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New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; dark green cloth, blocked and titled in maroon and gilt on spine and front cover; 286pp. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips, gilt rubbed at base of spine, with some shelfwear and scuff marks to panels; small stains to margins on pages 9-15, a few terminal pages roughly opened; still a Very Good, sound copy. The author's first book, one of five F.Scott Fitzgerald-esque novels Woolrich would write before embarking on a career writing crime fiction.