The Confessions of a Twentieth Century Hobo

London: Herbert Jenkins. 1924.

First edition. 185x120mm. pp. 192. Illustrated with amusing line drawings. Green cloth blocked in black to upper cover and spine. In the scarce original illustrated dustjacket. Some rubbing to head and foot of spine and fading to edges of upper cover. Dustjacket is chipped and a little torn in places along the top and bottom edge and upper cover has a price label reading "Offered at 1/-". Internally very good with some slight toning.
An entertaining novel which describes how a young man from Surrey who works his passage across the Atlantic on a coal burner ship and then journeys through America from New York to San Francisco by hopping on and off trains and relying on the kindness of strangers. It is all told with good humour and he manages to do it all with only seventy-five cents in his pocket.