Scandal Sheets: A Novel Based on the Life of Pietro Aretino, The First Yellow Journalist

New York: G. Howard Watt. Very Good in Good dj. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. (price-clipped) [a bit of browning/soiling to edges of covers, spine cloth slightly darkened, remant of old price sticker on rear pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, spine browned/discolored, a little paper loss at spine ends (taking away "Scandal" at top of spine, both flap fold-overs internally tape-repaired]. (B&W frontispiece portrait drawing) "Between the covers of this fictionalized history of Pietro Aretino is portrayed the life of the first yellow journalist, the first press-agent, and the knotty problems he met, no so far different, indeed, from those of today. Here is the life of the Renaissance, raw and lusty, spread before one, Pope and peasant, Cardinal and courtier, dreamer, artist, blackmailer, courtesan, the Medici and Titian." .