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CAIN, James (1892–1977). Our Government. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930. 8vo. Publisher’s grey cloth stamped in black (spine and edges lightly sunned); original unclipped dust jacket (1.5” tear to spine panel slightly affecting rear panel corner near spine, vertical crease to front panel near wrap). Provenance: Vernon C. Norton (bookplate); bookseller’s ticket. FIRST EDITION of the crime author’s first book of a collection of fictional characters’ dialogues on the nature of American government.