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STOUT, REX.
Forest Fire.
8vo,
original red cloth lettered in black, tiny bit
of discoloration to spine head, top edges
stained blue; printed dust jacket, spine
panel slightly faded (else colors uncom-
monly bright and vivid) with very light
chipping to tips and small abrasion touch-
ing two letters in “Farrar,” partially price
clipped, few small corner nicks; internally
clean. NewYork: Farrar & Rinehart, 1933
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION
of Stout’s fourth book. “As a
stylist, Stout had only one limitation: he could
not write a bad sentence” (Steinbrunner/Penzler,
p. 377).
FIRST BOOK
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STOUT, REX.
How Like A
God.
8vo, purple cloth stamped in gold,
spine tips and outer portions of covers
faded, top edges stained blue; original
pictorial dust jacket with a design by
Winifred E. Lefferts, moderate age-toning,
shallow chips to head of spine panel and
upper edge of front panel, folds slightly
rubbed.
FIRST EDITION OF STOUT
’
S FIRST
BOOK
. Scarce in dust jacket; this copy a
true first and not one of the more frequently
seen “Discussion Copies.” Lefferts’ evocative
jacket designs adorn several other Stout
titles; see also lots 245, and 247-249.
NewYork:TheVanguard Press, 1929
[2,000/3,000]
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