The Cream Of The Jest **VERY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET** **PART OF THE BOSTON BOOK CO. MODERN LIBRARY COLLECTION**

VERY RARE FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION WITH DUST JACKET **PART OF THE BOSTON BOOK CO. MODERN LIBRARY COLLECTION** The Cream Of The Jest by James Branch Cabell. Introduction by Harold Ward. New York: The Modern Library, 1927. FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1927 stated on the copyright page. Toledano leatherette spine type 4 with Bernhard endpapers. The book is VERY GOOD gilt on cover and spine nice and bright, boards are very bright. Slightest of shelf wear on top and bottom spine. No writing, marks, or book plates. Contents are clean and bright! The rare dust jacket is only GOOD with chipping at extremities, split at spine and flaps. Titles listed on the back are from1927 and earlier matching this to a FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION. 95 cent price present and bright on inside flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. RARE AND HARD TO FIND THIS FIRST EDITION IN DUST JACKET! This book is part of the Modern Library collection from the Boston Book Company which comprised 1,917 modern library volumes and was used to create A Descriptive Bibliography of The Modern Library: 1917 - 1970 by George M. Andes in 1989. If you see anything else you like in my store let me know before you order as I always offer discounts to repeat customers! **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.…