BETTER THAN DYING
by Robert Faherty Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935 First edition. Tanned off-setting to the endpapers, wear to the lower shelf edge, faded spine, minor stains to the rear cover, else very good plus in light orange cloth with red spine lettering and black rules; in a fine high quality FACSIMILE dust jacket. Raw crime novel set in a Southern jail with the all ugliness of the city's underworld, including thieves, crooks, prostitutes, as well as a crooked sheriff and a racketeering bondsman. First (and only) crime novel by the young newspaper reporter who had been assigned to a police court. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |