Marrin's Bookshop

Synopsis

With eight illustrations from photographs. (a falcon crime book).

Item Description

FIRST EDITION. 8vo. [viii] + 286 pp. + [2] pp. publisher's advertisement. Bound in original black cloth, with red titles and green device on spine, in price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, which has edge chips and tears and wear to spine. Light wear to extremities and some foxing and darkening of edges; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 8 black and white photographic plates, including frontispiece. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. True crime stories of the 'Rum Runners,' who smuggled liquor by sea on the west coast of the Us and into Norway.