New York: Modern Age Books, 1938. First edition. Octavo. Printed wrappers w/ pictorial dustjacket; 152p; illus. A clean, tight copy in the uncommon pictorial jacket, lightly rubbed and worn but still quite presentable. Extensively illustrated with halftones, uncredited but clearly of WPA/FSA lineage. An explication and defense of federal work-relief..... More

New York: Ives Washburn, Inc., 1930. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Beige linen over boards, titles stamped in brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; charcoal top-stain; decorated endpapers; 295pp; fore- and bottom text block edges untrimmed. Gentle toning to cloth at margins, still a tight, Near Fine copy. In..... More

Toronto: William Briggs, 1904. First Edition. Small octavo (19.5cm.); publisher's green decorative cloth embossed in white and gilt, top edge gilt; 132pp.; photographic frontispiece. Light shelf wear, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper effaced, else Near Fine. Collection of seven short stories by the Canadian author, many involving the..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1920. Later Printing. Octavo. 19.5cm. Publisher's blue decorated paper covered boards. 205pp. Light wear and scuffing to corners and spine ends, small split to head of rear spine hinge, fading to spine with dulling of the titles; internally clean, with a lavish inscription by the..... More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1935. First Edition. A quintessential novel of the Great Depression, and a masterpiece of understated desperation, written by a West Virginia drifter who famously scribbled his story down on scrap paper scrounged on the streets, in boxcars, and in hobo jungles. The novel was highly..... More

St. Louis: Cosmos Publishing Co., 1903. First Edition. A lively, if slightly sophomoric, picaresque romance of two young men who hit the boxcars in pursuit of gold and adventure. Along the way they support themselves by begging and working odd jobs. Though of dubious authenticity -- one gets the impression..... More

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1930. First Edition. The author's seventh book. "At the height of his literary celebrity, Tully headed to Europe for the first time, paying a visit to his family's native Ireland and also making the rounds in Glasgow, London and Paris, leveraging his fame..... More

New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1931. First Edition. "The final installment in what Tully considered his five-volume autobiographical cycle (following Beggars of Life, Circus Parade, Shanty Irish and Shadows of Men), this book essentially picked up where Shanty Irish had left off, following the passage of young Jim from a Cincinnati..... More