The Grace of Lambs: Stories by Manuel Komroff by Komroff, Manuel - 1925.

Boni & Liveright, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. USED Good/No Jacket.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1926. First UK EDITION. Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo. 221 pp. A few bumps on top edge, spine lightly faded, head and foot of spine bruised, offsetting to endpapers, still a very nice, crisp copy of a scarce title.

New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. First edition. Slight binders glue bleed-through on pastedowns and a little rubbing at the extremities else about near fine in a good dustwrapper lacking the bottom quarter of the spine with front panel detached, some other small chips and tears. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication to "fellow-worker & friend of the `author'". Komroff was a seasoned journalist who became the production manager and an editor for Boni & Liveright.

New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925. First edition. Endhseets toned from binder's glue; lower edge of front board sunstruck, otherwise very near fine in a soiled dust jacket, sunned on the spine and with a couple of small chips.. 8vo, 221pp; blue cloth. The author's first book, inscribed by Komroff to a well-known Tin Pan Alley pianist and songwriter: "For Ted Shapiro, [musical notes] from the author, Manuel Komroff, New York, 1927." Komroff was a polymath: a journalist, playwright, fiction writer, and editor. He was the longtime production manager for Boni & Liveright. The rear panel of the dust jacket is devoted to the publisher's promotion of Ernest Hemingway's In Our Time.