Tampico - HERGESHEIMER, Joseph | Between the Covers Rare Books

Images+Detail

Item Info

HERGESHEIMER, Joseph

Tampico

New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1926.

$150.00

First edition. A small bookstore label on the front pastedown, fine in a near fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny chips. Undercover agent in an oil-rich sheikdom seduces wife of oil executive. Basis for the 1933 Irving Cummings-directed film The Woman I Stole, featuring Jack Holt, Fay Wray, Donald Cook, and Noah Beery. A very nice copy.

[BTC #88565]

More Results

Explore BTC highlights along with additional titles in stock related to the item above...

Book Bargains

Our staff cat, Admiral Muffin, has selected thousands of books for special discount from all areas of our stock.

> Poetry

ORIG. $350.00 SALE $245.00

On Collecting...

Views, anecdotes and insights into the world of antiquarian books by the BTC staff and distinguished guests.

>	Devil in the Details

>	Rare Books as Investments

>	Our New Old School Building

>	What the hell kind of website is this anyway?

>	The Leaning Tower of Photography Books

>	How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Plagiarize the Ways...

>	Oh, Baltimore!

>	A Bestiary for the Used Bookseller

>	Hollywood Adaptations

>	The Big Day Stay

>	Misperceptions about White Gloves

>	My Life in Poetry

>	A Plea for the Young Elvis, or; What Have They Done with Ed?

>	What Future for Rare Books

>	Reply of a Gaul of the Old Continent

>	What I Did On My Summer Vacation

>	Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

>	Young Booksellers, Young Books: The Prospects of the American Rare Book Trade

>	Highspots of Collectible Children's Books 1863 - 1963

>	My Favorite Flaws

>	Bibliophiles in Bucolia

>	Between the Covers Benefit Album

>	The Facs of Life

>	Aging Ungracefully in the Rare Book Trade

>	The Past, Present, and Future of the Antiquarian Book Trade

>	Why Buy From ABAA/ILAB Dealers?

>	Another Perspective on Dust-Jackets

>	The Messiah Factor in Bookselling

>	Literary Baseball Novels

>	Memoirs of a Lazy ABAA President

>	Flaws Not Noted

>	A First Time Exhibitor at Olympia

>	Signed vs. Inscribed

>	The Finer Print - Growing Concern Over Facsimile Jackets

>	A Visit to the St. Petersburg, Florida Book Fair

>	So What's a Bookseller to Do in February?

>	A Look at the American Antiquarian Book Trade

>	Frog-Water Iced-Tea; or a Brief and Felicitous Book Tour of the Southeastern United States

>	Money in Books

Ripped

member ABAA, ILAB