Two Prisoners

Lajos Zilahy. Two Prisoners. [Két fogoly]. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931. First U. S. edition. Octavo (8 x 5.375 inches; 202 x 135 mm.). [2, half-title (verso blank)], [2, title-leaf, copyright on verso], [2, dedication (verso blank)], [2, fly title (verso blank)], 504 pages. Publisher's grayish-blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in black, front board decoratively stamped in black; all edges of the text block trimmed (top probably stained, but now too faded to tell); dark green coated endpapers; in the original dust jacket, priced $2.50, with an exceptional cover illustration by Backus. Spine slightly askew; backstrip faintly tanned with some light; spine ends with a shallow crimp; top edge of the boards and backstrip faintly foxed; corners very slightly bent. Text block just barely sagging; a couple title spot stains on the top of the test block and occasionally in the top margin; tiny closed tear to the top of the leaf with pages 367-368, folded over with