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On the Line
by Harvey Swados
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good, soiling and chipping to cloth spine, light edge wear with soiled boards, front end papers discolored from laid in new
- Seller
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Ridgewood, New York, United States
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About This Item
Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1957. First edition. Hardcover in two tone gray and yellow cloth boards, no dust jacket, 8vo, 233 pp. Very good, soiling and chipping to cloth spine, light edge wear with soiled boards, front end papers discolored from laid in newspaper clippings.. Harvey Swados' 1957 short stories depicting life on the assembly line of major manufacturing company. Written from his experience working as a metal finisher on an assembly line at the Ford Mahwah factory. A job Swados hadn't held since he worked in a different factory in Buffalo in the early 1940s. A gap in blue collar employment noted by his hiring manager. When asked, Swados answered truthfully, 'I've been writing novels in the south of France.' Close friend with fellow writers and social critics Douglas Hofstadter and C. Wright Mills in Rockland County. This was his first collection of short stories to be published.
This copy inscribed to novelist Thomas Berger and his wife Jeanne on front free end paper: 'Labor Day 1959 For Tom and Jeanne Barger who will do better than this Harvey Swados'.
This copy inscribed to novelist Thomas Berger and his wife Jeanne on front free end paper: 'Labor Day 1959 For Tom and Jeanne Barger who will do better than this Harvey Swados'.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 989
- Title
- On the Line
- Author
- Harvey Swados
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover in two tone gray and yellow cloth boards, no dust jacket, 8vo, 233 pp
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston & Toronto
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Social fiction, Harvey Swados, On the line
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