American Earth by Caldwell, Erskine - 1961

Pan Books Ltd, 1961. Paperback. Good. 1961. No edition remarks. 156 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

SCRIBNER'S Book. Very Good. FIRST. A VERY GOOD FIRST NO DJ..

Very Good. dj missing small pieces around edges smooth front and back book g to vg

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition Charles Scribner's Sons; New York; 1931 "A" 8vo size tan clothbound hardcover with blue title and decorations and dust jacket; 314 toned pages. The back of the dust jacket features a small photograph of the author and his biography. From jacket flap: "His stories concern love in the springtime, courting, jealousy, an accident, a lynching, old age, a death. Some of them are very short, yet the reader finds within their brevity all the flavor and mood of some American incident which, in Caldwell's hands, becomes a story - interesting, individual, authentic." Price sticker on fep. Jacket is separated into two pieces on front spine seam with edgewear and chipping, particularly to head and heel and edges; small abrasion on fep from sticker. Top and bottom of spine are bumped and the bottom of spine is frayed. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for… Read More

William Heinemann Ltd, 1959-12-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback. Clean copy in good condition. This book is First Edition, published in 1959.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/very good. 314 pp, in publisher's brown cloth, lettering in green. Small bump to upper corner of front board, else fine, with a review slip laid in. Dust jacket has chipping to spine ends and a few tiny tears at the top edge, one chip along front fold. Original $2.50 price present on front flap. A collection of short stories, often cited as Caldwell's first "significant" book.

London: Secker, 1935. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First UK Edition. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt spine lettering. A very good (or better) copy (with a small patch of fading at the head of the spine (matching a shallow chip in the D/W). In the VERY RARE D/W priced 7s 6d net to the inside flap (as called for). The D/W is darkened to the cream spine with a shallow chip at the head (not affecting any lettering) with some foxing to the front panel. The UK first edition of this iconic title is exceedingly uncommon.

New York: Charles Scribner's, 1931. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth stamped in green. Beautiful copy in a near fine, unclipped, pictorial dust jacket, with only few minor flaws. A lovely copy of the author's first major book. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Fine copy of author's third book chronologically, but his first of any significance, containing many of Caldwell's most unforgettable stories. AMERICAN EARTH introduced the young writer to a wider readership, and ushered in the extraordinary success of TOBACCO ROAD (1932 ), GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (1933), etc.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine-. First Printing of this important debut, copies of which in a dust jacket this fine are seldom seen. 8vo: x,314pp. Publisher's tan cloth, lettering and decor stamped in forest green on spine and front cover, illustrated dust jacket priced $2.50. Trivial offsetting from jacket design onto spine cloth, else a Fine, fresh copy in an about Fine jacket with a few tiny nicks at crown. Hanna 563. Flora and Bain, pp. 89, 94. Caldwell's first commercially published book (his third overall). The legendary Maxwell Perkins (Fitzgerald's editor at Scribner's) helped to edit this collection of new and previously published stories of rural life, in the deep South and in Maine, with a third section made up of a long, modernist, autobiographical prose poem called The Sacrilege of Allen Kent. The book was well-received critically (according to Flora and Bain, "Although all of Caldwell's story collections contain interesting pieces, nowhere… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's, 1931. First Edition. 314 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Brown cloth stamped in green. About fine copy in chipped dj. First Edition. 314 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The author's third book chronologically, but his first of any significance, containing many of Caldwell's moist unforgettable stories. AMERICAN EARTH introduced the young writer to a wider readership, and ushered in the extraordinary success of TOBACCO ROAD (1932 ), GOD'S LITTLE ACRE (1933), etc.