by Jim Tully
Signed first edition in dust jacket
New York: Greenberg: Publisher, 1936. First edition. Signed by Jim Tully on front free endpaper, inscribed "To Arthur and Hazel This novel of bruisers and battles by their friend Jim Tully[,] Tall Timber North Hollywood California 1938." [vi], 248 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth lettered in black. Very Good with vertical crease to spine, light soiling, offsetting to endpapers, in a Good dust jacket with some chips, tears, and creases, a few pieces of archival mending tissue on verso, unclipped ($2.00)
Ex-hobo-turned-author Jim Tully was also an ex-boxer; this novel was inspired by his experiences in the ring.