The Duke Steps Out by Cary, Lucian - 1929

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good-. 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and wear, as do the spine joints. There is some generalized light rubbing to the book covers as well. The text pages are clean and bright. The rear endpaper has been glued to the rear pastedown page and the previous owner has inked the the book title, and her own name on the glued down page. "The Duke Comes Back is a 1933 novel by Lucian Cary which tells the story of a retired boxing champion lured out of retirement for one final bout. It served as the basis for two films, The Duke Comes Back in 1937 and Duke of Chicago in 1949." (from Wikipedia) .

NY: Doubleday, 1929. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition stated, no additional printings; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; good (cocked; corners worn; spots on front board; two tears to spine head, one tear to tail; shaken and cracked throughout), 288 pp. A boxing novel.

London: Stanley Paul & Co. Ltd.. Very Good-. [1930]. 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a bit of soiling to covers, spine slightly turned, small black mark on top edge of text block, front hinge cracked but not split, light foxing to ffep]. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the ffep: "To His Grace, Eddie, / Duke of Collinsville / with the compliments / of the author / Lucian Cary / December 23, 1930." Comic novel about a young prizefighter who decides to return to college, partly to please his wealthy parents and partly to win the heart of a co-ed for whom he's fallen hard. Originally published serially in The Saturday Evening Post (August 4 - September 8, 1928), the yarn was filmed by M-G-M with William Haines and Joan Crawford; the movie (an early talkie) was released in April 1929, more or less concurrently with the appearance of the hardcover edition from Doubleday, Doran (which, somewhat weirdly, was put out as a regular novel rather than as any… Read More