Posted By:
Max WederScott
One is offered for sale on the web at (in my view) a far too high price ($540?) without dust jacket and two fair condition copies for $50 and $75.
The book is "not uncommon" [a horrible book collecting term ] without dust jacket, but a dust jacket is harder to find. For many older books, it often doubles or triples the value, or more. Without dust jacket, the Ruth book appears on ebay now and then for under $100. With a nice dust jacket, the price would be much higher.
And an interesting point on Willie: if a rare first edition was misidentified in such a fashion as the A.L. Burt was in a top-end rare book auction, the fury would be similar to the debate on the Keeler thread. Thus the relative quiet here on the Burt misidentification, and the 130+ postings on Willie.
Max