first edition Hardcover
1935 · New York
by Chamberlain, Peter
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Very Good+. 1935. 1st (U.S.) edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [decent copy, minor foxing around edges of endpapers, hinges a little tender but not cracked or split, paper spine label a bit rubbed but still completely readable, a few pages near end of book slightly scrunched at top corners]. Short stories by a British writer, in a somewhat hard-boiled vein, as the title suggests. As the New York Times critic observed, "in tone they are much more American than British. They have a vigor and directness, even an occasional brutality, which one rarely finds among the author's countrymen." The author subsequently turned out two novels, although this book was apparently his only American publication. . (Inventory #: 14136)