Bessie Cotter

reprint, light handling wear to covers, some creasing to spine and chipped to bottom of spine. Small split along lower front and rear spine edges but binding secure. Internally clean In 1935, Smith's novel Bessie Cotter about a prostitute's life on the streets of Chicago was judged indecent in England and the publisher fined the equivalent of $1,000. It was published… Read more about this item

Covici Friede Publishers, 1934. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Wallace Smith is best known in Oregon as the illustrator of the Pendleton Round-Up poster (you know the one). However, he was also an author. This novel of a Chicago prostitute was published in England a year after the American edition, but was declared indecent & banned there. Later editions were… Read more about this item

UK: Heinemann, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Re-issue of 1935 book. Good hardcover, no inscription, dustwrapper has edge wear, unclipped.

Paris:: The Obelisk Press,, [1936].. First French edition.. publisher’s illustrated wrappers.. Two small indentations to rear wrapper; else a fresh, sharp copy.. 8vo,.

Canada: Berkley G-112, 1958. Solid with a few small creases on the covers and a light spine roll.. 2nd Printing. Paperback. Very Good.

New York: Berkley Books, 1956. First Edition. . Mass Market Paperback. Very Good. Vintage Paperback: Berkley Books G-21. A novel about life in a 1930s Chicago whorehouse, featuring Bessie Cotter, a young blonde woman who hasn't forgotten her humanity. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. Pictorial wrappers show a small stain in title box, very light wear at corners… Read more about this item

Berkley Books. Very Good. 1956. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Mass Market. Very Good mass market size paperback with a crease to the lower corner of the front cover. Stated: Berkley edition February 1956. 191 pages, unmarked. ; Shlf UO15; 6.75 X 4.25 X 1 inches .

Paris: Obelisk Press, 1953. Pocketbook. Pocketbook. Good. wraps, 307 pp spine torn on the top edges covers lightly worn Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Covers rubbed with spots of fading, light foxing, dust jacket damp stained, chipped and torn, neatly repaired. Very good. JBS-121. Wallace Smith. Bessie Cotter. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1935. First edition. 12mo. 272pp. Publisher's blue cloth hardcover boards, original unclipped dust jacket showing retail price of 7/6. Scarce first edition of Smith's novel depicting the life of a Chicago… Read more about this item

Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1953. Original wrappers. Light creasing and rubbing to covers and spine starting to separate at base. Light browning due to age. Else, very good. 12mo. 307pp. A moving and richly humorous story of a prostitute's life in the Chicago of yesteryear. Originally printed by the Obelisk Press in 1936 and subsequently suppressed in London.… Read more about this item

Paris: Obelisk Press, 1953. Pocketbook. Pocketbook. Good. wraps, 307 pp wraps torn along soine Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London: Heinemann, 1972 Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. a little rubbing to top edge of dw, name inked out on endpaper, else fine/fine. The novel was suppressed in 1935 on its first issue by Heinemann. This is its first reissue by them. It is a tale of life and work in an… Read more about this item

Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1946. Leather-bound. Near fine. Leather-bound. Octavo. 227pp. Bound in gilt stamped, full-leather by Maurin. t.e.g. 1946 edition with wrappers bound-in. Nice binding has minor rubbing to spine tips and corners. Wrappers are nicely preserved, though paper is toned. The novel was first published in New York by Covici in 1934 and in England in… Read more about this item

New York: Berkley Books, 1956. Berkley books # G-21. 191 pages. Bright color cover art. Never read.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 4"X7".

London: Heinemann, 1972. xiii + 272pp. Burgandy cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Covers unmarked. Book tight and pages clean. D/W not clipped. Wrapper has scuff marks but no tears. First reissue by Heinemann of the book it first published in 1935 and then withdrew after charges of obscenity were laid. Heinemann destroyed every possible copy of the 1935 edition.. Reissue. Hardcover.… Read more about this item

berkley book, , (Reprints Berkley G-21), . G-112, very good , (PROSTITUTION NOVEL), paperback,

London, William Heinemann reissue - h/c in d.j. Hurdy-gurdy music under the red lamp-light, the smell of rank perfume in warm rooms, short dresses and scarlet stockings, exotic doings behind drawn shades. Smith's novel first published in 1935 was charged with obscenity as well as the subject matter was considered unsavoury. Almost fourty years later the sensitivities of the… Read more about this item

Gallimard, 1939. in12. 1939. Broché.

berkley book, , (Reprints Berkley G-21), . G-112, very good -fine, , reading crease (PROSTITUTION NOVEL), paperback,

berkley book, , (Reprints Berkley G-21), 1961. Y-558 almost near fine (PROSTITUTION NOVEL), paperback,