Nobu Shirase and the Japanese Antarctic Expedition: the Collection of Chet Ross
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Lot 424
POOLE, Ernest (1880-1950). The Car of Croesus. New York: Th...
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POOLE, Ernest (1880-1950). The Car of Croesus. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930. 8vo. Original gilt-lettered black cloth; original price-clipped dust jacket (light chipping at extremities). FIRST EDITION in the scarce metallic Art Deco dust jacket. The Car of Croesus is the tale of an impoverished Russian prince and a New York businesswoman, who purchase a limousine which they rent to people who wish to play pretend and pass themselves off as millionaires. Poole won the inaugural Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1918 for His Family.
