Caged

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderately worn copy, dust-soiling to top edge, slight fraying to cloth at top of spine, spine lettering dulled, old label on front pastedown, along with one-time owner's signature and date (April 1930, the publication month)]. Novel about an ex-con who joins the circus in order to escape the entrapments of the criminal/gang life in the city. The author had two fields of deep knowledge -- crime and the circus -- and this draws on them both. .