This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... least had made you spend it on them! 51. Nelse Ackerman's home was far out in the suburbs of the city, upon a knoll surrounded by forest. It was a couple of miles from the nearest trolley line, which forced Peter to take a hot walk in the sun. Apparently the great banker, in selecting the site of his ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... least had made you spend it on them! 51. Nelse Ackerman's home was far out in the suburbs of the city, upon a knoll surrounded by forest. It was a couple of miles from the nearest trolley line, which forced Peter to take a hot walk in the sun. Apparently the great banker, in selecting the site of his residence, had never once thought that anybody might want to get to it without an automobile. Peter reflected as he walked that if he continued to move in these higher circles, he too would have to join the motor-driving class. About the estate there ran a great bronze fence, ten feet high, with sharp, inhospitable spikes pointing outwards. Peter had read about this fence a long time ago in the American City "Times"; it was so and so many thousand yards long, and had so and so many spikes, and had cost so and so many tens of thousands of dollars. There were big bronze gates locked tight, and a sign that said: "Beware the dogs!" Inside the gates were three guards carrying rifles and walking up and down; they were a consequence of the recent dynamite conspiracy, but Peter did not realize this, he took them for a regular institution, and a symbol of the importance of the man he was to visit. He pressed a button by the side of the gate, and a lodge-keeper came out, and Peter, according to orders, gave the name "Arthur G. McGillicuddy." The lodge-keeper went inside and telephoned, and'then came back and opened the gate, just enough to admit Peter. "You're to be searched," said the lodge-keeper; and Peter, who had been arrested many times, took no offense at this procedure, but found it one more evidence of the importance of Nelse Acker-man. The guards went thru his pockets, and felt him all over, and then one of them marched him up the long gravel...
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Very Good. 41/2x61/2. 320 page paperback novel-Tauchnitz Vol. 4940 in their Collection of British and American Authors. Light browning to the spine and light crease to lower front corner, otherwise no flaws. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Second printing (same month as the first). Contemporary owner's name, a couple of tiny holes in the gutters, else near fine in very good Grosset and Dunlap dustwrapper with a creased tear on the front panel. Sinclair's novel about wealth and acquisition in and around a mountain city, presumably based on Denver.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. First UK edition. Hardcover with dustjacket. 8vo. 312 pp. DJ has very shallow chipping to edges; page edges are a bit dusty. VG/VG.
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Fine in Good jacket. 1" square chip at top of spine; title visible. Still a presentable, clean and bright jacket, with price intact, protected by a Mylar cover. Scarce in the dust jacket. Octavo.