Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 284

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
WOOLRICH, CORNELL. Children of the Ritz. 8vo, original navy cloth, very light rubbing to spine foot, boards clean and unmarked; top edges stained blue-green; pictorial dust jacket, corners clipped retaining price, small chip and creasing to spine panel head, few short closed tears, moderately rubbed with some color bleed from cover image onto verso. New York, 1927

Additional Details

first edition of woolrich's second novel. Barely in his twenties when he wrote this jazz-age romance, it was the basis for the film of the same name released two years later, the first of many Woolrich adaptations.