first edition Hardcover
1932 · Boston
by McCall, Mary C., Jr.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company. Very Good in Good dj. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. [book is modestly shelfworn, top edge of text block is dust-soiled; jacket is worn, darkened at spine, lightly stained on both front and rear panels, small chip at top of front panel]. Novel by a noted screenwriter, about a young man who inadvertently becomes a national hero and subsequently finds himself living "in a goldfish bowl, with ten million newspaper readers peering in through the glass sides. Parades and ticker tape and tabloids, radio speeches, keys to the city, mayors, admirals, and Rotary clubs make Scotty's life a waking nightmare." This was (truncated)