Valiant is the Word for Carrie

New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1935. Very Good +/Very Good +. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1935. First Edition. Octavo (19.7cm); typographic dust jacket with $2.00 price intact; boards in black cloth with gilt lettering; black topstain and pale blue endpapers; 292pp. Jacket shows a couple brief tears at folds and toning to spine. Boards lightly shelfworn with a couple stray scuffs to cloth and nudging at spine ends; spine lettering rubbing away at tail. Binding sound and pages unmarked; Very Good or better.

Carrie Snyder, a sex worker in a Louisiana steamboat town, takes a pair of youths, Paul and Lady, under her wing and acts as their "make-believe Mother," eventually moving to New York and accomplishing, and suffering, more than they ever thought possible. Basis for the Oscar-nominated 1936 film of the same name.