Playing the Field: Autobiography of an All American Racketeer

by SPIKE, Diamond (pseudonym of Robert Ernest Shelley)

$150 · Offered by Between the Covers

Sacramento: News Publishing Company, 1948. Hardcover. Second edition. 8vo. 168pp. Brown leather-grained cloth gilt; Light edgewear on the boards, very near fine, assume issued without dustwrapper. Inscribed by Spike on the half-title: "To Foz[?] Baker, Sincerely yours, Diamond Spike." Poetry of the criminal underworld, includes a relatively extensive glossary of..... More

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