First Edition, Advance Salesman Dummy Copy. Pettit's novel of Jazz Age extravagance and fast society here published as a publisher's dummy copy, printing the first 26 pages. Basis for the First National and Vitaphone feature film starring Ruth Chatterton. "The multimillionaires of Long Island, Palm Beach, Paris and New York, their fabulous parties, their gay infidelities, and the doings of their wives and lady friends are presented in this witty amusing and dramatic story of the smart set. They not only drink, break the sixth and ninth commandments and spend money like water; they not only crowd the divorce courts of Reno and Paris, but they lead strange lives of their own - sometimes gay, sometimes immoral, sometimes even pathetic". Original cloth over boards and dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, panels darkened, short length at lower front panel chipped cm deep. Seller Inventory # 20963

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Title: The Rich Are Always With Us

Publisher: Sears Publishing Co, New York

Publication Date: 1930

Binding: Hardcover

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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We strive to provide a large, high quality, and diverse collection of fiction published primarily before the Second World War and with their original dustjackets. With over 12,000 such titles in our inventory, it is one of the largest �for sale� collections of such material in the world. While our specialty is Jazz Age and Depression Era literature, we also maintain a growing collection of Children's and 19th Century Literature. We pride themselves on providing accurately described, high grade, and difficult to locate titles in all fields of literature.

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Babylon Revisited Rare Books
MA, U.S.A.

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