New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1931. First Edition. Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth, lettered in black; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with lean to binding and slightly faded spine. Light wear to tips. Soiling to edges with contents slightly tanned with light sporadic foxing. The first appearance of Runyon's collected short stories, later the basis of the enormously popular Broadway musical Guys and Dolls.