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Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1952. Small 8vo, 114pp. Very good hardback copy in like dust jacket.

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1952. Book. Near Fine. Quarter Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin, 1952. First edition. 8vo. Black quarter cloth with gilt lettering on spine over gold-colored cloth covered boards, 114 pp. This reads like the double-distilled essence of all Marquand novels for a simple reason: Marquand has been a protagonist in his own books. It's all here: his youth, his fifteen-dollar-a-week days as a reporter for the Boston Transcript, and life as a struggling writer while married to the niece of the august, gentile Atlantic Monthly and finally success as a novelist. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Spine lettering a little dull else near fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears, mostly at the spine ends.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 114pp. A few tiny spots to the top of the text block, else fine in very good or better dust jacket with interior tape reinforcement, two tiny holes to the front gutter and some light edgewear. The author's second novel.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. 1952. First Edition (?). Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. A few chips and tears to jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Boston: hHoughton Mifflin, 1952. First edition. Spine stamping dll, else about fine in a rubbed dust jacket with a one inch chip at the base of the spine and a longish tear at the front flap-fold.. 8vo, 114pp; cloth. The author's second book, an excellent association copy, inscribed by Hamburger to longtime New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell and his wife: "For Joe & Therese from their friend Phil Hamburger, Sept. 1952.