THE MAN CALLED EIGHTY-EIGHTY
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1930. First Edition. Grim underworld novel centered around 20 year-old Harry Pyler, a bank robber and embezzeler convicted and sentenced to hard labor. Upon escaping from prison, he refuses to reform his old ways, joins up with a gang of bank robbers, and hopes to pull off one last big score before going straight. Things end poorly, and Pyler ends up sentenced to 20 years, his girlfriend heartbroken and singing sad songs in nightclubs. OCLC notes 7 holdings. Hubin, p.200. Item #5234
First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); tan cloth, with titles stamped in dark brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [xii],302,[2]pp. Light wear to spine ends, with faint offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), lighlty edgeworn, with shallow loss at crown, several tiny nicks and tears, a tiny rubber-stamped number at upper front flap, and eight old tape-mends on verso; Very Good.
Price: $300.00