Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 8vo. 1st ED. 118pp. Illustrated orange boards, with matching illustrated DJ , not price-clipped ($1.00). Free front endpaper clipped. Illustrations by Harrison Gurnee. Mock-juvenile depression-era novel.
Published by Sears Publishing Company, New York, 1932
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Illustrated paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 118pp; illus. Boards faded at outer margins, rubbed on edges; brief dusting to edges of text block; Very Good. In the scarce pictorial jacket, price-clipped and with small losses at spine ends; about Very Good. Humorous mock-juvenile Depression novel (somewhat in the vein of Ring Lardner's The Young Immigrunts) in which an orphan is raised by his uncle, a professional grifter. Played for humor, but a gritty work.