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Woolrich, Cornell. Children of the Ritz. First Edition, Cloth. Ex-lib Copy. New York, 1927. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Moderate wear, library stamps to front pastedown, part of dj, the plot, affixed to the front free endpaper, no other markings. A presentable copy.

Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Woolrich, Cornell. Children of the Ritz. Boni & Liveright, 1927.

Price: US$99.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Blue cloth second printing has light general wear to covers. No jacket. Solid, square copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Cornell Woolrich. Children of the Ritz by Cornell Woolrich (First Edition) FAX DJ. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Children of the Ritz by Cornell Woolrich (First Edition) FAX DJ Ex-Library. A firm square copy with wear and soiling to the cloth. Numbers in white to spine base. Front free endpaper has been glued to the pastedown, and a glued paper remnant to rear free endpaper. New Facsimile Dust Jacket in a clear Brodart cover. Scarce. First Printing with no other printings mentioned, and publisher's "B&L" logo. The Author's second book. Basis for the 1929 silent film of the same name. Original blue cloth, spine and cover stamped green, green top edge of textblock. Comes in a Facsimile Dust Jacket.

Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.

Cornell Woolrich. CHILDREN OF THE RITZ. Boni & Liveright, 1927.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Description: The Second Printing from October of 1927 (the first was in July of that same year). Some light spotting to the boards, but basically a clean and tight copy. Very Good binding.

Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.

Woolrich, Cornell. Children of the Ritz. Second Printing, Cloth. 1927. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, "Second Printing, October, 1927. Original cloht, slight offsetting to endpapers, very good plus. No writing, no bookplates. Scarce.

Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.

Woolrich, Cornell. Children of the Ritz. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good, lacking the jacket. Blue buckram, lightly rubbed at the edges, with green ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square, bound with some reading wear, green top stain, clean internally. Woolrich's second book, a Jazz Age comedy that reads much different than his more notable crime novels.

Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.

Woolrich, Cornell. CHILDREN OF THE RITZ. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$240.00 + shipping

Description: Basis for the 1929 silent film of the same name. A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur. Their situations are changed when her family loses all their money and he wins $50,000 at a racetrack. They get married, but it's not long before she starts spending their money the way she used to spend hers. Hardcover in a facsimile dust jacket. 271 pages. VG-; spine blue with white lettering; bumping to corners, head and tail of spine; top edge of text block faded green; mild stains within; binding slightly loose; shelved case 7. 1267960. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

WOOLRICH, Cornell. CHILDREN OF THE RITZ. Boni & Liveright, 1927.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Second printing, 3 months following the first. Mild foxing to endpapers, rear board lightly spotted, VG+ in dj worn along spine fold and at spine head. DJ is imprinted SECOND EDITION BEFORE PUBLICATION on flap so no mixed marriage is possible. Very elusive dust jacket.

Seller: Nicholas J. Certo, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.

Woolrich, Cornell. Children of the Ritz. Boni & Liveright, NY, 1927.

Price: US$849.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Blue cloth titled in green. Stated 2nd printing, October 1927. Cloth edges rubbed, scrape to rear board edge. PO name/date. Front hinge faintly loose. The DJ in mylar is rubbed/edgeworn, chipped, with loss to heel. DJ spine states 2nd edition. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

WOOLRICH, Cornell.. Children of the Ritz.. Boni and Liveright,, New York:, 1927.

Price: US$900.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. 271, [1] pp. Blue publisher's cloth, decorated & lettered in green (very minor shelfwear, slight dustsoiling upper fore-edge), w/ d.j. splendid Art Deco cover art depicting flapper, dogs, and sleek 1920s roadster w/ initials E.I. (1 very small closed teat at upper front fore-edge, slight rubbing), NF/VG bright copy. Second printing of the author's second Jazz Age novel, which was the winner of the $10,000 prize from College Humor magazine and First National Pictures. Dated October, 1927 on verso of title, and also "Second Edition" is printed on front flap and spine of the jacket. Woolrich (1903-1968) first came to prominence with Cover Charge, the first of his Roaring 20s novels inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and after publication of this drama moved to Hollywood to work as an unsuccessful screenwriter. Children of the Ritz was adapted into the 1929 film starring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall, featuring a Vitaphone soundtrack and sound effects, and most likely released in dual silent and sound versions in 1929. Woolrich later wrote under the pseudonyms of William Irish and George Hopley, becoming one of the best noir mystery writers alongside Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and Erle Stanley Gardner.

Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.

WOOLRICH, Cornell. Children of the Ritz. Boni and LIveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. E. I. dustjacket art. A spoiled rich girl falls for a poor chauffeur. Their situations are changed when her family loses all their money and he wins $50,000 at a racetrack. They get married, but it's not long before she starts spending their money the way she used to spend hers. Basis for the First National Picture starring Dorothy Mackaill and Jack Mulhall. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, chipped at flap corners, centimeter deep chipping at lower spine end, top spine end with quarter sized chip, top rear panel with square inch sized chip.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.

Woolrich, Cornell. CHILDREN OF THE RITZ (Inscribed By The Author). Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Woolrich, Cornell. CHILDREN OF THE RITZ. NY Boni & Liveright, (1927). First edition. Previous owner's bookplate, some tanning to end papers, abrasion to the top of the ffep, a few stains to cloth, a very good used copy. In a priced ($2.00) Very Good dust jacket, a few chips and small closed tears, some fading (as almost always) to the purple spine panel. No repairs or major faults, with good eye appeal. INSCRIBED by the author on November 1st, 1927, three weeks after publication. CHILDREN OF THE RITZ, Woolrich's second novel, is a Jazz Age social comedy about an heiress who has recently lost all of her money, and her marriage to a formerly impoverished man who has just come into a massive fortune. It shows only a few hints of the signature dark and edgy writing style that would later create novels like The Bride Wore Black and Black Alibi. His biographer, Francis Nevins Jr. famously and not inaccurately rated Woolrich the fourth best crime writer of his day, behind Dashiell Hammett, Erle Stanley Gardner and Raymond Chandler. CHILDREN OF THE RITZ was adapted into a forgettable film in 1929. An exceedingly uncommon opportunity to acquire an inscribed copy of one of Woolrich's early first editions.

Seller: Lakin & Marley Rare Books ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.