The Rio Grande Press, Inc, 1970. Hardcover. Acceptable. Hardcover. Reprinted 1970. No dust jacket, as printed. Blue metallic-ish boards, with red board and silver titling and author name. Corner tips are square. Significant shelf-wear and fading to bottom of spine. Small stain at lower corner tip of front board, and a couple of small spots. Creases to paper board covering along the front and back joints. Some soiling and scuffing to spine. Large ding at bottom of spine strip on rear board. Small stains to upper edge and outside edges of text block that don't really appear to look like foxing stains, but could be. Former owner name, and small bookstore sticker on front pastedown. Xeroxed copy of old newspaper article is laid in and affixed to half title page, probably by the publisher as it seems to be inside of other copies. The author, Kyle Crichton (1896-1960) was a noted fiction writer, playwright, and leftistpolitical columnist and commentator whose career flourished from the late1920s through the 1940s. He was an editor at Collier's, and a columnist for The New Masses, a Communist weekly. 219 pages.

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Bookseller: Quirky Used Books & More (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 230407005
Title: Law and Order, Ltd.: The Life of Elfego Baca
Author: Crichton, Kyle S
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Acceptable
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: The Rio Grande Press, Inc
Date Published: 1970
Weight: 1.63 lbs

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