Shipwreck In Europe. Josef Bard. selling First Edition. 1928. Scarce

Yellow boards. Harper & Brothers Publishers. New York. 1928.

Bumping to the spine ends, top right corner and rear top edge. Dirtiness to the boards but otherwise in VG condition. Previous owners name on FFEP. Decorative endpapers. Front hinge is cracked at pg. 6, binding is still solid. Spot stains on four pages, otherwise pages are clean.

Joseph Bard (18 May 1892 – 1975), born József Diamant, was an expatriate Hungarian writer, known for a selling novel Shipwreck in Europe (1928) and short stories written in English, and as a literary editor. He settled in the United Kingdom, where he was later known as Joseph Bard. His background was Jewish and Hungarian.