PBA Galleries

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 Frances Whiting and her husband Paul Schubert. With a total of 25 inscribed and/or signed by the author, 18 of which are to Frances L. Whiting, who was the widow of Paul Schubert. Paul later remarried Ann Cuthrell Schubert (the daughter of noted author Faith Baldwin). Frances Whiting had been employed by Cosmopolitan Magazine in the late 20's early 30's, and by 1935, was the Managing editor for the magazine. In the course of working in the publishing industry, she encouraged many young up and coming writers, who all to a man or woman gave her credit for her contributions, when sending signed copies of their books.