Fugitive

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1935. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20cm); red cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; faded gray topstain; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; [10],11-295,[9]pp. A Very Good copy with sunning to cloth spine and light foxing to endpapers and pastedowns in a fresh, bright dustwrapper, suggesting it was supplied at some point in the book's history. Dustwrapper, with illustration by Paul Laune, unclipped (priced $2.00) with light wear to edges; Near Fine.

Chicago novel, depicting events of the Stock Market crash including a businesswoman's attempted suicide. Missed by Hanna. The author was the wife of naturalist and author Donald Culross Peattie. Uncommon in dustjacket. [83687]. (Inventory #: 83687)