Best Seller by YOUMANS, N. O. [Allen Clark Marple] - 1930: The Story of a Young Man Who Came to New York to Write a Novel About a Young Man Who Came To New York to Write a Novel

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Very Good/Very Good-. 12mo. Pp. 314. Blue publisher's cloth, titles stamped in gilt on the cover and spine, blind stamped panel on the cover: top edge dust soiled, mild offsetting to endpapers, and erasure scuffs to front endpaper. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket, price clipped and with edge-wear. From the jacket flap: "A ribald picture of the endless making of modern books, a galuptious harlequinade cast in the publishing world of New York." The superb art-deco dust jacket art, uncredited, features a row of robotic gray flannel suits moving through a Gotham bursting with skyscrapers. Dust jacket preserved in a removable, clear archival sleeve.