ULLIN, Robert

Besides, the Wench Is Dead

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in cream pictorial dust jacket printed in black, gilt, and red, red topstain; [10],302pp. Some relatively discrete old tape repair to spine crown and top of upper jacket flap fold, additional repairs to verso not visible to exterior; Fine in About Very Good, attractively illustrated dust jacket.

Depression-era novel set during the Roaring Twenties in a Pittsburgh boarding house. "The brilliant and mordant drama of a woman of the backstreet in the days of the great boom" (upper jacket panel). Surprisingly uncommon, with only 13 copies located in OCLC as of April, 2015. HANNA 3591.

Price: $75.00

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