Guys and Dolls, Damon Runyon. First Edition, New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931.
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Presented by Adam Blakeney, Rare Books Specialist at Peter Harrington Rare Books.
Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket. Housed in a custom black cloth solander box with printed paper label to spine and elaborate cloth onlay reproducing the jacket design to the front board. Extremities very slightly rubbed as usual, edges toned with a few faint spots, the cloth and lettering bright and fresh. An excellent copy in the rubbed, toned and slightly nicked dust jacket, chipped at joints and spine-ends to minor loss of lettering and with the joint between front panel and flap split from the bottom edge to about halfway.
First edition, first printing. Scarce in any condition, and extremely so thus: this is the only the second copy we have handled, and the first in the dust jacket, with just seven jacketed copies in auction records dating back to 1958.
