Early printing (without Harper's requisite "First Edition" statement upon copyright page but still with Harper's "A-D" letter code indicating January 1929) SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. [12], 255, [1] pages. Hardcover: H 19.75cm x L 13.25cm. No dust jacket (i.e. lacking). Black cloth spine with some staining and surface abrasion; spine heel scuffed/frayed with some loss to "Harpers" lettering; patterned paper boards rubbed with some scuffing at cloth corners. Some staining to text block's top edge with some leaves varyingly affected at their top margins. Yellow illustrated endpapers; some soiling and staining to rear endpapers. Author's two-line ink inscription "Roark Bradford | Nashville, Tenn." on front flyleaf. Binding is firm. A very good- copy of Bradford's second book. With illustrations by Erick Berry.