Nov 21, 2013 - Sale 2332

Sale 2332 - Lot 244

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
FIRST BOOK STOUT, REX. How Like A God. 8vo, purple cloth stamped in gold, spine tips and outer portions of covers faded, top edges stained blue; original pictorial dust jacket with a design by Winifred E. Lefferts, moderate age-toning, shallow chips to head of spine panel and upper edge of front panel, folds slightly rubbed. first edition of stout's first book. Scarce in dust jacket; this copy a true first and not one of the more frequently seen "Discussion Copies." Lefferts' evocative jacket designs adorn several other Stout titles; see also lots 245, and 247-249. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929