London, Duckworth, (1937). A captivity story, about a young boy captured and brought up by a band of Delaware Indians. Never published in the U.S.: according to Jack Woodford, in a revised version of his controversial book on the publishing industry, Trial and Error, U.S. publishers were put off by the violence of the Indians as described in the book, and by what might today be called its political incorrectness. Ryan was one of the first writers to make Hollywood the subject of his fiction and this book was a departure. Woodford, who was a pulp fiction writer under a number of names and published nonfiction about writing and publishing, called this "one of the finest novels written in our country during this decade" and claimed that the author had spent five years researching it. Sunned, wear and handling to boards; a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. [#033394] SOLD