ON THE MAKE

by John Riordan

$100 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated Publishers, 1929 . Octavo, original orange cloth stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition. The author's first book. Fourteen stories, supposedly faithful to the Jazz Age ethos, though the voice is that of an Ivy League man trying to sound like a regular Joe. The short sentences have a choppy, distracting effect rather than the attention-getting punch of

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