Tales of East and West

Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. Good/Good. Garden City: The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. First Edition, stated. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [vi],345pp. Ex- American Lending Library with stamp on front pastedown and one date stamp on rear free endpaper. Jacket backed in brown paper and affixed to rear pastedown, with abrasions to front pastedown and front flap verso. Jacket otherwise shows shallow chips along bottom edge with some loss to text, some general scuffing, smudging, and toning, and some stray marks down spine. Boards are square with rubbing at corners and spine ends and a small chip to cloth at top front corner. Front free endpaper torn out along gutter. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Good copy at best.