A terrific collection of rare items from the Pittsburgh author and mystery writer acclaimed as the American Agatha Christie.
New York: George H. Doran, 1926. First Printing. Hardcover. With GHD logo on copyright page. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket, book very good and sharp, owner's name, a few small spots to endpapers, jacket good with some edgewear, short tears, chips to top of tear panel, minor general soil. Hard.....
New York: McBride, 1932. Hardcover. Reprint of 1923 edition. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket, book very good, bookplate on first blank, pages tanning and slight staining to fore-edges of endpapers, jacket good with some chipping, stains and tears.
New York: George H. Doran, C. 1920. First Printing. Hardcover. Presumed first printing even though this does not have the GHD logo on copyright page the publisher used to identify first printings -- but they did this haphazardly and there's a good chance that this is a first printing, despite.....
New York: George H. Doran, 1920. First Printing. Hardcover. Most probably a first printing but does not have the Doran logo on the copyright page -- Doran was sporadic in its use in denoting first printings at that point -- in ensuing years they were more consistent. 8vo, full red.....
New York: Samuel French, C. 1931. Wraps. Reprint of a play first published in either 1908 or 1909 by the Rumsey Play Co. in Philadelphia. 8vo, wraps, very good, covers quite tanned, light wear, a "photoplay" with plates from the production. 138 (5) pp. Rinehart also turned this into the.....
New York: Stern and Reubens, 1919. 20 pp. agreement, mainly a carbon copy but with the actual signatures of Rinehart, Goldwyn and Beach plus the initials of Goldwyn and Beach next to a handwritten emendation. Some tanning and edgewear but generally very good. Agreement gives Goldwyn, as producer, exclusive right.....
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, C. 1934. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good and clean, light toning to pages, jacket also very good with mild wear, general toning and darkening however.
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, C. 1934. Second Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book good with some spottiness and discoloration to binding, light toning to pages, bumping to bottom inner corner throughout, inscribed by Rinehart in 1934, jacket good with general wear, some tears, soil, tanning, but complete and.....
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First Printing. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket, very good or better, owner signature and information on first blank, jacket lightly used with toning to rear panel.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1929. First Printing. Hardcover. Stated First Edition. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket, about fine in jacket, just a touch of wear and toning.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, bound in full red leather gilt, good, rubbing and dryness to joints. With sticker on rear pastedown from Preservation Technologies stating this was deacidified with their patented process. We purchased a large number of similarly bound Rinehart books from a local institution.....
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1916. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's orange cloth in pictorial dust jacket, book very good with minor wear, slight corner bumping, jacket good with general edgewear, a few short tears, moderate wear to spine, also in tanning plain see-through glassine dust jacket which is also edgeworn; this could.....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1937. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, rebound in full deep red leather, gilt stamped, good copy with some expert restoration to corners and spine but still showing some wear and rubbing along spine and joints. With sticker on rear pastedown from Preservation Technologies stating this was.....
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1937. First Printing. Wraps. With FR logo on copyright page. In wraps, using dust jacket as cover wrapper, a common publisher's signifier back then for uncorrected proofs and advance reader's copies. Light wear and tanning, very good. Very uncommon format. Letitia Carberry, one of Rinehart's.....
New York: Doran, 1926. First Printing. Hardcover. With Doran insignia on copyright page. Cloth in pictorial dust jacket, very good or better, owner's name on pastedown, jacket with just a touch of edgewear. Very uncommon in dust jacket.
New York: George H. Doran, C. 1920. Hardcover. Possibly a first printing but does not have Doran logo on copyright page. 8vo, publisher's purple cloth in dust jacket, book very good, light foxing to endpapers, minor bumping to page corners, jacket good with some fading along spine, edgewear and light.....
Addressed to Katharine M. Friedel, at the Tribune Review in Greensburg, PA, Rinehart is replying to Friedel's "delightful letter," and answers a few questions: she never does any writing when in her vacation place in Bar Harbor during the summer, because she writes all her books in longhand, and the.....
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, very good copy, light offsetting to outer gutters of binding and inner hinges, jacket very good with light soil, wear and tanning. An attractive copy of this mystery set in an exclusive summer colony on the New.....
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1938. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, a few mild brown spots to cover, front gutter has some more serious looking brown stains that might be offsetting -- the publisher's glue may have done this; jacket good to very good, price.....
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1909. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's green cloth in pictorial dust jacket, book very good, Christmas 1909 inscription, jacket fair with moderate-to-substantial chips and wear.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1909. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth, good plus copy, light general wear, sticker from Preservation Technologies on rear pastedown stating that this book has been deacidified. With Rinehart's facsimile signature name-stamp on front pastedown, probably indicating this is one of her own copies. Purchased in a......
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1912. First Printing. Hardcover. Publisher's blue cloth gilt, in Coles Phillips dust jacket featuring his trademark "fadeaway girl." Very good or better, light wear and soil to book, scattered foxing or spottiness to fore-edge, jacket very good with lightest general soil and edgewear, a few short tears hidden.....
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1910. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's green cloth decorated in white, very good, light wear, owner's name in pen, plus little address sticker, on flyleaf.
Boston: The Writer, Inc., C. 1939. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket good plus with light wear and soil, small chip to top of back panel.
New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1945. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, copyright page with F&R logo denoting a first printing. Book very good, light wear and tanning, jacket good with some rubbing, toning and edgewear, signs of dampstaining to front flap, flap price whited out.