Published by CaldwellThe Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1940
Seller: Betterbks/ COSMOPOLITAN BOOK SHOP, Burbank, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Octavo. B&W illustrations. Condition: all that remains of the dust jacket is the front panel and the front inner flap which is detached from the front panel; old bookseller's label on 1st free endpaper; otherwise, the book is in very good condition. 152 pages.
Hardcover. 152p., illustrated pastedown endpapers, frontispiece, rubricated title page, foreword, 4 illustrations, untrimmed and unopened pages, very good first edition in bleached denim cloth boards with red titles, lightly-edgeworn and price-clipped dj. Humorous tale of a character living in Greenwich Village who harbors an unreasoning overpowering terror of the fairer sex. Powys compares him to Pangloss, Falstaff, Uncle Toby et al.