[SOCIAL FICTION] [GREAT DEPRESSION] MACHAYE, Eric

My Uncle Ned. Illustrated by Harrison Gurnee

New York: Sears Publishing Company, 1932. First Edition. Small octavo (19cm). Illustrated paper-covered boards; dustjacket; 118pp; illus. Boards faded at outer margins, rubbed on edges; brief dusting to edges of text block; Very Good. In the scarce pictorial jacket, price-clipped and with small losses at spine ends; about Very Good.

Humorous mock-juvenile Depression novel (somewhat in the vein of Ring Lardner's The Young Immigrunts) in which an orphan is raised by his uncle, a professional grifter. Played for humor, but a gritty work.

Price: $75.00

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