L. W. Currey, Inc.

Woodford, Jack (pseudonym of Josiah Pitts Woolfolk). EVANGELICAL COCKROACH. New York, Montreal, London: Louis Carrier & Co, 1929. Octavo, original taupe cloth stamped in silver, top edge stained lavender, orange endpapers. First edition. Thirty-nine very short satirical stories, preceded by a mild tirade against the sanitized product preferred by contemporary American magazines (the slicks, that is -- the ones that paid well). A few of the stories are mildly fantastic, alluding to classical mythology in some. A near fine copy in good pictorial gold foil dust jacket with shelf wear at edges, some rubbing and creasing, and several internal tape mends. (#118025).

Price: $25.00