New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930.
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Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a very good or better example of the second issue dustwrapper (with the boated plutocrat on the front panel) with a very small chip on the front panel, a couple of tears, and a faint horizontal line from an old jacket protector, but still a much nicer than usual copy of Cain's first book, a collection of "dialogues" or short pieces on politics and government that Cain wrote as reportage for various newspapers, and that display the concise but gritty style that eventually made it into his fiction. Despite some benign neglect of this particular title by collectors because it leans towards non-fiction, nice copies have become exceptionally uncommon.
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