May 18, 2016 - Sale 2416

Sale 2416 - Lot 361

Price Realized: $ 312
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
STOUT, REX. Alphabet Hicks. 8vo, publisher's grey cloth stamped in red, corners bumped, spine head with minor rubbing; dust jacket, several tape repairs on verso, spine panel tips chipped with loss of one letter, folds rubbed, price-clipped; effaced ownership inscription on front flyleaf. (LMS). New York: Farrar & Rinehart, (1941)

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first edition. "[Stout's] only novel about the colorful title character. Formerly a brilliant graduate of Harvard Law School, he was disbarred in his first year of practice and became a shabby cabdriver" (Steinbrunner/ Penzler, p. 377).