{"product_id":"the-low-down","title":"The Low-Down","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Henry Holt and Company, 1928. First edition. Total of 24 illustrations (complete). Publisher's full dark blue cloth stamped in light blue with sketch mounted on front cover. Octavo. 289. Light edge-wear, lightest fading on cover illustration. A very good copy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection of profiles of noted personalities in 1920s America is lively and breezily written and spiced with drawn portraits of each of the subjects by noted New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno. The front-cover features a two-color sketch of Anita Loos. Some are the others profiles are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gene Tunney, George Jean Nathan, Sinclair Lewis and Adele Astair. E\u003cspan\u003each profile features a rundown of observations about its subject, quotes, character traits, tics, etc. Examples, from the piece on F. Scott Fitzgerald: \"He will frequently talk to himself.\" \"He will contact a hangover from work as well as from play.\" \"When writing, he is usually nervous and irritable and will engulf, during his labors, innumerable cups of Coca-Cola.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNCIAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59710294950174,"sku":"UN-0023","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1082\/2094\/0574\/files\/PANA2874.jpg?v=1785274420","url":"https:\/\/uncialrarebooks.com\/products\/the-low-down","provider":"UNCIAL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}