signed first edition Hardcover
1929 · New York
by Williams, Jesse Lynch
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good+. 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [solid, clean book, with minor wear at extremities]. INSCRIBED ("For / Stirling Baer / With kind regards"), SIGNED and DATED ("Mar. 19, 1929") by the author on the ffep. A novel about wild college youth, the final work of this now largely-forgotten Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist and novelist, who died just a few months after its publication. (His first book had also been college-themed, "Princeton Stories," published in 1895. His Pulitzer -- the first ever awarded in the Drama category -- was received for his 1918 play "Why Marry?") Signed by Author . (Inventory #: 19195)