Between the Covers

Hardcover. First edition. Profusely illustrated by John T. McCutcheon and others. Pencil name, fine in a lovely, near fine illustrated dustwrapper with tiny nicks and tears, and a small, faint stain on the rear panel. One of the author's volumes of snappy fables, revolving around the war between the sexes. Once phenomenally popular, Ade's fables coincided with the turn-of-the-century urbanization of America and captured perfectly the street-wise persona and vernacular of the era. Unquestionably rare in jacket. *Russo* pp. 42-44. Smith, *American Fiction 1901-1925,* A-89. Merle Johnson, *American First Editions,* p.6.

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