ALAY-OOP ["Life and Love Among the Acrobats Told Entirely in Pictures" from front cover.]
Coward-McCann: NY, 1930. Item #99-0836
Only illustrations by cartoonist William Gropper, 8 x 5.5, orange cloth, np, covers (esp extremities) worn and moderately soiled, spine ends bumped, hinges loose, eps toned and spotted, contents with scattered finger soil else nice and bright, a rubbed, edge worn, darkened, soiled, edge torn dust jacket. A story told in pictures: an opera singer weds a female acrobat, makes her leave show business; later, her old partner comes back and convinces her to leave her husband (with her two twin children). In the end, the singer sells fruit on the street, the male acrobat is a steel worker, and the woman and her kids are acrobats. Scarce title, especially scarce in dust jacket (such as it is).
Price: $395.00