Erik Dorn

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1921. Very Good/Very Good. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, The Knickerbocker Press, 1921. First Edition in first state binding with yellow lettering. Octavo. 409pp. + advertisements. Printed dust jacket. Purple cloth boards stamped in yellow. Dust jacket professionally repaired with mending along spine and folds with colored fill-ins along edges, most noticeably to previously-chipped spine ends. Light edgewear to boards; spine sunned. Rear board shaky but overall binding holding; pages unmarked. A Very Good copy of Hecht's first novel, with review by H.L. Mencken to rear dust jacket panel remarking, "It has upon me the effect of a gaudy and fantastic panorama, in which the movement is almost acrobatic and the color is that of a Kaleidoscope.