A Cool Million. The Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin.

New York: Covici-Friede, 1934.

Price: $2,000.00


About the item

First Edition. 229pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original tan cloth, dust jacket with significant losses. Panels of another copy of the dust jacket mounted on the endpapers, bookplate removed. White #4.

Item #329402

A Voltairean satire by one of the most acid observers of the American dream, this a Horatio Alger story if Alger had read Kafka or Melville's later works. Scarce in dust jacket.