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All Giants Wear Yellow Breeches: A Chronicle of Boyhood by [SOCIAL FICTION] [HOBOES] PATTERSON, Vernon - [1935]

by [SOCIAL FICTION] [HOBOES] PATTERSON, Vernon

All Giants Wear Yellow Breeches: A Chronicle of Boyhood by [SOCIAL FICTION] [HOBOES] PATTERSON, Vernon - [1935]

All Giants Wear Yellow Breeches: A Chronicle of Boyhood

by [SOCIAL FICTION] [HOBOES] PATTERSON, Vernon

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New York: William R. Scott, [1935]. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical novel of a midwestern childhood. In the jacket bio, the author describes himself as a "a common hobo...I slept in depots and doorways, worked occasionally as farm hand, hotel night watchman, well digger, nurseryman; I associated with stiffs and panhandlers, rode the rattlers, and picked up betimes a good deal of miscellaneous information, including how to make genuine Mulligan stew..." Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth, printed paper spine label, yellow decorative dust jacket printed in red; [2],376pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, including a few very short closed tears and minor dust-soil, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
  • Bookseller Lorne Bair Rare Books US (US)
  • Format/Binding Hardcover
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Edition First Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Publisher William R. Scott
  • Place of Publication New York
  • Date Published [1935]