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Sampson Low, London no date (prob 1930s), hb, no dw, 8vo, 246pp, illus, stamp of British Army unit library, red cloth with some damp stains, good plus. Picaresque memoir of a Scots-Irish emigrant in America of the bootleggers, and in the South Seas. Hardcover.

London: Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd.. Hardcover. Good. Sampson Low, Marston and Co., Ltd., London. Undated but c1930. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Red cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Binding tight. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed. Spine and edges sunned, water marks to spine. Moderate scuffing and marks to boards. Endpapers marked. Some foxing to endpapers and occasional scattered foxing to text. Not ex-library. No notes or inscriptions. 246 pages. All books are individually described.

Sampson Low, Marston & Co Ltd, 1937. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 8vo. 246pp. Red boards with black lettering to spine. A fresh and clean copy with clean boards. Internally complete with neat ink inscription to front endpaper. A lovely copy. .

Sampson Low, Marston. FREE U.K. Shipping. FAMILY Business. FIRST Class Service. Full refund if not totally satisfied. Undated Hardback edition, no dust jacket. Ex library with usual markings. . Fair. Hardcover. 1st Edition.

London: Sampson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd., [1937]. Tall 8vo. ix, [1], 246 pp. Photo frontisp., 5 photo plates. Red cloth, black lettering on spine (minor shelfwear, minor bumping to couple corners), w/ d.j. cover art of mobsters shooting on front cover, boxing on spine (very minor edgewear, minor chipping head of spine, 1 corner, slight sunning to spine, very small tear lower fore-edge front cover), VG/VG- copy, w/ former ownership markings on ffep. carefully removed. First edition of this scarce Sampson Low adventure about the experiences of an Scot-Irish man who emigrates to Canada, becomes a tramp on the rails, a bootlegger running liquor into New York, a gangster, a card sharp on the Pacific and Atlantic steamship lines, shanghaied in Tahiti to Australia, and finally finds himself in the middle of the Spanish Civil War. The photo illustrations include those of New York City motorcycle policemen, U.S. Air Prohibition Officers in front of their plane, and more. Exceedingly scarce in original dustjacket.