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Diversey [FIRST EDITION INSCRIBED TO KANTOR'S PUBLISHER]
New York: Coward-McCann, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in black; dust jacket (unclipped). Author's first book. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "For Edwin Baird - This sketchy barrage of the bang-bang Chicago which we both know. / Affectionately MacKinlay Kantor / August 9, 1918." (Presumably, Kantor intended to date this "1928"). Baird was the publisher of the Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories pulp magazine, which published Kantor's previous stories.
Book fine, dust jacket torn and chipped.
Provenance: Edwin Baird (presentation inscription and his bookplate inside front cover). From the library of noted book collector William A. Strutz. Fine / good. Item #7266
Price: $200.00