TULLY, JIM — Emmett Lawler

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1922. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ to Near Fine- condition and is lacking the scarce dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping and rubbing to the spine ends and corners of the book covers. There is one small spot of rubbing to the middle of the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. This copy has been signed, with an inscription, by the author, on the front endpaper. There is a previous owner's inked gift notation on the front pastedown as well (dated April 12,1922). This is the author's first novel. "Born near St. Marys, Ohio to James Dennis and Bridget Marie Lawler Tully, an Irish immigrant ditch-digger and his wife, Tully enjoyed a relatively happy but impoverished childhood until the death of his mother in 1892. Unable to care for him, his father sent him to an orphanage in Cincinnati. He remained there for six years. What further education he acquired came in the hobo camps, boxcars, railroad yards, and public libraries scattered across the country. Finally, weary of the road, he arrived in Kent, Ohio, where he worked as a chain maker, professional boxer, and tree surgeon. He also began to write, mostly poetry published in the local newspapers. He moved to Hollywood in 1912, when he began writing in earnest." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good+ .