first edition Hardcover
1930 · New York
by Nückel, Otto
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Incorporated, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good +. Square octavo [20 cm] Red cloth with black printed titles on front board and backstrip. The extremities are a bit darkened and rubbed and the backstrip is gently sunned. The front free endsheet is detached but present. Nückel's classic story is told entirely through a collection of striking images.
From the publisher- "This pitiless story of a girl of the lower classes is curt, bare and powerful. The baseness of the underworld milieu is drawn with unsparing line; but the tale is lifted out of the merely lurid by the honesty of the artist's feelings, (truncated)
From the publisher- "This pitiless story of a girl of the lower classes is curt, bare and powerful. The baseness of the underworld milieu is drawn with unsparing line; but the tale is lifted out of the merely lurid by the honesty of the artist's feelings, (truncated)