Cassell & Company 1st Edition
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"A completely delightful and unusual story of one man who really did something about the depression. Henry Warren was a highly successful private banker. But in his early forties he found his life going to pieces around him. Outside of business it had no meaning - until that fateful day when, on a walking tour, he was taken ill in a small ship-building town ruined by the depression. How he bends his energies and wide influence to finding a way to put the men of Sharples back to work-and how, through his efforts, he finds love and a new meaning to life, makes one of the most absorbing, most ingenious books of our time."
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| This title was originally published by Cassell & Company in 1938. The story was also published under the title of Kindling, by William Morrow and Company, in the United States. |
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To assist in identifying a first edition/first printing of the Cassell & Company publication of Ruined City, verify the following details:
1. Cassell should be consistently listed as the publisher in the book and on the dust jacket. 2. The book must not indicate a later printing. 3. The front and back covers of the dust jacket should match the images provided on this page. 4. The book cover is in black cloth. |
| The back cover of the Ruined City dust jacket. |
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