BEDFORD FORREST AND HIS CRITTER COMPANY

New York: Minton, Balch & Co., 1931. Black cloth, pictorial labels. Portrait. Minuscule, almost imperceptible tidemark in extreme upper forecorner of five prelims, otherwise very good to near fine in lightly worn, very good dust jacket with light discoloration in top forecorner of the front panel. First edition, first issue, of the author's first book, in the most often seen form of the binding. Signed by Lytle on the half- title. When Putnam took over the backstock of Minton, Balch & Company, some sets of sheets of this title were trimmed and newly bound up in an appropriate binding, with a cancel title. This first issue is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a "large-paper" issue. (Inventory #: WRCLIT78251)