The American

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Fine in very good dustwrapper with sunned spine.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946 Red boards and gold lettering on front and spine. Minimum spine end bumping. Corners are bumped and are lightly bent. Nicely illustrated endpapers witn scales of justice and large eagle. Book is tight and clean with some page browning. A few lighter spots on boards. Unevenly sunned spine. Bookplate.. First Edition. Original Cloth.… Read more about this item

Excellent inside.

The Bodley Head, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. A clean, tight copy in a very good dust jacket. Light wear to the edges. Some chips to the jacket. Clothbound in light blue. First edition.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial price-clipped dust jacket. 337pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with several small edge chips (mainly at head of jacket spine). First edition, a tight and attractive copy of this fictionalized biography of Illinois governor John Peter Altgeld.

New York:: Duell, Sloan, & Pearce,, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good in Good DJ. Light wear to cloth at backstrip. Fore edge uncut, edges marked. Dw scuffed and sunned. Chipping, creasing and some small tears along edges of dw.

NY: Duell, Sloan And Pearce. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hard Cover. A novel which tells the story of John Peter Altgeld of Illinois, a latter-day Lincoln, who sacrificed money and health and political power, to become the champion of democracy and the foe of greed and corruption. Here is the story of his farm boyhood, of his Civil war… Read more about this item

Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1946. First Edition. Near Fine to Fine condition. No dust jacket.

New York: Duell, 1946. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Good/Poor Light browning, bookplate, light browning on boards. Dustwrapper rubbed, faded, worn and torn. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1946. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very good. No dust jacket. SIGNED by author on first free endpaper (signature only). Stated 1st edition, no numberline (1st printing). Some shelfwear. No dust jacket. null Biographical novel on the life of John Peter Altgeld, the Illinois Governor who pardoned the remaining… Read more about this item

Duell, Sloane and Pearce, 1946. 1st Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Stated first edition. 8vo. 337 pp. Light blue cloth with gold lettering to the spine and front panel. Dark red topstain. Very good plus with minor rubbing to the extremities. Inscribed by Fast on the front free endpaper.

Prague: Vydavatelstvo Druz̆stevni Práce, 1950. Hardcover. 235p., very good hardcover in dustjacket, pages toned. During his blacklisted period, Fast relied to some degree on income from overseas translations of his books. "A novel, Marxist in spirit, about the life and times of John Peter Altgeld, featuring the Haymarket Affair and Altgeld's pardoning of the surviving convicted anarchists." *Seidman F38.… Read more about this item

New York: Duell, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Very good in an about good dustwrapper. Browned. Dustwrapper tattered, rubbed, worn and torn. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York, New York, U. S. A.: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. First Edition . Hardcover. Fair/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stated First Edition. The Book Has Moderate Edge Wear And Moderate Dust Soiling. The Jacket Has Chips And Tears And A Darkened Spine. No Ownership Marks Or Writing.

New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Hardcover. 8vo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. 337pp. Near fine/very good. Jacket rather edgeworn, with a few small edge chips and lightly sunned spine. A tight, nice first edition. Name/address label on front pastedown of academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir (1923-2013). Historical fiction about Illinois governor John… Read more about this item

London : The Bodley Head , 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; 337 p. ; 21 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. Originally published: New York : Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946. Subjects; Altgeld, John… Read more about this item

Duell Sloan and Pearce, 1946. first edition. hardcover. very good: crease along spine, toning to edges of boards, text clean, binding tight/no DJ. Octavo 337pp. novel about 19th century Illinois politician John Peter Altgeld, for which Fast was accused of copyright infringement for borrowing liberally from a biography of the politician by Harry Barnard. The case was settled… Read more about this item

London : The Bodley Head, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; [10], 337 p ; 20 cm. Subject; Altgeld, John Peter -- (1847-1902).

Duell Sloane Pearce. Collectible - Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. Collectible - Good. Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on bookplate on laid-in. In protective mylar cover. (historical fiction, US history)

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. 1946. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Sunned spine. Light rubbing along panel edges, chipping on front flap fold. .