American town he was an outcast, a social misfit. His mother was dead; his father was only a blacksmith and , what was worse, a drunkard, and the two of them lived in a two-room shack behind the smithy. When Dan fell in love, it was with a woman twenty-two years older than him; when he got married, it was to a woman who hated him and wanted to make him suffer, and who succeeded - even after her death." (from Goodreads). Very Good .

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Book number: 41035

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Taylor Caldwell Historical Fiction Families Relationships

CALDWELL, ERSKINE

Tobacco Road (with a New Preface By the Author) (the Unabridged Edition)

New York, NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright. There is a previous owner's penciled name and address on the front endpaper. The price clipped dust jacket has several small nicks, along with a couple of tiny chips to the top spine end. The dust jacket has generalized sunning, and also spots of ground-in dirt, especially to the rear cover.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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Book number: 46772

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Tobacco Road Erskine Caldwell Drama

CALLAGHAN, MORLEY (EDWARD MORLEY CALLAGHAN)

Strange Fugitive

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers are mostly clean and bright. There is some rubbing to the lettering of the publisher on the bottom spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an inked number 10 on the front pastedown page, and a penciled previous owner's name on the top edge of the title page. "Callaghan's novels and short stories are marked by undertones of Roman Catholicism, often focusing on individuals whose essential characteristic is a strong but often weakened sense of self. His first novel was Strange Fugitive (1928) ; several short stories, novellas, and novels followed. Callaghan published little between 1937 and 1950 - an artistically dry period." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 44818

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Morley Callaghan Mystery Author's First Book Timber Lumber Mills

DE CAMP, L. SPRAGUE

The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate

New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1961. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with a short inscription on the title page. The book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. There is some light rubbing and beginning edge wear to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. Laid-in is a copy of the corrected map . The revers of the map has a previous owner's inked math problem (covering most of one side of the blank reverse). The dust jacket has some rubbing and edge wear to the spine ends and corners along with some generalized rubbing to the rear panel. Unfortunately, a previous owner has used a blue ink pen to "enhance" the photo on the rear panel - giving the author an inked mustache, eyebrows and eye and nostril circles. Some of the enhancements have been partly erased, leaving white patches. "The Dragon of the Ishtar Gate is a historical novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, first published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1961, and in paperback by Lancer Books in 1968. The first trade paperback edition was issued by The Donning Company in 1982. [1] The book was reissued with a new introduction by Harry Turtledove as a trade paperback and ebook by Phoenix Pick in September 2013. It is the third of de Camp's historical novels in order of writing, and earliest chronologically. It is set in 466-465 BCE, the last years of the reign of King Xerxes I of Persia." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 41031

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Editions

Keywords: Science Fiction L. Sprague Decamp King Xerxes Of Persia War Persia Historical Fiction Wizards Dragons

CAMPBELL, BROOS

No Quarter

Ithaca, NY: McBooks Press, 2006. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1590131037. Illustrated by Panda Musgrove. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have some light bumping. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is crisp and clean. ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 45502

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 1590131037 Modern Fiction First Edition Broos Campbell Sea Stories Historical Fiction Panda Musgrove Signed Edition Ships & Sailing War Fiction

CAMPBELL, BROOS

Peter Wicked

Ithaca, NY: McBooks Press, 2008. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1590131525. Illustrated by Panda Musgrove. Cover Art; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean. ; Signed by Author. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 45503

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 1590131525 Modern Fiction First Edition Broos Campbell Panda Musgrove Historical Fiction Sea Stories United States Navy Signed Edition Military Fiction

CAMPBELL, BROOS

The War of Knives

Ithaca, NY: McBooks Press, 2007. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 1590131045. Illustrated by Daniel Dos Santos. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the bottom spine end. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly crisp and clean. "Broos Campbell spent most of adult life in San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Cruz, Calif, and currently lives in a small seaside city in Southern California. He has written or edited more than a dozen business development books and more Web content than he likes to think about. He makes his primary living as an editor." (from FantasticFiction). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 45415

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 1590131045 Historical Fiction Broos Campbell Sea Stories Espionage U.S. Navy

CAPUTO, PHILIP

Horn of Africa a Novel

New York, NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1980. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0030421365. SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed, with an inscription by the author, on the reverse of the half title page. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. There is a very tiny red ink remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block. The dust jacket is clean and bright. "Philip Caputo's memoir of Vietnam, A Rumor of War (1977) , has been published in 15 languages, and has sold two million copies since its first publication. It is widely regarded as a classic in the literature of war. The book was adapted as a 1980 two-part TV movie of the same name, starring Brad Davis, Keith Carradine, Brian Dennehy, and Michael O'Keefe. A Fortieth Anniversary Edition of A Rumor of War was scheduled for summer 2017. " (from Wikipedia); Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 43635

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0030421365 Modern Fiction First Edition Philip Caputo Signed Edition Africa Mercenaries

CAREY, ROSA NOUCHETTE

The Search for Basil Lyndhurst

New York: John W. Lovell, Company, 1900. 1st Printing. Hardcover. C1900. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The book covers are illustrated with black decoratoins and the image of a gryphon on both the front cover and spine of the book. The endpapers are illustrated with flowers and the text pages are clean, but have generalized toning. "Nellie's Memories appears to have sold over 50,000 copies. Most of her 33 three-decker novels told pious, domestic stories, thought of as wholesome fiction for girls in the last third of the 19th century. Often sentimental, they reflect the values of the period, "treating housekeeping and woman's caring role as real work." However, her 1869 novel Wee Wifie features vitriol-throwing, opium addiction, and hereditary insanity. Also notable are Carey's sympathetic portrayals of women suffering from mental illness. Several novels suggest mental health can be ensured by "control of the will", as advocated by the psychiatrist Henry Maudsley. One of her books, Heriot's Choice (1879) , was serialised in Charlotte M. Yonge's magazine The Monthly Packet and another, Mistress of Brae Farm (1896) in Argosy. She was a less intellectual, religious and humorous writer than Yonge, but placed her characters shrewdly in the populous urban, book-buying middle class" (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ .

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Book number: 45436

Catalogue: Modern Fiction

Keywords: Modern Fiction Rosa Nouchette Carey Moralism Women

CARR, CALEB

The Angel of Darkness

New York: Random House, 1997. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679435328. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is some very beginning fading to the top spine end of the book cover. The text pages are clean and bright. "Much of Carr's fiction deals with violence perpetrated by people whose behavior has its origins in childhood abuse. These stories are rooted in Carr's family history. The author's father, Lucien Carr, was born in 1925 in New York City. Lucien's parents separated when he was five, and the balance of his childhood was spent in St. Louis, where both the elder Carrs, Russell and Marion, had been born to socially prominent families. David Kammerer followed Lucien wherever the younger man went—including moves to out-of-state schools. Eventually, the two landed in New York City. Lucien had left University of Chicago after a suicide attempt, which he tried to pass off as a piece of performance art, and enrolled at Columbia University." (from Wikipedia). Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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Book number: 43323

Catalogue: Modern Fiction First Edition

Keywords: 0679435328 Modern Fiction First Edition Caleb Carr Psychiatry Historical Fiction Horror