Ruggles Of Red Gap

Wilson, Harry Leon

Published by Grosset & Dunlap, 1915

About this Item

371 pages: 5.5 x 8 in.: KB#017336: Bookjacket / dustjacket now protected by Mylar Cover, has some very small edge cuts, and is complete. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked, bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. "A humorous adventure about a British valet out of his element in a small Western town in the USA. Ruggles becomes the servant of an American couple after his employer uses him as a stake in a poker game. He travels to the West and is mistakenly identified as a wealthy Brit. He becomes a small town celebrity with many humorous twists in the plot. Ruggles of Red Gap was initially serialized beginning December 26, 1914 in The Saturday Evening Post and became a best selling novel in 1915, adapted for the Broadway stage as a musical the same year and made into a film several times, most famously in 1935 starring Charles Laughton.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Ruggles Of Red Gap
• Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
• Publication Date: 1915
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Dust Jacket