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New York: The John Day Company, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. 182pp; No DJ, black cloth boards with titling to front & spine, illustration panel to front, top edge tinted red, boards slightly rubbed with tiny stain to front illustration panel, minor staining to rear board, slight wear to spine ends & corners of boards, illustrated endpapers,… Read more about this item

Book has top coloured edge somewhat faded; front edge rough cut; bottom edge discoloured; my attractive bookplate. Red, blue, white and black pictorial cloth; decorated end papers. Cartoons in text by F Bret-Koch. Covered in PVC plastic. Humourous inscription signed by author to J H Dunn-Yarker, who was a clergyman with no business inside such dumps. CHARLES SHAW was the… Read more about this item

New York: John Day, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by Raymond Bret-Koch. Corner of front fly clipped, a little wear on the boards, else very good or better in decorated cloth, lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. A wonderfully kooky guide to the Big Apple. Exceptionally scarce.

New York: John Day, 1931. Hardcover. Fine/Good. First edition. Illustrated by Raymond Bret-Koch. About fine in good plus dustwrapper with modest chips and tanning on the spine. A wonderfully kooky guide to the Big Apple. Exceptionally scarce, especially in jacket.

New York: The John Day Company, 1931. Some light rubbings to boards, corners bumped, spine edges lightly rubbed, spine ends chipped, page edges tanned, front hinge and some gutters cracked so slightly shaken, pages clean and bright.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Bret-koch, Raymond. 8vo.