Frankie and Johnnie: A Love Story

  • New York: John Day Company, 1930
By Meyer Levin
New York: John Day Company, 1930. Very Good -. New York: John Day Company, 1930. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's orange gilt-embossed cloth, spine lettered in black; [4],212pp. Corners bumped, spine a bit cocked and cloth faded, hairline crack along front hinge, textblock toned; overall a Near Very Good, rather unlovely copy.

The author's second novel, a bildungsroman-cum-romance set in Chicago deemed by one contemporary reviewer as a "bleak and uncomfortably fleshy tale" [cf. "Contemporary Jewish-American Novelists" (1997), p. 182].

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