Rocket to the Moon by Clifford Odets - 1939: A romance in three acts

Random House, 1939-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 1.2000 in x 7.6000 in x 5.0000 in. Stated first printing. Text clean and unmarked. No jacket; mild shelfwear - but nothing severe.

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 245 pages. In Good condition. Bound in green cloth with silver lettering. Boards have rubbing to corners, slight fraying to spine edges, and cocking to spine. Textblock has slight age toning and extensive marking in pencil on some pages. Shelved Room A. 1374118. Special Collections.

New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dj. (c.1939). First Edition. Hardcover. [nice clean book, with minimal shelfwear; jacket browned at spine, tiny tear and associated tiny crease at top of front panel, modest chip (paper loss) at top of spine]. (B&W photographs) Odets play, originally produced by the Group Theatre in 1938, about a dentist who's carrying on with his young assistant, while his business and his marriage are in a shambles. "Rocket" was less overtly political than his earlier work, and less successful than his previous play, "Golden Boy." ("Rocket" ran just 131 performances on Broadway, about half as long as "Golden Boy," which by then was already headed for the silver screen, just as Odets himself had decamped for Hollywood.) .

NY: Random House, 1939. First printing. 8vo, pp. 245. Frontis photograph. Fine in little soiled dj.

New York: Random House, 1939. First Edition. Very good in dust jacket.

NY: RANDOM HOUSE.. 1939. First Edition. Fine in a near fine dj. (Spine on dj. slightly toned. Small vintage bookshop sticker at base of rear pastedown.) Exceptionally nice copy. .