This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III SCOTTY UNFOLDS TRUTHS AT the warning cry by the telepathic one, the gang began backing into those shadows and secret places from which they had emerged. Possibly, the prompt production of my Colt's-38 had somewhat to do with their disappearance; for your true gangster is never one to meet ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III SCOTTY UNFOLDS TRUTHS AT the warning cry by the telepathic one, the gang began backing into those shadows and secret places from which they had emerged. Possibly, the prompt production of my Colt's-38 had somewhat to do with their disappearance; for your true gangster is never one to meet the iron face to face. In ancient days there was a party--Pythagoras was the name, I think, though I'll not be sure I've got his number right at that--who taught how men's souls, before they were men's souls, served as the souls of animals. Also, he said that, if you'd sharpen your eyes a bit, you could, in looking a man over, tell whether his soul had been a sheep's soul, or a lion's soul, or a horse's soul, and so on. Now I won't say there's anything in the theory, for it's altogether off my mental beat. What I will say is that if old Pythagoras was right, then the soul of every gangster used aforetime to be the soul of a rat. Ferocious, cowardly, cruel, hungry, unclean!--creatures born to haunt the sewers and infest the cellars of existence!--mere vermin of darkness, with a fear of light!--those gangsters whom I faced were rats, human rats. Being rats, that squeak of warning, coupled with my pistol, muzzle flush in their faces, became with them the instant signal for retreat. In a moment I was alone with Red Bob. Being alone, I yanked Red Bob onto his feet. Partly from the blow, and partly from the red liquor under his belt, he was in a fog. All of a blurr, he didn't know where he was or how he came to be there. This sort of thing is common with drunken men. Let a party, whose skin is soaked full of whiskey, receive a tap from a nightstick, or get jolted out by any other route, and a first insensibility runs off" into a drunken slumber....
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Good. New York: A.S. Barnes, first edition, later issue, 1906 Illustrated frontispiece. Red cloth with black lettering. Worn cloth, headbands missing, tanned, multiple large bookshop stamps. Well packaged, ships with tracking.
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FINE IN A GOOD+ D.J. ILLUSTRATED BY E.M. ASHE / A QUEEN'S QUORUM TITLE. BRICK RED CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH WHITE TITLES AND GILT DESIGN TO THE SPINE AND FRONT COVER. BOOK IS EXCEPTIONALLY FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT, NO FLAKING TO THE WHITE TITLES. D.J. HAS WEAR AT THE CORNERS WITH A 1 1/4" PIECE MISSING AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SPINE PANEL REMOVING THE PUBLISHER'S NAME, 3/8" CHIP AT THE TOP OF THE SPINE, AND A COUPLE OF SMALL EDGE CHIPS AND TEARS. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT COPY OF A BOOK THAT IS RARELY FOUND WITH THE RARE PRINTED D.J.
