The Yogi of Cockroach Court [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]

  • New York: Rinehart, 1947
By WATERS, Frank
New York: Rinehart, 1947. First Edition. First Printing. Signed Bookplate loosely laid-in. Octavo (21cm); red cloth titled in gilt on the spine; yellow topstain; dustjacket; 277pp.; spine ends and corners are gently pushed; offsetting inside covers from dustjacket; faint foxing to the textblock, about Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.75) with chipping/ short tears/rubbing to the extremities, Very Good.

"There's a small border town, squalid but in a strange way glamorous, where Mexicans, Indians, chinese, whites- all conglomerate crossbreeds- live out their fantastic live. From it emerge Barby, a wild, tough half-breed boy, and Guadalupe, fiery, exotic, part-Indian girl..." (from the dustjacket).

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