by Walter D. Edmonds

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1942.

First edition, first printing; Complimentary copy,

with publisher's printed "Presentation Edition" card laid in.

Publisher's statement "First edition, published January 1942" to the copyright page and 1942 date printed to the title page.

Wrap-around dust jacket illustration by Forrest W. Orr.

This presentation edition has a more deluxe red burgundy binding, and a different jacket illustrator, than the regular trade first edition, which had a dark gray binding and jacket illustration by Harvey Dunn.

Historical adventure novel featuring young man Ames, who learns finance tips at the waterfront, seeks and deals with earning his fortune, fights with the fire department, encounters an abolition riot, and more.

Fine in red-burgundy linen, gilt embossed titles and rules to a black panel to the spine, upper page edges slate-gray; in a very good dust jacket illustrated by Forrest W. Orr, with small chips and short tears to the upper spine edge, short tears to the lower spine edge, some fading to the spine panel, a short snag to the rear panel, and rubbed crimps to the corner tips; original printed $2.50 price still intact to the front inner flap.

Edmonds first novel, ROME HAUL, was turned into a Broadway play ("The Farmer Takes a Wife") by Marc Connelly with Henry Fonda, and then adapted to film, again starring Henry Fonda.


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