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STOUT, Rex (1886-1975). How Like a God. New York: The Vanguard Press, 1929. 8vo. [ii], [1]-313, [3, blank] pp. Publisher’s full purple cloth, spine stamped in gilt, publisher’s unclipped (“$2.50”) dust jacket (cloth spine and boards sunned, some rubbing to binding, endleaves and text lightly toned; jacket spine toned chipped and torn with loose pieces, some toning, wear, chipping to jacket panels). Good. FIRST EDITION OF STOUT’S FIRST NOVEL. “A man’s complete life revealed as, revolver in hand, he mounts a flight of steps to kill a woman. Not until almost at the close of the book do we know the identity of the woman he intends to murder.” (- from the front jacket flap).