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Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # P64 of this collection of short stories. All the stories were published earlier in various magazines and collections. Featured are Blood Money by David Karp, Taste by Ronald Dahl, Everything Is Wild by James Thurber, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, The Wager by Anton Chekhov, translated by A.E. Chamot, Two Days Wasted in Kanas City by William Saroyan, Swindler's Luck by Ben Hecht, Katz by Nelson Algren, A Piece of the Pie by Damon Runyon, Elementals by Stephen Vincent Benet, The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, The Resourceful Miss Railey by Irvin S. Cobb, A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce, A Fowl Disaster by John Taintor Foote, Gambler's Luck by Albert Richard Wetjen. Slight spine slant. Light edge wear. Light age toning to the pages. In good condition.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Royce Publishers, Chicago, 1944. Softcover, 125 pp. A small book, measuring 3.125 x 4.75 inches (about 7.9 x 12 cm.). It was a movie theatre handout. With a fool-the-eye design resembling a wider hardcover. Four short stories with illustrations. Very good with edge wear, creases and an old stain on rear panel of wraps. See third photo for scale.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. First Thus. [1st printing](1944) #127. Small paperback, 4.5" x 3", abridged. Cover art by Axlerod; interiors are uncredited. Includes "Nothing Sacred" by James Street; "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon; "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benet; "The Failure" by Katharine Haviland-Taylor. Tanning; edge and corner wear; dusty; creasing; bumps to front; code in pencil on last page. Book.…

Staplebound wraps. Etat : Good. Second Edition. Second Edition. Staplebound wraps. 8 3/8" X 5 1/2". 55pp. Textured printed wraps, staplebound, show heavy toning and sunning and mild edgewear. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An overall well-preserved 1961 printing of this Freethought booklet penned by G. Vincent Runyon, a Methodist minister who renounced Christianity, published by James Hervey Johnson (1901-1988), leader of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism (AAAA).…

Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. First edition. Illustrated by Axelrod. 32mo. Measuring 3" x 4½". 125, [1 ad] pp. Stapled pictorial wrappers. A tiny bit of loss at the spine ends, near fine. The abridged stories (and subsequent movies) are: "Nothing Sacred" by James Street (same); "Madame la Gimp" by Damon Runyon (*Lady for a Day*); "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benét (*All that Money Can Buy*); and "The Failure" by Katharine Haviland-Taylor (*A Man to Remember*). A cute little book, issued as Royce Quick Readers No. 127.…

First Edition. Paperbound. Small format, 3Ó x 4 1/2Ó. Pictorial wrappers and illustrations by Axelrod. Very good plus copy with some minor edge wear and a hint of dust soiling in colorful printed wrappers. An abridged anthology of four stories which were made into films: ÒNothing SacredÓ by James Street, starring Carole Lombard and Fredric March, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, ÒMadame La GimpÓ by Damon Runyon, which was the basis for Lady for a Day, directed by Frank Capra, starring May Robson and Walter Connolly, ÒThe Devil and Daniel WebsterÓ by Stephen Vincent Benet, which became the motion picture All That Money Can Buy, starring Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, and Simone Simon, and ÒThe FailureÓ by Katharine Haviland-Taylor, which appeared in film under the title A Man to Remember, directed by Garson Kanin, starring Edward Ellis.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good. 55p stapled booklet with green card cover, a fresh and clean copy, no names or stamps, excellent Language: English.

Staplebound. Etat : Coll - U7 - Good. Staplebound, Good. Second Edition, Superior Books, 1961. Pages yellowed. Some soiling to flaps. No interior marking.

Softcover. Etat : Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition. Paperback original. Small format (3' X 4 1/2") (125pp. ) Ilustrations by Axelrod. Close to fine copy in stapled pictorial wrappers. Abridged anthology of four stories that were made into films: "Nothing Sacred" by James Street, starring Carole Lombard and Frederic March, with a screenplay by Ben Hecht, "Madame La Gimp" by Damon Runyon, basis for "Lady for a Day", directed by Frank Capra, starring May Robson and Walter Connolly, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" by Stephen Vincent Benet, which was produced as "All That Money Can Buy", starring Walter Huston, Edward Arnold, and Simone Simon, and "The Failure" by Katharine Haviland-Taylor, which was filmed as " A Man to Remember", directed by Garson Kanin, starring Edward Ellis. ; 3" X 4 1/2"; 125 pages.…