The Prospect Before Us

Cleveland/New York: The World Publishing Company. Near Fine in Very Good- dj. (c.1954). First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [minor shelfwear only to book; the jacket is worn at the corners, with a number of tiny nicks along the top and bottom edges, creasing in the lower section of the rear panel, a small sticker-removal scar on the front panel, some fading along the spine, and a number of old internal tape-reinforcements at the fold points]. The author's second novel, set in Cleveland, is "the story of Harry Bowers, a powerful and a good man, owner of the Green Glade Hotel, and King of Prospect Avenue -- a street of honkytonks and small shots, of vicious dreamers and men desperate for the security of a dollar." .