2 volumes, 8vo. Original black cloth (light rubbing to spines); dust jackets (some chipping and a few loses to edges); original slipcase (light rubbing, toning).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with Boni & Liveright imprint. IN SCARCE DUST JACKETS AND WITH ORIGINAL SLIPCASE. An American Tragedy was banned in Boston and in Nazi Germany over sexual content, abortion, and murder; in the 1930 Massachusetts obscenity trial Clarence Darrow argued in the book's defense that "You can't make all the literature in this world for the benefit of three year-old children...We cannot print all our literature for the weak-minded and very immature." Blanck 152.