Sardonics: Sixteen Sketches

Lyon, Harris Merton

Verlag: Metropolitan Syndicate, Inc, New York, 1908

Beschreibung

Hardcover. First edition. First issue with integral title leaf. Scarce copy of author s first book. Inscriptions on the front free endpaper: "Robert W. Jones, / Jan. 1. 1909" and just below it in a different hand: "Presented by the Author, / who did not sign his name herein--durn him." A collection of short stories that "deal with grim incidents of life in the big city. In one story a drunken hotel waiter beats his wife to death with a chair, in another an Italian pickle dealer stabs a saloon keeper who will not pay his twelve dollars, and yet another story tells how a cab driver took a drunken man into his cab and after driving to a secluded section stabbed him in a fight that followed an attempt to rob him. Each story is one incident, a crisis, told in a style both unusual and interesting. Lyon s style is clear, effective, and unaffected" (unidentified newspaper review, pasted in). Bound in the original green cloth titled in red on spine and front cover. A few chips to cloth at foot of spine, minor sunning to spine, small stain to spine, and light wear to corners, otherwise a bright, attractive copy. Clipping from newspaper review of the book pasted to the rear pastedown with offsetting to endpapers. 225 pages. LIT/30119. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 30119

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Sardonics: Sixteen Sketches

Verlag: Metropolitan Syndicate, Inc, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 1908

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1. Auflage