Ladies in the Parlor

by Jim Tully

$400 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1935. First edition. 245pp. Pinkish red cloth with navy lettering. Good+. No jacket. Spine sunned, a few stain spots to cloth. Bookplate on paste down. Hinges at front and rear a bit free. A nice copy. A novel about prostitution and poverty in the American midwest, written by the author of hobo-novel-par-excellence Beggars of Life. After a single printing the book was declared obscene.

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