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Title The Ninth Man
Author Vorse, Mary Heaton
Book #   000376
Publisher   Harper & Brothers
Place   New York
Year   1920
Book Condition   Very Good
Jacket Condition   No Jacket
Binding   Pictorial Cover

Price:    $200.00

Description First Edition. VERY RARE EDITION. PAGES 70 & 71 HAVE NO PRINTING ON THEM (at a critical point in the story I might add). Novel about a captured city gripped by fear when the conqueror decrees that every ninth man in the city was to secretly designate some one whom he wished put to death .Illustrated with color fontispiece & B&W plate drawings by Frank Craig. This book is very good+++ with minor wearing at bottom and top of spine.