Thieves Like Us

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. Very Good. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1937. First Edition. Octavo (21.4 cm), [vi], 314pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in tan cloth with black stamping on the front and spine. Fore-edge and bottom edge deckled. Boards soiled; Bumped on all margins, corners, and spine ends. Binding cocked. Bookseller sticker from John G. Kidd & Son, Inc., Cincinnati on the back pasted endsheet. Gutter starting after copyright. Pages all lightly toned but clean. A Very Good copy.

A novel of three bank robbers during the Great Depression, made into the noir film They Live by Night in 1948.