WILD ONION
by Carroll, Loren
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Stephenson, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1930. First Edition. Carroll's only crime novel, centered around protagonist Joe Dulac, "Chicago beer baron and king of bootleggers, from the days of terrified apprenticeship, through a career of violence and murder, to wealth and power and the inevitable finale...But this is not merely another "gang" book. It is a shrewd and masterly portrait of a type which has too often escaped the literary camera. The author gives us the inside dope on the mental make-up of the master urban bootlegger and as a background has provided a panoramic view of the Volstead area - Chicago, with its noisy turbulence, its ubiquitous machine gun, its rococo gangster funerals, its purple boudoirs, its grimy jails - a picture that reveals in swift, bold strokes the origins of a catastrophic disorder" (from front flap). A reprint was issued by Grosset & Dunlap, but the first is uncommon, especially in dustjacket. OCLC notes 11 holdings. Hubin, p.67. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black on spine and front cover; green topstain; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; [viii],312pp. Upper corners gently tapped (though still sharp), else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. In the pictorial dustjacket designed by Arthur Hawkins, Jr.; $2.00 price vertically rubber-stamped at lower margin of front flap, some trivial wear to extremities, with some corresponding mild wear to upper corners; a bright, Near Fine example.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Captain Ahab's Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5005
- Title
- WILD ONION
- Author
- Carroll, Loren
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dodd, Mead and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1930
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Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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About Captain Ahab's Rare Books
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- Reprint
- Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
- Fine
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- First Edition
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- Cloth
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....