The Other Half: The Autobiography of a Tramp

New York: Lee Furman, Inc, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good +. 307pp. Octavo [21cm]. Orange cloth over boards. Title and subtle ornamentation stamped in brown and red ink on spine. Publisher's orange topstain, which is a bit faded. Spine mildly rolled. Spot of soiling at foot of textblock. Dust jacket is price clipped, and the spine is sun toned. Wear to the edges, with a few scattered losses. At the age of twenty-five, John Worby had spent nearly a decade "hopping freights, thumbing on highways, mooching, living in hobo jungles [and] meeting all types of people, both men and women, in and out of vagabondia" in England, Canada and the United States.