ONE WAY TO STOP A PANIC

by Irvin Cobb

$65 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: The Laugh Club, 1933. Octavo, original orange cloth. First edition. One of the author's lesser-known collections. Cobb looked like a Hollywood character actor and, indeed, after a successful career writing humorous short stories, he took to acting. Like some other humorists such as W. W. Jacobs, he turned out a horror story now and then, the most famous being Fishhead, which was singled out for high praise by H.

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