books0977: The Virtue of this Jest. James Stuart Montgomery. New York: Greenberg. (1929). First edi

books0977:

The Virtue of this Jest. James Stuart Montgomery. New York: Greenberg. (1929). First edition. Original dust jacket.

Crime novel of “full-blooded ruffians and lovable rogues…thieves, gamblers, highwaymen, swindlers, debauchees, with their schemes, trials, triumphs, and punishments in the spacious days of old London.”