Search Results: the duke steps out by cary lucian

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc.. Very Good-. 1929. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbing and wear, as do the spine joints. There is some generalized light rubbing to the book covers as well. The text pages are clean and bright. The rear endpaper has been glued to the rear pastedown page and the previous owner has inked the the book title, and her own name on the glued down page. "The Duke Comes Back is a 1933 novel by Lucian Cary which tells the story of a retired boxing champion lured out of retirement for one final bout. It served as the basis for two films, The Duke Comes Back in 1937 and Duke of Chicago in 1949." (from Wikipedia) .

NY: Doubleday, 1929. First Edition . Hardcover. Good. First Edition stated, no additional printings; 8vo, brown cloth, no dj; good (cocked; corners worn; spots on front board; two tears to spine head, one tear to tail; shaken and cracked throughout), 288 pp. A boxing novel.