first edition Hardcover
1938 · New York
by Runyon, Damon
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. Near Fine. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of the original first edition jacket; see 2nd scanned image posted with this listing) [about as nice a copy as you could hope for, tight and clean with no shelfwear to speak of, one-time owner's discreet embossed stamp on front endpaper]. Runyon's sixth published book, like the five preceding it a collection of his short fiction. There are fourteen in this volume: "All Horse Players Die Broke"; "Lonely Heart"; "A Piece of Pie"; "Tight Shoes"; "Situation Wanted"; "Cemetery Bait"; "Baseball Hattie"; (truncated)