Young and Healthy
by Clarke, Donald Henderson
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Good dj
- Seller
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Vanguard Press. Very Good in Good dj. (c.1931). First Edition. Hardcover. [spine turned, moderate wear to cloth at extremities, slight bump to top front corner, vintage bookseller's label (Paul Edler & Co., San Francisco) on rear pastedown; jacket heavily edgeworn, various tiny chips and tears, wrinkling/creasing with minor paper loss at top of spine, soiling along edge of front flap]. Scrappy and moderately racy romance, of the sort that Clarke specialized in; this one is about a college student whose "only books are women's looks," but who decides to rough it for a time as a sea-going lumberman, before becoming a New York newpaper reporter (shades of the author himself). Cheap reprints of Clarke's many novels from this era ("Millie"; "Tawny"; "Confidential"; "Female"; "Alabam'"; "Impatient Virgin"; etc. etc.) are easy to find, but jacketed copies of the original editions (mostly published by Vanguard) are fairly uncommon. (The rear jacket panel has miniature black-and-white reproductions of the dust jackets on seven contemporary Vanguard Press novels, mostly of an equally trashy nature: "Bodies Are Dust," "Women Must Love," etc.) .
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Details
- Bookseller
- ReadInk (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19489
- Title
- Young and Healthy
- Author
- Clarke, Donald Henderson
- Illustrator
- (dj) Vincentini
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Good dj
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (c.1931)
- Keywords
- Romance, Thirties, Newspaper Reporters
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