BOTTOM DOGS by Dahlberg, Edward - 1930

City Lights, 1961. paperback. Very Good. 7x4x0. City Lights Books; San Francisco, 1961. Trade Paperback. A Very Good, binding sturdy and intact, some handling/scuff marks to covers, bit of cover edge/corner wear, small creases to spine, bit of scattered foxing to text block edges, some age toning to pages, crease bottom front and rear cover corner and faintly bottom page corners, few soiled spots bottom text block edge, mild musty odor, a nice, overall clean and unmarked copy in wraps. 16mo[sextodecimo or approx. 4 x 6.75 inches], 269pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.

City Lights, 1961T. paperback. Good. 0.7000 7.7000 4.6000. First edition

NY, 1930. First US Edition, intro. by D. H. Lawrence. spine slightly faded, lacks the rear e.p. Billings Alc, McDonald Supplement p.86. Author's first book.

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, limited issue. Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. One of 520 numbered copies. Stain at the bottom of the front board else very good lacking the dustwrapper. A presentable copy of the author's first book.

London: Putnam - London, 1929. Bound in Black cloth, stamped in gold (with top edge gilt). This is a stunning copy of the limited (#223 of 520 copies) first edition of the author's first book. Laid in is a receipt from a NYC bookstore to James Laughlin dated 1945, hence, his copy. Original owner's neat bookplate on front pastedown. Ref.: Billings A.1.b.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/No Jacket.

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. First UK Edition. Limited Issue, consisting of 520 copies for sale by private subscription and preceding the American edition published the following year. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and front panel; top edge gilt; 285pp. Some very faint foxing to preliminary and terminal pages, else Near Fine. Dahlberg's first novel, and the first volume in his proletarian trilogy, which includes Those Who Perish (1934) and From Flushing to Calvary (1932). A novel portraying the seamy side of American life through the eyes of a man who spent his early years as a ward in an orphanage and his later life as a salesman and hobo. Though Dahlberg rejected this early work later in his career, these three novels remain a high water mark of the literature of the Great Depression, documenting with sympathy and poetry the lives of hoboes, immigrants, slum-dwellers, B-girls, and others of the vast American underclass of the thirties. COAN p.81. HANNA 895.… Read More

London:: G. P. Putnam's Sons,, [1929].. First edition; No 469 of 520 copies.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Two corners bumped; else a bright, sharp copy in a very near fine dust jacket. . 8vo,. With an Introduction by D. H. Lawrence.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with dampstaining to the spine, mostly at the foot which is visible primarily internally, and minor chipping. Dahlberg's first book, a novel of a boy horribly representative of the bottom-dog strata of America. With a 10-page introduction by D. H. Lawrence.

BOTTOM DOGS, Simon & Schuster, 1930, first edition, near fine and bright in a vg+ dust-wrapper with some light wear and an eleven page introduction by D. H. Lawrence. The authors most controversial first book. A Rideout novel.

London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1929. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, trade issue. Introduction by D.H. Lawrence. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight wear. The trade issue appears to be much scarcer than the limited, numbered edition, particularly in an acceptable jacket. The author's first book.