Uriel for President

Boston: Hale, Cushman & Flint. Near Fine in Good dj. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. [solid clean copy, light shelfwear only, very slight bumping to spine ends; the jacket is worn at edges and corners, with a handful of tiny edge tears, small chips at the spine ends, and a rectangular piece missing from the upper right corner of the front panel]. Illustrated fantasy telling "the true story of the Archangel Uriel and his visit to the land of the free," where he gets mixed up with gangsters, finds himself falsely accused of kidnapping, is acquitted at trial, becomes a movie star and ultimately a candidate for President of the United States. The section dealing with his cinema career is particularly amusing (and might even qualify this as a tangential "Hollywood novel"). Bergmann (1898-1977) was a Viennese-born artist who came to the U.S. in the 1920s, and spent most of his life in the San Francisco Bay area. As far as I can determine, this was one of only two books that he illustrated (the other being "This Way to the Circus," published the same year). Uncommon in jacket. [Note that the "M. Peake" who is credited with writing the textual accompanying Bergmann's often grotesque drawings is NOT the well-known sci-fi/fantasy author Mervyn Peake. In case you were wondering.] .