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God's Little Acre
by CALDWELL, Erskine
- Used
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); black cloth with titling and rule stamped in orange and green on spine and front panel; dustjacket; 303pp. Topstain faded, with trivial soil to same and to rear pastedown, with a tiny nick to fore-edge of rear board; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped, lightly sunned overall, with three clear tape mends verso, one of which covers a hole near the left edge of the front panel adjacent to the flap fold. Several chips and tears at crown, along with two longer tears extending onto front panel have been mended with a large piece of kraft paper on verso; largely complete, but just VG. "The story of a Georgia dirt farmer who digs holes in his ground for fifteen years, hoping to find gold. The primary occupation indulged by he and his two sons is sex, and outrageous details are given here in a humorous maner" (Coan, p.56). A social and economic study of poor whites, and basis for the 1958 Anthony Mann film starring Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, and Aldo Ray. HANNA 564.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17407
- Title
- God's Little Acre
- Author
- CALDWELL, Erskine
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1933
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction; The South; Social Fiction; Rural Labor;
Terms of Sale
Lorne Bair Rare Books
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About the Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Winchester, Virginia
About Lorne Bair Rare Books
Lorne Bair Rare Books specializes in books, mansuscripts, and printed ephemera relating to American Social History, with an emphasis on radical and utopian movements of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. We are available in our showroom by appointment, at shows, and on-line through various booksellers' sites or at our website www.lornebair.com.
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Sunned
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Cloth
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
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