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New York: Farrar & Rinehart. Good. (c.1935). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a good solid copy, but with considerable external spotting, mostly to spine and front cover; internally clean and well-bound, but still best to consider this a reading copy only]. Novel about four college classmates (Yale, Class of 1928) who get together in 1934 to swap tales of their trials and tribulations in the intervening early Depression years. The New York Times critic was quite disdainful of the whole enterprise: "No argot is so flavorless, unimaginative, spurious, artificial and witless as the jargon of the campus. Mr. Ingham revels in it ad nauseam. If we take his word for it, Yale undergraduates, and particularly the class of '28, and especially [the novel's main characters] are youthful infantiles whose vainglorious deeds, puppy itches, childish mentalities and baby emotions can scarcely be taken seriously except as phenomena." (Sounds to me like sour grapes from… Read More

New York:: Farrar & Rinehart,, [1935].. First edition.. publisher's blue cloth in dust jacket.. Minor use to extremities; tight and sound in a jacket with a sunned spine and several small chips.. 8vo,. Los Angeles literary agent H. N. Swanson's copy, with contemporary newspaper clippings related to this book clipped to front free endpaper (causing offset stains).