It Ain't Hay by Dodge, David - 1949 first edition

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. First Edition. . Cloth. Very Good -/Very Good -. Lawrence Hoffman. This Book Has It All, literally. Drugs, mystery, mudrer, marijuana and meyham. Dodge, who's earlier books, Bullets for the Bridegroom and Death and Taxes, are filled with drinking, murder and womanizing, evidently bought the whole deal on Marijuana. Killer Weed is the core crime and the personality destroyer in this one. Whit Whitney is on a crusade to punish the dope fiends. The books condition is also World Class. It has it all ! Water damage , cracked hinges, ex library, musty, removed book plate, cocked, .( might as well be Drawn and Quartered, too). DUST JACKET with 1/4" chips at head and tail, creasing on edges, light celotape marks. With all this .can there be more? Yes, a 90% discount (total price $20) to some worthy collector for reading this description and. after all.it is a first edition in an unclipped DUST JACKET and .it's alright to have a little fun with your books !!… Read More

Dell, 1946. Book. Poor. Soft cover. 2nd Ed.. First paperback ed. Poor condition, water damage throughout, pages stained and wavy, text legible. Dell #270/.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. Whit Whitney brushes off a crook seeking help, and takes a beating for it. A tale of revenge. Gently bumped, binding square and solid, pages well tanned. H. Lawrence Hoffman jacket shows light wear at the edges, lower corner of the rear flap clipped, upper corner creased. Price intact, in Brodart.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1946. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing. Spine slant, otherwise a G/VG copy in a VG+ dust jacket with the price intact on the front flap. Scarce. .

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. First edition. A near fine copy showing some residue of label or bookplate removal on page preceding title page. Some mild shelfwear, minor loss to spine ends, light rubbing at folds else an about near fine dust jacket. (7944). Octavo, cloth. Author's fourth book. Series character tax consultant Whit Whitney. Hard boiled. Early mystery involving marijuana.

Very Good.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946., 1946. First edition. First edition. Page edges uniformly browned, else fine in dust jacket with light professional restoration to spine ends. Whit Whitney, C.P.A., was visited in his office by a local crook who wanted Whit to tell him how to avoid paying taxes on a huge income derived from a non-existent business. Whit ordered him out of the office, but the crook didn't forget Whit and sent his thugs to work him over. Whit now had a confirmed enemy and he wanted revenge for what the crook's thugs had done to him.