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.