LARDNER, RING; ILLUSTRATIONS BY MAY WILSON PRESTON - The Big Town - How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband

Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1921. 1st Edition. Hardcover . Hardback, 12mo, 5 x 7 1/2 inches, black titling on olive drab green cloth, viii + 244 pages, VG+ to Near Fine/no dj (stiff clear acetate dustwrapper provided to preserve condition). Snug binding, barely any external wear at all, front endpapers emanating top of the front hinge "droplet's" small very light tide mark (semi-circular, one inch down and half inch on either side) o/w crisp clean throughout interior incl no names/writing/bookplates. Scattering of b&w illustrations on coated stock: frontis and at least 4 others. Basis for the 1948 movie "So This is New York". Very Good.

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