New York: Random House, 1941. 303 pp. Illustrated dust jacket in very good condition with some rubbing, a few minor tears, and a few water spots to the rear cover, slightly faded in parts on the spine, some chipping and loss, price of $3.50 intact and blurbs by Fitzgerald/O'Hara on rear cover. Blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering to spine, First Printing stated on coyright page, some fading and rubbing on spine, bookplate of Patricia Morse (wife of radio producer/journalist Carlton E. Morse) on front paste-down endpaper, in very good+ condition.

Budd Schulberg (1914 - 2009) was an American TV producer, screenwriter and novelist. This is his first novel which is scarce and very desirable, inspired by the life of his father, a rags to riches story.