Winner Take Nothing
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #619024
A near fine first edition in a very good jacket. The book is very near-to-fine, clean, and tight with bright gold foil labels (just a hint of sight wear to cloth); the jacket has some mended tears (mends on verso) and nicks to edges. Contains 14 short stories in all; dedicated to poet Archibald MacLeish. Hanneman A12a (with 'A' and Scribner's seal on title page verso); first state of the jacket (with Laurence Stallings' quotation from his review of 'Death in the Afternoon' on jacket lower cover). [8], 244 pages. PROVENANCE: Bookplate of John Frderick Stephens on front pastedown (under jacket flap).
Price: $1,100.00