Item #61266 He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and not a word in it - no music, too. Milt Gross.
He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and not a word in it - no music, too.
He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and not a word in it - no music, too.

He Done Her Wrong: The Great American Novel and not a word in it - no music, too.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. [264pp] Square octavo [22 cm] Black cloth with titles stamped in red on the front board and backstrip. Publisher's red topstain. The covers are cocked. In a tattered dust jacket. The front inside flap is absent, and the rear inside flap is detached, but present. Tears at the jacket's spine have been backed with small pieces of tape. Good / Fair. Item #61266

Regarded by many as Gross's finest work. This is an early American example of the wordless novel, a story told entirely through pen and ink drawings. This work is considered to be a light hearted spoof of Lynd Ward's Gods' Man, which was published the previous year.

Price: $200.00

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