The Era Of Wonderful Nonsense

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 290pp. Illustrations. Very good/very good. Both endpapers lightly age toned and a tad foxed, else internally tight and near fine; jacket slightly edgeworn. A tight, handsome first edition of this survey of the 1920s "most sensational events... its heroes and its villains...." Uncommon,… Read more about this item

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1939. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Photographs. An engaging, well-written history covering all the famous events of the Twenties, particularly Prohibition and the Gang Wars. Book is fine and unmarked; jacket has minor rubbing and nicking to the spine tips, and is otherwise whole, bright and clean, and protected by Mylar. Attractive copy.