The Big Pink

E-006: Farrar & Rinehart. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1932. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Farrar & Rinehart. , New York. , 1932. 290 pgs. Signed and inscribed by Hugh MacNair Kahler on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in green cloth with black titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Doctor Beekman Winship is a college professor with an image challenge; he looked like a prize fighter. He took a summer job as a tutor to "an unscholarly young man". He and his "unstaid young lady" got into trouble with the police. Light-hearted comedy, with genial satire, and moments of "moonlight and honeysuckle". Hugh MacNair Kahler was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 25 February 1883. He was the son of Frederick A. And Margaret Torbert (MacNair) Kahler. In 1904 he graduated from Princeton University. Kahler married Louise Kingsley on 15 October 1907; together they had one daughter, Kingsley. Kahler wrote The Collector's Whatnot: A Compendium, Manual, and Syllabus of Information and Advice on All Subjects Appertaining to the Collection of Antiques, Both Ancient and Not So Ancient (1923) both under a pseudonym (Murgatroyd Elphinstone) and in collaboration with Booth Tarkington and Kenneth Lewis Roberts, who also used assumed names (Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot and Milton Kilgallen, respectively). Other published works by Kahler include the novels MacIvor's Folly (1925) , Father Means Well (1930) , Big Pink (1932) , and Bright Danger (1941) , as well as the short story collections Babel (1921) , The East Wind and Other Stories (1923) , and Hills Were Higher Then (1931). Two of Kahler's short stories became motion pictures: The Six Best Cellars (1920) and Fools First (1922). E-006; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 290 pages .