Between the Covers Rare Books

A Summer Romance

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I know what you're thinking: why has it been nearly four years since I've seen a Between the Covers Vintage Romance Catalogs? Well, we overslept. The dog ate our homework. We've moved. We've been busy. But like a jilted, obsessive lover we have returned to stalk you. Also (and this was part of our diabolical plan all along), it is getting harder and harder to find nice copies of these early 20th Century romances in dustjackets, and it has taken us this long to harvest a new crop. (In fact, Tom Bloom drew this artwork over a year in advance of our actually being able to use it because it took us that much longer than expected to find enough good material for the catalog.)

We've already explained in previous catalogues why you should want these books. Generally they weren't preserved by libraries, as being below the literary standards that most libraries set. When they were preserved, the jackets, often wonderfully designed and illustrated, were usually discarded. They show a unique and vernacular viewpoint of women in geographic locations, and in the occupations they were mostly confined to. They shed light on contemporary views of marriage, adultery, out of wedlock birth, and other social "conditions." And mostly they are fun to find, buy, read, collect, trade, and thread through your bicycle spokes. Well. not that last one. To begin to justly acknowledge the talented and often uncredited jacket artists, we have noted them when possible, more so than in our previous catalogs. You will find many well-known artists represented here, such as Arthur Hawkins, Mac Tey, Skrenda, Bip Pares, and Garth Williams, along with many names that are less familiar, even to jacket art aficionados.

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ABBOTT, Jane

Fiddler's Coin

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott (1934). First edition. Slight sunning at the foot, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with small nicks and tears. Young couple separate for a...

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ABBOTT, Jane

Juliet Is Twenty

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1926. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with tiny nicks and rubbing at the extremities. Impetuous Juliet can't decide between...

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ABRAHAMS, William

By the Beautiful Sea

New York: Dial Press 1947. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very minor wear. Jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr. Man returns from the war but his...

$600.00

ALDINGTON, Richard

Women Must Work

London: Chatto and Windus 1934. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with art by George Plank. A beautiful copy of this novel about a modern business woman. more>>

$150.00

ASQUITH, Herbert

Roon

London: Hutchinson & Co. [1929]. First edition. Wrinkles to the cloth on the front board and a little foxing in the text, thus very good in very good dustwrapper with... more>>

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ASQUITH, Margot

Octavia

New York: Frederick A. Stokes 1928. First American edition. Old bookstore label, a little mottling to the glazed boards, very good or a little better in a good only...

$150.00

AYRES, Ruby

Week-End Woman

New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company 1939. First edition. Owner name, fine in a very lightly rubbed, fine dustwrapper. A woman realizes her wild life will not bring her love or... more>>

$150.00

AYRES, Ruby M.

Changing Pilots

Garden City: Doubleday Doran 1932. First edition. A pencil name on the front pastedown, else fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a small chip on the front... more>>

$125.00

BACHELLER, Irving

"Charge It": or Keep Up with Harry. A story of fashionable extravagance and of the successful efforts to restrain it...

New York: Harper & Brothers 1912. First edition. Cloth with applied paper illustration. A slight stain on the front fly, foxing to the endpapers, else near fine in a... more>>

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BAILEY, Temple

Peacock Feathers

Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company 1924. First edition. Fine in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of small nicks and tears. Publisher's printed complimentary label...

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