Under the Big Top
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923.
First edition. [xii], 238 pp. Publisher's green cloth with orange lettering, photo mounted on front board. Fine with tiny emboss of "The Rock and Gift Shop of Sioux City, Iowa" on front free endpaper, clean and bright, in Very Good dust jacket with a few small chips and tears along edges, rubbing to front panel, unclipped ($2.50). A memoir of circus life by a prolific writer who later specialized in true crime writing. He was a friend and confidant of FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover who wound up dead in 1940 after investigating German espionage in Mexico; the official cause of death was suicide but his wife and others felt it was foul play.
Price: $200.00