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Title: Lot of 45 volumes from the library of Frances L. Whiting, Managing Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine during 1920’s-30’s, many signed and/or inscribed by the author Author: ** Place: Various places Publisher: Date: 1912-60 Description: With: Reed, Myrtle. The White Shield. Dj faded, flap corners clipped. 1912. * Irwin. Seed of the Sun. Signed. [1921]. * Johnson. Parodies for Housekeepers. Illus. by Peter Newell. Wraps. Signed by Burges Johnson. [1921]. * Waxman. Versiflage. Inscribed & signed. Glassine. 1922. * Wells, H.G. The Dream. Macmillan, 1924. * Meeker. Kate Mulhall: A Romance of the Oregon Trail. Signed. Dj spine a bit darkened, small chips. [1926]. * Woolf. To the Lighthouse. Harcourt, [1927]. * Pierre-Quint. Marcel Proust His Life and Work. Dj price clipped. 1927. * Huneker. Painted Veils. No. 59 of 2300. Dj price clipped. 1928. * Walpole. Wintersmoon. 1928. * Wilder. The Angel that Troubled the Waters. 2nd printing. 1928. * Beer. Hanna. Inscribed & signed. 1929. * Mann. Three Essays. Knopf, 1929. * Cabell. The Way of Ecben. Glassine, slipcase. McBride, 1929. * Hale. The Man Without a Country. Later Ed. With 2 TLS on 20th Century-Fox Film Corp dated Feb. 25 & March 2, 1936 to Whiting, 1 from Steve Slick and other from T.B. Costain, thanking her for her suggestion on a film version of The Man Without a Country, plus their ideas about an article series for her magazine, etc., laid in. No dj. 1930. * Brady. Us Ladies. Inscribed & signed. 1934. * Carman. Rainbow at Noon. Inscribed & signed in 1935. [1935]. * Patton. Blood of the Shark: A Romance of Early Hawaii. 2nd Ed. Inscribed & signed. [1937]. * Steinbeck. The Long Valley. 2nd printing. 1938. * Kent. After This. Inscribed & signed. Typed letter from a reviewer to editor, laid in. 1939. * Nejelski. The Camera Eye. Inscribed & signed in 1939. 1939. * Knight. Death Came Dancing. Inscribed & signed. Doubleday Crime club, 1940. * Shipman & Worcester. Way of the Heart. Inscribed & signed by both authors in 1941. 1941. * Knight. Women Must Weep. Inscribed & signed in 1941. 1941. * Col. Romulo. I Saw the Fall of the Philippines. Inscribed & signed in 1942. With author’s compliments card, laid in. 1942. * Huss. The Foe We Face. Long inscription signed by author to Whiting “This book is in spirit and writing of Frances Whiting, who ‘discovered’ me and herself did so much…”. 1942. * St. John. From the Land of Silent People. Signed. Plus, with 4 typed letters signed by the author to Whiting (all dated 1942) mostly thanking her for helping him with the book (1 letter mostly inked with some type, 2 letters are 3-pages long), with the 3 original mailing envelopes (each with official paper seal “Examined by Censor), laid in. 1942. * Hunt. East of Farewell. 2 copies: 1st Ed., no dj, 1942 & 4th printing in dj, inscribed & signed, 1943. * Keller & Berger. Men of Maryknoll. Inscribed & signed by both authors “to Cosmopolitan.” 1943. * Brush. Out of My Mind. Inscribed & signed in 1943. [1943]. * Tregaskis. Guadalcanal Diary. [1943]. * Weller. Bases Overseas. Inscribed & signed. [1944]. * Berlin. Diary of a Flight to Occupied Germany. Inscribed & signed. No dj. [1945]. * Thurber. The White Deer. Dj flap corners clipped. [1945]. * Sinclair. Dragon Harvest. 1945. * Kurtz. My Rival, the Sky. With ALS by author’s husband with Whiting’s carbon reply letter, with original envelopes, laid in. 1945. * Heggen. Mister Roberts. 1946. * Hersey. Hiroshima. 1946. * Marion. Westward the Dream. Inscribed & signed. 1948. * Jim Farley’s Story: The Roosevelt Years. 2nd printing. Signed. [1948]. * Petzoldt. On Top of the World. Inscribed & signed. [1953]. * Harrer. Seven Years in Tibet. 1954. * Byrd & Sutherland. The Valiant. Inscribed & signed by Sutherland. [1955]. * Lea. The Primal Yoke. [1960]. Together, 34 volumes. Mostly cloth and/or boards, 37 in jacket, 2 in glassines (1 in slipcase); 1 in wrappers. Mostly first editions / first printings. This collection from the library of