The Age of Youth

New York: Sears Publishing Company, Inc, 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. First edition. Jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from spine head, light 1 inch stain along jacket spine, jacket lightly soiled, jacket flap corners trimmed - $2.00 list price still present. 1930 Hard Cover. 299 pp. "You start in this fast moving, ultra-modern romance with a rich bachelor of early middle age and of settled character. To him, through the mail, comes a letter from the gold-digger district of New York saying that the writer is a young woman who will, if he advances to her $25,000.00, guarantee to marry a millionaire and become an established member of society within two years. He tears up the letter with a weary smile, but the nerve of the girl intrigues him and almost against his will, he calls upon her at her one room apartment in a west side hotel. She proves to be a decent and respectable young woman, apparently well born, with great beauty and charm, but she is so clear, so definite, so cold-blooded in her plan that it appeals to his sporting instinct to treat the matter like a bet on a race course. He turns over the money to her with the distinct understanding that she is in now way to give him any quid pro quo - and then you are started on a most amusing story, the outcome of which is too good to tell. Suffice it to say that the girl makes good in the two years by methods open to anyone without either any great stroke of luck or any improbable action. And the quid pro quo - well - !