Enoch Crane by F. Berkeley and F. Hopkinson Smith 1916

Enoch Crane
F. Berkeley Smith
F. Hopkinson Smith
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1916
337 pages
Illustrated by Alonzo Kimball

The front hinge and binding are broken but all pages are present and attached. The pages are tanned and have scattered foxing and brown age spots, there is a name and date 1919 written on the front end paper. There are pinpricks on the last 8-10 pages. The cover is rubbed and edge worn and there is some rippling on the front. Fair. Hardcover.

A novel planned and begun by F. Hopkinson Smith and completed by his son Berkeley.

Chapter 1:  Joe Grimsby stoood on the door-mat--a very shabby and badly worn door-mat, I must say--trying to fit his key into the tiny slit which, properly punctured, shot back the bolt which loosened the door, admitting him to the hallway leading to his aprtment on the third floor of No. 99 Waverly Place. "Somebody must have--no, here it is. Hello, Moses, is that you? I was just going to put my knee against it and..." The old negro janitor bowed low. "I wouldn't do dat, sir; 'spec' yo' hand is a little unstiddy. You young gemmen gets dat way sometimes.    (#0000858)