first edition Hardcover
1935 · New York
by Vogel, Joseph
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good. 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . (no dust jacket) [moderate wear and slight fraying at most corners, tiny rips in cloth at base of spine, still a sound, clean copy]. Uncommon novel, the first of three by this Depression-era author, who might be completely forgotten today if it hadn't been for the reprinting of his second book, "Man's Courage" (1938), in the 1980s. Although cited somewhat dismissively by Rideout as a "novel of middle-class decay," it's more interesting than that implies. The titlular establishment, although its name carries the whiff of a brothel, is actually a rooming-house on New (truncated)