Prosperity Street

New York: Minton, Balch & Company, 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; purple cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; purple topstain; dustjacket; 308pp. Contemporary owners name to front pastedown, spine gilt slightly oxidized, with a 3.5" split to lower rear hinge; Very Good+. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), spine-sunned, with some small chips to extremities and a few long tears; Very Good. Depression-era novel detailing the rise of Frank Peyton, a poor Englishman who begins his career in the office of a run-down newspaper and whose path eventually leads him to the Prime Ministry. Uncommon in jacket.