first edition Hardcover
1900 · New York
by CULLEN, Clarence Louis
New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1900. Hardcover. Fine. First edition. 392pp. Contemporary gift inscription ("Boozer' from 'Artie' , on the golf links 1900") and a faint dampstain at the top of the first couple dozen pages else a fine copy in attractive pictorial binding. Fictional sketches of hard luck that originally appeared in the New York Sun, told by the Harlem Club of Former Alcoholic Degenerates. Though most books from this publisher are reprints, this is the first appearance in book form. Scarce, especially in this condition. (Inventory #: 37074)