All Giants Wear Yellow Breeches: A Chronicle of Boyhood de [SOCIAL FICTION] [HOBOES] PATTERSON, Vernon - [1935]

New York: William R. Scott, [1935]. First Edition. Hardcover. Autobiographical novel of a midwestern childhood. In the jacket bio, the author describes himself as a "a common hobo...I slept in depots and doorways, worked occasionally as farm hand, hotel night watchman, well digger, nurseryman; I associated with stiffs and panhandlers, rode the rattlers, and picked up betimes a good deal of miscellaneous information, including how to make genuine Mulligan stew..." Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth, printed paper spine label, yellow decorative dust jacket printed in red; [2],376pp. Light wear to jacket extremities, including a few very short closed tears and minor dust-soil, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.