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SULLIVAN, Edward D. (1901-1974). Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime. New York: The Vanguard Press, [1929].
8vo. Original green cloth stamped in yellow (spine and covers sunned, some spotting); original dust jacket and wrap-around band (spine gently sunned).
FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY SULLIVAN. “Chicago has never for long been content in its corruption; it has never allowed its evils to become endemic. Nor are its habits of political virtue as yet endemic but not less so than those of other cities. There is probably more chiaroscuro in the life of Chicago than in that of any other American community. Thus it may well be that the future historian of Chicago will find Mr. Sullivan's volume a truthful recital of the nadir thus far reached in the partnership between crime and government, and yet conclude that Mr. Sullivan was an historian of episodes and not of an epoch” (The Atlantic Bookshelf, September 1929). IN THE RARE DUST JACKET and with the “Meet Scarface Al Capone” wrap-around band.