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Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc., sells antiquarian books, specializing in first editions of English and American literature, autographed copies, genre fiction, sports books, and African-Americana.

09/03/2026

Venture to the Interior by Laurens van der Post. “After giving us a vivid sketch of his South African forbears, the author takes us with him on his exploration of the remote Mlanje (the mountain which inspired Rider Haggard’s The People of the Mist) and, later, of the inaccessible Nyika plateau … It is the real Africa, its sights and sounds, its beauties, riches, dangers and difficulties, that he shows us in this remarkable book, which is an adventure story, a travel book, and a piece of intimate autobiography all in one.” Later printing. 1952. Gutter cracked, foxing on page edges, owner's name on front fly, about very good in a good only edgeworn dustwrapper with internal tape repair. $30.

08/31/2026

Mr. Macready: 19th Century Tragedian by J.C. Trewin. “Macready did more for the stage than any other actor of his time, both for the contemporary drama and for many Shakespearean texts which had been mutilated and misinterpreted. In this complete biography, much the fullest yet and the first for more than sixty years, J.C. Trewin has set the tragedian against a turbulent theatrical background; Macready is shown as an exciting, complex character through whose life moved many major literary and artistic figures … This is a book for theatrical enthusiasts and students of stage history, and will prove to be a mine of information about plays and acting during this little known period of the early nineteenth century.” 1955. Illustrated from the Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson Theatre Collection. 267pp. Illustrated with black and white plates. Small bumped tear on foredge of front board, a bit of uneven sunning on the spine with bumping at the ends, very good in a very good dust jacket with chips and tears, and a toned spine. $30

08/26/2026

Jazz Funeral by Julie Smith. “In Jazz Funeral, Julie Smith once again takes us behind the scenes in New Orleans, with a multi-faceted story of murder, music, and family sorrow. This time, homicide detective Skip Langdon finds herself trying to solve the stabbing death of the universally beloved producer of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival. To confuse the case further, the victim’s sixteen-year-old sister has disappeared and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn’t herself the murderer, she’s in mortal danger from the person who is.” First edition. 1993. Fine in fine dust jacket. Although not marked in any way, this copy is from the distinguished modern first edition collection of Bruce Kahn.

08/24/2026

Professor Romeo by Anne Bernays. “In the detail born of intimate knowledge, Professor Romeo portrays the world of university professors, graduate students, undergraduates, deans, and administrators. Ms. Bernays’ novel is a cautionary tale for our times about seduction, sexual harassment, and the sempiternal war between the sexes. With mordant tongue, Ann Bernays brings each episode to vivid life, from moment to uncomfortable moment. The result is a sizzling comedy about a pressing contemporary subject.” First edition. 1989. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

08/20/2026

Brook Evans by Susan Glaspell. “A novel - frank, tender, beautiful - of many loves and one great love. It is the story of Brook Evans, yet, before that, of Brook Evans’ mother; beginning beside murmuring water on a summer’s night, quick with that feeling for life which moves through the book as a brook, clear, ever renewed.” First edition. 1928. Octavo. 312pp. Fine in attractive, very good dust jacket with several short chips and tears, the most noticeable one at the top of the upper flap fold.

08/17/2026

Wind and Waves by Yasushi Inoue. “Wind and Waves tells the dramatic story of the great events that shaped the history of East Asia during the middle decades of the 13th century. In this artful narrative, Yasushi Inoue, the internationally renowned Japanese novelist, brilliantly recreates the atmosphere of futility and despair that prevailed in Koryō (now Korea) during the decades of Mongol occupation. All the events lead inevitably to the invasion of Japan in 1274, and to the second invasion of 1281 … The contemplative mood of the story will haunt the reader long after its last page is past.” First American edition. 1989. Translated by James T. Araki. Fine in fine dust jacket.

08/12/2026

The Taste of Ashes by Howard Browne. “You have to be very unlucky to meet the Delastones. I ought to know; I met them. I drove out there one half-cloudy June morning in answer to a phone call from Serena Delatone - an iron-faced old harridan who liked everybody except people. Seemed one of her daughters had been careless enough to get tangled up with a blackmailer, and the old lady figured a nice, clean-living private detective named Paul Pine could pry him off her back - even if he had to use a gun to do it.” First edition. 1957. Bumping and boards lightly rubbed, else very good or better in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and edgewear including some chips and tears. $125

08/10/2026

Philip: The Draftsman by F.X.J. Coleman. “In Philip The Draftsman: F.X.J. Coleman has woven together all the frayed ends of a sensitive man’s soul, and the result is more than a book. It is a tapestry of humanity, life, and several kinds of death; a symphony in counterpoint; an experience that will haunt you for years.” First edition. 1969. Boards show some bumping, rubbing to the front pastedown, still very good or better in a very good dust jacket with rubbing and edgewear including some chips and tears. $20

08/06/2026

The Tortoises by Loys Masson. “The Tortoises tells about the voyage of the brig, ‘Rose de Mahe’, in 1904, with its tyrannous Dutch captain, its crew of roughnecks crazy for a fabulous hoard of gold, its cargo of giant tortoises and its clandestine supercargo - who turns out to be an angel of death, having brought smallpox aboard from the Seychelles. The story moves, through vivid stages of action and hallucination, to its unforgettable climax.” First English edition. 1959. Translated by Antonia White. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the flaps, else fine in very good dust jacket with edgewear including a short tear on the front panel, a little offsetting on the rear panel, and two tiny holes on the rear flap fold. $35

08/03/2026

Mildensee by Naomi Royde Smith. “Mildensee is called a Romance because the teller of this story looks down a perspective of fifty years to the day when, a schoolgirl performing at a school prizegiving, she first heard of the city of Mildensee where so many musical reputations had been made. How she spent a year there before she was twenty; how much conventions, manners and ideals as well as fashions in dress and in art have changed since then, are shown in the course of this nostalgia story, which begins by turning its back on the summer of 1939, just before the storm that was then awaited broke on the world.” First edition. 1943. Small bookstore label, spine lightly cocked else near fine in a good only dust jacket with the rear panel split along the spine, a chip to the crown, and mild edgewear. $30

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