Broken to the plow

New York: Harper & Bros, 1921. 315p., very good very early reprint (at least by August of 1921) in tan cloth boards. Personal inscription signed by the author and dated August 24, 1921, the year of publication. According to Zempel, 1920s books from Harper & Bros must state first edition. This does not. However, the date of the inscription makes it very early, likely a second. San Francisco novel, a serious piece of fiction concerning the city's underclass. The inscription is a curious one, reading "To Mary Isobel / in some trepidation and / craving her in[g]ulgence / from" [signed in full]. Sounds as if Mary Isobel provided material for the book, which Dobie has manipulated.