BEEF, IRON AND WINE

by Jack Lait, Jaquin L. Lait

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. Octavo, original brown cloth stamped in gold and blind. First edition. Spicy slice-of-life fiction from this Chicago journalist who published four gangster novels in the early 1930s, two featuring Polack Annie. He became best known for a series of seamy thrillers he wrote with Lee Mortimer, NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL 1948 , CHICAGO CONFIDENTIAL 1950 , WASHINGTON CONFIDENTIAL

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