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Triangle Books. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. 1940. Reprint. Hardcover. Jacket spine is faded. 2 small closed jacket tears. Attractive. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable mylar sleeve. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" ; 309 pages .

Triangle Press, New York:, 1940 pp. 309. 12mo. 190mm. Original publisher's full maroon cloth binding. Cover stamped and lettered in silver. Spine lettered in silver. Corners sharp and covers clean. Dust jacket intact with small tear with loss on spine. Small abrasion on spine text. Dust Jacket art depicts passionate scene of a man and woman. Ownership stamp of 'D.I. Gross, 227 S. Hartley St. York, PA.' Hardbound. Very Good. NW70 Language: eng. Hardcover. Very Good/Dust Jacket Included.

NY: Triangle Books (1931). Small 8vo; cloth covered boards with gilt lettering; hardcover; 309 pages; by the author of "Impatient Virgin", "Millie", and "Louis Beretti"; sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy in an edgeworn price clipped color pictorial dust jacket with two closed tears.

New York & Chicago : Diversey Publishing Corp., (1948). First edition under this title. "Dick Raynor was a hellion with the girls. This handsome New England chap had time, money - and the youth to go with them ... a headstrong son of a staid family sowed his wild oats as no son of that family had ever sowed them before". Originally published as "Young and Healthy" in 1931, but here in a revised edition for the Novel Library. Foolscap 8vo (17cm). [ii],186,[iv]pp. Original pictorial wrappers - blonde in a champagne glass; a little rubbed and very slightly chipped at tips; text a little tanned, but a good copy.

New York: The Vanguard Press. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1931). First Edition. Hardcover. [spine turned, moderate wear to cloth at extremities, slight bump to top front corner, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Edler & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket heavily edgeworn, various tiny chips and tears, wrinkling/creasing with minor paper loss at top of spine, soiling along edge of front flap]. Scrappy and moderately racy romance, of the sort that Clarke specialized in; this one is about a college student whose "only books are women's looks," but who decides to rough it for a time as a sea-going lumberman, before becoming a New York newpaper reporter (shades of the author himself). Cheap reprints of Clarke's many novels from this era ("Millie"; "Tawny"; "Confidential"; "Female"; "Alabam'"; "Impatient Virgin"; etc. etc.) are easy to find, but jacketed copies of the original editions (mostly… Read More