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New York:D. Appleton and Company, 1930. First Edition. hard cover. Very Good/No jacket. New York:D. Appleton and Company. 1930. 1st edition. 300pp. Hardcover.  Orange boards lightly soiled and shelfworn, with spine strip slightly sun-faded. The front board is slightly warped and page edges are soiled. Internally end-pages lighlty age-toned. with a large previous owners bookplate covering most of the 1st free end-page, and what looks to be part of the dust jacket attached to the inside front board. Otherwise pages clean, the binding is tight and hinges intact.

New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1930. Hard Cover. Very Good+ binding/Very Good dust jacket. Octavo. [8], 300 pp. First edition, first printing. In publisher's cloth with dust jacket. An extremely fresh copy with little wear to speak of; contents are clean; dust jacket is fairly nice with some very light edgewear including a small chip at the tail of the spine; lightly and evenly toned; though the spine is moderately darkened; price intact on the front flap. Born in Charleston, SC, Cohen was a prolific author. Florian Slappey was perhaps Cohen's most popular fictional character, a caricature of a black man from Birmingham. Peters, the central figure in this collection was one of Slappey's close friends. While Cohen purported to have a great deal of affection for his characters and wrote them with well-meaning affection, the patronization is apparent. Fairly uncommon in this condition.