Author: TRAIN, Arthur
Title: His Children's Children
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with yellow lettering, dust jacket. vi, 391pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and rubbed, with spine sunned; numerous tiny edge chips and large chip at head of spine, with expert archival mends on verso -- but complete and overall still attractrive, a scarce survivor. A lovely and bright first edition in decent jacket. The New York County assistant district attorney (1875-1945) and prolific mystery novelist who pioneered the courtroom thriller genre and immortalized attorney Ephraim Tutt here presents his first mainstream novel, a harsh view of postwar Prohibition era New York, which the publisher boastfully proclaims on the jacket front panel as "The Vanity Fair of New York. .
Keywords: American Literature
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Title: His Children's Children
Description: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1923. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Green cloth with yellow lettering, dust jacket. vi, 391pp. Near fine/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and rubbed, with spine sunned; numerous tiny edge chips and large chip at head of spine, with expert archival mends on verso -- but complete and overall still attractrive, a scarce survivor. A lovely and bright first edition in decent jacket. The New York County assistant district attorney (1875-1945) and prolific mystery novelist who pioneered the courtroom thriller genre and immortalized attorney Ephraim Tutt here presents his first mainstream novel, a harsh view of postwar Prohibition era New York, which the publisher boastfully proclaims on the jacket front panel as "The Vanity Fair of New York. .
Keywords: American Literature
Price: US$ 50.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 43484
- Book number: 43484
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