Romance Fiction

New York: Vantage Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Vantage Press 1971. Stated first edition. Near fine hardcover with very good dustjacket. Blue cloth hardcover is very clean, with slight corner, spine edge wear/bumping and slight soiling to outer edge of pages. Interior is clean andtight with no markings. DJ has slight tanning, a few small tears, very light soiling to back, not price clipped. "Robert Morieau, scion of the oil-rich Canadian based Morieau family, roams through Europe seeking an outlet for his restlessness, and his boredom. He grasps frantically at the straw of companionship offered him by Philippe Satin, an actor he meets in Paris, who leads Robert into a homosexual relationship.....; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; 301 pages; A series of disappointments splits them, and Robert wends his way into the Russian holocaust and sees the thousands of refugees gathered in camps and fleeing into neighboring countries,… Read More

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914. THE DUCHESS OF WREXE- Her Decline and Death- A Romantic Commentary- Sir Hugh Walpole- Grosset & Dunlap-NY- 1914- 1st Edition-1st Printing-Thus- Hardcover:-8vo-VG++/ Good- dj-now in mylar- mutiple chips and nicks but complete and EXTREMELY SCARCE, there are very few of these copies left-This book is one of the "novels of distinction", an experiment that Grosset & Dunlap tried in the early part of the 20th century. I don"t know how many of them were printed but they are very scarce today. original publishers maroon cloth with yellow titles on cover and on spine- a little rubbing, but tight textblock and solid spine & binding- 503pp are lightly toned, no tears or writing-no loose pages- PO name on ffep.-"The classic romantic adventure by one of the most prolific English writers."- Material Type: Fiction Document Type: Book Notes: Master microform held by: UnM. Description: 503 p. ; 20 cm. Responsibility by Hugh Walpole.… Read More

New York: Pocket Books - Simon & Schuster, Inc. Light Creasing on Front, Rear Covers, Spine; Front, Rear Covers, Spine Lightly Chipped; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. SELLER'S NOTE TO INTERNATIONAL (NON CANADA OR USA) BUYERS: Additional shipping charges will be required and requested during the purchase process of this title. SYNOPSIS: My Aunt - My Lover. To staid old Charleston she was a prim civic leader. To her husband she was an imperious and frigid companion. This was the first Amy - my aunt. Then, one day, in the stately drawing room of the sadistic Miss Wescott, I watched as my aunt tremulously stripped on command. She emerged a voluptuous nude animal exulting in any sexual act, her appetite whetted by any perversion. Shuddering with anticipation, screaming in pain and joy, she was insatiable. This was the second Amy - my lover.. First Edition 20th Printing. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Hovendon Co., 1860. Hardcover. Very Good +. 4 Volumes in 2, 5 x 7.5, 402, 402, 558, and 492 pages.

1651 KISSING Dutch John Secundus Everaerts Poetry Erotica Romantic Latin Poems

Johannes Secundus, also known as Joannes Everaerts was a 16th-century Dutch poet. He wrote several romantic elegies, odes and songs, letters, and epistles most of which deal primarily with love and romantic behavior. He is best known for his treatise on kissing which explores the erotic behaviors and the symbols that kissing represents.

This 1651 Latin edition was published in Leiden and features the entirety of the known works of Secundus.

Item number: #9562
Price: $550
EVERAERTS, Johannes of Nicolai
Joannis Secundi Opera. Accurate recognita
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Apud Franciscum Moyaert, MDCXXXXXI. [1651].

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Collation: Complete with all pages
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Provenance: Bookplate – Henri Lambert
o Henri Lambert (1862–1934) was a Belgian engineer and glass works owner at Charleroi near Brussels. His glass works were the largest in the world in that time.
o He was one of the… Read More

This Book, written by early 20th Century Author, Credo Harris, is one of the first published about world War I. This Book is in Very Good condition for one that is now over 100 years old and would be a great Book for your shelf. The illustrated front cover and the illustration in the frontispiece say a lot about the subject of the Book. There are 298 pages of reading about America's participation in World War I and this story of romance.

THE ROSE B EDITION. Du Bose, Heyward. Porgy (1925 George H. Doran Mauve "B" Hardcover 1st Edition/ 2nd printing thus, known as the Mauve or Rose "B" Edition. Decorated By Theodore Nadejen. USED. Good Condition/ No Dust Jacket. Mauve/Purple boards with gold gilt titling and owl cartouche. ORIGINAL SOURCE MATERIAL FOR "PORGY AND BESS", THE DRAMATIC BROADWAY MUSICAL AND MOTION PICTURE, SCORED BY AMERICAN COMPOSER GEORGE GERSHWIN.

SOURCE OF THE TITLE PRIDE AND PREJUDICEBURNEY, FRANCES. Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina. 12mo. Bound in full speckled calf with gilt-lettered spine labels; page edges dyed yellow. London: Printed for T. Payne and Son. 1782. First Edition. 5 volumes. With the misspelled catchword on page 235 of vol. II and the mispaginated page 159 in vol. V. The first edition of Fanny Burney's second novel, recounting the trials and tribulations of a wealthy young orphan who, launched into society, must guard her fortune and virtue from the depredations of assorted suitors. A follow-up to her hugely successful Evelina, Cecilia is "less unstudied" than the earlier work, "with greater polish, and a 'literary quality' that gave rise to the report that Dr. Johnson had corrected it." (Kunitz & Haycraft)An interesting incidental note is the appearance near the end of the book of a phrase that would gain immortality in the hands of a slightly later author:"'The whole of this unfortunate business,'… Read More

Wharton, Edith. The Children. D. Appleton 1928 Stated First Printing, September, 1928. Black boards with Yellow titling and ornamentation. (1) on the last page of the text. Used. Very Good Condition/ No DJ Included. 347 pages. States (1) on the last page. Says "Moters" on page 135. New York & London. 5 5/8 X 7 7/8. A square, solid copy. RARE. Plot Summary: "First published in 1928, The Children is one of Edith Wharton's later novels, published when the author was in her mid-sixties. Like much of Wharton's fiction, it explores the moral complexities of socially unacceptable relationship – in this instance, one between a middle-aged man and a teenage girl."

Hayward, Rachel The Hippodrome , 1913 George H. Doran Company, New York. American First Edition. Red boards with gilt titling and ornamentation. Gilt still fairly bright. EXLIB Good condition. / No DJ Included. Early noir detective novel set in Paris in the 1860's- 70's, and the Story of Arithelli, the beautiful English equestrienne. 295 PAGES. 5 1/8 X 7 ¾. 295 pages. QUITE RARE. We are pleased to consider offers.

True First Edition1944, same date on title pageVG/VGDoubleday Rare, Collectible First Edition with ORIGINAL Dust JacketStated in Book, "True, First Edition after the Printing of a limited printing of 750."
Price of 2.75 on dust jacket. Dedication on Valentine's Day 1944. PO's signature.
This is the story of Larry Darell, an American pilot traumatized by WWI who sets off on a search of some transcendent meaning of his life. Concerned in a large part with the search for the meaning of life with the dichotomy between spirituality and materialism.

Gemstone Publishing, 2006. 4 vols. in slipcase. Very Good in Good slipcase. Slipcase shows shelf and handling wear with rubbed corners, edge wear, and light soiling. Four volumes: Crime Illustrated (Adult Suspense Stories), Confession Illustrated (Adult Romances), Adult Tales of Terror Illustrated (Horror and Suspense), and Shock Illustrated (Adult Crime Stories). All four volumes show very minor shelf and handling wear to their covers with some minor abrasion to the spines as well. Interiors are all crisp, clean, and pristine with no marks. In the gutter of every volume in both the front and the back there is a long thin adhesive bleed-through from production. Overall a clean, solid set showing minimal signs of use. Photos are of the set we have at Barbed Wire Books.

SHREK! By William Steig. 1990 Stated First Edition, Farrar, Straux Giroux. QUITE RARE IN A STATED FIRST. Used. VERY GOOD CONDITION/ NONE AS ISSUED. ISBN 0374368775. Swamp creatures back panel. Unpaginated. 8 5/8 X 10 7/8. Summary: Original source material for the beloved film of the same name. Summary: "Shrek, a horrid, ugly, little ogre, goes out into the world to find adventure and along the way encounters a witch, a knight in armor, a dragon, and, finally, a hideous princess, who's even uglier than he is!" About the artist/author William Steig: "He created his masterpiece character, Shrek, in 1990, at the age of 83."

Abdullah, Achmed. The Thief of Bagdad. Readers Library Publishing Co. Ltd., London Film Edition, 1924. USED. TONED. Good Condition/ Good- DJ. QUITE RARE IN THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET Front dj panel states "Film Edition" Actor Douglas Fairbanks photo on back panel. DJ Spine is chipped. Now protected in a mylar wrap. Summary: The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 American silent swashbuckler film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Douglas Fairbanks, and written by Achmed Abdullah and Lotta Woods. Freely adapted from "One Thousand and One Nights", it tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph of Baghdad.

Haggard, H. Rider. SHE. Longmans Green & Co., London. No copyright date. States New Impression, 1921 on the title page. Dedicated to fellow author Andrew Lang. USED. VG/ No DJ Included. Mallard Green boards with bright gilt titling on front board and spine. 310 pages plus adverts. 5 X 7 5/8. Summary: "A dying colleague gives Mr. Horace Holly at Cambridge University a locked box, the contents of which lead Mr. Holly to travel to Eastern Africa where he hopes to solve an ancient mystery, only to be captured by the savage Amhagger people who are ruled by a fearsome white queen, who is worshipped as "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed".