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New York: Harper. 1938. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Boards are foxed on front, back and spine, otherwise very good in very good- dust jacket with small chips at spine ends and short tears at top edge. This novel had the honor of being published as a Harper "Find" whose jacket rear panel boasts, "But don't get the idea that F.O.B. Detroit is another proletarian novel." Shades of Walter B. Rideout's discussion of Grapes of Wrath in his The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 340 pp .

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1938. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. 340 p. 21 cm. Tan cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Some wer to jacket edges, stain on rear panel. A little soiling to cloth underneath.

Harper & Bros., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition stated. 8vo in buff cloth, titles in red and black. Binding tight and square, modest shelf wear. The dustjacket is not price-clipped, and has the slightest bit of rubbing at the corners and spine ends.

NY. Good in Good dust jacket; Cloth; Harper & Bro. Pub; 1938; First Edition. Dust jacket good, chipping to edges, several small tears. Jacket art by Cobblsdick. Grey cloth with black titles to spine and front board. Good, front hinge cracked. Bookplate of Hazel Pingree Mills who was the daughter of former Detroit mayor Hazen S. Pingree. First edition, 340 pages. Decorative end papers. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall .

F.O.B. DETROIT, Harpers, 1938, first edition, light soiling to the spine, else near fine in vg+ Cobbledick dust-wrapper with some light wear and a shallow chip missing from the head of the dust-wrapper spine. Love among the auto plants. Uncommon. The apparent source novel for the film Racing for the Sun.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Tan cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 340pp. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Paul Jordan Smith - his book - Wessel Smitter - his Friend / W.H.S. / Feb. 1939." Mild toning to boards, with a couple of small spots of discoloration; jacket lightly edgeworn; a tight, VG copy overall. A worker's life and hard times in the Detroit auto industry, written by a one-time Ford employee. The inscribee, Paul Jordan-Smith (1885-1971), was a California journalist and editor who achieved notoriety in 1931 as the founder of the so-called "Disumbrationist School of Aesthetics" - an artistic hoax which took in a number of well-known art critics who responded positively to his exhibition of intentionally bad, and technically inept, paintings. HANNA 3285. COAN p.87.

New York and London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938. First edition. 340 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Beige cloth. Near Fine, in Fine pictorial unclipped dust jacket by Cobbledick. Small previous owner's stamp. First edition. 340 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A Harper "Find" novel, "An unforgettable Novel" of Russ, a lumberjack who takes a job in an auto factory so he can afford an outboard motor and a clam digger's shack. Made into a lighter movie in the 1941 by William Wellman entitled Reaching for the Sun fstarring Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew and Eddie Bracken.