Blue Plate Special
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. Very Good. Item #30903
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. First Edition. Octavo (20 cm); xiv, 321pp. No dust jacket. Boards full bound in robin's egg blue cloth with gilt stamping. Fore edge deckled. Boards generally scuffed, rubbed, scratched, and soiled with larger marks to front cover and discoloration to spine. Corners and spine ends worn with binding cocked so that pages sit a bit proud. Minor damp staining and off-setting to gutter of both endsheets with brief pencil and rubber stamp to back endsheets. Pages toned throughout, otherwise clean. A Very Good copy of Runyon's second collection of short stories.
Price: $90.00