DOBIE, CHARLES CALDWELL — Less Than Kin

New York, NY: John Day Company, 1926. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good- to Near Very Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean condition. The spine ends and corners of the book cover have some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are generally clean and bright. The endpapers have light, generalized toning and there is some tidemarking to the hinges. This copy has been signed by the author on the title page. There is a previous owner's penciled name on the front pastedown page. "American novelist and historian Charles Caldwell Dobie was born in San Francisco, CA, in 1881. He had to drop out of grammar school at age 14 because of his father's death. He took a job as an office boy in an insurance company, and stayed with that company until 1915, when he began to make enough money from his writing to devote his full time to it. The majority of his work is about or set in his home town of San Francisco, where he spent his entire life (he never married). Both his fiction and non-fiction about his beloved city has been praised as "smooth" and "deftly written" by such literary figures as Carey McWilliams." (from Wikipedia) ; Signed by Author. Very Good- .